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"Ulysses S. Grant was a perceptive and surprisingly modern manager," writes Al Kaltman. "A pragmatist who learned from his own and others' successes and failures, he brought new dimensions to strategic planning. He was adept at seizing and exploiting opportunities as they presented themselves, and he boldly shattered paradigms long before the term paradigm had made its way into the management jargon."

Kaltman uses Grant's military career, beginning with his enrollment at West Point through his early successes in the Civil War to his eventual command of the entire Union Army, to illustrate 250 basic principles of business success, from "Bureaucrats do the dumbest things" to "You can't stop the clock." In an afterword, Kaltman considers how President Grant failed to live up to the principles of teamwork and planning that led General Grant to victory, with a resultant career as chief executive whose legacy has been less than stellar.

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Long before leadership became identified as the catalyst for corporate success, the Civil War's winning general was showing the world how dynamic leadership is the crucial determinant of victory or defeat.

Ulysses S. Grant never sought fame of glory, nor did he try to tie his performance to personal reward. Instead, he concentrated on contribution and service. He looked upon being given increased responsibility not as increasing his power, but as increasing his ability to get the job done. "The great thing about Grant...is his perfect correctness and persistency of purpose." (Abraham Lincoln)

In this masterful retelling of Grant's story, Al Kaltman draws on Grant's writings and life experiences to present a series of practical lessons on how to get superior performance from the troops.

Going beyond mere "how-to's", Cigars, Whiskey & Winning deals with character traits, core beliefs, and fundamental values to reveal the secrets to becoming a winning leader that are as much about "who to be" as "what to do". And there isn't a chart, table, or checklist in sight-just a handy index of lessons for ready inspiration on demand.

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Good leadershipship principles by U.S. Grant........2007-09-22

Grant may have been a poor President, but he was a great General. This book expounds the leadership principles of his war years. Grant was not only decisive, but he could also admit to mistakes. His treatment of his fellow officers shows he was a born leader. In three years, he rose from being a store clerk to a four star general. He did this using his courage, common sense, and good decision making. Lincoln may have saved the Union through his political leadership, but U.S. Grant saved it militarily with his good leadership.

This is a easy to read book. The book is in excess of three hundred pages, but most of the pages are not full. Some two hundred and fifty principles are detailed in the leadership of U.S. Grant. Too bad Grant did not use some of these principles in his Presidency.

Home run.......2007-07-30

Kaltman has done the research for you and put it all in a great lesson by lesson format. Any leader can refer to this book for day to day operations.

Every Manager Should Read This........2007-04-10

Very good read for anyone in management.
Uses the Civil War memoires of U.S. Grant to illustrate management skills and practices.
Very interesting. Excellent gift for men.

True to Grant's Character and Management Theory.......2007-03-15

Well researched book that explored both Grant's personality and effective leadership. I found it a nice change of pace from most management texts. Done in small bites, it would be great for use in class or discussion group. I felt it started rather simplicistically, but improved quickly. I especially appreciated the chapter at the end that explored why such a successful General was considered far less effective as a President. Good investment for any management bookshelf.

Well written book, with good advice........2006-03-09

I found it both intertaining to read, and thought provoking. It is full of logical advice, and real-world examples.

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This second edition features the most complete, the most current, and the most practical coverage available on the topic. The author covers a full range of topics including the various types of interviewing and counseling, the stages of these interactions, what is addressed in the different phases, and skills and techniques for effective interviewing and counseling. Students, professors, and professionals alike will appreciate Shipley's easy-to-read style. This text includes coverage of hot topics such as working with diverse clients, dealing with difficult situations, ethical and professional matters, and multicultural factors. Preservice and Inservice Speech Language Pathologists. A Longwood Professional Book.

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G. Beutler's Methods of Celestial Mechanics is a coherent textbook for students as well as an excellent reference for practitioners. The first volume gives a thorough treatment of celestial mechanics and presents all the necessary mathematical details that a professional would need. The reader will appreciate the well-written chapters on numerical solution techniques for ordinary differential equations, as well as that on orbit determination. In the second volume applications to the rotation of earth and moon, to artificial earth satellites and to the planetary system are presented. The author addresses all aspects that are of importance in high-tech applications, such as the detailed gravitational fields of all planets and the earth, the oblateness of the earth, the radiation pressure and the atmospheric drag. The concluding part of this monumental treatise explains and details state-of-the-art professional and thoroughly-tested software for celestial mechanics. The accompanying CD-ROM enables readers to employ this software themselves and also serves as to illustrate and reinforce the related theoretical concepts.

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Paperback, 216 pages. ABSTRACT

Skeletal remains of an archaic man were found in the Great Basin of the United States. Radiocarbon date is 3500 years. Distinguishing features include protruding brows unlike those of any other hominid species, archaic or modern. The skull is broad based and the posterior view differs from that of modern man. Presented are 18 photographs of skull parts, 7 photographs of body and extremity bones, and 69 photographs of paleolithic artifacts. The claim is well supported that this is a newly reported species, and it is given the name Homo americanus.

It is proposed that this archaic species made and used the paleolithic artifacts found in huge numbers in the region. Appendixes I and II add parts of the author's books, Earliest Man of America in Oregon, U.S.A.; with photographs of paleolithic artifacts, and Originations of Life from Volcanoes and Petroleum. Some paleolithic tools are claimed to be 3-4 million years old. The author bases his theory of multiple originations of life on fundamentals of geology, physics, chemistry, biology, and observations of plants and animals. The presented archaic man found in North America provides additional support for that theory. CONSISTENT RECENT REPORT

Amy Dansie, an anthropologist at the Nevada State Museum reported 10,000 hours studying 550 burials excavated prior to 1900 in the Great Basin in Nevada, including five over 9000 years old. She noted, "The 9,000 to 9,500-year-old Spirit Cave Man, Wizards Beach Man, and Kennewick Man share some distinctive traits not often found in later western Native Americans, but which may be a combination of traits of a pre-racial common ancestor of all modern humans, and the emerging proto-Indian." Society for American Archaeology Bulletin, 17:30, at 31., May 1999.

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Finding Annie, the girl he loved and left, finding her embedded with the plotters (two quirky boyhood pals), only adds to his woes.

As teenagers in the 1950's, “The Fox Street Four” fled their decaying South Bronx neighborhood, going their separate ways. Fast forward 25 years. They reunite as a TV anchorman, a fading Hollywood actress, a hell-bent-for-action celebrity lawyer and a wealthy but troubled humanitarian. The "boys" kick start their top-secret mission with a media hoax that panics financial markets worldwide. It's a sting to dazzle Newman and Redford.

The story zips ahead from the Bronx to New Orleans to an impoverished Caribbean island., from a despot's prison to a federal campus for gentlemen felons. At climax, Sonny must take a giant emotional leap if he is to redeem himself and find his future. Naked Dancing Thursdays is about dueling obsessions and betrayal, about self-discovery, a first love revisited—and more.

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Deadly Deceits didn't get into the heart and soul of the CIA

Revealing

When the Truth is Found to be a Lie

Very realistic, which means unexciting

Deadly Deceits

Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA
Ralph W. McGehee
Manufacturer: Sheridan Square Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Deadly Deceits didn't get into the heart and soul of the CIA.......2007-03-10

I purchased this book because I wanted a better understanding of the purpose, and the core workings of the CIA; what made them tick, the mentality of the agency and its people. I came wanting to hear more of an insider's take on various missions.

Seems like the author looked for the same kind of excitement and intrigue in his job that I was looking for in the book. The details of his lack luster paper pushing career was too much for me to bear. I felt as if I had to force myself through the book. It was just so dry, with many missing links. The book really didn't tell me much of anything I hadn't already known. I really didn't have to know about his filing routine. It didn't add to the main premise. I didn't want to know about Chinese names, or about the rice patties around his house. When he was put on another mission I had high hopes that now the book would move into high gear and I would finally be able to get glued to the pages, yet another and another disappointment.

Through out 90% of the book I didn't get the feeling he had a problem with the CIA. Where were all of the deadly deceits? He said " despite my boss's early warnings, the duties on Taiwan seemed more directed at having a good time than at productive work. When we were not throwing a party for our counterpart Chinese officials, they were having us to sumptuous multi course banquets. ..." What does this have to do with "deadly deceits?" It was unbelievable that in 25 years of work, there would be enough space for the above quote. If he painted a particular picture why couldn't he build on it? Why couldn't one think link to another?

Towards the end of the book (page 184, ~10 pages from the end) finally Mr. Mcgehee lets the readers in on his revelations about the CIA, surprisingly from news articles he read in the mainstream media! Why did he wait so late to discuss this?

Revealing.......2003-09-03

This is another book by an ex-CIA agent which is full of disgust with the incompetence, bureaucracy, infighting for career reasons and opportunism of the Agency.
It was partly censured by the CIA, but it is nevertheless very revealing.
It shows how CIA agents concealed the truth by dispatching false reports and how they created their own reality, for the sole reason of saving their jobs. The end (jobs) justified all means.

The author didn't have the same high level duties as e.g. Joseph B. Smith (Portrait of a Cold Warrior). He was more an executive field worker and that mostly in Vietnam and Thailand.
His report contains however very interesting information about, among other things, the hiring procedures of the Agency, the terrible fate of the Hmong tribe in Laos or the training of Tibetan guerrillas for an invasion of Mao's China.

His conclusion is deadly: If the Agency reported the truth about the Third World, it would say that the US installs foreign leaders, arms their armies and empowers their police, all to help those leaders repress, kill, torture and impoverish an angry, defiant people in order to maintain their position of privilege.'

McGehee gives us an incisive view of the dark and murky ploys of a governmental institution.

Not to be missed.

When the Truth is Found to be a Lie.......2003-04-14

Ralph W. McGehee spent 25 years in the CIA; he joined as an idealist, and left as a cynic. The crisis happened in Dec 1968. RWM wondered why we had to bomb the people we were trying to save? Why did the CIA report lies instead of the truth? He thought of his earlier work in Thailand, where his reports were first accepted, then denied in spite of his accuracy. The Agency preferred the old methods that resulted in more killings. RWM decided then to tell what he found out and warn the American people. The CIA is the covert action arm of the Presidency. It is not an intelligence agency because it only seeks the information that supports existing policies. Its propaganda uses disinformation to fool the US public, and justify policies by distorting reality.

RWM was class president and in the honor society, and All State as a football tackler. An ardent Baptist, he went to Notre Dame and played on an undefeated football team that won national championships; he graduated cum laude. A telegram recruited him to fight communism and save our way of life. RWM went to Washington and passed the tests. The chapters in the book tell about his career in the agency. Chapter 5 tells of his "Life at Langley" when he returned to Headquarters. His knowledge of the Bay of Pigs came from television news. It seemed they relied too much on an assumed uprising of the Cuban people. Could such a mistake ever happen again? Pages 57-8 tells how the CIA promoted a bloody extermination campaign in Indonesia. (Read L Fletcher Prouty's book on this.) Page 59 tells of agency coups in South America. American training of the military and police created traitors who overthrew their governments; was this the definition of subversion?

Page 61 quotes Howard Hunt on gathering "any and all information" on Presidential candidate Goldwater for delivery to the White House. Page 63 tells of the CIA's insertion of individuals into dissident circles in order to establish their credential for foreign operations. (Could this explain W J Clinton's success?) Page 64 tells how RWM was transferred to Thailand, and page 80 tells of the sad results. Pages 111-6 tells of his successful survey of Thailand. This "good news" resulted in his quick removal! Years later the truth dawned on him: the CIA didn't want the truth! This tells of the management trick of offering a transfer to a better job, then eliminating the job after the employee transfers. RWM became another paper pusher. Page 120 shows the bureaucratic faults of the CIA. Page 128 tells of the fatal flaws of our presence in Vietnam. Pages 129-135 gives Vietnamese history in a nutshell. Page 146 summarizes the problem: how was it that one junior officer was better informed and had a clearer picture of the reality out there than all the rest of the Agency? Is this unique to a government agency? The bottom of page 159 tells of the results of his experiences. Chapter 14 concludes and summarizes this book.

The Appendix is the last part, but you should read it first to understand the writing of this book. His secrecy agreement let the CIA review and censor any information that they did not want revealed. When his writing was censored, he was allowed to substitute information from open sources. (See page 35 in Chapter 3 on the use of agents.) When RWM found a published book with the same opinions he was then allowed his critical comments. The CIA's secrecy agreement stops critics from explaining their actions to the American people.

Very realistic, which means unexciting.......2000-12-26

Interesting book. i was half expecting something like in the more subdued spy movies, but McGehee is a very average, unremarkable person who was a paper pusher in the CIA

This book is a pretty detailed biography of McGehee's work at the CIA. i'm guessing that he was like the majority of CIA operatives, which is to say, he was a guy in the trenches with no special knowledge of the big picture and not a guy with any authority to change anything. He worked both in the field (primarily Asia during that whole Vietnam thing) collecting information and in the home office sorting paper. He devotes a lot of time to one of his biggest accomplishments, which was sorting index cards in a file cabinet

After reading the book, what i walked away with was that a)the CIA is really just a big, uninteresting, political, short-sighted, every-day bueracracy and b)that the managers at the top of this bueracracy just make up stuff and don't care about what their experts in the field say. Basically, the CIA is run like any large, terrible company

i thought this book would have a list of major crimes - assasinations, drug running, torture, political intrigue, coups and all that sort of stuff. In the non-crime category, i thought there'd be a lot of spying and covert activities. But there was practically none of that. Instead, he and his CIA buddies toured the country side, conducted surveys, established relations with remote hill tribes, paid informants for information, read reports and wrote reports. It's just so, what's the word, realistic

OK, so this book would make a lousy action movie. There's nothing exciting here. Even so, the book makes several very good criticisms of the CIA. Nothing criminal and whistle blowing. It's more like an in-the-trenches or middle manager corporate employee complaining about all the little things a bueracratic company and buerecratic managers do that, added together, make the company ineffective. i think McGehee's main point is that the CIA just plain doesn't work. Not necessarily that it does evil things, although he admits that the covert ops arm (which he wasn't part of) does horrible criminal things, but that it completely fails in its stated mission of collecting and understanding information

i don't think i'd recommend this book to fans of conspiracies and spy novels, but i'd definitely recommend it to people interested in management theory, organizational psychology and US intellectual capabilities

Deadly Deceits.......2000-08-26

Ralph McGehee's book serves as an eye-opening glimpse into our nation's CIA history. From his beginning as a "gung-ho" patriot until his growing disillusionment with the Agency, leading to retirement, McGehee reveals the truth behind the many of the CIA's operations, not only domestically and in well-known regions of the world, but also within areas quite unaddressed by the common American. His revelations about the Agency were somewhat shocking to a naturally pessimistic person as myself. However, I found this book very helpful especially in my position as a student who's life began after much of the book's coverage occured, because it reawakened me to the dishonesty and means the CIA employs in order to acheive its goals not only in important past events, but even up to the present.

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A Significant Contribution to Confederate History.......2002-08-17

When I first learned a few months ago that a biography of Lucy Holcombe Pickens was going to be published I anxiously awaited its publication. I was not disappointed. This is a first class biography of a significant person in the history of the Confederacy that has been overlooked too long. Several years ago I wanted to learn more about this interesting lady; but I found the sources about her few and far between. She does not have her own separate entry in the Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. She is only passingly mentioned in John B. Edmonds, Jr.'s book "Francis W. Pickens and the Politics of Destruction" published in 1986 and this is only because she was Picken's third wife. I could not find much information about her life after Pickens death. He died in 1869 and Lucy lived until 1899. So what happended to Lucy from 1869-1899? This beautiful biography fills in the blanks and Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis deserves our thanks for writing it. It is carefully researched and well written. The photographs show Lucy in her later years as well as her younger years when she enjoyed the reputation as the most beautiful woman in the Confederacy. This book is a true treasure and one that I would put on the same level with Elizabeth Muhlenfeld's biography of Mary Boykin Chesnut first published in 1981. A superb work and a significant contribution to the history of Confederate women.

Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Margaret M. Storey
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
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ASIN: B0008GA78G
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens.(Book Review)
Author: Margaret M. Storey
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 69 Issue: 4 Page: 910(2)

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Ivor Lucas spent 33 years as a diplomat, mostly in the Middle East. He served as an ambassador to Oman and to Syria and, after retirement in 1984, he maintained his interest in Middle Eastern affairs in a commercial and then an academic context. In this book, Lucas portrays the diplomatic service from the point of view of a "toiler in the vineyards", which he believes is the reality of much of diplomatic life today, as distinct from the glossy version often portrayed in the media. His account contains official and personal anecdotes.

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How One Man Overcame Homosexuality

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Sad Endings.......2003-12-28

Mr. Paulk's book is remarkable in light of his return to a gay bar in Washington, DC., where someone took his photograph in the men's room. Perhaps his salvation simply did not "take."

Good Bio..........2003-02-06

John really pours it all out here. Lots of pre-born-again detail. Great, 'Getting saved' climax. There's no pushing, 'The Faith' here, just a honest bio..

Dangerous self-deception. Cheapens the reality of Christ........2003-02-01

I picked this book up off the street. Literally, off the street. I've always thought it was a crime to throw away books, no matter how old, so I saved this one. The cover was ripped off, but the intro was still there. I couldn't believe I was reading a book about a gay man turned straight through belief in Christ. This was one of the worst things I've ever heard of.

This is an easy read, as it's one of those celebrity autobiographies written with the 'help' of a real author. It's pretty sad that Paulk attributed his unhappiness in life to his sexuality, and never analyzed his orientation through his own wants and needs, and not through the perspective of someone else. Unfortunately, God and Jesus don't want you to be soemthing you're not. And while you can convert to Christianity, there is no way to convert the sexuality with which you were born. It can be a struggle to define and come to terms with your true nature, and the strength you gain from religion can help you in this quest, but accepting the love of God will not reverse your sexual polarity if you're gay. God's love can give you the strength to discover your true self, but it will not make you straight if you're gay. You can cover it up, you can pretend, and you can deny it, but the truth is a person's true sexual tastes are designed from birth, whether they lay in brain or spirit makes little difference.

In John's own words: "Growing up, I heard it all...sissy, queer, fag. Naturally, I believed I was born gay." Perhaps he was. Most people have an idea of their orientation before they have a practical knowledge of sexual attraction. Perhaps if we lived in a culture in which people were accepted regardless of their tastes, John would never have been tormented like that.

John was a gay drag queen and sometimes prostitute. In his book, he says that the queer identity drove him into depression and drug abuse, and that he was not relieved of these symptoms until he became straight. So, John was a depressed queer who was really straight. It can take years to understand your own sexual identity, and if John is happy as a straight man, then I'm all for him. But what he repeats in his book is that gay men and women who are unhappy can and should be converted to heterosexuality through Christianity.

Well, I'm glad John found his true calling in life, but the fact is most homos are stable people who are happy with their sexuality and wish people would just accept the way they are. Just like straights, queers have a wide variety of personalities. Not every gay guy is a drag queen prostitute, in fact most of them are straight-wristed and deep of voice, and they're attracted to other men. Before we start looking for the 'cure' for this, perhaps we should ask why it's wrong?

It's great John found what makes him happy sexually, but this book basically says the answer to a gay person's lifestyle is for them to accept Jesus and turn straight through his love. This does so much disservice to Christ, and gay people, that I almost couldn't finish this book. For one, it turns gay people who have no interest in 'turning' off from Christ's love. They end up seeing Jesus used as an anti-gay device, when in fact Jesus loves everyone regardless of their orientation, and isn't worried in the slightest about those who are attracted to the same sex.

Also, this book's message is downright harmful to gays who are indesicive or depressed about their lifestyle, in that it attempts to convince them that they can change if they believe. Devotion to Christ will not change your identity. You can only reveal your own identity through hard work and deliberation. There have likely been more gay suicides because of the fact that they couldn't change than there were gay conversions through Christ. Convincing someone that their sexuality is a personal sin and that they can change if they only truly believe is dangerous. Because of this, I can't support the views in this book. If anything, John Paulk should support people to try understand their sexuality, whether straight or gay, and come to terms with it in healthy ways.

Not Afraid to Change : The Remarkable Story of How One Man.......2002-05-09

This is a book that truly reveals how one man struggled for years to overcome a lifestyle that overpowered his life. John Paulk literally put himself on the line to share with people his overwhelming life change. It is a book for Christians and non-Christians alike, as it is not too preachy and doesn't reference scripture non-stop as many other books of this type tend to do. I applaud Mr. Paulk for his willingness to explore such a controversial subject, take the criticism, and tell his life story for those who need to know that they can change. As for Mr. Paulk's "Washington, D.C." incident: don't judge. No one really knows his motives - it may have been curiosity; a peak at his past lifestyle.

Doesn't even follow his own "book".......2001-10-22

I suppose what's most interesting to me about this book, apart from Mr. Paulk's own hypocrisy as revealed when he was removed from the leadership position of Exodus, is the fact that he seems to ignore his own holy book's words about sinning in the heart being the same as sinning in the body. If he truly believed that God found the concept of homosexuality wrong, then not exercising it -- yet still entertaining the notion -- is wrong as well. By his own standards, he'd have been better off getting brainwashed ala A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. In any event, this book is, more than anything, a very sad read.

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