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Comprehensive, inclusive, and practical, The Complete Book of Raising Capital is divided into five major parts, covering such key areas as debt capital and trade finance, equity capital, grants and 'donated' capital, foreign sources of money, and special topics like tax planning and asset protection. For ease of use, each chapter follows a unique eight-step procedure for identifying, locating, and securing appropriate financing. Convenient guidelines show how to prepare the business plan or prospectus, negotiate the best funding package, and avoid future difficulties with lenders or investors.

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A trustworthy record is one that is both an accurate statement of facts and a genuine manifestation of those facts. Record trustworthiness thus has two qualitative dimensions: reliability and authenticity. Reliability means that the record is capable of standing for the facts to which it attests, while authenticity means that the record is what it claims to be. This study explores the evolution of the principles and methods for determining record trustworthiness from antiquity to the digital age, and from the perspectives of law and history. It also examines recent efforts undertaken by researchers in the field of archival science to develop methods for ensuring the trustworthiness of records created and maintained in electronic systems.
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Discover the celestial myths and cosmic rituals of ancient priests and kings . . .

Drawing on intimate knowledge of the more than 1,300 ancient sites he has visited, E. C. Krupp, acclaimed writer and preeminent researcher, takes you to the world's essential sacred places and celestial shrines. Join him on a rich narrative journey to see where the rulers of old communed with the gods of the sky.

"Highly recommended to everyone interested in the culture of astronomy and those peoples who practiced it in their own ways."-Sky & Telescope

"A lively account of the ways in which our ancestors conceived of and used the heavens."-New Scientist

"There can be no doubt that this imaginative and readable work by a widely read and widely traveled author will strike a chord in the minds of a great many modern readers."-Isis

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The Next Horizon.......2003-11-25

"Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power" - A cross-cultural comparative analysis of the evolving relationship between cosmovision and state power from the ancient world until the present.

A cross-cultural comparative analysis assembled out of archaeological sites the author has visited, "Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings" uses an entertaining anecdotal writing style to teach a few basics of astronomy without being didactic. Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings have shaped civilization from the very beginning, and their story paints a provocative portrait of humanity. The sky our ancient ancestors saw has influenced the establishment and alignment of monuments and whole cities, authorized wars, sanctified empires, and solidified society. Ancient astronomers were responsible for knowledge so valuable their services have been commissioned by Emperors & Kings in every epoch of history and on every continent of the earth.

"Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings'" focus is primarily on the world of the ancients however, parallels between ancient and contemporary cultures are emphasized throughout. Modern society is in mourning over the loss of wholeness that "The Center of the World" had once given us, 'what "cosmovisions" can guide us across this wilderness of contemporary affairs?' Secularization was meant to temper influence and limit power yet, news headlines tell us of theocratic agendas still accountable for political unrest the world over. Even thousands of years later, increased globalization and current events demonstrate that we continue to confront issues raised by power from the skies.

Skywatchers - Ideological reactions to the sky are from perceptions made through a physiological and earth-bound frame of reference.

Shamans - Human cultures evolve ideological explanations of the physical universe to create social cohesion.

& Kings - Power from the sky authorizes social control. Contemporary people are haunted as deeply by their myth-bound minds as the ideologies of the ancients were haunted by their earth-bound view of the sky.

"Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings" investigates the cultural evolution of societies from the end of the last Ice Age, through the end of the Second World War, ultimately arriving at the global conflicts of today. Edwin Krupp's intimate knowledge of more than 1,700 ancient sites worldwide, guides a journey of discovery leading from our most ancient ancestors to our future selves. An eclectic romp through history with all its ideological forces laid bare, "Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings" is history shown through the lens of archaeoastronomy, but it may as well be a biography of humanity's confrontation with consciousness where, the sky plays the recurring main character. From the Venus warfare of the ancient Maya, to the fate of modern political states, "Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings" is a thorough and rational interdisciplinary analysis, with an optimistic message for our future.

Astronomy and the archaeology of power.......2003-07-06

The title of my review is the subtitle to E.C. Krupp's book, 'Skywatchers, Shamans, and Kings'. This serves to illustrate the point that in many civilisations, the roles of priests, scholars, scientist/researcher, astronomer/astrologer, and healer were often mixed, and generally closely related to the centre of power.

Even today, the fact that the Queen of England appoints bishops who (many of them) also sit in the legislative body, is demonstrative of the hold-over that this kind of power has been through history.

Drawing from the archaeological, historical and literary records of many old civilisations, Krupp's text goes from China (where early dynasties invested heavily in astronomical observation) to the Mayan Empire (where likewise whole towns were devoted to the maintenance of a priesthood that in turn maintained a calendar). These in addition to the Hopi and other Native Americans, African tribes, Pacific islanders and other cultures have found astronomical observation necessary for the proper interpretation of signs, too, and thus the astronomers become shamans and wield power.

Krupp discusses the sociology and politics of power alongside the scientific and archaeological data he presents. In his chapter 'Plugging Into Power', for instance, he goes into a linguistic analysis of the word `power' and talks about the pitfalls of those who exercise power and authority while also discussing the ceremonial rites and attributes of artifacts of particular cultures.

'No less an authority than the Smithsonian Institution asserts...that the most powerful person in each village of the Yupik Eskimos of southwest Alaska was the shaman. Like all shamans, he moved between this world and the spirit world to cure illness and influence the weather. He persuaded the sea mammals, the fish, and the game birds to return in their proper seasons, and he mobilised the ceremonial life of the community. Yupik communities were small. They relied almost exclusively on hunting, and most of the time each family operated independently. The shaman was their contact with the spirits and the one most familiar with the requirements. To deal with spirits, he had to go to their neighbourhoods, and that meant knowing how the universe was organised.'

Of course, in more developed societies, the shaman becomes the priest, who begins to take on prerogatives of power, particularly when there is a leader who can be easily influenced by religious ideas.

'Power to modify the behaviour of the king, no matter how well it may be contained, retains the risk of exploitation,' Krupp writes in the chapter entitled Enlightened Self-Interest and Ulterior Motives. However, often as not, shamans and priests were agents of renewal, rebirth, managers of the life cycles of the communities, and healing powers (particularly important in times without mechanical clocks, calendars, or modern medicine).

This book is a very interesting discussion of world cultures from a perspective often overlooked by historians generally, and Western historians particularly. It has a great bibliography for those inclined to further research.

Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings finally dusted down !.......2001-09-21

Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings finally dusted down again by Edwin C. Krupp ! Ancient Skywatchers are taken for serious again, by someone who is able to follow the rythm of the celestial bodies down to their oldest paths -- Shamans disappeared into the shadows of history, revisited today and listened to - and Kings emerging to have their importance and message understood. Krupp blows the dust off knowledge that has been pushed aside by technology and laughed at by modern man, who took old wisdom for superstition. And who forgot to look up at the sky and note down its numbers and ways. Krupp is very able to fresh-up our view and draw our attention again to matters that will always form an important part of our daily life and our year-around existence. - Miss Leon (A.M.) Kloezeman
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Full of details about ancient societies and the sky.......1999-08-20

I was expecting more of a philosophical and historical treatise, building on the idea that shamans (priests, etc. . .) used the sky to enhance their influence on ordinary people. While that idea is stated, it is not really proven. It is, however, supported by amazing anecdotal descriptions of ancient societies and their relationship to the sky.

There is no great reasoning or logic here, but there is a great collection of related observations.

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Knowledge of thc chemical behavior of trace compounds in the atmosphere has grown steadily, and sometimes even spectacularly, in recent decades. These developments have led to the emergence of atmospheric chemistry as a new branch of science. This book covers all aspects of atmospheric chemistry on a global scale, integrating information from chemistry and geochemistry, physics, and biology to provide a unified account. For each atmospheric constituent of interest, the text summarizes the principal observations on global distribution, chemical reactions, natural and anthropogenic sources, and physical removal processes. Coverage includes processes in the gas phase, in aerosols and c1ouds, and in precipitation, as well as biogeochemical cycles and the evolution of the atmosphere. Chemistry of the Natural Atmosphere, Second Edition, will serve as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses, and as an essential reference for atmospheric chemists, meteorologists, and anyone studying the biogeochemical cycles of trace gases.

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This book takes the approach that in order to understand the Creation/Evolution controversy, one should use as the basis of discussion, the origin of the universe, the origin of tlife and the origin of man.

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A wonderful book.......2007-09-09

Understanding the Creation/Evolution Controversy is a gem written by a world class scientist. In my graduate days in molecular biology I remember reading some of his 280 scientific papers and had no idea then that he was an Intelligent Design (ID) supporter. Dr. Ashby has lectured at over 100 universities in 14 countries and has been awarded a slew of prestigious prizes, has a PhD in chemistry from Notre Dame, and was, for over 30 years, a distinguished professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology. His well written book does an effective job showing why the science is clear: the current theory of evolution called Neo-Darwinism never occurred, and never could have occurred, for scientific reasons. Ashby stresses, as a scientist he is willing to go wherever the science evidence leads, and uses science, not religion, to support his position. He lists a whole page of scientists from well known universities as reviewers, which may be one reason why this short easy to read book has fewer mistakes than most books on this topic. Professor Ashby is not a scientific creationist, but an ID supporter, and both sides will benefit from reading this book. ID critics, most of which do not research primary sources and, as a result, typically quote each other's mistakes, especially will benefit from reading this book. Many ID supporters came to their conclusion that No-Darwinism never did, and could never have, happened based on science, not theology as commonly claimed by Darwin Fundamentalists. As one would expect from a chemist, he does a good job covering the scientific case for ID from biochemistry. My main compliant is the author could have written a book three times longer but wanted to briefly summarize the case for design for lay people. A great read, highly recommended for anyone interested in this topic, which these days is most everyone in the country!

Great Book for Scientists and Non-Scientists.......2006-07-01

Perhaps because of his long teaching career, Dr. Ashby strikes just the right balance between easy to understand explanations and detailed scientific information. Dr. Ashby pulls no punches, equally criticizing or applauding evolutionists, new earth creationists, and old earth creationists for specific points in their theories. He comes down strongly on the side of old earth creation, but does so in a way that is logical and true to his scientific training.

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Drawn from the author's research, this nonmathematical account of strange behaviour, both classical and quantum, exhibited by moving particles, fluids and waves, describes physical systems whose behavior provokes surprise and challenges the imagination.

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Fun primer on some counterintuitive quantum phenomena.......2000-07-09

A great reader on some "unbelievable" sounding physical phenomena, with a focus on quantum mechanics. It's quite intellectually satisfying to see the "bizarre" micro-level physics behind what we regard as everyday macro-level phenomena.

Some math/science experience is probably a prudent prerequisite for appreciating this book, but it is certainly not necessary to be a physicist (nor even to know calculus) to understand most of the ideas presented here. It is maybe half a notch more technical than the average quantum mechanics article in Scientific American. It is certainly nowhere near the technical level of a physics journal article, nor even a college physics textbook.

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Part biography, part cultural retrospective, Michael Beran's work is a somewhat controversial reassessment of Robert Kennedy's public and private life. Thirty years after Kennedy was murdered, he is still remembered, along with other great liberal contemporaries such as Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, as a tragic crusader for liberalism. To liberals, Bobby Kennedy was their last champion of social reform and civil rights; when he died, their pursuit of these aims took a mortal blow. So when Beran intimates that on the day Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a Rooseveltian idealist who died, but rather a man who was essentially a conservative practitioner of liberal politics, it is bound to create controversy amongst his staunchest supporters.

To them, Kennedy was "a rare example of a liberal icon," which is why political liberals might be antagonized by Beran's argument. It is to Beran's credit that he persuasively and passionately backs up his points, carefully illustrating popular misconceptions about Kennedy. He explores the so-called liberal policies instigated by Kennedy, and concludes that these were really little more than timely suggestions and tentative actions, rather than bold policy moves. He chronicles Kennedy's drive toward conservative statesmanship, epitomized by his understanding of public service. Kennedy seemed to understand that success in the modern political arena meant blending liberal policies with a conservative support system, a vision of politics that can be seen in modern-day politicians such as Bill Clinton.

In tracing this evolution of thought, Beran illustrates Kennedy's maturation from arrogant aristocrat to responsible, benevolent crusader whose compassionate actions were driven more by his own misfortunes than by liberal morals. At a time when other books are revising public opinion of the Kennedy compound, focusing on the darker side of their affairs, this is a respectful and thoughtful work that subtly reminds us just how much was lost the day Robert Kennedy was shot down in his prime. --Jeremy Storey

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Three decades after Robert Kennedy's death, his complexities and contradictions continue to fascinate and perplex Americans. In The Last Patrician, Michael Knox Beran offers a much-needed reassessment of the man, one that will force many to rethink what they thought they knew. Challenging the claims of Arthur Schlesinger, Jack Newfield, and others, Beran shows how Bobby Kennedy came, at the end of his life, to question the assumptions of a liberal faith that was at odds with his own deepest beliefs. In reconstructing Kennedy's forgotten critique of the postwar liberal imagination, The Last Patrician explains the most revolutionary of all his controversial acts - his break with the patrician caste to which he and his brothers had been brought up to belong, a powerful ruling class that was undermining some of America's most cherished traditions.

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RFK as Intellectual?.......2004-12-22

Broadly, Last Patrician could be read in one of two ways:

1) RFK was an intellectual politician, working and growing in ways few (if any) modern ones have. Academics and historians (like Beran himself) add intellectual depth of explanation to RFK's actions, goals, and motives. RFK really did break from his class, go to the ghettos, and draw from the Greeks and philosophers. RFK and his academic supporters frame(d) his moves in an intellectual/historical context to a) add to understanding b) stimulate further ideas c) sway like-minded academics and media to RFK's plans. In short, the intellectual stuff (like Beran's) flushes out and supports RFK's intitiatives.

2) RFK was a pragmatic and calculating politician (say those who claim he rode McCarthy's wave into the 1968 race, etc). Intellectuals, including those on the payroll, rationalized RFK's moves as much more meaningful than they were. Writers (like Beran) tie RFK's career to the Greeks and philosophers to add weight to his reputation. RFK was calculating, with a copy of Bartlett's Quotations, and a (yes) very heavy/ interesting biography.

I agree more with #1. Regardless, after reading many books on RFK (Evan Thomas' is a good one... Arthur Schlessinger's overblown IMHO), Last Patrician is a breath of fresh air. It is a book of ideas with RFK as a pivot-point. Would RFK ever have explained his ideas in such philosophical ways? Likely not. But, again, Beran provides his own fresh take on RFK. If you wonder why intellectuals are smitten with RFK, Last Patrician provides a good case study. Folks read a lot into RFK, and maybe Beran does too... and he makes it interesting.

History Buffs Need Not Apply.......2002-04-27

Beran's premise is an an intriguing one - that RFK was really a conservative liberal; but, in the end, his position is unconvincing. His entire argument is hung on Kennedy's attempt to reform welfare and empower neglected communities to overcome hardship. Although Beran sees him as a conservative trying to break free of the liberal shakles that bind him, I see it as the true effort of a man to seek a lasting solution. Perhaps it is a conservative notion, but the true story is not that he was a liberal or conservative but a free thinker. Furthermore, Mr. Beran's interjection that "faith-based initiatives" are clearly the true path to urban renewal is inappropriate and a view that is not shared by this reader nor the framers of our constitution.

The author further belittles Kennedy's opposition to the Vietnam war as shameless pandering for votes which is a view that I strongly disagree with. I believe that RFK "opposed the war" simply because he "opposed the war" and to suggest that he truly believed otherwise is baseless conjecture. It's as if the author is trying to recreate Kennedy into the man he wishes he could have been.

Although the author's assesments of the 20th century liberal, politically active, aristocracy are astute; and, his obvious respect for the character of Mr. Kennedy is appreciated, his attempt to jam a proverbial square box into a round hole simply does not work. Beran demonstrates clearly that he is well read but does not present an argument that is in the end logical.

Not for everyone.......2002-01-17

This is a book best suited for academic types. It is more about the author's description of the "end of the American aristocracy" than it is about Bobby Kennedy. The writing feels overblown, using five dollar words when fifty cent words would have sufficed. And as other reveiwers here have noted, the use of the word "Stimsonian" over and over, without adequetely describing what a "Stimsonian" is(or was, or might be)got pretty annoying by the end of the book. Still, if ones interest in the Kennedy's is deep enough, the book does provide yet another take on the mystique surrounding one of America's most loved-and despised-families.

Claptrap.......2001-03-20

This book starts well, but by the end it's a shambles. Beran invents a concept - "Stimsonianism" - as a paper tiger against which to contrast RFK. It's an interesting idea, and even an enlightening one; it shows how revolutionary RFK was in terms of the politics that came before him. But, labor mightily though he does, Beran can't sustain a whole book on this. It's notable that Beran apparently did no independent research of any kind for this book - he looked at none of RFK's papers, he interviewed none of his friends or relatives. His source material is all widely-published secondhand stuff. He also apparently has no particular credentials as a writer or historian; his bio in the book simply says that Beran is an attorney. As the book goes along, Beran begins pouring all his conservative views into into RFK. By the end, Beran is close to outright trashing the idea of communitarianism - a trashing that anyone who's read Robert Kennedy's speeches would know that RFK would have disagreed with vehemently. Beran's attempt to "reclaim" RFK as the First Neocon is ahistorical. None of RFK's family has ever suggested that RFK is even remotely as conservative as Beran tries to make him. By the end, reading this book is like listening to someone who's desparately trying to see a vision of the Virgin Mary in their dirty second-floor house window. You have to admire their passion, but wishing doesn't make it so.

Compassionate Conservative.......2001-02-19

Robert Francis Kennedy has wrongly been taken by the left wing. This book correctly places him back in the pantheon of classical liberalism, or what is otherwise known in American as a Conservativism. RFK spoke for a fair and free America, but he never understood government as a form of social engineering. Rather, government was there to add fairness to the system, and insure that those who did not have power were not pushed aside, but were granted equal access.

Long before President Bush spoke the words "Compassionate Conservative", RFK was leading the fight. However, with his fall, President Johnson's "Great Society" moved forward and our Republic backwards. The issue of race became taboo. Personal responsibility was not mentioned. All the world embraced dark, and paid no heed to the issues ahead.

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The Last Patrician Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy
Michael Knox Beran
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A richly evocative, adventurous hybrid of memoir and visionary prose-poetry, it'ss a coming-of-age story as well as a meditation on mortality--and immortality--compellingly told in a singular voice. By turns poignant, humorous and hallucinatory, the book vividly recalls the author'ss experiences in the Georgia creek swamp that he extensively explored during his childhood and youth, following him into the larger world he entered as an adult and the more unpredictable landscape of his dreams and his elaborate imagination. Regional (Georgia) memoir by late gay author, posthumously published.

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In his own time, W.E.B. Du Bois was a controversial figure, and now, more than 30 years after his death, he continues to be so. Born in 1868, Du Bois was a central figure in African American intellectual life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, yet many of his positions are difficult to reconcile with current African American thought. Du Bois, for example, was an elitist who believed that black society was divided between "the talented tenth" and everybody else. Yet in his later years, he joined the communist party and moved to Africa, where he lived out the remainder of his life. Since his death in 1963, a generation of African American intellectuals have tried to interpret, explain, or revise him according to their own beliefs; now Adolph Reed Jr. weighs in with W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought.

Reed's approach to Du Bois is simple: he believes that what you read is what you get. When, for example, Du Bois wrote movingly in The Souls of Black Folk of a feeling of "twoness," a sense of warring natures, Reed suggests that, far from embracing a notion of double consciousness, Du Bois was actually following precepts of early 20th-century social theory which described the split between primitive and civilized societies. In addition to his discussion about Du Bois, Reed comments on many other African American critics at work today, from Houston Baker to Henry Louis Gates, making the author of W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought as controversial as his subject.

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In this explosive book, Adolph Reed covers for the first time the full sweep and totality of W. E. B. Du Bois's political thought. Departing from existing scholarship, Reed locates the sources of Du Bois's thought in the cauldron of reform-minded intellectual life at the turn of the century, demonstrating that a commitment to liberal collectivism, an essentially Fabian socialism, remained pivotal in Du Bois's thought even as he embraced a range of political programs over time, including radical Marxism. He remaps the history of twentieth-century progressive thought and sharply criticizing recent trends in Afro-American, literary, and cultural studies.

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Reconceptualizes African American Political Thought.......2002-02-17

When most think about Dubois, one of the first theoretical formulations that come to mind is the oft-quoted "double-consciousness." In this work, Reed's central task is to situate African American political thought squarely within the material context in which it occurs using W.E.B. Dubois as the focus for this project. Along the way Reed slices and dices Henry Louis Gates and the new black intellectuals, as well as the troublesome concept of "double consciousness" that Reed shows to be overstudied at best. Clearly among the best works of its kind to come to light in some years.

W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line

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W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line
Adolph L., Jr. Reed
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W.e.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line
Adolph L. Reed
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Hogwash.......2004-05-25

Here are five girls raised as royalty for most of their lives. Every want was met, they had the latest clothes, latest toys, etc. They were catered to and waited on.

Now, they go to live with their family who are poor farmers. They are expected to be just as the other children. They suddenly have chores. They suddenly aren't looked on as princesses but equals. They don't have a pristine environment.

Poor, poor princesses....Now they are just ordinary. It had to be a shock.

But, to take it out on their parents who fought desparately to regain their custody. They didn't even know anything about the world outside their hospital home. Their parents showed them the real world.

Now, they accuse their father of abusing them, their mother of cruelty. Okay, so they did it after the parents died so that they couldn't defend themselves. Isn't that interesting?

Poor, poor princesses. They're expected to be ordinary, so they resent it and lash out. False memory syndrome, I'll bet.

When does one take responsibility for their own lives despite what happened in the past?

Deepest Regrets.......2002-06-16

It was only on the 68th anniversary of the Dionne Quints' births that I learned of the passing of the alleged oldest Quint, Yvonne, a cancer victim, on June 23, 2001. While a bit baffled over how such an event could have escaped my notice for nearly a year, I still stand by most of what I said in my previous review, although I realize that monetary compensation may not mean as much to the sisters now.
In earlier times, the death of one of these sisters might have been front page news. But perhaps the fact that Yvonne's passing was apparently an obscure news item, at least in the town where I live, is a sign that the sisters have finally acheived the level of privacy that they have so long desired.

How a Father Won a Battle But Lost the War.......2002-01-02

I read this book during the past year. I found it to be much more revealing than their 1960s account of their lives, written with James Brough. In "We Were Five", the four remaining Quintuplets used the real names of their siblings, but neglected to come foreward with the charges of sexual abuse leveled at their father in this newer account.
The church officials who could have helped them turned their backs on them, telling them to "submit", and deciding that as long as their father gave monetary support to the Church, he was being a good Catholic. At a time when there was little if any separation of Church and State where the French Canadian government was concerned, there were many other children who experienced the same indignities. It is good that the Dionnes have spoken out on their behalf.
I'm glad that shortly after this account was published, that Yvonne, Annette, and Cecile were finally given $2.8 million dollars in compensation by the Ontario Government. But if there is any real justice, Ontario should be paying them annuity. After all, they didn't ask to become the saviors of Ontario during the Depression, and they only ended up as such by accident of being born Quintuplets and subsequent government manipulation.The Ontario Government made $500 million off of "Quintland" during the thirties. Caged and exploited for the first years of their lives, and tended to by Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, they were eventually reunited with their parents and siblings after lengthy and strenuous custody battles. But while Oliva Dionne may have won the physical custody of his daughters, the loyalties of the three surviving sisters ultimately lie firmly with the Doctor who treated them with more dignity than their parents.
While it is well that these sisters, whose lives I have followed since I was a kid myself, have been compensated, I hope their siblings can make peace with them, although they shouldn't be entitled to their sisters' reward money after the way they treated them. Due to the times in which they were born, they aroused more public interest than they might have in a time of more affluence, and were led on a nightmarish odyssey that included experimentation, exploitation, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, failed marriages, and the early deaths of the two youngest Quintuplets, Emilie, and Marie in 1954 and 1970 respectively.
Their parents will have to answer for their sins in another lifetime, since they are both deceased. But when the three surviving Quintuplets sent a word of warning to the parents of the McCaughey Septuplets about not letting their children suffer the indignities that they did, my respect for them was renewed.
I wish these three remarkable ladies all the best in their remaining years. Their story, so far, as had as fair an outcome as could have been expected. As their mother once said to an American auidience years ago during a vaudeville act, "Dieu Beniesse".--God bless you, Yvonne, Annette, and Cecile.

childhood lost.......2000-02-28

I think a lot of this book is more than just about the Dionne quints and their lives. How many other poor defenseless young children are brought into this world only to be treated as though they had no right to have been born. The poor souls. They were made to feel guily for having survivied and dividing their family through no fault of their own. I found the most inspiring part of this book to be the introduction by Cecile Dionne who says that after many hard years she has learned that being born and survivng was not her fault and that she should no longer bear any guilt for it. That is a lesson a lot of other people need to learn as well unfortunately. How sad that anyone especially her family members would make her feel that way. A human life is a miracle and a blessing. And the Dionne quints were 5 little blessings. How sad that the joy and innocence and trust of young children is always stripped away,and in the case of the Dionne sisters, in a particularly cruel and unfair way.

Please delete my previous review!.......1999-02-13

I apologize profusely for making an error and compounding it with wasting your time! I just sent a review (basically saying Amazon.com had made an error) and then realized that I had mixed up the different Dionne books I had read. Please do not make the egg on my face worse by posting my erroneous review. Thank you! I'm sorry that I don't know how else to communicate this to you.

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