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- Good way to introduce the "birds and the bees"
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- Where Did I Come From?
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Where Did I Come From?
Peter Mayle
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Customer Reviews:
Good way to introduce the "birds and the bees".......2007-09-01
My son and I had the best laughs reading this book; somewhat embarrasing at time but it was all out there, he was able to ask questions and it was a great way to discuss these things with him as it is with any child. I highly recommend this book for 9 or 10 year olds if your ready to discuss such things with them.
Offers too much detail in my opinion.......2007-08-23
Although I believe this book may be suitable for some kids, I do not believe it is suitable for my son and that is why I did not give it to him. Some pages from the book actually made me turn red! It is my opinion that kids do not need to know all the details provided in this book in order to get the message of where they came from. An edited version would work better for me.
Covers the embarressing areas.......2007-08-23
This book does a great job at explaining why grownups like to have sex. It describes the feelings, without getting lewd.
Where Did I Come From?.......2007-08-09
My son read this in addition to another similar book, and said that this book has less information in it.
Just the facts.......2007-07-13
Great book. I had it when I was a kid and bought it for my niece and nephew. It's just the facts. With all the sex in the media and talk on the playground I think kids deserve to know the truth.
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- Reproduction for young "biologists"
- Lots of information - more for school-age not preschool
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How Babies Are Made
ASIN: 0859534006 |
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Reproduction for young "biologists".......2001-07-13
If your children, like most, are fascinated by animal behavior, this is a great way to approach reproduction. Topics include: Asexual Reproduction, Sexual Reproduction in Plants, Fertilization in Animals, Internal Fertilization, Development of Young Outside the Body, Attraction & Courtship, Competition, Gestation, Sexual Maturity, Diversity, Building a Home and Social Organization. The narration then moves to: Human Reproduction, Competition, Courtship, Love & Marriage, Building a Home, The Family and Society. The illustrations of the plants & animals in the first 3/4 of the book are wonderful--everything from anemone, grasshoppers and frogs to peacocks, giraffes and elephants. The illustrations of humans are disappointing and not nearly as good in quality as those of the animals. While all human male organs are labelled correctly and with detail in the diagrams, the clitoris is omitted! There was also a missed opportunity in that it would have been ideal to juxtapose an illustration of a variety of Human body types, skin tones and developmental stages along with the illustration of a variety of cats in the "Diversity" section. The book does get credit for its emphasis on the fact that mammals are intended to grow on their mother's milk. Note that this book does NOT describe the process of birth beyond briefly touching on length of gestation for a zebra and two illustrations of a zebra in utero and a recently born zebra foal. A similar title appropriate for a slightly younger crowd (and giving more information on the actual process of birth) is "How Babies Are Made" by Andrew Andry. Overall, this is a great little book!
Lots of information - more for school-age not preschool.......2000-04-02
The book has lots of information about reproduction in plants, animals, and humans. The section on human love, marriage, home and families was very nicely done. However, even though the text and pictures concerning plant and animal reproduction were very good, I found the section on human reproduction to be too graphic for very young children i.e preschoolers. This book is better geared towards school-age children as a simple introduction to reproduction.
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- All The Marx That's Worth Saving
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Reproduction of Daily Life
Fredy Perlman
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A very good introduction to Marx's Capital. If you ever wanted to know what words like "alienation" and "commodity fetishism" and "surplus value" mean, this is the commodity for you.
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All The Marx That's Worth Saving.......2003-03-15
Fredy Perlman's classic pamphlet discusses the way in which our civilization reproduces, or rather, steadily rolls over its own people like treads, always in pursuit of unconquered territory. Perlman skillfully mixes anthropology and Marxist theory, never conceding to the authoritarianism and state-worship infesting much of Marx's work. Without talking down to the reader, he delivers an introduction to anarcho-syndicalist and Marxist thought which is also historically significant, as it lights the way for the "primitivism" that would in a few years take the anarchist milieu by storm.
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Are African Americans part of the "Lost Tribes" mentioned in the Bible? Discover the true 10,000 year history of Black people -- and why others tried to erase it! What happened to the doctors, writers, scientists, builders, educators and spiritual leaders from Africa's Golden Age? And who did they really capture and sell into slavery? Are all African Americans suffering from mental illness because of this conspiracy to hide the truth? Read Psychic Trauma, and take the test on page 22 of this book and find out!
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Wonderful.......2004-10-21
This book is a book that i have personally would not have read were it not forced upon me for one of my classes. This book explains alot about the blanks and holes in the African American past that many Europeans have tried so hard to conceal. At first its hard to comprehend because as an African American you've been told were your place already is in society and that your past was one not to talk about. But in fact i never knew alot about my homeland of Africa. Its a very knowledgable book that i highly recommend. Its made me question alot about the African Past. Its made me question everything from the goverment to religion. Its also helped me to understand why white people have tried to conceal our past. I feel that if this book were mandatory for everyone to read the world would become such a better a place. Anyone thats African American should read this book and anyone else too.
Inspirational and Motivational.......2002-09-21
This is an inspirational book that should be in every school in the country. It explains the root cause of the black/white racial conflict in America. After reading this book, it becomes clear what was really lost by African people who were taken from their homes and families. No American history class is currently teaching that African people were here before Columbus, or that Africans ruled Spain for 800 years prior to the slave trade. No American history class is currently teaching that the African people who were brought here and forced into slavery were highly educated in African schools and universities, and were speaking and writing in several languages prior to their enslavement. This information would make a vast difference in how whites would view blacks and how blacks would view themselves. This is a book that must be read by blacks, whites and every other ethnic group and nationality. It is a very informative review of world history and a very insightful examination of human behavior.
third eye blind.......2000-03-20
This book covers a wide range of facts that have explained the origin of several negative stereotypes that africans are labeled with. The knowledge that I found in this book was never offered in any of my history classes. This book is a must read for anyone seeking the truth. I highly recommend this book to all thirsty souls.
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An X-rated adventure for anyone who has fallen asleep reading Tolkien, Naimah 2 continues the adventures begun in the first volume, in which a female warrior falls under the spell of a powerful warlock. While floating between realities, she is the center of sexual activity that involves all kinds of human and nonhuman characters. Fildor and Shiny Beast's imaginative characters and fantastic sets take the adult graphic novel genre to steamy new frontiers.
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- Administrators and Their Service : The Sarawak Administrativ
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Administrators and Their Service: The Sarawak Administrative Service under the Brooke Rajahs and British Colonial Rule (South-East Asian Historical Monographs)
Naimah S. Talib
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This is a historical study of the Sarawak Administrative Service from its early beginnings in the 1840s to the end of the British Colonial rule in 1963. It highlights the Service's response to the particular and demanding circumstances of Sarawak and focuses on the officers who formed the
mainstay of the Service, providing information on their background, modes of recruitment, training, and conditions of service.
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Administrators and Their Service : The Sarawak Administrativ.......2000-04-19
When English adventurer, James Brooke, first set foot in Sarawak in 1839, little did he know that two years later he would be ruler of the state, and that for a hundred years, his family would control the small Southeast Asian nation, and expand its boundaries to what it is today. Although the Brookes administered Sarawak as their own little kingdom, and without interference from any western power, they were influenced by British colonial administration in the Malay states. Naimah Talib does a very credible job of documenting the similarities and the differences between the Brooke administration of Sarawak and the British administration of their Asian colonies. Her treatment of the periods of Charles Brooke's rule (1868-1917) and Vyner Brooke's (1917-1941) are excellent, but the chapter on James Brooke's rule from 1841-1868 could have been better developed. This was the beginning of Brooke administration in Sarawak -- the time when the foundation was being built, and it deserved a deeper, more thorough examination. On the whole this is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the how and why of Brooke administration of Sarawak.
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Munfarid: Afsane
Naimah Ziyauddin
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John Cleve
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"You must drink tea with us tonight." —Sense & Sensibility
Who would not want to sit down with Jane Austen and join her in a cup of tea? Here for the first time is a book that shares the secrets of one of her favorite rituals. Tea figures prominently in Jane Austen's life and work. In fact, the beloved novelist was the keeper and maker of tea in her family. Tea with Jane Austen begins with tea drinking in the morning and ends with tea in the evening, at balls and other gatherings.
Each chapter includes a description of how tea was taken at a particular place or time of day, along with history, recipes, excerpts from Austen's novels and letters and illustrations from the time. The book also reveals how to make a perfect cup of tea!
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At last!.......2007-07-27
This is - and there is no doubting this - the vag-iest book I've ever seen.
Short and punchy book for tea drinkers and Janeites.......2005-10-06
This is a lovely short little book which will not only teach you how to make a good cup of tea but at the same time takes a lovely cultural walk through the historical significance of tea both in society and literature.
The Georgian era really saw the rise in tea as a social institution, which is of course the time of Austen. Kim Wilson manages to extract references to tea in novels and letters using them as examples of its importance at the time, and its use as a literary device.
this has a series of lovely recipes in it which are true to Austen's time, well as true as they can be. Ingredients and measurements not withstanding. But how wonderful to do tea just as Austen did.
This book is highly specialised around Tea and really Austen and perhaps the Jane Austen in the title was supposed to draw in more readers on the Jane Austen bandwagon. However I do think it has merit. Firstly it tended to stick with things of Austen's time and I felt it gave a fairly good discussion of what her life would have been.
It really suffered from lack of illustration, not only throughout the book, but also for the cooking items at the end. I recommend reading this with another illustrated book of Austen's life if you want to see more of the places and things mentioned in here. There is one excellent book I have read recently called Regency Design which (while not on Jane Austen) will illustrate so much of what they used, ate from, drank from and lived in. It is fully illustrated, I think the author is Morley - anyway - a book like that is an excellent accompaniment to lovely short books such as this.
Highly recommended.......2005-09-27
Before sitting down with this book, turn to the very last chapter, which explains how to make the perfect cup of tea -- and prepare a whole pot for yourself. Because once you begin reading Kim Wilson's engaging discussion, you'll want nothing so much as a good cup of tea (except, perhaps, a rout cake or Bath bun to go with it) but will not want to put the book down long enough to boil water. "Tea with Jane Austen" is like the best blends of the beverage, its individual components smoothly combining to create a delightful experience richer than the sum of its parts. Primarily a social history of tea in Georgian England, the book also explains how Austen and other authors use tea as a literary device, and includes period recipes with modern conversions. Though extensively researched, this is not dry history -- Wilson's warm, conversational style and gentle humor make the book as entertaining as it is informative. Indeed, the reader feels as if Wilson is our hostess rather than a lecturer as she educates us by turns on tea itself (how it was transported, sold, and prepared) and the social contexts in which it was enjoyed. She also enhances our appreciation for Austen's writings by revealing subtle cues Austen incorporates into tea-drinking scenes that likely escape most modern readers -- but that her contemporaries would have recognized as character-defining elements. Among the many fascinating insights Wilson offers, we learn why the Austens, hardly well-to-do, bought their tea only from one of London's most reputable merchants, that naval officers often brought along their own tea so as to improve conditions aboard ship by indulging in a small comfort of home, and the real reason Mr. Darcy drinks a cup of coffee rather than tea toward the end of "Pride and Prejudice." By the end of the book, you'll be trying to decide which of the intriguing recipes to attempt first, and which Jane Austen novel to read or reread whilst sipping tea (with sugar, but no cream) from a Wedgwood cup.
I'm ready to sit down and have a cup of tea!.......2005-09-12
Fun and interesting, loaded with anecdotes and quotes from family and contemporaries, Tea With Jane Austen is truly a valuable asset to anyone's Jane collection! Jane herself made the tea for her family, so you cannot ignore this addition to the her "lore" and still be a true Janeite! Need I say more?
Linore Rose Burkard
Author, Before the Season Ends,
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Tea With Jane Austin is Fabulous!.......2005-03-07
For anyone interested in how Jane Austin and the people in her books lived, this is a must read! In this entertaining and well researched book you can find out how to make a whole host of unusual delicacies and serve it with the proper etiquette of the day. My hat is off to Ms Wilson for giving us a delightful book that is sure to please all Janites! And now, I will sit down to read "Emma" with my cup of tea...
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Now in paperback, this practical guide helps dog owners use positive rewards and a dog's natural instincts to achieve a stress-free canine-human relationship. With this book, any dog (and human) can be taught the basics of obedience in just three short weeks using easy five-minute exercises three times a day.
With concise text and step-by-step captioned photographs, the 21-day training program -- called the Leadership Program -- demonstrates not just what to do, but explains why it should be done. Each successive week covers Heel, Sit, Stand, Down, Stay, Recall (Come), and Retrieve, with lessons becoming more demanding as weeks progress. Proven techniques for difficult dogs are also provided.
Additional topics include:
- Differences in canine and human perception
- Recognizing manipulative behavior
- Motivating the dog
- Communicating through voice, attitude, and hand signals
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- Training puppies and mature dogs.
21 Days to Train Your Dog is an easy-to-follow guide that is informative and useful for both new and seasoned dog owners.
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21 days to train your dog.......2007-05-12
Received my book in a timely fashion. Have been working with my Great Dane with this book and is working well. Excellent purchase choice.
Clear and direct.......2006-03-16
Clear, direct guidance. The author recognizes that dogs are not equals, they need training to be obedient and keep them safe as well as make them socially welcome. A good, practical book.
Wonderful Resource!.......2005-08-23
This book is very informative, and a must have if you want to work with your dog without paying a professional trainer. The picture illustrations are a perfect compliment to the written instructions. I especially liked the detail given about other obedience issues such as dog language and how aggression begins between dogs. This book is a permanent addition to our living room reading material!
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Vintage Bar Ware gives identification and values of cocktail shakers, stemware, ice buckets, serving trays, recipe books, paper collectibles, cocktail picks, swizzle sticks, and more. There's also a section of classic cocktail recipes, special chapters on the bar ware manufacturers and the guest star designers, as well as tips in caring for and finding bar ware at bargain prices. Over 300 color pictures. 2000 values. AUTHORBIO: Hailed as one of America's top 100 collectors by Art Antiques Magazine, Stephen Visakay has canvassed the world for cocktail shakers and vintage bar ware for over 25 years. He invites all of us to share in his knowledge - and his passion - for these fascinating and unique relics of our past in his book Vintage Bar Ware. Visakay's vast collection has been featured in seven museum exhibitions, and his collection totals over 1,800 pieces. REVIEW: This book gives a look back at the spirit of a more graceful time in our nation's history, a time of elegance and glamour. The aesthetic value of cocktail cultural artifacts is receiving a wide recognition, not only as beautiful objects to use and enjoy in one's home, but as the documents and artifacts of history.
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The leading authority among barware collectors........2001-07-19
This is book is considered a staple to the barware collector. The book reads into his enthusiam for collecting barware as well as his extensive knowledge and research on the subject. No other book can compare. There are just as many georgeous pictures as interesting text. After reading this book cover to cover you will use it frequently as a reference guide so keep this one within easy reach.
Vintage Bar Ware.......2000-03-26
Stephen Visakay is the most knowledgeable bar ware expert on the planet. He has distilled his knowledge, shaken it, and served it up in this delightful volume for our imbibing pleasure. He offers an overview of the golden age of cocktail shakers and other classic bar accoutrements. There is something here for everyone, from the novice to the advanced collector. The only thing missing is the olive... cheers!
Most Complete Book on Vintage Bar Ware Available!.......2000-01-21
This book is my constant companion, it is a joy to read, I have read this book several times and everytime I open it up, I still learn something new. This book contains very important facts for identifing and dating a variety of bar ware. Beautifully written and illustrated. Stephen Visakay has really brought great recognition and a wonderful insight to cocktail shakers and collectors of bar ware. He is a true pioneer in the field. What better source to get your information from? Our favorite book!Still haven't figured out how he managed to get so much information and so many items all in one book! Wonderful!
A Carefully researched delightfull book.......1999-12-08
from Antiques & Collectibles Trader:"With out a doubt, this book is the bible in the field. Carefully researched, beautifully written, nicely designed, well photographed. original patent drawings and information, as well as many photographs of original advertisments and catalogue material. PLAYBOY MAGAZINE..JAN 1998 "You don't have to be James Bond to enjoy Vintage Bar Ware...loaded with historical tidbits" THE WINE ENTHUSIAST..."Indispensable guide for the collector, fun & engaginb book that everyone will enjoy"
Extraordinary Book and Invaluable to a Collector.......1999-12-06
Mr. Visakay's book combines characterics unfound in other pricing and information guides: it provides insight into the author in a charming way while providing highly accurate information. Although I am a knowledable collector, I read the book cover to cover. Stephen Visakay is clearly the definitive source. I am an international collector buying in the US, London and Paris. Without a doubt this book has saved me a fortunue. Given that so few cocktail shakers were ever marked, a visual guide as presented in the book is critical. Understanding the rarity a item is the key to successful collecting. Thank you Stephen!
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- Attractive Book For Drinking Glasses Collectors
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Collectible Drinking Glasses: Identification & Values
Mark E. Chase , and
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ASIN: 0891456708 |
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Attractive Book For Drinking Glasses Collectors.......2000-04-10
This 136 page volume, with prices updated for 1999 features THOUSANDS of glasses, in full color photos. A nice overview and brief history of the hobby is included. Some major topics cover from: Artists and Producers, Characters and Personalities, Fast-Food Restaurants and Food Containers, to Americana, Space Related, Superheros and Sports. Each group of glasses includes photos, a description of the glasses along with a value range. Its completely indexed for ease of use. A must have for collectors of this topic. It carries a list price of $ 17.95.
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This book helps readers gain an understanding of the different techniques of manufacture and gives a feel for the variety of tumblers produced. Both pressed and blown tumblers are examined, and those made between the close of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I are the major focus of the book. A brief history of tumblers is provided along with the origin of the name 'tumbler.' More than 800 opalescent, imitation cut, 'Daisy Button,' figural, hobnail, opaque, iridized, smooth, multicolored and single colored, polka dot, and many more types of tumblers appear in full-color photographs in this indispensable resource. There are even a helpful glossary, index, and appendices featuring factories that made glass and glass combines and their members. 2004 values. AUTHORBIO: Tom Bredehoft is well known in the glass collecting world. He and his wife, Neila, have written several books together, including Collector's Encyclopedia of Heisey Glass, 1925 - 1938, Heisey Glass, 1896 - 1957, and Glass Toothpick Holders. Tom is also the author of Glass Tumblers, 1860s to 1920s. REVIEW: This book is the most comprehensive on the subject ever to be published. Duncan Miller, Heisey, Tarentum., Westmoreland, McKee, Fostoria, New Martinsville, Hocking, Indiana, National, United States, Northwood, and many other major glass companies are represented. Description, dimensions, current value, color, and other pertinent information is given for every tumbler shown.
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The System of Nominal Accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European (Memoirs of the Kern Institute No 4)
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Paperback with fold-out front and back covers. 150 pages exhibition catalog from exhibit in Barcelona, Spain. Many wonderful full-page color reproductions of Mike Kelley's artwork. Nice heavy paper for pages and covers. Very rare book, out-of-print, for this great contemporary artist. Sonic Youth and other alternative bands have used Mike Kelley artwork on their album covers.
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When their correspondence began in 1925, Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was the nation's leading Caucasian enthusiast for African American culture, and Langston Hughes (1902-67) was a struggling poet who lived with his mother in Washington, D.C., and plaintively closed one letter, "Remember me to Harlem." Over the four-decade-long friendship that's captured engagingly in these warm, funny letters, Hughes would become more famous, and Van Vechten less so, but their mutual affection and respect only would deepen. Editor Emily Bernard, a professor at Smith College, sensibly decided to include only a fraction of the letters that the pair exchanged, but to print those in their entirety, so that readers might get a vivid sense of each man's personality. Van Vechten is lighthearted, flirtatious, gossipy, effusive in his appreciation for Hughes' writing, and frank when he finds it not to his taste. Despite his unflinching commitment to civil rights, he's considerably less political than Hughes, whose equally witty correspondence has an underlying seriousness that's commensurate with a personal history that's far more turbulent and painful than that of his affluent friend. They share a dislike for "uplift-the-race" sanctimoniousness and a zest for African American folk culture; their letters are rife with references to the music of Bessie Smith and other great blues singers, as well as to the many Harlem Renaissance artists who were their personal acquaintances. The correspondence also provides a sustained chronicle of the working writer's life: they swap news of assignments and story ideas; Van Vechten generously makes his book-publishing and magazine contacts available to Hughes; and the poet loyally defends his friend's controversial novel, Nigger Heaven, against its numerous detractors. Helpfully, everyone is identified in Bernard's copious footnotes, which make this a handy reference work, as well as a delightful record of an extraordinary relationship between two uniquely gifted figures in American letters. --Wendy Smith
Book Description
These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten--older, established, and white--was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendship--and for nearly four decades the two men wrote to each other expressively and constantly.
They discussed literature and publishing. They exchanged favorite blues lyrics ("So now I know what Bessie Smith really meant by 'Thirty days in jail / With ma back turned to de wall,'" Hughes wrote Van Vechten after a stay in a Cleveland jail on trumped-up charges). They traded stories about the hottest parties and the wildest speakeasies. They argued politics. They gossiped about the people they knew in common--James Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, H. L. Mencken. They wrote from near (of racism in Scottsboro) and far (of dancing in Cuba and trekking across the Soviet Union), and always with playfulness and mutual affection.
Today Van Vechten is a controversial figure; some consider him exploitative, at best peripheral to the Harlem Renaissance--or, indeed, as the author of the novel Nigger Heaven, a blemish upon it, and upon Hughes by association. The letters tell a different, more subtle and complex story: Van Vechten did, in fact, help Hughes (and many other young black writers) to get published; Hughes in turn appreciated what Van Vechten was trying to do in Nigger Heaven and defended him, fiercely. For all their differences, Hughes and Van Vechten remained staunchly loyal to each other throughout their lives.
A correspondence of great cultural significance, judiciously gathered together here for the first time and annotated by the insightful young scholar Emily Bernard,
Remember Me to Harlem shows us an unlikely friendship, one that is essential to our understanding of literature and race relations in twentieth-century America.
Customer Reviews:
Harlem Renaissance Icons!.......2005-07-29
Emily Bernard's REMEMBER ME TO HARLEM has to main goals. One, Bernard attempts with success to show the cordial communication between two leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance inner circle, Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten. Two, Bernard hopes to reveal a friendship uncommon for the day and time it flourished, the friendship between a black man and a white man during a major period of segregation and inequality between the black and white Americans. Of course, all this is done through the letters of Hughes and Van Vechten.
Bernard does an excellent job at showing the relationship between these two icons of the Harlem Renaissance. Initially, their friendship starts off as sort of a patron, Vechten, helping to support a struggling artist, Hughes. As revealed in these compiled letters, this working relationship evolves into a friendship where Hughes often defends Vechten agianst distractors who view him as an exploiter and currupter of certain members of the Reaissance literatti (e.g. Hughes himself). Through Hughes, Vechten is shown morphing from an attitude of ignorance and paternal racist assumptions about the primitivism of blacks to one of "some" understanding but definite admiration for the black community. The two men were friends, but it must be stressed they were not best friends. Hughes best friend/almost brother was Arna Bontemps. I stress this difference because the tone of the letters differ when Hughes is writing to Vechten and Bontemps. Therefore, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND the purchasing of the letters between Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps edited by Charles H. Nichols were Hughes is much less reserved than he is in his letters to Van Vechten on certain matters intimate to two men dealing with trials, tribulations, and triumphs of being black during the early and mid 20th century.
A characteristic of the letters is the sign off. Vechten had a habit of grandiose and flowery sign offs in his letters to Hughes. He chastised Hughes for his cordial but distant ending of his letters with "Sincerely." In letters to Van Vechten only, Hughes eventually adopted the grandiose sign off in his letters but with a difference. Hughes was a socially consicious man and early civil rights activist and this is reflected in some of the ways he ended his letters to Vechten where the two men initially engaged in gossip about friends like Bessie Smith, DuBois, Ethel Waters, Countee Cullen, Richard Bruce Nugent, and so on and the goings on in their lives to the mundane aspects of business. Sadly, after Vechten writes to Hughes that he compiling Renaissance works for the beginning of the James Weldon Johnson Collection at Yale, the letters between the two men, Hughes especially conscious of posterity, become almost tedious.
The wealth of the Bernard's compilation of the letters is in the notes following each letter where she provides bits of information about a person mentioned in the letter or current
event of that day. This is were her book shines its brightest. The notes mentions one of Van Vechten's lovers, a white man. In mentioning Mangus Hirschfeld, Bernard fails to indicate Hirschfeld was gay and leading proponent of gay rights that was widely known in the 20's. Pay special attention to the footnote from the letter dated 12/20/40 concerning the Amsterdam News pick of eligible bachelors, one or two men besides Hughes is gay
and paper makes a coy remark about Hughes "thin cloud of mystery," a reference to the "open secret" of his being gay.
Also, Bernard and reviews of the book have noted that you will not find any overt references to Hughes being gay unless you are willing to read between the lines of the letters and "notes". Well, the evidence is there if you know what to look for. But, you must be acquainted with Arnold Rampersad's excellent and thoroughly meticulous and accurate two biographies of which Bernard is indebted and that of Faith Berry and even the letters between Hughes and Bontemps. Van Vechten sends Hughes a photograph of two very handsome black sailors with interesting text about one of them. Other black men featured in the book, not all, are more associated with Hughes and his "preference" for black men than Van Vechten who one professional reviewer incorrectly said were Vechten's lovers.
Ms. Bernard's book provides an interesting window on two figures important to literaturein the U.S.
Wonderful & Insightful.......2002-02-07
What a great book. It is amazing how much correspondence reveals about people. This book was so interesting. It truly covers decades of Black artisitic history.
The letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten.......2001-04-29
Bernard gathers and edits the letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, written between 1925-64, presenting a notable work of Hughes' mentor and the friendship which evolved between the two men. From discussions of literature and the publishing world to politics and gossip, these letters hold important keys to the personalities and concerns of two great men of the Harlem Renaissance.
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