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A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton
John Jacobs
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Democratic U.S. Representative Phillip Burton was one of the most influential power brokers the House has ever known, and almost certainly the most powerful leftist in that body's history. Political journalist John Jacobs's densely packed biography charts his career from the California state legislature to Capitol Hill, including dozens of anecdotes about politics at its most cutthroat. The section on his spearheading of 1978 legislation for the national parks system is particularly fascinating. The portrait of Burton that emerges from A Rage for Justice is of a complex man whose intense personality generated enough ill feeling to keep him from becoming a majority leader in his party, yet still fueled more than enough political drive to push legislation through.
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This political biography of Phillip Burton (1926-1983) is the riveting story of one of the most brilliant, driven, and productive legislators of his--or indeed any--era of American politics. A ruthless and unabashed progressive, Burton terrified his opponents, ran over his friends, forged improbable coalitions, and from 1964 to 1983 became one of the most influential Representatives in the House. He also acquired more raw power than almost any left-liberal politician ever had.
Moving from grassroots campaigns to epic battles in the California state capital, and finally to the very pinnacle of power on Capitol Hill, John Jacobs's inside account of Burton's life shows how politics really works. He demonstrates the exercise of power in the hands of a superb strategist and shows an unheralded master going about his life's work during the glory years of postwar American liberalism.
Burton was an unforgettable, uncontrollable figure whose relentless day-and-night politicking distilled the raw essence of American politics. Jacobs brings to life Burton's seething, perpetual sense of outrage, gargantuan appetites, and dedication to the disenfranchized. Animated by a sometimes frightening drive for power--his only modern counterpart is Lyndon Johnson--Burton played a pivotal role in California and U.S. politics, championing welfare and civil rights, landmark labor legislation, environmentalism and congressional reform. His achievements included the groundbreaking black lung bill for miners and their families; Supplemental Social Security for the aged, blind, and disabled; and helping to secure America's extensive national park system.
Burton's failures were equally dramatic: in 1976, at the height of his power, he lost, by one vote, the chance to become House Majority Leader. Had he won this critical political fight, he no doubt would have become Speaker of the House.
Jacobs's account is based on Burton's personal papers and hundreds of interviews with people at every stage of his life, including four Democratic Speakers of the House. The result is a book that brilliantly demonstrates how one person can make a difference in public life.
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Powerful biography of a fascinating man.......2002-12-24
This is probably the best political biography I have ever read. Phil Burton was a fascinating man, and Jacobs does a terrific job of profiling him. Whether the reader is liberal or conservative, he will enjoy this book.
just plain rage.......2002-02-28
Burton was out there. Great book though despite the author being overly enamoured with the subject. Good info and California politics.
Fascinating.......1999-05-04
The best background piece on California politics. Similarly, a fantastic insight into a legislative master whose personal vices cut short a meteoric rise to power and influence.
Reads Like A Thriller.......1999-01-13
As a San Franciscan who grew up hearing about the exploits of Burton and other more-or-less mythical characters, I feel I owe Jacobs a serious "thank you" for providing this view of what went on inside. The man who nearly became Speaker, who wielded and exercised his power lustily and well, who was known for both creating environmental protections and shunning nature, is now a lot more real.
Smashing history of Congress and Phil Burton.......1998-12-16
John Jacobs has done a spectacular job of capturing and relating the career of Congressman Phil Burton, a swaggering, ruthless liberal from San Francisco who came within one vote of serving as House majority leader in 1976. For anyone who wants to understand the history of the contemporary Congress, they need only read "A Rage For Justice," and "The Ambition and the Power," by John Barry, which tells the story of Congressman Jim Wright, the man who beat Burton by that one vote. Both books are chock with candid interviews and revealing anecdotes, and written with style. Each serves as a model of congressional biography.
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A rage for justice : the passion and politics of Phillip Burton / John Jacobs
John (1950-) Jacobs
Manufacturer: Berkeley : University of California Press
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- Basic Guide
- VERY BASIC "COMPLETE GUIDE"
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The Field & Stream All-Terrain Vehicle Handbook: The Complete Guide to Owning and Maintaining an ATV
Monte Burch
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Atvs (Wild Rides)
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Everything you need to know about ATVs.
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Basic Guide.......2007-05-23
This guide promised more but didn't deliver. Great introduction to 3-wheelers but very little on sport quads. The utility quad stuff was more of a rehash which left me very disappointed. Don't look here if you want maintenance info, check your owners manual or ask another rider you'll get more than this book delivers.
VERY BASIC "COMPLETE GUIDE".......2001-08-15
AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN OUT OF THE SPORT FOR 10 YEARS AND LOOKING TO GET BACK IN, I BOUGHT THIS BOOK EXPECTING MORE. THE BOOK STARTS OUT WITH A GOOD HISTORY OF THE 3 WHEELED ATV, BUT DOESN'T ELABORATE TOO MUCH ON QUADS. (WHAT ABOUT THE MID 80'S SUZUKI'S - QUAD SPORT/QUAD RACER?) ANOTHER DOWN FALL OF THE BOOK IS THAT IT STRONGLY FOCUSES ON UTILITY ATV'S AND RARELY MENTIONS SPORT MODELS. AS FAR AS THE MAINTENANCE SECTION OF THE BOOK... IT ....
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- Not worth the money
- Confusing layout but good coffee table book
- A must have book for the cichlid enthusiast!
- Cichlids and all other fishes of lake malawi
- A Fantastic African Cichlid Reference Book!
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Konings' Book of Cichlids and All the Other Fishes of Lake Malawi (Guide to Owning A...)
Ad Konings
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Not worth the money.......2005-07-12
This is one of the most poorly produced books I have ever encountered. At least 25 text pages have been left in German--what was the publisher thinking?--and the design is atrocious. It will be a cold day in Hades before I buy another TFH Publications book.
Confusing layout but good coffee table book.......2004-12-27
While this book has some great pictures in it, and the information about the species and lake is good, the arrangement of the species could really use some work. For some reason, Konings has decided to to arrange the species based on outdated classifications, something he acknowledges doing. The reasoning for this is not entirely clear, maybe its because he's an old fuddy-dud who insisted on using archaic and inaccurate classifications. This alone could be forgiven, after all, the book was published over 10 years ago, at a time when the more accurate classifications were still relatively new. However, what is more confusing is that konings has changed the names of the species to reflect the new system of classification. So while the species are arranged in the order of the old classification their names do not reflect this. For example, under the outdated naming system the Cyrtocara group of fish is arranged alphabetically as Cyrtocara ahli, Cyrtocara anagenys, Cyrtocara anaphyrmus and so on. However, Konings does not label these species as Cyrtocara xxxxx, rather he names them using their accurate names of Sciaenochromis Ahli, Exochromis anagenys, Maravichromis anaphyrmus and so on. Thus when you try and look up Otopharynx lithobates, rather than looking for the names starting with "O" you must flip randomly through the book (all 495 pages of it) or look it up in the index at the back. Needless to say, this becomes very frustrating. Oh, by the way, I hope you can read German, because about 10 pages of the book are written in it. I'm not sure if this is a problem with only my copy or with all of them but it too is very annoying. (maybe that explains why the book sold for almost 40% off) Anyway, despite these problems the book does contain some good info and pictures and as a coffee table book it succeeds wonderfully, particularly if your guests don't know much about fish. However, as a reference book it is inferior to much of the information and pictures that can be found on the internet. My adice: check out www.cichlid-forum.com for some good info on the species, then pick this book up to impress your friends.
A must have book for the cichlid enthusiast!.......2000-12-14
This is one of my favorite books. Once again Ad Konings does a wonderful job of presenting the fish of Lake Malawi.
This book provides the Konings typically wonderful photos of virtually all of the fish and color morphs. The information provided on each fish is excellent as well.
This is a must have for the serious cichlidiot.
Cichlids and all other fishes of lake malawi.......1999-12-31
This book is excellent for someone who is more interested in identifying lake malawi fish as opposed to general information on how to properly keep these fish in a home aquarium. For someone who is not a beginner, this definitely is a must have book. The pictures are great and there is a whole lot of information on lake malawi and the general characteristics of each fish. Buy this book, it will be a decision you will not regret.
A Fantastic African Cichlid Reference Book!.......1999-12-20
Mr. Konings has provided the african cichlid enthusiast with a lavishly illustrated reference work that covers the vast majority of mbuna encountered in the hobby as well as rare open water cichlids. Also included are photos of many non-cichlid species of fish (catfish,etc.) found in Lake Malawi. Detailed descriptions of each type of cichlid are given including size, spawning behavior, diet, and habitat. An excellent book!
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- Probably one of the best books I've read...
- The Best Book Ever Written About the Warner Valley!
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Owning It All: Essays
William Kittredge
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This is a deeply felt and highly informed essay collection about life in the American west by one of the finest writers ever to emerge from that region. As the Seattle Times has said of Owning It All: "You may never again see the American west in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge. [This is a] stunning book." Having grown up on his family's cattle ranch in eastern Oregon, Kittredge directly confronts the contradictions and myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and love of the land.
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Probably one of the best books I've read..........1999-09-06
A collection of essays that have appeared in various magazines & journals, Kittredge does a wonderful job painting a picture of Warner Valley and the American West. He makes it easy to understand how anyone could dream of traveling West in the hope of finding a new way of life. Easy to pick up but impossibe to put down!
The Best Book Ever Written About the Warner Valley!.......1999-03-17
The title says it all! If you've ever slept in the high country of Southeastern Oregon and been awakened by the brilliance of the moon, the mournful hooting of an owl or a coyote's howl at a time too late to remember but too early to get up, and while trying to get back to sleep on ground too hard and cold realized that we can never OWN the land, we only exist as part of it, you will appreciate Kittredge's eloquence in describing his own family's ultimately self-defeating attempts to do just that. This is Lake County as it was and is...a world apart from the Cool Green Vacationland of Western Oregon...where everything is connected to everything else, and Owning It All may be the only way to wrest a living from the land, but becomes an ephermeral concept that comes to no good end. History, geography, personal biography...an underappreciated book by a master whose prose is as tight as your puckered lips when it's 14 with a 45 mile an hour north wind on a late October morning in the Catlow Valley.
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ALL ABOUT BASIC HOME REPAIRS (GROLIER'S HOME OWNING MADE EASY)
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Buying, Owning and Selling a Flat: The Legal and Practical Aspects of Concern to Flat-owners and All Those Who Want to Buy a Flat
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From bees to moss: herding bumble bees to owning swamps is all part of the business plan for a clever South Island company.(Notebook)(Christchurch's Pacific Wide Group): An article from: NZ Business
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This digital document is an article from NZ Business, published by Profile Publishing Ltd. on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 755 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.
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Title: From bees to moss: herding bumble bees to owning swamps is all part of the business plan for a clever South Island company.(Notebook)(Christchurch's Pacific Wide Group)
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Owning It All.(media ownership and objectivity issues)(Brief Article): An article from: American Journalism Review
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Title: Owning It All.(media ownership and objectivity issues)(Brief Article)
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Practical, shmactical. They're cool.(General News)(Owning a convertible in rainy Oregon? Some say the critics are all wet) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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All you ever wanted to know about owning real estate in Mexico
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Owning It All
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Fitting into Your Genes: Healthy Living And Eating in Philadelphia
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The book is intended to present the true fitness of Philadelphia, a place that inspires individualism and the development of mind, body, and spirit. Philadelphia is currently undergoing a phenomenal revitalization that is putting the city back into the national spotlight. The writer takes readers on a tour of two key neighborhoods in Philadelphia that reflect these changes, Center City and University City. By applying her definition of quality of life through historic preservation, intellectual, cultural, spiritual life, and opportunities for dining out, among other criteria, the writer reveals the re-emergence of a city that is taking its rightful place among cities in the nation which it founded. Philadelphia can show the world what it means to be fit.
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Benjamin Franklin & the University of Pennsylvania (Bureau of Education Circular of Information No. 2, 1892)
Francis (Editor) Newton Thorpe
Manufacturer: Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893
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Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania
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The center from which Franklin's practical influence in education extends in Philadelphia. Connected, as he was, for many years with the management of what is now the University of Pennsylvania, that institution is in some sense a development of his ideas as to higher education. But his benefactions and his counsel originated many other streams of educational influence. These lines of educational influence have been carefully investigated by Francis Newton Thorpe, who at the time or original publication in 1893 was Professor of American Constitutional History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill. An Exhibition Celebrating the Bicentennial of the University of Pennsylvania Library.
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The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin: An American Encyclopaedist at the University of Pennsylvania
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Trends in Modern American Society (The Benjamin Franklin Lectures of the University of Pennsylvania, Seventh Series)
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American culture is in a state of transition. What is the nature of this change? To what degree is it desirable? What are its implications? It is to these questions in relation to various aspects of our culture that eight distinguished scholars here address themselves.
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Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach: Franklin and His Heirs at the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1976
Martin Meyerson
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Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania.
Franics Newton [Ed] Thorpe
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Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania;: An address delivered at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia at the request of Pennsylvania, April 17,1906
Hampton L Carson
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Benjamin Franklin lecture,: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, December 7, 1961
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- The Choice of Life
- February Light
- Inspirational yet could probe more deeply about cancer.
- Memoir of a fully-lived life before, during, & after cancer.
- A beautiful story of a women's love of life and nature.
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February Light: A Love Letter to the Seasons During a Year of Cancer and Recovery
Heather Trexler Remoff
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The Choice of Life.......2002-02-12
I read this wonderfully written and deeply felt book a few years ago, after my mother succumbed to biliary cancer and long before I triumphed over my own cancer (prostate). During my year of cancer and recovery, I often thought of Remoff's book -- a gem that created a resonance I still feel today -- of her resilience and love of life. Familiar with the setting, Eagle's Mere (a quaint, old Victorian village set atop a picturesque mountain, frequented by folks of means throughout much of the 20th century), I'd say she had ample opportunity to commune with the seasons. But the beauty of her love letter lies in its human light. We see an engaging, luminous spirit that will not yield to the dark, nefarious work of cancer, a woman deeply connected to family, friends and community. Her dog Chuckles, her running, her ruminations, her alternative healthcare approaches, her strong yet sensitive husband -- all give her reason to live. This book should be mandatory reading for anyone whose life has been affected by cancer. This book is life, fully lived, soulfully rendered, teeming with laughter and foolishness amid the fear and pain of facing one's inescapable mortality.
February Light.......1999-12-27
As a book about nature and going through a life threatening disease, this is a lovely portrayal.
If one is looking for indepth personal perspective and insight into (ovarian) cancer and accompanying surgerys and treatments, it is rather weak.
I wasn't moved, at a time when I am easily moved.
Inspirational yet could probe more deeply about cancer........1998-06-25
"I'm locked up for a crime I didn't commit," says Remoff, pacing hospital corridors after ovarian cancer surgery. This restless woman describes her greatest adventure, a dance with death in her 54th year. It's not surprising that she despises being cooped up. She lives on a crystal clear lake in small-town Pennsylvania. She adores the outdoors and describest it tenderly -- its changes through the months of that year. In September she pays attention to the Crows and their wisdom. "Crows break my heart in the same way September does," she discloses. In January we see her on the frozen lake to help townsfolk harvest 250-lb ice blocks to build a high and dangerous toboggan slide, a ritual since 1904. She's in chemotherapy, wearing mittens, scarves, boots. She gets too cold and must give up. Feeling guilty, she won't attend the bean feed afterward. Chemotherapy doesn't stop her from running, though, even on dark winter mornings. She's only dissappointed that she must cut her speed as she weakens. This is a strong woman, physically and mentally fit. She flirts with the mystical. A lost pendant is mysteriously found by strangers and delivered to her door. A white light surrounds her one morning in bed -- healing and supporting her immediately before her follow-up diagnosis, one that ultimately finds no trace of tumor. There's much to the body-mind connection that we have yet to learn. This is an educated woman, a researcher who questions issues of economic theories. I wondered, then, why she did not question, as I did, what allowed cancer to enter her strong and active body. Do we remember our grandmothers attending funerals of friends dying from breast or ovarian cancer in their fifties? Or forties? Or thirties? This lovely book is bereft of her probing heart in dealing with these issues with her doctors. Today, some health care professionals and their patients actually take time to track childhood exposure to DDT, toxic waste dumps, farm pesticides and polluted w! ater. I wish she had.
Memoir of a fully-lived life before, during, & after cancer........1998-04-25
In this brief book, Heather Remoff shows herself to be a funny, gutsy, caring and sensitive woman. She also turns out to be one tough cookie. This memoir of her new life in a remote Pennsylvania village, and of the cancer that nearly ended that life, is well worth reading just for the skill of her writing. But even more, it is a fascinating self-portrait of a whole person, fully engaged in the serious and crazily unpredictable business of life.
A beautiful story of a women's love of life and nature........1998-03-29
While facing a deadly disease, Heather Remoff shows wonderful insight, honesty, and humor. Also, the book is the perfect length and is very readable.
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