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outstanding
After reading T. Harry Williams outstanding bio of Long, I decided to buy this book, and I was not disappointed.Boulard's study of Long's "invasion" of New Orleans, while much shorter than Williams' book, is great in its own right, as well as tremendously researched and detailed. Well-written, well-balanced history
Whatever else we might think of Huey Long, most Louisianans would agree that, as governor and then senator, he was a populist -- right? In the summer of 1934, many residents of New Orleans had reason to think otherwise. The senator and T. Semmes Walmsley, mayor of the city, had once been uneasy allies, but began feuding on many fronts. In January 1934, after Walmsley defeated the Long candidate, the senator denounced what he claimed was election fraud by the Democratic "Old Regulars." Then, never one to bother with courts and the law, he clinched his argument by bringing in the Louisiana National Guard (functioning as the senator's private army) to take over the Soule Building, which housed the voter registration office. The guardsmen quickly set up machine guns at the windows, aimed at the mayor's office across the street. Both sides finally agreed to a monitoring process for the September election, which was swept by the Long slate. The Old Regulars deserted the mayor the following summer and flocked to the senator's banner, thereby setting him up nicely for a run at the presidency in 1936. Long's march on Washington, however, was interrupted by an assassin's bullet in September 1935 (fortunately for all of us, probably). This is an exciting, well-documented, and very well-written account of one of the more unnerving episodes in this state's history.

amazing triumph
I am fascinated with Southern history. This is quite possibly the BEST book I have read on it. Huey Long was a remarkable leader who tried to pull the South into a modern era; but he was held back both by the same ancient forces that were responsible for the Civil War as well as his own dangerous impulses.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1865-1950    2. 1893-1935    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. History    5. History: American    6. Long, Huey Pierce,    7. Louisiana    8. Louisiana - Local History    9. New Orleans (La.)    10. Political    11. Politics and government    12. Regional Subjects - South    13. United States - 20th Century/Depression    14. United States - State & Local - General    15. American history: from c 1900 -    16. Inter-war period, 1918-1939    17. Local history    18. Long, Huey Pierce   

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Thanks For The Memories,Nate
This is a timeless classic, and not just among memoirs, because the subject was a great American---a man who "had no get-back in him."Nate Shaw (real name Ned Cobb) had an amazing memory, and also an acute understanding of the post-Civil War rural South.The rhythm of the seasons, work routines, knowledge of livestock, nature and people too, combine for a profound view of a vanished America.(If you want to really know about mules, Ned's the man.)But Ned didn't just observe, he worked with the Alabama Sharecroppers' Union and defended powerless friends, serving 12 years in prison for his pains.This activism sets him apart from Kas Maine, a South African sharecropper to whom he's been compared in recent years.The earthy dialect wears out some readers, but otherwise "All God's Dangers" is compelling from start to end.Writers from Wendell Berry to Pete Daniel praise both man and book, while John Beecher's "In Egypt Land" is a moving poetic rendition of Ned's story.R. Kelley, "Hammer & Hoe" vividly recreates 1930s Alabama; on Kas Maine, see C. Van Onselen, "The Seed Is Mine." But Ned tells about his world far better than the others.In living, then narrating, a life of great struggle lived with great dignity, Ned Cobb performed a signal service---for all of us.We are in your debt!

Family, Race, Class and Farming in Alabama
In the middle of Rosengarten's book, truly a masterpiece of oral history memoir making, Nate Shaw says "all God's dangers ain't a white man."This would seem truly a remarkable thing for a black man who spent over a decade in an Alabama prison to say, but as a farmer growing cotton in Alabama during the first half of the twentieth century it quickly makes sense once he explains it.Shaw's story of his chaffing under his good for nothing father's roof; his growing prosperity as share cropper and than as a yeoman farmer; his hucksterism when dealing with violent and hostile whites attempting to cheat him; the defense of fellow small farmers that got him thrown in jail during the Great Depression; and his takes on the science of farming, race relations, the American class system and his own life experiences show Shaw to be a master story teller and Rosengarten and master interviewer.The combination of these two was absolute dynamite.

The Real Nate.
Nate Shaw was the father of my Uncle Oscar Turner's best friend. His real name was Nate Cobb and the family of the son, Lorraine, is prominent in the Middletown, Ohio ghetto.Read more

Subjects:  1. African Americans    2. Alabama    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Business & Economics    7. Farmers & Ranchers    8. History    9. History Of Labor    10. Labor    11. Labor & Industrial Relations - General    12. Labor Unions    13. People of Color    14. Regional Subjects - South    15. Sharecroppers    16. Sharecropping    17. Shaw, Nate    18. Sources    19. American history: c 1800 to c 1900    20. American history: from c 1900 -    21. Biography: general    22. Black studies    23. Racism & racial discrimination    24. Social Science / African-American Studies    25. USA   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Dictionaries    4. Encyclopedias    5. Frontier and pioneer life    6. General    7. Historical - U.S.    8. History - General History    9. Pioneers    10. Regional Subjects - West    11. U.S. Local History - Western United States    12. West (U.S.)    13. Biography: general    14. Places & peoples: general interest    15. USA   

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A Ground-Breaking Work
Colin Chisholm's Through Yup'ik Eyes is a truly remarkable and ground-breaking work. From Yup'ik Eyes
A humbling, chilling, sensitive, compassionate portrayal of a love toward a mother, and the search for the identity of a silent history, is truly extracted by the author about his experience as a child of a mother whom he wants strongly to understand.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1967-    2. Adoptees    3. Adoption    4. Alaska    5. Biography    6. Biography & Autobiography    7. Biography / Autobiography    8. Biography/Autobiography    9. Chisholm, Colin,    10. Kotlik    11. Literary    12. Regional Subjects - West    13. Social life and customs    14. Specific Groups - General    15. United States    16. Yupik Eskimos   

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Five star book and writer...Homestead
This was the first book By Jane that I read.I was so impressed with her story and her writing that I immediately went out and bought her next trilogy.Upon reading the first of those books which I found as interesting, entertaining and historically accurate that I immediately went and bought every book she has ever written and am waiting for the next one.
From the Dry, Hard Soil
Jane Kirkpatrick's writing carries with it the spirit of the pioneers."Homestead" chronicles the Kirkpatricks' effort as a married couple to carve out a living from the dry, hard soil of eastern Oregon.They rough it as they go along, working toward a suitable well, a home with an actual foundation, and a road that doesn't rattle their teeth from their jaws.
Grasp every day
Not many people would have the courage to take on what Jane and Jerry do, as chronicled in Homestead by Jane Kirkpatrick. Whether it's shooting rattlesnakes or handling dog seizures, surviving a plane crash or navigating a treacherous road, chasing down run away calves or protecting watermelons from the onslaught of deer, the Kirkpatrick's seem to have faced and conquered it all. Such stories usually make for great fiction. The most startling realization, however, is that this story is real.
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Subjects:  1. Adventurers & Explorers    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Ethics    7. Farmers & Ranchers    8. Frontier and pioneer life    9. General    10. John Day River Valley    11. John Day River Valley (Or.)    12. Oregon    13. Oregon - Local History    14. Pioneers    15. Regional Subjects - West    16. Religious    17. Social History    18. Social life and customs    19. United States - State & Local - General    20. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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Famous New Mexicans
"New Mexican Lives"Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Historical - General    4. History    5. History - U.S.    6. History: American    7. New Mexico    8. Reference    9. Regional Subjects - West    10. United States - General    11. United States - State & Local - General    12. American history    13. Biography: general   

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Perfect Complement to C. Vann Woodward's "Tom Watson"
Stephen Kantrowitz, a gifted writer, accomplishes that rarest of achievements in academia: theory that is actually readable. With "Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy," recipient of the Organization of Amerian Historians' Hawley Prize, he wades through American history's murkiest waters, those of race and gender. And with remarkable clarity, Kantrowitz shows that you just can't sieve race from gender, or vice versa. A Most Innacurate Piece of Fiction
Obvious agenda here by a shallow author looking to capitalize on a recently re-elevated subject.The entire book fails to make any positive remarks about the most popular and elected politician in the history of the state of South Carolina.Most of the research by this "author" is conveniently taken from anti-Tillman press while bypassing all of the many contributions to the state and to the U.S. Senate.Tillman was honored and revelled by many fellow U.S. Senators from opposing parties (and from Northern States). He established Clemson University, Winthrop College and the Charleston Naval Shipyard.There were two U.S. Navy Ships named after him.None of these accomplishments and honors are worthy of mention by this spin artist. He conveniently chose to omit, and obviously failed to research, Tillman's admirable private and personal life as it would destroy the credibility of the subject and agenda. marvelous distillation of powerful truths
The reader from Washington says the book is too long, but he wants more personal detail!How would that happen?Fact is, for a major figure in American political history, Tillman has found biographer whose economy of language is commendable; Kantrowitz only uses 309 pages to do a magnificent job of storytelling and analysis. And it is a great read, especially given the deep and subtle insights that Kantrowitz squeezes from this Dixie demogogue's pernicious but important career.And he does so without turning Tillman into a demon, but rather by revealing that the Senator was not so much a tribute but a trickster of the people, and far from being a populist, served the richest and most powerful of his constituents as he poured salt into the worst of the nation's wounds--the scar of white supremacy.This book is eloquent and profound, and could scarely have been better crafted. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. (Benjamin Ryan),    2. 1847-1918    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Government - Legislative Branch    7. Historical - U.S.    8. History    9. History: American    10. Legislators    11. Men, White    12. Political    13. Political activity    14. Regional Subjects - South    15. Southern States    16. Tillman, Benjamin R    17. United States    18. United States - General    19. White supremacy movements    20. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918); agrarian; governor; U.S. Senator; white manhood; white male solidarity; slavery; disfranchisement; Jim Crow; political history; gender; race; political discourse; political culture; Reconstruction violence; agricultural reform; Populism; lynching; mob action; temperance; suffrage; restriction; white supremacy    21. Ethnography    22. History / United States / 19th Century    23. History of specific racial & ethnic groups    24. Racism & racial discrimination    25. USA   

Editorial Review

Jimmy Carter's Georgia hometown has been the one constant in his life, and he pays tribute to it with Read more

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The same Christmas Memories For All
Just sit back and enjoy. We all have these memories wether we are rich or poor, powerful or not. Just how we remember Christmas back home. Warm, endearing and easy to read, maybe somethings you know and some you did'nt. This should be a Christmas tradition.

The Human Side of America's 39th President
I had the privilege and honor of meeting President Carter at the University of Washington, where he signed a copy of this book for me."Christmas in Plains" is a wonderful book that approaches autobiography in a new and interesting way: Jimmy Carter reflects on his life as a series of holiday seasons.We see the triumphs and the failures in eloquent and honest prose. Christmas Joy from the Carters
The short, joyful book contains Jimmy Carter memories of Christmas.His earliest memories begin around 1930 (when he was 5), and involve memories of father Earl and mother Lillian, as well as black neighbors(in an era of separation, his family perhaps represented a light in the South).There are happy childhood memories of finding the Christmas tree and fireworks. Jimmy and Rosalynn always tried to get back to Plains, but there are included a few absent remembrance from Navy years, and a rather tense Christmas with the holding of the Iran hostages.The line drawings by daughter Amy add a family charm to the book.May the Carter's have many more Merry Christmases together in Plains. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. General    5. Personal Memoirs    6. Presidents & Heads of State    7. Regional Subjects - South    8. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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Essays by a poet homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness. . .
I came across John Haines while reading William Kittredge's great anthology "The Portable Western Reader." Haines is better known as a poet, and maybe that's why these essays are so vividly written. They represent a period of years from the 1940s to the 1980s during which Haines homesteaded off and on near Richardson, in central Alaska. They are only somewhat reflective and focus instead on capturing the raw experience of living in the woods, along creeks and rivers, through the seasons of the year. As a homesteader, Haines lived off the land, raising his own vegetables, hunting game, and trapping marten, lynx, beaver, and fox. Many of the essays concern hunting and killing animals, and they are written in a matter-of-fact way that may repel some readers. They do, however, capture a point of view toward wildlife that is possible for a man of letters to entertain, and as such they illuminate a set of values that has a long history among people who have lived by hunting and gathering on the frontiers of the world. exquisite language
The writing in this book is simply gorgeous.What a gift when a poet can be convinced to write prose, because each word is selected and crafted and inserted in each sentence as if its value were immeasurable.My only dismay at the end of this book was to discover that Mr. Haines is not a prolific writer (at least of books).Fewer and fewer people will have the view of the world that this author had-as a homesteader and trapper. We are blessed that he has shared this account of life at its most raw and simplest elements.

This book is prose at its best!
Haines is best known as a poet, and you can see it here--the ideas and descriptions are spare and powerful. He gets right down to flesh and bone, the essences of things: the people he's met, the traps set, stories heard, the bone-cold loneliness of the place, it's all right here to be read, as if everything superfluous has been chipped away and all we have left is the experience in itself, what the land has told the writer. For anyone who wants to see what a master can do with the English language, or who wants a glimpse of a land and a way of life the likes of which few will ever see again, here's your ticket. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Alaska    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. General    6. Literary    7. Nature/Ecology    8. Outdoor life    9. Poets, American    10. Regional Subjects - West    11. Wilderness areas    12. Literary Criticism & Collections / General    13. Travel writing   

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Communes    3. Counterculture    4. History    5. History: American    6. New Mexico    7. Popular Culture - Counter Culture    8. Regional Subjects - West    9. United States - State & Local - Southwest    10. Social Science / Popular Culture    11. True Stories   

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Honest
Was I ever impressed with her genunine honesty, which is so lacking in the world today. This book is so insightful and emotional. It is more of a biography than a book about bulimia but I do recommed it. Leah let's people know her deepest thoughts and heartbreak. That takes courage.

lacking
I have both me Leah and read her book.I met her on two occasions at conferences I attended.I also read her book.The book does look into the horrors that I know are part of the struggle with the 'demon'.However, I question the sincerity in the author.Due to the reception I received from her at both encounters, I question the sincerity of her attempts and wonder if it isn't all a grasp at further fame.

An honest reflection from a wonderful person
Leah Hulan was my roommate at the 1994 Miss USA Pageant in South Padre, Texas (I was Miss North Dakota). The reflection and insight this book relects is real.Leah truly is a person we would all like to be like... and for her to have the courage and strength to share her story is a gift to the rest of us. The book is wonderfully written. This book would be helpful to anyone struggling with their own disease or for those knowing those who are. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Bulimia    6. Health    7. Hulan, Leah    8. Obesity    9. Patients    10. Personal Memoirs    11. Psychological aspects    12. Regional Subjects - South    13. Social Scientists & Psychologists    14. United States    15. Women   

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A Good Read To Kill A Weekend
This book is actually somewhat boring but on a cold and rainy weekend I found it a quick and easy read. Bits of humor, some insight into this person who appears to be trying to find herself as age creeps up on her. This book may inspire those who at midlife are looking for a change to go for it, take the gamble.

Warm and Wonderful
This book carries the warmth you would share as you sit in the evening by the fire listening to an old friend tell you personal stories of their life.Some of the chapters, such as 'My Father's Violin' stand on their own as beautiful essays.I read and re-read that chapter several times as Eliza talked about memories of her father and the few shared times that they had together.The entire book is a reminder of what is important in life and how we all search for our own home.

SO GOOD I OWN IT!
From all the books I checked out at the library, this is the first that I had to own. This book is so New England you can't help but laugh out loud. She has guts AND the ability to laugh at her own stupidness. Any one who does not get a chuckle out of this book needs to loosen up in life and stop and smell the roses. I wish I had half the gall that she has to make life the way she has, and I wish I knew her. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Country life    5. Fiction    6. General    7. Regional Subjects - New England    8. Social life and customs    9. Sociology - Rural    10. Thomas, Eliza    11. Vermont   

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POWERFUL ...like Angela's Ashes
If you appreciated Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt for its presentation and viewpoint of growing up in poverty, you'll like this book for the same reasons--not on the subject of poverty but on race and understanding what it's like to grow up Black (& middle-class) in this country. It just tells, in a straightforward voice, the story of her life. A Daughter's Story
I really enjoyed this book. The author wove together her personal experiences --the pain of growing up in a loveless yet nuturing home in Texas, and a type of everyman's history of the civil rights movement and the annonomous worker bees and vanguard her mother belonged too. She does this in an interesting and engaging way. She weaves her story of being born at the "wrong time" and coping with feelings of being an unwanted late life child which lead to an emotionally and physically abused childhood into the visual story and history of Blacks in media and film at the time Blacks created the protest movement(s) to erase injustice, and pyschological pain the african Americans experienced in America's south. Her story is a compelling one. Especially because it is so universally human. Her love hate relationship with her mother was the most poinant aspect of this book. She describes her response to the abuse of her mother yet she so admired, love, and comes to understand and forgive her finally. Innovative Biography!!
This is one of the most creative approaches to autobiography I've read in a long time. I enjoyed reading and studying it. The book is a highly visual autobiography---part prose, part poetry, part history and historical images. I particularly enjoyed how Ms. Blue revealed the nuances of an African American middle class mother-daughter relationship. Telling her story against the backdrop of the movies that were coming of age when she was growing up provided an enlightening perspective on the powerful influence of American movies on the human psyche. This book is a wonderful gem! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. African American photographers    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Blue, Carroll Parrott    7. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    8. Motion picture producers and directors    9. People of Color    10. Personal Memoirs    11. Photographers    12. Regional Subjects - South    13. United States    14. American history: from c 1900 -    15. Biography: general    16. Civil rights & citizenship    17. Social Science / African-American Studies    18. USA   

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Riveting Tale of Two Fatherhoods
When Rudell Lesley told his wife Hazel he had to go out for a while to look for a lost flashlight, he never returned, leaving her to raise their eight-month old son alone. The baby, christened Martin Craig Lesley, emerged with remarkable academic ability that came with a talent for remembering and processing every experience on an unusually deep level.
Compelling in a tragic and real sense.
I had read four of Craig's fictional books, before reading his biography, so was familiar with his real-life characters.
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Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Parenting - Fatherhood    5. Personal Memoirs    6. Regional Subjects - West    7. Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs   

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Absorbing memoir of a Wyoming ranch family . . .
There's a growing literature of memoirs written by women who grew up on ranches, and this is a fine addition to it. Jordan tells of her family, who for four generations raised cattle in southeast Wyoming, north of Laramie and Cheyenne. With some irony, it was more circumstance than a love of ranching that kept the Jordans on the land, until the author's father sold the home place in the 1970s. But the love of that spot on earth lives on strongly in the author, and her book is a tribute to it and to her family who toiled there through good years and bad.
Great book with a deeper meaning
Jordan's book was much more than ranching and her life, she tells us about her feelings and thoughtsthat are associated with her life events.The reader becomes indulged in her feelings are can feel empathy for her.Thisbook is a down to earth, real life story that is worthy of reading by mostpeople.

It's a great read and good therapy all in one.
I thought, "This will be a nice distraction."Boy, did I underestimate this book.Ms. Jordan takes you with her through her life and her relatives' lives.You feel the draw of the west and the power ofthe Wyoming wind.Getting caught up in the struggles of the variousgenerations, and Ms. Jordan's, sheds light on your own life.As Ms. Jordanheals, the opportunity to resolve one's own conflicts seems more possible. This is a wonderful escape and marvelous therapy all rolled into one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Historical - General    6. Jordan, Teresa    7. Ranch life    8. Regional Subjects - West    9. Social life and customs    10. Wyoming    11. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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Simple, Eloquent, Heartwarming
I was very touched by the story of the people in Mountain City.I enjoy books about real people, whom from the outside seem as if there is no story but from the inside have warmth and wisdom.How many towns have you driven through and thought ," who lives here, what do they do?" Well now we know. Greg Martin wrote an excellent book and it should be must reading for all people interested in the real heartland of this country.

Strong and spare, like the desert
I was fortunate to hear Greg Martin give a reading from this book.Reading this book from end to end I heard the echo of his voice, the caring for his family, the strong feeling of place and anchoring he gets from Mountain City. Driving by, I have often wondered what it must be like to live in some of the small, lonely, almost-empty towns that aren't too hard to find in the West. I wonder where the people came from-and went to, and what happened, and this book gives me a glimpse into one such place.The smallness and sparseness aside, there's more history and depth than I would have thought driving by it.I'll look more carefully at other small places now.

The Literature of Loss
Thomas McGuane says that "...all literature is about loss, or the recognition of loss..." and Gregory Martin's debute memoir certainly shows this to be true.Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Basque Americans    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. General    8. Mountain City    9. Mountain City (Nev.)    10. Nevada    11. Personal Memoirs    12. Regional Subjects - West    13. Social life and customs    14. United States - State & Local - General    15. Biography & Autobiography / General    16. Martin, Gregory   

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An interesting culinary memoir!
In "Daughters of Heaven: A Memoir with Earthly Recipes," Leslie Li wrote about her life, growing with a Chinese father and an American mother in New York City. When her paternal grandmother, Nai Nai came to live with them in the U.S., Leslie's life was very much altered. Her Nai Nai took over the kitchen and soon, the family started having very traditional Chinese cuisine. It was difficult for Leslie as she was perceived "different," since she did not bring the typical lunch to school. It took some time for Leslie to realize the wonders of her Nai Nai's cooking. The second half of the book dealt mostly with Leslie's career, raising her son alone, and her conflict with her dad.
Stone soup and conversations with Old Man Hill
I enjoyed this book very much. Daughter of Heaven is thoughtfully composed and at the same time enormously energetic and energizing. I love the way the story coils back on itself toward the end and packs a wallop! There is a breath-like quality to the last third of the book.
Illuminating Daughter
I found Li's book excellent on several levels.Firstly, there is the quality of her prose -- it's elegance and quiet power.Secondly, there is the honesty coupled with a hard-earned candor which informs the entire book and keeps it anchored in the personal.But, unlike many other memoirs I was struck by the deep wisdom Leslie Li brought to family matters and to the art and craft of writing a memoir.There were passages were I was stunned by her insight not only about others, but also about writing about others.
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Subjects:  1. 1945-    2. 20th century    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Childhood and youth    5. Chinese American families    6. Customs & Traditions    7. Ethnic Cultures - General    8. Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies    9. Family relationships    10. Grandparent and child    11. Li, Leslie,    12. Literary    13. New York    14. New York (State)    15. Novelists, American    16. Regional & Ethnic - Asian    17. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    18. Social Science    19. Sociology    20. Biography & Autobiography / General   

Subjects:  1. 1872-1965    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Business    7. Business History    8. Businesspeople    9. Dairy farmers    10. Historical - General    11. Kenan, William Rand,    12. Philanthropists    13. Regional Subjects - South    14. United States    15. Biography & Autobiography / Business    16. Biography: general    17. Kenan, William Rand    18. North Carolina; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; biography; calcium carbide; acetylene; Union Carbide Company; New York; Standard Oil; Henry Morrison Flagler; Robert Worth Bingham; Business History    19. USA   

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We need more poets and warriors
Paul's a friend and some of this is familiar through conversations we've had and times we've lived through. We haven't seen each other for several years and just recently reconnected via email. As soon as I could I bought the book and have been reading it-it's like we are still talking and I've emailed him my first response;
the best read of the summer
More than just a fishing book, Molyneaux took me above and below the waves and into the halls of government where polcies were set that targeted people like the book's main character, Bernard Raynes. Molyneaux gives an intimate portrayal of the Bernard, whose English and Acadian French ancestors fished the Gulf of Maine since the 1600s, and depicts how that rich heritage has enabled Raynes to survive in the face of an antognistic political climate and resource scarcity. The book is beautifully written and contains lessons that go way beyond fishing. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography And Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Business    6. Commercial Fishing    7. Fisheries & Aquaculture    8. Fishing - General    9. Personal Memoirs    10. Regional Subjects - New England    11. Biography: general    12. Fishing, angling    13. Sports & Recreation / Fishing