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Book Description
There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and tragic loner. The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe reviews the unreliable and unverifiable--but highly significant--stories that have framed this Hollywood legend, all the while revealing the meanings behind the American myths that have made Marilyn what she is today.
In incisive and passionate prose, cultural critic Sarah Churchwell uncovers the shame, belittlement, and anxiety that we bring to the story of a woman we supposedly adore and, in the process, rescues a Marilyn Monroe who is far more complicated and credible than the one we think we know.
Customer Reviews:
Finally, a look at the real woman!.......2007-08-23
This is one of the best books on Marilyn Monroe I have ever read, if not THE best. The author does a fantastic job of analyzing the various biographies of MM and strips away the myths, lies, improbabilities, and biased ways others saw her that have distorted her image and life for the past 40 years. Churchwell shows us that NO, Marilyn was not crazy, nor was she split into two people - Marilyn Monroe and Norma Jeane - anymore than Cary Grant was split into CG and Archie Leach (his real name). She shows us that MM was a complicated and intelligent woman and a successful actress who tried to improve her acting and her mind throughout her life. I deeply respect the author of this book for her objectivity, honesty, penetrating analysis, and scholarship, and for showing how so much of what has been written about Marilyn is either stereotypical, unfounded, nonsensical, or just plain untrue. I loved it!
The Many Lives of Monroe prove biographers are NOT a Movie Icon's Best Friends!.......2007-06-08
Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles in 1926. Her mother had mental health problems; her father was not in the picture for long. MM spent time in foster homes and orphanages. She became Playboy's first centerfold; she became the world's most famous blonde bombshell in post World War II America; she died at the early age of 36 on the night of August 4, 1962. Her most memorable movie roles were "Niagara:" The Seven Year Itch"; "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend," "How to Marry a Millionare": "Some Like It Hot" and her final film "The Misfits" .
Other than these basic facts most of Monroe's life is the subject of conjecture, prurient interests and mysteries galore!
Dr. Sarah Churchwell is an American scholar teaching in England. This book is not a traditional biography of Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson). It is, rather, a scholarly examination of her most famous biographers and the various theories they posit as to the life lived by the sexy star. Many of these biographies, opines Churchwell, are based more on speculation than facts. Churchwell examines the biographies by such famed authors as Norman Mailer; Barbara Leaming; Donald H. Spoto; Donald H. Wolfe and others. Churchwell also looks closely at Joyce Carole
Oates fictional account of Marilyn's life entitled "Blonde".
Churchwell explores the various theories on the marriages of Miss Monroe to James Daughtery; Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. When playwright Miller wed Marilyn it was called a coupling of Egghead and Hourglass. Dimaggio probably beat her up. We see Marilyn Monroe through the lenses and the biases of her various biographers. We still do not know for sure:
a. Whether she ever had an abortion or had at least 14 of them.
b. Was a dimwit or had a sharp intelligence.
c. Did she die of a drug overdose or commit suicide? Was she murdered by suspects ranging from the CIA to the Kennedy Family to the Mafia. Or was she murdered by her doctor and housekeeper or a Soviet Agent? We will in all likelihood never know for sure. Conspiracy theories abound.
This is a good book to sort out what is fact and what fanciful or speculative in the life of Marilyn Monroe. It is a good book showing fine research and adds insight to our understanding of the enigmatic star.
Good Book.......2007-01-09
This was a very informative book with plenty of references to biographies on Marylin Monroe in the past.
A gem for those advanced in Monroe knowledge.......2006-12-18
This is a fantastic book for people who know Marilyn and her life well. It generally does not cover basic facts in depth, as it seems to assume that the reader already has some knowledge about the details of her life. Instead, it analyzes what different biographers have said about her, comparing and contrasting them, and providing different perspectives and viewpoints from people who knew her.
For those looking for the basics on Monroe, Barbara Leaming's book or Donald Spoto's book is perhaps a better choice, but for those of us who already know the main outline of her life, this book is genius and quite a find. I picked it up in the bookstore and I immediately fell in love with it. It is markedly different from other biographies, as it reads like an analytical essay instead of a chronological detailing of her life, and this format is marvelous for "Monroe experts," as there are so many theories that need to be discussed. She is fantastically neutral in her discussions, and presents the facts as they are and the speculations as they are. There is no bias. I would very highly recommend this book.
Best Book So Far About Monroe - I've been a MM fan for 20 yrs........2006-07-08
I own, and have read all of, the paperback version of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, by Sarah Churchwell.
I have been a Monroe fan for 20 years now, and I own 60 or more books about her, most of which I have read, including many of the books that Ms. Churchwell discusses in her book. In my estimation, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe is the best book about Monroe yet.
I am glad to see that I am not the only one who rejects the oft - repeated false dichotomy by so many (including biographers) that "Norma Jeane" and "Marilyn Monroe" were two completely different people.
This theory stipulates that "Norma Jeane" was real, while "Marilyn Monroe" was totally unnatural, manufactured, and contrived. Like me, Churchwell doesn't seem to buy that, either.
Churchwell introduces the argument that if we choose to trust the split identity theory, that Marilyn Monroe can be considered the real woman, while "Norma Jeane" can be seen as the elusive, false identity. Churchwell explains her rationale behind that idea in the book.
Churchwell raises an interesting thought in her book, one that demonstrates the hypocrisy of our Western culture:
Many who claim to admire or like Monroe for her naturalness and openness about sexuality (yet while maintaining all the while that Monroe was manufactured and fake!) are the same people who will, many times, turn around in the next moment and then condemn Monroe for having worn a "revealing dress," or for having posed once for a nude calendar, and so forth.
Something which has always disturbed me in books about Monroe by male authors is how sexist some of them are.
I, as a female, get "creeped out" by how biographers (usually males) sexualize almost anything and everything about Marilyn Monroe, even if dealing with a subject that has absolutely nothing, or next to nothing, to do with sex. (Author Norman Mailer, I believe, wins the award for this odd, disgusting, and disturbing habit more than any other.)
Additionally (and as Churchwell documents), some biographers attempt to relate and explain much about Monroe and her life by way of her physical body. Much is made of Monroe's looks, her health problems, and so on.
The unfortunate result is that the widely held and false stereotype of Monroe as a dumb blonde is still upheld. Nobody takes Monroe's thoughts, her mind, seriously:
Monroe's physical body is so fixated upon by authors at the expense of her intellectual life that she is thought of, critiqued, or valued, only in terms of her body and physical appearance, even 40- some- odd years after her death.
From the looks of the other customer reviews here, I am the only one who has actually read the book by Churchwell. One reviewer, Maliejandra, states - incorrectly - that the author attributes Jean Harlow's death to a burst appendix, when Ms. Harlow actually died from uremic poisoning. In matter of fact, in my copy of this book, on page 177, the author *does* say that Harlow died from uremic poisoning.
Ironically, reviewer dionysius2 accuses Ms. Churchwell of using sordid details of Monroe's private life, including childhood sexual abuse, to be sensationalistic, when Ms. Churchwell not only does *not* do such a thing, but she goes out of her way to condemn biographers before her who have done so.
Further, I did not find or see any of this "exhausted postmodern jargon" that dionysius2 claims to have seen in The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. If anything, most of the text is readable with a few scholarly turns of phrase used every so often. If you can read at college level, this book will not pose a problem for you.
Dionysius2 falsely summarizes Marilyn's childhood as having been "without incident." At first glance, Dionysius2 description may appear to be true:
Ms. Churchwell, at much length, points out Monroe's childhood may not have been *as bad* as some biographers have claimed - sometimes, for instance, the number of foster homes Norma Jeane (a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe) was said to have been sent off to gets inflated as time goes by.
However, Ms. Churchwell rightly criticizes the tendency of some male biographers who outright and arrogantly dismiss Monroe's allegations of having been molested and raped when she was a child (and, as an adult, as having almost been raped at a party).
Ms. Churchwell and other biographers do not dispute that Monroe lived in foster homes, that she never knew her real father, that her real mother was placed in and out of hospitals for mental health issues, and that Monroe had to marry at a very young age (16), to avoid being sent back into foster care.
Therefore, far from being "without incident," Monroe's childhood did indeed have its difficulties and traumas at times.
The most bizarre and untrue statement dionysius2 makes in his review is to charge Churchwell with holding "...obvious contempt ... [for] her subject matter" when the direct opposite is true!
Churchwell respects Monroe and spends much of the book defending Monroe from the biographers who really do demonstrate contempt for Monroe in their books, such as Anthony Summers, who wrote "Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe."
Either dionysius2 read an entirely different `Many Lives' book from the one I did, or else mistakenly posted his review for another Monroe biography to the page for Churchwell's.
Reviewer Betty Burks, who seems to hold a very dismal view of Monroe, apparently did not read the book - or not carefully enough - as she claims that, "Norma Baker was a person, while Marilyn was an object." Churchwell disputes *that very notion*; it is one of the major principles in the book. Churhwell also refuted some of Betty's other assertions.
Jerry Saperstein is another who did not actually read the book - the entire book. Saperstein makes many inaccurate and untrue claims in his review, such as "... [the author] cites so-called feminist authors whose politics are clearly fascistic without comment."
As Gloria Steinem is the only "feminist" author who has written a book about Monroe, I would assume Saperstein is referring to Steinem.
First of all, this is not a book about politics. Politics are discussed in the book only in-so-far as they touched Monroe's life. This is not a book intended to critique and dissect the political views of feminists, or the motives behind their written views of Monroe. It's telling that no request for a critique of the male biographers' political views is made by Saperstein.
Saperstein must have skipped over the content in which Ms. Churchwell expends some effort pointing out that Steinem's work on Monroe is faulty in places, or is skewed, precisely because of Steinem's feminist sympathies.
Churchwell maintains that while Steinem's intent is to offer a feminist defense of Monroe, that Steinem, ironically, offers up instead a sexist interpretation of Monroe's problems when Steinem places Monroe's fate in the hands of men.
The implication being that Monroe, who Steinem must assume is a weak, helpless female, could not make her own choices or fight back against males.
I did not find any "political correctness and academic hypocrisy" that Saperstein says "permeates" this book.
I gather Saperstein's unhappiness over the terms "right wing" and "conservative" being in this book comes from the examination of Monroe's marriage to Arthur Miller, in light of the HUAC fiasco. I think it goes without saying that most feminists and most people in the entertainment business are liberals, so it's not necessary for Churchwell to describe each and every person she cites from those groups as being such.
HUAC really was a "right wing" entity. Therefore, I do not think that mentioning such a fact in `The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe' makes it a piece of liberal propaganda.
While the author takes pains to insist that you will not find the "real" woman behind Marilyn Monroe in her book, (as so many other books claim), it still somewhat succeeds at doing just that.
Glimpses of the "real" woman behind Monroe are in the book, maybe because Churchwell shed light on much of the inaccurate information about Monroe contained within books that came before.
Churhwell's book does not answer every question or mystery of Monroe's life or death (and it is not intended to), but if you're a true fan of Monroe's and want a book that cuts through the garbage and confusion (and is a very interesting read), by all means, purchase this book.
Book Description
A practical, enjoyable approach to learning to play all keyboard instruments. This exceptional beginning method has sound teaching philosophies, music of all styles, strong visual reinforcements and modern technology components. Well-suited for either class or individual instruction, the method includes familiar folk songs, well-known classical themes and popular favorites. It includes theory workbook pages and writing assignments that reinforce student lessons.
Customer Reviews:
Just The Facts.......2001-09-21
This is a great book for beginners who are looking for simple piano instruction. It is packed with songs(more than 40). Some examples: "This Old Man", "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow", "Over The Rainbow", "Minuet" and "A Tisket, A Tasket". This book introduces the terms and methods with brief definitions, then gives you short songs sheets to practice with before applying each new method in the songs. This book is available with an additional cd (which I believe this issue does comes with it)containing all of the song peices. You can play along to it to help you get the hang of the music. There are also review pages to help you understand the notes. This book is all you really need to learn piano. (I should also add that I am a high school senior & this is the book we use in my piano class).
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One of the Best Tradition Books so far.......2003-07-22
As an ST, I've found the Hollow One Tradition the most difficult to explain to players. This book however eases that problem. I found this Tradition book to be very informative. The Rotes included are very useful and mostly subtle. This book has given me a newfound appreciation for the Hollow One Tradition.
More than a Tradion of Goth-Mages, the Hollow Ones are about survival. Their main means of survival is to remain as unnoticed as possible.
I highly recommend this book as a necessity for a well rounded Mage game.
One of the best Tradition Books I've read.......2003-03-09
This is definitely one of the best tradition books, if not one of the best Mage: the Ascension source books, that I've ever read. While many of the rotes and almost all of the templates are lacking, the background and depth this book gives the Hollow Ones more than makes up for it.
My main gripe with the rotes provided is that some of the spheres listed for them are woefully inaccurate. As for the templates, most of them(all but two, I believe) completely violate the basic character creation rules for Mage, in that they have spheres higher than their arete.
The rest of the content, however, is amazing. It gives you an excellent feel for who the Hollow Ones are, providing so much more depth than the listing in the Mage core book gives. It takes them from being two dimensional goth kid stereotypes to being a full, three dimensional group with real motivations and desires. A definite must have.
Guide to the Goth-Mages.......2003-02-13
This book brings together all the ideas surrounding the Hollow Ones and tries to expand them beyond the 'Goth-Mage' stereotype. The book has plenty of information on history, philosophies, and rotes for the group.
The book is a good resource for players and storytellers who want more information beyond the material provided in 'Outcasts: A Guide to Pariahs'. The information is useful and is presented in a clear fashion. The cover art is great and the new spells are useful. The only things I didn't like about the book are the templates. Most of them are based off of sci-fi characters.
Despite it's efforts to show that the Hollow Ones are more than Goth-Mages, the group still comes out looking more Goth than anything else.
Book Description
For the last few years, marketers have been obsessed with creating word of mouth and buzz to compensate for the declining effectiveness of traditional advertising. There have been several books on this important subject (including The Tipping Point), but none with the real-world insights that Dave Balter offers as today's leading practitioner of word-of-mouth marketing.
Balter's company, BzzAgent, has grown exponentially in just a few years; it now coordinates an army of 75,000 volunteers who talk up products they genuinely love, ranging from books, beer, and jeans to perfumes, restaurants, and sausages. These agents are not asked to follow a script when talking with friends and acquaintances in everyday conversations, nor do they conceal that they're agents. The honesty of their opinions is what make these agents believable.
The big lesson of BzzAgent's success is that companies don't need to win over experts, “influentials,” “cool hunters,” or “magic people” to drive word of mouth. They just need to reach ordinary consumers—from all age groups and income levels—who might be excited to try out new products before they hit the market. The person who sits next to you at work might have a bigger influence on what book you'll read next than any critic, or even Oprah.
Grapevine features many real Bzz Agent campaigns (and transparently highlights both successes and failures) to show readers what strategies work best in driving word of mouth. It's both a practical book for business people and an enlightening read for anyone curious about why products take off or flop.
Customer Reviews:
Consumer evangelism how-to.......2007-01-27
Grapevine is centered around the idea that people are naturally inclined to talk about products. David Balter stresses importance of word-of-mouth, and even more importantly, the role of every consumer in this process. He tip-toes around the idea of empowering consumers and offers some great advice from experience.
However, I don't think it's the inclination to talk about a product as much as it is about 'social currency'. Mark Hughes, in his book 'Buzzmarketing' nailed this concept. It's not the about the product, it's not even about your company, it's about the consumer and what you give him/her through your marketing. People like being listened to, to be on the 'inside', to have the scoop, this gives them 'social currency' - it makes them more interesting. In many ways, this is what Grapevine communication is all about, even if David Balter never put it that way.
The book touches on a number of interesting aspects: value of transparency, consumer evangelism, word-of-mouth as storytelling, and even the power of blogs. It's an easy ready with some interesting insights; overall, a worthwhile investment.
Word of Mouth 101.......2007-01-10
Trying to find a new dentist in town? Need to know a great hole-in-the wall eatery? You're probably banking on someone's recommendation more than anything else. It's word of mouth that's really starting to gain attention, even though it has been around for ages. Balter and Butman provide an excellent understanding of word of mouth in today's world and how it has become so prevalent and powerful.
A must read for anyone interested in the evolution of society and marketing.
Defining word of mouth marketing.......2006-09-19
Dave Balter is a genius. This book captures his passion for an industry that he is seeking to shape and define with integrity. This is essential reading for marketing professionals seeking to understand how word of mouth marketing works for major brands as well as for all of us in our daily lives. I highly recommend this book to those interested in understanding the most influential form of marketing today and always.
In a word, ego.......2006-08-27
This book is simply an ego boost for the author. I found absolutely nothing I could use in my own business, but was
vaguely impressed with the writers "word of mouth" business. I kept reading, expecting to find the secrets to starting my own word of mouth campaign any minute, only to feel that final book readers frustration in the end. No good ending, no secrets revealed, this book is a waste of time.
pretty good.......2006-05-04
I bought this book with great anticipation as it promised to reveal real new techniques in word of mouth advertising. I was even more excited as I read the first couple of chapters but after that it proved to be nothing more than case studies and advertisement for his BzzAgent business. However, I will say I did walk away with new insight on word of mouth with some ideas, one of which sparked an idea for my website that drove more traffic to my novel on Amazon.com. I was hoping for more detailed how to techniques than case studies but maybe if I combine this book with other buzz marketing and word of mouth marketing and guerilla marketing books I'll come up with a comprehensive plan that works well.
Jeff Rivera
Author of FOREVER MY LADY on Amazon.com
Book Description
A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Customer Reviews:
Where are the next Wise Men?.......2007-06-10
This is "an excellent read",, but it left me wondering why we have had no such minds in government in the last 30 years. It made me look back to our national leaders and great minds from the Founding Fathers through the short-lived Kennedy administration. From 1970 on, the bottom has fallen out. We have become late Rome.
Will Change Your View of the World .......2007-04-11
Not only kept me entertained, but completely changed my views on the post WWII era. A must read for anyone remotely interested in history or politics.
Wisdom Then.......2007-01-17
In a 1996 interview with David Gergen on NPR, one of this book's central characters makes a case for, what I will hazard to suggest, is one of the authors' central views;
DAVID GERGEN: Let me ask you this in terms of thinking back over then of that period of American foreign policy in the last forty or fifty years, one of the ironies here is that in an age of information you suggest we have too little wisdom.
GEORGE KENNAN: Yes, I do, and one of the things that bothers me about the computer culture of the present age is that one of the things of which it seems to me we have the least need is further information. What we really need is intelligent guidance in what to do with the information we've got.
Thus The Wise Men becomes a paean to, as the authors' admit at the outset, "the twentieth-century tradition of an informal brain trust of internationalists who first served Woodrow Wilson at Versailles and returned home to found the Council on Foreign Relations, " establishing along the way, "a distinguished network connecting Wall Street, Washington, worthy foundations, and proper clubs." The polemics about where one finds wisdom aside, The Wise Men provides a fascinating and uncompromising study of the evolution of U.S. foreign policy vis-à-vis the Soviet Union from the establishment of formal relations during the Roosevelt administration to Vietnam from the perspective of six of it's most significant players; Dean Acheson, Charles "Chip" Bohlen, Averell Harriman, George Kennan, Robert Lovett and John McCloy with side trips into electoral politics and the Middle East. Although I found the authors' fascination with many of these individuals' membership in Harvard's elite Porcellian and Yale's Skull and Bones clubs a bit off-putting (to say nothing of the not-so-veiled apologia for a certain social elitism . . . call me a populist), it would be difficult to find six more pivotal characters. The arguably lesser stars make significant appearances, most notably the Alsop and Bundy brothers, Clark Clifford, James Forrestal and Paul Nitze. I will even forgive the authors' treatment of one of my heroes', George Kennan's, emotional shortcomings. For those of a certain ideological bent, John Foster Dulles and Dean Rusk are not treated sympathetically. It all rings true notwithstanding and The Wise Men makes an excellent post-war study of U.S. foreign policy particularly as a counterpoint to David Halberstam's "Best and the Brightest" for those too busy or cheap to subscribe to Foreign Affairs.
another reader.......2006-03-18
A very interesting book, but you have to be able to read between
the lines. Isaacson paints a picture of six powerful men who did
everything they could for US and mankind in general.
Another reviewer used the words fawning and uncritical to
describe the book. Well, there is a good reason for that.
Walter Isaacson, head of Aspen Institute, is himself a member
of the same "Insider Establishment" as the six men in
the book.
For kissing up, he has also been made a member of the
powerful Council on Foreign Relations.
This book should be combined with other more critical or
even negative writings on the subject to help build a more
realistic view.
For example I recommend books by the late Anthony Sutton.
Averell Harriman was a particularly unsavoury character, a
notorious Bilderberger, whose nefarious machinations are
becoming more and more known to the public, even
though still much is suppressed by the media.
Some people I have talked to think that the book should be called "the Wise Guys" instead of "the Wise Men" , but personally I wouldn't go that far.
The world isn't just black and white after all. These guys
looked after their own like everybody else on the planet and maybe, just maybe, in the meantime something good came out of it.
Exhaustive (exhausting), and fascinating.......1999-07-30
This book is fantastically interesting. The detail and the descriptions of personalities involved make the subject matter more than palatable, even to the less scholarly among us. The book is, however, very, very long and would have perhaps been better broken up into several volumes. I would characterize it as very well written, exhaustively researched, slightly fawning and uncritical at times, and, in general, well worth lugging around.
Customer Reviews:
The best book on the Soviet war in Afghanistan.......2002-08-21
I picked this up because I'm interested in the war(s) in Afghanistan, but to be honest I thought it might be a little dated because it was published in 1995. Boy, was I wrong! There are a few details which have emerged since in later books (especially by Les Grau), but this is an amazing overview not just of the war but of the effects this had back in Russia, from the problems the vets faced to how it changed the High Command. And it's written very clearly, even with humor. Highly recommended!
Strong and coherent treatment.......2001-11-23
Even though the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is often viewed as their Vietnam, there are suprisingly few books on the subject. The books that do exist often derive from the experiences of a particular journalist or soldier. While such books are extremely valuable, they do not provide an overall treatment of the war and its relevance to the wider world.
Mark Galeotti provides a more historical and wider view of the war. He discusses the Soviet Union's involvement in the war and its effects on that country. He particularly addresses the argument that the war in Afghanistan was central to the fall of the Soviet Union. In pursuing this argument, a detailed and compelling analysis of the effects of the war upon the Soviet Union is provided.
The major problem with the book is that at times it feels spotty. Galeotti sometimes exhaustively focuses on issues that are tangential to his argument, such as the role of Afghan veterans in Soviet/Russian society, while providing only adequate amounts of detail on the actual war in Afghanistan. The overall history of military operations is covered very briefly. In particular, analysis of military effectiveness focuses almost entirely on tactics and does not attempt a detailed appraisal of flaws/strengths in Soviet strategy.
Nevertheless, this is a very strong book and certainly vital reading for understanding the importance of the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Customer Reviews:
Outstanding expose of a goverment (ours!) selling out our fighting men to the commies!.......2006-07-21
Mr and Mrs Stevenson have been on hundreds
of radio and TV shows and this very solidly
refferenced book should be on the same shelf
in your library as Col. James Bo Gritz books,
on the same subject [Ex: 'A Nation Betrayed'].
Bravo, Mr and Mrs Stevenson!
An amazing and sad tale.......2006-06-02
I read this book quite a few years ago and was horrified by the thought that American soldiers were left to die in Vietnam. Whenever I discussed the findings in the book with friends they would shrug it off and say that it couldn't be true. They felt that the truth would have had to come out over the years and that even politicians are not that low. Many other reviews on this site also portray the book as false.
I was therefore amazed when I recently read the book Inside the Delta Force by Eric Haney. In that amazing book he discusses that the U.S. government had confirmation of U.S. POW's being held in Laos and that the Delta Force was prepared to go in after them. Two times the mission was scrubbed, and they never again had the opportunity to try again. His views on what occurred and the C.I.A.'s participation in the events are amazing. These facts are hard to dismiss lightly coming from a founding member of the Delta Force.
I now want to go back and read Kiss the Boy's Goodbye again. It is an amazing tale that needs to be told and people need to be held accountable.
Kiss the boys goodbye.......2005-07-03
This tells to whole story...how could we as civilized people forget some of the bravest men Amarica has produced?? I was in the Army, 67-70 and I am totally ashamed to be an American...she tells to facts, and you can decide how it effects you.
Awesome-.......2004-10-31
What an outstanding book, truth always is better than the lies told by our Government having retired from the Government and knowing the inside facts of the fate of our POW/MIA's I testified UNDER OATH at the Senate POW/MIA hearing's and know first hand the truth this is a book for all to read it is History of how our elected "Cowards" run in the face of the enemy. five stars +++++ Truth is better than cover up
total and absolute nonsense.......2004-06-02
This book is useless. Anyone who thinks this book contains a word of truth needs to spend a lot of time reading the MIA Facts website at http://www.miafacts.org -- especially the part about Monika Jensen's other POW book, "Spite House."
Book Description
While ecological and biophysical sciences have dominated the theory and practice of conservation, practitioners and researchers worldwide know that conservation initiatives have profound social impacts and consequences for local communities and cultures. This concise and accessible book will give students and practitioners a solid introduction to important methods from ethnography and interviews to surveys and community mapping, always attending to the imperatives of local control and community partnerships.
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