Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?

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Actually this book looks at where Patrick Henry was on a lot of 29ths of May.......2006-04-08

My assumption was that the answer to the question "Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?" would be on the floor of the House of Burgesses in Virginia, making his famous declaration, "give me liberty or give me death!" But that actually a speech at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia and the date was the 23rd of March in 1775. I am sure others who know a little something about Patrick Henry would make the same assumption. So the question for anybody reading this book really is "Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?"

The answer that Jean Fritz provides is that it depends because this book looks at several 29ths of May. The first is May 29, 1736 when Patrick Henry had just been born wand was likely crying in his bed drowning out the birdsong. The next May 29th comes in 1752, when Henry turns sixteen, when he was old enough to be counted among the men in Virginia. To be clear, Fritz does fill in the gaps between those two dates, and he does the same for the years leading up to the next May 29th, which comes in 1765, when he is indeed speaking on the floor of the House of Burgresses in Virginia. On May 29, 1777, he was elected for a second time as Virginia's governor, while in 1796 the 60-year-old Henry had retired from public life, three years before he died.

Henry was one of the leading opponents of the ratification of the Federal Constitution, but Fritz makes a point of turning his opposition into an argument for the adoption of the Bill of Rights. I must admit I was a disappointed a little because I thought this book would look only at Henry on a series of dates that were all the 29th of May, so I was actually surprised that all of the gaps got filled in along the way because it would be a neat idea to do an entire life looking at just one date that cover events both large and small. But even so, Fritz provides a nice mix of details that are both humorous and humanizing (Henry was a practical joker), along with insights about the Revolution.

This is one of several biographies that Fritz has written about major figures of the American Revolution, which include "And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?" and "Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?" Both of those particular books were chosen as an Outstanding Book of the Year by the "New York Times," which is not surprising given Fritz's approach. Artist Margot Tomes provided the humorous drawings for not only this book but also for the aforementioned one on Paul Revere.

Where was I is a better question........2004-10-24

I just recently read this gem by Jean Fritz, my new favorite nonfiction author, not that thats all she does. This book tells of Patrick Henry, the untalented failure who manages to find a career as a GREAT lawyer.

Patrick Henry was a trickster as a child(example: he turns a canoe over with a group of unexpected friends inside it). As I said before, he wasn't very talented, except, well, he had a good voice. But could one use a good voice on a resume(even if resumes didnt exist then). No, someone couldn't. First he tried storekeeping, but found that didn't work. Then there was farming. But that didnt work either.I just realized that I havent told of Patrick's wedding. Yes, our hero was wedded to Ms. Sarah Sheldon. But then Henry tries the lawyer-ing biz, and it strangely works. Read about his most famous cases and his later gorverning career.

Though Margot Tomes isn't my favorite illustrator, I cant imagine anyone else illustrating this book

Fritz vs. Freedman. You decide.

Fritz makes history come alive!.......2000-10-01

Jean Fritz makes history intersting for all ages. She has an uncanny way of seeing a historical figure as a real person with a well-rounded life that encapsulates more than just what he or she did in public. The life of her subject is of more importance than dates and events. Somehow this shift of emphasis makes the dates more memorable. She tells her story fresh, not told in the typical detached fashion. Her research and enthusiasm for her subjects make the stories come alive in interesting ways for today's student reader and interested adult.

Easy Read About An Early Hero.......2000-04-29

An interesting twist on a children's biography of theRevolutionary War hero Patrick Henry. The device of the "29th ofMay" is used to tie the various parts of Henry's life together--from his childhood in the wilds of the Virginia countryside to his famous patriotic activities to his retirement at Red Hill. His failures as well as his successes are discussed, allowing children to see a more authentic character than many easy-read biographies. Notes from the author at the end of the book give more historical details.

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The Civil War in general, and Oliver Cromwell in particular, is enjoying a significant revival in academic and general study; television docu-dramas, films, battlefield tours and the appearance of Cromwell in the 'Great Britons' and 'Men of the Millennium' polls demonstrate this. Here, Alan Marshall concentrates on the man's military life, for it is certainly true that it was Cromwell's battlefield skills, tactical astuteness and command capabilities that helped him attain his political goals. His efforts were not without controversy and this wide-ranging assessment will cover his strategic failings as well as his attributes. The book will surely come to feature in the personal and academic study resources of anyone seeking to gain a deeper knowledge of Cromwell as a military man.

Contents: Origins; The Road to War; The Face of War, 162; The Local War, 1643; From Marston Moor to Newbury, 1644; New Modelling, 1645-6; The Road to Preston, 1646-8; Ireland, 1649; The War Against the Scots, 1650-1; Conclusion: A Genius for War?

THE AUTHOR Alan Marshall is a Principal Lecturer in British and European history at Bath Spa University and is an expert on the 17th century. He has written and lectured extensively on this subject. He lives in Wells, Somerset.

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Excellent.......2007-10-05

This is an excellent analysis of Cromwell's life and development as a soldier. And, only one of a few ever done (Frank Kitson's being one of the others -- it too is excellent).

The title says it all though, it is the Military Life of a Revolutionary at War, not a general biography.

Highly recommended.

*Not* a biography. Very focused on his military campaigns........2007-09-13

If you're looking for a good biography of Oliver Cromwell, this isn't the book for you. Marshall's description of 17th century battle techniques and his empirical analysis of Cromwell's battles are excellent. But for those (like me) who purchased the book to learn more about the man and his subsequent impact on England and English history, look elsewhere. Mr. Marshall's effort here is quite focused, and a bit more than dry in its literary flair.

A self taught Soldier.......2005-09-02

Cromwell has been mostly remembered for his politics. Politics that made him Lord-Protector of England. But before he was Lord-Protector, he was a soldier and general. This book details Cromwell's life as a self taught soldier and describes his campaigns in some detail.
This book is for any serious students of Cromwell or of Early Modern warfare.

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Over the past 20 years change in China has been breathtaking. Reform has affected every facet of life and has left no policy and institution untouched. Now available in a substantially revised second edition covering the changes of the Sixteenth Party Congress and Tenth National People's Congress and other recent developments this major text by a leading academic authority, who has also lived and worked in China, provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of politics and governance in post-Mao China.

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The misery of political "science".......2004-07-03

The anomaly of China is that it is a "successful" Communist state: entrepreneurs in the Hong Kong region are applying to join the Communist party. However, this book isn't organized around that anomaly although such organization would give it much-needed structure.

The misery of political "science" is the way in which it assumes thet men are easily understood and led if only we could get them to understand that we are post-ideological and therefore led by the desire for wealth alone.

The history of the Cultural Revolution as an epistemological crisis, in which the ground, it seems, was cut from the feet of political actors who, removing the Confucian authority of others to speak, found it returned from them in turn, is unwritten (and just as complex as the preceding, and rather tortured, construction). It is unwritten because we no longer let Simone de Beauvoir and other public-intellectual gasbags have a go, and instead, narrow specialists look though lenses of which they seem to be unaware.

Saich would be hard put to explain the Tai'ping rebellion and very easy to explain Tsu Hsi, empress dowager. The very idea of some clown failing his examinations and deciding that he's Jesus' kid brother, in fact rather like some clowns overcoming a flight crew with box cutters, is the sort of exogenous-to-our-neat-system that gives political "scientists" fits: whereas for all of her deep dealing, the motivations of Tsu Hsi were clear, and her 21st century counterpart-in-miniature, the matriarch of many a modern Chinese family, is both alive and well, and catered-to by the new system of devil, take the hindmost.

But the self-reflexivity of political science, albeit systematically ignored by the political scientist means that the system manufactures the self-seeking and the shallow.

Saich regards narratives ungrounded by economic policy-making and self-interest as an amusing form of casuistry, as if he has preselected his audience from the knowing who no longer deal in "grand narratives¡± because of the ease in which they can be continued to any pre-selected conclusion.

For example, he quotes and dismisses a Party member¡¯s comment that the state-sponsored programme for micro-lending small capital amounts to China¡¯s rural poor need not be financially ¡°sustainable¡± in Professor Saich¡¯s terms. The Party member argued that the programme would eliminate poverty and therefore not need to be sustainable.

The Party member may of course have been wrong. Grameen Bank microlending to poor women who pay their debts on time may not be a magic bullet.

The problem is that Saich delivers the anecdote without any argument to the effect it is wrong, as an objectified species of old-style Marxist B.S.

Another problem is that Grameen style lending has had to struggle, against the fungibility of the financial system itself, to preserve its communitarian ethos against a global financial system which could literally care less about poor women¡¯s lives, and is all too ready to ¡°tranche¡± the loans in such a way that the debtor never knows who she will deal with from month to month.

In the passage on micro-lending, Professor Saich just assumes without explanation that there are threshholds of risk and return which are ¡°sustainable¡±: but the whole point of the Grameen discovery was that the threshholds are themselves a product of narration. The Grameen narrative created the numbers.

The only way to protect the interests of the poor in a globalized system is in fact deep narrative because the poor have only a story to tell. It might not be elegant: it might be only ¡°I will gladly pay you Thursday for a hamburger today¡±. But it¡¯s all they have.

However, Saich dismisses narrative as kin, on the one hand, to Marxist stem-winders, and on the other to the sort of bunkum that corrupt officials come up to justify their excess perks.

This world-view itself isn¡¯t sustainable because it gets blind-sided by ¡°terrorism¡±.

The lack of any coherent world-view that dares speak its name makes this book hard going, because it generates incoherence on every page. For example, on the same page Saich praises, in Politically Correct terms, the successes of microlending, he calls microlending unsustainable as if we have to make pious noises in its direction to keep Hilary happy, but then return to the counting-house by the wharves, and return to squeezing every last drop out of the debtor class.

He does so because he believes that civil society institutions should operate micro-lending; but at this stage, this is a non-starter in China and he knows this.

Saich cannot, it seems, properly narrate China¡¯s foreign policy without returning to economic themes. He doesn¡¯t have the historical imagination to get in the shoes, of the jokers in the Forbidden City, and ask why their concept of China does include Xingjiang and Tibet but not Mongolia, let us say, or chunks of Vietnam.

China presents to the thoughtful a fascinating ethnic topos, in which the Han could reconcile themselves in 1644 to Manchu takeover but could never have done so had the Russians under Peter the Great gotten themselves a bit more organized, and invaded China in the same era.

As an American expat, I inform myself of these matters for the same reason British officers engaged obscure, and rather dotty, Cantabrigian specialists in Persian poetry and Sumerian pottery as they and their train stumbled about central Asia, and, for that matter, about China; apart from curiosity there is also an instinct, for self-preservation. As Edward Said has pointed out, the replacement of the humanities and the ¡°classics¡± as lenses for understanding, while in some areas an improvement, creates a new set of high-tech, night vision blinders that are worse than useless when they are broken.

It is disturbing, in other words, to be told that free markets bring ¡°freedom¡± in their train, only to have the ATV and Pearl news of the July 1 mass march in Hong Kong almost completely blacked out.

Clear and Concise, but not deep enough.......2004-06-17

This is a well-rounded introduction of contemporary Chinese Politics. The book covers many asepcts of Chinese government and public policy like the structure of the government, political participation, civils society, foreign policy, social policy and a brief discussion of the economic system in China.
Howver, the contents are similar to a buffet: If you are looking for a deeper understanding of all the issues discussed in the book, you will have to look for them another book. Hence, this is a good book for first year undergraduates in courses related to Chinese politics, as well as the general public seeking a basic understanding of contemporary Chinese politics.

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An oil tanker breaks up off the coast of Spain, contaminating beaches and killing over 100,000 birds. Colorful coral reefs turn a deathly white around the world. Six whales die in the Bahamas from bleeding near their ears after the Navy tests an active sonar system there. After so much bad news, people are thirsting for workable solutions to the oceans crisis.

Heal the Ocean provides a refreshing change in the literature by emphasizing success stories in the struggle to save the seas. The author -- a marine ecologist dedicated to protecting and restoring ocean ecosystems -- first describes the nature of ocean environments, and then discusses current and emerging threats, including pollution, overfishing, poor land use, deep sea mining, and the search for new energy sources. Heal the Ocean then urges that we build upon efforts that have successfully countered such threats, including:

- allowing natural processes to restore the San Francisco Bay and Delta
- innovative wastewater treatment at Ecoparque, Baja California
- the world's first scientifically designed marine reserve network in California's Channel Islands
- traditional stewardship of land and sea by native Hawaiians
- economic incentives for sustainable fishing in Alaska
- new international fishing agreements with teeth
- shifting consumer demand to sustainable seafood, and
- building constituencies for ocean conservation and creating a new ocean ethic using sophisticated social marketing and community-building techniques.

Upbeat and inspiring, Heal the Ocean will appeal to professional environmental advocates, community leaders, opinion-shapers and policymakers, as well as any citizen aspiring to protect the ocean.

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Dive into this ocean of knowledge!.......2006-09-17

In "Heal the Ocean", Rod Fujita details the catastrophic state of our oceans as a result of global warming, overfishing, pollution, deep sea mining, military interests, and poor land use. More importantly, he describes the many ways that we can work together to protect and restore ocean ecosystems. As somebody who loves the ocean but has never before taken a marine biology course, I appreciate Fujita's accessible writing style. Thank you, Rod Fujita, for this educational and inspiring book.

New Book Rides a Wave of Hope.......2005-07-13

A must-read for anyone who visits a beach, lives near a coast or loves the ocean (and who doesn't?). A marine ecologist at Environmental Defense, Rod Fujita unravels the mystery of the sea, revealing its web of life and how we humans are woven into it -- and have shaped it, for better and worse. At the heart of this beautifully-written book lies Fujita's belief in the ocean's resiliency and unwavering faith that we can turn the tide against ocean decline. He shapes the complex science of ocean ecosystems into a tale as mesmerizing as the ocean itself.

Championing the Seas.......2005-06-16

Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving our Seas
by Rod Fujita
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Championing the Seas
Dr. Rod Fujita does not write with the detached voice of a scientist, although he is one. He writes with the passion of a champion for the cause of sustainable development and he believes it is possible.
Some fisheries such as California's near shore waters collapsed through over fishing. The solution: California's Marine Life Management Act of 1999 that strives to protect whole ecosystems through marine reserves where no fishing is allowed. Fujita calls it "fish in the bank."
"Present economic activities should not compromise our own future need for resources or those of future generations," and according to Fujita, it is a view that is gaining acceptance all over the world. It is a view that makes sense.
Although the author shows numerous scenarios for environmental disasters, he is no prophet of doom. After showing how ecosystems can and do collapse, he shows solutions, and sometimes brilliant solutions that have worked as well as ideass that have not been tried, but should be. Solving problems with scientific knowledge and political know how makes Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving Our Seas an important book.
Some of the engineering solutions that Fujita shows are ingenious, yet there is not a single solution that fits all situations. Each problem, each place on earth and in its oceans has unique features that call for creative solutions. Each problem must balance human needs with the conservation of natural resources.
Rod Fujita's enthusiasm for his subject shines through. He provides a toolkit full of savvy solutions, some tried and successful and some waiting to be used to remedy modern day assaults upon the seas and their living ecosystems. His book draws upon a body of recent scientific discoveries and provides a wealth of fascinating details about the connections among rivers, oceans, land forms, mangroves, reefs and the life that is interdependent in ways that are understood, and ways we have yet to discover. This alone would make it an interesting book, but Dr. Fujita goes takes his subject further. He shows us a future full of possibilities for healing the oceans.
Dr. Fujita gleaned his knowledge from close observations under water and his scientific work at Woods Hole, (he received his PhD from Boston University's Marine Program), and his work as a Senior Scientist with Environmental Defense, an environmental activist group. He has served on many state and federal commissions and review panels. He looks at the big picture drawn from his experience of work on many environmental issues such as protecting marine ecosystems, global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain and new discoveries in the deep ocean abysses. Here is an authoritative author who opens our eyes to the beauty, intricate ecological relationships, and threats to our ecosystems as he raises our awareness of what is happening to the interconnected waters of this planet and the life in them. The book is interdisciplinary as books of this type must be.
He shows the importance of non-governmental organizations and what they can do to influence how state and federal funds are spent. By using examples, he shows the importance of local solutions. "People will protect what they love and can love what they understand...we too are part of the matrix of the coastal zone and the sea." He gives examples of commercial fishermen on the East Coast working hand in hand with the scientific community to find good solutions to conserve natural resources. Peoples such as native Hawaiians, who have lived on the land and gone to sea for generations, are wise in their knowledge of their particular environments. He shows where some government programs designed from afar have produced the opposite results than were intended.
He has documented losses of salmon on the West Coast through the damming of wild rivers. Pacific salmon are anadromous fish that migrate between oceans and freshwater rivers. These losses are disheartening but may be reversible. Scientists are using the concept of pysis, a Greek word that means self-healing. To reverse environmental damages, rivers can be returned to their natural states without levees and dams and with natural features such as wetlands and trees on their banks so that fish and wildlife can return to their intricate patterns of feeding and spawning in habitats that sustain.
Donning mask and flippers, Dr. Fujita has explored pristine reefs up close and observed how their ecosystems work as opposed to coral reefs damaged by global warming, pollution and destructive fishing practices. He advocates marine reserves as a way to study and preserve ocean species before it is too late.
The scope of the book covers various ocean zones from the near shore areas to the practically unknown abysses while revealing surprising new information insights and fresh ideas. Minerals in the deep ocean are there to be exploited by nations that need them; deep ocean mining needs to be regulated to protect deep water ecosystems that scientists are only beginning to study.
In the last chapter, "Creating A New Ocean Ethic," Dr. Fujita states that reasonable accommodations of competing interests-economic development and environmental protection can often be made. "True economic development is an increased quality of life, wherein people prosper not only in financial terms, but also in aesthetic and spiritual terms, sustained by natural beauty, wildlife and health ecosystems."
Hercules, hero of ancient Greek mythology, was given twelve seemingly impossible labors to accomplish and found ways to overcome enormous difficulties. There are lessons in this. Today, Dr. Fujita champions the Herculean tasks needed to heal the oceans of the world. With the precision of a careful scientist and the drive of a committed activist he has written a book that should be in every library and bookstore. Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving Our Seas makes complicated issues clear to scientists as well as the general public and writes with a fine style.
Review written by Barbara Spring, author of The Dynamic Great Lakes, a non-fiction book about the history of changes in North America's Great Lakes and The Wilderness Within, a book of nature poetry and essays from around the world.

UPBEAT, REALISTIC AND FULL OF NEW IDEAS.......2004-01-31

Dr. Fujita's highly readable book is full of positive examples of changes we can make to improve the environment. It is a realistic insight into the science of environmental change. The book takes the time to present the problems facing our oceans but also shares success stories for change. This is a wonderful book for a non-scientist, non activist but interested reader.

Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving Our Seas.: An article from: Environmental Health Perspectives

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Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving Our Seas.: An article from: Environmental Health Perspectives
Paul A. Sandifer
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Title: Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving Our Seas.
Author: Paul A. Sandifer
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2004
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