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This clear, updated edition is a practical guide to the symptoms and treatment options for those who have thyroid-related problems.
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Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy s most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry s place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career.
After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry s development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry s character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry s short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry s death in 1819.
Co-winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's 2007 John Lyman Book Award for Biography and Autobiography
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A gripping and absorbing narrative, yet an easily understood and highly readable account of the Old Northwest's most significant military event. The focus of the book is the naval conflict itself. Reviewed in detail are the armament and tactical maneuverings of the two squadrons; however, the stories of the American and British crewmen constitute the heart of this book. The book also relates the important events leading up to the Battle of Lake Erie. Described are the strategic significance of Lake Erie, the campaigns of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest preceding the Battle of Lake Erie, plus the story of both the building and manning of the American squadron. Containing numerous maps and illustrations, it is a concise and fascinating account of the turning point of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest.
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Quick, Fun Read.......2007-10-06
You will find this book entertaining as well as informative. Among the notable insights offered is an excellent description of the size (or lack thereof) of the fleets involved in the much-aggrandized battles on the Great Lakes. This is very enjoyable History.
A wonderful Book on the History of this Great Lake.......2005-11-11
I really enjoyed this book. It made me feel like I had something at stake, in this battle, despite the fact I was born many generations later. The book gives a (tales of the tape) reveiw of the two opposing Commanders. This book will fit right in with any history book on your shelf and will give you alot of insight into the Perry's wonderful victory.
Naval Warfare.......2000-07-12
Written for those who already understand the causes of the War of 1812, this slim volume offers a balanced examination of the most significant naval action of the war. When Oliver Hazard Perry, commodore of the Lake Erie fleet, defeated the British on the water he prevented His Majesty's Forces from mounting a serious threat against U.S forces west of the Niagara. Without drowning the reader in a mass of details, the author provides the best descriptions of naval warfare and naval terms that I have ever read. Visitors to the Oliver Hazard Perry Peace Memorial at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, one of the lesser known national parks, would be wise to pick up this book as would anyone interested in life aboard a wooden ship during wartime.
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Deep Water Sailors, Shallow Water Soldiers
Robyn Opthoff Lilek
Manufacturer: The Perry Group
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Buy if interested in soldiers and marines of Perry's fleet........1998-12-24
This book is of primary interest to the person wanting to know about the soldiers and marines of the US Lake Erie fleet in 1813, and of secondary interest to the person wanting to know about the sailors. It has a short history of the campaign and battle of Lake Erie which is inferior to the account in many general War of 1812 histories. It then lists who shared in the Prize money from capture of the British fleet by ship, who was killed or wounded by ship, the soldiers by unit they came from, the 48 hour volunteers, and the officers and sailors who accompanied Perry from Rhode Island. Then comes a list of marines serving in fleet but not battle with a paragraph each and a list of soldiers and marines who served in battle with a paragraph each.
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The building of Perry's fleet on Lake Erie, 1812-1813
Max Rosenberg
Manufacturer: Pennsylviania Historical and Museum Commission
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Oliver Hazard Perry
Charles J. Dutton
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ASIN: 0945726368 |
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When this study was originally published in 1935 it was the only biographical study of Perry to have appeared in nearly a century, and it at once provided a complete and detailed portrait of Perry's importance in American naval history and a revealing new account of the crucial importance of his victory over the British fleet on Lake Erie in 1813. It remains the most complete biography and an essential source for the documentary background of Perry's life and career. Reprint edition. 2006: 319 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)
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The battle of Lake Erie, or, Answers to Messrs. Burges, Duer, and Mackenzie
James Fenimore Cooper
Manufacturer: H. & E. Phinney
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Drawing on thousands of pages of archival material and on interviews with surviving associates, presidential biographer Reeves paints a complex, sometimes disturbing portrait of the man forever enshrined as Tricky Dick.
"I have decided my major role is moral leadership," Nixon wrote in 1972 in one of his myriad memos to himself. (As Reeves writes, "Whatever else he accomplished, Richard Nixon produced more paper and tape than any president before or since.") That resolution quickly collapsed; instead, as the Vietnam War shaded into defeat and protests at home mounted, Nixon sank into a siege mentality, seeing himself as a lone crusader at war with the rest of the world. Reeves examines the cat-and-mouse quality of Nixon's relations with his inner circle and family, as well as the excruciating collapse of national leadership in the wake of missteps, miscalculations, and sheer crimes. Rigorous and thoughtful, Reeves's book adds much to our understanding of Nixon's troubled presidency--and of his troubled soul. --Gregory McNamee
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Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president at all. Using thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes, Richard Reeves's President Nixon offers a surprising portrait of a brilliant and contradictory man.
Even as he dreamed of presidential greatness, Nixon could trust no one. His closest aides spied on him as he spied on them, while cabinet members, generals, and admirals spied on all of them -- rifling briefcases and desks, tapping each other's phones in a house where no one knew what was true anymore. Reeves shows a presidency doomed from the start by paranoia and corruption, beginning with Nixon and Kissinger using the CIA to cover up a murder by American soldiers in Vietnam that led to the theft and publication of the Pentagon Papers, then to secret counterintelligence units within the White House itself, and finally to the burglaries and cover-up that came to be known as Watergate. President Nixon is the astonishing story of a complex political animal who was as praised as he was reviled and who remains a subject of controversy to this day.
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Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president. In President Nixon, Richard Reeves has used thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes -- including Nixon's tortured memos to himself and unpublished sections of H. R. Haldeman's diaries -- to offer a nuanced and surprising portrait of the brilliant and contradictory man alone in the White House. President Nixon is a startling narrative of a desperately introverted man who dreamed of becoming the architect of his times. Late at night, he sat upstairs in the White House writing notes to himself on his yellow pads, struggling to define himself and his goals: "Compassionate, Bold, New, Courageous...Zest for the job (not lonely but awesome). Goals -- reorganized govt...Each day a chance to do something memorable for someone. Need to be good to do good...Need for joy, serenity, confidence, inspiration." But downstairs he was building a house of deception. He could trust no one because in his isolation he thought other people were like him. He governed by secret orders and false records, memorizing scripts for public appearances and even for one-on-one meetings with his own staff and cabinet. His principal assistants, Haldeman and Henry Kissinger, spied on him as he spied on them, while cabinet members, generals, and admirals spied on all of them -- rifling briefcases and desks, tapping each other's phones in a house where no one knew what was true anymore. Nixon's first aim was to restore order in an America at war with itself over Vietnam. But in fact he prolonged the fighting there, lying systematically about what was happening both in the field and in the peace negotiations. He startled the world by going to communist China and seeking détente with the Soviet Union -- and then secretly persuaded Mao and Brezhnev to lie for him to protect petty White House secrets.
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Functional History. .......2007-08-13
This is a solid work of Presidential scholarship. I appreciated its "worm's eye" view because it allows for the presentation of a great many primary source materials and documents that are invaluable for summing up the bizarre man who was President Richard Nixon. Reeves reveals a fair amount of personal bias and dislike for his subject here, but, fortunately, the intrusions of his point-of-view are not ubiquitous. Reeves seems to unquestionably believe that busing was good for blacks and it appears that he has an affinity for most government programs; a stance that is totally unwarranted. That being said, the work remains well-organized, clear and valuable. Reeves is a biographer and journalist so, unlike some of the other reviewers, I was glad that he did not share with us his psychological observations of the President. In all likelihood, they would have been ungrounded. Alone in the White House is a good, but not great, book.
Man-in-the-center look at one of the compelling political figures of our time. .......2007-03-04
Mr. Reeves look at the Nixon presidency from the vantage point of the President himself provides the reader with a fascinating look at one of the most compelling political figures of our time.
To paraphrase Bob Dole, it was a miracle that Nixon ever made it to the pinnacle of political power. From the very first day in office, we are given the picture of a man who is both elated that he has reached his destiny, but at the same time is unable to savor the moment. Although the book does not deal with RN's life, Reeves does a masterful job at painting a portrait of a man embittered by the cut and thrust of politics. We see a man who has his eye on his enemies, real and imagined, and who is bound and determined to triumph over him.
Reeves does indeed show us the "who, what, when, where..." of the Nixon presidency, yet resists the temptation of playing amateur psychologist and does not address the "why" of Richard Nixon.
Instead we are treated to a story of a man who was truly "alone in the White House." However, this title is misleading, for Nixon's penchant for solitude, and secrecy are only part of the story. A better title for this book would have been "President Nixon: The Remaking of the Presidency," because that is exactly what he set out to do.
Reeves presents a balanced look at RN. We see him at his best; statesmen, "architect" of foreign policy, strategic thinker, and visionary for a stable world order.
We also get a look at the man at his worst; the many "horrors" of Watergate, his pathological Jew-baiting, his thin-skinned reaction to the press, his obsession with being seen as a "man of the people," and on and on. In sum, there is much to dislike about Richard Nixon; there is also much to admire.
After reading a book like this, one has to wonder what would the Nixon legacy have been if he chose not to cover up Watergate and lanced the boil, dug deep, and plowed ahead to finish his second term. Reeves' book shows all too clearly, and poignantly, that "the Old Man" was incapable of doing anything but he did at the time, which is a shame. RN's legacy is that he left a stain on the body politic that has engendered a cynacism toward politics.
Reeves does it again!.......2006-12-17
Reeves delivers an exciting and wonderful book that chronicles Nixon's presidential years. This book begins with Nixon entering office and ends on the day he leaves office. It goes day by day through the presidency and gives you a good sense of what the Nixon administration was thinking and what was happening in the country at the same time. From foreign policy with China and Russia to domestic problems like Kent State this book covers everything you would want to know about the Nixon Administration. It is easily five stars. The book is very readable and is a great reference guide for those who just want to learn about Nixon or those who want to study his administration in depth.
Book Review.......2006-07-18
I found this a fascinating look at presidential power and gave me further insights into Nixon and the power structure that existed around him. I remember the days of Watergate but this gave me new insights and background information about what actually went on. It's truly a slice of living history. Also the similarities between Vietnam and Iraq are almost frightening...perhaps some of those in command should read this too.
Good.......2006-04-23
I finished Richard Reeve's "President Nixon" this week. I have read several books about Nixon. I don't really know why he has always fascinated me. I suppose it is because he had the potential to do so much good, and he had so many successes in his first term to throw it all away in the end because of a pack of lies. Reeves' book is a long one, at around 600 pages, but Reeves is a pretty decent writer, and it makes going through the book a pleasant experience. Much to my amazement, late in the book, he correctly revealed the identity of Mark Felt as deep throat- and since the book came out in 2001- that was years before the Felt made the revelation himself. Nixon was certainly focused on foreign matters, and cared little about domestic issues, leaving it to his henchmen- principally Ehrlichman. Kissinger is portrayed as a dangerous, vain egotist, out for glory, often sulking when upstaged by Secretary of State Rogers. Having read several books about Nixon, this one reaffirms a theme that appears over and over- something went wrong with Nixon's mental state around 1971 or 1972.
Superceding Theodore White, I think the book is probably a decent enough starting place for understanding Nixon, and with the bibliography at the end, you can go from there.
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Aircraft Versus Submarines: In 2 World Wars
Alfred Price
Manufacturer: US Naval Institute Press
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ASIN: 1844150917 |
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A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots.
Via an unprecedented analysis of management texts which influenced the thinking of employers and contributed to reorganization of companies over the last decades, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. From the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a new network-based form of organization which was founded on employee initiative and relative work autonomy, but at the cost of material and psychological security.
This new spirit of capitalism triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the "artistic critique"—that which, after May 1968, attacked the alienation of everyday life by capitalism and bureaucracy. At the same time, the "social critique" was disarmed by the appearance of neocapitalism and remained fixated on the old schemas of hierarchical production.
This book, remarkable for its scope and ambition, seeks to lay the basis for a revival of these two complementary critiques.
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El Nuevo Espiritu Del Capitalismo/ The New Spirit of Capitalism (Cuestiones De Antagonismo / Questions of Antagonism)
Luc Boltanski , and
Eve Chiapello
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ASIN: 8446015587 |
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This digital document is an article from Capital & Class, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 1515 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello: The New Spirit of Capitalism.(Book review)
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Long-Legged Wading Birds of the North American Wetlands
Lucian Niemeyer , and
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North American Wading Birds (Wildlife)
ASIN: 0811718891 |
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A complete photographic study of the 20 species of Wading birds as well as their habitat
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Wading Birds Of North America (North of Mexico)
Allan Eckert
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ASIN: 0517632292
Release Date: 1987-10-26 |
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Renowned nature photographer John Netherton shares his experiences in this extraordinary book containing 103 iridescent pictures and up-to-date biological data on nineteen wading bird species. He gives directions to and descriptions of some of the most ideal bird-viewing sites in North America for each of these species, such as national wildlife refuges and National Audubon Society sanctuaries.
Plumage, courtship, breeding, nesting, hatching, feeding, preening, vocalizing, roosting, and migration are among the subjects Netherton covers in North American Wading Birds (originally published in hardcover as At the Water's Edge). Species throughout all 50 states and parts of Canada are depicted, including such birds as the whooping crane, white and glossy ibises, roseate spoonbill, great egret, wood stork, and great blue heron. Also included are a list of wading bird classifications, a bibliography, and an index. Range maps show where these exotic birds exist in North America.
Also recommended: Hummingbirds: Jewels in Flight, Eagles: Masters of the Sky.
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Wading Birds and Their Allies of North America
Jean Seavey
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Water's Edge: Wading Birds of North America
John Netherton
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Booklist raved, "Were Audubon alive, he'd drop his pen and paint, and let Netherton catalog our feathered friends". Contains the most current, comprehensive information on 19 species of wading birds.
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