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Glory Road
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A Vietnam veteran idling away his time on the Isle du Levant, Oscars eye is caught by the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, sleekly muscled and with regal bearing. When she offers him a job with great adventure and great risk he blindly accepts, little realizing just what an incredible trek he has let himself in for: a journey through some of the twenty universes where Star is Empress, on a quest to retrieve the stolen Great Egg. The grandest pure adventure from the genres master storyteller, Glory Road is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail.
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Read, wait X years... repeat........2007-05-13
I first read this book after reading "Tunnel in the Sky", "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" and "Time for the Stars", so I was a bit surprised when it read more like a dungeons and dragons story. Beautiful woman, pulls normal everyday guy into an alternate dimension where they travel by foot with her halfling companion.... The plot isn't even in the same ballpark as the other works I mentioned, but the writing and style are definetly Heinlein.
Destiny and Fate seem to be underlying themes throughout the book. The main character seems "hand picked" for the task at hand, while his female companion is destined to be a galactic ruler of sorts. Looking beyong the sci-fi, action adventure plot-line, it's easy to see Heinlein was trying to tell us all that we may not always be the master's of our destiny.
If you like Heinlein as an author, you'll like this book despite the departure from his usual theme. Its a book you'll pick up five years from now, re-read and discover something completely new.
No Real Ending.......2006-07-27
After reading this, I didn't have the 'warm and fussy' feeling. The ending is somewhat weak, and beware not to read the back of your book (depending on which print you have), mine had a spoiler on it.
I love Heinlein's book, but wish he had choosen another ending.
Glory Road.......2006-03-15
A Sci-fi Classic. Had not read it in years. Enjoyed as much now as I did in the past.
Irony is a lost art.......2006-02-25
Glory Road is, in my never humble opinion, one of the finest books ever written. It has long been my own personal favorite and the older I get the more I find to love. However, you cannot judge a great author merely on the surface of his text. The power of Glory Road, like many great works before it, lies in the undercurrents running silently between the lines.
This book was originally written in the midst of the Vietnam War. America was in constant social turmoil with "youth power" attempting to overthrow the "wisdom" of the elderly. Russia had signed SALT 1, then turned around and deployed hundreds of SS-22 intercontinental ballistic missiles. Our world was a bloody mess. Although it is hard to believe now, in many ways things were far worse at the time this book was written.
The first time I read Glory Road, it was a swash-buckling high adventure with a surprising, almost depressing ending. Now I pick it up and begin turning the pages to find insightful social commentary, scathing criticism of both those in power and their critics, and an ironic chuckle at the total foolishness of the human animal.
Star, for example, is every man's dream woman. Blonde, buxom, and unreachable. When she finally falls, she reverts to a half-witted emotional dependent leaning on her hero's strong arm.
Then twenty pages later she turns out to be a galatic empress commanding more worlds that most people ever dream of.
The convoluted nature of her character is completely intentional. At first Star embodies all the traits of a fictional heroine in a genre that has a powerful inclination to objectify women. Then, when she is suddenly unveiled as a nearly omnipotent galatic ruler, the dichotomy tears aside the traditional depiction of women and reminds us that these "frail" creatures carry an inner strength and unshakable sense of self which humiliates and humbles anyone foolish enough to challenge them directly. Women, we are reminded, are just as human as the men. The strong hero is suddenly in the role of dependent and discovers he hasn't got what it takes to fulfill the role he'd been more than willing to assign to her.
Glory Road is, on the surface, a semi-serious story of high-sdventure with a quirky ending. Underneath that shallow surface, however, lies an ironic coming of age story in the life of a man who suddenly finds himself outside the bounds of normal reality. "Scar" Gordon starts out a slave to fate, but winds up the master of his own destiny.
Glory Road is not about dragonslaying at all. Glory Road is about breaking free of the assumptions that chain each of us into predefined social templates that are so completely engrossing we cannot see how insane our society has become until we step outside it.
This isn't a book about adventure. This is a book about the limitations of your own assumptions.
There's not much to do for a retired Hero.......2006-02-08
I began reading RAH's novels in the early `50s, mostly as they appeared. Every decade or so, I go back and reread them, and probably will continue to do so for the rest of my life. Even with his overwriting (which is part of his charm) and the gentle preaching and not-so-gentle opinionating, his stories are always a romp. This is one of the better ones (and Heinlein's only true fantasy novel), about "Scar" Gordon, mid-20s, just released from the U.S. Army after a run-in with Little Brown Brother in southeast Asia, and now at loose ends in the cheapest corner of the French Riviera he can find -- the Île du Levant, where clothing and costs both are very minimal. There he meets "Star," an Amazonian sort of woman, and loses her, and finds her again -- not realizing he's been selected and set up for a quest in a world on the other side of the looking-glass. He's now a genuine Hero, like it or not, . . . but he learns to like it, mostly. There's Good Guys and Bad Guys and monsters and even fire-breathing dragons, but Gordon manages to overcome it all. But what does a retired Hero *do*? Loads of fun!
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In Apex of Glory, Blaine Taylor combines his distinctive writing-style with a series of unique photos. The end result is a definitive history of Mercedes-Benz. The Silver Arrow racing car saga, alongside all the key players instrumental in the evolution of the Mercedes-Benz Company is all here. The main focus of the narrative, however, reveals the little-known people and ht e politics behind Hitler’s cars. Over 600 black and white photos, originally given to Hitler by Daimler-Benz, and more recently discovered by the author in the archives of the Library of Congress, are included in this publication.
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Glory Days conjures up images of cruise nights, impromptu drag races, and genuine American fun. It is the story of the GTO, Tigers and Monkees, of Royal Pontiac, drag racing, corporate politics, and personal allegiances. Glory Days illuminates anera when Detroit's Woodward Avenue fairly rumbled with V-8 power, as young people slowly cruised the wide boulevard. Glory Days is also an American success story, giving an insiders view of what it took then, and what it will take in the future, to keep alive America's passion for the automobile. In Glory Days, Jim Wangers uses his 45-year career in Detroit as the basis for explaioning successful brand marketing for automobiles:
Why brand management for cars differs from other branded products
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What it takes to establish and evolve a brand image Wangers knows what he is talking about, for he was part of the most successful brand marketing campaign to ever come out of Detroit. At a time when such automotive legends as Bunkie Knudsen, Pete Estes, and John DeLorean hald sway in the Motor City, Jim Wangers created and defined the American muslecar image, devising savvy brand marketing strategies to promote the car that started it all and went on to become a cultural icon: the Pontiac GTO.
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A Man and Car Culture.......2001-02-06
A fascinating read. I could not put this book down. A well-written insider perspective on the automobile industry and American car culture. In a nutshell, Mr. Wangers is a car marketing maven. The question is, did car culture influence Mr. Wangers or did Mr. Wangers influence car culture? Did Mr. Wangers influence mass American culture? This book "asks" many questions and raises interesting points. What are the constraints in designing, marketing and engineering an automobile? What role should the govenment take? On the one hand, Mr. Wangers is lightly critical of the federal government regarding emissions and safety issues. On the other hand, he views govt. regulation as a challenge that fosters creativity and engineering prowess. Certainly, the government saved the car industry by forcing it to develop emissions and safety devices. This is a well rounded book for the Sociologist, the historian, and anybody who might enjoy a great read on the automibile industry. Nicely illustrated. There was one glaring omission: Did Wangers maintain his relationship with John DeLorean during his Cocaine distribution trial?
A view from the inside.......2000-01-12
This book takes you back and gives you a private look at the planning and development of the car that started the whole Muscle Car Craze. From figuring out how to get this car built around GM's policies on horsepower to weight ratio, to fighting off the compitition in 1969 with the introduction of "The Judge"! How they developed the Royal Pontiac cars, and how they had to fight every step of the way with the EPA, and other government agencies! Lots of photos, and history here!
good nastalgic info and pictures.......1999-10-31
I am a big pontiac fan, i own a 1966 GTO conv. with a 455, turbo 400, 4.56 gears, runs mid elevens and i drive it on the street. my wife has a 1976 formula 400 also. so i am big on performance and nastalgia also. the book was good dont get me wrong, butnot what i thought it would be! jim wangers is a pontiac and GTO legend to us poncho guys,i thought the entire book would be about pontiacs and their great performance of the sixties, instead i read a lot of negitive things about ponchos.even the pictures like the one of the swiss cheese catalina racing the ford, he said he lost that race, come on jim, your not supposed to say that, let us guys have a little glory please! and telling of losing street races. and half the book was about jim with jobs with chevy,ford and keiser. sorry jim i didnt buy this book to read about 1977 mustang cobra twos or advertising about pacer wagons! give me a break! you really dropped the ball on this one! maybe some day another old pontiac racer will come out with a book and talk about some good times and real performance of pontiacs!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting perspective but not the definitive on super duty.......1999-01-01
Mr Wanger's book is an interesting historical perspective on the development of the muscle car era at the Pontiac division. It seems to be a very complete history of the development of the GTO with details that can only be known by a industy insider.My only critisim is that that while he alludes to the real bad boy Super Duties in several places he never really spells out what they were "bad to the bone dual quad, 12to1 compression ratio 421's" These were truly Pontiac's finest hour. He also does not do justice to the great Malcom MacKeller whos genious was reponsible for the development of a whole series of camshafts used at Pontiac includ- ing the Super Duties. Wangers remembers lots of racing in the book and the cheating that often took place;he does not recount the night that after bragging that he had the fastest" GTO on Woodward " he ran a race against a 1962 white Catalina with a real 421 Super Duty not a consumer version with three two's. The outcome of that encounter very well could be be deeply reperessed as the Catalina led him by a football field at a 110 mph. This encounter happened in 1967 and it might be called Wolf in Sheep's Clothing or The Night Encouner with Super Duty #3 vin#16373. All in all I would recommend this book to anyone in Pontiac history but its not the last word on on the subject.
Here are the names of the chapters:.......1998-11-02
(1) GETTING THE FEVER (2) LEARNING THE ROPES (3) EARLY SUCCESSES...AND FAILURES (4) TEMPORARY INSIDER (5) A PLAYER ON THE "HOT" TEAM (6) THE ROYAL TREATMENT (7) FORGING THE BONDS (8) THE TIGER LEARNS TO ROAR (9) SHIFTING GEARS (10) JUDGE...AND JUDGEMENT (11) DEALING MYSELF OUT (12) NOTHING BUT SIZZLE (13) THE CONSULTANT (14) WHY THE TIGER ROARED (AFTERWORD) PRESERVING THE LEGEND
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In 1966, college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that year, Don Haskins, coach of the then little-known Texas Western College, did something that had never been done before in the history of college basketball. He started five black players and in the now legendary game, unseated the nationally top-ranked University of Kentucky. Broadcast on television throughout the country, the Miners victory became the impetus for the desegregation of all college teams in the South during the next few years. Now, for the first time, Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins tell his story. Beginning as a small-town high school basketball coach, Haskins was known for his tough coaching methods and larger-than-life personality. As a child growing up during the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, he developed a strong set of values and discipline that he would instill in his players throughout his coaching career. With recollections from his former players, including those of the 1966 team, along with Haskinss own Seven Principles for Success, Glory Road is the inspiring story of a living legend and one of the most respected coaches of all time. With a foreword by basketball legend Bobby Knight, and coinciding with the release of the film Glory Road, the story of Don Haskins and his championship team is sure to become a classic for sports fans and historians.
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A few observations from someone who was there.......2007-06-10
Your current published reviews are enthusiastic but in some cases contain factual inaccuracies. The movie and the book are related in title and subject (Don Haskins); but that is about as far as it goes. The movie which focuses on 1966 is moving and concludes with a happy and factual ending - that is, that Texas Western won that game in 1966 --- but the movie not always true to the facts. Understandably I suppose when you try to compress a life story, even if only one year of a life, into a 2 hour or so movie. The book, from someone who played for Coach, reviewed and commented on the galley proof, and has represented Coach Haskins and the '66 team as a lawyer and a friend for 35 plus years, is "spot-on" and should be read by everyone who has ever had an interest in basketball.
As to the fortunes of 1966 team and the gentlemen representing that team so well, then and now, suffice it to say that the past 3 or 4 years have indeed been a trip down Glory Road: The team was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA this past April, only the 6th team to ever be so honored - and the first collegiate team --- with the enshrinement proceedings to be held on September 7 and 8, 2007 at the HOF facility. The team has also been honored with dinner and a movie at the White House with President and Mrs. Bush; the team will be inducted in the Boys Clubs of New York Hall of Fame in October of 2007, and some of the members volunteered to take an Armed Services Entertainment Tour to Germany, the Netherlands and England in February of 2007 to entertain our country's troops and their families. Also, Texas Western's victory on March 19, 1966 in College Park, Maryland over Hall of Fame Coach Adolph Rupp and his great Kentucky Wildcat team, that included Pat Riley, Louie Dampier and Larry Conley, among others, was selected by the National Collegiate Athletic Association ("NCAA") as one of 25 defining moments in the 100 year History of NCAA sports.
I could go on but I think this should at least clear up a few matters and hopefully whet the appetite of prospective readers and reviewers to pause and consider reading this book, viewing the movie. Coach Haskin's story is presented in an interesting manner, containing both Coach Haskin's well known skills as a pick-up riding around story teller and the literary skills of Dan Wetzel who spent hours upon hours riding, listening and recording those stories.
It is well written and factual to a fault; and points out what people can do when they put aside prejudices, rediculous stereoptypes (blacks had no discipline, couldn't be a point guard or quarterback) and circumstances and judge people by character and performance; not color and privilege. Every one of those (then but now not so) young men -- all are still alive except Bobby Joe Hill who passed away of a heart attack in 2002 --- that comprised the Texas Western Team in 1966 had talent and skill; more importantly they had character and heart and respect for each other and their coaches and that combination took them to over the top.
Enjoy this story and share it with others - because of their courage and accomplishments, and those of others in other aspects of the 60's civil rights movement, questions surrounding recruiting, playing, starting and honoring people of color in sports today seem strangely quaint, and beyond the imagination of most people born after the '60s. But it wasn't always so and for this all of society owes a debt of gratitude to Don Haskins, the members of his '66 team, the University of Texas at El Paso (formerly Texas Western College) and the citizens of El Paso for contributing to the environment in which we now find ourselves with respect to race relations in sports.
Kudos to a teammate!.......2007-04-05
I have the honor of being Don Haskins teammate at Oklahoma A & M, now Oklahoma State University and couldn't be prouder and happier for a very good film about a very historic Coach and athletic event. Please be advised that Don's whole 1966 team was just inducted into the new Collegiate Hall of Fame in Kansas City, Missouri. Buy it, you will like it...!
An Autobiography That Needs To Be Read.......2006-11-30
In one of those quirky moments in the book and movie industries, the autobiography of coach Don Haskins was already "in the pipeline" before the development of the picture.
The book and movie share the title - Glory Road - which is a name of a street on the UTEP campus to commemorate the championship basketball season.
The book obviously gives a more fuller picture of Haskins and does not solely focus on the monumental victory by Texas Western College (UTEP) over Kentucky in the 1966 NCAA Finals. There will be areas "filled-in" where the movie takes artistic license with some facts/scenes to push the plot along.
The years after the title run are especially interesting, since the basketball program somewhat faded from national view as the sport became a multi-billion-dollar industry.
It is a shame that history - especially when it comes to matters of race - oftentimes become blurry as the years lumber forward. Though Haskins has always downplayed his role in what was a defining moment on the court of race & athletics, he truly deserved the attention from the national platform that propelled the book to national bestseller status.
The lessons learned along that glory road are as important today as they were 40 years ago.
Glory Road.......2006-07-10
I had great service arrived just in time for fathers day and my father went to UTEP during the duration of the book so it made for a great fathers day present and the service from amazon was awsome thanks alot amazon.
AN AMAZING BOOK.......2006-06-08
Glory Road is a very expiring book. I like how it tells people how it was for African American people to play professional basketball and it helps understand teamwork.
I thought it was very cool how they told you what white people did to black people. One part of the book one of the black players goes to the bathroom and two white guys jump him and beat him up. Thats how rotten people can be to others just because of their skin color.
There is a lot of teamwork in this book also. At the end of the novel the coach tells the players only black people will be playing in the championship and the white guys cheer them on. The team had a rough time in the beginning because of the skin color but by the end they worked it out and won. That shows true teamwork.
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Too many pictures.......1999-09-30
This book would be great if you are looking for a picture book of old trucks. But, if you are trying to get information on old trucks, stay away.
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The Glory Road: The Story of Josh White
Dorothy Schainman Siegel
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Where the Road Begins (Tattered Glory)
Nancy Dane
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Across Arkansas men marched away to subdue devils"oeither Yankee or Confederate"odepending on one¡¦s politics. Unfortunately devils of another breed stayed behind. In the spellbinding novel Where the Road Begins, author Nancy Dane brings alive a time when marauding bushwhackers rode the hills and when women had as much to fear as any soldier. This clash between North and South took a conscripted youth, Elijah Loring, far from the banks of Little Piney Creek down a road where terror and war awaited. After returning home a hardened man, he suffered lost love, and in this lawless land, confronted dangers as great as any endured in the crushed Confederate army. Where the Road Begins is based on the documentary history Tattered Glory, also compiled by the author.
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Wonderful novel of Civil War chaos in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains.......2007-09-02
Where the Road Begins by Nancy Dane is a wonderful Civil War tale,
her writing reminded me much of Gap Creek by best selling author Robert Morgan. The page turning novel about a family struggling to survive during war stated 'Book One' on the cover. I hope there's a Book Two!
Among this genre, it is now one of my favorites.
Exciting Civil War Novel.......2007-06-26
This story begins in 1861 near Little Piney Creek in central Arkansas. It follows teenaged Elijah and his family as they experience the fear and horror of war. It was a war that waged all around them and had consequences that affected every person in the countryside. The dialogue rings true and authentic; allowing the reader to come to know and care about the characters. The detail of everyday life is a reflection of her research; it paints a vivid picture of common people caught up in uncommon circumstances. Well researched, well written and I could not put it down!
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