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The best reference available for beginning collectors of coins and paper money, this easy-to-follow value and identification guide covers U.S. coins and paper money, Canadian money, ancient coins, medieval and Renaissance coins, European coins, early Oriental coins, Middle East coins and paper money, world paper money, and much more.
With accurate, up-to-date pricing and more than 3,000 detailed photos as well as historical notes and expert insights from the author, this Warman's(r) guide provides beginning coin and paper money collectors with all the information they need to identify and value popular coins and money.
-Offers a general overview of coin collecting for beginners -Accurate, up-to-date pricing and more than 3,000 detailed photos -New information on Middle East coins and paper money
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For avid and dedicated collections of all kinds of money.......2002-08-09
Allen Berman's Warman's Coins & Paper Money covers both ancient and modern coins, art medals, bank checks, and commemoratives under one cover. Explanations of grades is quite handy but it's the wider-ranging coverage of this guide which sets it apart and will make it appealing for avid and dedicated collections of all kinds of money.
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This essential reference work should be required reading for all aspiring apparel designers and manufacturers. Thorough and informative, it will be your personal guide to getting started in the apparel and sewn products industry. Key topics include targeting your market, sourcing materials and trims, correctly costing your products, manufacturing, distribution and inventory management. Information is presented in a clear, concise manner. Graphics and comics are used throughout the text. This second edition includes an expanded glossary of industry terms, fabric and trade show source lists and an actual business plan. Numerous blank forms are included for use in the classroom or industry.
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Disappointed..........2003-01-24
I'm a newcomer to this industy, trying to get a business up and running, and I purchased this book thinking it would really give me some insights into this career path. This book just covers the surface of what I was hoping to find. Having done a great deal of what this book recommends before I even purchased it was a good feeling. But I was just hoping for something that would actually take me through the steps that would lead me to launching my own clothing line. I think the authors just wrote enough to give you a small foundation, but not so much you wouldn't consider using their consulting services. It's easy to read, but lacks detailed information on how to get it done. Although the forms are helpful, there is no direction on how to really get to a point where you would use the forms. The writing style was not always clear. Although this book gives you some nuts and bolts about the business, it is just information kind of thrown together without any real direction, leaving you with lots of questions.
Disappointed..........2003-01-24
I'm a newcomer to this industy, trying to get a business up and running, and I purchased this book thinking it would really give me some insights into this career path. This book just covers the surface of what I was hoping to find. Having done a great deal of what this book recommends before I even purchased it was a good feeling. But I was just hoping for something that would actually take me through the steps that would lead me to launching my own clothing line. I think the authors just wrote enough to give you a small foundation, but not so much you wouldn't consider their consulting services. It's easy to read, but lacks detailed information on how to get it done. Although the forms are helpful, there is no direction on how to really get to a point where you would use the forms. The writing style was not always clear. Although it gives you some nuts and bolts about the business, it is just information kind of thrown together without any real direction, leaving you with lots of questions.
A big disappointment!.......2003-01-18
I'm a newcomer to this field and I had such hopes about what I'd learn from this book. The authors ask questions, but give little by the way of answers nor do they write well, and I'm left feeling I've wasted my money on this self-published book--I may send it back. The authors do consulting, and I'd even thought I might hire them--but now feel that would also be a waste. I've ordered several books and I'm hoping that others will be more informative! This book is not useful except for some websites listed in the back. Not recommended!
A useful & easy read.......2001-12-30
This book was a very helpful how-to guide for designing & manufacturing your own line. The information is clear & easy to understand. It's a fairly short book, however and certain section left me wanting more information & detail.
An Excellent Entrepeuner Handbook.......2000-07-09
This book offers very detailed information and does not leave you hanging. It goes point after point in perfect order. I really appreciated the form examples for spec sheets, invoices, contracts, etc. I liked the straight foward writing and the way that the authors spell things out for you in simple terms.
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Made in America: Handbook for Design Based Manufacturing of Apparel & Sewn Products
Sue Pekarsky Gary , and
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Best in Class.......2004-06-12
This book is phenominal. It may be a little distracting at first for some U.S. readers dealing with pounds instead of dollars or IPD instead on NCREIF, but there is no other book out there that integrates real estate, financial theory, and the capital markets in a clear manner like this book does. The book also provides an excellent presentation of appraisal smoothing and its impact on real estate returns and and the construction of real estate indices.
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The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema is an invaluable map to the rich and varied cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former U.S.S.R. Over two hundred entries cover a variety of topics spanning a whole century of varied endeavor and turbulent history from Czech animation to Soviet montage, from the silent cinemas dating back to World War I through to the varied responses to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The recent work includes entries on actors and actresses, film festivals, studios, genres, directors, film movements, critics, producers, and technicians, taking the coverage up to the late 1990s.
In addition to the wealth of historical material on key figures like Eisenstein and Wadja, the editors provide separate accounts of the trajectory of the cinemas of Eastern Europe and of Russia in the wake of the collapse of communism.
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Superb book, unique in its field.......2000-10-06
I got this book after seeing a lecture given by the author, now Dr. John Purser. This groundbreaking award winning book evolved from John's BBC radio series (covering 45 hours). The book covers the whole of Scotland's music - from 8th Century BC to the present day. The book covers both classical and traditional music individually and the links between them. Includes early Celtic plainchant; ballads in Scots and Gaelic; Renaissance music; music for lutes and virginals; music today: operatic; symphonic; Gaelic; folk revival and pop.
Chapters include The Scottish Idiom Bulls, Birds and Boars (800BC - AD400) Briton, Pict and Scot (600-800) The Bell and the Chant (500-1100) Cathedral Voices (800-1300) Ballads, Bards and Makars (1100-1500) Gaelic bards, bagpipes and harps (1100-1600) The Golden Age (1490-1550) Reform (1513-1580) The two Maries (1540-1590) At the courts of the last King (1570-1630) Music of the West (1530-1760) From Covenanters to Culloden (1630-1750) From Rome to Home (1660-1720) The Temple of Apollo (1740-1770) The Scots Musical Museum (1760-1850) The Withdrawing room and the concert hall (1820-1920) Sea, field and music hall (1820-1910) The classical takes root (1910-1970) A new accommodation (1950-) also includes select bibliography; select discography; libraries and archives; glossary of Scottish musical terms; plates in colour and black and white; over 200 musical examples; full index.
An absolutely brilliant work, meticulously researched, magnificient in scope and beautifully presented. A must for anyone interested in learning in depth about one of Europe's most musical cultures.
The book is unfortunately now out of print but deserves to be reprinted. It will be showing its age slightly for the newer chapters, however the core of the book is still as useful as ever.
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Crossword enthusiasts can test and expand their knowledge of scripture, and those well versed in the Bible can sharpen their puzzle skills. Each of the 66 puzzles features a biblical quotation — all taken from the King James version — that ultimately appears in a special series of boxes upon completion of the puzzle.
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Not much Bible here.......2006-03-19
The author's unique clues and style makes the puzzles a comfortable challenge. The answers cannot easily be found in the Million Word Crossword Dictionary. However, I am deeply disappointed at the lack of Bible-related clues. The only thing Bible about the puzzles is a brief quotation in each puzzle. If you're looking for crosswords to exercise your Bible knowledge, this book will do little.
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Since it was first published in 1995,
Practicing Organization Development has become a classic in change management. Now completely revised and updated, editors Rothwell and Sullivan, leaders in the field of OD, and numerous expert practitioners, walk you through each episode of change facilitation.
Youll find exhibits, activities, instruments, and case studies. You'll get help applying each phase of a popular emerging change making model. And youll find include applied research and insights from a wide variety of well-known OD practitioners and academicians. Included in this comprehensive resource are an instructor's guide, ever expanding materials on the Web, and a companion CD-ROM with PowerPoint slides and supplemental materials.
Practicing Organization Development is packed with useful, current, proven direction on applying OD principles in the real world -- order your copy today!
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"Since it was first published in 1995, Practicing Organization Development has become a classic in change management. In this completely revised and updated second edition, expert authors walk you through each episode of change facilitation.
The second edition is enhanced with exhibits, activities, instruments, and case studies. This indispensable guide will help apply each phase of a popular emerging change making model. The editors, themselves leaders in the field of OD, include applied research and insights from a wide variety of well-known practitioners and academicians. A comprehensive resource, included is an instructor's guide, ever expanding materials on the Web, PowerPoint slides and supplemental materials on the companion CD-ROM. "
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Too Academic.......2006-07-29
This book is much too academic. Can somebody recommend an organizational change book written by a practitioner? This book is designed for undergraduate students.
Professional 'Keeper'.......2003-03-17
This 'Guide' book is one of four used in a Human Resource Development course that I took in a masters program. The content is the type that will be referred to over and over again in the course of an HRDV career. Some principles should not change, and the ones in this book are rich. A copy is staying in my personal library.
Solid definitions and foundation for understanding OD.......2001-08-04
I love this book! It is a must-have for all practitioners, beginners, or anyone who wants to place solid definitions of all elements associated with organization development.
Excelente.......1999-02-17
Es nuestro libro de texto en la materia de Desarrollo Organizacional de la Maestría de Gestión de la Calidad en el Centro de Excelencia de la Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, México. Por motivo de traducción su lectura no es tan rápida como desearamos por lo que me interesa saber cuando tendrán una edición en español. Gracias. Ana Luisa Mejía.
The essestial skills needed to do change management today.......1997-06-16
This book has become a best seller in the change managment and organization development arena. It is used as a text book by many universities. At the last OD network meeting, 4 graduate programs in OD identified this as the favorite of students.
It is practical, easy to read and is very useful for anyone doing consulting.
Dick Beckhard who coined the phrase Organization Development says it is the best book on change since his Addision-Wesley Series on OD
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Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey together that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways and leads her to accept her sister at long last-teaching her to slow down and enjoy the ride.
Full of life lessons from which any reader will profit, Riding the Bus with My Sister is "a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life" (Boston Herald).
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Beautiful Prose.......2007-09-22
This book isn't for everyone, but anyone who lives with a mildy retarded family member will see this book as an eye-opening and touching memoir of the highs and lows of living and coping and dealing with a person such as Beth, the author's sister, with whom she agrees to ride the city buses with over the course of a year.
The chapters are beautifully interweaved with flashbacks to the author's childhood with Beth, who is 18 months younger than the author. The parents' coping with Beth, and how the rest of the family deals with this headstrong and independent girl without once ever mentioning the words "mild retardation" and yet determined to keep together as a family in the early 1960s bring this book to life for many Babyboomers. Rachel did a lot of research on the subject to write for this book, and inserts statistics at logical moments without ever tiring the reader.
Along with the encounters on the bus are small vignettes of the various and varied drivers who deal with Beth on a daily basis. Bus drivers are profiled coming from all aspects of society. Some like Beth, others do not, and many came forward to talk about Beth and her incessant chats while sitting in the front of crowded buses with strangers all around her. Bus drivers are her friends, are her mentors, are her romantic interests and Beth at times reminds us of our girlish teenage crushes...and she is 39 years old while the story takes place.
Although this book mostly deals with Beth and her daily bus rides around town, the author also talks about her own failings; her recent break-up, her move to a new apartment, and we see how dealing with Beth, and talking with bus drivers, help Rachel find the answers for her own troubles.
This book may not be for everyone. One must have a close experience with a person such as Beth to understand the many detailed and sometimes long-drawn-out episodes of city bus travel to truly appreciate this book. Beth is beautifully portrayed in this book, and with all her flaws and handicaps we can see a bit our ourselves through her daily bus journeys.
Read this book with patience and understanding for the mildy retarded people in our society. We all know and have dealt with our own Cools Beths.
This book went on and on.......2007-08-29
and on and on and on..............a shorter memoir maybe I could have, maybe, plodded through without so much difficulty.
This was a great ride!.......2007-08-17
Okay, so maybe not the most original title in the world, but the story sure is. The author decides to spend some quality time with her mildly retarded sister, Beth, (whom she never fully understood). Simons basically takes a very long leave of absence from work and totally immerses herself in Beth's world - which consists mainly of riding the bus system in an unnamed Pennsylvania city. But this is not just a simple journey. She experiences how Beth has carved out a life for herself, the people she has connected with, the joyful outlook she has on life, and realizes that maybe Beth's life is fulfilling in its own way. This is also a journey through her childhood as she
reflects on her memories, her relationship with her family as well as her sister. By slowing down her fast-paced existence and taking the time to experience a year with her sister, Simons certainly discovers a lot about herself, and comes away with a different, more appreciative view of her life. Hopefully you will too. I know I did.
My Thoughts on 'Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey'.......2007-05-29
This is the story of Rachel and Beth. Two sisters close in age but share little in common. Rachel is a working woman. She barely has time for herself let alone her sister. Beth is a fun-loving care-free flamboyant woman who has an extreme lover for life and her beloved buses. Beth is also mentally reatrded. Rachel experiences gui;t for not having spent much time with her sister. She promises her sister that she will ride the bus with her for a year. All Rachel wnats out of this is time with Beth. She gets way more than planned. She meets all of the quirky and exotic bus drivers with diverse personalities. She meets thoughtful Jacob, and hunky Rodolpho. They all teach her very important lessons that reshape her life. Rachel also learns a lot about her sister. She never knows how to deal with her mood changes and odd behaviors. All she knows is that she loves Beth and Beth loves her, and they care about each other. In the end Rachel turns her life into the "big life" she has always dreamed of. This story will benefit you also. You can learn many things from this book that may just help you turn you life into the right direction.
A Lesson in Life.......2007-04-22
This is a story about Rachel, sister of "Cool Beth". Beth is mildly retarded. She lives on her own and lives on disability. She doesn't have a job. She rides the local buses in her Pennsylvania city, every day. Looking for something to write about, Rachel decides to visit her sister and spend a day with her. This leads to an article in the newspaper. The experience has surprised Rachel and it has sparked a new relationship with Beth. So, Rachel decides to "Ride the bus with her sister" and she does. Every two weeks, every month of the year. This book is about that journey. It isn't just a journey on a bus. It is a journey through the life of Rachel and Beth. Rachel learns to come to terms with her feelings and having a sister who is mentally challenged. She gives the reader flashbacks to their childhood and how hard it was sometimes. Their parents divorced when they were young. Beth was separated from Rachel and her brother and sister. She lived with their mom who married an ex-con abused Beth and her mother. There was a period time where they didn't know where Beth was. Now, as adults, Rachel wants to be a better sister and learn how to understand Beth and her handicap. This is one of those books where I now want to buy a bunch of copies and give one to everyone I know. The writing style is very personal and full of emotion. A reader learns many lessons reading a book like this. It's not exclusively about mentally handicapped people and how to understand them. Rachel's experience with Beth riding the buses and getting to know the drivers taught her about regular people and their insights on their lives and what brought them to where they are now. Rachel was amazed by the friendly drivers who befriended Beth and had more patience than she could ever know. She was surprised by their kindness and generosity when Beth needed support during an operation or help finding a bathroom. Rachel's life changed as well. She learned to open her heart and slowly let people in. It changed her life. This is definitely one of the best reads I have experienced. Highly recommend!
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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
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Book's fine ... but introduction leaves one cold.......2004-03-16
I found the introduction to this book to be a strange mix of distain and apologia, as if Ms. Berlin liked her subject but not what she believed. Why this is I leave for others to discern, but I found it off-putting.
A Classic of the Genre.......2002-01-20
Frances Andrews's War-time Journal of a Georgia Girl is a classic in the genre of non-combatant Civil War era diaries. With this 1997 release, the diary has been republished twice since the original 1908 edition.
The War-time Journal is a graphic, first-person portrayal of the turmoil and tragedy of the Southern secession. The diary was written as a personal record not intended for publication. Its tone is honest, sometimes brutally so; and Fanny's observations reflect the social and cultural realities of the mid-nineteenth century.
Also of significance is the journal's prologue and epilogue. Andrews added these elements in 1908, forty years after the events and opinions recorded in the 1864-1865 diary. The 1908 comments reflect wisdom gained through maturity and experience. Andrews was 25 when she wrote The War-time Journal. She was a matron of 68 when the diary and her commentary were published.
Jean Berlin's foreword to the 1997 reprint of The War-Time Journal criticizes the young Fanny Andrews for what Berlin terms Andrews's class consciousness and her insensitivity to the plight of the Southern lower classes and Andrews's "unabashed racist beliefs." Berlin takes special note of Fanny's description and reaction to a "cracker" family written on February 13, 1865, when Andrews described her visit with another woman to recruit children for a Sunday School. Berlin writes in her introduction that Fanny's diary observations revealed Andrews's "complete insensitivity" towards white people less fortunate than herself. Fanny admitted to the correctness of the Berlin's criticism when, in her 1908 introduction to the journal she wrote: "To use a modern phrase, we were intensely 'class conscious' and this brought about a solidarity of feeling and sentiment almost comparable to that created by family ties..."
Andrews's attitudes, her values, her beliefs recorded in the diary are those of the nineteenth century; and those views, and her honesty of opinion, make the diary valuable. The War-time Journal provides a window into the culture, the politics, and the society of the period. Together with the 1908 material, the 1864-1865 views and attitudes are tempered with the reflection and wisdom of time.
Andrews's descriptions of the events surrounding the last days of the Southern Confederacy coupled with her reactions to the collapse of her aristocratic world make this diary valuable to anyone seeking first-person witness to a tragic time in the country's history.
True History, written by one who lived thru it.......2001-07-29
What a wonderful account of the South during the War between the States. Eliza's Diary makes you feel you are there. The first thing to do when you get the book is to tear out the distorted introduction by Jean Berlin. If you want to know of the experiences of Southern people during this war, get this diary, written at the time by one who was there, Eliza Andrews. Also check out "The Children of Pride", another great first person account.
Racist Tripe.......2001-03-22
Oh, come on! Margaret Mitchell could not have done better in romanticizing the horrors of enslavement and decrying the promise of Reconstruction. Ms. Berlin's introduction seems oblivious to this.
Civil War and the people who lived through it........2000-07-20
Eliza's diary is more cogent than any novel ever written about the Civil War. General Sherman laid a track, and ELiza had to follow his footsteps through Georgia as she sought respite in her relatives' home. Her insights into war and the havoc it wrought in the South are accompanied by her own editorial comments forty-four years later. In 1864, her heart burned with hatred for the Yankees who burned houses, appropriated food and horses, and stole jewelry; in 1908, she shudders at the thought of slavery and finally begins to understand the viewpoint of her abolitionist father.
I started reading this book for information; but Eliza Frances Andrew had a captivating writing style, and I was moved along by her "big picture" observations as well as the small details, such as being out of brandy--their only medicine--and the Colonel's bride, who thought her silk parasol would protect her from the rain.
I haven't read a better book about the end of the COnfederacy and the beginnings of the New SOuth.
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The War Time Journal of a Georgia Girl 1864 to 1865
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1908. The Civil War is drawing to a close in Georgia. Sherman has left devastation in his wake, and Union prisoners are dying at Andersonville. An entire society is dissolving. Amidst this turmoil, a young woman of 24 is traveling through Georgia. In this absorbing and significant work, Franny Andrews paints an enduring picture of the hardships and travail of the home front during the war. Contents: Prologue; Across Sherman's Track; Plantation Life; A Race with the Enemy; The Passing of the Confederacy; In the Dust and Ashes of Defeat; Foreshadowings of the Race Problem; The Prologue of Reconstruction; and Epilogue.
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Focusing on what they call lying about spying the authors reveal how revisionist scholars have ignored or distorted documents from Russian archives that point to espionage links between Moscow and the CPUSA.
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John Haynes and Harvey Klehr were the first U.S. historians who used the newly opened archives of the former Soviet Union to examine the history of American communism. In Denial is the record of what they discovered. The authors focus on what they call "lying about spying." Haynes and Klehr examine the ways in which revisionist scholars have ignored or distorted the new archival evidence about espionage links between Moscow and the CPUSA. They analyze the mythology that continues to suggest, against all evidence, that Alger Hiss, Julius Rosenberg, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie and others who betrayed the United States were more sinned against than sinners. In the end, Haynes and Klehr set the record straight about the spies among us.
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Ridiculous Hype.......2007-03-16
Considering the way that the authors harp so much on the fact of archives being released, they show an amazing ignorance of what the archives have actually revealed. We now have demographic analyses of the Soviet population in the 1930s that have been performed off of the heretofore unavaliable archives and they show a total of about 20.4 million deaths having occurred from all causes (old age included) in the years 1934-1939. Yet Haynes & Klehr repeat with a straight face the absurd claim manufactured for Cold War purposes by Robert Conquest that "more than 20 million" were somehow killed by the Soviet state within just 1937-1938 alone. This amounts to saying that old age is a Communist conspiracy. Although hundreds of thousands of executions occurred in these years, the "tens of millions" blather from the Cold War has fallen apart. What is especially deceitful about Kaynes & Klehr is that they pass on such nonsense in a tone which gives the inexperienced reader an impression that somehow the archives have proven Conquest to be correct, when the reality is just the reverse. Likewise the myth of the "artificial Ukrainian famine" has been quietly imploding under the weight of overwhelming archival evidence that a famine caused by natural disaster affected the whole of the Soviet Union and that collectivization subsequently improved the food production system. Mark Tauger is the leading expert on this topic at present and his work draws from the archives in the most detailed way, whereas the more famous books from the Cold War by Robert Conquest do not. These are facts which are slowly coming out based upon the most detailed archival records and if the knowledge of this hasn't spread widely yet then after a couple of generations have passed it will likely be close to common wisdom. But Haynes & Klehr do not want the reader to know what archives have revealed. An inexperienced reader picking this book up for the first time might get the impression that Archibald Getty is some crackpot divorced from the real documentary record and that Robert Conquest has been rigorously telling the history that is reflected in documents. The reality is exactly the reverse.
It was also clear that the lead-off in the book sought to give the reader the impression that Deborah Lipstadt had somehow rigorously demonstrated a point in a tightly fought case. The reality is that the whole case was a game for the public. If revisionism about Lipstadt's alleged expertise is what interests you then you'd do better to skip David Irving and go straight to Carlo Mattogno. Mattogno is the leading expert on the types of questions which were allegedly at issue in the trial, not Irving. It's just another example of how this whole is made of misleading suggestions that are meant to steer the reader off of real evidence on anything.
The Cold War: A Warning.......2006-11-11
Professor Haynes has alerted the reader to two points:
(i) The cold war still continues in Amarican academia.
In this war the Marxists are assisted by their liberal allies. Haynes uses term 'revisionist' to denote members of this Marxist-Liberal coalition.
(ii)The revisionists attempt to deny communist espionage in America; when this is not possible they minimise it; when this second line of defence is untenable they defend commumist espionage. A particularly outrageous example of revisionism is provided by Ellen Schrecker.
An essential reference.......2006-10-26
The major revisionists, fellow travelers and apologists for communism are well known but Haynes and Klehr cite so many others this is a handy book to have on hand when deciding whether to purchase other books. It has already saved me it's purchase price.
Besides, it's an enjoyable read.
Like so many books... Not what I thought.......2006-05-11
I thought this book would provide information (it does, but very little) about the lazy scholarship and outright denial that many leftist, particularly, in academia have about communism. The book ends up being a whole lot of name calling, and very little presenting of actual facts.
I recognize the schizophrenic love affair the left has with communism and am always looking for more and more (as if it was needed) facts to show how evil and devestating communism is. Instead, this book belongs on the bookshelf next to Al Franken and Ann Coulter and more ideological shrieking.
Don't waste your time, this book is so much fluff. I only gave this book two stars because, it rightly points out the state of denial someone must still be in to think communism is a good government system.
Communists in Denial.......2005-04-08
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr's In Denial is a detailed analysis of the publications and techniques of America's Stalin worshippers. While millions of Americans believe that communism died by 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of many of the archives in Russia, the authors revealed that American Communists remain active in the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, in the recommendations of content for children's textbooks, and in many other influential positions. While Nazism and Communism are both totalitarian ideologies, why do American universities employ worshippers of Stalin but not of Hitler?
The Communist revisionist historians can be detected easily, regardless of the labels they use to conceal their Communist beliefs. For example, what did a historian write about the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 22, 1939 and of the role of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA)? Stalin supported Hitler's rise to power in Germany. American Communist true believers were too stupid to understand what Stalin was doing. The CPUSA took an anti-Nazism position and cheered the Polish resistance to Hitler until the Soviet Union revealed that it would invade and annex half of Poland.
Initially, American Communists supported a third term for President Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat. In 1940, Roosevelt mandated the choice of Henry Wallace as his vice president. When the Soviet Union changed policies, the CPUSA reversed its position and attacked Roosevelt. Wallace won the endorsement of the American Communists when he ran for president in 1944.
Throughout the book, the authors stressed the anti-communist efforts of American liberals, Democrats, socialists, neoconservatives, and of former CPUSA members. Both Lenin and American conservatives shared negative views of left-of-center politicians in Western democracies. American Communists are still attempting to brand all anti-communists as McCarthyites. American Communists claim that Senator Joseph McCarthy's congressional investigations were terrible witch hunts while ignoring or minimizing the tens of millions who were murdered or terrorized in Communist countries.
American Communists have claimed that neoconservatives (neo-Trotskyites) are anti-communist. In fact, neoconservatives are only anti-Stalin.
American Communists continue to hold important positions in American universities and in other important organizations. Neoconservatives have been able to be elected even as Republicans to Congress. Neoconservatives support the MEK (or MKO or Rajavi cult), a Marxist terrorist organization responsible for the murders of American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and large numbers of innocent persons in the Middle East.
With researchers able to study some of the Russian archives, it is now possible to prove that many Americans lied when they claimed that they were not Communists or Communist spies. Unlike the Salem witch trials and the killings of innocent persons, the House Committee on Un-American Activities identified correctly many Americans as being Communists.
Clearly, nearly all Americans need to read In Denial. Truly, ignorance is a weapon of mass destruction.
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote
California State University, Fullerton
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