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Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack KerouacÂ's muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in KerouacÂ's classic On The Road, and as one of Ken KeseyÂ's merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom WolfeÂ's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover CassadyÂ's life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the “Soul of the Beat Generation” in his own words—sometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassady—raw and uncut.
Customer Reviews:
A Modern Muse.......2006-08-29
The first thing that surprised me about these letters was how fine Cassady's vocabulary was; and how well-read he was. The letters really show why he was such a profound influence on Kerouac and Ginsberg. Also, these letters weren't written to be published, so they are unforced and natural. How about that sexual exploit on page 77? My goodness! Can we, in the year 2006, forgive Neil's use of the "N" word in the year 1948...in much the same way as Mark Twain's use of that word? I guess that's up to each reader to decide. Anyway, I find this book to be a superlative example of a modern muse in action.
The Beat Hero In His Own Words (for once).......2006-05-16
Neal Cassady was, for most of his adult life, a prolific writer, spreading his hep words to the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Bill Burroughs, and other beat writers who used Neal as the star of many of their works (especially K). Cassady is a born storyteller, as is evidenced by his energetic and exciting letters; however, it becomes evident that he is not a born writer, and as exciting as his letters are, they say quite little. Regardless, it is obvious how Cassady became a new archetype of American modern literature, and fans of the Beats would be remiss not to check out this wee tome. Note that after his imprisonment for distributing "tea" the volume drops off considerably. Was it prison, life or LSD that lessened the latent genius' writing? We'll never know.
A mediocre book about a fascinating character.......2006-04-03
Jack Kerouac is a great writer, who wrote some great books. Neal Cassady is the energetic, life-filled hero of many of them, including "On the Road," in which Neal is represented as "Dean Moriarty."
Tom Wolfe is another great writer, who wrote the amazing "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," in which Neal is also a prominent character, this time the driver of a psychedelic busful of hippies.
In these books, and in others, Neal Cassady stands out distinctly as a fascinating character worthy of study--a man with an almost bottomless manic energy, the sex drive of a large crowd, and a penchant for joyriding in stolen cars.
This book here, however, goes a little deeper, is a little more personal, and as a result, damages many of the romantic illusions that have been built around his character.
This is Neal's life in his own words, in words from letters meant only for his friends and lovers and family, not for the public. There is some dishonesty here, but still it's very intimate, and very disclosing.
This book shows the sides of Neal that were often downplayed in books about him, sides that would have made him a much less sympathetic character: the neglectful way he treated and cast aside his wives and children, the almost psychopathic detachment from the crimes he committed and the women he used, the anger and the bitterness over his lot in life, the general disloyalty, the pathetically unsuccessful attempts at trying to be a writer, and the transparent tries to make his often empty life seem more significant than it was and his often horrible choices seem less like choices and more like fate.
All that would be fine however, if he had only been a better writer. As it is, the book is still a fairly compelling read that will keep you turning the pages and keep you interested. But the writing is typical. Average. Drug-addled. Bland.
He never had the discpline to cultivate what talent he may have had, and it shows.
This is a book to read to acquaint yourself better with Neal Cassady the character...if you want to. Unfortunately, along the way, you'll have to get a bit involved with Neal Cassady the writer.
He's certainly no Kerouac, even if he did help to inspire his style.
Cassady fans rejoice!.......2005-08-10
Neal Cassady fans rejoice! This is the book you've been waiting a long, long time for. If Neal has captured your imagination (he's certainly captured mine) surely you've been frustrated about how little information there is about him. Yes, he's Dean Moriarty, Cody Pomeray, Speed Limit, and Cowboy Neal. He even wrote an (labored, as you'll discover) autobiography, "First Third". But, in a way, none of it prepares you for these collected letters because it's within them that we get to see the many sides of the Neal Cassady legend, primarily in his own words.
The two aspects I enjoyed most about this book were his hopes to be a family man and his desire to be an author, favorite aspects I suppose because that's not how I saw him previously. He tried hard to be a good husband and father but his muse wouldn't let him. And in these letters you see the creative, free-wheeling writing ability he was capable of but just couldn't get together in book form. Kerouac credits Neal for inspiring the style he'd develope for "On the Road" and on, and throughout the 50's encourages him to continue his writing.
The bulk of this collection dates before 1957, before the publication of "On the Road" and the whole beat sensation. In that regard it's very special to have the inside look at these letters which at the time of their composition no one would have had the faintest clue would be published. These are letters between friends, aspiring artists and lovers when there was no email and long distance phone calls were a luxury. Neal's writing was sometimes pedestrian but at other times it would soar, making clear why Ginsburg, Kerouac, etc argued he was the greatest writer of the group.
The editor Dave Moore does a wonderful job bringing continuity to the letters with his commentary throughout the book. He connects the dots where needed providing necessary back-story in an unabtrusive manner.
One complaint I do have about the book is that during the 60's the quantity of letters seriously drops off. He wrote less and less or the letters are lost or both, but it does leave a hole in Neal's story. As a result we miss out, in his words, on his life as he transitions from the beat generation to the hippie generation.
I have come to some new conclusions of my own about Neal, as will any reader. There is room for more writing on this most facsinating subject (esp his life in the 60's--why, he even lived with the Grateful Dead at their famed 710 Ashbury residence during the Haight's blossoming) but "Selected Letters" fills a huge void.
Elementary my dear Moriarty..............2005-02-11
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Now's your chance.......
Read between the lines of what Jack Kerouac
was saying in On the Road, or at least get closer
to his hero Dean Moriarty (real name Neal Cassady).
This book officially published this winter in the
USA and available on import in the UK is a
CAUSE CELEBRE of the Beat World. Possibly
the best Beat read you'll have had since On the Road.
Neal Cassady's Letters - produced by Carolyn
Cassady and others, brilliantly edited (and that
doesn't mean cut) by Beat authority Dave Moore.
Having read On the Road we think we know it all?
We don't know half of it. Neal's Letters flesh out
the legend. For instance they show the married side
of Neal with intimate letters between himself and
Carolyn, something On the Road barely touches on.
They reveal the extent of the 'manage a trois' which
existed between Neal, Carolyn and Jack.
You want something even spicier? Try the long letter
to Alan Ginsberg starting on p.199 ...or Diana's note
on Neal p.142-143, or Neal's outrageous letter starting
p.327 and you'll see why Neal Cassady joins The
Marquis de Sade, Casanova, and Rasputin as
a sexual enchanter.
Bristolian Dave Moore's meticulous annotation and footnotes
link the letters, explain them, and make a narrative of them.
They prove Neal an engaging writer who's free-form
style inspired Kerouac in his genius to make
a prose-poem of the tale.
It's not difficult to see why Kerouac and his muse have
been down-graded over the years, and even vilified.
There's enough work here for a thousand sociologists.
At a time when, here in Britain, Jamaican men are
being persuaded to change their `out husband' lifestyle
and settle down with their wives and the children they
father, Neal Cassady epitomised the very life style
they're eschewing becoming the `white negro' of
Kerouac's classic, not only in terms of jazz music
and pot, but also adopting the black male role of
sex-object and stud.
No wonder the media wants to play him down - the
man who hitched a train and threw a generation off the rails.
As Joe Strummer said: "When we first read On
the Road we weren't digging Kerouac's prose - we
wanted to be like Dean Moriarty". He ended his life
as only a man like that can - broken and crying on
a railway line in Mexico.
Saint or sinner? Looser or winner? As the man who
straddled 100 women and Kerouac's prose makes
his literary debut - you make up your mind!
Book Description
In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort that was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture.
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Stunningly written descriptions.......2007-02-28
From desciptions of the Durfee and Peck traders to the health conditions at the fort, the construction of the fort itself...a work to be enjoyed. You can feel yourself sliding back in time, to the shores of the Missouri, when there was little west of you except open land and Indians. I relished this book, enjoyed each and every page.
Local History Done Proud.......2007-01-16
When I found that I would be moving to Williston, ND, (25 years ago) I checked to see what all was in the area. I was pleased to notice that the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park was in the next county. I also noticed that there was a National Historic Site nearby as well. The National Park is nice but I have been to the Fort Union National Historic Site far more often. I discovered that a significant chapter in our nation's history took place at the nearby confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. Thanks to this scholarly work by Barton Barbour, I have been able to read the most focussed, well-written, engrossing book ever published on this local monument.
When I came to this area, the site was comprised of a trailer home Ranger office/Visitor's Center and a roped out layout of where the various parts of the fort used to be. The subsequent reconstruction of the site (which was financed, in part, by significant local contributions) has resulted in a site that looks as impressive as its' history. Much of the local focus seemed to be about the many "celebrities" who came here during the fort's heyday. While there are many well-researched work about the Fur Trade, Barbour's book elevates the level of discourse to an analysis of significant issues. He presents a compelling theory that the fur-trading communities of the Upper Missouri exemplified a society of diversity that was well ahead of its' time. While there were hierarchies involved, there was also a recognition that all parties were interdependant of each other. The resulting respect and cooperation was well beyond the societal norms of the rest of European-settled America. Ironically, this existed at the same time the rest of the USA was fighting the Civil War over, in part, issues of racial equality.
There are chapters that examine the nature of the fur-trading industry and its' relationship to other industries as well as to the US Government and its' various agencies. These 2-3 chapters in particular do tend to slow the reading down a bit but Barbour offers a good overview of the Fur Trade's position in the American Economy and legal structure of the times. The political change that arose from the Civil War are stikingly presented by the author.
Mr. Barbour also offers a look at the effect that the Fur Trade had on the Native American Culture as well as its' impact on the Arts and Science of an emerging nation. He shows how the needs of trader and Indian alike created a market place that was respectful of each. The overhead may have been high but the quality was very good. His conclusions challenge many of the more recent stereotypes of European-American interaction with Native societies.
Barton Barbour has succeeded in creating a much-needed overview of the Upper Missouri Fur Trade. His analysis of Fort Union as the most significant site of its' kind is well-presented. It is much appreciated by those of us in the Missouri/Yellowstone Confluence area who knew that Fort Union was always more than just another fort on another river.
An impressive work of deftly presented scholarship.......2003-08-09
Fort Union And The Upper Missouri Fur Trade by Barton H. Barbour (Assistant Professor of History, Boise State University), is a comprehensive history of the city of Fort Union, one of the most important and enduring fur-trading posts of the nineteenth century. Historian and author Barton Barbour transport the reader to a yesteryear teeming hub of communication and activity between pioneers, Native Americans, trappers, traders, and more. An involving discussion of the legal, political, and sociocultural influence this trading hub had upon American history, Fort Union And The Upper Missouri Fur Trade is an impressive work of deftly presented scholarship which has clearly earned its finalist ranking for the 2002 Western Writers of America Spur Award in the Best Western Nonfiction-Historical category.
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Good history of this important trading post.......2005-12-20
This book is a history of the famous fur trading post located on the Missouri River, a few miles west of the mouth of the Yellowstone River, which sits almost exactly on the state line separating Montana and North Dakota. The fort was built by Kenneth McKenzie for the American Fur Company in 1829 (not finished until 1833). Not only did the fort see its share of fur trappers and Indian agents, it seemed also to be a magnet for artists and famous visitors. The artists Karl Bodmer, Rudolph Kurz, and William Cary all appeared at the fort, as did such luminaries as Prince Maxmilian, Father De Smet, and John James Audobon. The Missouri steamboat YELLOWSTONE made frequent visits beginning in 1832, sometimes bringing smallpox epidemics with it.
The fort was palisaded on all four sides and contained bastions at opposite NE-SW corners. Inside the enclosure was a large house for the bourgeois, who oversaw the fort, as well as other smaller dwellings along the inside walls. When the beaver trade declined, the buffalo hide trade took its place. Trouble with the Sioux in the 1850s brought army troops to the fort, and once again during the Civil War. In 1866 the government bought Fort Union and tore it down, using the wood to help construct Ft. Buford a few miles downstream.
Mainly using journal and diary entries of visitors to the fort, Thompson constructs a running though somewhat cursory history of the post. Included in the back of the book is a 5-page chronology of important events regarding the fort, and much of the text is nothing more than a brief elaboration (if that) of this chronology. Some questions remain undealt with: why did the government decide to buy the place only to tear it down and rebuild only 5 miles away? Was Ft. Union in such bad shape that it wasn't worth fixing up? Was it too outmoded in design to be useful anymore? Was it simply a matter of location? Thompson doesn't offer reasons beyond what actually took place. But there's an excellent bibliography, a useful index, and enough drawings and photographs to make the book worthy of attention for anyone interested in this important outpost of the fur trade period. Today the fort has been reconstructed by the National Park Service and is definitely worth visiting (so is nearby Ft. Buford, which is operated by the state of North Dakota).
Book Description
This new, updated edition of Basic Facts about the United Nations reflects the multitude of ways in which the United Nations touches the lives of people everywhere. It chronicles the work of the Organization in such areas as peace, development, human rights, humanitarian assistance, disarmament and international law. In describing the work of the United Nations family of organizations, this book provides a comprehensive account of the many challenges before the international community, as well as the joint ongoing efforts to find solutions.
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A Major Undertaking by Mrs. Roosevelt........2007-01-28
The UN founded after the end of WWII is the most important global organization, with fifty-one members in 1945, formed to protect and promote national interests. It had grown to 185 members in 1999. Others like OPEC, NAFTA, NATO, UNESCO, sprang from the original United Nations.
UN's purpose was to promote international peach, security and cooperation among states (as the colonies in Africa, South Africa, other small countried reached state status) and to protect human rights.
Cordell Hull from Tennessee was the pivotal person in charge, wtih Alger Hill close behind. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt played a major role representing her husband; Gladys Irwin also was a delegate while her husband was a federal judge. I knew there was a Cordell Hull Dam near Nashville, but she showed her pride in working with "your" Cordell Hull. At CWU meetings, she told all newcomers how much it meant to her.
Based in New York City, the headquarters are something to see. It is taller than the World Trade Center was. Except for Switzerland, all states on Earth are members of the UN Interpol, the Inernational Criminal Police Organization. It is truly a globel membership, thanks to the iniative and hard work of Mrs. Roosevelt. Stephen Schlesinger worked at the U. N. in the mid-1990s and relates in his book, "Act of Creation," that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the desire to become the Secretary-General of the UN and would have resigned his presidency to do so at the San Francisco Conference. On April 12, just 13 days before the Conference, FDR died. It fell to Harry Truman to address the UN Conference on opening day.
Alger Hiss was the acting SG and shared the platform with Earl Warren, then Governor of California. The four freedoms espoused were from want and fear, of speech and worship. Archibald MacLeish served as advisor to the U.S. delegation. He and his aide, Adlai Stevenson, dispensed information about UN in radio broadcasts, speeches, forums and meetings (also lectures for NBC radio). Stevenson, from Chicago, was the grandson of Grover Cleveland's Vice President and worked in the State Department. Later, he would run for the President of the United States.
The UN replaced the League of Nations. Roosevelt convinced Winston Churchill the name should be "United Nations." The UN Declaration was signed by representatives from twenty-six nations. The SG had more power than the League whcih was mostly clerical and administrative. He had to be a linguist to speak the language of the various nations.
One of the best known Secretary Generals was the legenday Dag Hammamskjold from Sweden who served from 1953-1961. In Linda Fasulo's "An Insider's Guide to the UN" is a photo of Eleanor Roosevelt holding the Universal Declaration of Rights poster in November, 1949, which was replaced later by the Universal Declaration's International Bill of Rights. Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash and a beautiful stained glass window by Marc Chagall is at the UN in his memory. At the headquarters in Manhattan, flags of all the members fly from 48th Street to 42nd (191 arranged alphabetically like a grand boulevard).
For twenty years, the unwritten agreement had been tha tthe SG should rotate among regions of the world. Seven have served: Norway, Sweden, Burma, Austria, Peru, Egypt, and Ghana. Fasulo was UN corrospondent and had a weekly NPR report. She explores the founding of UNESCO (UN Educational, Scienfitic, and Cultural Organization) a failure because of favoritism, nepotism, corruption and poor management, like Knox County government's appointing twelve commissioners instead of a special election. On the other side, UNICEF (UN Children's Fund) has lasted and served its purpose successfully. Bureaucracy abounds as in any organization, but the peacekeeping operations supersede all criticism. Different cultures, different opinions. What is good for some is bad for others. You can't please all the people all the time. It's good to remember that manners reflect one's self.
Great book.......2007-01-10
Detailed books with precise well written information. A must have for who's interested.
Best summary available on the UN.......1998-02-22
The chief cause of opposition to the United Nations is lack of knowledge about what it is, what it does, what it can do and what it cannot do. If I were to pick one volume to help both supporters and critics understand what the United Nations is, this book would be it.
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Basic Facts About the United Nations 2000 (Basic Facts About the United Nations)
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Basic Facts About the United Nations
Kofi A. Annan
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Tiger Woods success in golf (and in life) is not an accident. There s no doubt that he was born with a special talent, but Tiger also has nine traits that have allowed him to express that talent in extraordinary ways. These nine traits have helped Tiger become a champion, and they can help you lay a solid foundation for an outstanding business career and a fulfilling life. Tiger Traits describes how Tiger developed his natural talents and created a compelling dream for his life, who his heroes and mentors were, and how all of this helped him not just on the golf course but also in his journey to become a top entrepreneur in the world of sports. The lessons Tiger's life teaches us how to acquire confidence, use mental models to create success in advance, take intelligent and enthusiastic action, improve incrementally to produce massive results, tap into the power of personality to gain allies and build teams, and create greater success through giving to others can help any businessperson to attain greater success and satisfaction.
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Powerful traits for all ages.......2007-09-11
Tiger Traits provides such powerful success secrets that I will be buying 6 more copies to share with my two sons and four closest friends. Nate has written an easy to follow "recipe for success", which is inspiring for all ages!
Neil Wood
author: The Magic of Working Smarter
An excellent motivational and self-improvement guide.......2007-06-10
Written by success coach Nate Booth, Tiger Traits: 9 Success Secrets You Can Discover from Tiger Woods to be a Business Champion is a unique guide to business and life lessons that anyone can learn from golf prodigy Tiger Woods. From "Identify and Develop Natural Talents" to "Be Confident", "Let Actions Do the Talking", "Be Likeable", and "Be Grateful, Give Back", each of the nine positive character factors is scrutinized at length, its benefits analyzed and illuminated through real-world examples. An excellent motivational and self-improvement guide sure to especially resonate with professional golf buffs.
TIGER TRAITS Reviewed by Ralph Williams.......2007-04-16
Nate Booth's Tiger Traits has a wonderful way of exposing the tiger inside each of us. Even better, Nate takes on the role of a seasoned, professional caddy and shows each of us how to play the championship course of life. As anyone who plays the game of golf will tell you, there's more than one set of tees to play from. After reading and applying Nate's observations, I will feel much more confident playing the game of life from the championship tees.
When Nate writes about discovering one's natural talents, he gives us clear direction on what we should look for. When it comes to our individual weaknesses, he shows us how to manage them with honor.
While many may buy this book because of its reference to Tiger, I recommend this book because it gives all of us a better chance to tap into the natural and developed gifts of the author, Nate Booth.
In closing, I bought a copy of Tiger Traits for each of our five grown sons. It's a club I want in each of their bags.
Ralph Williams
Bottom Line University
Colleyville, TX
How to find what you are good at and then use it to make your life better.......2007-04-07
One of the staples in the business - motivation literature is the use of sports and sports heroes to illustrate a set of constructive traits the author shares with you. Here, Nate Booth has written a book that motivates the reader by illustrating the nine principles he provides in the book (and a tenth bonus principle online) through the life and career of the phenomenal golfer, Tiger Woods. The author is clear that Tiger has NOTHING to do with the book, does not endorse it, and is in no way affiliated with him. I guess this disclaimer is necessary in this age of total marketing, branding, and so forth. However, if you go to your bookstore and look at all the books based on the lives of various people without their endorsement, you could fill many shelves.
The main focus of the book, as I read it, is about taking control of your life by finding out what you are truly good at (the author provides you with some sound ways to tell), to develop a compelling dream around that talent, to get the right role models - teachers - supporters who will help you along the path, being confident, getting the right mental models, talk through actions, continually improve, be likeable (as an aside, while Tiger is famous and charismatic, I am not sure he is necessarily likeable nor am I sure he is concerned about it), and giving back.
Booth provides a post nine-hole (nine-principle) cool down where he summarizes of what he was trying to teach through the book and hopes the reader has learned. He also offers some recommended reading.
The book is NOT only about Tiger. Booth provides some excellent quotes from all kinds of past greats, from Aristotle, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and even Jiminy Cricket (and many others). I enjoyed these brief quotations a great deal.
If you enjoy motivational reading and are interested in Tiger Woods, this is a book for you.
My Post-Book Cool-Down.......2007-04-06
Tiger Woods had to wait two years after winning his first big tournament, to win a second one. Did he ever get discouraged? You bet, but he never let consistent losses kill his spirit. Dr. Nate Booth urges us to apply the principles of winning to our business problems, for the solutions that worked for Tiger might also help us earn more money and success. The traits of likability (it is said that Tiger never forgets a face and always remembers the names of the children and wives of everyone he meets) will put you in good stead when it comes to your career and success will be a birdie in the hand.
Booth is an exciting and spirited writer. I would love to see him do a fullscale informercial that would help us put the story of Tiger in perspective. He's got a nice balance of inflation and restraint, and he knows his facts. Most people know Tiger is of mixed race, but Booth has the eugenics at his tingertips. For the record, "his father is half African American, a quarter American Indian and a quarter Chinese, and his mother is half Thai, a quarter Chinese and a quarter white." Booth allows us to see Tiger's rise to fame as steps on a Joseph Campbell like journey--the hero with a thousand faces, and here, a thousand races.
All the same, there's something a little crazy about this book, for although it says in big letters that Tiger Woods and the Tiger Woods Foundation have nothing whatsoever to so with TIGER TRAITS, it's selling largely on Woods' name, not on the name of Dr. Nate Booth I presume. Isn't there a law against this kind of abuse? It would be like if I wrote, say, a cookbook and called it "Tiger's Recipes," as long as I had a disclaimer saying, "These recipes were not tasted nor tried by Tiger Woods, but they were inspired by his joie de vivre." I would call that cheating, but apparently in the world of business books and motivational speakers, anything not nailed down is fair game.
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Tigers: The Secret Life
Valmik Thapar
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The Secret Life of Tigers documents the family life of three tigresses and their cubs from soon after birth to adulthood. An extraordinary account if records for the first time the active role the male tiger plays as a father.
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Wonderful book!.......2001-07-10
Simply the best book ever put together about tigers. Valmik Thapar knows his subjects! He explains more about tiger behavior and family life than any other author reporting on the topic. His greatest work is probably on the role of the tiger father--he proves, with ground breaking photographs, that male tiger fathers actually care for and are affectionate for their young. It's a very good book, by the world's foremost expert on tiger family life. I give it an A+ and a must for any true tiger lover!
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The Man Who Rode the Tiger: The Life and Times of Judge Samuel Seabury
Herbert Mitgang
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The Man Who Rode the Tiger is the dramatic story of the biggest investigation of political corruption in American municipal history.
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A great overview of a very interesting time and man!.......1998-09-26
With the life of Samuel Seabury on the pages discribed in detail and the photos that acompany the text you can get a real feel for the man and his time. All of this against the backdrop of New York City Politics. Samuel Seabury was known in all circles as standing for the height of ethics in his time. Something lacking on todays political landscape. A facinating read that never slows page after page.
Nathan David Seabury 25 Sept 1998.
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TIGERS: The Secret Life
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- Detour : My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D
- Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
- Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About
- The Spirit Stone: The Silver Wyrm, Book Two
- The Hob's Bargain
- The Big Killing
- The Everything Mediterranean Cookbook: An Enticing Collection of 300 Healthy, Delicious Recipes from
- Student Solution Manual to Accompany Chemistry
- The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album
- Enchanted World: The Art of Anne Sudworth
- Play Lightly on the Earth: Nature Activities for Children Ages 3 to 9
- Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas & All Other Plants in The Australian Proteaceae Family
The First Third & Other Writings
The Windblown World: The Journals Of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956
The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero
