The Complete Book of Insurance: The Consumer's Guide to Insuring Your Life, Health, Property and Income, Revised Edition

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The Complete Book of Insurance: The Consumer's Guide to Insuring Your Life, Health, Property and Income, Revised Edition
Ben G. Baldwin
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The Complete Book of Insurance provides all the information a consumer needs to make intelligent insurance-buying decision. Written by a nationally known expert on insurance, the book is geared for everyday consumers who are confused about the variety and complexity of today's insurance products. In easy-to-understand language, the book explains everything from variable annuities to disability insurance. Most important, the book shows how to determine the right insurance for consumers of different incomes, age group and family responsibilities. Specific topics include: Spend your insurance dollars wisely. Provide adequate coverage for you and your family; Disability, medical, homeowner's, automobile, liability and life insurance products; Managing your life insurance; Selecting an insurance agent and insurance company.

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Collected here for the first time are full-color reproductions of the portraits of the esteemed felines & tabbies who line the walls of the fabled Cat Hall of Fame. These paintings reflect the character, poise, elegance, & beauty of the most celebrated cats of all time, including: William Shakespurr, Sigmund Fureud, David Litterman, Mewhammad Alley, Isadora Duncat, Lady Catterly's Lover, Ernest Hemingcat, Pablo Picatso, Chairman Meow, Liza Mewnelli, Betty Crockat, Wolfgang Amadeus Mewzart, Napawleon Bonaparte, Cats Domino, & many more. Each picture is accompanied by a full-page description of the famous cat.

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Terri Epstein , and Judith Epstein Gage
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The Cat Hall of Fame.......2005-09-22

It is a delightful book, one all cat lovers would enjoy. I am very pleased with it.

A Must for the Library of any Cat Lover.......2002-02-05

This is a crazy book that cat lovers will enjoy. There is actually a Cat Hall of Fame in New York, and the story behind the woman who started it (included in the book) is fantastic. It is also really interesting to see who has been included in the hall of fame. Very entertaining and funny book.

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This CD Set Meets ALL Expectations!.......2000-12-01

My wife was privileged to work under Pat Moffit Cook and we were thrilled to see Brainwave Symphony on the shelves when it was released. We have heard many CD sets, and none of them have met our expectations until now! If you have sleep problems, I can't recommend this set highly enough! The "Delta" CD worked wonders for our sleep patterns, and I often run the "Beta" CD all day long as I work. It really helps with focus and clarity. I am really looking forward to seeing what is next for Pat Moffit Cook!

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Deep down, people are weird. Searching for those whose weirdness expresses itself through art, sport, religion, and other relatively normal pursuits, writers Susan Sheehan and Howard Means found 40 strangely compelling stories, recounted in the wonderfully titled The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer. One man's ambition is to eat at every McDonald's in the United States; a young woman has won more than 3,000 ribbons at the huge Iowa State Fair. The authors go beyond simple believe-it-or-not reporting, instead interviewing each of their subjects to tease out their motivations and the consequences of their passions. One gentleman, whose aim is to swim across each of the Great Lakes, admits that his goals don't permit him to have a family or much social interaction, but he seems genuinely satisfied with his purpose in life. Much of the book is told in the subjects' own words, which offer insights into the pride and humility, the genius and madness of these singular individuals. The book may not inspire the kind of zeal it takes to carve a life-sized Last Supper, but it will help readers appreciate the weirdness to be found in ordinary people. --Rob Lightner

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We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, where we work, what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime. What has been missing in all this self-examination, until now, is a book about the greatest national obsessions of all: the hobbies we pursue, the collections and amateur sports to which we devote so much of our lives.

The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer chronicles the amazing variety of ways in which we relax, compete with others and ourselves, and indulge some of our richest fantasies. Here are wonderfully warm and witty accounts of Americans as they: attempt to swim all the Great Lakes, often in horrible conditions; quit a job and begin raising sheep to accommodate a newfound passion for spinning; eat at every McDonald's in the nation; carve The Last Supper from wood; cross all the world's suspension bridges; build huge banana sculptures; roller blade, scull, and bake; and collect marbles, Noah's arks, talking birds, and much more.

In these pages you'll meet a marvelous array of ordinary people who do unusual things, sometimes to extremes, as they define for themselves worlds of imagination, contest, and excellence. These are people who thrill to the chase and sometimes plain wear themselves out having fun, whether it's flying kites as big as a king-size mattress, canoeing in the Canadian wilderness, or meticulously recording the daily details of their everyday existence.

In Working, Studs Terkel gave us an unforgettable oral history of the working life of an earlier generation. The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer is a history for our own times -- of the passionate pursuits by which so many of us define ourselves and of the universal search for happiness and a sense of fulfillment.

Maybe you'll find yourself in the forty people profiled here. Maybe you'll find a hobby that you'll want to make your own. Either way, your life is likely to be enriched, just as the lives of the people you will read about are enriched by the depth of their commitment and the beauty of their accomplishments.

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Eccentric people and why they define what it is to be human........2006-04-09

This is indeed a book about people who are stranger than fiction. The author interviews people who have unusual hobbies and have gone over to the far side of hobby land. Nevertheless, they are happy and not locked up in an insane asylum. Each chapter is about a different individual. Some amazing stories... one man for example swims across the great lakes. Another reunites American and Japanese World War II veterans who fought against each other.

The authors also talks about how they met the various people in the book and maps out the social network of friendships. Often very funny, weird, and amazing. After reading the book you'll start thinking of the people you know who would be perfect for the sequel or if you're really lucky, perhaps yourself.

Interesting and Fun but not very deep.......2002-07-08

This book is a series of mini-biographies of Americans with odd hobbies or pursuits or interests. They are very short (5-7 pages) and very well-written. However, there is no analysis as to why these people do what they do or whether there is something wrong with them. For example, many of the men profiled are bachelors. Is this cuase and effect or effect and cause or neither? It might have been interesting to speculate. This book is like whipped cream - fun to eat but ultimately of no nutritional value.

You Don't Have To Be A Collector to Like this Book.......2002-03-26

I loved this book! It's a fascinating mix of "real life" stories of the passions of down-to-earth and "regular" people who have intriguing obsessions. Reading it is like joining a secret society or club or meeting a new group of wild friends whose lives are the richer for (as the Banana Sculptor himself puts it) the need "to dream."

This book could be called "American Eccentrics" for its wonderful range of characters - from the tiddly wink competitor to the inveterate garage saler to the sculler and the skater and the card shark. The authors are the best kind of good listeners and interviewers - they stay out of the way and let the enthusiasts speak for themselves, about the magic of baking or bonsai and how the soul and spirit factor into swimming all night or collecting pre-cancelled stamps.

A great one-of-a-kind summer/beach book, and a terrific anytime gift!

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Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, Cracked Coverage stands as a bold indictment of the backlash politics of the Reagan coalition and its implicit racism, the mercenary outlook of the drug control establishment, and the enterprising reporting of crusading journalism. Blending theoretical and empirical analyses, Jimmie L. Reeves and Richard Campbell explore how TV news not only interprets "reality" in ways that reflect prevailing ideologies, but is in many respects responsible for constructing that reality. Their examination of the complexity of television and its role in American social, cultural, and political conflict is focused specifically on the ways in which American television during the Reagan years helped stage and legitimate the "war on drugs," one of the great moral panics of the postwar era.
The authors persuasively argue, for example, that powder cocaine in the early Reagan years was understood and treated very differently on television and by the state than was crack cocaine, which was discovered by the news media in late 1985. In their critical analysis of 270 news stories broadcast between 1981 and 1988, Reeves and Campbell demonstrate a disturbing disparity between the earlier presentation of the middle- and upper-class "white" drug offender, for whom therapeutic recovery was an available option, and the subsequent news treatment of the inner-city "black" drug delinquent, often described as beyond rehabilitation and subject only to intensified strategies of law and order. Enlivened by provocative discussions of Nancy Reagan’s antidrug activism, the dramatic death of basketball star Len Bias, and the myth of the crack baby, the book argues that Reagan’s war on drugs was at heart a political spectacle that advanced the reactionary agenda of the New and Religious Right—an agenda that dismissed social problems grounded in economic devastation as individual moral problems that could simply be remedied by just saying "no."
Wide ranging and authoritative, Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy is a truly interdisciplinary work that will attract readers across the humanities and social sciences in addition to students, scholars, journalists, and policy makers interested in the media and drug-related issues.

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A brilliant piece of work........1999-03-19

Reeves and Campbell cut through all of the drug war crap in this superb cultural analysis. The role of the news -- especially the television network news -- is clear in the creation of a major "drug problem" and the need for a war on drugs. Need to know why the jails are overflowing with drug users? As this book points out, the Reagan-era news loved this "lock 'em up" story.

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Enhance your iPod experience with the new edition of this popular how-to guide. The author discusses new features of the newly released iPods—up to 10, 000 songs with the increased capacity—including features for Windows users such as iTunes for Windows, EphPod, and XPlay. In addition to learning the basics of operating this easy-to-use portable music source, like where to get and how to organize your music, find out what fun accessories are now available, for instance a downloadable movie database, a calendar program, and much more.

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Great guide with cool tricks and haacks.......2004-05-28

I really liked this book. Ita has lots of cool trick and hacks that I hadn't really heard of. Writing was good, but the best part was learning some cool new ways to use my favorite toy. If you want to get them most out of your ipod this is the best book out there.

I picked up info and tips from this book.......2004-04-07

Although this book was written in 2003 and is more targeted to the beginner, it does offer some things of value:

- a review of third-party products available
- tips on ensuring good music quality
- other tips and tricks you're unlikely to find in Apple's documentation

After spending several hundred dollars on your iPod, I think it's reasonable to spend 3% or 4% of the purchase price to ensure that you're using it optimally.

I don't regret buying this book.

90 pages of information in a 250 page package.......2004-03-02

Another editorial decision to make a book longer than the subject needs so the book can cost more. Extra 160 pages is uninformed and unqualified speculation about telecommunications and copyright laws, and feeble attempts at humor. Why do people who aren't funny in real life think they are funny in print?

Every second or third sentence refers to "your ipod", as in "your ipod" this, and "your ipod" that, and "your ipod" the other thing. Annoying and weird. Could of used some editing and recasting of sentences.

40 GB/Windows Users Don't Waste Your Money.......2004-01-03

I'm sure the book was very useful when it was current (May 2003) but it is really out of date for things released after that date. The iPod User's Guide that comes with the unit gave me all the information I needed. This book gave me a headache.

Clear writng, comprehensive, what more can you want?.......2003-07-28

I am using my ipod (15gb) with MusicMatch (PC) and I could't be happier with this book. Notwithstanding the previous reviewer's comments, this book made me a speed user in one reading. MusicMatch is the software provided by Apple for using an ipod with a PC. The software is not intuitive and before reading this book, this book, I was ready to take my ipod back to Apple. Happily, that wasn't necessary. Once you break the code, MusicMatch is easy to use and reliable. While this book was written for an earlier version of ipod, the chapters on MusicMatch are up to date with the latest version of the software as far as I can tell. Even the chapters that pertain to the ipod hardware are reasonably applicable to the new hardware. Go ahead and buy this book, you'll love it. BTW, I am not in anyway connected with this book or its authors, publsihers, etc. I am just a very satisfied user.

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WHERE DOES FREEDOM COME FROM?

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A timely history lesson in the use of force

An Excellent Book

This is not reason, it is ideology

The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny
Victor Davis Hanson
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Release Date: 2001-04-17

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On first glance, The Soul of Battle appears to be three different books: biographies of two well-known generals--Sherman and Patton--and one who is virtually unknown today, the ancient Greek leader Epaminondas. Yet Victor Davis Hanson, a classics professor and author of The Western Way of War, makes a compelling connection between these three men. They were "eccentrics, considered unbalanced or worse by their own superiors" who led democratic armies on missions of freedom. Epaminondas crushed Sparta's military dominance of Greece in a single winter, Sherman delivered a deathblow to the slaveholding South in the U.S. Civil War, and Patton was the general most feared by his Nazi enemies in the Second World War. Hanson disputes the conventional notion that soldiers fight only for their buddies, rather than abstract ideals. He writes: "Theban hoplites, Union troops, and American GIs were ideological armies foremost, composed of citizen-soldiers who burst into their enemies' heartland because they believed it was a just and very necessary thing to do. The commanders who led them encouraged that ethical zeal, made them believe there was a real moral difference" between what they and their opponents stood for. Epaminondas, Sherman, and Patton each became extremely controversial for his success, but Hanson argues persuasively that their efforts demonstrate "that on rare occasions throughout the ages there can be a soul, not merely a spirit, in the way men battle." With this idiosyncratic approach, Hanson makes a unique contribution to our understanding of not only these three men and their troops, but also the role of the military in a democratic society. --John J. Miller

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Victor David Hanson, author of the highly regarded classic The Western Way of War, presents an audacious and controversial theory of what contributes to the success of military campaigns.

Examining in riveting detail the campaigns of three brilliant generals who led largely untrained forces to victory over tyrannical enemies, Hanson shows how the moral confidence with which these generals imbued their troops may have been as significant as any military strategy they utilized. Theban general Epaminondas marched an army of farmers two hundred miles to defeat their Spartan overlords and forever change the complexion of Ancient Greece. William Tecumseh Sherman led his motley army across the South, ravaging the landscape and demoralizing the citizens in the defense of right. And George S. Patton commanded the recently formed Third Army against the German forces in the West, nearly completing the task before his superiors called a halt. Intelligent and dramatic, The Soul of Battle is narrative history at it’s best and a work of great moral conviction.

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WHERE DOES FREEDOM COME FROM?.......2007-06-14

In The Soul of Battle, Victor Davis Hanson traces the historical development of Western methods of battle and also of the free Western societies from which great democratic armies have arisen, starting with the Greeks. If you are interested in the sources freedom and prosperity in a society, and the way wars have been fought, and won, by free democratic armies since the Greeks, this book is illuminating and essential.

In The Soul of Battle, VDH describes the military campaigns of three commanders who led the army of a Western democracy: Epaminondas in ancient Greece, William Tecumseh Sherman in the American Civil War, and George S. Patton in World War II. VDH describes the military tactics and strategies in fascinating detail. He describes how each commander led an army of free, independent individuals, well-trained to act with consummate levels of discipline and camaraderie, to destroy their opponent's ability to wage war, thus to end each war sooner, and thus actually to save lives. He describes that they fought with ingenuity and discipline because they wanted to preserve the freedom they had at home, and to make it safe for their freedom-based way of life to continue.

But perhaps more importantly, VDH describes the social conditions that allow the creation of this kind of democratic army: freedom, self-reliance, property ownership, individualism, civilian control of the military, ability to innovate, freedom of self-expression and inquiry, and equal protection of private property, to name just a few. VDH describes how these conditions created societies of strong, individualistic, freedom-loving citizens, who, when stirred by great urgency, became soldiers, who came together only for the purpose of winning a war as quickly and completely as possible, then disbursed immediately thereafter to their homes to go on with their lives.

This book reveals the line of civic freedom that started with the Greeks and runs through Rome, to Europe, to America and all the western-style democracies we have in the current day all over the world. This book shows how war and battle have fit into the picture through the centuries. Perhaps most importantly, this book helps the reader to see which parts of our laws and customs help to ensure freedom for the future, and thus must be cherished and protected.

All Victor Davis Hanson's books about battle and society are excellent. His thesis that freedom in a society and the ability to win wars are inextricably linked to traditions of liberty, independence and free inquiry, is illustrated by different battles and different adversaries in each book. VDH argues convincingly that these keys to freedom and liberty also account for the prosperity, commitment and know-how that create the ability to win wars in societies that inherited or adopted the traditions of Western culture. In his books, he traces the development of the traditions of freedom, self-expression and individual innovation from ancient Greece through the development of battle techniques and civic traditions in Europe and then to the United States and the rest of the world.

The Soul of Battle is an awesome book, wonderfully interesting, about fascinating events, told so that the reader can see what is important to preserve freedom in our current times. I highly, highly recommend it. Read it. It is simply outstanding. Then read Carnage and Culture, another VDH book. I think you will love it.

Outstanding.......2007-03-10

I openly profess a lack of any military history, but in recent years, since 9/11, I've been drawn to questions regarding leadership in battle. George S. Patton consistently ranks at the top of my list of individuals I wish to study. Coming across "Soul of Battle" has now added William Tecomseh Sherman and Epiminondas to that list.

Hanson does an excellent job painting a comprehensive historical picture of these 3 military leaders for those of my ilk who do not possess the depth of knowledge of history's finer nuances. For those of us who did not study Ancient Greece and dedicated our lives to other trades, Hanson's work is a welcome friend.

What is most impressive about how Hanson portrays these leaders is that he not only spends time talking about the battle itself and the campaign but the more global reasons of how and why the battles were brought about. What forces a group of free men to bear arms and attack with such force a tyrannical government or an enslaving society??? This is the tapestry that is the back drop to why we go to battle and why we fight today. We must know and learn why our preceding generations would pick up a weapon and willingly die. I highly recommend this book.

A timely history lesson in the use of force.......2007-02-04

Hanson's treatise is superb. He offers three examples, spanning 2500 years, of how democratic war craft snatches freedom from tyranny.

The premise is that when a free society is threatened at it's core, when it's been attacked, when it's citizenry understand that the enemy is at odds with a society of freedom, the democracy can be unstoppable when forced to fight. When a genius at war leads that unstoppable force and if the leader is given the latitude to do what has to be done ... the necessary force will gather and fight, and bring home to the tyrant society a disaster that will terminate the threat. The tyrant states Hanson discusses ceased to exist forever after free men took the initiative to the tyrant.

Epaminondas, long forgotten, eradicated the insufferable warmongering slave society of Sparta. Within a season ... the 300 years of absolute Spartan domination of free men would never rise again. No accolades for Epaminondas, only a new society of freed helots. Epaminondas and his army of farmers disappears into the obscurity of citizenry and history.

No union general was more hated in the south than Sherman. Sherman's march of total destruction insured that never would the South be able to rise again or be able to rationalize the 300 year old institution of slavery. The march to the sea was all of 5 weeks but remains in memory like it was interminable. Sherman and his Army of the West disappeared into the citizenry within days of the marches end. With no friend in politics, Sherman fades into society.

We know the Patton story ... fired for misbehavior numerous times, generally hated by contemporaries, his death only days after again being fired with orders to go home was perhaps the ironic outcome for the legacy of the man. The legacy of Patton's 3rd Army lives on. Patton and his 3rd moved further, faster and with the deadliest efficiency of any Army in history. The 3rd Army was in a position to save more lives, but not given the permission. Historians seem to be increasingly suggesting that victory in Europe was a Russian thing, beginning at Stalingrad, that allied airpower destroyed the Reich's ability to keep it's army in the field, that German collapse was days away. The German record of industrial output, army moral and citizen support on the post-Bulge western front is far more revealing as Patton neared the Fatherland. Records and writings indicate production and the highest German moral of the war was shunted to the west in the protection of the fatherland in hopes of a negotiated peace to save occuption. Some in diplomacy appear to have viewed negotiations as an acceptable alternative. Patton alone forced the Nazi eye from the ball and tore through the material and sprit of a defective society. His domination of the European battlefield and destruction of German psyche was absolute. The need for diplomacy was overcome by events and the planning for a winter of 1946 campaign shelved. Patton's elimination of 2 army groups and 1,000,000 prisoners would insure that Germany would never rise again to military dominance. Patton's politics could have precluded the coming Cold War. The 30,000,000 victims of Stalin's and Mao's communistic lunacy were largely still alive when Patton slammed into the diplomatic solution.

Hanson has done good work. These 3 men standout out as the executors of apocalyptic horrors that terminate an enemy forever. This book gives pause to consider the legacy of politics, diplomacy and war craft. Peace proponents today will do anything for peace except perhaps read a book like Hanson's with history's documented lessons

An Excellent Book.......2006-09-24

Victor David Hanson identifies two qualities that in combat are especially lethal when combined: speed and a higher moral purpose. Written before 9-11, this book raises for me facinating and highly relevant questions about our current efforts in the Middle East (e.g., the establishment of democracy and the correlation between our lack of military movement within Iraq and the explosion of terrorism in the country).

This is not reason, it is ideology.......2006-06-07

The underlying premise of this book (democracy = good, tyranny and slavery = bad) is obviously sympathetic. You can't go wrong with that these days, on a fundamental level.

What Hanson has done with this, though, is utterly inexcusable. He's taken every fact and twisted and tortured it until it fits so that each of the people surveyed can be painted in pure black and white, as unambiguous heroes and titans among men. It doesn't matter that Patton took over an army already on the verge of breaking a badly-battered German army, or that the reason Sherman was able to burn his away across the South was because Grant was going toe-to-toe with the only dangerous Confederate army in Virginia. No, in each case, Hanson's favorite guy was entirely responsible for victory, and he manages to twist the contributions of others into proof of their incompetance. It's like, you know, Grant was completely stalled out by Lee! He couldn't get anything done at all! Meanwhile Sherman was doing all the real damage! That Grant guy was a total loser. Or ... before Patton showed up, all the British and Americans were doing was uselessly battering themselves against the Germans! It took Patton's genius to achieve the breakout where those losers were just getting people killed and wasting time!

This stuff is beyond the pale, really. It's intellectually dishonest. It's not history. It's history twisted and tortured to support an ideological bias.

The shame of it is that this is a really interesting topic. Sherman and Patton anyway were real people, ambiguous and conflicted. Patton in fact was probably a nut (and even many of his fans would probably not disagree on this point), but he was a nut who could motivate troops. And I personally always do feel conflicted about what we've done and what has happened in fighting some nasty wars: the fireboming of Dresden, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sherman's march to the sea, the genocide of the Native Americans, My Lai, and Abu Grahib. What I want is someone to really look into these things and tell my why free and democratic nations which claim to have strong principles do these things. I don't need someone telling me "it's OK, our society is great, it was all in rightous anger, it had to be done, and anyway, they were all bad guys."

The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny.: An article from: The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin

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The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny.: An article from: The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin
Arthur Majoor
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This digital document is an article from The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin, published by Canadian Army Journal on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 2350 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: The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny.
Author: Arthur Majoor
Publication: The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Canadian Army Journal
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Free On Line.......2005-04-29

No idea why Amazon is flogging these articles for 6 dollars a pop when they are:

a) available online for free from the Canadian Army Journal site

b) flogging these without author's consent

As the author of this article, I object to its sale on this site

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The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny.: An article from: The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin (French edition)
Sergent Arthur Majoor
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This digital document is an article from The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin (French edition), published by Canadian Army Journal on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 3120 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: The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny.
Author: Sergent Arthur Majoor
Publication: The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin (French edition) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Canadian Army Journal
Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Page: 70

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The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny
Victor Davis Hanson
Manufacturer: Random House
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"In the nascent field of Chicano history psychohistorical studies are not abundant. Thus Mazón makes an immense contribution to the study of the Mexican American."

—Arnoldo de León, American Historical Review

Los Angeles, the summer of 1943. For ten days in June, Anglo servicemen and civilians clashed in the streets of the city with young Mexican Americans whose fingertip coats and pegged, draped trousers announced their rebellion. At their height, the riots involved several thousand men and women, fighting with fists, rocks, sticks, and sometimes knives. In the end none were killed, few were seriously injured, and property damage was slight and yet, even today, the zoot-suit riots are remembered and hold emotional and symbolic significance for Mexican Americans and Anglos alike.

The causes of the rioting were complex, as Mazón demonstrates in this illuminating analysis of their psychodynamics. Based in part on previously undisclosed FBI and military records, this engrossing study goes beyond sensational headlines and biased memories to provide an understanding of the zoot-suit riots in the context of both Mexican American and Anglo social history.

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Zoot-Suit Riots.......2001-08-04

The Zoot-Suit Riots is a well written and scholarly book about some racial disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles in 1943. These "riots" were not actual riots at all, but conflicts between angry sailors and Latinos. No one was killed or seriously injured in these conflicts, and there was little property damage except for some torn up suits and shaved heads.

The author, Mauricio Mazon, gives good documentation and reports from sources on both sides of the clashes. The newspapers of the time get low grades for their efforts at reporting the fighting. Indeed, Mazon blames them in part for actually stirring up trouble in order to get a good story. High government officials fared no better. They were worried about causing a mutiny and undermining morale and unfairly blamed the Mexicans.

I would recommend the book to all history buffs interested in World War II. This book shows another side to what some people call "The Greatest Generation."

My only criticism of the book is the lack of good photographs of these conflicts. There are, however, several pages of cartoons drawn by Al Capp which make fun of the zoot suit fad.

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The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation.
Mauricio. Mazon
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N2KN0W

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Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation.

ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ICPU5U

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