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In an era when Americans are desperately seeking heroes and mentors, here is the story of how a pretty young woman from Denver meets her match in handsome Ike Eisenhower, a farm boy fresh out of West Point, and becomes the Army wife par excellence. They were two very passionate and private people whose 53-year marriage, much of it lived in the public eye, survived great tragedies, misunderstandings, and adventures -- and led to glowing triumphs in World War II and the White House. Mrs. Ike is not only a biography of a beloved American but a superb account of a complex marriage. Susan Eisenhower helps readers see her grandmother as her husband did -- a heroic and irresistible figure in her own right.
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a great biography.......2007-02-21
I never knew much about Mamie Eisenhower other then she was a first lady until I read this biography it was well written and a fun read. Reading about Mamie's wealthy childhood and marrying Ike and becoming a army wife. Reading about all the places they've lived Denver, Panama, the Philippines, Europe, and the long separations from her husband. The sad death of their first child. I defiently recommend this book.
Charming, Warm, and Revealing.......2004-07-20
I thought Margaret Truman cornered the market on good writing about parents. However, Susan Eisenhower has written a book of the same caliber. Being born in 1955, I only vaguely remember when DDE was President, though I certainly remember when Ike died in 1969. I had read so many unflattering things about Mamie, with the main exception being J.B. West's book of memoirs about being Chief Usher in the White House. Mamie is largely forgotten nowadays, particularly in light of the Kennedy administration that followed. What greater contrast than between the sixty-something Mamie and the thirty-something Jackie! After reading this book in all its details, one can better understand that Mamie considered herself first, last and always as an Army wife. It's easy for us to think of the period during and following WW II when Ike shot up through the ranks, with the perks that such a position brings. This book reminds us of the many, many years of their marriage with constant moving and not enough money to go around. Was it any wonder, then, that she would shop the newspapers for bargains while First Lady? I think we all hope that by our sixties we have a good working conception of who we are and what we want--this Mamie had in spades. She wouldn't change her hairdo or wardrobe for whims of fashion--she knew what worked for her. We also might be reminded that the position of First Lady is indeed unpaid and she is truly under no obligation to perform for us, the American public. In this book Susan Eisenhower reveals that in the eight years that Ike was President, Mamie only entered the Oval Office 4 times! Now, that's what I can call a separation of duties. We are also reminded that no President before or since had the foreign experience, including living in many foreign countries. They were a most cosmopolitan couple, perhaps masquerading as our grandparents! As West said, no couple looked more spit-and-polish than the Eisenhowers in their formality, and this included the Kennedys.
This is a must read for any fan of 20th century American history.
Many thanks to Ms. Eisenhower for her work.
An Excellent Portrait of an Interesting Couple.......2003-01-15
Ike is one my historical favorites. I think his life testifies to the American dream - that a poor but enterprising boy from Kansas could achieve everlasting distinction as a Supreme Commander and President.
In Mrs. Ike you learn about his life partner. It wasn't always a happy marriage, and it was certainly tested by tragedy (death of 3-year old son) and the rigors of nomadic military life, particularly during the disarmament era after WWI. Yet they hung in there and made the most of their life together.
This is easy reading and a sometimes touching intimate portrait of a nice old-fashioned couple. They shared a 53-year marriage that took them from a difficult penny-pinching existence post WWI to great distinction and wealth later in life.
For those interested in the Ike-Summersby question, I think this book puts another nail in that silly coffin. I particularly like the description of their relationship as like "Lou Grant and Mary Richards" (from the Mary Tyler Moore Show). Based on everything I've read they were more like affectionate father and daughter than lovers. Yet its painful to read how, after Ike's death in '69, Mamie had to endure rumors and scuttlebutt during the next decade, including a nutty divorce story by Harry Truman, now discredited and widely cited as perhaps testament to Truman's senility late in life.
Lovely view of one of the finest First Ladies!.......2002-10-29
Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Eisenhower, has written a beautiful portrait of her grandmother and the strong marriage between the President and his First Lady.
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Mrs. Ike: Memories and Reflections on the Life of Mamie Eisenhower.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Charles H. Zwicker
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Title: Mrs. Ike: Memories and Reflections on the Life of Mamie Eisenhower.
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- An American classic
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In this masterwork of classic Americana, William Owens eloquently recounts his struggle to overcome the harshest of adversaries - poverty and hunger - to earn an education in the small town of Pin Hook, Texas. He recalls in vivid detail how his mother labored to feed her family and hold it together, and how he fought for knowledge in a land that was for the most part illiterate. This is not only the chronicle of one man's insatiable desire for an education, but a rich chapter in the history of Texas. The book was the subject of a Bill Moyers PBS special. (51/2 X 81/4, 320 pages)
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Searching for Faces Long Gone, Listening for Voices Long Stilled.......2007-01-26
THIS STUBBORN SOIL is a history book. No, one will not find the annals of nations set down here, nor even accounts of great wars or of vast economic movements. In these pages lie the images of poverty, illiteracy, sickness, premature death, fear, and bigotry that characterized the life of early 20th-century families enduring the ravages of both flood and drought in rough wood shacks with mud-and-straw chimneys and in poor, sandy fields where they tried to eke out an existence with a little livestock and with what few crops they could grow.
These were families for whom school was not nearly as important as having an extra hand in the field with a hoe or a cotton sack, families whose entertainment consisted of singing around an organ or a piano, the presence of which stood in stark contrast to the rest of the house, which never saw an electric light or a telephone wire. These were families that watched over their sick and watched them die either because there was no money to pay a doctor to come or because the nearest doctor was self-taught through mail-order books.
This is also the story of one boy who grew up in such an environment, who quit school many times because the choice came down to feeding the mind or feeding the body, who very nearly succumbed to the lure of wandering or of "riding the rods" as a hobo, and who was taught early on to denigrate Blacks and to hold Catholics in suspicion. In religion, he was exposed to holy rollers and tent revivals and pulpit-pounding evangelists. In school, when he went, he had teachers who had themselves barely finished an elementary education or, at the most, high school.
In this boy, however, there was something as strange and seemingly out of place as the organ in his ramshackle home-a thirst for learning and an unquenchable desire to go to school at Commerce, Texas, home of East Texas State Teacher's College, the only place he had ever heard of where he could continue his often-interrupted education. Both lack of money and inadequate preparation threw substantial barriers in his path. Of course, even before reading this book, we know of his eventual success thanks to the Ph.D. that came to follow his name.
THIS STUBBORN SOIL, therefore, is both a description of families who survived or died in a hardscrabble existence in early-1900s America and a hearth-side story of a boy whose love of learning survived all of the impediments in his path and finally resulted in the prize he sought for so long-a formal higher education. The soil on which he lived was indeed stubborn, for it yielded little and that only after back-breaking effort. He, however, was yet more stubborn, and that stubbornness bore succulent fruit.
The book is a personal memoire, and, for readers who share lingering childhood memories of dirt roads, railroad tracks past cotton fields, unquestioned racial segregation, and one or two-room schools reached by horseback or "footback," this narrative will awaken nostalgic images from the mists into which they have faded as the years have passed. For those who have never experienced the type of life Owens led as a boy, THIS STUBBORN SOIL will be very instructive and will help fill a pronounced gap in their knowledge of a large corner of early twentieth-century America. Though now out of print, copies can be found through many used-book sources, and the message remains timely, instructive and perhaps even inspirational. The book is worth far more than the effort needed to track it down, and I hope that every reader interested in American history at the personal level, in rural "local color," or even in just a well-written personal narrative will begin the search for it without delay. The reward of reading it is great.
An American classic.......1999-11-24
I believe William A. Owens is all too often overlooked as one of Americas greatest authors and this book just proves my point. It is a great piece of work and an inspiration to all that read it.
William Owens has convinced me I am part of his story........1998-11-01
My one line summary says it all. I am sure I was there. I anticipate each chapter anxiously waiting to see what funny, tragic desperate event is next and admiring the author for the practical and inventive mechanisms he has in place to keep his education going. I would like to know more about him in his later life.
Poignant And Inspirational.......1996-12-06
I first read This Stubborn Soil 8 years ago and I can still
recall images conjured up by this books beautiful writing.
I consider this book to be a classic. It is written in a
simple, straight forward manner which fits the story
perfectly. The characters are vivid and you can almost
feel the dust blowing and the rain drenching you. The
hardships endured by Mr. Owens family and the story
of his success are truly inspirational. I recommend this
book to anyone who wants to feel real emotions being
brought out by a piece of literature. When I read it I cried
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Garibaldi: A Great Life in Brief (Great Lives in Brief)
Denis Mack Smith
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Translated for the first time into English from Garibaldi’s original manuscripts, these memoirs provide an authentic reading of the life and times of one of the most remarkable figures in history. The life of Giuseppe Garibaldi—distinguished by superhuman courage, personal tragedy, and tireless struggle in the name of freedom—has remained a source of fascination for generations. In this engrossing first-person narrative, Garibaldi charts his extraordinary adventures, from his early seafaring exploits and his flight to South America, to his return to Italy as a conquering general. Now in its first English translation, My Life reveals all of Garibaldi’s strength of character, his visionary outlook, and his unfailing idealism. Adventurer, reformer, military figure, and novelist, Giuseppe Garibaldi was a hero of the Risorgimento, the movement for Italian unification.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success.
For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His greatest moment came in 1860, when he defended a revolution in Sicily and provoked the collapse of the Bourbon monarchy, the overthrow of papal power in central Italy, and the creation of the Italian nation state. It made him a global icon, representing strength, bravery, manliness, saintliness, and a spirit of adventure. Handsome, flamboyant, and sexually attractive, he was worshiped in life and became a cult figure after his death in 1882.
Lucy Riall shows that the emerging cult of Garibaldi was initially conceived by revolutionaries intent on overthrowing the status quo, that it was also the result of a collaborative effort involving writers, artists, actors, and publishers, and that it became genuinely and enduringly popular among a broad public. The book demonstrates that Garibaldi played an integral part in fashioning and promoting himself as a new kind of “charismatic” political hero. It analyzes the way the Garibaldi myth has been harnessed both to legitimize and to challenge national political structures. And it identifies elements of Garibaldi’s political style appropriated by political leaders around the world, including Mussolini and Che Guevara.
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Riall's Jaundiced View.......2007-10-06
Do not bother reading this book. Riall's jaundiced view of history is boring. Tearing down Garibaldi, one of the greatest political figures in nineteenth-century European history, is obviously Riall's pathethic stab at gaining, or perhaps retaining, tenure. If anything, this book should be used as an example of what is wrong with academic literature in our day and age.
If you want to understand Garibaldi, read George Macaulay Trevelyan's "Garibaldi: A Great Life in Brief."
overly critical .......2007-05-29
Malicious, cynical, manipulative; these are the words that would describe someone who invented their own hero status and those that collaborated and this is what this book would have us beleive Garbialdi did. But did Giuseppe Garibaldi need someone to invent him as a hero? After working on a ship he found himself in Piedmont(north Italy) in 1933-4 where he was first sentenced to death for revolutionary activities. In 1842 he was in Uruguay leading an Italian 'legion' fighting in a ten year siege of Montevideo against Argentinian forces. In 1849 he was in Rome fighting once again for revolution in Italy. In 1854, after buying an island to become a farmer he was once again fighting in Italy at lake Como. In 1860 he landed in Sicily with a 1,000 'red shirts' and began the process of uniting Italy. He was a dynamic swashbuckling warrior who spent his life in adventure. This was not invented. His life was as dashing as it was later protrayed. It was not a suprise that in a time when the world needed revoltuonary heroes fighting against absolutist oppression that Garibaldi became one of Europe's most famous men.
This book pretends that journalists and biographers and Garibaldi himself all cosnpired to 'invent' and create this fame, that he played up his adventures and his sexual conquests in a cynical way to manipulate the press and perceptions, as if he had sex just to make people think he was a playboy. Perhaps this makes since from the year 2007 when politicians do such things, but perhaps he really was a playboy and a revolutionary and this book is overly cyinical in its attempt to revise history and tear down a hero.
Seth J. Frantzman
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The third and final volume of the trilogy covers Garibaldi's role during this decisive year, which finally ended with his conquest of Sicily and Naples, and his acknowledgement of Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont-Sardinia as king of an Italy united once and forever.
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- Under Appreciated Nineteenth Century Leader
- wonderful popular history
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Phoenix: Garibaldi (Phoenix Press)
Jasper Ridley
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One of the world's greatest reformers, Garibaldi won his first battle against Aegean pirates, his last against German dragoons, and in between went to jail in Russia and led Brazilian rebels on the field. Twice an admiral and seven times a general, and a high government official in at least five countries, his passion always remained his Italian homeland. An unmatched and definitive biography captures every thrilling aspect--personal and public--of this exemplary military figure, supreme politician, and even sometimes-farmer, who succeeded in making his dreams of a united Italy come true. "...dissects every facet of Garibaldi's loveable character and personality...Ridley excels all previous biographers when describing his subject's private life, and this exhaustive study is likely to remain the standard work for many years.--Philip Magnus, The Sunday Times. "Here is the story of a romantic hero who was also an intensely human practical man."--A.J.P. Taylor, The Observer.
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Under Appreciated Nineteenth Century Leader.......2005-12-21
It has always surprised me that Guiseppe Garibaldi is not a better known figure in the United States. Unfortunately, there is a tendancy in the Anglo/American world to undervalue modern Italian military and political accomplishments. An unbiased reading of modern European History has to place Garibaldi in the top tier of Nineteenth Century European leaders.
In order to learn more about Garibaldi, I started reading one of George Macauley Trevelyan's accounts of Garibaldi's life but I found his writing style to be very difficult to read. Although a major historian, Trevelyan writes in a flowery and almost ornate style that is difficult for a Twenty First Century reader to appreciate.
At 637 pages, Jasper Ridley's "Pheonix" is a comprehensive biography of Garibaldi's life. Every facet of his long and tumultous life is covered in good detail. Ridley's approach is conscientous and workmanlike in its execution. It just may be the best Garibaldi biography available in the English language.
The only fault I find with this book is that Jasper Ridley does not have the novelist's eye for nuance and detail. Guiseppe Garibaldi was one of the most romantic and noble figures of modern European history. His story deserves one of those multi-volume works by a great narrative historian like Robert Massie or Barbara Tuchman. George Macauley Trevelyan appreciated the heroic quality of Garibaldi's life but unfortunately his high Victorian writing style is now dated. Until the Twenty First Century finds its Trevelyan, Jaspar Ridley's biography will have to serve.
wonderful popular history.......2003-02-21
Garibaldi the enigmatic italian leader who people do not know enough about. A man who felt dictatorship was the ideal form of government. Someone who opposed the church and led the 1000 red shirts to liberate Italy from foreign rule. He helped to unify Italy and at the important moment gave up power. Most interesting in this book is the look at the Garibaldis adventures in Uruguay, the 9 years siege of Montevideo, sent me searching for more on the subject. Also the insights into Garibaldis first action when he was briefly in command of Rome against Papal forces and his hatred of austrian oppression of the Italians. A great and unknown figure, read this book and know him better.
best book about garibaldi available.......2001-04-27
This is the only book about Garibaldi that is not boring as hell, basically. This book actually talks about his days in south america, which other works tend to gloss over. I literally could not find out anything about those years spent fighting in south america until I read this book. For that alone it is worth it. Plus, it has a very attractive cover. I once showing this book to a midget named Roscoe, and he said he didn't know who garibaldi was, but he wanted to read it because he liked the cover so much. I told him to get his own, and he ran away screaming and flailing his arms in the air. He even forgot his boombox!
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Anita Garibaldi: A Biography (Italian and Italian American Studies)
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Illiterate and poor, the daughter of a herdsman in 19th century Brazil, Anita Ribeiro was lifted from a life of obscurity to one that is the stuff of romance and adventure. When she and a young Italian exile by the name of Captain Garibaldi met in 1839, they joined in the cause of founding a Brazilian republic. Later they went on to lead the defense of Montevideo from an Argentine siege--just one episode among many in their idealistic, nationalistic crusade in a time of immense revolutionary upheaval. It was Anita who taught Garibaldi the guerrilla ways of the gauchos, and they lived as man and wife through a series of adventure and wars. Returning to Italy in 1848 to fight for a united republican Italy, as revolution swept throughout Europe, Anita and Garibaldi were tragically separated by her untimely death the following year. Garibaldi went on to ultimate fame as the father of modern Italy--while Anita's story drifted into the mists of legend. This book, the first full biography of the remarkable life of Anita Garibaldi, tells the true story of a fascinating and important woman.
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From the Critics.......2002-04-02
"In Valerio's hand, Anita Garibaldi emerges as the courageous but vulnerable woman from southern Brazil, whose singular and precious spirit was caught in the times. 'Anita Garibaldi' is a romance discovered in history's embrace. Valerio creates the Brazilian ethos in its emerald presence as the brillian nerve in Garibaldi's brave but short time. This biography has a texture like a Renoir film, broad and expansive, swimming alog in voluble seas."
--A. Weaver, Simmons College
From the Critics.......2002-04-02
"Anthony Valerio's genre-crossing biography provides unique insight into Anita Garibaldi's short, glorious life. Valerio writes with a novelist's dedication to character and an historian's dedication to the past."
Janet R. Jacobson, Director, Center for Research on Women, Barnard College
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This edition features over three hundred letters, selected to best illustrate the complexity and textures of Hart Crane’s turbulent life –– from family pressures, to his creative ambition, to his homosexuality.
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on March 5, 1998. The length of the article is 578 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: O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane.
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O My Land, O My Friends: Selected Letters of Hart Crane
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