Bob Marley: My Son

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Here is a poignant account of reggae icon Bob Marley (1945-1980) told in the lyrical but earthytones of his devoted mother.

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Cedella Marley Booker: Strength of Bob.......2007-06-11

I read this book in ONE DAY! It is an incredible book! You get such an understanding of Bob Marley (born: Nesta Robert Marley) that you are enveloped into the life of this musical legend! Once you read this book, you know exactly where Bob Marley got his character and his strength--from his mother. Her account of how she watched her son die from cancer is tearjerking and for me was personal, as I saw my mother waste away from cancer. It is truly the greatest and best account of the life of Bob Marley ever written and die-hard Marley fans should own this book at all cost! This literally is as close to Bob Marley anyone will ever get to understanding the man behind the music.

Important perspective.......2006-07-19

I really enjoyed this book from a perspective of a mother, supporter and oracle sharing her experience, her truths and beliefs with insertions of Jamaican patois about her life and Bob's life.

Cedella describes the unique relationship between she and "Captain", a common tale of race, power, and lust in colonial Caribbean. She discusses the trials and tribulations that helped her rear Bob and how her perserverance helped Bob discover his own voice. Cedella was a powerful, vocal and honest woman whose observations of Bob's life gives a compelling spin on how women raise men in the Caribbean and how her technqiues are typical of Displaced African women throughout the globe.

For the true Bob Marley spiritual connection, I think this book is vital. Very rarely do we read the perspective of the family especially for Black heroes. All too often peripheral, white, powerful authors are given access to publish print and make money off of our spiritual prophets and artists.

I fully support more books like this that tell the tale of Black women, men and children via our experiences, using our language and depicting vivid imagery that can transplant us to their space and time.

Conflictual.......2006-02-27

I guess this book was okay, however, I've read other books on Bob Marley and his mother's version seems very bias towards her son and herself looking good. She totally downplays his infidelites as a man will do what a man will do but focuses on Rita Marley getting pregnant with another man's baby. She mentioned this numerous times in the book giving this as one main reason for conflict between Bob and Rita. She focuses on Rita being unfaithful but barely talks about the numerous children he had outside his marriage. She states her son was tormented about this child and that he would divorce Rita if he found out it was not his. She later claims Rita did tell him that this was not his child- he never got a divorce. I read Rita's version in No Woman, No Cry and tend to somewhat believe that version of events a lot better. Other than the conflictual information and her focusing on herself a lot, it was an okay read.

The Journey.......2005-08-22

This is a compelling book. I agree with the reviewer who said that at the beginning of the book there was more about Cedella and her background than about Bob Marley, but the end justified the means. You get to know and understand Cedella Marley as her son takes her through her journey. Her description of "Nesta's" last months are heart wrenching. Her voice as a mother comes through - I was sobbing at the end. But she added credit where credit is due namely to Chris Blackwell, when all of Marley's "entourage" left after his death, Blackwell remained to ask what was needed and to make sure Cedella would be taken care of for the rest of her life. Not many people are aware of Blackwell's genuine care and concern.
As I kept reading throughout the book, I was becoming more aware of how beautifully written her words are and how strong her love is for "Nesta" and all of her family.
This is, indeed, a beautiful book and one that belongs in everyone's collection of all that is written about Nesta Robert Marley.
Sue Few

A Decent Book.......2004-06-01

... This book is much different than most biographies because it is written by the subject's actual mother. Readers are allowed to view Marley in the eyes of his mom rather than in the eyes of a fan or historian. The book does a decent job of retelling Marley's life and rise to international fame. It is an interesting read and does not take very long as it is rather short.
... One thing I did not like about the book was the fact that at times, it begins to feel like more of a autobiography about Bob's mother than about him. The book, in fact, begins with her childhood. It is a good twenty minutes before Bob Marley is even introduced: something I find strange in a biography that is supposed to be about him. Once you make it through these sections however, the author does try to tie them into ordeals and stories that focus on Bob.
... The vast selections of pictures from Bob's childhood were both a positive and a negative. It was nice to have access to visuals of all the people talked about in the book. It makes it easier to picture people when you know what they look like. It was annoying, however, to be stopped in the middle of a sentence by 8 to 10 pages of pictures. By the time you flipped through them you would have to flip back and try to remember what fragment you had read to try and complete the sentence.

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"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolationism to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From
the moment it realized that all was lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host of persuasive tactics to draw the US to its rescue. With the help of talents as varied as those of matinee idol Leslie Howard, Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin and society photographer Cecil Beaton,
no section of America remained untouched and no method--from Secret Service intrigue to the publication of horrifying pictures of Nazi atrocities--remained untried. The British sought and won the support of key journalists and broadcasters, including Edward R. Murrow, Dorothy Thompson and Walter
Winchell; Hollywood film makers also played a willing part. Cull details these and other propaganda activities, covering the entire range of the British effort. A fascinating story of how a foreign country provoked America's involvement in its greatest war, Selling War will appeal to all those
interested in the modern cultural and political history of Britain and the United States.

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American-powered British Empire.......2005-01-06

Sixty-five years ago, Americans believed that their government's renewed relations with the British Empire in support of the Queen's military effort in Europe's Great War had been a mistake. They believed that ignoring Thomas Jefferson's wisdom of "Friendship and trade with all nations; Entangling alliances with none", was a costly and deadly mistake. In the future, they said, Americans would leave the Europeans to settle their differences without American interference and the British Empire would have to tread without American brawn - "Burn everything British except their coal" said one Irish-American banner in 1921.

According to Prof Nicholas John Cull of Leicester Univ, American neutrality was contrary to British foreign policy so a British 'Fifth Column' was implemented to suck America back into her Mama's Empire. Winston Churchill, who held American and British citizenships, probably did more to suck America back into the British Empire than any other single British statesman. Churchill boasted that he had "dreamed of, aimed at, and worked for" American brawn to backup British Empire during WWII. Everywhere the Yanks are embroiled today are those quagmires originally created by the British, Iraq is just one good example (See also 'Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq' by C. Catherwood at www.amazon.co.uk).

Prof Nicholas John Cull at Leicester Univ did his PhD in 1991 at Leeds on British propaganda and information warfare aimed at getting America off her libertarian footing and back to providing the brawn to British Empire as was accomplished for the first world war. At the same time that Cull wrote his dissertation, Susan Brewer of Cornell Univ in New York wrote hers - 'Creating the Special Relationship: British Propaganda in America in World War Two', Cornell Univ, PhD 1991. Cull's book 'Selling War' is basically a 1995 rewrite of his PhD disseration, while he was teaching at the Univ of Birmingham in England.

The point to all this is that America, which had fought two wars against Britain and Empire in 1776 and 1812, was sucked back in by a deal between American elites and British elites who saw BIG oil money $$$ if they partnered up to do a snow job on the American public. That's why everywhere Bush goes today you see Blair whispering into his ear. I mean think about it - that dumb cowboy pulling the strings?!! If it isn't his British bosses calling the shots, then who?

Britain did not trick America into war.......2001-09-15

From June 1940 through to June 1941, Britain stood alone against an alliance of European countries, led by Germany, that were hell-bent on the destruction of freedom and the subjugation of all non-Germanic peoples. Cull has studied Britain's attempts to gain itself an ally against Nazism, but concludes oddly that these attempts were in some way sinister. He fails to convince. Britain's role against fascism was surely a heroic one, a subject for our admiration, and Britain's desire to obtain American help is surely neither insidious nor surprising.
Cull describes in detail the propaganda methods used by the British. They sent American radio stations recordings of British news broadcasts, and wrote articles in American newspapers seeking support. This rather mundane activity is related as if it is quite spine-chilling. Now, if Cull could prove that the British terrorized America and then framed the Germans I would sit up and take notice, but the fact is the British did nothing of the kind - they were, after all, the champions of the free world and not about to erode the very principles of justice they were fighting to preserve.
One of Cull's main grudges revolves around a "Nazi map of German plans for South America" which, he says, Roosevelt used to convince Americans of German villainy and which, he says, was forged. Having already convinced himself of British villainy, he concludes that this map can only have been foisted on the American people by British spies. Cull seems to have moved mountains to obtain evidence that his theory is correct, but admits to having failed. Undaunted, he concludes that his theory is correct, the map must have been forged by the British secret service, but - here's Catch 22 - they were so crafty that they ensured no-one would ever find any proof. This aside, it still makes no sense to blame Britain for America's entry into the war. Pearl Harbor happened because the Japanese were smarting at American economic sanctions - and America had put sanctions on Japan because Japan was attacking Indo-China. This had little to do with Germany, and nothing at all to do with Britain.

Selling War : The British Propaganda Campaign Against American "Neutrality" in World War II

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Selling War : The British Propaganda Campaign Against American "Neutrality" in World War II
Nicholas John Cull
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The authors argue that American patriotism is a civil religion organized around a sacred flag, whose followers engage in periodic blood sacrifice of their own children to unify the group. Using an anthropological theory, this groundbreaking book presents and explains the ritual sacrifices and regeneration that constitute American nationalism, the factors making particular elections or wars successful or unsuccessful rituals, the role of the mass media in the process, and the sense of malaise that has pervaded American society during the post-World War II period.

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AN INSTANT CLASSIC.......2001-06-25

This is a great work of social science, one of the most significant books of our time. Marvin and Ingle state that "The underlying cost of all society is the violent death of some of its members." In contrast to the view that societal violence is something that occasionally "happens" in spite of our best efforts, the authors argue that violence is INHERENT WITHIN THE VERY NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF "SOCIETY."

Many writers speak about the naturally "aggressive" nature of human beings. Marvin and Ingle understand that violence has a deeper source, namely the societal compulsion to SACRIFICE ITS OWN MEMBERS IN THE NAME OF THE SACRED (NATIONAL) IDEAL. It is this SACRIFICAL meaning of violence that human beings refuse to perceive.

The authors state that "OUR DEEPEST SECRET, THE COLLECTIVE GROUP TABOO, IS KNOWLEDGE THAT SOCIETY DEPENDS ON THE DEATH OF SACRIFICIAL VICTIMS AT THE HANDS OF THE GROUP ITSELF."

Our capacity to understand the nature of human society requires perceiving this relationship between sacred groups and collective violence. This book represents a significant step toward revealing and articulating this relationship.

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