German Modern: Graphic Design from Wilhelm to Weimar (Art Deco Design)

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The latest volume in our popular Art Deco series, German Modern explores one of the fountainheads of modern graphic design. The renowned design team of Heller and Fili presents over 200 of the distinctive images that helped define the look of "the modern"-many never before published. Through posters, advertising stamps, letterheads, package design, magazine jackets, and numerous other commercial ephemera, the cool sophistication of this hybrid deco style looks as fresh today as it did when it first appeared between the world wars. Unique to German Modern is a chapter on the provisional currency known as Notgeld, which towns and even companies were allowed to print in the years of Germany's dire inflation. A key reference work and inspirational sourcebook for designers, artists, and aesthetes, German Modern is a colorful exploration of a classic and influential chapter ?of international design history.

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Great book........2007-07-04

I really enjoy this book. I find myself looking at it a lot.
There sure was some great design during this time period. This book captures examples of some of the best.

German Modern. Graphic Design from Wilhelm to Weimar.

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German Modern. Graphic Design from Wilhelm to Weimar.
Steven, & Louise FILI. HELLER
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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German Modern : Graphic Design from Wilhelm to Weimar
Steven; Fili, Louise Heller
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Maureen Taylor

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Excellent for do-it-yourself photo preservation

The lyrics of the song are wrong.

Preserving Your Family Photographs: How to Organize, Present, and Restore Your Precious Family Images
Maureen A. Taylor
Manufacturer: Betterway Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Genealogists and non-genealogists alike love old photographs and many people have photo collections of their ancestors. Preserving Your Family Photographs shows them how to organize and store these photos so that future generations can also enjoy them.

Readers will learn how to care for family photos, identify different types of damage, learn basic conservation techniques, buy the proper storage materials, then organize the family photo archive and safely display it for all to see.

* Photo preservation and display techniques appeal to both genealogist and non-genealogist alike
* The book provides instruction through the use of beautiful sample photos

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Maureen Taylor.......2006-03-19

Does an excellent job of organizing and establishing time lines for photos. Very glad to find a copy.

Information Vague and Contradictory.......2004-05-02

Taylor may give readers a good place to start in their efforts to preserve family photographs, but offers information that is both contradictory and vague.

She gives a basic explanation of the "enemies" your photographs are facing, even breaking down information on particular types of photographs, tintypes, Polaroids, etc. But does not bother defining some basic terms in the glossary such as lignin. Nor are many of her suggestions for which supplies are appropriate specific enough. Eg., what kind of brush should I use to clean photos? I know that Nylon brushes are probably not soft enough for treasured photos. Even worse she says polyethylene is a bad material to store your photos in, but a few pages later suggests using polyethylene freezer bags for freezer storage of items.

Taylor includes lengthy lists of resources for, and more information on preservation. But some of the web addresses she lists no longer exist.

While she has some good suggestions for long-term storage of photo collections, I would not recommend this book to anyone trying to learn about photographic preservation.

Excellent for do-it-yourself photo preservation.......2002-07-23

For me, studying old photos is one of the more fascinating aspects of family research, even when I'm not related to any of the people whose faces appear. The military uniforms, hats, parlor furniture, automobiles, urban scenes, and especially the faces and their expressions, are like a kind of time travel, allowing you to peer back into someone's past. Taylor's previous book, _Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs,_ investigated that process. But how to protect the photos you already have tucked away in albums have so future family members will get the same pleasure (and information) from them? And how to rehabilitate those you discover to whom the years and the elements have not been kind? This time, the author outlines the steps you can take to see that your photographs have the best chance of survival and describes the methods conservators and restoration experts follow when the task becomes too much for you. She also guides you through the process of creating a meaningful scrapbook of archival quality, discusses the use of computer enhancement and electronic archives, and points out the legal aspects of posting photographs on a web site. Most of the chapters end with checklists and answers to frequently-asked questions, and there are many sidebars and brief marginal comments regarding further reading and useful Internet resources on the subject. Keeping in mind that the technical aspects of photographic restoration and preservation continue to evolve rapidly, this is an excellent beginner's guide and reference handbook.

The lyrics of the song are wrong........2001-07-08

Mama won't take your Kodachrome away, it is time and the elements which are attacking your treasured family photographs. Your Polaroid snapshots are fading as you read this. Those "magnetic" photo albums with the adhesive pages are gassing your family pictures to crumbs. Your digital images may not be viewable by your great grandchildren. But don't give up hope - take action. Maureen Taylor's "Preserving Your Family Photographs" tells you how to take charge and protect your family's photographic history. "Preserving Your Family Photographs" shows you how taking some simple steps now will slow down the aging process of your photographs. And its doesn't require a chemistry set. The book further discusses how and when to choose a professional conservator, concerns about digital photography, how to organize your collection, and even how to safely place your treasures in a scrapbook. This book takes up where "Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs" leaves off. After you've identified your family photographs, "Preserving Your Family Photographs" tells you how to keep them for generations to come.

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“One of the most adult and serious manga releases of the past year.... Disturbing and provocative.” — Manga Max

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Casting Aquarium?.......2007-05-09

The Midwest Book Review, offered for this no doubt highly polished lens upon a world whose penchant for vapid self-indulgence makes philosophical solipsism seem a team sport, claims that "insightful observations, along with the revelations that rocked Hollywood, make fascinating suggestions about the old studio star system and its abuses -- as well as today's financial pressures and changing morays." Out in the tall corn the average wholesome looby might lose sight of the fact that morays are unchangingly eels and only eels. Mores would be the thing the MBR wants and that Hollywood affects to mirror.

From Shirley to Brooke.......2002-12-28

I enjoyed reading Hollywood Lolita up to the next-to-last chapter. It is filled with gorgeous photos and being quite young there were several personalities I had never heard of (like Mary Pickford who played little-girl roles until she was 32!!). I also enjoyed the chapter about Shirley Temple, but the Brooke Shields / Jodie Foster part of the book really deceived me.

Being a huge Brooke fan, the constant ridiculing tone the author used while describing Brooke's roles and talent was infuriating. I also wished Mrs Sinclair would have skipped the moralist comments (aka : Oh the big bad mom who let her 3 year old bare her behind for a Coppertone commercial). Maybe the author wishes she'd have been a child star instead of a rather unknown author ? Who knows !

In any case, if you're interested in cinematography and young actresses, buy this book. Read the bios, look at the pictures and skip the author's sore comments.

The best damn book on earth!.......1999-08-26

This book is positivly fantastic! It is such a fascinating subject. And Sinclair definitly does it justice. I have read it so many times its falling apart. I am the process of ordering a new one. As soon as I can afford it. Oh, BTW. Ms. Sinclair my name is Laura Gasparac, I recently wrote you a letter complimenting your book. I hope you got it and I'm waiting for the reply, hint, hint. Thanks again!

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Il quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1560)

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Whatever level you occupy in an organization, from line manager to senior executive to team leader, the skill of giving meaningful and effective feedback is an important component to helping other people develop and to getting the job done. Creating and delivering a specific message based on observed performance is key to effective feedback. Your feedback should enable the receiver to walk away understanding exactly what he or she did and what impact it had on you. When the result is this specific and this direct, there is a better chance that the person getting the feedback will be motivated to begin, continue, or stop behaviors that affect performance. This guidebook explains how to deliver effective feedback by showing how to build your message, when to deliver it, and how to communicate it. By using the methods and examples in this guidebook, your feedback becomes a tool for development—for others and for yourself.

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Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience. But not all feedback is effective in making the best use of that experience. This guidebook demonstrates how to make the feedback you give more effective so that others can benefit from your message.

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During the last years of his violent life, Pablo Acosta smuggled a staggering 60 tons of cocaine a year into the United States-one third of the total U.S. consumption. Set only miles from the Texas border, Drug Lord is an extraordinary inside look at how drug trafficking really works in Mexico. Based on interviews with Acosta and other insiders, Poppa weaves a tale of the smuggler's rise from humble beginnings, his violent struggle to maintain control over his empire, the treachery and over-indulgence that fostered his downfall, and his grisly death at the hands of the judiciales, the Mexican federal police he had been paying off for years and who turned against him when he was no longer of use.

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UN ESCRITOR CON POCO CONOCIMIENTO DEL TEMA.......2007-01-30

quisiera referirme al epilogo la pagina 357 para ser exactos en esta pagina el escritor le llama a mexico un pais que tiene envidia a EEUU por sus logros.... y que por eso los mexicanos traficamos droga.
para el escritor:
By now everyone has accepted that the fact that as long as there's demand,there will always be supply, and that whenever one supplier goes down, another inevitably rises up to fill the void.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND-the bedrock principle of economics- thus ensures that the endless war on drugs will continue until EEUU stop using drugs...
si sabes tanto escritor porque ocultas la verdad?????. benjamin(sinaloense)

Right on the money!.......2006-10-25

After serving in the Border Patrol in the west Texas area for the last ten years, Poppa's book is the most realistic I have read to date. I get frustrated reading many books, especially when they start blaming the US for Mexico's problems. This books explains clearly corruption in the Mexican system, how it came about, and why it will probably never go away. It also demonstrates how ridiculious our politicians can be in attempting to deal with a government built on and run by corruption.

The story of Pablo is great, but you could just change the name and it would fit many of the other King Pins out there and their lives too. Mexico relishes and charishes Drug Lords as heroes, and that is a fact.

Question? When you have that many millions of people crossing into the United States illegally that have accepted corruption as the way things are done, what will that eventually do to our society?

great read, flawed conclusion.......2006-01-04

In Drug Lord, Terrence Poppa manages to capture all the elements that a book about America's War on Drugs should have: engrossing, multidimensional heroes and villains, clearly-defined connections between the men and women who move oceans of narcotics across the Rio Grande and the larger governmental interests on both sides of the border that profit, one way or the other, from the trade, and guns, guns, guns. Drug Lord was an engrossing read, which I happened to read while touring the Big Bend area of West Texas. The book had such an impact on me that I made a 100-mile detour to visit Ojinaga, the stage where Pablo Acosta made his rise from dirt-poor campesino to mafia kingpin. Although Ojinaga today does its best to disassociate itself, at least to outsiders, from Acosta's legacy (even this pinche gringo knew better than to walk into a cantina and start asking questions), many of the tangible remnants of the bad old days Poppa describes, such as the smuggler's trucks with questionable propane tanks in the bed and houses surrounded by 12 foot-high cinderblock walls, are still readily visible. Although the book succeeds as narrative and will satisfy anyone interested in the drug war, the conclusion that Poppa comes to can be summed up in one sentence: it is all Mexico's fault. True, the Mexican government is rotten to the core, and six years under Vicente Fox doesn't seem to have changed much. But any honest examination of the War on Drugs must acknowledge the fact that Acosta and those who have come before and after him are only supplying a demand created by Americans; if the Mexicans don't sate that demand, then the Colombians will, and if the Colombians don't sate it, then the Cosa Nostra, or the Russians, and so on and so forth. I found Poppa's willingness to foster the blame for an unwinnable war on the shoulders of a country that has lost so much fighting a conflict whose victory will primarily benefit Americans to be a sad and myopic conclusion to an otherwise great book. Readers wanting an equally-engrossing but more balanced read should try Charles Bowden's Down By The River, about the Amado-Fuentes organization.

Great Book.......2005-04-15

I've read the book and it is everything my friends told me it was. In the book Comandante Oscar Prieto is one of my friend's dad. The author gives good detail of the story of Pablo because i've heard a lot of true stories which are in the book, and of course a lot that aren't. I have family in Ojinaga and you still have the same business going on, but a lot of people from the town don't worry about it. I've seen pictures where Pablo just looks like a normal rancher from town. He always helped the people in need for food or money. He always remembered where he came from. That's why people don't remember him as a drug lord but as a person who helped the community and the poor. You will be surprised by how Pablo did his deals to cross the drugs over the border. When you read the book you will picture in your mind everything that is going on just like I did. Believe me, you will visualize.

Excellent.......2003-03-05

Great story that exposes the ugly corrupt symbiotic elationship between the mexican drug dealers and the corrupt police and army officials. It also carefullly documents the inevitable, reccurring results...Still, with all the access to Pablo Agosta you still feel you really don't know him -perhaps there really wasn't any 'there' there--it was all about power and getting high,and killing the opposition.. There are no heroes in this story, just a grim reality which leads you to the conclusion that the more things supposedly change, the more they remain the same---no solutions offered for that part of the mexican/ american economy living on fumes. . . Oddly enough,legalization (with appropriate controls/education/treament) might offer a long term solution-these stories will inevitably get worse, more violent, and corrupt the very institutions created to suppress the drug lords GOOD Story that should have been told long ago The end was foretold early in the book so there is little suspense at the end--not great writing, but great story

Drug Lord: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

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Drug Lord: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
Terrence E. Poppa
Manufacturer: Pharos Books
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When he marched off to war, drugstore clerk Edgar Warfield was just steps ahead of the Union troops that occupied Alexandria. In the next four years, he fought in all but a few of the major engagements. His highly readable memoir was written when he was almost 90.

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A Confederate soldier's story:.......2002-09-18

Private Edgar Warfield of the 17th Virginia Infantry starts his amazing story with the jovial and enthusiasm attitude shared by many Southern recruits embarking for a chance to fight off the Union stranglehold forming in early 1861. This newfound bundle of patriotic spirit is quickly humbled by the baptism of fire. Warfield is involved in many skirmishes and battles such as 1st Manassas, Seven Pines, 2nd Manassas, Sharpsburg and more. His descriptions or movements are a bit hard to follow though his story of daily camp life is excellent. The details of fighting and others in battle is a bit `matter of fact' at times though he does share his opinions on subjects as comrades dying or being injured. His story is rather quick as there are 180 pages of material that he has put together. This book is a valuable asset for understanding soldier life and how one perceived war.

Good Book.......2000-08-16

I got this book near the Henry House in Manassas, Virginia where young Pvt. Warfield fought. This is a great book for readers who really love to read about the rebellion. This book greatly expresses camp life for a young soldier in the Confederate army. If debating to get this book definetly get it.

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In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some historical abstraction, and the notion of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical device invoked on the campaign trail. Questions of constitutional meaning provoked vigorous public debate and the actions of government officials were greeted with celebratory feasts and bonfires, or riotous resistance. Americans treated the Constitution as part of the lived reality of their daily existence. Their self-sovereignty in law as much as politics was active not abstract.

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Should Judicial Review by Limited?.......2005-11-02

This is a very fine work of scholarship. The research is staggering in its comprehensiveness, and it is a definite contribution to the literature on the federal courts at a time when there is much attention being devoted to judicial power. The basic thesis of the book is that throughout American constitutional history, what the author terms "popular constitutionalism" has played a "pivotal role" in interpreting the Constitution. The author believes that "judicial supremacy" has caused a disfunction in the political system and needs to be offset by more attention to the expressions of popular direction in making interpretations. In order to argue his thesis, the author has produced a very valuable history of judicial review.

At the outset, the author carefully defines his terms, including "customary constitution," "fundamental law," "natural law" and "common law." Next the author moves on to a discussion of judicial review in England to try and demonstrate that no solid precedent for this practice had developed prior to the drafting of the Constitution. An excellent example of popular sovereignty is the fact that juries during this period often made findings of law as well as fact. The author devotes considerable attention to the purported pre-constitutional precedents for judicial review, finding them either to be overstated or misinterpreted. The historical record does disclose limited acceptance of the practice, but only in cases where the judiciary was protecting its own prerogatives. The author argues that the issue really did not come up very much at this point. Similarly, a solid discussion is devoted to the Constitutional convention and the ratification debates where, once again, the issue came up only sporadically.

The post-ratification period also is examined in several chapters. Once again, the author concludes that there was no clear consensus on the practice of judicial review. The emegence of political parties inhibited popular interpretation, since it placed a layer between the people and the government. However, Jacksonian opposition to the practice persisted. It is only after the Civil War, with the increasing professionalization of the bar and the enhanced conservatism of courts that the practice became recognized (after all, it was not until the Dred Scott decision in the 1850's that the Court again exercised the power it had staked out in Marbury v. Madison). The "Old Court's" abuse of the power was checkmated by the New Deal Settlement stemming from FDR's court-packing attempt. That is, the power would be exercised to review laws impacting individual right, but not Congressional powers such as commerce and general welfare. This compromise lasted until the Rehnquist Court.

There is a lot to consider in this volume. The author's arguments are well thought out and he is straightforward when discussing historical periods when the sentiment in favor of judicial review was pronounced. None of the arguments for judicial review (e.g.,avoiding the tyranny of the majority) persuades the author that the practice should continue without restraint. The only problem I found in the argument was not with the historical evidence (although I don't necessarily share the author's reading of the historical record) but in his conclusion. How would "popular constitutionalism" operate within our current system? That is, how would the people's will be communicated to the courts and Congress, so they could interpret the Constitution and statutes accordingly? Some discussion on this point strikes me as a necessity. For those without some background in the topic, the book may be a bit heavy going due to its comprehensiveness. But for illuminating an important historical approach to the judicial review issue, it is hard to surpass.

Simultaneously Over and Under Inclusive.......2005-10-22

After finishing Kramer's book, one doesn't know quite what to make of it. After all, as history, the book is about one hundred pages too long and studded with irrelevant normative snipes. But as a prescriptive policy argument, the book is needlessly morassed in early history and rests its points on a case that was never built.

Popular Constitutionalism is the latest fad. One can find its implication in such divergent sources as the Critical Legal Scholar, Mark Tushnet, and the ardent conservative, Robert Bork. Indeed, Newt Gingrich appears to have a laudatory review on this very page. Just what popular constitutionalism is is not entirely clear--most agree it is the denial to the Supreme Court of the final say on constitutional issues: the reversal of Marbury, that is. Whether that is to be replaced with executive supremacy, legislative supremacy, or mere mobbing is questionable--particularly so in this book. Still, liberals, troubled by recent Rehnquist Court Commerce Clause jurisprudence, and conservatives, still enraged over cases dealing with the right to privacy, find much of the arguments inviting.

There is no such argument here. One will find an altogether interesting examination of the early history of the Republic (indeed, Kramer touches even further back on English law and Lord Coke). Kramer explains that there used to exist a somewhat mystical (yet concrete) source of law, the customary Constitution. The customary Constitution was promulgated by the people themselves--not their representatives, not their Senators, and most definitely not their judges. They expressed their views on the law and how it should sway by petitions, by mobbing, by political uprising and revolt. Sounds fun, to be sure.

That, not the Supreme Court, Kramer contends, was the final repository of the Constitution's interpretation. He admits his solution is somewhat paradoxical, but blames that on our modern acclimation to the judicial supremacy. Base laid down, Kramer advances through the Founding, copiously quoting historical sources (albeit primarily secondary), showing this view was widespread. We are treated to a lively version of Marbury politics, brought through escapades in state and federal jurisprudence. We watch the rise of the Jacksonians and are served Van Buren's thoughts of democracy.

The Federalists are denigrated for their anti-populist views, and Kramer charges that the Federalists are ever reincarnated, always holding fast in the Supreme Court to prevent the will of the people from being expressed. The Court's power follows a sine wave, waxing and waning, beaten back by other branches only to regain power again.

That was until the present--nowadays, the Court seems to have finally triumphed. On that note, Kramer skips into his final chapter, the great disgrace of the book. We are treated to florid purplish prose, faux-inspiration, and pleading for an argument that was never clarified. What the author is arguing for is no less mysterious at the start than the beginning: what the author wants is as vague and amorphous as the "People" he celebrates throughout the work.

This book has very troubling implications.......2005-08-03

Kramer seems to think that we have strayed from the path of letting the People decide constitutional issues. There are significant reasons why Madison and others thought that would be a problem. Freedom of speech, for example, is something that the majority of voters or their representatives in congress would do away with in an instant if it weren't for the Supreme Court. Freedom of speech is fine until some group like the communists or the nazi party tries to exercise it, then legislators try to make laws saying they can't. In our constitution it is imperative to have a less political branch deciding these issues. Yes, the Supremes make unpopular decisions sometimes, but that is their job. Allowing the boneheads in congress to decide important constitutional issues would be folly. They would play to the lowest common denominator and have us giving away our rights in the name of God or security or morality. The Constitution has a way for the people to check the Supreme Court. We can impeach them or amend the constitution. Kramer's book looks back on the golden age in 1800 when we voted out a political party because of the unconstitutional laws they passed. Does he deny the havoc some poorly thought out laws could wreak in 21st century America? We don't have time to allow people to take away American's rights with the idea we might get them back in the next election.

A well-written account of the evil of American judges.......2005-04-12

Larry Kramer, Dean of the Stanford Law School, shows America
in this book the nature of judicial oppression and how it is
not consistant with the constitution. He also explains why
America has for so long been helpless before these tyrants in
robes and how to go about fixing the problem.

Liberals infiltrated the court system years ago. The socalist
FDR cemented their power in place when the Supreme
Court caved in to his threats. Once FDR had overthrown the
constitution, the liberals stepped into the void and reshaped
the court system. Our courts and judges are no longer American.
They are out to destroy America and all the values that America
is about.

The Liberal agenda is to destroy our Churches and the historic
role of God in Government. They want to replace our American
culture with the diseased culture of old-europe. They also want
to destroy the basic notion of right and wrong. Our so-called
judges make rulings every day in pursuit of these plans.

REAL America, the hardworking ordinary people, want nothing to
do with these diseased people and their ideas. So the Liberals
use the courts to force their system on America.

Kramer makes it clear that the neither the constitution or the
founding fathers intended for the courts to take on the role
they now have. The framers intended that the courts be a
junior branch of government which would take guidance from the
popularly elected congress and president as to what the
constitution means and how laws are to be enforced. They were
never given the power to tell congress what laws it could pass
or tell a president what he can (or can not) do.

The delusion known as judicial review though is just one of a
broader set of delusions. The founding fathers intended for
the bill of rights to protect the congress from an imperial
president and the states from the federal government. They
would find it utterly wrong to see individuals using the courts
to assert rights and having judges legislating from the bench
to give them rights.

The book also details in great length the first plot to use
the courts to take over America. The Federalists attempted
to set up a dicatorship from the bench. They jailed their
enemies and attemped to keep control of the country even though
they had lost the election. Thomas Jefferson acted as President
Bush should act now: He simply fired the judges and asserted
the power of the elected branches of goverment over that of
the court. If only both Bush brothers had been as brave as
Jefferson, Terry in Florida would be alive today.

The history the book lays out also shows that lifetime
appointments for judges are simply unworkable. No matter how
conservative or principled a man might seem before, when they
take up the post of judge power goes to their heads. Anthony
Kennedy is a case in point. Once he got on the court he turned
his back on everything he and his church believed in and became
a liberal. You can hardly
recognize him anymore. Same with Scaila who abandoned
Conservative Godly pro-life beliefs for libertarian nonsense.
Scaila isn't a liberal but his excessive zeal in the promotion
of rights people didn't know they needed isn't much better
than liberals like Anthony Kennedy. For every straight and true
man like Justice Thomas, there are a dozen conservatives who
turn into liberals once they get power.

Kramer is right on target in saying that congress and the
president need to both step in and put an end to this nonsense.
I think most of America had its wake-up call when they murdered
Terry. They can no longer blame it on one judge. The order to
murder her was effectively signed by all the courts in Florida,
a district court, the entire bench of a court of appeals and
the entire supreme court. They have thrown down the gauntlet
to the president and our elected congress. If they blink now,
the freedoms we value will be gone and replaced with rights we
never wanted.

Kramer rightly points out that the Supreme Court caused the
single worst tragedy in American history (the civil war). They
caused it by the Dred Scott decision. Other historians (M.
Levin) have demonstrated the historic role of the court in the
creating and maintaining slavery, segregation and bringing
racism into the constitution. It goes unsaid, but the total
number of deaths attributably to the tyranny of the supreme
court in both the civil war and "Roe v. Wade" is probably as
high as in many historical dicatatorships like Stalins. Its
time to act now because the court has started to make decisions
that undermine the war on terror. If the court steps in and
tries to free the masters of terror we have imprisoned at great
cost in blood and treasure, I fear for the survival of the
country.

The president and the congress, through elections, represent
America. They represent the views of the mainstream of America
about the constitution and the law. If liberals and power-mad
judges stand against them, they are standing against the popular
will of America and should be fired. Not impeached, but simply
fired.

The criminal gang of Athiests running the 9th Circuit need to be
done away with *in total*. Congress and the president should
simply abolish the entire circuit and tell the criminals on
that court that their services are no longer needed. There is
no place for people engaged in a war on God in our American
courts or government for that matter.

Kramer has written a guidebook for how the American people
through their leaders can take back their country from the
unelected courts. All that matters now is for our leaders
to step up and take the actions necessary to save the country
and to restore our freedom.

Junto Society thumbs up!.......2005-01-25

Larry D. Kramer has constructed a masterful work here that belongs in every American's library. When it comes to subjects like judicial review, many author's, themselves often constitutional attorneys, have a tendency to go out of their way to try to write "over the head" of the political novice. Not the case with Kramer's work. He writes in a succinct fashion that will be appreciated by both judicial professionals and constitutional beginners alike.

Much evidence is found here which doesn't really repudiate, and in many ways, supports that judicial review was in fact, the intent of the framer's and perhaps even a logical conclusion. Kramer doesn't really attempt to defy the judiciary claim of their right of review, but beyond that point, Kramer takes the gloves off and pounds away at what he categorizes as "judicial tyranny", the court usurping it's constitutional boundaries.

Kramer details the 200 year evolution of the court's abuse of power, beginning before MARBURY when the idea of judicial review came into play, through what we find today with the judiciary legislating from the bench and completely dismissing state's rights. It is also most interesting how the author chronicles Madison's changing opinion of judicial review.

This book, in many ways, mirrors and supports the earlier work by Martyn Babitz, THE ILLUSION OF FREEDOM, where both authors support Madison's concession that the "states only political recourse [over the federal courts] is through elections and impeachment". But Kramer hints of other possibilities at controlling our out of control judiciary in his epilogue when he writes;

"The Constitution leaves room for countless political responses to an overly assertive Court: Justices can be impeached, the Court's budget can be slashed, the President can ignore its mandates, Congress can strip it of jurisdiction or shrink its size or pack it with new members or give it burdensome new responsibilities or revise its procedures."

Interesting possibilities, to be sure. In conclusion, I believe Kramer concedes judicial review as bona fide, but constructs a solid foundation to dispute the notion of judicial supremacy. This is a very enjoyable book that I learned a great deal from. The book at times, does read a bit slow, but that has nothing to do with Kramer's writing style, it has to do with the fact that you are constantly finding new information and referring back to the bibliography, which will no doubt lead the reader to numerous other books to add to your reading list. I look forward to future books by this author.

Monty Rainey
Junto Society

The people's court.(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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James R., Jr. Stoner
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Title: The people's court.(Book Review)
Author: James R., Jr. Stoner
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 148 Page: 46(4)

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The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review,

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Larry D, KRAMER
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