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The Greatest War Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Military History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy (History Channel)
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Unbelievable stories!.......2007-10-07
I am a social studies teacher and my jaw dropped reading these short tidbits on historical events -- this is such a great writer in easy-to-understand language. My students love it when I tell them stuff like this you'll never find in a textbook.
A pleasant diversion.......2007-10-06
This book was nice distraction. To be honest, the first time I saw it and looked at the format I thought it wouldn't be that good but actually I was pleasntly surprised. Although I was familiar with many of the stories, Beyer managed to surprise me with a few new angles on some of these bits of trivia. Better yet, he came up with several new stories I had never heard.
Great book. I look forward to more of this type.
First read of a Rick Beyer work.......2007-08-28
I usually stick with known writers like David McCullough, Walter Isaacson, and Stephen B. Oates. This time I went for a new name and I'm glad I did. I had read about the little known reason why Mr. Lincoln had ordered a raid on Libby Prison in Richmond, but it had never been so interestingly explained as Mr. Beyer does in this book. It's by far one of the best books on military history that I've read. I'll describe it as having a good sense of drama with a scholar's meticulous attention. Unlike my newest one, "Kill Me If You Can", Beyer's book is one that anyone interested in military history will enjoy. No, this is not a veiled commercial. I'll assure you that unless you're an exception, you'd hate my book. Truthfully, I'm beginning to believe my motive for writing it was to see just how many people I could alienate. Bob Miller
Great bathroom reading.......2007-05-22
This book is full of interesting little tidbits that are only a page spread long each, perfect for the coffee table or bathroom. It's great for whetting your appetite for a particular historical event, which, in my case, usually sends me to other books or online to find out more detail.
A good read.......2006-03-09
Short and to the point.
"Slightly" biaised to the winners point of view
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While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States. In this, the first history of the African diaspora in Latin America from emancipation to the present, George Reid Andrews deftly synthesizes the history of people of African descent in every Latin American country from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. He examines how African peooples and their descendants made their way from slavery to freedom and how they helped shape and responded to political, economic, and cultural changes in their societies. Individually and collectively they pursued the goals of freedom, equality, and citizenship through military service, political parties, civic organizations, labor unions, religious activity, and other avenues. Spanning two centuries, this tour de force should be read by anyone interested in Latin American history, the history of slavery, and the African diaspora, as well as the future of Latin America.
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This book fills in the gap that so many countries in the Americas try to glaze over!.......2006-09-19
I have been waiting for this book even before the author wrote it. Thank you! This book should be on the reading list for all schools in all countries of the Americas, and definitely required reading in university programs of African-American, Latin, and African-Diaspora studies. The author descriptively spells out the facts of the intimate relationship and undeniable impact of African people and culture throughout Latin America, while providing the reader with an extensive notes and bibliography section. This book will become a cornerstone in leading readers to other literature on the subject. I'm recommending it to everyone I know.
Great Book!.......2006-05-07
I recommend this book to everyone interested in studies of social sciences, global history, anthropology, the study of "race", and the trans-Atlantic slave trade/African-diaspora outside the USA. Most the time the study of slavery is emphasized only on the USA when in actuality other countries had slavery longer and "imported" more Africans like Brasil. This book can help you draw commonalities and differences in the experiences of slavery, Africans and their descendants had in the Americas.This book presents knowledge that otherwise has been kept esoteric and unapplied to society. In USA schools students are only taught about slavery in the U.S. and U.S. history in a very Eurocentric form, but this book should be read by these students so they can learn the truth about how the countries of the western hemisphere were born and the large part Africans and their descendants had to do with it. This book introduces you to Black history of other countries: Black Brazilian history, Black Colombian history, Black Cuban history, Black Venezuelan History, Black Dominican history, Black Puerto Rican history, etc.
A Book On A Topic Long Overdue.......2005-02-21
From the first page of the Introduction George Reid Andrews sets the tone of his latest work, Afro-Latin America: 1800 - 2000. The book looks at the Latin-American world focusing on the mostly overlooked fact that the African population south of Central and South America far exceeded in numbers its North American counterparts. "During the period of slavery," Andrews writes, "ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America (5.7 million) as to the United States (560,000). By the end of the 1900s, Afro-Latin Americans outnumbered Afro-North Americans by three to one...[making it] obvious that we need histories of Latin America's Diaspora comparable to those of the United State's African Diaspora. This book is an effort to provide such a history." Andrews then continues to expound on the problem of "how...do we know who in Latin America is of African ancestry and who is not?" Explaining the problems previous historians and social scientists have had with relative terms such as "black," or "brown." For the purposes of his book, Andrews simply states that for his study, "any individual described...as black...or brown, or mulatto will be considered...to be of known African ancestry."
The book is divided into six chapters, beginning with a section of Maps before the Introduction and ending with Population Counts, a Glossary, End Notes and a detailed Bibliography. Each chapter covers a specific topic and time period, and is presented is a straightforward narrative format. The first chapter presents an overview of Afro-Latin America in 1800. In describing the diversity of the population Andrews points out that one could find in the region, "slaves working at the lowest level of the urban economy, slaves and free blacks working as independent street vendors, free black men entrusted with arms and wearing the king's uniform, and a free black man officiating as a Catholic priest." He also goes on to describe how these displaced people kept their culture alive. "Slaves' acceptance of Christianity," Andrews states, "did not necessary imply their abandonment of African religion...as slaves added Christian saints and deities to African pantheons and even invested them with attributes of African gods."
The second chapter describes The War for Freedom, 1810 - 1890, and concentrates on the effect the liberal revolutions of the late 1700, early 1800s had on the region. "The Atlantic revolutions affected Latin America not just by the force of their example but by their geopolitical impact as well. Just as the American Revolution indirectly triggered its French counterpart, so did the French Revolution indirectly trigger the independence struggles in Latin America." Andrews focuses on the impact of the Haitian Revolution, and while not considered by the author as part of Latin-America (being a French colony), the rippling effect it caused impacted the fight for liberty throughout the region. The "bitter civil wars [that] would rage on in much of the region...as in Haiti...would provide Spanish American slaves with opportunities to escape slavery and to fight for their emancipation." Andrews then describes the conflicts brought about by the colonial powers against their mother countries in the fight for freedom, and how slaves used these fights to gain their own liberty. Beginning with the Hidalgo rebellion in Mexico in 1810, and continuing through the fighting between rebels and royalists in Venezuela, to multiparty wars in Uruguay, Andrews explores the opportunities these "revolutions" gave slaves to cast off their oppressive lives and declare war on their former owners. One example of this is provided in the description of the rebel uprising in Chile of the 1820s. Joining the bands of guerrillas that had sprouted throughout out the countryside Andrews describes how, "fearing for their lives, hacendados and plantation owners...fled their estates. In their absence, those slaves who remained behind converted their living quarters into liberated territory, in which slaves began to exercise a certain measure of self-determination over their lives."
In chapter three, The Politics of Freedom, 1810 - 1890, Andrews describes the struggles by former slaves to end the Caste system. In claiming citizenship, and building a Middle Class, Andrews also describes how these new found "citizens," found themselves taking part in sometimes bloody uprising as, "liberal parties" in their attempts to out maneuver their conservative counterparts, "drew support...[from] middle- and lower-class nonwhites, who had suffered social and political exclusion on the basis of...their class [and racial] status." The fourth and fifth chapters, Whitening, 1880 - 1930, and Browning and Blackening, 1930 - 2000, explore the regions struggle to cope with its mixed racial heritage. "In all the countries of the region, writers, politicians and state planners wrestled with the problem of Latin America's racial inheritance." For the peoples in nations such as Venezuela, Cuba and Brazil, the answer to their "blackness" was simple (and based on 300 years of pro-slavery rhetoric); encourage an infusion of "white" settlers into the regions to "Europeanize Latin American societies."
To achieve this Andrews points out, it was not only necessary to encourage white settlement of the region, but also transform the physical nature of the region itself. In that respect downtown areas of major cities were to be torn down, only to be rebuilt based on their European counterparts. It was hoped that this "modernizing" of the cities, complete with sewage and water systems, electrical power, trolley lines, subways and multi-storied buildings, would encourage "the present blacks...to constitute themselves as civilized peoples." However these efforts met with failure, and as Andrews points out in the latter chapter, the end of the export boom after the 1930s became of time of nation building and economic moderation. "Instead of denying and seeking to obliterate the region's history of racial mixing," Andrew writes, the new national identities, "embraced it as the essence of being Latin American (cultural browning)."
In the final chapter, 2000 and Beyond, Andrews asks the question "what new challenges are likely to confront Afro-Latin Americans?" The answers are not simple ones, and depend, according to the author, on social/economic, as well as democratic concerns. How it affects the people of Afro-Latin America mostly depends on what segment of the black population one is talking about. As Andrew himself puts it, "the consequences of growth will be very harsh...for the black peasants," who to this very day, still "face the loss of their land to large, highly capitalized...enterprises."
Andrews ends his work with a comprehensive Appendix listing the "Population Counts" from 1800 until 2000. Used in conjunction with the three maps at the front of the book, the Appendix helps illustrate the growth and assimilation of the African population. In support of his narrative, Andrews provides hundreds of endnotes, broken down to correspond with the book's introduction and six chapters as well as a comprehensive bibliography, listing all of Andrew's sources. In addition the 15 illustrations serve to help the reader visualize "Afro-Latin Americans" as real people.
Overall Andrews accomplishes exactly what he sets out to do. In tackling this subject, Andrews provides the first history of the African Diaspora in Latin America from emancipation to the present. By bringing into the light the struggles of "blacks" within Latin America, Andrews fills a void that dearly needed to be filled. By covering Spanish America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, Andrews brings to the public how African-descended people fought their way out of slavery and how once free, they helped shape, and responded to the political, economic, and cultural changes that built the democracies of their societies.
As the economies of both North and South America are brought ever closer by Globalization, the history of America's closets neighbors, and the largest "African" population in the Western Hemisphere, needed to be told. Franklin W. Knight of Johns Hopkins University can best sum up the importance of this work, "This highly accessible, magisterially authoritative account fills a long-standing void in the bibliography for Latin American Studies, American Cultures and the history of the Americas in general. Insightful, intellectually provocative, and engagingly written, this book should find a wide audience among both specialists and non-specialists."
John Rocco Roberto
History Department, The Nelson A. Rockefeller School
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It's basic test for thousands of Christian home-school families. It captivates and engages those who may not even be prone to read books.
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Great Book! .......2007-05-07
I wish more people had this kind of information to disarm the lies presented by evolution.
Mixes beautiful worship with scientific pornography.......2007-05-07
Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation, by D. R. Petersen, is a Young-Earth Creationist (YEC) interpretation of modern science. I reviewed this book when it found its way into my son's science classroom, at a Christian middle school. Yikes!!! It took me 15 single-spaced pages to document the errors that Petersen made in his first 60 pages, and his book is full of pictures. Seriously, this book has absolutely no place in a science classroom!
The scientific arguments that Petersen presents generally demonstrate one or more of the following problems: A lack of understanding of the appropriate science, careful filtering of the data so that it support his YEC claims, Misinterpretation of data, fabrication of data, or failure to consider alternative interpretations. It's no wonder that Answers in Genesis, a well-known YEC organization, does not support this book.
Throughout the book, Petersen seems to invent both Biblical concepts and pseudo-scientific ideas to support them. I have no problem interpreting the Bible in light of scientific knowledge. There are lots of places in the Bible where science gives us insight into the literal meaning of a passage. But Petersen is inventing science to fit an interpretation of the Bible which he insists is the correct one, excluding all other possible interpretations. A good example of this is the entire "flood science." The Bible doesn't say anything about how various geological layers were formed; consequently, no viewpoint can claim to be the correct Christian perspective.
I'd steer clear of this book.
Great book!.......2007-04-10
This book has a great deal of interesting information. Photos and illustrations are very good. Presented in an easy to understand manner. Well worth the money.
Claptrap!.......2007-02-07
If you're looking for science and objective analysis, don't look here.
I'm a Christian and believer but people like Petersen and other Creationists simply aren't facing reality and end up asking the rest of us to do likewise. Dedicated and objective scientists have nothing to gain by trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes. Yet Petersen and Creationists in general continue to denigrate and belittle all evolutionists simply because these scientists have arrived at an unacceptable but entirely objective conclusion regarding man's origins and connections to other life on earth.
But why haven't Creationists questioned the validity of conclusions reached by scientists in other fields completely unrelated to evolution? Why haven't they questioned the atomic theory which constitutes the central doctrine of chemistry and nuclear physics? Why haven't Creationists challenged the findings of astonomers that probe the mysteries of deep space or the observations of physicists that investigate matters such as sound and light transmission or the mechanical priciples set down by Isaac Newton that make it possible for us to accurately predict the trjectories of planets and our own man-made satellites? The answers to these questions lie in the nature of the subject matter of biological evolution. It's simply unacceptable and unpalatable for Creationists to embrace a concept like evolution that uses facts and objective evidence to arrive at the conclusion that the advent of the human species here on earth is no different and no more miraculous than the appearance of a type of bear or redwood tree, irrespective of the immense and diverse body of evidence in support of that notion.
One of the best.......2007-02-02
This may be the best book on the topic of creation I have ever seen. It is clear, concise, and beautifully illustrated. Perfect for a 'beginner' in the evolution/creation controvery or for someone who just wants to read a great book.
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Born on October 1, 1924, Jimmy Carter grew up on a Georgia farm during the Great Depression. In An Hour Before Daylight, the former president tells the story of his rural boyhood, and paints a sensitive portrait of America before the civil rights movement.
Carter describes--in glorious, if sometimes gory, detail--growing up on a farm where everything was done by either hand or mule: plowing fields, "mopping" cotton to kill pests, cutting sugar cane, shaking peanuts, or processing pork. He also describes the joys of walking barefoot ("this habit alone helped to create a sense of intimacy with the earth"), taking naps with his father on the porch after lunch, and hunting with slingshots and boomerangs with his playmates--all of whom were black. Carter was in constant contact with his black neighbors; he worked alongside them, ate in their homes, and often spent the night in the home of Rachel and Jack Clark, "on a pallet on the floor stuffed with corn shucks," when his parents were away. However, this intimacy was possible only on the farm. When young Jimmy and his best friend, A.D. Davis, went to town to see a movie, they waited for the train together, paid their 15 cents, and then separated into "white" and "colored" compartments. Once in Americus, they walked to the theater together, but separated again, with Jimmy buying a seat on the main floor or first balcony at the front door, and A.D. going around to the back door to buy his seat up in the upper balcony. After the movie, they returned home on another segregated train. "I don't remember ever questioning the mandatory racial separation, which we accepted like breathing or waking up in Archery every morning."
In this warm, almost sepia-toned narrative, Carter describes his relationships with his parents and with the five people--only two of whom were white--who most affected his early life. Best of all, however, Carter presents his sweetly nostalgic recollections of a lost America. --Sunny Delaney
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In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict segregationist who treated black workers with respect and fairness; his strong-willed and well-read mother; and the five other people who shaped his early life, three of whom were black.
Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex. In his singular voice and with a novelist's gift for detail, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation and recounts a classic, American story of enduring importance.
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Filled with the loving memories of his parents, childhood friends, and neighbors, An Hour Before Daylight is Jimmy Carter's beautiful and touching recollection of his Depression-era youth outside of the small town of Plains, Georgia -- a sweeping look at the South as it existed before the Civil Rights Movement changed the country forever. Blessed with a novelist's gift for detail, Carter describes the pressure of farming in very hard times, and most importantly, how a society of god-fearing men and women, who acted with individual kindness, could have been blind to the sin of discrimination until they were awakened by their fellow man. An Hour Before Daylight is ultimately a biography of the American South, written with stunning honesty by one of its most talented sons.
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wonderful memoir of a country boy who became President.......2007-06-29
After reading this book it is easy to understand why Jimmy Carter was denigrated as a weak Leader who let America's enemies walk all over him. As he looks back with affection & describes his childhood in a strict, hardworking, but loving family on a farm in back country Depression-Era Georgia, Mr Carter comes across as a genuinely kind and good man who respects his fellow-men & women - regardless of color or creed; who is tolerant of - though not entirely blind to -- the shortcomings & foibles of others, and truly incapable of seeing evil in anyone. In short, he is the Ideal Christian. This also goes a long way to explain why subsequently he became so widely respected on the International stage in his second career as Humanitarian & Fixer of the World's Problems.
Mr Carter paints a colourful word-picture of his boyhood home, the close-knit community, the Carter farm, the livestock, the hunting dogs, his family, and his neighbours, the black tenant farmers and their children with whom he worked and played. There is nostalgia for a time and way of life that largely disappeared from this continent half a century ago, when children worked harder & shouldered more responsibility than today's young people can even imagine, but which was the making of them as responsible adults. Yet his writing style is innocent & light-hearted, and occasionally down-right laughable as, for example, when he gives us some examples of his rural childhood diction. It is hard to imagine the urbane, educated Mr Carter uttering the words "We et a bait of plums" or, having travelled 30 miles to see the flooding Flint River, "Wheh de ribber, Daddy? Is it down in dat creek?"
This book touched me on a more personal level as well. I was not far into it before I realised it reminded me so much of the spell-binding stories my mother used to tell us children around the dinner table, stories of her life growing up on a 240 acre Clay Belt farm as one of 15 children of Ukrainian immigrants. The climate, the geography and the neighbours' ethnicity may have been worlds away from the Carters, but her life and her experiences could just as well have happened down the dusty road from Plains, Georgia.
Attention Jimmy Carter: If you read this - I asked my mother about the sound made by the metal clicker on the handle of the milk separator. She is an expert: one of her chores was to operate the milk separator; and afterward to disassemble, clean & reassemble all its the component parts, which she could perform as rapidly as a soldier does with his rifle.
Mother says you have to turn the handle faster & faster until it reaches the speed necessary for the cream to separate from the milk inside the machine. The change in the tone of the "clicker" is determined by the speed of the turning handle & occurs when the required speed has been reached for the separation to occur.
Mr Carter is one of only a handful of public figures with whom I would care to be acquainted. Such an interesting Life; such an interesting man!
I like Cater, but can't cotton his writing.......2007-06-08
Why is it that ex-presidents make poor writers? Is it that they have had to hide their feeing so long they are afraid to loosen up afterward because we might think less of them? I was looking forward to reading about a boy growing up in Georgia while I was growing up in Iowa, but his writing is so stiff and lifeless that I quit halfway through.
Ho Hum.......2007-01-09
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. You need an editor who is not afraid to tell you that your books are boring. I am giving your book, AN HOUR BEFORE DAYLIGHT, 2 stars because it is written in English and all the pages are numbered correctly. I checked.
Excellent!!!.......2006-10-01
This is one of the best books I've read the past year and one of the best biographies I've ever read. Jimmy Cater, whether you like/respect the man or not, is an excellent storyteller and he takes you back to the years of growing up on a rural Georgia farm during the Great Depression and segregation. The descriptions are so clear it seems like you're actually there. Quite a contrast to the middle class/suburban upbringing I experienced. I also read Carter's Presidential biography, which is also very good, but he's not as long-winded here so the book reads very fast.
Also some interesting photos. Overall excellent.
Worth the time.......2006-04-07
President Carter discusses his experiences growing up in rural Georgia during the depression and how it influenced his future public life. Despite the institutionalized segregation that formally kept the races apart, many of the people that shaped the future President's young life were not white. It is amazing to compare the changes in American society from 70 years ago, some for the better (institutionalized segregation and racism), but mostly for the worse. Even though segregation is now gone, it is ironic that the informal happy-go-lucky youthful mixing of the races that President Carter claims helped shape his young life is probably gone now as well; but cynically, I believe Carter over emphasizes this point for political profit. Also, Americans were very frugal, resourceful, and resilient in those days. I don't think today's wasteful, whiney, latte entitlement generation could go through such economic hardship.
I was disappointed that Carter didn't talk much about aspirations of political life. Mainly, his youthful ambition was concerned with getting into the Naval Academy, and the book ends there.
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In Rural Hours, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), daughter of the famed novelist James Fenimore Cooper, records a year in the life of the fields and woods surrounding her home in Cooperstown, New York. She writes with a keen eye for detail, noting, for example, the disappearance of local species as their habitat is given over to farmland ("all kinds of black-birds are rare here; they are said to have been very numerous indeed at the settlement of the country, but have very much diminished in numbers of late years"), and keeping track of changes in the weather, fluctuations in animal populations, and like matters. Rural Hours is considered to be the first extended piece of nature writing by an American woman, and as such it should be of interest to a wide range of readers, from naturalists to students of regional literature and women's history. --Gregory McNamee
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At last -- the full text of a marvellous and important book.......1999-03-24
For over a century, admirer's of Susan Fenimore Cooper's "Rural Hours" (1850) have been dependent on a heavily abridged version dating from 1887 -- the only one to be reprinted in modern times. Though "Rural Hours" is generally accepted both as good reading and as a major contribution to American nature writing, it has not previously been available as the author originally wrote it -- and as others, including Thoreau, read it. Susan Fenimore Cooper, long overshadowed by her novelist father, is today becoming recognized as an important writer of the 19th century; this new text will make her most important and influential work fully available again both to scholars and to a new generation of readers.
This is a great read, a book to learn from, and to cherish........1999-01-09
This is a beautiful book, from the painting of Cooperstown on the cover to glossary where historical references, or the names of birds or other words that have changed over time are explained. Cooper's prose is insightful and charming, and, given the book's historial prespective, makes me think about present and future environmental concerns for our country. Rural Hours makes the chain of small mill towns we have here in the Blackstone Valley region of Massachusetts come alive--Cooper saw the quiet commerce of the canals give way to the noise and pollution of the railroad industry and realized that the land and species of bird and animal life surrounding her were threatened. However Cooper's response to these feelings of peril was not to preach, but rather to praise the countryside and the life forms she witnessed. As a woman reader, I must also say that it right and just that the parts of Rural Hours that were omitted from all editions since 1870 should be brought back to us to now think about, appreciate, and learn from. Since reading, this book has stayed with me--the many beautiful images of nature that Cooper portrays, but also her quiet voice of urgency that encourages me to continue positive action in my own community, to not only save what land is left, but also to restore urban and other environments that have been abused. I highly recommend Rural Hours--it's a great read, a book to cherish.
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