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There is a glory to life that most people-including believers-never see. In this insightful new book, John Eldredge presents the heart as central to life. Not only is the heart essential; the heart God has ransomed is also good. Building on these foundational truths, Eldredge shows readers why real Christianity is a process of restoration, where the broken parts of our hearts are mended and the captive parts are set free.
Waking the Dead leads listeners to understand how to live from the heart, care for their heart like the treasures of the kingdom, and give from fullness instead of emptiness. This message also shows how living from the heart can energize people to love God and others in a way they've never experienced, revealing to them life's purpose: fighting for the hearts of others.
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"There is a glory to life that most people-including believers-never see. In this insightful new book, John Eldredge presents the heart as central to life. Not only is the heart essential; the heart God has ransomed is also good. Building on these foundational truths, Eldredge shows readers why real Christianity is a process of restoration, where the broken parts of our hearts are mended and the captive parts are set free. Waking the Dead leads listeners to understand how to live from the heart, care for their heart like the treasures of the kingdom, and give from fullness instead of emptiness. This message also shows how living from the heart can energize people to love God and others in a way they've never experienced, revealing to them life's purpose: fighting for the hearts of others."
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Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive.......2007-08-09
This is one of my favorite all-time books. It is uplifting, encouraging, and a wonderful read. I have read it 3 times already, and look forward to going over it again. Every time I read it I get something new out of it. I have given many copies to friends and family, and recommended it to many others!
Awesome Book! Very Deep!.......2007-07-31
This book was really an eye opener. John Eldridge really hits on things that we all already know as Christ followers yet he puts things in perspective by using examples such as movies to make us aware that the glory of God is man fully alive!
A very deep book, I had to read a couple of chapters over again to get what Eldridge was saying, but I didn't mind at all because the chapters are short and it allows the reader to take in what Eldridge is trying to get across. "You are not what you think you are. There is a glory to your life that your Enemy (Satan) fears, and he is hell-bent on destroying that glory before you act on it." "The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it."
Warning! This book could change your life!.......2007-07-23
John Eldredge's "Waking the Dead" is both eye opening and soul changing. I've never heard or read this bilical perceptive and my heart was certainly ready to receive this wonderful message of God's love, hope and purpose for our lives while on earth. I'm buying extra copies soon to give to all of my friends and family!
Mandatory Read.......2007-07-23
Eye opening and crucial reading from John Eldridge. I have read Captivating, Journey of Desire, and Sacred Romance. I have loved them all, but this one is the best. I am recommending it to all my friends. The workbook that goes along with it enhances the experience and helps you to truly apply what you are learning to your life. I highly recommend you buy it!
Lifechanging.......2007-05-17
Respectfully, I simply don't care about all the 'analytical' criticism of John Eldredge, nor do I pay attention to all the overly legalistic slamming of his books. Simply put, God used this book and John to change many things in my life. I recommend this book as one of John's best! And a must read for those that are ready to step out beyond religiosity and into the "Kingdom" life that God wants us to abide in!
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory
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The Hobo Philosopher.......2007-09-21
This is William Manchester at his best. This is fascinating reading and fascinating writing. Of course Winston Churchill was quite a character but to be honest I didn't know that fact until I read this book and its companion volume.
After reading this book I put it to my mind that I would read everything that Manchester wrote. I've got a couple more to go. You can't miss with this purchase. A great story, great writing, and good history. What more could you ask for?
Fantastic read.......2007-06-18
I am a little half way through the book, but it already is one of the best books I have ever read. The book deserves all the accolade. Manchester's approach to biography is a little different from many others in that he did not shy away from coloring the narrative with events that were yet to occur. He always hinted the historical significance of events in light of what happened later. I find this extremely helpful. For example: Churchill's fascination with early airplanes, his conception of tanks when dealing with a domestic riot are just two examples. These illuminated Churchill was indeed ahead of his peers in recognizing important trends.
The buildup to WWI is masterful. The book weaves Churchill's struggle with the Irish Home rule question together with the naval arms race with Germany in 1913. Since we know WWI started in 1914, the realization that Churchill and the British government were struggling with a domestic problem (which surely was exploited by the German Kaiser) enhances our understanding of the immediate pre-war times.
I knew the old US of A was not a world player before WWI. This book adds to that impression. Until the outbreak of the war, the US is just not on Churhill's radar: it does not show up much in his writing, travel, and speech. Yes, he did a book tour in the US, but that was before he started his political career.
Can't wait to read the second half of the book.
Never Question Your Sanity ,,, It's not You.......2006-12-22
This book should be read (before, after or with) The End of the World as We Know It. The scenarios are almost interchangable.
.......not a secret anymore.............2006-12-11
Actually it is very sad to mention this blunder against humanity:
When the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in October and November 1914, Britain's communications with India and the East via the Suez canal was immediately placed in jeopardy.
There was a secret agreement with Germany signed in August 1914 by the Young Turks that was troubling the Russians and taken as warning of the forthcoming trouble to The Tsar. The Russians regarded their Caucasian terrirories were also placed in jeopardy.
Consequently, the British and French, in order to protect their future `colonies' and bisect the `sick man of Europe', had to act forcefully. They opened another front in the South with the Gallipoli (1915) and Mesopotamian campaigns.
Anxious to score his first military encounter with `the enemy', Winston Churchill, in his capacity as Lord of Navy, prematurely urged a combined French and British naval incursion into Gallipoli. But the Turks were successful in repelling the British, French, and Australia and New Zealand Army Corps. and pushed their eventual withdrawal and evacuation.
((By contrast, in Mesopotamia - Iraq- after the disastrous Siege of Kut (1915-16), British Empire forces - mainly of Indian troops - reorganized and captured Baghdad (March 1917). Further to the west in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, initial British failures were overcome when Jerusalem was captured in December 1917, and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, broke the Ottoman forces at the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918))
Russia, the protector of the Greek Orthothox Armenian population, sent her best troops in the Caucasus. The Turkish, Vice-Generalissimo Enver Pasha, supreme commander of the ex Ottoman Empire armed forces, was a very ambitious man. His aim and everpresent dream was to conquer central Asia. Enver Pasha, like Winston Churchill, was not a practical soldier. He launched an offensive with 100,000 soldiers against the Russians in the Caucasus in December of 1914.
His main enemy was the severe Weather conditions.
Insisting on a frontal attack against Russian positions in the mountains , Enver lost over 80% of his troops at the Battle of Sarikamis, in the heart of the tough winter season.
In 1917, Russian Grand Duke Nicholas assumed senior control over the Caucasus front. Nicholas tried to have a railway built from Russia (Georgia) to the conquered territories with a view to bringing up more supplies for a new offensive. But, in March of 1917 (February in the pre-revolutionary Russian calendar), the Czar was overthrown in the February Revolution and the Russian army began to slowly fall apart.
Hence, the protector of the Armenians was gone.
Winston Churchill blunder in Gallipoli, opened patched over wounds and re-ignited animosities between the Turks and their Armenian neighbors. In 1915, the Armenians were the victims of his cowardice. The Turks committed a HOLOCAUST against the Armenians that immediately started after WC debacle in Gallipolis.
The mass murder of the Armenians was indeed the first Holocaust of the twentieth century.
A BRILLIANT BIOGRAPHY - WELL DONE!.......2006-07-27
This is a brilliantly written biography of one of the most fascinating characters in history. Like most of Mnchester's work (I must admit to being a big fan), this is a very readable biography, well researched and holds the reader's interest from page to page. We see so much of Churchhill in his role as a WWII leader that we tend to forget there was a young man, living, learning and growing before the back and white films we see today. It is good to be reminded of this from time to time. It is also, for those interested, to learn how a world leader of Churchill's calibre came into being, how he developed and why he was the way he was. This work gives us great insight to those questions. Cannot recommend this work highly enough.
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From renowned food writer and proud Southerner James Villas comes the definitive Southern cookbook, featuring fascinating Southern lore, cooking tips, and 388 glorious recipes for any occasion. It includes traditional favorites, delicious regional specialties, and new recipes from some of the South’s most innovative chefs. The author of more than a dozen acclaimed books, Villas was the longtime food and wine editor at Town & Country and was named Bon Appétit’s Food Writer of the Year in 2004.
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"southern cooking "is a metaphor ........2007-10-10
I cannot find fault with this fine effort. Southern Cooking is solid, but illusive, unless you have lived in the south...this book is a real pleasure to read and to follow should one be so inclined.
Great Book.......2007-09-28
I first got this book from the library and when I didn't want to give it up, I bought it! Love the book, the pictures, the recipes.
love the book!!!!.......2007-07-24
I love this book, after I got it, I saw it at a high end culinary shop--boy was I impressed that I already had it!!!
terrific condition, wonderful service provider!!!
Fabulous!.......2007-07-16
A fabulous book. I have been seeking a good Southern cookbook for the past several years, ever since I borrowed Damon Lee Fowler's classic from the library and then later realized it was out of print. This one seems to cover all of the classic recipes I was seeking, along with other wonderful surprises. It really fits the bill! The first recipe I made was the pimento cheese, and it was great. Highly recommend.
A Cookbook Worth Waiting For.......2007-04-03
Get thyself immediately on-line to Amazon.com or your local book shoppe and run right by all those tomes on American cooking, New England cooking, Western Cooking, Canadian cooking, and Aunt Betty's crook pot favorites and grab a copy of James Villas's "The Glory of Southern Cooking." This is a no nonsense guide to some of the best recipes one could have in their repertoire of culinary favorites. I love the one recipe per page along with some pithy commentary on origin and preparatory advise. And do I ever love that most of the required ingredients are what one finds in most kitchens. Clearly this cook book goes to the top of the pile!
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Somewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, there exists the remnants of the ideal. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high school wrestling, a way of transforming the local virtues—modesty, privation, hard work—into sporting glory. To be a wrestling champion in Iowa is to achieve greatness—individual glory where the only back to pat is your own.
For Jay Borschel and Dan LeClere, though, the stakes have been raised. Already three-time state champions in differing weight classes, each boy has a chance in his senior year of high school to do something historic—to become a "four-timer," joining the most elite group in the sport and essentially ensuring his status as an Iowa wrestling deity. For Jay, a ferocious competitor who feeds off criticism and doubt, a victory would mean vindication over the great mass of skeptics waiting for him to fail. Dan, the kid from a farm near the tiny town of Coggon (population 710), carries other burdens. For his community, for the hard-driving coach who doubles as his father, and for his own triumph over his personal demons, another title is the only acceptable outcome.
As the two boys approach the finals in a series of increasingly tense and hard-fought matches, Jay and Dan reveal the forces that drive young men through a grueling routine of early-morning and late-night workouts, social isolation, and starvation diets—and the rewards of the wrestling life. But in the finals, a victory is the only answer; blow that chance at a fourth title, before the fanatical crowds at the giant state tournament in Des Moines, and you will be little noted nor long remembered.
Four Days to Glory is the story of America as told through its small towns and their connection to sport, the way it was once routinely perceived—a way of mattering to the folks next door.
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Very good book.......2007-07-23
Good book for any wrestler who wants to understand what it takes to become a great wrestler. Well written and honest.
Just Like I Remember It.......2007-07-12
As the father of a son who wrestled for three years in high school after being cut from the varsity basketball team, this brought back all the memories of three years of agony and ecstacy. I remember going to my kid's matches and wishing they were over before I got there so I would not have my stomach in knots every time he was out there. And this, in the Philadelphia area, was not the same level as Iowa, but nonetheless the joy and pain was identical. The author kept you on edge throughout and I had no idea how it would end until I got to the final chapter. And I have to admit my heart was pounding as the state tournament began in the book. I cannot remember the last book which made me feel that way. I, too, saw my son sitting in his room with a small cup of water by his desk every week, especially when he went from 160 to 152 for the sectionals. I was on the road when he won his first two matches and he called my after each one. I made it home for the finals and I will never forget the parade of the final contestants that night as they entered the gym on opposite sides. My joy when he pinned his man (from the host school) in the first period to win the Sectionals in 1999 will last a lifetime and my wife went down to the floor when he got on the trophy stand to take photos. He had owed some money on a moving violation with his car and I told him if he won the Sectionals I would ay the fine. It was the happiest fine I ever paid. I also will never forget the disappointment when he blew a 5-0 lead in the first round of the Districts and lost 9-5 because he was out of gas from cutting weight two weeks in a row, so much so that he dropped out rather than try for the "wrestle backs" which, today, we both agree, he certainly could have won as the guy he pinned in the sectionals actually qualified through the wrestlebacks for the regionals until he was disqualified for poor sportsmanship. That was his senior year. This book brought it all back (senior night, etc.) and I was glued to the pages and finished it in less than two days. And I love Dan Gable. Anyone who ever participated or had a son who did should read this book.
excellent service and product.......2007-06-02
I ordered Four Days to Glory for my son's birthday. The book came quickly and in excellent condition. Thank you!
Right on target.......2007-05-12
If you ever wrestled, coached wrestling, known a wreslter and watched him (or now days, her)wrestle you will twist, turn, cheer, live and die with these great athletes. You will feel what they felt. You will also get insites to the pressures of Iowa College wrestling where just being good doesn't always cut it. Mark Kreidler does what few others have done when they write about wrestling. If other writers could capute wrestling in their newspapers as he has done, college wrestling woudn't have fight so hard for it's life.
A must read for wrestlers and their families........2007-04-13
This book is not for those who have never known wrestling, either as an active participant or an involved family member. To truly appreciate this book, one must know first-hand what goes into making a high school, collegiate or olympic wrestler. That is not something that can be learned vicariously. This is a well-written book that only makes sense to those who know what it is to experience the honest, lonely, agonizing and extremely rewarding sport. The book reaffirms everything I ever thought about wrestling -- the good and the bad. Wrestling is a sport that makes men of boys and this book clearly demonstrates that -- but only for those who already know it.
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In Lieutenant Eve Dallas's latest case, two murder victims have one connection--Eve's lover, Roarke.
The #1 New York Times bestselling series starring Lt. Eve Dallas
The #1 suspect? Eve's lover, Roarke.
Eve Dallas investigates the deaths of two successful women. Their relations with men of power provide Eve with many suspects-including her own lover.
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The first victim was found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second was murdered in her own apartment building. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas had no problem finding connections between the two crimes. Both victims were beautiful and highly successful women. Their glamorous lives and loves were the talk of the city. And their intimate relations with men of great power and wealth provided Eve with a long list of suspects--including her own lover, Roarke. As a woman, Eve was compelled to trust the man who shared her bed. But as a cop, it was her job to follow every lead..to explore every secret passion, no matter how dark. Or how dangerous.
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An Audiobook Worth the Price.......2007-09-15
Glory in Death (In Death, Book 2) "Glory in Death" has a great narrator. She makes all of the characters unique. Eve Dallas with her strong personality, Peabody with her yes, sir / no, sir; and Rourke with his Scottish brough. Once you start listening to it, it's very hard to stop. To be able to visually see what the narrator was saying and with the different voices you could definitley tell who was talking. The quality is excellent, at least on the CD version. Even with the price of audiobooks this one was well worth the cost.
In Death series, book #2 better than the first.......2007-08-28
I enjoyed this book, the second in the series, much better than the first, although the frequent use of the F word bothered me a bit. It didn't seem appropriate or necessary. Love Roarke, Eve, Feeney, and Mavis. Love the new captain too. Still absolutely hate the butler. Please kill him off soon. One part did disappoint me and that was at the end when she apologizes to someone who clearly did not deserve it and the guy insults her. Roarke handles it well, but it certainly ticked me off. Can't say more--don't want to give away the plot.
If you liked the first book, you will most likely enjoy this one better. The writing improved from the first one--there is much less wasted space on describing the future in one big chunk and more of dropping it in here and there so the plot flows much better. The plot is also much more believable, although the bad guy goes off the deep end in the end a little too quickly. Since I don't have experience with psychos, I couldn't say if that was normal, but it seemed a little too tidy. There are also more and much steamier love scenes, although I personally liked the shower scene in the first book.
Would love to see the first two books made into a movie. I'd buy a copy.
Great.......2007-07-19
I love this series... you must read it to understand. It's all about a homicide detective named Lt. Eve Dallas and how she goes about solving a case which always seems imposibble to solve at first.
Another Winner.......2007-05-27
The second book in J.D. Robb's "...IN DEATH" series, following Naked in Death (In Death), is another winner. The thing I love the most about this series, besides the awesome, fully-developed characters, is the fact that the mystery is ALWAYS thrilling and realistic.
This time around, popular, well-known, outspoken women are being murdered - their throats viciously slashed. As Eve works to discover the true killer, she also finds family secrets, devious reporters, and new friends in strange places.
GLORY IN DEATH features the first appearance of Peabody, a larger role for Nadine Furst, and the first glimpse into what Eve's childhood really entailed.
I'm absolutely LOVING rediscovering my favorite romantic suspense series of all time!!
I think they just keep getting better!.......2007-04-26
This, the second in the "in death" series, but not the first that I have read. I have decided to go back and start at the beginning, and unlike some reviewers I am enjoying the ride. In "Glory in Death" Eve is once again after a psychotic killer, who has killed a prominent District Attorney and an aspiring actress. As the plot thickens, we find Eve doubting herself and her growing relationship with Roarke, the sexy billionaire. Feeney is ever present; Mavis is growing into quite a talent; Dr. Mira is continuing to profile killers while struggling to have Eve trust her (she too has been victimized); Summerset (has struggled to get along with Eve from the first time they met); Galahad, the cat is still eating tuna; Commander Whitney is stern and fierce and Peabody is finally introduced into the series. But the ultimate theme in the book is: (1) Will Eve finally commit to Roarke?,(2)Will she catch the killer before he catches her? I think "Glory" is a wonderful installment in the series. I recommend it to all.
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How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church.
On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn't it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?"
As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said The Power and the Glory was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland
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In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption.
Introduction by John Updike
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Once Upon A Time in Mexico.......2007-09-04
At a time when there's an abundance of people strapping explosives to themselves to become "martyrs" Graham Greene's 1940 novel has relevance now more than ever. Indeed "The Power and the Glory" is an intimate, uncompromising portrait of another "martyr."
This is the story of an unnamed priest also known as "the whiskey priest" because of his reputation for drinking brandy and violating other Church rules. At one time the priest had a successful parish and lived in luxury; now he's on the run after a socialist revolution has declared religion illegal. Traveling from one place to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the authorities, the priest loses not just all his material goods but his soul as well until he longs for an end. Still he keeps going for reasons not even he understands until like Jesus Christ he knowingly follows Judas to meet his destiny.
The sad irony is that while the priest views himself as a lost soul, he touches many lives through the course of the novel. To people like Mr. Tench the English dentist marooned in Mexico, young Coral Fellows, or the unnamed boy, the priest is a hero and a martyr. His persistence and sacrifices to outside eyes are worthy of many saints. Only the reader and the priest himself can see inside to see that he is at heart a coward and a sinner--an ordinary man.
That disparity is what gives "The Power and the Glory" its power and glory. Greene keenly understood that those we view as heroes and even those we view as villains--like the lieutenant tracking the priest, the "half-caste" Judas who betrays him, or even "the gringo" American bank robber--are ordinary, flawed people. That's the kind of understanding we could use more of in today's world.
A different shade of Greene.......2007-08-26
You often hear THE POWER AND THE GLORY called Greene's masterpiece. Is this justified? Certainly, as John Updike points out in the excellent introduction to the Penguin Classics edition (one of the few intros that can be read before the book itself), Greene approach to his central theme here is purer, more elemental, than in his other works. That theme, as so often with him, is the nature of goodness, especially as seen within the Catholic faith. He delights in writing novels which have one foot in some other genre, about characters whose morality is either questionable (the venal policeman in THE HEART OF THE MATTER, the adulterous wife in THE END OF THE AFFAIR) or outright evil (the young hoodlum in BRIGHTON ROCK), and finding some shred of redemption in them. The story of the repentant thief at the Crucifixion must have had special significance for Greene. But in these novels, the juxtaposition of the Catholic religion with the secular adventure can seem strained or even bizarre.
In THE POWER AND THE GLORY, Greene's principal character is a Catholic priest whose religious identity is of the essence. But he is a sinner, a "whiskey priest" who has fallen down in his observances and in many other areas also. The setting is Southern Mexico in 1938, at a time when the Church was banned as enemies of the people, and priests were rounded up and either forced to marry or be shot. The unnamed anti-hero is the last priest in the area, and there is a price on his head. As he attempts to escape to a safer state, the questions of who he is as a man and as a priest come into stark clarity, and the answers will be what ultimately determine his actions.
But, theme apart, Greene seems different in this book from the writer I know from most of his other novels. There is more than a hint of Dostoyevsky here. Even more, the territory, terse writing style, and a certain grandeur of theme remind me of Hemingway. But I am more struck by the absence of the more usual Greene, the writer who could so brilliantly capture the lives of almost real people functioning in various aspects of the middle-class world, and then take the reader into their inner souls. Greene has always been magnificent in describing places, and that is true here also. But he is also unmatched in the social setting: the way people do their jobs, their social and professional rivalries, their place in the community. All have names and all have the wealth of detail that go with a name. Certainly the minor characters in this book have names and just this kind of lives, but the Priest and his nemesis the Lieutenant of Police are nameless. In that sense they can appear as elemental forces, or as two faces of Everyman. But I miss the greater detail of the other Greene books, and for that reason found myself enjoying this much less.
Powerful, indeed.......2007-05-02
"The Power and the Glory" takes place in the 1930s in a Mexican province where the Catholic Church and its priests have been outlawed for eight years. Only one man, known only as the whisky priest, remains. He is constantly on the run from the police lieutenant who pursues him relentlessly. At its simplest, this is the story of that pursuit. But, in reality, there are layers upon layers of depth to this story. The priests who have refused to deny their calling, marry, and become ordinary citizens, have been put to death by the authorities and have become martyrs for their cause. The whisky priest sees himself as unworthy of such martyrdom (as certainly most martyrs do) because he views himself a coward, drunkard, and sinner who is unrepentant of his greatest sin, fathering an illegimate daughter that he loves above all else. At times, he rails against the people he serves, believing them to be the reason that his life is in danger, but clearly he loves these people and seeks to bring the sacraments to them for whatever small consolation they may provide for their lives. He is contrasted with Padre Jose who, in order to save his own life, conceded to the authorities, renounced his calling, married, and has become a mockery not only to others, but to himself. The lieutenant pursues the whisky priest out of a personal grudge against the Church, which he saw as a child as the oppressor that kept the common people down and subservient. He is a true believer in the revolution and, like the priest, genuinely loves the people. He can't understand why the people continue to turn to religion when he wants to offer them so much more in the here and now. If the revolution could actually deliver on those promises, the people might, indeed, support the revolutionaries, but the lieutenant apparently fails to see that the revolution has failed so far to deliver anything economically, emotionally, or spiritually to replace what solace the people were able to draw from the Church. Ironically, the two enemies, the priest and the lieutenant, are also the only two people who can truly understand one another.
While this story is as bleak as the landscape within which it is set, what redeems it from being unrelentingly depressing are the glimpses we see of how the human soul manages to find the necessary fragments of hope and consolation to allow us to keep living from day to day, sometimes from moment to moment. Whether the whisky priest finds the absolution he seeks is left to us to determine, although we devoutly hope he does because his quest is that of all human hearts.
Graham Greene wrote this book after a month-long visit to Mexico, which is also recounted in nonfiction form in his travel book, "The Lawless Roads." "The Power and the Glory" ranks among the top ten books I've read. The title could be applied to the writing as well. This book totally embodies what great literature is all about. It deserves to be considered a Classic.
Despair is the unforgivable sin.......2007-03-22
The setting is Mexico, during the revolution. Ex-patriots and priests are particularly disenfranchised in the commotion. One of the characters is a wanted man, an American criminal. Another is the whisky priest. Eventually that priest and a Padre Jose, a fat and married ex-priest, are the only religious workers left in the country.
Padre Jose is asked to say a prayer for a dead child and he refuses. He also refuses to house the whisky priest when that man has no other place to seek refuge. The whisky priest is being pursued by the authorities because it is treason to celebrate the rites of the church. He learns that the police officers are taking hostages from the village he has visited. His presence in the village is surmised when his cache of alcohol is found.
Captain Fellows is one of the foreigners. He has a banana plantation. His daughter Cora carries food and drink to the priest. Since the police are going south, the priest is directed to head north. In another village when the place is surrounded, the authorities are misdirected and the whisky priest escapes detection through the words of his own child.
The priest discovers that he has committed the sin of pride. Finally he is arrested by a Red Shirt, but only for disturbing the peace. After accomplishing some tasks he is released the following day. In the crowded cell he discloses his identity. He is chided by a fellow prisoner, a very religious woman, for his seeming careless act since they are in the midst of murderers and thieves. In the end, he is tricked by someone who wishes to claim the reward for his capture. He is told that the wanted American, a bank robber, is dying and wishes absolution. The whisky priest, although sensing a trap, goes to the man and grants him conditional absolution.
The book is especially strong in terms of atmosphere. Being sought for treason puts the victim of the search into an existential crisis.
A Bold and Unlikely Masterpiece.......2007-02-19
The "theological thriller" is a category that sounds improbable, but then all great works of art are improbable. In 1940 Graham Greene published what is considered his masterwork "The Power and the Glory", set during Mexico's anti-clerical purges of the 1930's.
Hunted like a fox, the last of priest in a remote state in southern Mexico is the central character in this powerful Christian parable. The huntsman is a proper and correct police lieutenant who is beautifully described as a "small glass of God's love in a bucket of ditch-water." The lieutenant has replaced devotion to the church with duty to the state as his religion. His passion drives him to the point of near fanaticism.
As a religious parable the books is as bold as it is improbable. While we know that brave priests have been murdered for the cause they held dear, the self-described "whisky priest" is not one of them. The martyred priests are nameless abstracts who exist only on the periphery of the story. Flawed and miserable humans take center stage: the mocked Father Jose, the terrified villagers, the drunken and cruel political functionaries. In the midst of this human stain, is the whisky priest. He is a simple man, and as tragically flawed as the rest. An alcoholic coward, he has slipped in despair more than once. Yet convinced of his own damnation, he carries on with his priestly duties despite the hoof beats of the police behind him.
With the exhaustion of the hunted pressing down on him, the priest has abandoned the "innecessities" of church ritual but not his duty to the church. Even when he suspects that his sense of duty is fueled by self-importance rather than love of God.
Greene gathered material while covering the real purges of his travel book, "The Lawless Roads" (1938); this is one of the great books of the 20th century, written by one of its literary masters. The book was condemned by the Vatican for its focus on the misery of the human condition and soul as well as that of persecuted priest. It is no more anti-Catholic than saying that Catholics, priests and all, are no more or less human than anyone else.
Book Description
As this final volume of The Berrybender Narratives opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whole family and his retainers. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband, Jim Snow, anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next.
In the meantime, Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans, where he meets up with a muscular black giant named Juppy in whose company they make their way back to Santa Fe. But even they are unable to prevent the Mexicans from carrying the Berrybender family on a long and terrible journey across the desert to Vera Cruz.
Starving, dying of thirst, and in constant, bloody battle with slavers pursuing them, the Berrybenders finally make their way to civilization, where Jim Snow has to choose between Tasmin and the great American plains, on which he has lived all his life in freedom, and where, after all her adventures, Tasmin must finally decide where her future lies.
With a cast of characters that includes almost every major real-life figure of the West, Folly and Glory is a novel that represents the culmination of a great and unique four-volume saga of the early days of the West; it is one of Larry McMurtry's finest achievements.
Customer Reviews:
A disappointingly cruel tale.......2007-09-12
I want to start out by saying Larry McMurty is one of my favorite writers and that I enjoyed the descriptions of the Berrybender travels across the 1830s West. I don't think anyone sets a western scene as well as he does. But I was put off by the abject cruelty of this final book in that nearly all the characters were either outwardly cruel to others or were buffoons. The child killing scene was totally unnecessary and disturbing, and all the native Americas were shown to be fools, wanton murders, or both.
Review of the Berrybender series, vols 1-4. Overall rating 4.8 stars.......2007-07-24
This a quick minireview of the whole Berrybender series, now complete with the fourth volume -- it's really one long novel, and an omnibus edition can't be far behind. A *very* odd bunch of English aristos visit the American west in the 1830's and have adventures. A few of them even survive
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This is McMurtry in antic farce mode, but with a base level of cruelty & violence that may squick some. And don't get too attached to your favorite characters! McMurtry is as good a novelist as any now writing, and knows the history of the American west very well, indeed. And doesn't let real history get in the way of a good story
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The past is a foreign country, and McMurtry's treatment of 1830's American history is strange enough to be sfnal.... Anyway, I had a great time reading the Berrybenders. Second only to _Lonesome Dove/Streets of Laredo_ among his historicals, I think, though not much like those. But very, very good.
Happy reading--
Peter D. Tillman
unfailingly entertaining McMurtry.......2007-05-09
You have to read all the berrybender novels. Sheer entertainment, as are all McMurtry's books. There are four books in the Berry bender series. You probably will be better off starting with book number one but they can all stand on their own for a wonderful, quality read.
Read the entire series straight through.......2006-09-13
I don't think of this as a separate book. This is the conclusion to the Berrybender tale, as Return of the King was the conclusion to Lord of the Rings. These four books are all one book to me, and must be read consecutively, with no reason to read anything else in between.
I'm fond of the characters. I feel a loyalty to them, having gone through their travails with them.
One thing that takes some getting used to is that McMurtry kills off so many of the characters. He mixes this with comedy, believe it or not, especially in the first book, Sin Killer. I don't take the violence as seriously as I would have without the comedy. Come on, Lord Berrybender poking out his son Bobbety's eye with a fork? You have to be kidding. I take it that way. For that matter, the boy is named Bobbety? That's funny right there.
Because I take the entire story with a grain of salt, and just enjoy it for the ride, I'm not bothered by the extreme violence. It reads like black humor to me.
The strength of the series lies in the adorably spoiled behavior of Tasmin and, later, her daughter Petal. Without Tasmin, this series would be nothing at all.
I even get a kick out of how McMurtry sends Lord Albany Berrybender, that self centered but brave fool, to the Alamo with Davy Crockett. It almost reminds me of Where's Waldo.
Throughout the book we keep being shown that Jim Snow doesn't love Tasmin, but other men do, and that Tasmin wants to return to England but Jim Snow never would. Their marriage seems like a temporary thing.
This final book doesn't completely resolve Tasmin's life for the readers, but does give some sort of conclusion to her marriage with Jim Snow. I think Tasmin will be traveling across the pond a number of times in her life.
One thing I took from this book is the barbarity of the American Indians. Oh my god! They are usually portrayed so positively, as the poor Native Americans who the evil Europeans dispossessed.
Anyway, Larry McMurtry made Tasmin my friend. I've been through so much with her, and she is so likeable in her annoying way. I have to give the series five stars, and I refuse to differentiate one book from another. It's all one book.
Grisly Reconciliations.......2006-07-16
If you haven't read the earlier books in the series, I strongly encourage you to read them first in the correct order (The Sin Killer, The Wandering Hill and By Sorrow's River) before tackling this book.
Should you read this series? Had I known how bloody, painful and unpleasant the details would be, I wouldn't have started.
Since Lord Albany Berrybender first arrived in the United States with a major part of his family (at least the legitimate children) and a small army of servants, he's been looking forward to shooting everything in sight. In this installment (the last) of the four-part series, Lord Berrybender gets a chance to shoot at the most dangerous game of all . . . but rues that he missed a chance to kill a grizzly bear.
This story is not for those who are easily depressed. The book opens with Tasmin Berrybender totally distraught by the murder of her beloved Pomp Charbonneau. To make matters worse, she's pregnant . . . and not sure whether the father is her husband Jim Snow or Pomp. After giving birth, she's still depressed and sends Jim away.
The Berrybenders find themselves under arrest in Santa Fe for two years . . . both to line the government's pocket and to entertain the governor's wife. Lord Albany finds himself smitten with a teenage mistress . . . a liaison that has dangerous consequences for the party. While in Santa Fe, we learn about how the Mexicans liked to deal with Native American outlaws and pursue their private pleasures.
But all is thrown into disarray when the governor is dismissed and a troop comes to march the Berrybenders to Vera Cruz in anticipation of war with the United States. Jim Snow escapes and tracks the group to rescue the Berrybenders. But before he can do that, he has to rescue the Mexican army. The march becomes a death trek like those in many of the earlier books . . . as cholera and slavers take their toll. Jim Snow had been a captive slave, and he takes the slaver attack very personally . . . which leads to a remarkable confrontation in which Jim has the epiphany of his life.
The Berrybenders end up in Texas just in time for the war for independence.
Tasmin and Jim come to a final understanding about their marriage and everyone who has survived has to scope out a new plan for the rest of their lives as they limp into St. Louis.
For those who like exciting action, this book has one spell-binding sequence as Jim Snow becomes a one-man army. If it hadn't been for that portion of the book, I would have rated the book at two stars.
Book Description
What-did you think all vamps were pale, thin and brooding? Don't I wish.
Gloriana St. Clair is an eternally "full-figured" vampire-she just happened to be bloating when a sexy Scotsman sank his teeth into her. She and said Scot-Angus Jeremiah Campbell III, aka Jeremy Blade-have been on and off again for centuries, currently off. A couple hundred years has taught them how to press each other's buttons-in good ways and bad.
Glory's headed for Austin and a new business venture: Vintage Vamp's Emporium. After all, she loves clothes, and she is an antique. Only problem is, there's a billionaire techno-freak vampire hunter on the loose. Blade's in total he-vampire mode, and wants Glory to move in with him so he can "protect" her. But it's time for this vamp to explore her own powers
Customer Reviews:
Smart, funny and romantic with a twist of action packed thrills!.......2007-09-10
I have just recently become aware of a new genre of writing, "Supernatural chick lit". Sounds weird right? NOT AT ALL! I am so in love with this genre of books I can't get enough of them. I loved Chick lit to begin with and I love Sci-Fi. It is like Bridget Jones meets Van Helsing. This is one of my favorite series to date (also love the Sookie Stackhouse Vampire novels by Charlaine Harris and MaryJanice Davidson's Undead series). Glory St. Clair is an everywoman who just happened to have been turned into a vampire when she was PMS'ing. Now she is forever bloated and plus sized! I loved her and her love interest, Blade. I would recommend this book for anyone craving a little romance, humor and action! I can't wait to get the 2nd book!
Entertaining bubble bath read.......2007-08-28
Glory is the type of vampire chick that I would have as a friend. The book is written in the first person allowing for good insight into her personality. The obvious drawback to this format is that it is very difficult to understand the motivations of those surrounding Glory. Blade is not my favorite hero, but he seems to have potential. I hope that the following books in the series better develop the supporting characters and strengthen Glory's self-acknowledged character flaws. She is a 400+ year work in progress!
real vampires have curves .......2007-08-23
I enjoyed this book well written and a page turner couldnt wait for the 2nd I hope to see more from gerry bartlett in the near future
Glory's great!!.......2007-08-08
I bought this book when it first came out and didn't get to read it until the newest one was released. I love this book. IT made me laught almost the whole time. Can't wait for the next one. I
An Excellent Vampire Series- with a Real Woman who has Curves! (A Grade).......2007-07-08
Gerry Bartlett broke the mold when she came up with Glory St. Clair. Glory is a 500 years old plus vampire who has become a total modern girl. She is a "real" woman, meaning a size 12 and not a size 2 like most heroines found in romance whether they be historical, modern or paranormal. This first book in the Glory vampire series is funny, heartwarming and very erotic. It is also very refreshing to read about the potluck of characters that Glory surrounds herself with, including her creator and love of her undead life, Gerry.
For ultimate laughs and modern day problems such as dating, sex and trying to get through the ho-hum (including trying to stay alive from evil vampire hunters), this is the book for fans of romance and comedy all rolled into one. Again, the true reason to start reading this series is because of Glory. Everything is told in her first person point of view, ala "Sex in the City."
A true laugh a minute that will not disappoint, plus very hot sex!
Katiebabs
Real Vampires Live Large
Book Description
"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."–Senator John McCain
Fallujah: Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory came at a terrible price: 151 Americans and thousands of Iraqis were left dead.
The epic battle for Fallujah revealed the startling connections between policy and combat that are a part of the new reality of war.
The Marines had planned to slip into Fallujah “as soft as fog.” But after four American contractors were brutally murdered, President Bush ordered an attack on the city–against the advice of the Marines. The assault sparked a political firestorm, and the Marines were forced to withdraw amid controversy and confusion–only to be ordered a second time to take a city that had become an inferno of hate and the lair of the archterrorist al-Zarqawi.
Based on months spent with the battalions in Fallujah and hundreds of interviews at every level–senior policymakers, negotiators, generals, and soldiers and Marines on the front lines–
No True Glory is a testament to the bravery of the American soldier and a cautionary tale about the complex–and often costly–interconnected roles of policy, politics, and battle in the twenty-first century.
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"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."–Senator John McCain
Fallujah: Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory came at a terrible price: 151 Americans and thousands of Iraqis were left dead.
The epic battle for Fallujah revealed the startling connections between policy and combat that are a part of the new reality of war.
The Marines had planned to slip into Fallujah “as soft as fog.” But after four American contractors were brutally murdered, President Bush ordered an attack on the city–against the advice of the Marines. The assault sparked a political firestorm, and the Marines were forced to withdraw amid controversy and confusion–only to be ordered a second time to take a city that had become an inferno of hate and the lair of the archterrorist al-Zarqawi.
Based on months spent with the battalions in Fallujah and hundreds of interviews at every level–senior policymakers, negotiators, generals, and soldiers and Marines on the front lines–
No True Glory is a testament to the bravery of the American soldier and a cautionary tale about the complex–and often costly–interconnected roles of policy, politics, and battle in the twenty-first century.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
Highly recommended.......2007-10-11
Just a great book, easy to read, easy to follow, and after a while you actually feel like you know the Marines personally.
Never forget what do they did.......2007-09-22
excellent book that I listened to on tape. Well balanced with a clear understanding of what it is like to be on the front lines and back at CentCom trying to run the war. Listening to his Book on CD made me appreciate the bravery and skill of our armed forces. Bing West tells a story in the best tradition of Homer.
Want to understand what's really going on with this war?.......2007-08-24
Think our media and government are just feeding us white noise that doesn't really tell us anything? Think you understand this war? Think we should get out? Read this book. It's a fantastic microcosm of the larger conflict.
You'll be much better equipped to read between the lines, or should I say hear beyond the sound bites, of the articles and briefings that we're fed.
If you have a loved one that fought and/or died in this conflict, you must read this book. I'm honored to be a fellow citizen/represented by the men whose story is told. It's not white washed though, I was at times uncomfortable. It covers the war at a very personal level, and then also steps back to give you the big picture.
Can you imagine taking RPG rounds from a position then having the restraint to not shoot the small children running across the open field in front of you to resupply the guys. Taking another couple of RPGs and again not shooting the same kid coming back with more rounds. Over and over again... even when you and your buddy are taking hot shrapnel.
Even those who don't like "war stories" should read this book.
Finally - The truth about our Marines in Fallujah........2007-08-10
Mr. West does something that the American press has failed to do - give us a truthful account of the battle for Fallujah. This book will make your chest swell with pride, and open your eyes to the true nobility of our young Marines in Iraq. If you are frustrated with the empty rhetoric that we receive from our televisions and newspapers, this is a must read. West is a rarity - he has no hidden agenda. He delivers the facts in an honest and sometimes heart-wrenching fashion.
Well Told History.......2007-06-28
Bing West is an author to whom thinking US citizens owe a lot. West was the man who many years ago sat down and wrote "The Village", a particularly prescient and readable work which told the story of US Marine Corps Combine Action teams in Vietnam, whence he had recently returned after a tour of duty. Defense officials have dusted off the Combined Action concept in recent years, although it was never far from the heart of Marine Corps counterinsurgency operating doctrine.
Now, three decades later, the author has returned to the Iraq battlefields to tell the story of his Marines in the latest book, "No True Glory".
West writes from the heart, an old Marine who understands the Corps ethos, leadership - but most of all the grunts who do the hard, dirty work of war fighting in the incredibly difficult environment of Middle Eastern cities. He interviewed dozens of Marines and soldiers, creating a tactical collage of events that is both breathtaking in its candor and remarkable in descriptive power. For a reader who wants a genuine understanding about how the US Marine Corps fought in Fallujah, this is the book.
Bing West is one of those rare Americans who, with his son Major Owen West, have followed the sound of guns to where the Corps is actually fighting. He is to be commended for writing two comprehensive works about Marines in Iraq, each of which fills another chapter in the annals of this proud organization. I have no doubt that his later works will be held in the same high regard as "The Village" was - and is.
Douglass H. Hubbard, Jr.
Author of "Special Agent, Vietnam"
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The voices of the game's distant past continue to reverberate with a distinct freshness in Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. An oral history of the game in the first two decades of the century, Glory sends out its impressive roster of players to tell their own stories, and what stories they tell--the story of their times as well as of their game; the scorecard includes Rube Marquard, Babe Herman, Stan Coveleski, Smoky Joe Wood, and Wahoo Sam Crawford. A delight from cover to cover, Glory is the next best thing to having been there in the days when the ball may have been dead, but the personalities were anything but.
Book Description
The Story of the
Early Days of Baseball
Told by the Men Who
Played It
Customer Reviews:
Baseball's Old Testament.......2007-05-27
Statistically, baseball back then couldn't be more at variance with the game now. Cy Young threw 511 career victories, and 750 complete games. In 1909, Ty Cobb led the majors both in batting average (.377) and home runs (9). Cobb's teammate Sam Crawford hit over 300 triples in his career.
What to make of such numbers? Lawrence S. Ritter's "The Glory Of Their Times" strips away the statistical confusion by getting to the heart of Major League Baseball's early days, the players themselves. An economics professor, Ritter invested his downtime from 1962-66 in interviewing elderly men, baseball players all who knew what it was like to face a Walter Johnson fastball, or have Ty Cobb slide into the base they were covering.
"People were more unique then, more unusual, more different from each other," says Davy Jones, who played on the Tigers with Cobb and Crawford. "Now people are all more or less alike, company men, security minded, conformity - that sort of stuff. In everything, not just baseball."
Transcriptions of Ritter's interviews with Jones and 21 other former players, including Crawford and two others then in the Hall of Fame, makes up the whole of "The Glory Of Their Times," published in 1966 and later extended with four more interviews in 1984. Nearly all the interviews offer both testimony and color for the game as it was then.
Bill Wambsganss tells us about his unassisted triple play in the 1920 World Series, and how Ring Lardner once used his last name to rhyme with "clam's chance" and "Ray Chapman's pants". Fred Snodgrass tells us about his famous muffed fly in the 1911 World Series, and how his New York Giants tried to psyche out the Philadelphia Athletics by sitting on the dugout bench, ostentatiously sharpening their spikes.
You hear so much about another famous World Series moment, the Merkle "boner" of 1908, that you feel like you were there on the field, too. There's a Rashomon-like quality to hearing various interviewees give their different takes on such things as the character of John McGraw and whether "Giant Killer" Harry Coveleski was run out of the league when he was caught chewing on bologna. (Snodgrass says so, while Harry's brother Stanley, a major-league pitcher himself, calls it "a lot of bull".
Not all the interviews are riveting. One wishes Ritter could have pushed some of the old players more, like the rumors that swirled around Smoky Joe Wood involving fixes. But allowing the subjects the reins probably drew more color out of them than a Grand Jury could have. I love how Crawford keeps telling Ritter he hasn't much time to talk, while giving Ritter one of the longest and most entertaining interviews in the book, describing how players would allow themselves to be rubbed down with "Go Fast," a noxious combination of Vaseline and Tabasco sauce that made them sweat like a sauna.
"I hope I haven't said anything I shouldn't," Crawford says at the end. "There are a lot of the old-timers still left,you know, and they're liable to say, 'That fathead, who the hell does he think he is, anyway, popping off like that!'"
If you like baseball even a little, you will enjoy "The Glory Of Their Times" quite a lot.
glory of their times.......2007-05-19
If you love the game of baseball as it once was and still should be this is a "must read"...some of the players interviewed by Ritter were unknown to me and I was fascinated to learn of their exploits...I ordered an additional three books and sent them to long time fans of the game...If I was a GM today in MLB I would have every member of the team read this book so that they might appreciate the game as it was in its infancy...the modern player (in most cases)doesn't realize how fortunate he is to wear a major league uniform and earn the money today for playing a "game"
Superb Baseball History.......2007-05-05
This superb oral history of baseball circa 1900-1920's contains many priceless tales. After Ty Cobb died in 1961 author Lawrence Ritter (1922-2004) took his tape recorder and traveled the USA to interview 22 surviving players from that remarkable era. We hear from top stars and established players, including Ed Roush, Sam Crawford, Smokey Joe Wood, Chief Meyers, Sam Jones, Bill Wambsganss, etc. Each player reminisces in his own way, recounting games, teammates, owners, managers, crowds, ballparks, etc. Some talk at length while others are briefer, but each is articulate and illuminating. I particularly liked Rube Marquard's memory of visiting the Chicago firehouse where he'd once slept as a transient, Stan Coveleski's view that baseball kept him from the coal mines, and the remembrances of Davy Jones and Jimmy Austin. It was also interesting to see how these players viewed superstars Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, and Babe Ruth. This book provides readers with a superb sense of baseball before night games, air travel, TV, radio (except after 1922), farm systems, and in some cities, Sunday baseball.
Ritter set a standard with this superb oral history. The players interviewed here have all departed (the last in 1988), but their memories live on in this superb book. Fans might also enjoy BASEBALL WHEN THE GRASS WAS REAL, a similar effort about a later era by Donald Honig.
Amazingly Fun........2007-05-03
This book was a lot of fun to read, it showed a different side of the sport of baseball other than statistic. Told by the people themselves who played the game and in their own words. The author just let them go on for as long as they pleased with any stories they might have to tell. If you enjoy baseball history this is a must read.
The Glory of Their Times.......2007-03-09
Mr Ritter's time was well spent for all to enjoy! His efforts have made an unbelievable event for many to think upon. The times past thru the voices of the men who kicked up the dirt of the old ball fields live on thru his work! Here's to Mr. Ritter, "You won't be denied any of the past, only the fulfilment of it's Diamond Warriors"...Denny Walsh San Antonio, Tx.
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The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of
