Amazon.com
Michael Deaver, a longtime political advisor who served as deputy chief of staff in the Reagan White House, offers an approving, affectionate, and well-written portrait of the former president--but one that, for an insider's account, is surprisingly short on news.
The Ronald Reagan who emerges from Deaver's pages is far different from the popularly held view, fueled by the media, of the president as an amiable but limited man who napped, golfed, and left the business of running the government to his lieutenants. Far from it, Deaver insists: Reagan read widely, kept up with the issues, and "firmly believed that it was his job to set the priorities of his administrations and to make the big decisions." Thoughtful and utterly courteous, if sometimes distant, Deaver's Reagan is a man of unbending conservative principle; careful to cross party lines to secure support for his policy and to judge his opponents by character, not doctrine; stalwart in his devotion to country; and certain, in Deaver's words, "that he was the right guy at the right time." This Reagan can do no wrong, and when controversy arises in Deaver's account it is almost always because someone else has flubbed the play. Unlike Alexander Haig, David Stockman, and other former administration officials who have written about their time in the Reagan White House, Deaver is quick to fall on the sword whenever he must. He takes responsibility, for instance, for the president's controversial decision to lay a wreath at a German cemetery that contained the graves of fallen SS soldiers, and for Reagan's difficulties in convincing voters of the wisdom of an expensive military buildup in the closing years of the cold war. About the Iran-Contra affair, which blackened Reagan's second term, Deaver has little to say, and about his own departure from the administration and subsequent investigation by federal prosecutors he is even more close-mouthed.
Those seeking to learn more about Ronald Reagan as president may come away from Deaver's book disappointed. His admirers, however, will enjoy the anecdotes about "the traits that made him so successful as a leader and so peculiar--and wonderful--as a person." --Gregory McNamee
Book Description
"I had come to adore and respect the president like a second father. Reagan was once asked if he thought of me as another son. He thought a minute and said, 'Son, no. Brother, maybe.'"
A warm, personal portrait of Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer brims with recollections from a relationship that has spanned more than three decades. Former aide and longtime family friend, Michael Deaver first met Ronald Reagan during his 1966 campaign for governor of California and later served him in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., as the president's deputy chief of staff. Whether it was traveling with Reagan on endless campaign flights, discussing the day-to-day issues in the Oval Office, or surviving the harrowing assassination attempt, Deaver worked with the former chief executive for twenty consecutive years. Now he offers his memories of Ronald Reagan as governor, president, and friend.
In 1964, after Barry Goldwater's unsuccessful bid for the presidency, the Republican Party found itself in disarray, and Michael Deaver, a young party operative, a "red meat conservative," was looking for a new party leader he could believe in. He threw his hat in with a former actor and General Electric spokesperson, a man who would later prove himself capable of joining the disparate elements of the Party and securing the nomination. In what would be the first of many underestimations, the Democratic Party eagerly takes on Reagan. He would not only go on to win the governorship of California, but he would serve two terms. In 1976 he was unable to unseat President Gerald Ford for the presidential nomination but, undeterred, he returned in 1980 and won a landslide victory, leading America to remarkable heights of prosperity and confidence.
Yet as one of the most successful and popular presidents in American history, Reagan remains a mystery even to biographers with total access. In A Different Drummer, Deaver writes of the Reagan he has known: a man who was shy and deplored talking about himself, who would rather spend a party talking to a laborer than policy wonks; a man whose convictions remained unchanged over the course of his life, who never used pollsters to decide his position on issues; a man whose idea of relaxation was riding a horse, fixing fence posts, and chopping wood until his muscles ached and his hands blistered. Reagan emerges in this impressionistic portrait as charismatic and unwaveringly optimistic, a devoted husband and dedicated leader, disciplined and tough. As Deaver points out in his introduction, "He worked eight years doing the toughest job on earth; crisscrossed the world; and survived an assassin's bullet, a devastating riding accident, cancer, and brain surgery all after he turned seventy."
Writing not only of their dizzying highs, Deaver also shares the lows, including the tough times that would test the strength of their friendship. Finally, he shares a poignant look at Reagan today as he battles Alzheimer's disease. It is Nancy Reagan's "finest hour," Deaver writes, a validation of the greatest love story he has ever known.
With anecdotes that are insightful, entertaining, intimate, and surprising, A Different Drummer sheds remarkable new light on an American icon admired by many and understood by few.
Customer Reviews:
Let Reagan Be Reagan.......2007-08-10
Long-time Reagan aide Michael Deaver has written a very good book on his thirty years with the man who changed the world. Deaver tells of meeting Reagan in the mid-60's when Deaver was an junior political operative and Reagan was considering a gubernatorial run. Deaver then took a ring-side seat for the greatest political run of our time, from Sacramento to Washington, including near-fatal encounters with John Hinckley Jr. and Matthew Ridgeway in Bitburg.
Deaver also tells the story of the end-game, his last two meetings with the Gipper. By 1995, the President did not know him, and by 1998, the President had lost his social skills and grace. Fortunately Ron had Nancy, and she took care of him for better or worse. Deaver played a key role in the Reagan administrations as Nancy-handler and became a key allie and friend of the Fist Lady.
Deaver makes this book light-reading, it is reminiscences of his boss and friend. He leaves the unpleasant stuff to others. There is a brief mention of Iran-Contra; it is explained away as what happened when the Californians were not there. Also Deaver leaves out most of the story of his indictment, although he deals at length with the demons of his alcoholism.
Warm, credible, insightful.......2007-06-10
People close to great men for a long time--aides, valets, advisors--tend either to write hagiographys or they turn on their former employer with a "tell all" intended to cut the great man down to size. This book, refreshingly, is neither. Michael Deaver, in addition to being Ronald Reagan's longtime political advisor, was also Reagan's friend. And a friend tells it like it is, which is what Deaver has done.
Deaver lets us know of Reagan's mistakes and shortcomings--he had a volcanic temper (despite others' testimony that he didn't), he had a hard time apologizing even when he knew he was in the wrong, he trusted people to a fault. At the same time, Deaver credibly tells us where the media and political pundits went wrong in their assessments of Reagan. Most of the book, however, is a thematic presentation of Reagan's character. It was a joy to read, and I highly recommend it.
A friend's homage to his hero, and a great way to get rare insight into Reagan........2007-05-07
It is wonderful for history that Michael Deaver has put together this collection of his thoughts and recollections of Ronald Reagan. As you read about Reagan, one theme keeps coming through; he was nearly impossible to know well or truly understand. The President that so many strangers felt like they knew proved to be much more of a puzzle to those who were close to him. For this reason, it is great that Michael Deaver, one of Reagan's closest advisers, has shared his insights on Reagan with anyone who wants to understand the man better.
What he has given us is a deeply personal tribute to his friend and his hero, but also a lens through which we can view Reagan that helps us to understand what kind of man he is.
So who was Reagan? I highly recommend you read this book to find out, but in the end Deaver introduces you to a principled optimist and a very shy man. I was deeply touched by the obviousness of Deaver's affection for Reagan and for the role Nancy Reagan played in the President's life.
I highly recommend this book for anyone trying to get a full perspective of who Ronald Reagan was and what made him the President he was. Excellent book by that can truly add something unique to anyone's study of Ronald Reagan.
A well written book- enjoyable without being pure political.......2007-01-03
I liked how this was a personal story of the Reagans. You got to understand where they were coming from, and why they acted the way they did. Not being a huge political freak, I wanted to know about the man, and this book gave good insight into the Reagans. There were a couple of really good quotes that I will always remember.
A Unique Perspective On The Gipper.......2005-10-11
In "A Different Drummer", Michael Deaver follows the theme of other authors, including Dinesh D'Souza, who hold that Ronald Reagan had sufficient confidence in his own beliefs to allow him to follow his own instincts regardless of the opinions of others.
Deaver has the unique perspective of thirty years of intimate association with Ronald Reagan. Through the first campaign in California to the second term in the White House, Deaver advanced from campaign staffer to the office adjacent to the Oval Office.
Deaver introduces the reader to the private Reagan. We see Reagan as he lives with Nancy, works with his staff and deals with his adversaries. Deaver portrays Reagan as knowing his core values and adhering to them. Even in controversy, such as the Bitburg decision, Reagan's loyalty to his friends remained unshaken.
A self identified member of the family, Deaver provides an insight into Nancy's role in protecting and leading Reagan through his life.
In the story of his own return to the Reagans after Deaver's downfall, Deaver presents a loyal, concerned Reagan, unlike some others who portray Reagan as dumping cohorts who are no longer useful to him. Finally, through Michael Deaver, we see the declining Reagan in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
"A Different Drummer" is a sympathetic portrayal of a confident, steady leader by one of his closest associates. It is a valuable tool with which to uncover the real Ronald Reagan.
Product Description
A longtime friend to Ronald Reagan, Michael K. Deaver gives the inside scoop on his relationship with the former president. While governor of California and president of the United States, Reagan could count on Deaver, who steadfastly remained at his side. Despite his tremendous political popularity and acting success, Reagan remains a mystery to many. Previous attempts to tell his story have failed to capture his essence. It was Deaver who, as deputy chief of staff, helped the president with his daily responsibilities. Deavers unique experiences shed light on little-known aspects of this exceptional mans life and personality. Commendably, he does not shy away from tough subjects, including the assassination attempt and Reagans fight with Alzheimers disease. With a compelling narration by the author and unprecedented access to the subject, A Different Drummer is the definitive Reagan book for political aficionados and casual readers alike. A foreword by former first lady Nancy Reagan offers even further insight.
Average customer rating:
|
Tom Wright: recollections of a pioneer forester and tree farmer
John Parminter
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Historical
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
Canadian
| Historical
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
Maritime Provinces
| Regional Canada
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Canada
| Americas
| History
| Subjects
| Books
All Amazon Upgrade
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Biographies & Memoirs
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
History
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 1552124630
Release Date: 2006-06-30 |
Product Description
Thomas George Wright occupies a special place in the history of forestry in British Columbia. It could be argued that his arrival in this province was due to chance, or fate, but his accomplishments are certainly not. His knowledge, foresight and interests resulted in a career marked by innovation.
Average customer rating:
|
Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick (Southern Biography Series)
Kyle Longley
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
Political
| Leaders & Notable People
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
1945 - Present
| 20th Century
| United States
| Americas
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| United States
| Americas
| History
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0807129801 |
Book Description
Best remembered as the father of Vice President Al Gore, Albert Gore, Sr., worked tirelessly in politics himself, a Democratic congressman and senator from 1939 to 1971 and a representative of southern liberalism and American reformism. In the first comprehensive biography of Gore, Kyle Longley has produced an incisive portrait of a significant American political leader and an arresting narrative of the shaping of a southern and American political tradition. His research includes archival sources from across the country as well as interviews with Gore's colleagues, friends, and family.
Longley describes how the native of Possum Hollow, Tennessee, became known during his political career as a maverick, a man who, according to one journalist, would "rock almost anybody's boat." For his actions, Gore often paid a heavy price, personally and professionally. Overshadowed by others in Congress such as Lyndon Johnson, J. William Fulbright, Richard Russell, and Barry Goldwater, Gore nonetheless played a major role on the important issues of taxes, the Interstate Highway system, civil rights, nuclear power and arms control, and the Vietnam War.
Longley situates Gore as part of a generation of politicians who matured on the messages of William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt. In the South, Gore belonged to a staunch group of liberals who battled traditional conservative forces, often within their own party. He and others such as Estes Kefauver, Frank Porter Graham, and Ralph Yarborough set the stage for subsequent generations, including that of Jimmy Carter and Jim Sasser, and later Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jr., and John Edwards. From his career shines one encapsulating moment in 1952: squared off on the floor of the Senate against Strom Thurmond, who wanted Gore to sign the "Southern Manifesto" declaring southern resistance to desegregation, Gore responded simply, classically, "Hell no."
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 783 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick.(Book Review)
Author: Gordon E. Harvey
Publication:
Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 72
Issue: 1
Page: 228(2)
Article Type: Book Review
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Book Description
Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard would lead him into life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, weeds, and weather; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up fresh thyme; and skirmishes with neighbors who feed the vermin (i.e., deer). Not to mention the vacations that had to be planned around the harvest, the near electrocution of the tree man, the limitations of his own middle-aged body, and the pity of his wife and kids. When Alexander runs (just for fun!) a costbenefit analysis, adding up everything from the live animal trap to the Velcro tomato wraps and then amortizing it over the life of his garden, it comes as quite a shock to learn that it cost him a staggering $64 to grow each one of his beloved Brandywine tomatoes. But as any gardener will tell you, you can't put a price on the unparalleled pleasures of providing fresh food for your family.
Customer Reviews:
Great book gift for green thumbs (and brown thumbs).......2007-08-09
I HATE gardening, but thoroughly enjoyed reading Alexander's odyssey of his quest to build his dream garden. Very funny account of epic battles with weeds, rodents, and bugs as he tries to prevent his little "hobby" from ruining his life. Your gardening friends will love this book (and non-gardeners will too!)
A tasty little story.......2007-08-02
His wife's insistence on an old fixer-upper of a house means the author can have the garden, orchard, and even meadow he's always dreamed. Once the house is livable--and everyone in town knows it has to be repaired to be livable--the owners start on the grounds. Landscape contractors, who are always late and leave their backhoe to winter in the author's yard, promise a garden to be proud of--and then bring plans for some very ordinary rectangles.
Not to be daunted, Alexander picks heirloom plants to grow his produce. He is determined to have the same fruit and experiences he remembers from his father's gardening. Organic gardening should be easy when he has only four trees and a small garden. He can pluck off the hungry worms and organically protect his crops from predators of all types.
After learning how much time is involved in using the organic bug sprays--first you find the caterpillar, then you spray him--how much it costs to put in something other than grass walkways, and that some animals are not deterred by six thousand volts, he gets down to serious gardening.
His wife and children begin to question his sanity. His plants don't always grow the way he expected. Who knew growing roses would kill the corn? Sitting down to calculate the cost of his succulent heirloom tomatoes gives him a jolt he thought he'd only get from his electric fence. Did his dad really do it this way? Had he been hoodwinked about how much fun this all was? When did the hobby become a second job?
You needn't be a gardener to enjoy the humor in this book. The history of tomatoes and potatoes, and insights on the Anasazi Indians thrown in with ridding the garden of Superchuck, the groundhog, is true fun for the reading. Cultivated entertainment.
Armchair Interview says: Humor and hoeing, planting and waiting, bugs and bug sprays flow together to give you an enjoyable read.
Enjoyable memoir of a man and his garden.......2007-07-26
I am by no means a gardening expert, more of a beginner, but I enjoyed this memoir of one man's obsession with and relationship with his garden. I found it informative and funny. I took as much what not to do, as what to do, from the book. I mean, you can see the excessiveness of his spending and learn from it as much as you can learn from the ways he fights pests on his fruit trees. I read books like this for inspiration and I was inspired by his mistakes and successes. All in all it was an enjoyable light read.
For the Gardening Obsessed.......2007-07-26
This book speaks to every obsessed gardener in America. The majority of the public, however, won't get it. They put in a few pansies, water them when they think of it and go on with their lives. But a few of us have an insatiable drive to work the soil, wage a constant war with the elements and beat off ravaging beasts just so we can be overwhelmed with too much produce.
Our neighbors think we're nuts--why would someone put themselves through all that labor and expense to get something they could buy at the corner market for $0.85 a pound? (Yeah, well I don't get the mountain climbing thing either.)
I like Alexander's writing--it was cute and witty and perfectly illustrated a man trying to work in his career, family and home improvement projects around his gardening obsession. All 2,000 square feet of it.
Although organic gardeners will be disgusted with how often Alexander reaches for the spray can, most will be able to relate to his journey.
A really cute read but I can't review the recipes as I didn't try them out yet.
As an animal lover..........2007-06-28
... I too was distressed by the chapters where the authors obsession defies his place at the top of the food chain and his "logical" abilities. When the local fauna decide that his exorbitantly expensive garden is the local salad bar, he goes on the war path and attempts to destroy everything alive that is not a plant.
While this is somewhat disheartening, it is also illuminating. I place this book alongside ElectroBoy on my bookshelf, and alongside The Omnivore's Dilemma, because it makes such a natural segue between the two.
William Alexander is truly obsessed with his garden. What ought to be a nice, pleasant way to pass time and to get some exercise and food turns into a dangerous obsession, resulting in damage to his finances, his health, his psyche, and his marriage.
It is amusing, in parts, however.
Read it, if only to see what lengths people will go to in order to save their hobby. It is an interesting study, really. Probably not a book I will read again, but it is one that I will think of from time to time.
Harkius
Book Description
Healing prayer, although central to the Gospel, was diminished by Christians until it almost disappeared. Reviewing the history of healing prayer, MacNutt calls for its restoration.
Customer Reviews:
Healing ministry.......2007-07-03
Francis Mc Nutt is an ex-roman catholic priest that is now married and devoted to a healing ministry. It is very interesting how the charismatic movement over the years has been interpreted as a bridge between the catholics and the protestants. As an evangelical pastor I have to warn you that the opinions of this author are quite conflictive with the Biblical Teachings because he integrates too much Psychology in the matter of Healing and Liberation from demonic influence. Second, I don't believe that a person that have not devoted his WHOLE life to Christ, and none else, can help anyone be free from the influence of the demons, because this person himself is still under their influence.
Insightful History, Hopeful Expectation.......2005-04-17
Francis MacNutt has written an insightful book about how the ministry of healing has been greatly diminished in the Church for centuries (almost 1600 hundred years!). Healing was a major part of the ministry of Jesus and His disciples, the record of which takes up about a third of the Gospels, not to mention the book of Acts. Throughout, MacNutt emphasizes the importance of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, not just for healing ministry, but for EVERY ministry.
MacNutt shows how healing ministry flourished for the first three centuries, and was then sidelined by nominal Christianity beginning with the Constantinian era. He details how ecclesiastical structures and the developing clergy/laity distinction quickly began to remove healing ministry from the hands of the people-it became a work for the "super-spiritual," and few could qualify to perform it (some of the Desert Fathers, for example). Healing shortly became the province of relics and shrines-and the clergy no longer had to deal with embarrassing questions when healings did not occur at their hands.
He also talks about how the purpose of God's love and compassion in healing had been severely neglected in the intervening centuries. Healing ministry became viewed strictly as a validation of truth, but was no longer necessary for faith. "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe" became the watchword, and interest in the display of God's love through healing fell by the way.
MacNutt discusses how the Platonic split between body and soul, and the severe doctrines of the Manichees (i.e. the intrinsic evil of the flesh, and especially of sexuality) further eviscerated the ministry of healing. During the middle ages, the development of the "divine right of kings" generated "the Royal Touch," and healing ministry was limited, by law, to the monarchs of England and France.
Although a committed Roman Catholic, MacNutt believes that the Reformation did not extend far enough in its scope-the Reformers continued to ignore the reality of healing ministry. Oh, they recognized that there had once been such a thing in Jesus' day, but now that time was past, and the ministry had ceased. So much for reformation!
But all along the way, there have been healing ministers and ministries among the people, arising in times of revival and when people were desperate for a healing touch from God. In the last 300 hundred years there have been some glimpses of healing ministry arising again, then faltering. Then it began trending upward in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mostly among the pentecostally inclined. These came to include the charismatic and "third wave" movements late in the mid-to-late 1900s, about which MacNutt writes from personal experience (the appendix is a testimony of how he received the baptism, or "release" of the Holy Spirit, into his life and ministry).
In all, Francis MacNutt brings us understanding about the decline of healing ministry, but also a hope and a challenge to welcome the release of the Holy Spirit and healing ministry back into the Western Church-just as it has been increasingly been experienced in the Third Word Church.
Jeff Doles
Walking Barefoot Ministries
Author of "Healing Scriptures and Prayers"
And "Praying With Fire: Learning to Pray With Apostolic Power"
(both are available at Amazon.com)
Customer Reviews:
Recently science has condirmed what we have been saying for a decade.......2005-10-14
Adding vitamin D to milk is a risky business. It is entirely unnecessary to "fortify" milk with this highly toxic substance.
The New England Journal of Medicine reported 8 cases of vitamin D intoxication resulting from excessive fortification of commercial milk. Symptoms included amorexia, weight loss, constipation, weakness, fatigue, inability to think correctly & something they described as "failure to thrive." You wouldn't catch all that stuff from my Great-grandmother Bell's milk.
Children are denied whole milk because pediatricians are obsessed with the cholesterol myth. These same gutless wonders don't say anything about children drinking half a dozen bottles of Coca-Cola a day, starting before breadfast. But kids can't get a decent glass of milk.
Evan if mom buys whole milk, thinking it is better for her growing child than that stickly blue stuff called skim, she can't win, because all of the commercial milk is homogenized. I'm convinced that homogenization is even more detrimental to the nutritional quality of milk than the heat processing call pasteurization.
Dr. William Campbell douglass is a 4th generation physician whose family hs practiced medicine in the southern US since 1850. His son, "Camp" Douglass IV, is currently an emergency room phyician in florida.
Dr. Douglass is a graduate of the Univ of Rochester, the Univ of Miami School of Medicine; and the US Naval Sch of Aviation & Space Medicine. He has taken postgraduate courses at Oxford, Princeton, Harvard, & the Universities of California, florida & Pennsylvania.
A founding member & state president of florida American College of Emergency Physicians, dr. Douglass has received numerous honors & awards, including twice being selected as"Doctor of the Year" by the Nat'l Health Federation. this "new medical eretic" as written numerous books & articles & publishes a monthly "contrary opinion" medical letter called Second Opinion.
Average customer rating:
|
Are We Nearly There Yet?: The Diary of a Not-Quite-Perfect Family (Hodder Christian Paperbacks)
Sheila Bridge
Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Relationships
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
| Codependency
| Conflict Management
| Dating
| Divorce
| Friendship
| General
| Interpersonal Relations
| Love & Loss
| Love & Romance
| Marriage
| Mate Seeking
| Nonmonogamy
Faith
| Christian Living
| Christianity
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Christian Living
| Christianity
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Marriage
| Relationships
| Christian Living
| Christianity
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0340694637 |
Average customer rating:
- A Learning Experience
- A must read!
- this is a great book about great people
- It's all about attitude!
- An inspirational life chronicle
|
Nearly Perfect
Farmer Meadows , and
Betty Meadows
Manufacturer: TurnKey Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Mid Atlantic
| Regional U.S.
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0974185841 |
Book Description
There's the right way, the wrong way, and then there's "Farmer's Way." Follow Betty and Farmer's true life American success story, from the dreary coal mines of West Virginia to a life that's Nearly Perfect.
Customer Reviews:
A Learning Experience.......2004-07-10
I have known farmer and ms meadows sense i was 9 years old. I am now 18, and reading this book has given me a look into their lives that was a real learing experience. It gives a glimpse and gives me a appreciation for them and the lives they have lived. It is an awsome account of their lives, and I highly reccomend it to anyone who not only know farmer and betty, but anyone who likes a romance story. I can honestly say i truly appreciate them in a new way now after reading Nearly Perfect
A must read!.......2004-02-25
Wonderful, inspiring, challenging! The writer captured my interest and I felt like for a short period I became a part of the Meadows Family. The love between the Farmer and Betty captured my heart. I was impressed with their wisdom as young married people in how they conducted business and treated one another with such sensitivity. I appreciated the thoughtfulness of the Meadows insofar as their employees were concerned. Truly, God has blessed their lives.
this is a great book about great people.......2003-11-23
i have read this book two times, it has its funny times and it has its emotional times you smile and cry at the same time. this book has alot of good life lessions, such as patience,investments,and living life to its fullest. not only is it a good book, but farmer and betty are all around good people.
It's all about attitude!.......2003-10-10
Farmer and Betty Meadows are actually "homegrown" entrepreneurs, having gotten their start here in the DC metro area, so it made for great reading, being familiar with some of their references.
But it was a lot more than rags to riches - very romantic, funny, and sad - more about relationships than money. Made for quick easy reading!
An inspirational life chronicle.......2003-09-21
Nearly Perfect: An American Success Story is the story (as told to Cindy Day) of "Farmer" Bill and Betty Meadow's life, their fifty-year marriage, the trials they faced together, and the happiness they've shared. From their poverty in the West Virginia coal mine camps of the 1930s and 40s, to the hard work and success that made them millionaires, Nearly Perfect is an inspirational life chronicle. Black-and-white photographs enhance this involving story of successful lives.
Books:
- A Good Idea of Hell: Letters from a Chasseur a Pied (Texas a & M University Military History Series)
- A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
- A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl
- A Need to Testify: Four Portraits
- A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton
- Abraham Lincoln: America's 16th President (Encyclopedia of Presidents. Second Series)
- An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864
- Bangladesh 2000: On the Brink of Civil War
- bin Laden : The Man Who Declared War on America
- Black Belt Scalawag: Charles Hays and the Southern Republicans in the Era of Reconstruction
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting
- History: Fiction or Science
- Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies
- College Accounting, Chapters 1-26 Complete
- History: Fiction or Science
- Glory in Death
- History: Fiction or Science
- Sbbi 2002 Yearbook: Market Results for 1926-2001
- Economy/Society: Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure
- In Our Strange Gardens
Why I Am a Reagan Conservative
Ronald Reagan in Private: A Memoir of My Years in the White House
An American Life: The Autobiography
How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life
When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan
![A Different Drummer, My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan [UNABRIDGED CD] (Audiobook)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21iyD3fvVcL.jpg)
