Paffard Keatinge-Clay: Modern Architecture/Modern Masters

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Paffard Keating-Clay

Paffard Keatinge-Clay: Modern Architecture/Modern Masters
Eric Keune
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ASIN: 0976007959
Release Date: 2006-05-31

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Paffard Keatinge-Clay is a unique figure in American architectural history. He was born near Stonehenge in England, studied in London and Zurich, worked in both Le Corbusier's studio in Paris and at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, and then settled in the American West, where he worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill before starting out on his own. While he remained in the U.S. until the mid-1970s, and practiced there, his work remains largely unknown even in San Francisco, where he spent more than 20 years. His brand of orthodox Modernism was decidedly out of step with the prevailing "Bay Area Modernism" exemplified by figures like Moore, Wurster, McCue and Turnbull, who dominated both the academic and professional arenas of the period. Keatinge-Clay had to struggle to execute his own expressive, nonconformist architectural language, and when he did, he garnered minimal recognition. This book brings to light the importance of his work as representative of its time period and clarifies the influences his mentors--including Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra and Charles and Ray Eames--had upon it. This is the first retrospective study of Keatinge-Clay's architectural projects and, as such, is an important record of an academically and socially significant body of work.

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Paffard Keating-Clay .......2006-06-07

This book does a excellent job of capturing the life work (to date) of an amazing artist. A peer of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright among others, one can sense their influences in Mr. Keatinge-Clay's buildings and works. While clearly influenced by these masters, Mr. Keatinge-Clay buildings show an originality of beauty combined with purpose unlike any other artist in the field past or present. The photos of the San Francisco Art Institute which are breathtaking are alone easily worth the price of the book.

This book, apparently a first effort by author Eric Keune, does an outstanding job of presenting the works of Mr. Keatinge-Clay and the author provides wonderful insights into each project. The book formatted in a history, intent, site, design and construction narrative allows one to experience each of the projects as completely unique events as they unfolded in the life of the subject.

There are many marvelous observations by the author and Mr. Keatinge-Clay, who enthusiastically cooperated with Mr. Keune on the book. I highly recommend this book to any person who wants to learn more about one of the great living Architects of our time.

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Con permiso de Sonsoles: al parecer, Zapatero no vino el Día de las Fuerzas Armadas porque no le dio permiso su señora. Una polémica que todavía colea.(Sonsoles ... Rodríguez Zapatero): An article from: Epoca
María Eugenia Ruiz de Azcárate
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ASIN: B000ALUMLG
Release Date: 2006-06-27

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Title: Con permiso de Sonsoles: al parecer, Zapatero no vino el Día de las Fuerzas Armadas porque no le dio permiso su señora. Una polémica que todavía colea.(Sonsoles Espinosa; José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero)
Author: María Eugenia Ruiz de Azcárate
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 10, 2005
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Dónde está el Sarkozy del PP: el Partido Popular, con Mariano Rajoy al frente, inicia la oposición ofensiva hacia Moncloa: no se oye todos los días a un ... Partido Socialista) : An article from: Epoca

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Dónde está el Sarkozy del PP: el Partido Popular, con Mariano Rajoy al frente, inicia la oposición ofensiva hacia Moncloa: no se oye todos los días a un ... Partido Socialista) : An article from: Epoca
Miguel Gil
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ASIN: B000FI9K3K
Release Date: 2006-04-20

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Title: Dónde está el Sarkozy del PP: el Partido Popular, con Mariano Rajoy al frente, inicia la oposición ofensiva hacia Moncloa: no se oye todos los días a un ministro Francés Gritar "¡viva España!". Nicolas Sarkozy fue la sorpresa de una convención que ha animado a las filas populares.(Convención del Partido Popular)(propuesta opositora al Partido Socialista)
Author: Miguel Gil
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Date: March 10, 2006
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Entre rejas por defender la vida: una juez deja a un camionero un día entero en el calabozo por hacer una pintada contra el aborto.(violación de derechos ... en Zaragoza): An article from: Epoca

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Entre rejas por defender la vida: una juez deja a un camionero un día entero en el calabozo por hacer una pintada contra el aborto.(violación de derechos ... en Zaragoza): An article from: Epoca
Alfonso Basallo
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ASIN: B00084ANNM
Release Date: 2006-06-27

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Thomson Gale on September 10, 2004. The length of the article is 1967 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Entre rejas por defender la vida: una juez deja a un camionero un día entero en el calabozo por hacer una pintada contra el aborto.(violación de derechos del ciudadano Fernando Viguier por oponerse al aborto; abuso de autoridad del juez José Emilio Pida)(Almozara, clínica abortiva en Zaragoza)
Author: Alfonso Basallo
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 10, 2004
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Grandes días para la gastronomía: la buena mesa juega cada día un papel más preponderante en nuestras vidas y en la economía española. : An article from: Epoca

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Grandes días para la gastronomía: la buena mesa juega cada día un papel más preponderante en nuestras vidas y en la economía española. : An article from: Epoca
Jonatan Armengol
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ASIN: B000EZ8TRW
Release Date: 2006-03-13

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Title: Grandes días para la gastronomía: la buena mesa juega cada día un papel más preponderante en nuestras vidas y en la economía española.
Author: Jonatan Armengol
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Date: November 25, 2005
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La sucesora de Ana Botella: 'Viri' y Mariano el dia de su boda, el 28 de diciembre de 1996 en La Toja.(Elvira Fernandez Balboa, esposa de Mariano Rajoy ): An article from: Epoca

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La sucesora de Ana Botella: 'Viri' y Mariano el dia de su boda, el 28 de diciembre de 1996 en La Toja.(Elvira Fernandez Balboa, esposa de Mariano Rajoy ): An article from: Epoca
Ana Del Paso
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ASIN: B0008E5YC2
Release Date: 2006-05-24

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Title: La sucesora de Ana Botella: 'Viri' y Mariano el dia de su boda, el 28 de diciembre de 1996 en La Toja.(Elvira Fernandez Balboa, esposa de Mariano Rajoy )
Author: Ana Del Paso
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Date: September 5, 2003
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Periodistas hablan sobre periodismo.(libros de periodistas)(Días de papel, de José Luis Gutiérrez; Un día en la vida del El Mundo, de Víctor Olmos; El ... de Jon Sistiaga): An article from: Epoca

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Periodistas hablan sobre periodismo.(libros de periodistas)(Días de papel, de José Luis Gutiérrez; Un día en la vida del El Mundo, de Víctor Olmos; El ... de Jon Sistiaga): An article from: Epoca

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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on June 11, 2004. The length of the article is 1460 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Periodistas hablan sobre periodismo.(libros de periodistas)(Días de papel, de José Luis Gutiérrez; Un día en la vida del El Mundo, de Víctor Olmos; El desquite, de Pedro J. Ramírez; Ninguna guerra se parece a otra, de Jon Sistiaga)
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Date: June 11, 2004
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Sacerdotes frente al nazismo: llega a España la película alemana que cuenta la experiencia real de un sacerdote luxemburgués en el campo de concentración ... concentración nazis): An article from: Epoca

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Sacerdotes frente al nazismo: llega a España la película alemana que cuenta la experiencia real de un sacerdote luxemburgués en el campo de concentración ... concentración nazis): An article from: Epoca
Alberto Fijo
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ASIN: B000F4L8K2
Release Date: 2006-06-28

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Title: Sacerdotes frente al nazismo: llega a España la película alemana que cuenta la experiencia real de un sacerdote luxemburgués en el campo de concentración de Dachau, donde fallecieron miles de clérigos.(El noveno día, película del director Volker Schlöndorff)(sacerdotes católicos en campos de concentración nazis)
Author: Alberto Fijo
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Date: January 6, 2006
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Issue: 1083 Page: 63(4)

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Un dia en la vida de Nuevo Socialismo: llega la hora de la verdad: las elecciones del 26-0. En Nuevo Socialismo trabajan a destajo. Tienen una receta para ... medios: imaginacion.: An article from: Epoca

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Un dia en la vida de Nuevo Socialismo: llega la hora de la verdad: las elecciones del 26-0. En Nuevo Socialismo trabajan a destajo. Tienen una receta para ... medios: imaginacion.: An article from: Epoca
Ana Portalo
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ASIN: B0008E7VA0
Release Date: 2006-05-24

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Title: Un dia en la vida de Nuevo Socialismo: llega la hora de la verdad: las elecciones del 26-0. En Nuevo Socialismo trabajan a destajo. Tienen una receta para suplir la falta de medios: imaginacion.
Author: Ana Portalo
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Date: October 10, 2003
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UN DIA EN LA VIDA DE ESPANA
ESPANA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K5SJ8U

UN Dia En LA Vida De Espana (Day in the Life of Spain)

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UN Dia En LA Vida De Espana (Day in the Life of Spain)
Rick Smolan
Manufacturer: Collins Pub San Francisco
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A pictures says a thousand words..........2001-09-10

...and Sean Martin's Doc and Raider comics are no exception. I have never anyone with the ability to convey emotion through simply drawn, single panel cartoons with the deftness Mr. Martin displays.

Within a few pages Doc and Raider develop their very unique personalities and by the end of the book they feel like your best friends. You will run a gamut of emotions while discovering these two characters' (pun intended) strengths and frailties. Amid the humor and often hilarious situations are moments of seriousness and even crisis. The ending isn't necessarily happy (it actually had me rather choked up), but you discover that love wins out in the end, even for two gay leathermen.

This is easily on a par with Tim Barela's Leonard and Larry. You won't regret reading this.

DOC & RAIDER is the best gay comic around!.......2000-03-14

Doc & Raider is one of the best gay comics available to read today! Tackling everything from the honest libido and physicality of a male to male relationship to HIV and Gay marriage, Sean Martin can find a way to make even the most normal daytoday stuff eye opening and remarkable. If you are gay, or have someone close to you that is, you HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK! It's adorable and a must have for any gay coffee table around.

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Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells are among the best-known and most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Both were rebelliously critical of the social and political, familial and sexual conventions and structures of their time. They shared broadly similar interests, but their lifestyles differed sharply - as did their views on many subjects, including those discussed in their correspondence: religion, socialism, science, war and world history, the theatre, the profession of authorship, and more. The letters are always forthright, often abusive and quarrelsome, sometimes suggesting that the relationship cannot last. They are also often warm, good-natured, playful, and generous - reflecting a fundamental mutual respect and similarity of outlook, however contrasting the temperament and style. The great majority of the two writers' correspondence is published here for the first time.

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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1065 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells: Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. (book reviews)
Author: Peter Ruppert
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Volume: v8 Issue: n1 Page: p232(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Bernard Shaw And H. G. Wells - Selected Correspondence Of Bernard Shaw

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Bernard Shaw And H. G. Wells - Selected Correspondence Of Bernard Shaw
Bernard; Edited by Smith, J. Percy Shaw
Manufacturer: Univ. of Toronto Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IWB20C

BERNARD SHAW AND H.G. WELLS. Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Edited by J. Percy Smith.

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BERNARD SHAW AND H.G. WELLS. Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Edited by J. Percy Smith.
Bernard. Shaw
Manufacturer: Univ. of Toronto Press,
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7FJU6

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"Let him cry it out!"
"Are you feeding that baby again?"
"Don't you ever put her down?"

Parents of fussy babies hear these kinds of remarks all the time. In fact, they may even ask themselves these questions. Faced with a baby who demands to be held, nursed, and comforted much of the time, new mothers may begin to doubt their own intuition, even as they long for a few hours of uninterrupted sleep.

The first edition of THE FUSSY BABY, published in 1985, helped parents think about their demanding babies in a new light. These are children with high needs; children who are smart enough to ask for the high-quality caregiving that will help them develop their full potential.

In this revised edition, attachment-parenting experts William and Martha Sears bring new insight to the tried-and-true advice that has worked for so many families over the last two decades.

Respond to baby's needs and will build up your own sensitivity. Trust baby to tell you what he needs, and he will learn to trust himself and eventually grow to be confident and independent.

Look for new information on colic (the "hurting baby"), gastroesophageal reflux, and the challenges of breastfeeding a fussy a baby, along with updated references, reorganized chapters, and lots and lots of mothering tips.

THE FUSSY BABY has carried many families through times with a high-need infant. This new edition brings that tradition of sensitive, intuitive parenting to a new generation of caring mothers and fathers.

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great information.......2007-10-01

a really great directed approach for attachment style parenting. my only criticism is that the intended audience seems to be moms who are able to stay at home and dads that are away all day in the workforce. there aren't any approaches or direction for moms that need to return to work and dads who stay home, or for both working parents. it would be great to just be able to make the choice to not use babysitters, but that is not a viable option for a large majority of parents these days.

Book of Hope!.......2004-03-09

I am a new mother of now a 3 month old daughter. From the beginning people would always remark how alert she was being that she is so young. Ava was a very restless sleeper, so I started to sleep with her on my stomach. Now she sleeps 8-9 hours a night. Everyone tells me that I am spoiling her and that is why she always needs to be held and I should put her in her crib to sleep. YOu start to doubt what is best for your child. This book really helped to reassure that I am doing what I FEEL is best for my daughter. Never doubt your instincts is a good message this book delievers. I suggest this book to anyone, regardless if they have a high needs baby or not!

supportive, a must read for the parent of a colicky baby.......2002-06-14

My daughter was colicky for about 4-5 months. I was really glad to have found this book when she was 4 months old. (Wish I had read this when she was a newborn.) I almost cried when I read it. All those months I had struggled with this screaming little baby and wondered if I was doing the right thing. Other people told me I was spoiling my baby and I should change the way I was dealing with her crying, but I couldn't bear to let her suffer alone in her crib.

This book is very supportive for parents who want to nurture and calm their fussy, colicky babies. I thought that the Sears' provided nice tips for handling baby and I also found there advice on breastfeeding helpful.

My baby is now 10 months. She is trusting, good humored, smiley, and very sociable. I feel like all my hard work has paid off. I don't think that I would have been able to do it without this book.

Surviving the first year of baby's life.......2000-08-05

Even though my child was past six months by the time I had the energy to read this book, it validated the various strategies that I had attempted in order to have some relief from the screaming. My child screamed 95% of the time when we first brought her home and slept less than 8 hours a day. Many of these strategies provided me with at least temporary relief. Therefore I highly recommend the book, especially for the chapter on creative ways to soothe a fussy baby. Also, validation of the feelings of shared by parents of similar babies helps one feel understood at a time when perfect strangers constantly offer useless advice. The chapter on hidden causes of fussiness in infants is one that is still of interest to me as we as parents continue our search for answers to our struggle. I read other reviews that were not as complementary, however as a parent of one of the most difficult children that I have ever met (professionally, I deal with parents and children) this book was especially helpful to me in looking at our struggle from many different angles and feel encouraged that we will survive. Some are opposed to the idea of the "family bed" however if a child is truly difficult, parents are willing to try "ANYTHING". The "ANYTHING" is what I believe the Sears have willing explored and shared. The only thing that would have been better for me was if this book would have been on videotape or audiotape so that my arms would not have been free to consume the information contained.

I need REAL solutions!.......2000-07-14

I am tired of buying books which don't give any sort of clear solutions to the problems they are addressing. This book basically tells me what every mother and father already know. We don't need to know it will go away with TIME. To write a book like this and basically tell us what we already know should be a crime. I should have looked at it's ranking number before I bought it, I think that says enough.

I did take one more chance and also bought Dr. Marc Weissbluths, "Sweet Babies", now that's a book that is worth buying and really what all parent's of colicky infant can use. Thank God someone knows what he is talking about!

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The Fussy Baby (How to Bring Out the Best in Your High Need Child)

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The Fussy Baby: How to Bring Out the Best in Your High-Need Child
William Sears
Manufacturer: La Leche League International
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J37A2Y

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Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, or to the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, a leading authority on the Civil War era offers a critical supplementary viewpoint. William Freehling argues that 450,000 Union troops from the South--especially border state whites and southern blacks--helped cost the Confederacy the war. In addition, when the southern border states rejected the Confederacy, half the South's industrial capacity swelled the North's advantage. Whether revising our conception of Union military strategy or of slavery, or changing our perceptions of blacks' role in producing Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, or finding new meanings in what is arguably America's greatest piece of sculpture, Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial, or establishing the antecedents to Martin Luther King, Jr., Freehling's piercing insight and rhetorical verve yield a major new Civil War narrative.

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Important like the rest of his work.......2007-09-25

This like the rest of Freehling's work is important. In recent years a trend has developed to submerge the central issue of the civil war--slavery--in a myriad of other issues leading to the war and thus diminishing the importance of the war for the US and the World. Part of this slide from confronting the central issue is a tendency to be cosier to attitudes justifying or defending the slaveholders Confederacy in the war.

This book is very clear that within the South, the majority of the population did not support the Confederacy and probably a plurality of the South at first and then a majority actively worked to destroy the Confederacy. The Confederacy was not a Southern republic, it was a slaveholders republic.

Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Missouri were slave states, but they went with the union. Considerable portions of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina supported the Confederacy throughout the war, and large groups of white people throughout the South opposed the Confederacy. This book explains that without this opposition, the Union would have never been able to enter the South and attack the Confederacy's military and political centers so easily and would have had to mobilize many more troops were there more Confederate support in the areas the Union liberated.

For the most part, the Union liberated rather than occupied the South because as the author explained, African Americans overwhelming supported the union and selflessly through themselves into the war, working first to build defenses, transport materials, tend to the sick, guide the troops, and forage for food and supplies. Later, hundreds of thousands of African Americans volunteered to serve in the Union Army, providing a ready made force available right in the South to support the Union lines against slaveholder terrorism.

What I found unique here was his analysis of the 1864 election and his view that had Mclellan, the Democrat who ran against Lincoln won, the South would have still been defeated, although he leaves open whether slavery would have been obliterated the way it was under the Republicans.

This is a good read, and not as ponderous as his other work, although his new work is decisive to understanding American history as a whole.

A West Virginian Begs to Differ.......2007-06-28

My review of this book only concerns the narrow issue of West Virginia, so it may not be useful to most readers, but I think it pertinent. Mr. Freehling shows little understanding of the situation in western Virginia and misinterprets what he does know. At one point he says West Virginians favored the Union 3 to 1, later he says 2 to 1. Richard Curry's research into West Virginia's vote shows approximately 34,667 against and 19,121 votes in favor of secession ("A House Divided"). The mistake most historians make is presuming that vote to be solidly pro-Union, while in actuality much of it was a vote for the status-quo. Only in the far north-west counties could it be considered pro-Union. Twenty-four counties, approximately two-thirds of the territory of the state, voted for secession. The WV Division of Culture and History has admitted that the number of Confederate volunteers in West Virginia was about equal to that of Union volunteers, which would make West Virginia the most Confederate of the border states. Gen. Jacob Cox (U.S.) noted in his memoirs that while stationed in Charleston he knew that sentiment was against secession, yet a number of those who voted against secession had joined the Confederate army as loyal Virginians. Berkeley county rejected secession almost 3 to 1, yet gave twice the number of men to the Confederate army as to the Union. In the anti-Secession counties of Cabell and Wayne the populace was very hostile to Wheeling and gave sizeable numbers of volunteers to the Confederacy. Charles Ambler even lists Cabell county among the secessionist counties as having nothing whatever to do with the new state. The true watermark of Unionism in West Virginia is in the voter turnout for Wheeling's initiatives, which were pitifully low. Wheeling even allowed out-of-state Union soldiers to vote in order to boost the numbers, as they themselves testify in their own Constitutional Convention records. From those same Convention records, Mr. Sinsel on Jan 13, 1862 said: "Who denies that McDowell, Wyoming, Raleigh, Calhoun, Gilmer, Braxton, Clay, Tucker, Randolph, Webster, Nicholas, Boone, Logan, Pocahontas, Roane, Wirt, Monroe, and Greenbrier-add to that Barbour and many others-are all dominated by the spirit of rebellion?". Arthur Boreman wrote to Francis Pierpoint in 1862 that everything south of Parkersburg (most of the state) was practically the Confederacy. This book merely reiterates the work of Virgil Lewis and Charles Ambler in putting more lipstick on the pig of West Virginia Unionism.

Much Needed Book.......2007-05-19

This book is typical of William Freehling's writings: smooth style, intriguing research, and interesting, prpvpcative conclusions. It is a great read and well worth close study.

Very Interesting Thoughts, But Writing Hard To Follow.......2007-03-07

The main thesis of this book is that the most important determinant concerning the outcome of the American Civil War was the hundreds of thousands of "Southerners" who fought for the Union instead of the Confederacy. Here, some definitions might be helpful for understanding Freehling's claim. Freehling includes all those from the Upper South (or the Boarder States, as most people know them by; Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia) in his group, "Southerners". Insofar as these states were slave states before the war, and shared a lot in common with the South, his labeling of the people as "Southerners" requires not too large a stretch of the imagination. Freehling also includes black anti-Confederates (i.e., fugitive slaves) as "Southerners", which of course he should.

When one includes escaped slaves and whites from the Upper South, then indeed roughly 300,000 "Southerners" fought for the Union in the American Civil War. Freehling's thesis is that these Unionist Southerners are the most important factor in the outcome of the war. I think he is correct, and he defends his thesis in a number of different ways, from simple numerical comparisons to examinations of some key or illuminating battles.

One thing I really enjoyed about this book is that Freehling makes some claims that I either initially found hard to accept or simply had never though about. For example, Freehling deals with the Union presidential election of 1864, claiming that even if McClellan had won the North probably would have completed the war, rejecting disunion. This has been a very debatable topic among historians, and Freehling here provides some new insight that I found convincing.

However, Freehling's writing is fairly poor for an academic of his stature. At times it was very difficult to follow what he was saying, and yet at other times he would go on and on with simple comparisons with no end in sight. I would say that three-fourths of the book is accessible enough, but the remaining one-fourth is a big headache to read.

Aside form poor writing, I have to dock another star in my review for Freehling's poor citation. I noticed that many times he didn't provide proper citation when making a big claim, and in one case he mad a huge claim (that fire-eating radicals in South Carolina were able to sweep their state out of the Union even though too small a percentage of the population actually supported secession) and then cited a book that he was in the process of writing but hadn't been published! Surely Freehling can do better than this...

Pick this book up if you're specifically looking for a work that makes a synthetic argument concerning the importance of Unionist Southerners. If you're looking for just any Civil War book for pleasure reading, you can probably get away with skipping this one.

Useful; well written.......2006-08-25

From the day after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, most historians, Civil War buffs, history teachers, and everyone else always said and wrote that the South lost the Civil War due, mainly, to a shortage of manpower and the fact that the North had more industry. Recently, though, several historians have started to say while those reasons are true, there are other factors to look at. Freehling, along with David J. Eicher, is one of the leading proponents of the thought that the anti-Confederate Southerners, as well as politics, played a large role in the South's losing the war. Freehling focuses on the idea of a non-unified South to explain the Confederate loss. While Freehling does point out some eye-opening statistics, most of what he writes will be old news to most well-read Civil War followers. The book is useful for the theory Freehling espouses as well as the chapters on the role of African Americans both North and South. Freehling also does an excellent job of agreeing with some of Gary Gallagher's points (who, he asserts in the prologue, gave him in the inspiration to write the book after Gallagher published a book about how the South lost due to inferior manpower, etc.) despite the fact he does not agree with Gallagher's overall hypothesis. This is good because it shows that Freehling is open to ideas besides his own and isn't doggedly pursuing his goal without doing any real research. The negative, though, is that Freehling's book could have been half the size as he seemed to restate many of his facts. Whether you agree with Freehling's idea or not, the book is still a useful, and well written, work.

The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
William Blair
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Title: The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.(Book Review)
Author: William Blair
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 69 Issue: 2 Page: 432(3)

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