I Kept My Word: The Personal Promise Between a World War II Army Private and His Captain About What Really Happened to Glenn Miller

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I Kept My Word: The Personal Promise Between a World War II Army Private and His Captain About What Really Happened to Glenn Miller
Clarence, B. Wolfe , and Susan, Goodrich Giffin
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A Dream Denied, a Promise Kept
Roberta Collier Perle
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ASIN: 0595372465

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A Dream Denied, a Promise Kept will appeal to women of all ages because it gives pointers on how to travel alone. How to be accepted as an equal of men around the world. It tells of the wonderful love stories that are unforgettable and exciting as the author travels the globe. It is adventure at its most exciting and daring and takes place at a time when very few women traveled alone.

It shows women's forays into unknown and uncharted territory and has a dynamic all its own as the stories unfold with compassion and humor. It will take the reader to a harem in Yemen, The Steppes of Mongolia, to visit a Bedouin camp, walk the oldest street in the world, visit the bazaars and cities of medinas and villages. Stay at five star hotels with the amenities and accoutrements of the glorious 20th Century; then sleep in pup tents and lodges. Experience the migrations of millions of animals, cross the Great Rift Valley, ride camels in the Gobi Desert and elephants in Nepal as you search for white tigers. Climb to the top of Tibet's Potala Palace, join the Maharaja and Maharani at their palace. Climb the Kyber Pass into Afghanistan. Break bread with the mighty and those less fortunate. Taste the cuisines of over 210 countries. Fly into Saudi Arabia and be swept away by the glory of the desert. Learn how to pack for a trip and how to escape jet lag.

A Dream Denied, a Promise Kept shows women as they are…in settings that display their greatest accomplishments and most courageous hearts. Traits and experiences that can rival of any man.

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A Dream Denied, a Promise Kept shows women as they are.in settings that display their greatest accomplishments and most courageous hearts. Traits and experiences that can rival of any man.

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A Psychologists' Journey to Self-discovery.

Father, Have I Kept My Promise?
Edith Weisskopf-Joelson
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Understanding Abnormal Behavior

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In 1937 Edith had received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Vienna, and high recommendations from her famous teachers. Her career prospects looked bright indeed. But a year later, she was a refugee from Hitler's war on Jews. She left her Nazi-occupied homeland and immigrated to the United States in 1939. In the United States, she pursued her career in psychology as a professor at prominent universities as well as a clinical consultant for the State of Indiana. As a psychology professor at Purdue, she contracted tuberculosis and spent 1962-64 in a tuberculosis hospital. Before she was released, she began to experience instances of schizophrenia. In this condition, she taught at St. Mary-of the-Woods College in Terre Haute, Indiana, for a year. Just before her stay there was to end, a priest discovered her mental illness. All through her mental illness, she kept a diary chronicling her "schizophrenic episode." Father, Have I Kept My Promise? is that diary-turned-book. Part of the book's charm is Edith's honesty--she does not bide anything from her reader.

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A Psychologists' Journey to Self-discovery........2000-12-12

This book is a spiritual journey of Edith Weisskopf-Joelson. Edith's family is Jewish, but the topic of religion is a taboo for her family.

As time goes on, she experiences more and more hatred and predjudice for being Jewish, that she feels that she can't have a life in europe. The year is 1937, and she decides to flee Europe.

Edith travels to America and becomes a well-known psychologist at Purdue University. She finds joy and an affectionate relationship in her married life with Mr.Joelson. But she becomes more and more drawn to the taboo of her childhood, and that is her religious feelings.

She begins to have more and more religious dreams and visions until she is unable to function in society. A priest at the college that she's teaching at helps committ her to a psychiatric hospital.

Edith experiences being a psychiatric patient. Unbenownst to her, one of her old students is interning at the hospital where she is a patient. He helps her to come to terms with her religious feelings and helps her believe that she can share the beauty of these experiences as a teacher outside of the hospital.

While Edith is a patient in the hospital, she receives an invitation from the University of Georgia to be a visiting professor and teach Clinical Psychology. She becomes a very controversial and beloved professor such that there is a waiting list to take her classes.

Edith feels that there are "strangers" and "natives". Strangers are people that have a strong desire to love someone that that person becomes central part of their existence in the world. They are able to transform a drab existence into a something of beauty by the one that they love. Material success isn't so important to them. Strangers can help natives discover love.

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Gyuszika Promises Kept: A story of survival set in war-torn Hungary
Julius Tomsits
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ASIN: 1410703037

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Gyuszika's biography carries a documented true story. The bond between the mother and son enables Julius' survival from the horror of combat, the austerery of 46 months Russian imprisonment, thern a tragic escape to the "free world."

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An amazing and touching story.
Book Lacks Broad Perspective Needed to Appeal to Non-Jews

I Kept My Promise
Jacob Birnbaum , and Jason R. Taylor
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An amazing and touching story........2006-01-13

I found this book to be a wonderful and well-written story. It is amazing because it is true. I must disagree with the previous reviewer. This book does not suggest that the holocaust was only about the Jews. The book merely focuses on one person. It is clearly the story of one man's amazing survival. This man happens to be Jewish. The events are sad and heartwarming. I also appreciated the photographs and other information contained in the book. It puts faces with the names. The book is an easy read and I would recommend it for both adults and children. Though the events are tragic, it is so important for the young people in our society to know what happened.

Book Lacks Broad Perspective Needed to Appeal to Non-Jews.......1998-05-29

At the risk of being labeled anti-semitic, this American WWII veteran and member of the Boston Latin School Class of 1946 must observe that the Holocaust was much more than a Jewish event: It was genocide in its fullest form involving persons and groups adjudged by Nazis as undesirable -- gypsies, undesirable Aryans, almost anyone who offended almost any German citizen. Dwelling on the destruction of Jews in Europe, who comprised the bulk of the murdered citizenry tells a large part of the story of the Holocaust, but it borders on the offensive to suggest that Jewish suffering is the whole story. I would find the Holocaust Museum, just four blocks from my home a much more acceptable place if it had been named The Genocide Mueum.

A Promise Kept: Memoirs of a Metropolitan Councilman

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A Promise Kept: Memoirs of a Metropolitan Councilman
James Bruce Stanley
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James Bruce Stanley was elected to the Nashville Metropolitan Council in 1995 as a passionate neighborhood and citizens rights advocate. He promised supporters that he would give them a voice in Metro activities and that he would never support something against their wishes or best interests. What the young public servant discovered, however, was that joining the forty-member Metro Council would be an adventure in citizenship, large municipal management, closed-door politics vs. community rights, and big-business incentive deals. From his seat on the Metro Council, Stanley shared in some of Nashvilles biggest challenges, including the wooing of a professional hockey team, the corporate incentives that brought Dell Computers to Nashville, and the controversial deal that allowed football team owner Bud Adams to move the then-Houston Oilers to Tennessee and receive great favor from the Metro government. In A Promise Kept, Stanley gives an insiders portrait of this increasingly popular form of local government and how it impacts the people and communities that make up Metropolitan Nashville and surrounding communities.

A Promise Kept: Vernon Ravsten an Uncommon Man for Our Season

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Inspiring tale
Eulogy to SmashMouth Football Gurus

A Promise Kept: Vernon Ravsten an Uncommon Man for Our Season
Bruce K. Couch , and Robert M. Couch
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Inspiring tale.......2007-06-30

I enjoyed this inspiring story of a coach who cared and the players who kept a promise and a coach who overcame illness to coach a team that went undefeated. I enjoyed this book and recomend anyone who loves a motivational and inspiring story. Couch did a great job of replaying the 60's and depicting the story.

Eulogy to SmashMouth Football Gurus.......2001-08-07

A brave autobiographical attempt to transform the author's high school coach into the second coming of Lomardi. This "Inspirational Playbook For Life" praises such coaching gems as: "I said, 'Coach, I heard something crack and I'm afraid I broke it.' Coach replied, "I think the crack you heard was you breaking that kid's leg. They're getting an ambulance and a stretcher to carry him off the field." Then (with incredible sensitivity and inspiration,) "Coach looked at me and said, "Go on, run off the field and be a hero," and more incredibly, "Well, we'll send him a card next week." The opposing quarterback they were referring to suffered a compound femur fracture in three places, and we learn "They may have to put a pin in his leg." The author's "coach" suffered the final misfortune of a drawn-out bout with cancer...an opponent nobody could knock out of the game. Pep talks evolved to Bob Richards' plagerism and football-as-life lessons. Enter inspiration. Danny White must have read a different manuscript before penning his introduction; for that matter, Couch must have played for a different coach than I did...I played 3rd string for Ravsten and his henchmen; I'd call my paean "Football Through the Earholes: Violent Lessons As Teenage Cannon-fodder "

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A Promise Kept: What They Don't Know
A. Tee Sacks
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This story is based on factual memoirs. The character Ariel Wells, survives incest, molestation and child abuse as a young black girl, only to became a parent while simultaneously losing her only parent at the age of fourteen. Obligated to a promise to her beloved mother on her deathbed, she finished high school while raising the child. Ariel shows us her desire and the strength to succeed. At times, she may have had neither, but she does what is necessary to find them. Ariel fights to overcome more tragedies than imaginable; like homelessness, starvation and poverty and this all before becoming twenty-one, to adult issues like eating disorders and diuretics. Ariel shows us her strength as a survivor through turbulent strides from trauma and catastrophe to miracles artist and mother.

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Promises Kept A Memoir
McMath Sidney S.
Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press
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A great book on Arkansas History

Promises Kept: A Memoir
Sid McMath
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A great book on Arkansas History.......2003-10-19

This is a wonderful book by a humble statesman. His unwavering sense of duty to public service is inspiring.

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Although Tony Hiss firmly disbelieves the charge that his father was a Soviet agent who passed along State Department documents, the guilt or innocence of Alger Hiss is not entirely the point of this memoir. Instead, drawing on the letters Alger sent his wife and son during the nearly four years he spent in federal prison during the early 1950s, Tony Hiss reveals "the essence that Alger had kept private for so long," an "effervescent and playful" self far more appealing than the rather wooden, lawyerly public persona he adopted when defending himself during the trial. The warm human being who made friends easily, even in jail, was seldom available to his young son during the busy years that preceded Alger's incarceration. Their relationship deepened during his imprisonment, enabling Tony to endure those difficult years of deprivation and separation. Without minimizing the stresses on his family--Tony was plagued by bad dreams and inexplicable accidents; his parents separated a few years after Alger's release--the author emphasizes the courage and nobility of his father, who strove to find occasions for joy even behind bars. This is a moving, very human portrait of a man who in other accounts is usually either demonized or sanctified. --Wendy Smith

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The View from Alger's Window is Tony Hiss's remarkable memoir of the trial and imprisonment of one of the most famous victims of the Cold War witch-hunts: his father. Tony Hiss was seven years old when Whittaker Chambers first accused Alger Hiss of passing secrets to the Russians. For the rest of his childhood, Tony and his family experienced the cruelties and intimidations of the time.

Drawing on hundreds of letters Alger sent from prison, the author counters public perceptions of Hiss and shows the fundamental decency and essential goodness of his father and, along the way, draws a compelling portrait of an innocent man. At the same time he lets us see how adversity drew this father and son together, allowing them to achieve a closeness they might never have been able to otherwise.

Beautifully written, wise, The View from Alger's Window sheds new light on a family, a time, an accusation, and a man whose guilt or innocence continues to inspire debate.

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Have you ever read something that provides NO INFORMATION?.......2000-09-02

This is one of those books. In addition to not being a communist(DO YOU EXPECT ANY OTHER CONCLUSION FROM TONY HISS?), did you know Alger loved Picasso and VanGogh? He also loved his family and wrote letters from Lewisberg penitentiary -- you don't say! B L A H ! ! ! !

The Truth Revealed.......2000-02-02

This excellent book is beautifuly written and proves the sterling character of Alger Hiss. Hiss was framed by three of America's mid-century most evil men...Richard Nixon, Whitaker Chambers and J. Edgar Hoover. Alger Hiss was a Jeffersonian democrat who will be honored in the long run of history as a key man in the Roosevelt administration and the Secretary General of the United Nations during its founding conference in San Francisco in 1945. Pass the book along to your grandchildren,for it will become a valuable document of 20th Century America.

The Truth Revealed.......2000-02-02

Strangely Fascinating.......1999-12-06

I enjoyed this book for many of the reasons some writers here hated it, the author just doesn't quite "get" that his father was a spy, and while I don't care one whit about the history of the cold war (which is ancient history to me) I was fascinated by this son's attempt to romanticize his father and decipher a relationship which was, at different times, warm and false.

Who really gets to know the core thoughts of his or her parents? Not Tony. But I don't think that makes him so unusual. There's something strangely fascinating about the halo most children give to their parents. Alger Hiss was at peace with himself, it seems clear in hindsight, because he either believed in his work as a spy (something which isn't all that unusual for those times) or he was one of those people who could delude himself into thinking that night was day (also not that unusual, call it OJ Simpson-itis).

One gets no clue from this book that the son ever got into the head of the father when it comes to these questions, and yet I think that makes it interesting document, how many adult children can say the same thing? Those who read this book uncritically, of course, and don't see the cat and mouse game that the author is playing with himself, are being silly.

Self-delusional.......1999-11-05

Gee, isn't it nice that Tony Hiss loved his dad. I just wish his dad had loved his country. The evidence is clear, despite what some obstinate liberals think, that Alger Hiss was a traitor. He spied for a totalitarian state that murdered millions of its own citizens, putting loyalty to communist theory ahead of the interests of his fellow citizens.

The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir

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The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir
Tony HISS
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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Songs from a Lead-Lined Room is a unique and remarkable book rooted in truth and raw experience, and the first memoir to focus on the personal experience of radiation treatment. As with Shea's best-selling fiction, her sharp and insightful wit and her reporter's eye for the most telling and sometimes quirky details inform every page. She shares what she learns about the process of her treatment, her bouts of despair, indignity, and fear, as well as the faux pas, the innocent blunders, and the compassion and caring of her family, friends, and fellow patients.

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A Walk Through The Deepest Valley.......2003-06-23

Death and illness are tough subjects for any writer. A diary of of a writer's own illness runs the danger of either being too dark or too brave in the face of death. Suzanne Strempek Shea's account of her breast cancer treatment is neither. Shea marches cleanly down her own path, balancing her own anger and needs with the world around her. I read this book nearly a year ago, yet key passages remain with me still. Although Shea covers the life-altering details of cancer treatment, this book is more of a journal of the emotional trama caused by the disease. This is not the book for those looking for bright sunshine in the face of darkness, yet the account is very often funny. It is a real life take on how one person finds a way to deal with the most frightening thing that can be thrown at a successful person in the prime of life. Shea does her best writing when she speaks of the effect her illness is having on family and friends. Writing about music is extremely difficult, but Shea is also able to convey the healing power of music as she struggles through radiation treatment. Her way through the valley is unique and I think this book can be a useful guide for those facing adversity. Many readers seek to avoid the sadness of this type of illness account, but "Songs from a Lead-Lined Room" is one to be embraced.

Finally, an honest voice.......2003-04-16

When cancer hits you and yours, you read a lot of things in order to deal with the alien world you've been thrown into. The books are helpful, but always there is that undercurrent of, it's not so bad, you should be glad it's not worse, you should be grateful to do anything to stay alive, you should be ok with this in some way and even find life-affirming value in having cancer. Well in my experience it's not like that. Doing what you have to do in order to save your life in no way diminishes the problems, pain, and grief that you have to face. This book talks about that in a real way, and it's the only one I've read that does. It's ok to want your old life back, and it's incredibly important that you get validation for everything that you are going through. It really is that bad and you deserve to know that other people know that. This book will provide you with another voice that knows what you and yours are going through and doesn't try to minimize it. It was such a refreshing and helpful change from most books about breast cancer that I read it in one sitting on the day it came, and would recommend it to anyone that would like to hear about the experience of another real person.

an important book.......2002-10-31

This book is as much for families of those with cancer as it is for those with cancer.
First read an excerpt in Yankee Magazine in the spring. "Songs" delivers on that promise.
Despite the subject matter, the book is funnier than you would think.

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