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Includes 75 all-time favorites, best-selling hits, old traditional songs - many in Gaelic and not to be found anywhere else - lavishly illustrated with Irish art, design and anecdotes. Lyrics, full piano scores and guitar chords. ... Read more

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Classic Clancy Brothers
A great collection of classic Clancy Brothers musics.The piano part is easy, and the guitar chords are very good.I recommend this to anyone who wants to sing Irish pub songs. ... Read more

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Featuring some of the most famous columnists in the business, this guide reveals the secrets to becoming a syndicated newspaper columnist, through both the author's own experiences and anecdotes from the respected writers who excel in their craft. From finding topics, to digging up information, and ultimately writing a column that makes people think, laugh, or cry, all the wisdom necessary to write opinion, humor, and insight columns is clearly presented in this in-depth manual.

"I never thought anyone could write a book that would really teach someone else how to be a newspaper columnist. Boy, was I wrong. Suzette Martinez Standring has pulled it off?and with flair." ?Bill Tammeus, The Kansas City Star

Suzette Martinez Standring is a syndicated humor columnist and features writer whose work appears in The Boston Globe, the Milton Times, The Patriot Ledger, and other publications. She was voted best columnist by the readership of the Milton Times in 2003 and has been featured on Boston's NPR station. ... Read more

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A Must Read for All Inspiring Writers
Developing Your Writing Voice

Suzette Martinez Standring is more than a helpful, how-do book; it can be the start of a new career for many inspiring writers. She starts her book where all with the understanding that "every morning millions of readers turn the to their favorite newspaper columnist." Writers need an audience, they seek it, crave it and survive upon they support from their audience. The very thought of being in the public eye (or eyes) is what most writers seek and this book teaches a writer gives answers for that goal. Standring moves her readers, step by step, up the hill for "telling the story" and give an opportunity to become a successful columnist writer. She reminds writers that not all start out for recognition as a columnist, but often find themselves at that door in their writing career. What a wonderful opportunity for recognition as a writer while developing readership fans, she reminds the reader. Included in her information is, not only her knowledge but also that of great columnist that have been and/or are in the business. She helps to develop one's "voice" with advice from well-known columnist the late great Art Buchwald. Tell your story, write it to fulfill the editor's wants, and make it the right length. How difficult it is to tell a good story in a short amount of space. Standring takes her readers, as a good teacher does, through those steps, while helping them understand their voice. For example, will you be a humor or life-style columnist metro or religious?Blogging and getting on the radio are all included. She talks money, syndications, ethics and all else it takes. What more could a writer want?Her book is a mandatory read at three universities and it only just came out this year. That will speak for its credibility as a superb and educational columnist read.
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Where else but New York? Where would you still find a 97-year-old scrap-metal collector, a pillow maker, a mannequin maker, or someone who still digs graves with a shovel? In New York—but not for long.These beautiful and often poignant portraits show us men and women in vanishing jobs and professions. As machines and electronics take over, as gentrification or changes in customs occur, a way of life disappears. But Harvey Wang was able to document these lives before it was too late. The photographs and descriptions will entertain and inform us all. ... Read more

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A little gem...
"(Harvey Wang's New Yorkis) a little gem that celebrates the obscure New Yorkers who represent the city's diversity..." -Entertainment Weekly.

"Wang's photos are direct, arresting, even soulful, and hischaracter's stories are surprisingly poignant...No matter how many millionsof stories are in the Naked City, these are sure to linger in your mind." -Los Angeles Times .

`I can conceive of Harvey Wang's NewYorkas readily as Liebling's, Walt Whitman's or Edith Wharton's...(thebook is the product ) of a man who, like Balzac, intuitively understandsthe primacy of work in the lives of working people." -Albany SundayTimes Union. ... Read more

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On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.

The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house. And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose. A happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death. A loving marriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrives a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fall in love. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family's dreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them.

The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away. And it tells a haunting and beautiful truth about the unpredictability and the wonder of life. ... Read more

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The first one that I read
This was the first of her books that I read. I love it so much that I went back to the library and checked out more of her books.

The Gift
Set in 1950's America this book starts with the death of 5 year old Anne, the day after Christmas. This death comes close to tearing her family apart.

16 year old Maribeth Robertson comes from a very strict family. So when she gets pregnant and her brother finds out he tells her father who sends her away to have the baby to a convant. He tells her not to come home or contact her mother or sister until she's had and got rid of her baby.

When she arrives at the convent she hates it so much she runs away using the money her father gave her to pay the nuns. She becomes a waitress, this is where she meets Tommy, Anne's older brother.

I enjoyed this book, its worth a read.

Sappy and Unreal
This is the first Danielle Steel book I've read and the last.The whole premise was unreal.These people were 16 years old, for heaven's sake, and Steel made them so mature as to be unbelievable.It was sappy.The ending was so unsatisfactory I have to wonder:Is there a sequel?If there is, I won't be reading it.

Wouldn't recommend it
I'm a big Danielle Steel fan, but this book was way too predictable and I must admit, was a little boring... I give it 2 stars just because I'm a big fan.

Grinnell IS in Iowa!
This is the first Danielle Steel book I have read, and it will be the last.Aside from the sappy, predictable story and elementary use of the language, the book contains (for me, at least) an egregious editorial mistake - Tommy thinking about Maribeth, page 158 of the paperback: "But there was something he didn't like to think about, her going back to Iowa and her parents." This would be the same Maribeth who took a bus from Onawa, Iowa to Omaha, Nebraska, then got off in Grinnell on the way to Chicago.The only Grinnell, with a college, on the way to Chicago from Omaha, happens to be the one in IOWA!!

I suppose, to some people, this is a small point.However, in my opinion, if you're going to write fiction, make it up.Don't screw it up.

And by the way, Grinnell is a very cool town.





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Great investigative journalism is present-tense literature: part detective story, part hellraising. This is the first anthology of its kind, bringing together outstanding (and often otherwise unavailable) practitioners of the muckraking tradition, from the Revolutionary era to the present day. Ranging from mainstream figures like Woodward and Bernstein to legendary iconoclasts such as I. F. Stone and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the dispatches in this collection combine the thrill of the chase after facts with a burning sense of outrage. As American history, Shaking the Foundations offers a you-are-there chronicle of great scandals and debates as reporters revealed them to their contemporaries: Jim Crow and financial trusts, migrant labor and wars, witch-hunts and government corruption. As journalism, these readings—from writers as diverse as Henry Adams and Ralph Nader, Lincoln Steffens and Barbara Ehrenreich—are a source of inspiration for today’s muckrakers. For the general reader, Shaking the Foundations reveals investigative journalism as a storytelling force capable of bringing down presidents, freeing the innocent, challenging the logic of wars, and exposing predatory corporations. Other selected contributors include Henry Adams, John Steinbeck, Upton Sinclair, Edward R. Murrow, Rachel Carson, Jessica Mitford, Susan Brownmiller, Anthony Lukas, Neil Sheehan, Drew Pearson, and Jack Anderson. ... Read more

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Shaking the Foundations is a Fascinating Read
When school children learn all about Presidents' Day and the Revolutionary War in primary school they hear about the important men who invented America and its founding documents.

What they never learn about in primary school, or even in high school, is how writers, reporters and the printing press invented America through all variety of newspapers, pamphlets and print media that detailed the workings of the British government and fledgling governments in the Colonies.

We have all been inducted into the belief, even the pseudo-religion, that it was great men with great ideas who birthed this nation. But the founding fathers' primary means of communication was not public speaking. It was, in fact, the written word that gave birth to America just as surely as the Revolutionary War did.

It is in this spirit that journalist Bruce Shapiro has compiled a text of important and sometimes famous examples of investigative reporting in America. The first story from 1798 was written by that old ne'er do well, newspaper publisher Benjamin Franklin.

The excerpts Shapiro has included in this compilation are heartbreaking, maddening, educational, revelatory, inspiring and enlightening. He includes a short bio of the reporters and background leading up to each article to give each a sense of time and place. He also tells a bit about each reporter's life to lend an air of humanity to the journalist who sometimes risked his or her life to expose the bitter truth.

Some famous stories from this century are included. The Nixon era exposés penned by Woodward, Bernstein, and Jack Anderson are here. The first story of the My Lai Massacre is here as is the first story from the New York Times describing the Pentagon Papers.

Today's readers who have lost half of their retirement funds or their homes will be infuriated to read a story written by Drew Pearson in 1931 called "The Man Who Stayed Too Long." It is a detailed, brutal description of what happens when a greedy millionaire, Andrew Mellon (of Carnegie-Mellon fame), gets a job working for the president and how the policies he advised helped lead to the Great Depression. Mellon manipulates the wheels of government to make himself and his friends richer while his fellow Americans stand in line for soup for ten years. It is a story that illustrates the cyclical insanity of Wall Street, for we are living through duplicate circumstances today.

One theme that runs through the book with frustrating regularity is that the powerful cannot be trusted. You can read Nellie Bly's 1887 account of what America did with its mentally ill in that century. In a story from 1954 Stetson Kennedy goes undercover as a Klansman and witnesses the torture and murder of a Black cab driver, killed for picking up a White woman as a fare. The excerpt from "No Birds Sing" by Rachel Carson will shock readers who have grown up believing that large corporations care about the environment. It details how the pesticide DDT nearly annihilated the bird population of several states until it was finally banned in 1972 after a decade long fight.

Another compelling read is the 44-page story of a mine blast in Illinois in 1947 written by John Bartlow Martin called "The Blast in Centralia No. 5: A Mine Disaster That No One Stopped." The story details the hard life of coal miners who, even with a union, couldn't get anyone in power to listen to their warnings before their mine exploded and killed 111 of them.

This collection is not an easy read. Its descriptions of the follies and foibles of man through the centuries might leave readers in despair. The only hopeful aspect is the knowledge that these stories actually changed the world a little. They exposed injustice, cruelty, callousness, brutality, mayhem, incompetence and ignorance. Readers can track major changes in American society all brought about by the power of the pen. Fans of history, writing, journalism and politics will enjoy this book.
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An "Inside Look" at New York City
Reads exactly like what it is: a collection of columns about New York City, some good, some very good, a few great.

You don't have to live in the City to appreciate this book, but living there might help one appreciate it more.

Lots of "good stuff" here. Anyone who loves or even likes the City will find something here to titillate their senses and their minds.

Good, easy read, one that can be read, put down and picked up again...savoring it to the last column.

New York City Vignettes
I have never seen one of Mr. Roberts' podcasts but, if these little articles are any indication, I'm sure they are quite interesting.As you read through these seventy-odd short pieces, you can almost hear how they are made for a voice to read them aloud.It's a pleasant way to while away a few hours; especially if you are someone like me: a transplant to New York City who likes to learn as much as possible about my home of the past decade.

Mr. Roberts has divided his book into four sections: "Only in New York," "New Yorkers," "History Lessons," and "My New York".Unfortunately, the slowest moving (and longest) section is the first.Granted, there's a lot of fascinating stuff, but there's also a lot of statistical data of various types.In the individual, bite-sized chunks of these stories, it's not bad reading but it's difficult for story after story.

After this first section, however, things pick up considerably.I'm always a fan of history and learning about New Yorkers (both well-known and less so) and the city itself is a real treat.And yet, the best section is the last.Mr. Roberts' personal stories are probably the most engaging.The story of sharing an apartment with his niece and the story of acquiring the "stop the presses" button from a New York Times auction are my favorites.I've even repeated these stories to friends of mine.

It's clear that Mr. Roberts is well-versed in New York City, its history, its people, and its quirks.Anyone interested in the City would be well-advised to check this book out.

Fascinating New York City stories
For those who love the City of New York,this is a delightful book and an easy-read. Written by the excellent Sam Roberts, a veteran New York Times reporter and native NYer who obviously loves this city, it is a collection of brief stories about the people and places that make this city so unique. Roberts has the reporter's knack for finding the quirky and fascinating details in this complex bee-hive of constant activity. He also has a delightfully droll sense of humor which makes this easy-to-read collection even more fun.

A Wonderful Book
Sam Roberts has written a wonderful book for any current New Yorker, ex-New Yorker and wannabe New Yorker, a potential readership of roughly--what shall we say?--50 million people around the world. Mr. Roberts, a veteran of the New York Daily News and The New York Times, is the perfect guide to a city he so clearly loves, potholes and all. His subjects range from the funeral of the Rosenbergs to the closing of his high school (Samuel J. Tilden) to whatever strikes his always inquisitive fancy. As a former New Yorker (born in Brooklyn, bred--if that's the right word--in Queens) who writes this while sitting in afog-bound house in northern California while wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers cap, I can only urge you to buy and enjoy this book. And don't wait `til next year.

Born a New Yorker
There are things here that are amusing and curious and I don't agree with the previous reviewer can be found in any other city. What about the sound art installation in Times Square?I'm going out in search of that one! I've lived here my entire life and agree with the statement in the book "New York is the greatest city in the world and everything is wrong with it."It's the city we love to complain about and can't wait to come back to when we're gone too long. There's no place in the world like it and Sam Roberts' book may introduce you to places you'd never bump into unless you've read the book. ... Read more

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Brooklyn, New York, a borough of New York City, is known for its distinctive vernacular, its communal feel on the fringes of a booming city, and its famous bridge, a gateway to the unlimited opportunities in Manhattan. Of course, Coney Island deserves a mention as it garners its own fame independent of Brooklyn, its parent locale. New York City moviemaking got its start in Brooklyn when Charles E. Chinnock shot his silent film in 1894. Since then, many films have been made, studios opened and stars born in Brooklyn, contributing to its undeniable influence in the film industry.

This work is a collection of essays on the topic of Brooklyn as portrayed in film. It includes a discussion of race relations in films dealing with Brooklyn, the story of Jackie Robinson as shown on film, the changing face of cinematic Brooklyn and some thoughts on a Brooklyn filmgoer's experience. The combination of Brooklyn and baseball in the films of Paul Auster is examined, as well as the typical portrayal of a Brooklyn native in film. ... Read more

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A Fantastic Blend of the Scholarly and the Historical
This text is a success, largely due to the fine work of Robert Singer. His work as a film scholar is well represented here in this collection of critical studies of the Brooklyn film. Manbeck's strong work as the official historian of Kings County serves as a fine counterbalance to the analytical approaches put forth by the film scholars. All in all, the text is easy to read, and a must for the true Brooklyn afficianado. ... Read more

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A must read for journalists
Should be mandatory reading for all editors and wannabe editors. Lots of name-dropping fluff, but plenty of newsroom insider tips and tricks.

The molding of an editor
Mr Kosner details his rise to become an editor at several journalist institutions. The best part of this book is how he describes the non-glorifying and very anti-climatic process of being fired. it is never easy ona person and this author described that perfectly. The ending of this book which lists several traits that should define a person are an extra bonus with this book. It was smart to include in this book.

Outstanding Memoir by An Journalistic Insider
The name of Edward Kosner will doubtless fail to ring a bell in the minds of most Americans.This is because Kosner was a journalistic insider in the Eastern Establishment who preferred to work behind the scenes and also did not write much in the line of columns or any other work that bore his name.

Edward Kosner held top editorial positions at such institutions as Esquire, New York, Newsweek and the New York Daily News.Kosner was in an excellent position to witness the ongoing decline of newspapers and newsmagazines as well as the rise of the Internet as a news source.Among other things, Kosner predicts that newspapers will increasingly become marginalized as a mass medium and come to have only a limited audience in what he calls the "educated elite."

Kosner's book is rich in insight into the state of journalism today and about the practitioners of modern journalism.This is a most important book and as such is warmly recommended.

Enjoyable and Well Written...
I enjoyed the sections on the youth and family of the author as well as those chapters following his career.The book is extremely well written.I bought it as a gift for my journalist son and decided to read it first and was pleasantly surprised that I liked it so much.

A Life in Print
By a person few-- outside U.S. publishing circles-- will know. The book is best when describing the high politics within major (mostly New York-based) magazines and papers. Sections on the author's youth and family will be of little real interest to most.

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"A feast for the eyes...bringing alive along vanished world that'sstill eerilypresent."--Daniel Czitrom, New YorkPostThe premiere national Jewish newspaper has opened its never-before-seen archives, revealing aphotographic landscape of Jews in the twentiethcentury and beyond. This extraordinary volumefeatures classic photographs of the history onehas learned to associate with the JewishDaily Forward--Lower East Side pushcarts,Yiddish theater, labor rallies--along with gemsno one would expect. The book also featuresessays by Leon Wieseltier, Roger Kahn, andDeborah Lipstadt, and a rousing introduction byPete Hamill. 531 duotone photographs ... Read more

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Seeing Jewish history as it was
A Living Lens is a wonderful collection of photographs that not only demonstrate everyday life of Jews throughout the United States but it is accompanied by a rich text authored by witnesses to this history.Of all the photography books about the Jews of the 19th and 20th centuries thids one ranks at the top.A must see and read.

Great Collection
This collection and commentary was great....and more than met our expectations.It sits now on our coffee table for all to review and reminisce.

Jewish Insight
Beautiful book, well written.A book for anyone to share with their children to teach them an important part of our US history.

Genetic Memories
As the grandchild of Polish / Ukraine immigrants who read the Forvitz, this book lovingly captures the memories of a time long gone.

Outstanding
Earlier this year, I had participated in a tour, including the old Forward Building in Lower Manhattan, with our guide being one of the photographers for this beuatiful book.I was so happy with the book which arrived in exellent condition.

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Great Book
This is a great book for boxing fans, this are all Hall of Fame boxers fighting each other, unlike Floyd Mayweather Jr this guys were willing to fight the best fighters they could find and they all fought each other during their primes, this great boxers never ducked anyone, a great era in boxing, this is a book that is very easy to read and delivers what it promises, a great book about some of the greatest boxers of all time.

Horrible read of what could have been an amazing book.
After having ready many biographies of various fighters i was ecstatic at the thought of a book containing all four legends under one cover.
The book is a dismal read though, continually sidetracking and being a never ending list of names no one has heard of or cares about. I must have waded through about 80 pages which just wouldn't get to the point. The book read through something like this,


... At the time hearns checked in to the hotel pre fight, the guy behind the desk was george's cousin, who was hearns former trainer, who had called up sue to make the reservations, as they went up to the room, the elevator guy jim recognised him as he had been to one of the fights with chris who happened to know the commentator who knew the corner man and he commented on how his physique had changed....

for every 4 paragraphs that read through like this, you will get some information about one of the fighters that is of interest, how they related to all the other fighters and what was happening with the other fighters at the same time.
Many would gripe about how the book is a study or a research into the whole scene surrounding the fighters, but the book is not titled 4 kings and a telephone directory of namedropping. Even with the intention of creating an era the book is bland and just comes up as a long winded report with no heart

One of the best books ever on boxing
Tremendous read!

This is the book about the 9 fights that the quartet of Leonard, Hagler, Hearns and Duran had against each other in the 1980's. It is the tale of four great champions both in and out of the ring written by a very skilful writer.

The pages just slip by as you get immersed in the lives of the four men and the 1980's era of great boxing.

Highly recommended.

4 Kings
This book is a true insight into some of the greatest boxers of all times. The book is easy to read and makes the reader keen to get to that next page with some interesting facts on what happened during one of the great eras of not only boxing but sport itself.

A MUST READ FOR BOXING FANS OF ALL ERAS!
This is a page turner for any fan of boxing on any level. Whether you remember any of these fights or not, Mr. Kimball has recreated the atmosphere of this era perfectly. Mr. Kimball was there for every fight and has recaptured them here. ... Read more

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Jack London cut a mythic figure across the American landscape of the early twentieth century. But throughout his colorful life–from his teenage years as an oyster pirate to his various incarnations as a well-traveled seaman, Yukon gold prospector, waterfront brawler, unemployed vagrant, impassioned socialist, and celebrated writer–he retained a predilection for drinking on a prodigious scale. London’s classic "alcoholic memoirs"–the closest thing to an autobiography he ever wrote–are a startlingly honest and vivid account of his life not only as a drinker, but also as a storied adventurer. Richly anecdotal and beautifully written, John Barleycorn stands as the earliest intelligent treatment of alcohol in American literature, and as an intensely moving document of one of America’s finest writers. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes illustrations from the original edition. ... Read more

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Jack London Books
Jack London is my favorite author I would always rate is books and articles highly, I would recommend his books for kids who like to read adventure stories or for adults just begining to read.

Stark reality of alcoholism
One of London's masterworks, John Barleycorn is often confused with exact biography.London was a binge drinker, not a day-in, day-out imbiber.But in this book, written during the push for Prohibition, he offers a poetic and shocking tale of how one can become an alcoholic and the tricks it plays on one's mind.His vision of "The Noseless One" who tricks the drinker is brilliant.His account of growing up in a port city where men spent free time at bars matches sociological discussions of becoming socialized to a drug or alcohol.He appreciates the special confluence of drinking with images of masculinity.Members of AA recommend this book, and for good reason.London understood too well the pain periods of drinking can bring to loved ones, and this was in a way a love letter to his wife.

what London could not say
This book is fascinating as a time-capsule of the understanding of alcoholism in the era before Bill W's discovery of the nature of the disease, as well as London's own understanding.London's constantly describes wit and clarity his binges, yet his twisted understanding of his own drinking leaves him no choice but to find his ability to leave the booze alone for months at a time evidence that he was not a born alkie. If you can get around the urge to go back in time and shake some sense into him his incomplete journey of self-discovery is full of profound episodes.

Pete Hamill's introduction is useful for its biographical details but his discounting of how this memoir has been used to support the theory that London's issues were around his conflicted sexuality does not ring true.He describes London's slighting sexual and romantic descriptions in his memoir yet attributes that to London's mother-a possible but not convincing answer when there is so much other evidence before us. It is impossible today to read the passages in which London insists that he drank only to spend more intimate time with the manly men who attracted him from the perspective of today without understanding that the drink allowed more than blustery conversation.

beautiful prose
Jack London is the author that I admire the most among the American authors and this memoir, like his other works I read, gave me great reading pleasure. His life started in poverty, he lived a life of struggle and adventure, alcohol was always present as he grew up, and he felt obliged to drink to fit in the macho social environment, eventually developing a heavy drinking habit. In John Barleycorn he tells his story honestly, he describes the surroundings and characters around him beautifully, and especially his psychological descriptions are superb. In one part, while he was drunk and going by himself on a sloop at night, he falls in the water and he describes how all of a sudden he found himself thinking about committing suicide:

"Thoughts of suicide had never entered my head. And now that they entered, I thought it fine, a splendid culmination, a perfect rounding off of my short but exciting career. I, who had never known a girl's love, nor woman's love, nor the love of children; who had never played in the wide joy-fields of art, nor climbed the star-cool heights of philosophy, nor seen with my eyes more than a pin-point's surface of the gorgeous world; I decided that this was all, that I had seen all, lived all, been all, that was worth while, and that now was the time to cease.....The water was delicious. It was a man's way to die. It was a hero's death, and by the hero's own hand and will."

Such is the depth of his character descriptions, such is the way he reflects the mood beautifully. A "must read".

Pleasantly Jingled
`John Barleycorn' is the so-called "Alcoholic memoirs" of American literary icon Jack London. John Barleycorn was London's nickname for booze, and his relationship with Mr. Barleycorn is one of love/hate. In spite of the sub-title, London persists throughout this drunken autobiography that he is not an alcoholic. Nevertheless, he eloquently chronicles his tumultuous drinking career with the goal of demonstrating the enormous toll that alcohol can take on the mind, body, and spirit. At times, he glorifies his drinking, but for the most part he seems to resent this seductive destroyer of men, and claims that the only reason he drinks so much is because it is everywhere. He sees drinking as sort of a social obligation, a manly thing to do around other men. Not only does he resent it, but he concludes that prohibition is the only way to stop the destructive force of alcohol.

`John Barleycorn' is not only a story about the effects of alcohol on one man's life, but it is also an adventurous tale of one of America's first celebrities rise from rags to riches. The narrative begins with London's poverty-stricken childhood in San Francisco, continues through his teenage years as a brawling oyster pirate, and on into his adult years as a celebrated writer and passionate socialist. The prose is magnificent, and although `John Barleycorn" was highly entertaining, there is also a sense of sadness for me because I know first-hand how agonizing this type of life can be. With that said, this is a fantastic piece of American literature.
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The man in priest's garb got out of the elevator at the top floor, leaving the gate ajar.He removed the rifle from under his habit and opened the breech.It was loaded.He closed it and stepped to the edge of the roof.St. Peters Square was spread out before him like a great colored lake.There were more people than he had ever seen before.On the steps leading to the cathedral an altar had been set out.There were priests and monsignors all in royal purple, sitting on all sides of the altar.It was a simple shot.A good, clear, direct shot.Now the target arrived.The man on top of the building sighted down the rifle, straight and true, at the small figure below.He heard them singing now, voices rising above them in the high, exalted air as though they were singing their praises to him.His finger was ready on the trigger, ready to gun down His Holiness, the Vicar of Christ.... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 4062 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Triste mundo nuevo: columnista del New York Daily News y autor de una veintena de libros, Pete Hamill recupera en este texto, en exclusiva para Letras Libres, la épica de la ciudad que fue víctima de los ataques del 11 de Septiembre, un Nueva York vivido con intensidad, cuyos vacíos son tan importantes como sus legendarias construcciones.(TT: Sad new world: Peter Hamill, columnist for the New York Daily News and author f about 20 books, he recovers in this article, exclusively for Letras Libres, the epic that the city suffered in September 11, a New york living with intensity.)
Author: Pete Hamill
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2002
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FIRST WARNER PRINTING 1998 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK EDITION. SOME WEAR AND CREASES ON BOOK.SMALL CREASE AND SMALL FOLD ON A FEW PAGES. DISCOLOR ON PAGES. OVER ALL A GOOD READING COPY. WE SHIP DAILY... ... Read more