How to Get Started Selling Your Art
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • A Good Start
How to Get Started Selling Your Art
Carole Katchen
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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ASIN: 0891346856

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars A Good Start.......2002-06-09

This is a very simple book. Overly simplistic, but it is a good book to get comfortable with marketing your art. I think that may be its greatest value. Marketing is often times over whelming and this book does a good job making hte beginner feel comfortable with the process.

Using Multisim 6.1: Troubleshooting DC/AC Circuits
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Troubleshooting for starters
Using Multisim 6.1: Troubleshooting DC/AC Circuits
John Reeder
Manufacturer: Cengage Delmar Learning
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ASIN: 0766811336

Book Description

This unique workbook teaches how to troubleshoot circuits with the help MultiSIM(TM) 6.1. Working on the computer, you will learn to make measurements, replace components, and test results just as you would in a lab. Circuits contain built-in faults to give you troubleshooting practice. This exciting approach quickly builds the skill and confidence needed to do live circuit troubleshooting.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Troubleshooting for starters.......2003-03-07

This book is intended for first to second year students,it starts with the simplest circuits, anybody will be able to fully understand this book, many questions are included, and the enclosed CD has all the circuits made.Highly recommended if you are starting in the study of electronics.

Scooby Doo: You Meddling Kids! (Scooby-Doo (Graphic Novels))
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Great for young kids
Scooby Doo: You Meddling Kids! (Scooby-Doo (Graphic Novels))
Chris Duffy , Terrance Griep , Sam Henderson , Barbara Slate , and Dan Slott
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ASIN: 1401201776

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great for young kids.......2004-01-13

This book reprints the first five issues of the DC Comics Scooby Doo series. They are great for children, and something we can read together as a family. The art is very good, especially in the stories drawn by Joe Staton and Ernie Colon. The only downside is that in reprinting the comics, they had to shrink the pictures. Thus, I'd encourage people to buy this book, and also encourage them even more to buy the current comic series.

Live from Middle America : Rants from a Red-State Comedian
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A conservative's objection to the conservative
  • Up and Down throughout the book (a book from a Christian conservative American from a red state)
  • Great book...just not for all
  • Live From Middle America: Rants from a Red-State Comedian
  • Brad Stine is right on!
Live from Middle America : Rants from a Red-State Comedian
Brad Stine
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000GUJHDU

Book Description

"Of the hundreds of comedians I've seen, Brad Stine is the best . . . side-splittingly funny, smart, and edgy."
-Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life


Hilarious and thought-provoking, Brad Stine is a comedian who hails from-of all places-Middle America. So what happens when a conservative who is convinced that America is the greatest country on the planet, except for all the idiocies that have infiltrated it at the callous-free, baby-soft hands of liberals, gets the opportunity to rant on the page? By-products of "liberal lunacy," such as bump signs on our highways, airbags for safety, the decline of tobacco use, the contagion of Starbucks, and garden-variety political correctness, become grist for Stine's comedic mill.

Laugh-out-loud funny and acutely insightful, Live from Middle America will prove irresistible to those who recognize themselves in its pages, and marks the publishing debut of one of conservative America's most original voices.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars A conservative's objection to the conservative.......2007-09-14

I find it odd that Stine takes the slant from the first pages of his book that if you agree with him you're a conservative and if you disagree with him you're a liberal, and an "idiot" at that. For one, the world isn't quite so subjective because people of the same belief systems disagree with each other. Then there's the other matter that I disagree with Stine on most... the concept that we're supposed to heckle the other side of the fence.

Now I know Stine considers himself a comic and I did laugh the first time I heard his act five years ago... but the times since then that I've heard him it seems more like a bitter rant with pieces of the old act thrown in (Ever heard the one about Adam naming the animals? How about the tractor on the highway? Or the deer signs?). This book seems to reflect that cynical spirit, which I think does the harmful job of stealing the lumber from potential bridges by making the fences higher.

In short, I am a Christian and have a hard time rationalizing why we should belittle others for the sake of self-glorification, or a pointless attempt at humor.

Maybe that's a bit too conservative for such a liberal comic... but according to Stine's logic that makes me right and him wrong.

Right?

3 out of 5 stars Up and Down throughout the book (a book from a Christian conservative American from a red state).......2007-08-08

Stine comments on any number of popular culture items, including tobacco, abortion, God in public schools, baseball, Las Vegas, banning guns, bumper stickers and Wal-Mart. Each little rant comes in short chapters averaging around 4 pages each.

Now, my review:

I wanted to love this book but I could barely get myself to like it.

As I stated in the title, I am a Christian, a conservative and I am a proud resident of Indiana - a red state since LBJ in 1964.

First and foremost, I quickly grew tired of the publisher's decision to pull little tidbits out of the text and highlight them with a box right next to the text that contains the exact same sentence? What was the point of that?

Secondly, Stine blames everything in the world on liberals (even for bumps in the road). He assumes that liberal automatically means atheist (well, I guess my dad, the church elder is not going where he assumed when he dies) and assumes that conservative automatically means Christian (what about Milton Friedman?).

Thirdly, Stine seems to confuse "Red State" with "Redneck" at many points, saying things like Red State parents make their kids smoke and they eat animals they run over with their cars. I think I've heard all of this before and it the routine always ends like this, "...you might be a redneck."

I've never seen Stine in person, so perhaps knowing his act really would juice up a lot of this - I don't know. His funniest comments are about Trick-or-Treating on Halloween, "God is my co-pilot" bumber stickers, turn signals, gay marriage (he's remarkably middle-of-the-road on this) and abortion. The abortion commentary isn't particularly funny but it is a much more coherent argument than the rest of the book presents and really is the best piece in the book. On the other hand, his commentary on foreign-made goods is not terribly coherent nor is it conservative.

So, I give this one a grade of C+. It would have been worse except for the strong section on abortion.

4 out of 5 stars Great book...just not for all.......2007-01-09

Saw this guy at my church and his stand up routine is very funny and it really makes you think the book is great just not for everyone

5 out of 5 stars Live From Middle America: Rants from a Red-State Comedian.......2007-01-09

Courageous and frank. Brad engages real world issues in such a refreshingly honest manner that you must respect this work, even if you don't agree with him.

4 out of 5 stars Brad Stine is right on!.......2007-01-05

Not for the faint of heart....this book is in your face and your brain. If you don't like it...you didn't read it. There are some things that I disagree with but the way it is discussed makes me think about and that is what good writing is about. A must read.
Live from Middle America: Rants from a Red-State Comedian
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    Live from Middle America: Rants from a Red-State Comedian
    Brad Stine
    Manufacturer: Hudson Street Press
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    ASIN: B000NUJ1K2

    La Jetee: Cine-Roman (Spanish Language Edition)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • A masterpiece transfered to the page
    • a close look
    • Amazing storyteller
    La Jetee: Cine-Roman (Spanish Language Edition)
    Chris Marker
    Manufacturer: Zone Books
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

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    La Jetée (The Jetty), the legendary science fiction film was released in 1964 and is considered by many critics to be among the best experimental films ever made. Chris Marker, who is an undisputed master of the film essay, composed this post-Apocalypse story of memory and loss almost entirely of black-and-white still photographs. The story involves an experiment in recovering and changing the past through the action of memory, but the film can be read as a poem dominated by a single moving image, which by its context becomes one of the supreme moments in all film. This Zone edition reproduces the film's original images along with the script in both English and French.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A masterpiece transfered to the page.......2001-10-02

    Image and emotion move as you turn the pages. Marker's images are extraordianry in their power to evoke so much humanity in each still.

    5 out of 5 stars a close look.......2000-08-01

    This book takes the film shot by shot giving you clear images that you can't see on the vhs copies in release. This is the best way of taking a close look at the film that has inspired so many filmmakers over the years.

    5 out of 5 stars Amazing storyteller.......2000-04-19

    I first saw this in college about five years ago. It was in an art class where we were discussing time. This was before 12 monkeys came out and people had never seen a film of such complexity (at least in Hollywood). Each still was posted on the screen and a movie was created in your mind. Thinking back I thought I had seen a full movie when really I only saw a few stills. It was amazing. I highly recommend this book to those who loved 12 monkeys for it's artsy complexity and I also recommend it to those who hate mainstream movies and love solely art films. The reason I liken this book to film is because after reading this book you feel like you just watched a movie like Brazil or The City of Lost Children!

    Going To Cincinnati. A History Of The Blues In The Queen City.
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      Going To Cincinnati. A History Of The Blues In The Queen City.
      Steven C. Tracy
      Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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      ASIN: B000OQI264
      GOING TO CINCINNATI: A History of the Blues in the Queen City
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        Steven C. Tracy
        Manufacturer: UIP
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        Binding: Hardcover
        ASIN: B000TVW9EK
        Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City (Great Cincinnati Bicentennial)
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
        • Interesting, especially so for those who live in the area
        Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City (Great Cincinnati Bicentennial)
        Steven C. Tracy
        Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover

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        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars Interesting, especially so for those who live in the area.......2006-01-01

        I met Steven Tracy at a signing for this book in a Cincinnati bookstore. The man is as lively and entertaining as his book.

        You might not immediately think of Cincinnati as a "blues region"; however, while it may not be a major one, it's useful to remember that Cincinnati is 1) a river town like many blues capitals and 2) is a real melting pot, a place where conservative and liberal, white and black, urban and Appalachian meet and sometimes even get along. I grew up there, for what it's worth.

        Tracy's book tells many fascinating stories of blues artists you may never have heard of, and a few you may have (especially in the chapter on King Records). Many of these artists can be heard on a CD from Document Records, Rare Country Blues, volume 3 (this contains all the tracks from the LP Cincinnati Blues from Document).

        I don't have a substantive reason for docking this a star ... it's just that the artists covered are for the most part interesting as opposed to essential, I guess. But your opinion may differ. And Tracy really does brings this little-known material to life. If you are a country blues fan and are looking to go beyond Robert Johnson, Son House and Blind Lemon Jefferson, this is an intriguing book to explore.

        2002 Things to Do With Your Kids: Creative Ideas for Family Fun
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • This book is packed with lots of creative & fun ideas
        2002 Things to Do With Your Kids: Creative Ideas for Family Fun
        Caryl Waller Krueger
        Manufacturer: Galahad Books
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        ASIN: 1578661153

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        5 out of 5 stars This book is packed with lots of creative & fun ideas.......2001-10-10

        You'll never get bored using this book for ideas to use for family fun with your kids. The book is easy to read and organized by chapters then by sections for that theme or subject. It even has ideas on how to get your kids to do chores, a list of excellent books for kids to read, a chapter about vitues and more. There are activities you can do with your toddler, preschooler, school-age child or adolescence. While thre are activities/ideas that may be approriate for a specific age group, you can never run out of things to do with your child.

        Training Within Industry: The Foundation Of Lean
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
        • Informative from a practical and historical perspective
        Training Within Industry: The Foundation Of Lean
        Donald A. Dinero
        Manufacturer: Productivity Press
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        Book Description

        Training Within Industry, by Donald Dinero, explores a crucial piece of a Lean initiative that has been overlooked throughout U.S. industry. The Training Within Industry (TWI) program — developed by the United States during World War II — has been used by Toyota for decades! This powerful program standardizes training processes and assists front-line supervisors in teaching new operations to workers quickly and effectively.

        Dinero completely explores the history and application of the four modules that compose TWI:Job Instruction — in which employees are trained to perform their tasks as quickly as they are capable with minimal waste; Job Methods — in which employees are taught how to improve their processes using existing resources; Job Relations — in which personnel problems are solved in an analytical, non-emotional manner so that employees are focused on a stated objective; and Program Development — in which robust training plans are developed to meet the particular needs of a specific plant.

        Readers of Training Within Industry will see that standardized work imparts measurable continuous improvement because it sets a baseline. It establishes a framework for efficiency and innovation.

        In addition, the book includes a CD containing the text of original TWI bulletins issued by the U.S. government in the 1940s.

        Unique and Compelling Features and Benefits: Provides a key to successfully implementing Lean Thinking Provides basic knowledge without any non-valued added material Applies to all positions in all industries Time tested - has been used for over sixty years and is still successful

        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars Informative from a practical and historical perspective.......2006-04-27

        This is a great book. As a history buff it has something for you, as the author does a great job of uncovering the creation and evolution of the TWI Program--developed by government and industry in the United States during WWII. As a lean manufacturing leader, the author also does a great service by explaining TWI--particularly the 3 "J" programs and how they can benefit industry today. The CD is nice, only wish it had the full TWI book text, not just the bulletins. That's the only thing keeping it from 5 stars.

        Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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        • Not the place to start for Jong
        • a candid look at life and writing
        Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
        Erica Jong
        Manufacturer: Tarcher
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        ASIN: 1585424447

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        Erica Jong began this book as a guide for aspiring writers. It was to be a book full of practical advice, inspiring examples, and sage wisdom ("Dare to dream," for instance). But she quickly realized that writing such a book would be dishonest, a way to veil the difficult nature of the writer's life with platitudes and encouragement. A demon out of an Isaac Singer story whispered in Jong's ear: "Tell the truth!" She knew she had no choice but to obey.

        Seducing the Demon is the sublime and salacious story of one writer's long and successful career as a poet, novelist, and feminist provocateur. Throughout, Jong is refreshingly direct-whether writing sex scenes, evoking the lure of alcohol and grass in the search for ecstasy, or conforming to the rigid narrative of AA. She tells us candidly about how she always lusted after Bill Clinton, and how she discovered the joys of tantric sex. Equally candid about the privileges of fame and the slaps of notoriety, Jong is above all loyal to the importance of telling the truth in an age of lies.

        Jong tells us she writes "to get my life down on paper so it can never be extinguished," and "to keep from going mad." She speaks of the power of sexual desire to "transmute words into flesh," and reveals how a range of writers, from Kafka and Nabokov to Henry Miller and Pablo Neruda, influenced and guided her. Delivering trenchant observations on great writers, she compares the ethereal Virginia Woolf to the earthy James Joyce: "She is Ariel to James Joyce's Caliban." An uncanny combination of bookish and bawdy, literary and libidinous, Seducing the Demon is an invaluable glimpse into one of the most provocative minds of our time.

        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars From Erica with Love.......2007-01-20

        There's a good memoir buried somewhere in the heap of re-edited commencement speeches and magazine think pieces that make up SEDUCING THE DEMON, Erica Jong's how-to book for would-be writers. The book jumps into overdrive when Jong recalls an early trip to California where, flush with the success of her novel FEAR OF FLYING, she sold the movie rights to Julia Phillips, a successful producer who was on the verge of a massive cocaine fueled breakdown. Jong's wild Hollywood nights contrasted sharply with her daytime visits to the Big Sur seaside home of aging lion Henry Miller, who exhibits an unexpected sweetness here in his extreme old age.

        Later, under the disastrous tutelage of Noel Marshall and his wife, actress Tippi Hedren, Jong decides to sue Phillips and Columbia for reneging on their agreement to film FEAR OF FLYING. What a mistake! The suit plunges Jong into financial disaster and forces her into writing all sorts of hackwork just to keep afloat. Her literary reputation, never high to begin with, plunges ziplessly downwards.

        SEDUCING THE DEMON seems a little desperate as Jong flings herself in all directions, rummaging through that ragbag of memory she calls her life. She rehearses the horrid love affair she had that already inspired a whole roman a clef ANY WOMAN'S LIFE, describing her hero memorably as the man whose erection wavered noticeably to the left, "in direct opposition to the tendency of his parents' politics." It's sentences like that that make you remember that Erica Jong was a poet first before becoming a pop novelist. She tells the story of how her daughter confessed to her that she was afraid of becoming a joke in Manhattan due to her cocaine addiction, then says, but this is my daughter's story to tell, not mine. I don't suppose anyone will finish this book, not even Jong's accountants, but it has its moments and oh, don't you wish she had obeyed her feminine instincts and actually taken Ted Hughes up on his offer of sexual favors? We would have had at least another few Jong novels out of it.

        4 out of 5 stars More than a babe.......2006-12-15

        I remember reading once that someone said author Erica Jong looked like Miss Piggy. Her upturned nose probably inspired that comparison, but I've always found Jong, the author of the infamously erotic "Fear of Flying," very attractive and sexy. The photograph of Jong, obviously snapped when she was in her 20s or 30s, adorning the front jacket of "Seducing the Demon: Writing For My Life," is striking. Now in her '60s, she remains a dish, but this book (the first of hers I've read) shows she's got a full plate, and is more than a babe.

        Jong's book was "started as a book of advice for fledgling writers." My ego, my age, and my status as a professional writer (struggling, though I may be) may exempt me from the "fledgling" label, but writing is important to me, and I'm always interested in reading books by writers for whom writing is also important - a way of life rather than a way to earn fame or money.

        In the final chapter, titled "Does Writing Trump Family," she says, "If you want to be a nice person, don't write."

        "There's no way to (write) without grinding up your loved ones and making them into raw hamburger," she writes. Jong states elsewhere that all fiction is autobiography and all autobiography is fiction. As for genres - fiction, non-fiction, memoir - they don't exist. "I've always thought that the idea of genre was a blot on the soul of literature," she says. "Categories like novel, memoir, biography have no value when you're writing - however much value they may have to librarians or bookstores. A book is a book is a book."

        When I started reading Jong's book, I had no idea her words would speak to me so clearly. I often read in search of confirmation that others think what I think, have suffered as I have, and are oppressed by the same fears, the same guilts, the same demons. A good writer must be honest as much as he/she possesses a skill with words. When this honesty is present, the writer and reader communicate with each other in an almost spiritual way, soul-to-soul, heart-to-heart.

        When reading Jong's description of her father's last days, I'm reminded of my mother and her defiance, her refusal to eat or get involved in activities at the nursing home, as well as her 1999 hospitalization during which she was uncooperative, ripping the respirator from her throat, a move that actually kick-started her recovery. Jong describes her father in a similar way. He was a "fighter" who "tried to escape from the emergency room, from the ICU and from the hospital" and was proven right when "the pneumonia he caught in the hospital that would finally do him in at ninety-two and not any of the three types of cancer her got and conquered...He pulled out breathing tubes, peeing tubes, IVs. He did not go quietly."

        James Baldwin said that art is the order that comes out of the disorder of life. Jong says "I think writing elevates my mood because it's a way of imposing order on chaos."

        Reading Jong's fine book elevated my mood, as well as provided insight into her talent. And that cover photo? Damn, she's hot!

        Brian W. Fairbanks

        5 out of 5 stars What happens to demons deferred?.......2006-12-02

        Seducing the Demon. Unlike the dreams deferred of Langston Hughes, demons rarely dry up or wither away in the sun. The writing life may not be all things imagined, yet thousands of aspiring writers dream of one day getting that call. Ms. Jong's Seducing the Demon lets us in on her bitter but sweet journey. She inspires us to step onward with an understanding that the jog up these pathways are often paved with something other than gold. Yet still she writes.

        5 out of 5 stars Not the place to start for Jong.......2006-11-05

        but if you are a fan, it's indispensable. Also good if you are interested in her personally, but if it's essays you like, Fear of Fifty or What Do Women Want are probably better stand-alones.

        That said, the price of the book is easily worth the laughs from reading the two pages about Martha Stewart. That was hilarious.

        4 out of 5 stars a candid look at life and writing.......2006-10-05

        I have re-written this review countless times, each time thinking Who am I to review Erica Jong? I am glad it took me several writings, because what has happened is that as I've skimmed Seducing the Demon many times over, I've discovered that I really like this book. My initial reaction was that I wanted more writing insight and less details of Jong's personal life. But as I've re-read sections I realize the book is packed full of writing advice, both direct and subtle. Jong uses quotes from an eclectic array of writers to illustrate her points, and the book is a good read for those alone. In the first chapter, Jong quotes both Hemingway and Merton as advising writers to write the truth, and her entire book is a testament to that advice. Rather than dictate rules, Jong shows us her creative process by sharing snippets of her life. Through several readings of the book it became quite clear that for Jong, living is the ultimate creative process. Her statement that writing is a way of imposing order on chaos speaks to the core of why I write.
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            5 out of 5 stars A Book of Timeless Wisdom.......2007-09-06

            Throughout the ages the "paranoid style" has been used to arouse public indignation and to attack established institutions and/or entrenched traditions that have grown ineffectual. Usually, the darkest and most abhorrent aspects of the accuser's personality are projected onto the hated enemy. Moreover, the true menace is sometimes seen as a malaise that lurks in a nation's midst rather than as something that exists outside its borders. And these chimeras tend to be the shadow projections of the idealistic personality (that is deeply concerned with the moral decay of the society around them) rather than realistic assessments of the true dangers that exist in the objective world. It gives the paranoid the illusion of control since there is little or nothing they can do about world opinion outside his or her borders, although they often imagine this to be so. As a consequence, many foreign policy initiatives are doomed to failure because a distorted picture of the world is being refracted through what amounts to a narrow, insular prism. That is, instead of viewing startling political developments throughout the world as complex historical processes that are unfolding for entirely legitimate reasons they might be seen as betrayals or acts of deliberate defiance. Especially when the vital interests of the observer are threatened.

            Then too, Americans have often seen any failure as the work of people within our own government who allowed such things to happen. For if some of our own people are to blame for our weakness, then we do not have to deny "the myth of American Omnipotence."

            This is an ideal time to read Hofstadter's book. It was written in the 1950s and 60s, so you get an excellent feel for postwar America (after the bomb) and the advent of the Cold War. Hofstadter's account of the McCarthy Era and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign (of 1964) is quite instructive. An astute reader will notice many parallels with today. But he also discusses earlier periods of our history when the paranoid style was in its infancy, and yet was destined to become the genesis of the "liberal-conservative" split that is with us to this day.

            One fascinating period was the 1890s, the era of Populist William Jennings Bryan and the "Free Silver Movement," which went down in defeat to William McKinley in the presidential election of 1896. Prior to McKinley's victory there was also public outrage over Spain's oppression of Cuba. And although McKinley did not advocate war with Spain, nor did Republican business leaders that had financed his campaign, he was swept into the Spanish-American War by the spirit of the times. Having filled up the continent with Westward expansion and the dream of "Manifest Destiny," many Americans felt a sudden lack of opportunity and purpose. But after Admiral Dewey's sudden victory in Manila Bay Americans began to grapple with their "Duty and Destiny" in an increasingly imperialistic world that they thought was filled with decadent and dangerous foreign powers.

            There is no way to summarize the exquisite detail in Hofstadter's book. One must read it and ponder its many lessons. For the sum of its parts are greater than the whole. Good history always makes us realize that there really is nothing new under the sun, and yet, there most certainly IS! Mark Twain said it best when he joked: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."

            5 out of 5 stars Politics as pathology.......2006-11-08

            This book is as relevant now as it was when it was first written. An excellent blend of accuracy and eloquence.

            5 out of 5 stars Differentiating Conservatism from Fringe Lunacy.......2001-12-06

            During the fifties, and up to the time of his death in the sixties, Richard Hofstadter was one of America's most renowned historians with two Pulitzer Prizes to his credit. He was at his intellectual peak when, as one of America's eminent authorities of his country's political ideologies, he tackled the developing phenomenon of the early sixties' right wing extremism under the guise of conservatism. He differentiates between the traditional American conservatism espoused by the likes of President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert Taft alongside the venom of Robert Welch's John Birch Society, in which, as the group's idea man, Welch referred to Dwight D. Eisenhower as a "dedicated and conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy."

            Hoftstadter delineates how fringe rightist elements took over the Republican Party and rallied behind the banner of Arizona's Senator Barry M. Goldwater, resulting in one of the party's most calamitous losses in the 1964 presidential election against incumbent Democratic president, Lyndon B. Johnson.

            The work has a timely ring as an historical analytical measuring rod in comprehending the activities of current right wing movements, such as the Christian Right behind the banners of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and its link to the militant anti-abortion movement, alongside earlier rightist political philosophies and their vigorous adherents such as Welch and television commentator Dan Smoot.

            4 out of 5 stars Devastating, yes; clairvoyant, no.......2001-04-28

            Granted that Prof. Hofstadter's evaluation of the "pseudo-conservatism" of the Goldwater campaign is rather patronizing, and that, too optimistically, he predicted that the paranoid style was condemned to permanent minority status. Otherwise, the book is a prescient and devastating analysis of the breathless mindset on display, mainly from the Right, over the last ten years or so. Just last November right-wing commentators as bright and well-educated as George F. Will were fulminating against Gore's "slow-motion coup" in Florida, and lesser conservatives were passing the word that President Clinton was about to seize dictatorial powers. The fact that the most conservative president since Reagan--maybe since the Roaring 20s--is currently sitting in the Oval Office, courtesy of a hypocritical decision by a quintet of conservative Supreme Court justices, means nothing to the conservatives immersed in the paranoid style. THEY didn't subvert the system; they saved the U.S. from the liberals, the liberals, the liberals.

            Back in 1964, Prof. Hofstadter noted that people who think like this tend to imitate the massive conspiracies they imagine threatening themselves. Writing in an era that still resembled the stereotypical 1950s more than the stereotypical 1960s, Hofstadter did not forsee the current power of the paranoid style. But the title essay of his book nails it right to the wall. Reading it, I feared for my country.

            5 out of 5 stars The perennial work in the field of American paranoia.......2000-04-26

            Though wacky folks here and there may be offended by Hofstadter, social and political scientists recognize this work as the perennial analysis of American paranoia as a social phenomenon.
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