Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune, The : The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age

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Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune, The : The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age
Willard Scott
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illions of people watch the exuberant Willard Scott each week on the Today show, where he acts as weatherman and wishes a 'Happy Birthday!' to centenarians all across the country. In his book The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune, Willard asks a wide range of people of various ages, 'What are some of the greatest things about getting older?' From the delight of having grandchildren to the joys of senior citizen discounts to sage advice on life's challenges, the answers are always surprising, often moving, and sometimes very funny.

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Very disappointed.......2003-07-14

As a member of A.A., I simply will not buy a book written by another member that so flagrantly breaks the most important tradition of the society he purports to embrace. I hope Willard Scott will reconsider his decision to break his anonymity at the public level. Not only will any future slip of his hurt A.A., but he has set a precedent for any future celebrity, not all of whom will remain sober after they disclose their membership. I heard Scott's C-SPAN interview, and he seems to claim a disingenuous ignorance about this important A.A. tradition, a tradition that all newcomers to A.A. are immediately and thoroughly taught. Scott says he wants to help others; he may want to. But A.A. will help more people than any individual can, and he jeopardizes A.A. by publicly announcing his membership.

Introduction & Illustrations Enhance the Reading.......2003-06-04

6/3/03 The amazon editorial review listing of the celebrities , (plus the celebrities listed on the back jacket which they did not include(Wally Amos,Pat Boone,Soupy Sales, The Amazing Kreskin, Fred Rogers ,plus about 10 others (incl of Dick Martin)make it a book that many will purchase without even browsing(I borrowed it based on the well illustrated jacket)....The ordinary people give "much food for thought"(although I could not find the one written by the former mayor of Pittsburg...,many have stopped to 'smell the roses'..many have become the workholic that they felt retirement's funds and funs would rid them the addiction of...then there's Sofia Gelman(Pg 152)a retired neurologist 's whose poem begins "Don't laugh at me,I'm taking classes at the police academy,Imagine me in my 70's, Still eager to fulfill my life motto'Not to miss' ,which was the next profile after a quote from Mark Twain: "Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been".

Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune, The: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age

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Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune, The: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age
Willard Scott
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Excellent, if dry, history of the 22nd Infantry Regiment in the Hürtgen Forest

Excellent History!

A textbook history that lacks emotion

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Well researched, well written, but lacking in emotion

Hell In Hurtgen Forest: The Ordeal And Triumph Of An American Infantry Regiment (Modern War Studies)
Robert S. Rush
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Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hürtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle between the American 22d Infantry Regiment and elements of the German LXXIV Korps around Grosshau, Rush chronicles small-unit combat at its most extreme and shows why, despite enormous losses, the Americans persevered in the Hürtgenwald "meat grinder."

On 16 November 1944, the 22d Infantry entered the Hürtgen Forest as part of the U.S. Army's drive to cross the Roer River. During the next eighteen days, the 22d suffered more than 2,800 casualties--or about 86 percent of its normal strength of about 3,250 officers and men. After three days of fighting, the regiment had lost all three battalion commanders. After seven days, rifle company strengths stood at 50 percent and by battle's end each had suffered nearly 140 percent casualties.

Despite these horrendous losses, the 22d Regiment survived and fought on, due in part to army personnel policies that ensured that unit strengths remained high even during extreme combat. Previously wounded soldiers returned to their units and new replacements, green to battle, arrived to follow the remaining battle-hardened cadre.

The German units in the Hürtgenwald suffered the same horrendous attrition, with one telling difference. German replacement policy detracted from rather than enhanced German combat effectiveness. Organizations had high paper strength but low manpower, and commanders consolidated decimated units time after time until these ever-dwindling bands of soldiers disappeared forever: killed, wounded, captured, or surrendered. The performance of American and German forces during this harrowing eighteen days of combat was largely a product of their respective backgrounds, training, and organization.

Rush's work underscores both the horrors of combat and the resiliency of American organizations. While honoring the sacrifice and triumph of the common soldier, it also compels us to reexamine our views on the requisites for victory on the battlefield.

This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.

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Excellent, if dry, history of the 22nd Infantry Regiment in the Hürtgen Forest.......2007-04-04

Robert Rush does a good job in detailing the story of the 22nd Regiment in the Hürtgen Forest. At times very dry reading, he none the less is able to give a day by day, blow by blow account of the companies of the 22nd Regiment in the meat grinder called Hürtgen. His comparisons between the American G.I.s and his German counterparts are also very interesting.
The statistical part of the book are less enjoyable, but very enlightening, if you can struggle through them. I can't fault the author on his use of statistics to establish and present his facts, but the meat of the book, the actual combat narrative is much more enjoyable.
An excellent book to add to any collection.

Excellent History!.......2006-07-19

Hell in the Hürtgen Forest examines the performance of the American 22nd Infantry Regiment (4th Infantry Division), which engaged elements of the German LXXIV Corps during what the book's author identifies as "some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II". The purpose of this book, however, is not merely to relate the story of the 22nd Infantry, but in addition to determine why the regiment survived and fought on while its German counterparts eventually disintegrated during the battle. Rush concludes that the personnel replacement systems of the opposing armies were directly responsible for the outcome of the battle.

The author, Robert Sterling Rush, is a retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major and holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Following the introduction chapter, he organizes the fourteen remaining chapters of his book into three distinct parts - the Environment, the Hürtgenwald (Hürtgen Forest), and Analysis. Within the five chapters of Part I (The Environment), Rush discusses not only the terrain and weather of the Hürtgen Forest, but also deals with the induction, training, leadership, and organization of the opposing forces. The six chapters of Part II (The Hürtgenwald) deal with the details of the battle itself. Lastly, the three chapters of Part III (Analysis) include Rush's discussion of organizational effectiveness, an attempt to answer the question of `What kept the soldiers fighting?', and his conclusions.

During the eighteen days of the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, the 22nd Infantry suffered more than 2,800 casualties, which is about 86% of its normal strength of 3,250. Despite these terrible losses, the 22nd Infantry survived and continued to fight. Why? Rush believes that the regiment's survival was due, in part, to U.S. Army personnel policies that ensured that troop strengths remained high (i.e., the individual replacement system). The German units in the battle suffered from similar rates of attrition, but Rush believes that the German replacement system, which was based on regional recruitment and unit rather than individual replacement, hurt German combat effectiveness.

Rush has produced a well-written and meticulously researched volume, which includes numerous maps, graphs, and charts. He certainly challenges conventional wisdom by praising the individual replacement system that has been so widely criticized by other military historians for the last 25+ years. I do, however, have three problems regarding Rush's conclusions. First, drawing conclusions regarding the American and German replacement systems based only on the experiences of particular units in a single battle seems to be a bit of a stretch. Second, by late 1944 the Germans had been at war for more than five years and their systems of men and material supply had suffered greatly in comparison with the relatively fresh U.S. Army, which might account for some of the apparent success or failure of the American and German replacement systems. Third, though Rush does not mention the Vietnam War, I am curious how he would explain the disintegration of the individual replacement system during that conflict, since he has concluded that the system worked so well during World War II. Despite the problems that I have identified, I recommend this book and believe that it will spark some interesting debate.

A textbook history that lacks emotion.......2006-04-10

This is a day-by-day account of the struggle by the 22nd Infantry Regiment to battle through the infamous H?rtgen Forest. I was looking more for a description of the appalling human experience in this battle. Robert Rush's book is (as the subtitle admittedly makes clear) a military textbook and it reads like one. So this review and rating is intended more as warning to those who are looking for a memoir-like work. This isn't it.

Want to read the source material...........2005-11-26

'If you survive' by George Wilson is an excellent first hand account of action with the 2nd battalion, 22nd infantry in Hurtgen. I read a lot of personal accounts and this one is one of the best I have read in some time. It was this book that has lead me to read more on Hurtgen. So if this battle interests you then this book is a must.

Well researched, well written, but lacking in emotion.......2005-05-19

When I bought this book, I was looking for an overview of the controversial battle. That is not this book. This is a highly detailed analysis of a particular American infantry regiment's involvement in the battle. One cannot complain about the research (although through no fault of the author's, German source material is rare). The book is generally well written and even interesting. But only occasionally does the real human drama break through the layers of statistics. It is moving toward the end seeing the officers respond when the regiment is on the point of collapse and still being ordered to attack. You know that there is a lot of pain there that objective analysis cannot obscure.

The strong points are the organizational analysis and comparison between the American and German armies and the clear professionalism of the research. The weaknesses include that the essential truth of the pain and horror of combat are buried beneath the objective analysis.

I should say one word about the maps, as well. They suck. That is, it is obvious to me that the author drew these maps in color such that they made sense. They have been reproduced in black and white and are extremely difficult to follow. For example, it is very difficult to distinguish between a stream and a trail. That is a shame because the author obviously spent a great deal of time to make them right and the reader is deprived of the benfit of his labor.

Hell in Hurtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment. (Net Assessment).(Book Review): An article from: Air & Space Power Journal

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Hell in Hurtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment. (Net Assessment).(Book Review): An article from: Air & Space Power Journal
James Gates
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Festivals and the French Revolution
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Two addresses delivered on the Festival of humanity in the years 81, 82 since the opening of the French Revolution, January 1, 1869 ; January 1, 1870

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Two addresses delivered on the Festival of humanity in the years 81, 82 since the opening of the French Revolution, January 1, 1869 ; January 1, 1870
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In this moving and engrossing memoir, veteran television news producer Richard Cohen relates a life spent dealing with multiple sclerosis, first diagnosed when he was 25 years old and just getting started in the competitive world of broadcast journalism. As his career progressed, he struggled not only with the disease but the touchy question of how much of the truth about himself to share with colleagues and potential employers. Cohen spent much of his life running from the onset of the disease's symptoms from which his father and grandmother also suffered. Defiantly, he took challenging, sometimes extremely dangerous assignments in Lebanon, Poland, and on the domestic political campaign trail, even as his body deteriorated. But over the course of Blindsided, it becomes apparent that illness had actually built Cohen up even as it ripped him apart. Without the physical and mental toughness required to navigate a journalist's life while fighting back loss of eyesight and poor equilibrium, it's doubtful that the flaky kid we meet early in the book would transform into the award-winning professional Cohen eventually becomes. His marriage to journalist Meredith Vieira, every bit his equal as both newshound and deadpan cynical comic, gave Cohen the stable family life and children he needed when MS made it impossible to continue in a traditional news job. But two bouts with colon cancer in the late 1990s tested his resolve and his family's patience. While Cohen is both courageous and inspirational, Blindsided is not the overly sentimental clichéd tale that stories about fighting illness often become. He refuses to paint himself as the hero (except when making fun of his own failure to be heroic) and recounts in detail the strain that he put on his marriage and children. Stories such as this often end with the memoirist arriving at a state of peace and mental clarity but again Cohen remains more compelling and credible by offering no such pat answers. As with most people fighting to preserve their families, their lives, and their bodies, Richard Cohen's is an ongoing struggle. --John Moe

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Richard Cohen, a veteran writer, producer and distinguished journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for over 25 years. Recently diagnosed again with colon cancer, Cohen describes his lifelong struggle with multiple sclerosis, his first bout with colon cancer, a loving marriage to Meredith Viera, the effect of illness on raising children, and the nature of denial and resilience, all told with grace, humour, and lyrical prose.

Cohen chronicles and celebrates a life brimming over with accomplishment, adversity and personal endeavour and his story has struck a chord with readers nation–wide. He has been interviewed by Barbara Walters for a nearly hour–long segment that ran on 20/20, he also appeared on wife Viera's program, The View and is scheduled for Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and the Paula Zahn Show, among others. Blindsided also received outstanding print attention and People magazine has run a first serial piece.

Autobiographical at its roots, reportorial and expansive, Blindsided builds on Cohen's story as a task aimed at emotional well–being, if not survival, pursued in sober tones that explore coping to its most redemptive and complex levels. Despite his extreme circumstances, Cohen's is a common struggle, recognisable as an integral part of humanity, and one which he explores with varying amounts of diligence, respect, personal revelation and humour.

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A Reluctant Read.......2007-09-03

Although gaining more insight into what life can be like with severe and chronic illness, I had a great deal of trouble with the way this book was written. I felt as though the author couldn't decide how he felt or where he was headed with his thoughts. I guess maybe that's what happens with a memoir -- it is descriptive. It just seemed that so many times the contemplations were strung together haphazardy. Perhaps I was looking more for a narrative and development of the characters (family). Nevertheless, I do admire survivors such as Richard Cohen.

Blind Sided.......2007-03-27

I have had MS for forty years and it was very interesting to see how some one else handles the disease. I couldn't understand his not mentioning his faith, and why he kept on putting himself under stress.
Stress alone can cause many problems. Well written and understandable.
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Easy Reading on Difficult Subject.......2007-03-23

An easy reading book from a personal look at living and coping with MS.

well written memoir.......2007-02-23

This book sat on my shelf for over a year, pulling me toward it and repulsing me at the same time. I guess I was afraid of it because my wife has MS (though she remains largely asymtematic) and I fear the possibilities, yet it seemed this was a book I had to read. I finally read it and I'm glad. It's an engaging memoir, well written and a fine chronicle of the way a disease can take over your mind and body in addition to the ways it impacts your family and career.

I found the struggle/difference between refusing to let the disease take over and denial to be an interesting struggle. In addition the stories of Cohen's work with CBS, CNN and Public Broadcasting and his itch to be a danger junkie were fascinating. The sometimes unflattering pictures of noted journalists (especially Mike Wallace and Don Hewitt) were devestatingly well drawn. His own disappointment in what news became during his time in the trenches screams in almost every sentence about the business.

The book teaches a great deal about MS and how it affects both the one with the disease and those around them. The prose is clear, to the point and beautifully written. I highly recommend this book to anyone, but especially those interested in the news industry or the disease of MS.

Great Book.......2006-11-16

Really good look at how chronic illness impacts not only your life but those around you. Great point of view from someone who's been there.

Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness, a Reluctant Memoir

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Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness, a Reluctant Memoir
Richard M. / Ferrone, Richard (NRT) Cohen
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Wellington considered the British cavalry to be technically inferior to the French, although paradoxically he also said that one British squadron would be a match for two of the enemy. His main concern was that although the British cavalry lacked neither courage nor dash, they lacked discipline, in that they invariably failed to rally and re-form once they had charged home. At Waterloo, although the cavalry generally performed superbly well, the endemic faults which Wellington had already identified were repeated more than once, resulting in the decimation of several fine regiments. Bryan Fosten explores the history, organisation and uniforms of Wellington's Heavy Cavalry.

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Best Truth is a manifesto for a new model of intelligence operations in the information age. The central theme is that intelligence is information; therefore, the intelligence community must keep apace of the information revolution. The authors argue that intelligence agencies' excessive emphasis on hierarchy and secrecy prevents them from responding to today's highly fluid information "marketplace." They propose a new, less centralized model of management that incorporates the private sector--in essence, outsourcing intelligence.

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Voices in the Wilderness.......2004-01-23

The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) continues to be mired in the past despite the so-called reforms implemented internally since the end of the Cold War or imposed from without by Congress in the wake of the 9/11 catastrophe. Here is a book that offers a path to real reform based not so much on structural changes as changes in the intelligence production process. It makes a strong case for decentralization of intelligence production and the use by the IC of outside experts to assist in the analysis of specific intelligence subjects. The type of reforms that Berkowitz and Goodman advocate would give the members of the IC that elusive, but vitally important, attribute of flexibility to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Unfortunately, the kind of reformation these authors argue for would require a major change in the internal culture of the primary agencies of the IC.

For example, members of the IC now make extensive use of private, commercial contractors even for core missions such as intelligence analysis, but only within an elaborate bureaucratic framework designed to fill vacancies, not improve the analytic processes. The use of outside subject matter experts from academia and the business world hired for specific analytic projects on an ad hoc basis as advocated in this book really goes against the basic culture of the intelligence bureaucracy. It is true that the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and some National Intelligence Officers (NIO) within the NIC have resorted to outside experts, but this is scarcely representative of the IC as a whole. Indeed in this reviewer's experience, outside experts of any sort are about as welcome in the IC as women are in the monasteries of Mount Athos. So clearly this and the other elements of the reformation program offered in this book would require profound cultural changes within the IC.

Robert D. Steele in a series of books such as "The New Craft of Intelligence" has attempted to develop some of the ideas presented in this book into specific practical changes affecting the way the U.S. produces intelligence. Steele's work would be a good follow on to this book.

Godd overview, poor suggestions.......2000-07-20

I enjoyed the broad overview of the generation and use of intelligence information. I found the suggestions of how to change the intelligence system too vague, driven by the management technique of the hour and unworkable. The authors suggestion that agencies drop specialized groups and pulls special teams together when needed. This may be workable in the short run, but in the long run there will be no deep experts as there are today. It takes time and money to develop these experts and only the government can plan to develop these experts, that may or may not ever be fully utilized. The authors site NASA's faster, better, cheaper management, a style that in my opinion is none of these, as something the intelligence community should adopt. It would be alright for someone to site this, but you must also site the numerous failures of the method. I got the feeling that if the book had been written ten years ago, Japanese management methods would have been sited as useful, they have of course fallen from favor. Cold fusion and the work that was done by innumerable physics to at the time of the first announcement as the way the intelligence community should attach important new questions that are time sensitive. Have hundreds of experts across the intelligence community bear upon a question as a way to get a quick, high quality answer. What the authors don't understand is all those physicists were working for free or on someone else's dime. All those hundreds of people will need to charge against this new effort, enough to break any budget, not to mention the poor chance of getting a high quality answer. So, the book is a good airing of the issues, but not much at solving the problems.

The Next President, and Next DCI, Need to Read This Book.......2000-04-08

This book dedicates itself entirely to fixing the underlying process of intelligence. The authors place intelligence in the larger context of information, and draw a plethora of useful comparisons with emerging private sector capabilities and standards. They place strong emphasis on the emerging issues (not necessarily threats) related to ethnic, religious, and geopolitical confrontation, and are acutely sensitive to the new power of non-governmental organizations and non-state actors. The heart of their book is captured in three guidelines for the new process: focus on understanding the consumer's priorities; minimize the investment in fixed hardware and personnel; and create a system that can draw freely on commercial capabilities where applicable (as they often will be). Their chapter on the failure of the bureaucratic model for intelligence, and the need to adopt the virtual model-one that permits analysts to draw at will on diverse open sources-is well presented and compelling. Their concluding three chapters on analysis, covert action, and secrecy are solid professional-level discussions of where we must go in the future.

Best Truth Intelligence in the Information Age.

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Best Truth Intelligence in the Information Age.
Bruce D. Goodman, Allen E. Berkowitz
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Bruce D. Goodman, Allan E. Berkowitz
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The prairie grasslands are a wonderful and surprising mosaic of habitats, filled with sloughs and marshes, rolling dunescapes, lakes and rivers, wooded valleys and coulees, as well as large stretches of grassy plains. The many birds that inhabit this region are as diverse and fascinating as the land itself. Award-winning author, photographer, and naturalist Wayne Lynch brings together pictures, descriptions, and the unusual habits of his favourite prairie birds in this beautiful book. In his trademark entertaining style, he details the aerial chases of courting ducks, the sexual unfaithfulness of red-winged blackbirds, the hunting prowess of owls, and the murderous habits of wrens. Much more than a bird guide, Wild Birds Across the Prairies features detailed information about feeding and mating habits, wintering grounds, field and flight identification, and personal observations about each bird. Stunning colour photographs accompany the lively text, illustrating the distinct characteristics and environment of these birds. Wild Birds Across the Prairies is a celebration of the beauty and complexity of the prairie landscape and its avian inhabitants.

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Good text and photos, but narrower coverage than you'd think.......2002-07-29

The book has outstanding photos, and a decent text--More detail than in a field manual, but not as much as in (for instance) the Sibley book on bird behavior. Unfortunately, it focuses on birds of the Northern Prairie--Canada, Montana, and the Dakotas mostly. This is shown via a map near the front of the book, but not mentioned on the front or back cover.
The big strength of the book is the photos. Excellent photos. I enjoy the book, even though the region is not my preferred one.

Superb bird images; lively informative text.......1999-04-09

Wayne Lynch is intoxicated with the beauty and mystery of the prairie and its denizens. He is a first rate science writer with a subtle sense of humor and a world class bird photographer to boot. I love all his books but this is one of the best. I highly recommend it to all nature lovers as a rare treat; it is so much more than just another bird book. I predict it will become a classic of the genre.

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