Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits

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Wow!.......2003-09-17

I bought this book for my classroom and wondered later why I picked it up. When I really looked through the book, I found some really great art focusing on important personas from the 20th Century. It is a really nice book to have. A keepsake.

Summary.......1999-12-12

'Celebrating Time's 75th anniversary, this book presents work commissioned for the magazine's cover by some of the century's best-known artists, ranging from Andrew Wyeth's portrait of Dwight Eisenhower to Andy Warhol's Michael Jackson.This book presents seventy-five artworks commissioned for the magazine's covers by some of the century's best-known artists, from Dwight Eisenhower by Andrew Wyeth to Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol. Faces of TIME accompanied an exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C. Among the outstanding covers reproduced are Roy Lichtenstein's dynamic 1968 image of Bobby Kennedy, Ben Shahn's Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gerald Scarfe's papier-mache caricatures of the Beatles. Jay Leno relates his feelings - and his mother's reaction - to being pictured on the cover of TIME. Frederick S. Voss provides a visual history of the magazine and shows how making it onto the cover of TIME has come to be the ultimate accolade.' - From The Publisher

Faces of Time 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits

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Faces of Time 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits
Time Magazine
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co.
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Binding: Paperback
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Faces Of Time. 75 Years Of Time Magzine Cover Portraits.

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Faces Of Time. 75 Years Of Time Magzine Cover Portraits.
Time Magazine. Introduction By Jay Leno.
Manufacturer: Bullfinch Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IXV18Y

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Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits

Manufacturer: Bulfinch Press
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ASIN: B000MG4I6E

Faces of Time. 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits. Introduction by Jay Leno.

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Faces of Time. 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits. Introduction by Jay Leno.
Frederick S. (Essays by) Voss
Manufacturer: Bullfinch Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NUMNJ8

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The only retailing book that exclusively focuses on the fashion segment of the retailing industry, its complete coverage includes the author’s personal experience, in-depth interviews with industry professionals, and a wealth of pertinent photographs, exposing fashion retailing as a “multi-channel” industry. Beginning with a broad overview of fashion retailing, this book then focuses on on-site environments, management and control functions, merchandising fashion products, communicating with clientele, and finally ends with a useful appendix about careers in fashion. An excellent handbook for retail executives and managers in the field.

Fashion Retailing : A Multi-Channel Approach (Delmar Fashion)

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Fashion Retailing : A Multi-Channel Approach (Delmar Fashion)
Ellen Diamond
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIDHC6

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An acclaimed writer takes readers inside the world of M. Night Shyamalan—the most successful filmmaker of his generation—as he creates a new movie masterpiece

In 1999, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan exploded onto the cinema scene with his supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense, which garnered major acclaim and raked in massive box office numbers around the globe. Since then, his phenomenal commercial and critical success has continued as his films—including Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village—have grossed over $1.5 billion and reinvented the thriller genre. But throughout his rise to prominence, Shyamalan has remained separate from the Hollywood system, living and working solely in his hometown area of Philadelphia, and keeping his ideas, filmmaking techniques, and business practices tightly-kept secrets.

In The Man Who Heard Voices, journalist Michael Bamberger takes readers inside Shyamalan's world for the first time, getting total access to the man who has been called “the modern-day Hitchcock” as he prepares, creates, and test-screens his next film, Lady in the Water, which stars Paul Giamatti (star of Sideways) as a building superintendent and Bryce Howard (star of The Village) as a mysterious sea nymph. Bamberger's intimate perspective and insightful narrative prose will bring to life Shyamalan's creative process—from his multiple drafts and revisions of the screenplay to his on-location work with his cinematographer and crew and his relationships with the actors under his direction. The book also follows the high- stakes business decisions behind the scenes, including his agonizing decision to move from Disney to Warner Bros. for this film, his involvement in the studio's massive marketing campaign, and the evaluation of the crucial initial test-screening of the film.

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Cut & Dry.......2007-09-15

If you're an M. Night fan you will not be able to put this book down. It's amazing.

An unbiased look at the film making process.......2007-04-11

I almost didn't read this book after reading some of the reviews and comments made by others on this site. I'm glad I decided to give this book a chance. This is a must read for anyone interested in the process of film making. The fact that the author is a sports writer and not involved in the film industry gives the book more authenticity, not less. The journey from script to completed film is told through the eyes of someone seeing it for the first time and not prejudiced by other films.

I read the book first and then saw the movie (on DVD). If you haven't seen the movie, this is the order I would recommend. You'll especially like the DVD extras after reading about the various collaborators in the book. If the "Lady" script had been submitted by a no-name screenwriter, it would never have made it past the script readers. Yet not only did Night get to make a movie based on a weak story idea with a weak script, he got Warner Brothers to put in over a hundred million dollars to film and market it. No matter how talented the actors, the cinematographer, or the director, if it doesn't work on the page it isn't going to work on the screen. This book shows how bad movies get made.

The Man Who Ignored Voices.......2007-04-06

After delivering "Lady in the Water", Shyamalan somehow managed to offend a pubescent American culture that prefers to be the offender. And somehow he did it without any pretentious artistic attempts at being shocking through sex, violence and vulgarity. Kind of ironic that it would take a bedtime story to get under the skin of a society plagued with the Peter Pan syndrome. And then he tops it off by having the audacity to let a biographer tell us how he did it. I mean, the nerve of Shyamalan. Why can't he blow his own horn like everybody else?

But that's what happens when one is an artist truly committed to his art. And instead of taking the usual X-Rated route of cage rattling, Night pulled it off with a PG-13 Rating. Impressive.

But to read this book you realize that he paid the price of the much sought after and coveted title of being "controversial" -- even if that wasn't his goal. In fact, from this book we learn that his intentions were the exact opposite. He was hoping to inspire a hopelessly adolescent culture that is hell-bent on being cynical. Because, you know, cynicism is a worthy accomplishment.

Michael Bamberger, the biogrpaher, seems to be somewhere in the middle of this willingness to be inspired and cynical resistance (He admits to having spotted feelings about "Lady"). This makes him more than just a biographer but also a character in his own story. While Bamberger describes Shyamalans vulnerabilities and strengths in the turbulent ride of artistic rejection and redemption, I couldn't help but wonder about Berbengers feelings while acting as a passenger. And he is a passenger. When someone else is doing the driving and your duty is to watch, you have a heightened sense of doom when the driver is irrational and, at times, reckless. Bamberger all too often becomes the rubber-neck passenger watching the chaos that sometimes zooms past Nights peripheral. For instance, the erratic antics of the Director of Photography often occur when Night has left the room.

There is a palpable doom that soaks these pages. Bamberger knew while shadowing Night that the "Lady" was going to show the darker side of herself. The side of her that was a "B*itch." It comes through vividly when he describes Giamatti's late, albiet enthusiastic, acceptance of the role which threw Shyamalan into a mild panic. And that's just the beginning.

One of the recurring themes that Bamberger picked up from Night and migrated into this book is loneliness. Nights loneliness in the development of his movie is so well documented by Bamberger that it becomes experiential for the reader. You'll find from chapter to chapter how loose the strings really were as Night struggled to keep his often reticent players tied together. It's painful to read, because the very people who doubted Night -- and his script -- happen to be on his side. But this is all proof that Night really is the innovator that cynics and critics wish he wasn't. Innovation is inherently a lonely mans game. And naysayers who lack the courage for innovation are always looking forward to seeing the courageous take a loss in their own game.

I think it's safe to say that these same critics are among the voices chattering away in Nights head. That is why, from this book, we learn that Nights personal journey was not just to make a movie, but to silence those voices by being insubordinate. It takes a genius to be a rebel during the day and tell bedtime stories at night.

The Man Who Heard Razzberries.......2007-03-15

I agree that Bamberger could be the greatest satirist living, if that was his intention. The endless verbal oral sex the author performs on his subject...The abject awe...It is truly hilarious.
It's also true that you'll only enjoy laughing at this road apple of a book IF you didn't pay anything for it, as I didn't.
Let us all hope that in the future, M. Night Shamalamadingdong does NOT listen to the same voices that told him to put out "Lady in the Water," AND this book.

I was looking for just a little more..........2007-01-22

I enjoyed this book, but I admit that as I was nearing the middle of it, I started to lose some interest. It began to tell me that the entertainment business is all the hype, egos, and vanity I thought it was to begin with. And it got a bit boring in parts. My interest came back again at about three quarters of the way through. This may or may not be because that is about the time I watched Lady in the Water on DVD. I so enjoyed the movie... it has a great combination of little laughters, mystery, emotion, and storytelling. There were parts and characters that could have been developed better... I say this after reading the book since I did feel I had a better understanding of the idea behind some characters than the movie portrayed. (This after watching with my husband, who did not read the book... though he liked the movie.)

Interestingly, I think the book's author and Shyamalan are having the same struggles. Both of them have a little trouble getting out of their own way. There are moments when Shyamalan seems to lose it and blame others for his dissatisfactions when making the movie. Bamberger throws in one too many "dude"s and "dig it" type dialogues as well... as if he is trying too hard to portray Shyamalan as an ordinary guy. Paul Giamatti comes across as the wonderful and ordinary guy. Probably because he doesn't think about it, he just is. Shyamalan's reactions to Disney and others seem confusing to me. The folks at Disney did tell him that he could make the movie, yet his attitude was as if they were supposed to treat him like a movie god and not hesitate. In the end it sounds like the movie, the story, could have truly been great if he had gotten out of his own way. He did what he told Cindy Cheung to stop doing... trying too hard and not just letting it happen. It seems like there could have been tremendous gains if the story were kicked around for another year. While I really did enjoy the movie, it could have made the difference from a really good story to an amazing story. I think Shyamalan may have learned from the experience, and as an excellent director, I'm anticipating some amazing movies yet to come in my lifetime.

In recommending this book, it depends on what you want out of it. Definitely a great read if you are interested in moviemaking. Perhaps a learning experience if you are interested in a struggle to do what your own inner voices may be telling you.

On recommending the movie... definitely. Especially if you love magically stories. The look and feel of the movie is well done. Lots of interesting characters. (I loved the Anna Ran and Mr. Drury characters the best.)

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Disneyland Presents The Twisted Scarols from Haunted Mansion Holiday

Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0634066382

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Disneyland visitors hear these hauntingly beautiful "scarols" as they wait to enjoy the new attraction Haunted Mansion Holiday, based on Tim Burton's spooky Nightmare Before Christmas. Ten songs feature ghoulish new Halloween lyrics sung to the melodies of traditional Christmas favorites. Includes: Elfman Medley * God Rest You Merry Grinning Ghost * Grim Grinning Ghosts * Old Mansion Tree * Over the Graveyard * Scary Bells * The 13 Days of Christmas * Up on the Housetop * We Wish You a Scary Christmas * Wreck the Halls. Great fun for all holiday lovers!

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expensive toilet paper

Mixed Feelings: Enjoyable But Not Particularly Outstanding

Something for everyone

Improve Your Middlegame Play
Andrew Kinsman
Manufacturer: Everyman Chess
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Mastering the Middlegame (Everyman Chess)

Improve Your Endgame Play

Mastering the Endgame

Mastering the Opening (Everyman Chess)

ASIN: 1857442415

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A thorough understanding of the middlegame is essential for any aspiring player wishing to improve their game. This book uses examples from practical play to develop tactical and positional skills and awareness to enable you to make the most of your opportunities in the middlegame. It explains the basic ideas of tactical and positional play, provides numerous exercises for readers to test themselves and has a revolutionary layout to help readers absorb the key ideas.

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Probably won't improve your game much.......2006-05-28

I bought this book as a start to studying middlegames. I found that while the games are interesting and I enjoyed reading the book, it didn't really teach much. A lot of the stuff it teaches (IQP, avoiding blunders, positional play), it does so very superficially. I'd recommend this book more for pleasure reading than study.

expensive toilet paper.......2004-01-03

This a terrible book.it provides very little useful (if any) information on improving your play. the chapters on playing it safe and "worst piece first" is nothing but a cluster of useless information. Also the chapter on avioding blunders is laughable. Basically it states that before mAKING YOUR move you should look at the board through the eyes of a patzer and if your move is the same as the one the patzer would make then think of another move. So if you already wiped your ass today, you won't have any use for this book. Look elsewhere!

Mixed Feelings: Enjoyable But Not Particularly Outstanding.......2001-01-17

I have mixed feelings about this book that make me hesitant to recommend it. On the positive side, the book has a conversational style: readable and not "heavy-on-variations" suitable,I think,for players relatively new to middlegame study. There are plenty of examples, verbal explanations, and chapter summaries that do not overwhelm the reader(who,I believe, unlike the other reviewer, would be rated much less than 1800 USCF). You're very likely to finish this book cover to cover. On the negative side, I would have expected to find a more (if superficial) coverage of all the basic middlegame themes. For example, the topic of pawn structures is given very little attention. Isolated queen pawns do not begin to exhaust pawn structures! I also felt that the model games do not necessarily have much to do with the associated "problems-to-solved" that follow them. Similarly, the section on "not playing by rote" gives three games that actually give the opposite impression in that the winners may have won BECAUSE of rote memory of earlier analysis of the variation played. I enjoyed the book as a review of some middlegame topics but it is not comprehensive nor especially valuable for any but advanced beginners. I am rated 1810 U.S.C.F. and I think that is the extreme high range of appropriateness for this book.

Something for everyone.......2000-07-03

Its hard to find a chess book which is at the same time easy to read and helps improve one's game. Improve Your Middlegame Play is a pleasant exception. The book starts off with a very nice Karpov game, one of those that looks so easy but we all know how difficult it really is! His advice: Try to play with a draw in hand. This is the value Kinsman brings to the book - he gives very good, commonsensical advice which is usually learned the hard way - through many painful losses!

He focuses mainly on the practical aspects of chess. Dealing with Time Trouble is another very good chapter of wisdom. Every chessplayer would have experienced throwing away many hours of hard and good work in a bitter time scramble. Kinsman gives valuable advice which would help in those critical 'big points'.

This book is well suited for anyone between the strength of 1800-2200 (USCF) and aspiring towards an international rating / national master title.

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Steetwise Managing People: Lead Your Staff to Peak Performance (Adams Streetwise Series)
Bob Adams
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Streetwise Customer Focused Selling: Understanding Customer Needs, Building Trust, and Delivering Solutions...the Smarter Path to Sales Success (Adams Streetwise Series)

ASIN: 1558507264

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In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, "The Good War." What has made E.B. Sledge's memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion. Now including a new introduction by Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923 and raised on riding, hunting, fishing, and a respect for history and legendary heroes such as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene Bondurant Sledge (later called "Sledgehammer" by his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and from 1943 to 1946 endured the events recorded in this book. In those years, he passed, often painfully, from innocence to experience. Sledge enlisted out of patriotism, idealism, and youthful courage, but once he landed on the beach at Peleliu, it was purely a struggle for survival. Based on the notes he kept on slips of paper tucked secretly away in his New Testament, he simply and directly recalls those long months, mincing no words and sparing no pain. The reality of battle meant unbearable heat, deafening gunfire, unimaginable brutality and cruelty, the stench of death, and, above all, constant fear. Sledge still has nightmares about "the bloody, muddy month of May on Okinawa." But, as he also tellingly reveals, the bonds of friendship formed then will never be severed. Sledge's honesty and compassion for the other marines, even complete strangers, sets him apart as a memoirist of war. Read as sobering history or as high adventure, With the Old Breed is a moving chronicle of action and courage.

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Gutted.......2007-10-08

I watched much of The War this weekend on PBS. Ken Burns leans heavily on Eugene Sledge's account of war, and that tells me that Burns at least knows genius writing when he reads it.

Sledge may be the best writer from the 20th century that most people have never heard of. His language is harrowing and detailed and does not spare any details about the chaos and misery and ineffable singular experience that is war. I truly believe that he lived through Peleliu and Okinawa, so he could compile his writings and share them with the world. How else can you explain the same person living through two of the nastiest battles of the 20th century?

Buy this book. Share it with everyone you know.

BEST WW2 BOOK EVER!!! ....so far............2007-10-04

This book was a pleasure to read. Not that I find pleasure in the horrors of war, I do not, but this book is so well written. I gets into the real nitty-gritties of every day life at war fighting a fearsome enemy. This book was the first book to ever give me a real glimpse of the totality of war on the foot soldier. There are many great books on WW2 out there, this definetly has to be one of the best! GET THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!!! you wont regret it.

This is the best book ever written by an American Combat Veteran.......2007-10-04

This book is about combat. Nothing more. It is horrifying. It is well written. It is too well written. If you read this book, you will understand combat. Not "war", but combat. That's Mr. Sledge's goal. He wants the rest of us to understand the horror of combat. This is the best book on combat by an American combat veteran. The only combat book that is better is "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer, a German soldier on the Russian front during WWII. Both of these books will make you cry like a baby. Read them back to back & I promise that you will have nightmares.

My father on cover of later editions aiming weapon.......2007-10-03

I read the old copy of this twice. Imagine my surprise when my son sent me a blown up photo of the cover and I am staring at my father aiming his weapon as I remember him when he was young! He fought at Okinawa and out of his entire battalion only he and five others came back (& wounded at that). When I was little after the War, and Daddy was drinking, he used to describe some of war's horrors to my mother and his friends when he thought I wasn't listening. He would talk about a man named Sledge who was nicknamed, "Sledgehammer." Although my father kept his sense of humor about some of war's crazy happenings, he never recovered fully and drank when it became too much. He lost all of his buddies in battle. When Daddy died in 1981, I thought, "Well, he is with them, now." Sledge's accounts exactly match my father's from the late 1940s.

With The Old Breed.......2007-08-17

Wow!!! Sledge eloquently exposes the misery and ultimate madness of war. We owe much to our brave soldiers. All politicians should read this book to gain a sense of the sacrifice that our soldiers,past and present, have endured.

With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa

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With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
E. B. Sledge
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E. B. Sledge
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E. B. Sledge
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Sledge E.B.
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E. B. Sledge
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
E. B. Sledge; Introduction-Paul Fussell
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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For the first time the full story of U.S. amphibious special warfare units during World War II and the Korean War is revealed in gripping, painstakingly researched accounts of battles that few knew even occurred. Author and historian John B. Dwyer spent years gathering these first-person accounts of amphibious commando operations in Europe, North Africa, the Pacific, China, and Korea. From secret joint military-OSS and CIA missions and thrilling submarine ops to river raids deep into Nazi-controlled North Africa to the training and insertion of Korean commandos for a secret war in North Korea to fatal engagements with Japanese occupation forces in China, Dwyer chronicles the heroic feats of men who were willing to try anything and go anywhere to accomplish their dangerous missions. With dramatic action shots of amphibious commandos in action, Commandos from the Sea is the definitive history of America's waterborne warriors of World War II and the Korean War.

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Typical liberal rhetoric........2005-03-26

I first read passages from this book in college. I can now see how liberal professors very much enjoy using this book to influence young minds. Professor Zinn is a far left author. He uses the usual lines: America generally bad, communism generally good. Obviously Mr. Zinn has the right to write whatever he wants, and his writing style is very convincing. However, if the reader investigates the facts, many holes become visible in his theories. Those who agree and disagree with his writings should explore opposite viewpoints. A good example is "Intellectual Morons : How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas by Daniel J. Flynn" which gives the reader a good profile of Mr. Zinn.

A wonderful anthology of our greatest historian........2002-12-13

Howard Zinn is an eloquent but plain spoken writer. His essays are a joy to read, something that cannot be said of so many historians. This is in part because, Zinn is not afraid to admit that he is an interpreter of events, he colors his writings with his own ideals, interprets the past in light of what he has lived through, illuminating events and the lives of people who may have otherwise been forgotten, so that we can learn something of ourselves in their stories. Zinn's writings on events of the twentieth century are special in that he has participated in so many important historical movements, from being a WWII bombardier, to teaching in an all black girls' college during the civil rights movement, through protesting the Vietnam War and beyond. He is not afraid to state his beliefs, but is never condescending. He is a believer in the spirit of humanity, in spite of all the atrocities he has seen and studied. This massive collection spans many years and many topics. There is not an uninteresting essay in the nearly 700 pages, though, making this quite a bargain at that. Don't pass this book up. Even if you don't consider yourself of the "leftist" persuasion, I think you will find Zinn's writings very engaging and enjoyable. I hope you do.

Wake up and smell the truth........2002-10-17

"A People's History of the United States" forever changed the way I viewed the world and the system I grew up in. Continuing that tradition, "The Zinn Reader..", wakes up a desire in one's soul to rise up and do something about the injustices and hypocrisies that have dominated our past and continued to swallow our present. Professor Zinn write clearly, honestly, and furiously about topics ranging from the distribution of wealth to the ideal uses of scholarship and intellectualism. He lacks no emotion or fury, unlike many other historians. The main challenge Zinn makes it to exercise free thought, and "to be skeptical of someone else's reality." Very few historians, or writers for that matter, dare to look at the world from the perspective of the poor, the disenfranchised, the bombed, the murdered, the jailed, the conquered, the victim, but Zinn does exactly that, and in doing so puts out a masterful collection that not only instructs us in History, but also challenges our humanity and our place in the world.

And It Makes Me Wonder..........2002-01-03

Why wasn't I told this earlier? How come I must pain myself to find the truth? Why are there so few books such as this? Why aren't more men and women revealing the actualities? Why all the subversions? Be willing to alter your vision of the world.

wonderful, and moving.......2001-10-30

I first checked out "The Zinn Reader" this past summer because my senior high-school history teacher had us read some Zinn for a final paper. Thank God she had us read that. The Zinn Reader has changed, or at least re-enforced, ideas that i have long held about several topics. While Zinn is not infallible, the ideas are splendid, and wonderful to see in print. Big book, but you don't have to go straight through...pick which essays interst you. you won't regret it

ZINN READER : WRITINGS ON DISOBEDIENCE AND DEMOCRACY

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ZINN READER : WRITINGS ON DISOBEDIENCE AND DEMOCRACY
HOWARD ZINN
Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
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