Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream

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Title: Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream.(Book Review)
Author: Walter L. Buenger
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 69 Issue: 2 Page: 470(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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An enlightening account of life at the beginning of the twentieth century when it was lived and enjoyed with only the essentials.

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A dazzling fiction debut from the author of Mama’s Girl, Miss Black America is the warm and tender story of Angela, a young girl growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. Angela goes to school one ordinary day and returns home to find her glamorous and fiercely independent mother gone. Her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone, insists on keeping Melanie’s disappearance shrouded in mystery. As Angela grows to womanhood and struggles to understand her mother’s motivation for escaping the bonds of her family, she wryly observes, “My father was a magician, but my mother was the real Houdini.”

A universal story that is both finely tuned and elegant, Miss Black America captures the intricacies, pleasures, contradictions, and complexities at the heart of every family. Spare and finely told, this novel will seep beneath your skin and stay with you long after the last page has been turned.

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Excellent Coming of Age Story.......2005-10-24

I thought this was an excellent book. It focused on the struggles of a young girl growing up with her father. It forces you to take a look at what motivates people to do the things they do and how the fallout of those actions will effect the ones closest to them.

It also took a strong look at the beliefs and values held by parents and how those values or lack there of, will shape the lives of their children.

At the heart of the story is a daughters love for her mother. When that love is taken away, the book explores the grief the daugher must endure and how she learns to cope.

As Always With Veronica...Perfect.......2005-07-24

An endearing story from an amazing writer. Little Miss Black America is an emotional rollercoaster ride that touches its reader from every angle. You laugh, you get angry, you want to cry, but you love its main characters and ultimate message delivered throught the story. For Mama's Girl fans, it reaffirms Veronica outstanding talent as a writer. For those who have never read Veronica, you will fall in love with her writing, and run out to read Mama's Girl.

Loved it!.......2005-07-12

I fell in love with Veronica Chambers with her memoir "Mama's Girl," and she proves equally skilled at fiction with "Miss Black America." Not only is the novel beautifully written throughout, but some of the pop culture references are laugh out loud funny.

A coming of age gem with universal appeal.......2005-07-08

This finely written, exquisitely detailed coming of age story may be called Miss Black America, but its appeal is universal. Veronica Chambers skillfully explores the delicate, fraught, often confusing and competing ties that bind daughters to both their mothers and fathers. The mother's dominant presence -- heightened cleverly by her absence --is beautifully woven throughout the story without diminishing the strong presence and influence of Teddo on the woman Angela becomes. Frequent interwoven references to touchstones of popular cultural throughout Angela's life --from news clips to fashion trends-- help place and pace the story in a colorful way that should conjure up fun personal memories for many readers. Miss Black America is a fast paced, thoroughly enjoyable, and ultimately uplifting take on the resilience of us all, because of, and in spite of, our families. A great read.

Veronica Chambers Does It Again.......2005-07-06

In her memoir, Mama's Girl, Veronica Chambers had me so spellbound that I finished the book in one sitting. She does it again in her first novel, Miss Black America, grabbing your attention in the first paragraph and not letting go until the last.

This moving story is full of glimpses of the 60's and 70's and glimpses into the hearts and minds of the people there. She makes you care about her characters, especially Angela Davis Brown whose sassy, irrepressible voice tells her story. From one scene to the next, the action is fast paced, making it impossible to put down. With such heroes as the magic man Teddo the Amazing Magician, Miss Black America and Mohammed Ali gracing the pages of this book, it is a terrific read that leaves you cheering the resilience of the human spirit.

The Chinese Black Chamber: An Adventure in Espionage = æChung-Kuo Hei Shihé

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A great lost classic
Bring on the codes and the beautiful babies!

The Chinese Black Chamber: An Adventure in Espionage = æChung-Kuo Hei Shihé
Herbert O. Yardley
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin (T)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0395346487

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A great lost classic.......1999-05-18

I read this years ago when i checked it out of the public library. It has been one of my favorite books and captures the heady period of pre-Maoist warlord ridden China before WWII. It reads like a spy "temple of doom" novel with Yarldey shamelessly being the main character but its a great read.

What's interesting is that cryptography played such an important role so far back before computers and data lines. Although not a very technical book for crypto-fans, it captures the spirit of the early codebreakers as misfits and outcast. Just like the Flying Tigers, Yardley gives a very unique look at the role that Americans played in China before the Pacific War. I highly recommend this book if it ever comes back into print.

Bring on the codes and the beautiful babies!.......1997-12-14

Hired by Chiang Kai Shek to crack Japanese spy codes (this was after the KMT retreat into the hills), Yardley found himself in the beseiged city of Chungking where EVERYONE IS A SPY (Ted White makes an appearance as a green reporter to whom Yardley teaches poker.) Pre-dating Cold War factionalism, Yardley wrote with a candidness that seems eccentric today (this man had no "ISSUES"); but in his day, he was seen as dangerously indiscreet. His American Black Chamber (located in New York City!) was shut down after a successful run for budget reasons - unemployed and then ostracized when his book on cryptography was banned for revelations of American code cracking methods, Yardley found himself ~temping~ for the "Generalissimo" in the Chinese backwater. An incredibly talented cryptographer and unabashed ladies' man, Yardley provides a charming and lucid slice of that life to which this review cannot do justice. Note that this book is "Hard to Find" - find it! Find its precursor, "Ameri

American Black Chamber (Bluejacket Books)

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Our "NSA" in 1918!
An old friend available again
American Black Chamber
Excellent Book
Great for sure, but . . .

American Black Chamber (Bluejacket Books)
Herbert O. Yardley
Manufacturer: US Naval Institute Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1591149894

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This book is a classic in nonfiction literature. When published in 1931, The American Black Chamber was an instant sensation and quickly became a best-seller. Erle Stanley Gardner termed the book "one of the most interesting books I have ever read." For those interested in real-life spies, intelligence, breaking codes, and especially intrigue, The American Black Chamber is one of the most absorbing nonfiction books ever published.

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Our "NSA" in 1918!.......2007-05-21

Yardley could sight-read the encrypted messages of the time. This and "Education of a Poker Player" are informative and entertaining.

An old friend available again.......2007-03-15

I read this book some 50 years ago, having borrowed it from a friend.
Since then I have looking for this book.
When I found it on Amazon, I immediately bought it.

American Black Chamber .......2007-02-21

required reading as background history of intelligence to understand the future we need to understand the past to the best of our abilities

Excellent Book.......2006-12-26

I finished reading this book and it is excellent. I have always wanted to read it since hearing about it when I was on active duty with the Air Force in the late 1960's. It was not available then and I understood it to banned from sale in the US at the time. I am going to get a few more copies to give to some of my USAF buddies.

Great for sure, but . . ........2006-12-14

An excellent read for sure; however, Yardley is no writer--overall, it is extremely poorly writing. The information presented is sometimes repetitive. The grammar and editing are both poor. But, the story makes up the gap and tends to compensate if one reads the forest instead of the trees.

Children & Youth Say So!: Skits, Recitations, and Poetry for Black History Month, Kwanzaa and Other Celebrations of the Church

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Children & Youth Say So!: Skits, Recitations, and Poetry for Black History Month, Kwanzaa and Other Celebrations of the Church
G. Chambers
Manufacturer: Abingdon Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Chambers, Teachers ARE Successful, College-Educated Professionals!
Must Read for Young Adult Black Women...
Don't wait to read this book!
Missing Stats to support claims
Wonderful Book!

Having It All?: Black Women and Success
Veronica Chambers
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0385506384
Release Date: 2003-01-21

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A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.

In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater rate than white women; increased their enrollment in law schools and graduate programs by 120 percent; and many are now running top companies, or in some cases, the country. Isn’t that enough? Not necessarily. With sharp insight, award-winning journalist Veronica Chambers explores the challenges and stereotypes she and other African American women continue to endure, and answers the question most often posed to her: What does success mean for black women?

Twenty-first century black women draw their inspiration from a wide range of sources: Claire Huxtable to Audrey Hepburn, snowboarding to basketball, Gloria Steinem to bell hooks. They choose what they like. Yet they are misunderstood by mainstream America and lack an accurate portrayal in the media of their lives. HAVING IT ALL? interweaves the thoughts and reflections of more than fifty women who occupy this territory. The voices range from Thelma Golden, chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, to a Silicon Valley executive, to medical and legal professionals, and stay-at-home “mocha moms.”

Successful black women today want it all: marriage, motherhood, engaging work, and prosperity. The difference is that they come to the table with the strength, courage and wisdom of black women ancestors who-did-it-all, even when they didn’t-have-it-all. What has gone so undocumented by the media is that modern black women are coming up with creative, satisfying answers to the juggling act that all women face.

Veronica Chambers chronicles this topic for the first time in her absorbing, riveting and groundbreaking book HAVING IT ALL?

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Chambers, Teachers ARE Successful, College-Educated Professionals! .......2007-03-10

I have one peeve with this book: The author excludes teachers as successful, college-educated professionals (pg. 6 Introduction, hardcover)! Teachers, at the time she wrote this book and today, are required to earn a Bachelors degree, to receive specialized, professional training to be certified, AND they must obtain a Masters Degree within about 5 years after completing the training just to keep their jobs. With all of those educational requirements, how could Chambers say that teachers are not "college-educated professionals"? Then to make matters worse, Chambers says that she uses "success" in the "broadest terms" to include teachers. So teachers aren't successful in her eyes. According to her, a successful Black woman must be an attorney or a doctor or have earned an MBA or have earned a Bachelors degree from an Ivy League school. Even though I meet her standards for the successful Black woman, I can appreciate the ambition, brains and professionalism in my past teachers. Moreover, I have family members who are teachers, and they are just as ambitious, smart, and (dare I say) more humble than some of the women Chambers praises in this book. I hope she realizes that it took successful teachers to help those Black women she features in this book to get to where they are. And those teachers, as well as many others, are just as successful as any other degreed middle and upper-class professional she'd put on a pedestal.

Must Read for Young Adult Black Women..........2006-04-11

I'd heard about this book numerous times. I'd read about it in Essence, read numerous customer reviews and knew I would have to read it one day-- if only I could get through the 200 pages of assigned reading I had to do. Little did I know once I picked this book up, I would be unable to put it down. I found myself opening its pages anytime I had the opportunity and finishing it in no time. It's that good.

As a college senior about to graduate in less than a month, this was perhaps the best book I could have read to prepare me for the journey that lies ahead. In it I found images of myself...who I am now, and who I'd like to be. Chambers does an excellent job capturing the emotion, joys and pains of Black women who live successful lives as mothers, professionals, and socialites, and this book makes it clear that success definitely means different things to different people. It provides much needed evidence that "Black women" is not a monolithic category full of angry, money hungry, lazy, uneducated, snobby, or lonely women. Instead "Having it All?" shows that Black women in America and around the world are living it up and dealing with the same issues women of all races proclaim to be their own.

Chambers beautifully intertwines interviews with sisters from every street in the black middle class and upper class neighborhoods with parts of her own life, providing a diary-like, advice filled, "here's how I did it, how I'm doing it, and you can too" type of book. What I liked most was that Chambers and the women she spoke with were completely honest about their lives. The ladies' honesty and eagerness to open and reveal the most personal aspects of their lives for our benefit radiates off every page. But dont read this book if you are looking for advice on how to "make it," instead read it to be inspired and reminded that despite what anyone else might say about us, no matter what people think we can or cant do, you can create the life you want...at your own pace and in your own way.

I hope you enjoy :o)

Don't wait to read this book!.......2006-02-26

I have never encountered a book that is more about ME as a black woman than HAVING IT ALL? by Veronica Chambers. I didn't read the book when it was published in 2003, and I really regret that now. This book is interesting and captivating from cover to cover. Granted, it isn't a book or guide to success as a black women. Rather, the book focuses on the fact that many black women are now and historically have been very successful in America, although we are rarely portrayed that way in American art, media, or history books. And despite the problems and challenges that we face along the way -- from unsupportive families, to office politics, to general racism -- black women continue to make sigificant, even if invisible, achievements, and to define "success" in our own terms.

I am SO impressed by this book, and I was moved and inspired by the accounts of the black women that Chambers speaks of in this book. This book should be required reading for successful black women everywhere. It is so good to really see that we aren't alone and that we aren't the firsts. We are everywhere.

Missing Stats to support claims.......2004-09-13

This book is an interesting read and I enjoy the women's stories the author chose to profile. However, I picked up this book with hopes of more key success techniques for black women hoping to attain the status of those mentioned in the book. Instead was an overwhelming reinforcment of captalism, consumerism and black women using white/western definitions of success.

Chambers however did pick a unique topic that is becoming very influential in Black American culture. But with lack of statistics, surveys and data to show numbers, many of the statements were more opinions and less factual.

For the sequel, I hope she emphasizes the techniques that move the women to the "top" and provides more numbers to give a broader view of middle class professional black women

Wonderful Book!.......2004-05-13

I must say that this bookd is long overdue. Finally a book that heralds the accomplishments of a sector of the population that has been constantly overlooked: black women. Throughout the book, the author discusses the age old question of whether it is possible to have it all. Judging by the women profiled in the book, its not only possible, but imperative! Granted some of the women felt that there was more that they could do or acquire, but a majority of them were qute settled and happy with themselves and their chosen lifestyles.
The book is an easy read, something that is difficult to accomplish in some instances with nonfiction. Chambers brilliantly weaves in self help strategies with colorful and interesting anecdotes. I would definitely recommend this book to every black woman out there. It provides a lift as you read and see just how powerful and accomplished black women are and continue to be on a daily basis in a world that only grudingly acknowledges them.

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2004 California Biennial
Cary Levine , Jane Simon , Kristin Chambers , Dennis Szakacs , Libby Black , Mark Bradford , Sean Duffy , Soo Kim , Michelle Lopez , and Mungo Thomson
Manufacturer: Orange County Museum of Art
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Published on the occasion of the Orange County Museum of Art's 2004 California Biennial, this catalogue celebrates the work of 27 of the most exciting emerging artists and artist collaboratives based in California. This exhibition--the largest and most ambitious Biennial in the museum's history--features artists working in a wide range of styles and media, representing the multi-national, multi-ethnic character of California's rich artistic environment. This beautifully illustrated and designed catalogue features an introductory essay by Elizabeth Armstrong, and essays on each of the artists by co-curators Armstrong and Irene Hofmann, and writers Kristin Chambers, Cary Levine, and Jane Simon. A critical resource for contemporary artists and curators, this book appeals to the national and international contemporary art audience. Artists include Libby Black, Karl Haendel, Ruben Ochoa, Mungo Thomson, and others.

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American Black Beauty, Vol. 2
Volker Janssen (Editor)
Manufacturer: Janssen Verlag
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Manufacturer: Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
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Black Higher Education in the United States: A Selected Bibliography on Negro Higher Education and Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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Black Higher Education in the United States: A Selected Bibliography on Negro Higher Education and Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Biography. Anka Muhlstein's lively biography, translated from by Teresa Waugh, introduces American readers to Astolphe de Custine, a passionate literary figure, a poet, playwright, essayist, traveler, aristocrat and homosexual adventurer.

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