Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought

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Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In Art in Mind, Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intellect and intervene in our lives. Rather than interpreting art as merely a reflection of our social experience or a product of history, van Alphen here argues that art is a historical agent, or a cultural creator, that propels thought and experience forward.

Examining a broad range of works, van Alphen—a renowned art historian and cultural theorist—demonstrates how art serves a socially constructive function by actually experimenting with the parameters of thought. Employing work from artists as diverse as Picasso, Watteau, Francis Bacon, Marlene Dumas, and Matthew Barney, he shows how art confronts its viewers with the "pain points" of cultural experience-genocide, sexuality, diaspora, and transcultural identity-and thereby transforms the ways in which human existence is conceived. Van Alphen analyzes how art visually "thinks" about these difficult cultural issues, tapping into an understudied interpretation of art as the realm where ideas and values are actively created, given form, and mobilized. In this way, van Alphen's book is a work of art in itself as it educates us in a new mode of thought that will forge equally new approaches and responses to the world.

Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought

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Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought
Ernst van Alphen
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: B000OOT26K

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dolce&gabbana.......2006-07-11

how can i review this book when i ordered it last june 9 on an overnight delivery and now it's a month later and i still have not seen a cover or a page of this book...this is the first time i've used amazon.com and frankly i am disappointed coz i've heard such good things about shopping online specially with amazon.com....so consider this a review of amazon.com...they do not deliver...therefore on a scale of 1 - 5 stars...a dismal 1

D&G Rules!.......2000-07-31

Utilizing their fascination for traditional rural fashions, the designing dream team of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana has captured the fashion world by storm. Since their company's inception in 1982 to the present, Dolce & Gabbana has made Italian fashion look so wearable.

This book, which celebrates their first 10 years in business, is a collection of past ad campaigns and a plethora of celebrities that normally would make a coffee-table book about fashion appealing. With a foreword by Isabella Rossellini, and appearances by many top name fashion models, Dolce & Gabbana's vision of incorporating Sicilian (Dolce is orginally from Palermo, Sicily) & rural styles is genius. Their tribute to Madonna, who gave them the brand-name notoriety they deserve, is great (Dolce & Gabbana got big press for designing the outfits for Madonna's "Girlie Show" tour). Their recent work with Whitney Houston on her world tour was also spectaclar as these gentleman know how to make a woman look and feel like one.

I am so happy that Dolce & Gabanna, wo are my all-time favorite designers have been in the fashion business for over a decade already. I hope to see a followup of this book very soon, whenever they reach their 20th anniversary. An excellent tribute to a talented duo.

D&G Rules!.......2000-07-31

D&G.......1999-04-27

Great pictures of famous people in their D&G clothes. Advertisements with Linda Evangelista (great!) and Madonna, Demi Moore and many others. A must have!

bellisimo!.......1999-04-01

I consider Dolce & Gabbana to be among the very best designers of our time- very much in the same class as the late Gianni Versace, a fellow Italian designer.

The photography in this book is very, very good most of the time. My favorite pictures are from a Fall 1995 ad campaign that featured my favorite, Linda Evangelista. Here she is, with her trademark Sassoon angled bob, one of her best looks ever. Another favorite set are of Nadja Auermann and Kate Moss, from a 1992 campaign. So over the top!

Also included are some celebrities, like Demi Moore and Madonna, who had D&G design her Girlie Show costumes.

You don't have to be a fashionista to appreciate this folio. I think this book would look great on ANYONE's coffee table.

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"The book raises important questions about what trailers can tell us about ourselves as filmgoers and what clues they can provide to fill gaps in film history. With the release of this book, archivists, scholars, and audiences may never again view trailers in quite the same way."

— The Moving Image

Movie trailers—those previews of coming attractions before the start of a feature film—are routinely praised and reviled by moviegoers and film critics alike: "They give away too much of the movie." "They're better than the films." "They only show the spectacular parts." "They lie." "They're the best part of going to the movies." But whether you love them or hate them, trailers always serve their purpose of offering free samples of a film to influence moviegoing decision-making. Indeed, with their inclusion on videotapes, DVDs, and on the Internet, trailers are more widely seen and influential now than at any time in their history.

Starting from the premise that movie trailers can be considered a film genre, this pioneering book explores the genre's conventions and offers a primer for reading the rhetoric of movie trailers. Lisa Kernan identifies three principal rhetorical strategies that structure trailers: appeals to audience interest in film genres, stories, and/or stars. She also analyzes the trailers for twenty-seven popular Hollywood films from the classical, transitional, and contemporary eras, exploring what the rhetorical appeals within these trailers reveal about Hollywood's changing conceptions of the moviegoing audience. Kernan argues that movie trailers constitute a long-standing hybrid of advertising and cinema and, as such, are precursors to today's heavily commercialized cultural forms in which art and marketing become increasingly indistinguishable.

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Trailer.......2007-06-27

Its a great book in a field with very few references ( the trailer ) .
As a hollywood trailer researcher was very useful for me .
Congratulations to Lisa Kernan !

SEE IT! READ IT! BUY IT! You'll never look at a trailer the same .......2005-07-17

No matter whether you're a film professor, film industry professional, or just plain moviegoer, you'll never look at a trailer (movie preview) the same after reading this book. Written with academic rigor and thoroughness, it explains how previews came to referred to as trailers and analyzes trailers for their intended affect, subtext, and demographic. The book follows the author's passion for examining " the hypothetical spectator that can be read within the trailer texts themselves: an "audience study" who can read through the looking glass of the Hollywood film industry." She submits case studies of some 30 trailers, from Casablanca to Paper Moon to Air Force One, dividing them into three eras. By the end of the book you'll really appreciate these free mini-movie/commercials that we all alternately enjoy and hate yet use to decide whether to see a movie or not.

Coming Attractions: Reading American Movie Trailers (Texas Film and Media Series, Thomas Schatz series editor)

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Coming Attractions: Reading American Movie Trailers (Texas Film and Media Series, Thomas Schatz series editor)
Lisa Kernan
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORMVJW

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The King & Queen of pop video

Eurythmics - Greatest Hits
Eurythmics
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0634014773

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Features 16 great '80s favorites from the album by this acclaimed London duo, including: Here Comes the Rain Again Love Is a Stranger Missionary Man Sex Crime (1984) Sister's Are Doin' It for Themselves Sweet Dreams There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) Who's That Girl? Would I Lie to You? You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart and more.

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The King & Queen of pop video.......2007-04-18

From "Sweet Dreams" thru "Thorn in My Side" to ""Don't Ask Me Why," Dave & Annie were definitely the king & queen of pop video.

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Greatest Hits
Eurythmics
Manufacturer: Arista/BMG Records
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: B000KYNXCS

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Greatest Hits
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Manufacturer: MUSICRAMA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 6306807659

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If you specialize in complex sales, the business-to-business transactions that involve multiple decisions made by multiple people from multiple perspectives, this is the book for you! It presents The Prime Process—a diagnostic, customer-centered approach that clearly sets you apart from your competition and positions you with respect and credibility as a valued and trusted advisor. If the stakes are high and you’re expected to win, this book will give you the edge you’ve been looking for.

Buy your copy today!

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I have 37 years in sales...........2007-08-23

I am familar with many of the concepts and ideas in this book. I enjoyed the overview of the three eras of sales; particularly since I have lived thru them all! And, the fighter jet complex sale made me appreciate the less complex sales I work with day to day. I believe this is a good book for those new to the world of complex sales and provides a good overview upon which to build and increase your knowledge of the sales process.

Refreshing approach.......2007-08-15

Tired of the same old "wedge foot in door, give presentation then close" mentality? This manual offers a refreshing view of a better method for client management. If you feel your time and resources are too valuable to waste them putting the hard sell tactics on uninterested parties, purchase this book.

Good overview for beginners.......2007-04-10

This is the first book I have read that provides a good foundation for salesman who are beginners.

Develop an unfair advantage & truly differentiate your offering.......2006-09-14

Tremendous foundation of how to change the fundamentals, rules of engagement, the game and give yourself a wonderfully unfair advantage in business development that involves complex sales. Excellent read prior to reading Jeff Thull's other two (excellent) books, The Prime Process and Exceptional Selling, which get into more detailed tactics and how-to's. Consultative selling is not a way to differentiate yourself and your offering any longer. Most salespeople now use that approach. As Thull puts it, to truly differentiate yourself, you've got to be a diagnostic business developer. This book book will teach you if you how if you choose to implement the fundamentals of the Prime Process described. He makes the point that spectacular results always begin with unspectacular (unglamorous) preparation.

not much meat .......2006-09-13

I like thull and his perspective on sales and selling. But I was disapointed to find that there are too few examples of dialogues and samples about how conversations should go. paging thru his other book exceptional selling seem to have the meat I am looking for as an IT solution provider

it also echos what is in "top IT consultant"

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Bad writing can ruin even the most fascinating of stories.

excellent research - horrible writing

Fascinating, but flawed

Insights into the Lives of Women born into Royalty

Could have been better

Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
Julia P. Gelardi
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312324243
Release Date: 2006-02-07

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Born to Rule tells the fascinating stories of five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria: Alexandra, whose faith in Rasputin and tragic end have become the stuff of legend; Marie, the eccentric queen who battled her way through a life of intrigues and was also the mother of two Balkan queens and of the scandalous Carol II of Romania; Victoria Eugenie, Spain's very English queen who, like Alexandra, introduced hemophilia into her husbands family, with devastating consequences for her marriage; Maud, King Edward VII's daughter, independent Norway's reluctant queen; and Sophie, Kaiser Wilhelm II's much maligned sister, daughter of an Emperor and herself the mother of no less than three kings and a queen, who ended her days in bitter exile. Rich in scope and detail, Born to Rule is a captivating collection of historical portraits.

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Bad writing can ruin even the most fascinating of stories........2007-06-23

This book is just awful. The story of five reigning consorts is theoretically fascinating reading, but the writing is so bad, you just feel irritated. Awkward, stilted prose -- often repetitive, often cliched, often overly dramatic -- this book is a pain to read.

excellent research - horrible writing.......2007-06-03

This is an interesting book and is very well researched, but the author has very little talent for writing - especially a narrative presenting 5 subjects which she keeps badly fumbling to the ground as a bad juggler would. First, Charles Spicer at St. Martin's Press is credited by the author as being the editor. I think it's about time for the reading public to hold some of these extraordinarily inept and careless and lazy editors accountable for delivering to us such extremely flawed and poorly constructed books. The author has a awkward style which is further hindered by bad sentence construction - very bad paragraph progression, and numerous typos which should have been easily caught. Worst of all, the sheer repitition in this book is apalling! If a fact or observation is stated once, it's stated a hundred times. There is, of course, always an intelligent and carefully measured use of reference, refreshing the reader of important points which may have been forgotten and are needed to help explain or expand the action or characters. However the author is so outrageously beyond any reasonable limit of referencing that this text is the most absurdly redundent and repititious text I have ever encountered. It is almost as if it were a remedial volume for the learning impaired. Never in my life have I read a book which so deliberately insults the reader's intelligence by constantly restating the same points over and over again as each paragraph proceeds and an element of new information is introduced. As I said, the effect is very insulting and I constantly felt like I was reading something intended for someone with a two digit IQ. Also, the constant dropping off with one story and abruptly picking up where another subject's story was previously abandoned, then suddenly dropping that story and shifting to another and another, and then back again. Who in the world at St. Martin's thought this was either an effective or acceptable way to deal with the broad subject matter. I'm a historian and I was severely distracted and often confused by this hodge podge style. There was all the material here for a great book to be saviored and enjoyed - instead a writer of very limited talent and an editor who seemingly couldn't care less have delivered to us a very sorry mess. Shame on all of you for not doing your job. With the intense competition in publishing today, it's miraculous that you have kept them!

Fascinating, but flawed.......2007-04-10

I came across this when buying a present for my history buff aunt, and put it on my own list. I love history and did even take a higher-level Russian History class in college, so Alix's story was very familiar.

The stories are very interesting, and the book had me running back and forth to the internet to find out more - always a good sign.

As others have mentioned, the author herself says that this can't be comprehensive, but I do wish there could have been a little more. I also agree with the reviewer who thought it would have been better to do a section on each woman, rather than try to follow a timeline. These 5 particular cousins don't seem to have been very close, so we wouldn't have lost anything in their interactions to each other.

I'm an avid reader, and still sometimes lost the thread because of the slightly fawning and erratic writing style. I also would have appreciated a more thorough family tree, though again I do realize that this was not meant to be comprehensive. The nickname problems came into play as well - Victoria's family (as any royal family) used the same names over and over, so I understand the need for nicknames, but wish they had been used more consistently. I was not always sure if "Marie" was "Missy" or her mother, or an aunt I'd lost track of, for example.

Maud seems sadly neglected, and I agree that the material at the end of the book seemed stretched.

Overall, though, I stayed up late to finish it, and learned quite a bit. I do now want to read some more comprehensive histories to find out what I missed, but it's a good intro to the family. If you're interested in European history, but don't know a lot about the families involved around the turn of the century, this is a tantalizing place to start.

Insights into the Lives of Women born into Royalty.......2007-02-09

This is a very interesting and informative history of the fates of five of the granddaughters of Queen Victoria. Being a Princess in that day and time was not generally good for one's health and absolutely did not guarantee "happily ever after". Only one of the five had a happy and fairly normal life. It was very interesting to gain insights into the lives of European royalty and get to know about the situations that these women married into.

Could have been better.......2006-12-30

And I was looking forward to reading this! One major element that kept me from enjoying the book was the numerous typos, sentence fragments and bad punctuation; whoever edited this book was definitely asleep at the wheel.

Also, there was a great deal of confusion with regards to people/relationships and I think this was due to two things: The first is due to the writing; the author tends to interrupt her narrative flow, mentioning other people at odd moments or breaking one story to start/resume another. The other is the book's set-up; I think the reader would be better served by "profiling" each granddaughter separately, instead of trying to tie all five lives together. This would have helped with keeping family lines straight, and perhaps help keep the overviews more concise.

All in all, a disappointment.

Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
John Plunkett
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2007-01-24

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Date: September 22, 2006
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Volume: 68 Issue: 3 Page: 628(3)

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Born To Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria

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Born To Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
Julia P. Gelardi
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTAPB6

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Over the last three decades the historian Gabriel Kolko has redefined the way we look at modern warfare and its social and political effects. Century of War gives us a masterly synthesis of the effects of war on civilian populations and the political results of these traumatizing experiences in the twentieth century.

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a sobering and invaluable contribution to humanity.......2000-09-10

In the front cover blurb, Noam Chomsky writes that "Gabriel Kolko's review of this century's 'tragic monumental experiences' provides sharp insight into the conflicts of these terrible years, their social setting, and their legacy. It's lessons are both sobering and invaluable."

Far from being a didactic review of 20th Century warfare, the lessons that Kolko proffers in "Century of War" amount to nothing more than adhering to the spirit and principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was unanimously adopted by the UN soon after WWII. Here's a taste of some of Gabriel Kolko's sober and invaluabe insights into how an era of tranquility might be constructed and the forces (liberal economics/modern state-capitalism) that are ultimately responsible for this century of destruction:

g...there is nothing in the current momentary hegemony of the ideology of market economics in the ex-Communist world and formerly statist Third World countries that can create permanent tranquility. So-called liberal economics caters exclusively to the needs of individuals rather than to common interests and shared group relations in a civil society that poses essential restraints on peoplefs freedom to exploit and asserts public over private interests. Liberal economicsf devotion to personal egotism and avarice as the fundamental basis of social organization has been a persistent source of misery and societal instability since the school of thought was founded two hundred years ago. Economic liberals have no inherent commitment to political freedom and human rights, and suffer from the stigma of having repeatedly abandoned civil liberties... in order to preserve their individual privileges... g

gThe future of mankind and the very existence of rational civilization and human relations are hostage to this state of affairs, and the morality and desirability of todayfs dominant social systems are linked directly to the issue of war and peace.h

gRadical opposition will inevitably reemerge as long as the political and economic crises so characteristic of the nations of the world as they now exist continue... But the basic premise that while society owes everyone a reasonable material minimum, individuals in turn also have to have a constant duty to weave significant networks of social cooperation and interaction, is no less vital. Social responsibility that operates reciprocally between a society and its members has hardly been considered in the general socialist literature, but it remains a precondition for the emergence of a more rational human organization, and above all of truly radical politics based on changing both society and people-and thereby the world.h

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An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939â€“1945. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist tendencies of The Times' Jewish owner, and the ethos of mid-century America, all led The Times to consistently downplay news of the Holocaust. It recalls how news of Hitler's â€~final solutionâ€™ was hidden from readers and - because of the newspaper's influence on other media - from America at large. Buried by The Times is required reading for anyone interested in America's response to the Holocaust and for anyone curious about how journalists determine what is newsworthy.

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Outrage and objectivity.......2006-02-27

Leff provides a necessary look at how the most influential newspaper in America dealt with the Nazi regime before and during the Second World War.

It seems to me that given the very important strength of anti-semitism in America during the first half of the 20th Century, the amazing thing is that the American Jews were not persecuted and interned on some pretext, that the US supported the creation of the State of Israel -- and just barely did so despite the opposition of the State Department -- and that American Jews have reached a position unequaled anywhere. It all might have been different and in the days of Father Coughlin and Charles Lindburgh and Joseph Kennedy it certainly looked like it would be different.

Ms. Leff has meant well and has made a contribution. Moral outrage in this case is less useful than a calm assessment of the real forces at work in America concerning the Jews and how best to prosecute the war.

The real outrage should be saved for the role of Christianity for fifteen hundred years or more in victimizing the Jews -- to the extent that only a small percentage of Christians could avoid the ever-present temptation of Jew hatred.

Missing: A Comparative Treatment.......2006-01-10

Laurel Leff has given us a nicely detailed description of how the New York Times, then as now the most eminent newspaper in the country, failed to appreciate the historical significance of the Holocaust while it was under way in Europe.

This was not a matter of suppression of news. Whatever news was available was published in the Times, but it was buried in back pages. The Nazis' systematic killings of Jews, when news of them reached the West, were not accorded the front-page status that, in hindsight, these events warranted. And here lies the fundamental weakness of the book as I see it. The author's vision is ahistorical, anachronistic; it applies what we know now to a judgement of what was done then.

Nevertheless, Leff's book cannot help but be of importance to anyone interested in the period. Her strongest point is the role of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the Times from 1935 to 1945. Scion of a wealthy family of German Jews, living in a period in which Jews were still excluded from many positions of influence and were strictly limited in the prestige universities, Sulzberger felt uneasy about his Jewish identify. He was, in the language of those days, an assimilationist. He was very much worried that the public might consider him a Jew before it recognized him as a newspaper man. Leff's description of his role in the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism is most enlightening. But, as Leff also points out, the Reform Judaism of his day was also largely anti-Zionist. Sulzberger was not the only, nor the most rabid of the anti-Zionists among prominent American Jews. In any case, as Leff indicates, he was also basically fair-minded and was not given to suppressing news.

The extent to which Sulzberger's personal values may have influenced the Times's coverage of the Holocaust is not clear. This question, as well as the larger question of how unique the Times was in its Holocaust treatment, can only be explored by a comparative treatment. How did the Times compare with other news outlets ? How much better could it have done, given the limitations in the world's understanding of the significance of the Holocaust while it was in progress ? Leff suggests that the Times was not unique, but she gives no particulars. She is not interested in making comparisons with other papers, either here or abroad.

The New York Yiddish press of those days was still very important and very vibrant. There were several Yiddish dailies, with the Morning Journal and the Forward probably the most important. There was also the Tug (Day), and the Freiheit, the Communist Yiddish daily. Leff takes scant interest in any of these. She certainly does not do what would be required to understand the Times's treatment of the Holocaust, viz. a detailed comparative analysis of the Yiddish press accounts in relationship to those of the Times.

We are left with a description of what happened at the Times only, and this description is both enlightening and thorough. But we are not told whether, with all of Sulberger's qualms and other institutional peculiarities of the Times, that newspaper could have given us a sustained, balanced, meaningful treatment of the Holocaust as it was unfolding, given the fact that the world simply could not grasp the horror and the novelty of the Nazi crime.

I was a newspaper reader in those days, not only of the Times, but also of a variety of Jewish sources (but not of the Yiddish press). I read all the little facts. But I had no inkling of what was really happening, of the magnitude of the Holocaust. That came to me, as it did to the rest of the world, only some years after the war.

Blame the publisher.......2005-09-10

This is not a book about The New York Times and its miserable
coverage (never on the front page) of the War Against the Jews. It is
a book about a self-hating man, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, to whom the
very word "Jews" was anathema. No, we are Americans who happen to be
Jews. There is no such thing as a Jewish people, no such thing as a
Jewish nation; those are Hitlerite concepts.
And that explains why Sulzberger kept a Nazi as head of his Berlin
Bureau and allowed his nephew Cyrus to cover the Babi Yar massacre by
not mentioning that the victims were Jews.
And the people who revolted in Warsaw's ghetto were not Jews, either.
Wherever possible, the victims of the Germans were either part of a
larger group, including all the massacred Norwegians, Belgians, and
Luxembourgers, or simply "refugees."
Leff, whom I would not hire as a prospective reporter, lays it all
out -- and then some. She adds the superfluous detail wherever
possible and then pads out her book with a mish-mash of stuff that
she simply gets wrong, like the well-known sinking of the "Sturma"
(sic). She just has it sink without saying why. That sort of writing
gets wearisome after a while, but she just loves to throw in "sic"
when she catches a misspelling or a typo.
Not wanting to go on with superfluous details of my own, all I can
say is that this would have been a fitting subject for someone who
could discipline her writing. Leff did not.

Should encourage us to improve journalistic standards.......2005-07-21

Obviously, the New York Times did a horrible job of reporting the slaughter of millions of Jews by Germans and others during World War Two. And Laurel Leff has done us all a service by explaining this in detail.

Did this betrayal of journalistic standards harm anyone? Of course it did. Still, it happened decades ago, so why worry about it now? Well, there are good reasons for worrying about it now. For one thing, the New York Times hasn't improved much, judging by its biased coverage of Israel. And while it is too late to save those who died in World War Two, there is still time to help those who are threatened today.

Leff explains that the Times managed to ensure that fewer people would hear the last screams of those murdered in World War Two. Now, why did the Times do such a thing? The author analyzes this in some detail. And part of the reason was that Sulzberger did not want his paper to appear too "Jewish."

I think there is a moral here, namely that journalists need to report honestly, even when honesty might appear to make their group look good or bad.

We humans do not make good choices when the information we need is omitted or reported inaccurately. It does no one any good if we lie on the grounds that truth might seem to be self-serving! And I think this case shows us why.

Justified outrage .......2005-07-19

One reviewer on Amazon criticized Laurel Leff for the tone of outrage which informs this work. But how is it possible not to be outraged when one considers that the Times, and its chief during the Second World War Arthur Sulzberger may well have been responsible ,through their downplaying of the story of the Nazi extermination campaign against the Jews, for not preventing the deaths of tens of thousands of people. Stories from the 'Times ' pointing out the evil of the Nazi plan might have for interested induced the Allies to bomb the rail- lines leading to Auschwitz. And that ' small action' might have saved thousands upon thousands of lives.
Moreover Leff does not simply rage out of thin air, but very carefully documents the whole story of the Times action. And she puts especial emphasis on the bias of the then publisher Sulzberger .His anti- Zionism, his desire to dissociate himself from any national Jewish connection, his fear of having the Times be labeled as a 'Jewish newspaper' all these were part of the formulating of a top- down policy in which the story of what would later come to be known as the 'Holocaust' was downplayed.
One feels the author has done a long- due and necessary job.

Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper.(Book review): An article from: American Jewish History

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Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper.(Book review): An article from: American Jewish History
Ron Hollander
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Title: Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper.(Book review)
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Un-shining hour: Sulzberger and his Jewish problem.(Buried By the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper)(Book Review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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Un-shining hour: Sulzberger and his Jewish problem.(Buried By the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper)(Book Review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Seth Lipsky
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Release Date: 2006-07-14

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Title: Un-shining hour: Sulzberger and his Jewish problem.(Buried By the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper)(Book Review)
Author: Seth Lipsky
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: 44 Issue: 1 Page: 70(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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An Index and Guide to Audubon's Birds of America
Susanne M. Low
Manufacturer: American Museum of Natural History
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Binding: Hardcover

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A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America: A Concordance Containing Current Names of the birds, Plate Names with Descriptions of Plate Varients, a Description of the Bien Edition, and Corresponding Indexes.
Susan. Low
Manufacturer: William Reese Comapny & Donald A. Head
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UWOZUE

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INDEX AND GUIDE TO AUDUBON'S BIRDS OF AMERICA: A STUDY OF THE DOUBLE-ELEPHANT FOLIO OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON'S BIRDS OF AMERICA, AS ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM H. LIZARS AND ROBERT HAVELL
Susanne M.: Low
Manufacturer: Abbeville Press/The American Museum of Natural History.
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