No Disgrace to My Country: The Life of John C. Tidball

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Most enjoyable read this year.......2004-03-20

I can't remember why I ordered this book from the library a year ago, but it turned out to be one of the more interesting reading experiences of recent years. John Tidball was graduated from West Point in 1848, and while his life was packed with adventure, so were others of this period. But few recorded their observations with as much interest and clarity with a voice that still resonantes. Anyone interested in military and social biography is bound to share my views of this remarkable book.

A Life of Duty, Honor, and Country.......2002-11-19

"No Disgrace To My Country" is the story of John C. Tidball, an Ohio farm boy
who, by good fortune, got into West Point in 1844 at the age of 19 and graduated in 1848 as the
Mexican War ended. He elected the artillery arm of the service, where his love of the big guns
kept him, to the detriment of his advancement in rank, until he retired as the Army's premier
artillerist in 1889 after 45 years of service. He was promoted after retiring to the rank of
brigadier general.

General Tidball was himself an excellent writer and this story is substantially based
on his journals and letters, excerpts from which are cogently interspersed.

Tidball was in or at practically every major engagement of the Army of the
Potomac from First Bull Run to Petersburg and his perspectives on the actions and the Union
commanders and officers are unfailingly interesting. He was, as were so many in that army, an
admirer of McClellan and suspicious of Lincoln and his administration and of the war aims of the
North. But on less traveled tracks and of particular interest are the pre-war stories of Tidball's
life as a plebe at West Point (where French almost did him in), his assignments in the Old Army,
including brushes with some of its notorious characters, postings to Savannah and Augusta,
participation in the 35th Parallel Pacific Railway Survey (to the report of which he contributed
several accomplished sketches), standing guard at Lincoln's inauguration, his first marriage and
widowerhood with two small sons (who were raised by his father while Tidball followed the flag).

Pensacola Harbor, in 1861, one of the best and most strategic ports on the Gulf
Coast between Florida and New Orleans, was guarded and controlled by Fort Pickens on Santa
Rosa Island. As the war began, Lincoln determined that Fort Sumter would have to be
surrendered but that Fort Pickens should be reinforced, defended and saved if possible.

Tidball was in charge of a battery of artillery that was part of the relief expedition dispatched in haste and
great secrecy in April 1861 from New York on the steamship "Atlantic" to save Fort Pickens. The
success of the effort denied the Confederacy the use of Pensacola Harbor and Naval Yard
throughout the war.

At the end of the war, while holding brevet ranks of brigadier general in the regular
service and major general of volunteers (in all he was breveted five times for gallant and
meritorious service), Tidball reverted to his permanent rank of captain. He had turned down
several opportunities for rapid advancement in the regular service during the war that would have
entailed his leaving the artillery service. The limited opportunities for advancement in the artillery
service, and what he perceived to be substantial defects in its organization, rankled and at times
depressed Tidball throughout his career. He, with, particularly, Henry Hunt and William Barry,
two of the great artillerymen who were Tidball's superiors, did have some success during the war
in restructuring the organization and use of artillery, including the creation of true horse artillery
units of which Tidball was one of the first commanders. Eventually, the insistence of these
officers and others that the artillery should be organized and commanded as a separate corps bore
fruit when Congress so provided in 1901.

Just as his activities before the war that were on ways less travelled are of
particular interest, so too are his activities during his 25 years of service after the war. In 1868,
the year after the purchase of Alaska, Tidball was sent there to set up and command the Military
District of Kenai, a principal element of the newly created Department of Alaska. In 1870, while
back in the states on leave, he married a younger woman (with whom he had five more children)
after a suit that was not wholly pleasing to her father, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, an
1842 graduate of West Point who finished the war as a major general of volunteers and had
returned to civilian life. The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Kodiak which they departed
without regrets in the fall of 1871 when Tidball was given a new assignment. He served as an
aide-de-camp on General Sherman's staff from 1881 to the end of Sherman's term as general-in-
chief in 1883, and accompanied Sherman on the General's valedictory 11,000-mile tour of the
West with two Supreme Court justices in tow as the General's guests.

In 1879, Sherman had ordered the publication of Tidball's magnum opus the
"Manual Of Heavy Artillery Service." It was published in 1883 and for many years thereafter was
the definitive work on the management and use of artillery. Toward the end of 1883, Tidball took
over as commandant of the Artillery School and commandant of the post at Fort Monroe. He
held these commands until he retired from the Army on January 25, 1889, his sixty-fourth birthday.

Applying in 1842 to the Secretary of War to be admitted to West Point, Tidball
wrote that it had not been his good fortune to receive as liberal an education as he desired and
that he "embrace[d] this opportunity to if possible gain admission to that institution to gain a
better education, and be an honor to my friends and no disgrace to my country." He clearly
accomplished these aims summa cum laude. By any measure, his was an extraordinary and
remarkable life personifying the tenets of duty, honor, and country.

"No Disgrace to My Country," by a distant relative of General Tidball, is a valuable
contribution to understanding an obviously intelligent and highly motivated and performing
second-level Union commander in the Civil War. It adds substantially to our understanding and
appreciation of that extremely important species which supplies the backbone of armies. The
story is well told and is read with great pleasure as well as profit.

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"No Disgrace to My Country": the Life of John C. Tidball.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Willard Carl Klunder
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Title: "No Disgrace to My Country": the Life of John C. Tidball.(Book Review)
Author: Willard Carl Klunder
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 70 Issue: 2 Page: 448(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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THE LIFE OF JOHN C. TIDBALL "NO DISGRACE TO MY COUNTRY"

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THE LIFE OF JOHN C. TIDBALL "NO DISGRACE TO MY COUNTRY"
Eugene C. Tidball
Manufacturer: The Kent State University Press,, Kent, Ohio:
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Overcoming limitations of depression-era circumstances, a boy from rural Alabama moves from newspaper reporting to take a ringside role in the staging of the finest hour of American technology--the race to beat the Soviets to the moon. While telling the evolving U. S. space story, Jones also tells the adventures of an uncommon moonlighting role, the upbringing of three sons in an unaccustomed realm of horticulture, of demanding church leadership functions, of pursuing the art of fading Sacred Harp folk music, of allegiance to generations-old family traditions of hunting and camping...in all, an improbable mixture of the spatial and earthly in a notable memoir.

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Exercise, train, and compete at your best on a vegetarian diet.

Few segments of the population are more mindful of their food intake than athletes and vegetarians. This book combines the unique demands of sports with a healthy vegetarian diet that can help you build energy and endurance and reduce body fat. Whether you are carbo-loading before a marathon or fine-tuning nutrition to get the most out of your workout, registered dietitian and elite vegetarian athlete Lisa Dorfman provides step-by-step information on how to customize your own sport-specific nutrition program and calculate a personal dietary plan for training The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide includes personal stories of athletes who have made the switch to vegetarian diets-from football players and wrestlers to ice skaters and marathoners, some of whom have beaten life-threatening illnesses with the help of this lifestyle. Lisa Dorfman provides a rich array of tasty and diverse vegetarian recipes, menus, easy-to-use charts, and food guides for vegetarians of all types, from the semi-vegetarian to the fruitarian. She also shares the training secrets of seventeen Olympic and world-class athletes who have used their vegetarian diets to achieve peak performance in their careers and optimum health in their lives.

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Best so far.......2006-10-21

This is the best sports nutrition (plant-based or othrewise) book I have read to date. It goes over training, body composition, diet, meal frequency and timing, calorie expenditure, optimal macro and micronutrients intake, etc... posing it all in an inviting format that allows the reader to actually read the book cover to cover (as opposed to just picking out what you "need") I cannot help but want a little bit more depth, but I forgive this due to the large spectrum of an audience the author is writting for. She simply would not be able to cover the plethora of athletes and body-types sufficiently no matter how many volumes she published. I like to believe her remedy for this is her "case-studies" of several different athletes differing in body-type, sport, and dietary preferences. She analyzes them all very thouroughly so that the reader can sort of scrapbook together a profile for themselves based on this information. I was personally happy to see that she included herself as one of the profiles because as a fellow petite female long-distance runner I find it difficult to get accurate information on health and nutrition. Most guidelines appeal to the 'average'size and bodytype which really doesn't help a lot of people.

This is a book for vegetarian and carnivorious athlete (or semi-athlete) alike, wanting to know the science of the feul s/he puts into his/her mouth, and be able to use it to his/her advantage.

I approach this review with 4 stars because of the title and my own personal opinion about nutrition, which I will discuss and allow you to make your ouw decision. Firstly I agree that the title is a bit misleading. Many vegans/strict vegetarians embrace (understandably) any material that endorses their cause, this book seemingly being one of them. Howver, upon reading, one realizes this is a book geared moreso to the health-conscious vegetarian than to the ethical vegetarian. This has upset some of the other reviewers and I suggest you consider it yourself. While the material thoroughly aknowledges the ethical vegetarian, it is obviously secondary to the matter at hand, nutrition. The two ideologies clash on many fronts, so I was suprised to find the author contadict herself on only a few, albeit a very significant few, issue:the dairy and calcium issue and protein. If you are unaware of the 'saga', strict vegetarians preach that dairy products inhibit absorption of calcium due to their high protein content rather than assist it. Furthermore, due to the lower protein content of the vegan diet, not as much calcium is needed because the body can make better use of what calcium is is getting from figs, dark leafy greens, etc... I tend to agree with this as it has been backed up by numerous epidemiological studies around the world, even though I am not a vegetarian. And while Dorfman initially agrees with the health benefits of a lower protein diet, she goes on to warn strict vegetarians/vegans about their low calcium intake recommending supplementation and fortified foods. This can be understood but for reasons on which she does not elaborate. Before agriculte was as large-scale as it is today (yes including organic), flooding the feilds between crops was common. This built up the mineral content of the soil and thus the mineral content of the vegetables growng therein. In today's world this simply is not the case, add that up with an already difficult task of eating a wide and plentiful variety of foods everyday (especially seasonal)and you end up with the unevitabl truth that both vegetarians and carnivors alike should be supplementing their diet with a good daily multivitamin (as a side note, a healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables should give you plenty of vitamins, as these come from the plant itself, and so in this case only a multi-mineral supplement would be necessary). She also slips off the low-protein wagon a few times, applauding "low-fat-high-quality protein" as can be seen in her egg-white omelete recipe. I was kind of dissapointed here because one of my favorite parts of vegetarian dogma is how it busts the 'more protein the better' myth, showing that the bonelss skinless chicken breast you're eating for dinner or those 3 glasses of skim milk your drinking or the scoop of protein powder you put in your smoothie still contain calories, and just because a calorie comes from protein doesn't mean it wont be stored as fat. That being said, I want to stress that I am intentionally nit-picking here in the interest of the consumer, and that for all my complaints the author largely does well and only 'slips up' on few occasions.
My last qualm was her apprach to dietary fat. As with my her other inconsistencies, she does well on most accounts to promote dietary fat in its monounsaturated forms and praises its use in place of saturated fats found in animal products. She recommends between 10-30% of daily calories come from fat. This sort of left me luke-warm because although this is standard advise, recent studies show that a diet consisting of up to 40% fat, givin that it is mostly mono-unsaturated, is actually a much healthier diet than the low-fat craze we heve only recently begun to put an end to. However, she does not argue that a moderate amount of good fat in the diet is a bad thing, which is a worthy stride considering the release date of this book.

All that being said, her errors can be made up for by her accuracy in other areas. I recommend the book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy by Walter Willet for more recent nutritional advise (warning, not a strictly vegetarian book, but not against vegan/vegetarinism either) as far as fat intake and the dairy calcium issue are concerned. But let it be known that he is not writting to the same audience as Dorfman, and therefore generalizes on much of the information about calorie balances, meal frequency, and timing that you would get if you bought the Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide.
To get an idea of the message in Eat, Drink,and Be Healthy, go to [...], and look at their food pyramids. Searching this site would probably be only slightly less effective than buying the book.

Geared toward the serious athlete.......2006-08-09

If you are looking for a book with ammo to attack the non-vegans in your life, this is not it. As several of the previous reviews have stated, this book provides numerous alternative nutrition plans. Some of the references made in the book measure the effectiveness of vegetarian diets to non-vegetarian diets when addressing some specific nutritional deficiencies associated with intensive training programs. I suggest that this information is presented as comparative and not as encouragement to become omnivorous as has been implied. As a committed vegetarian I took no offense to any of the suspect references.

Read with the absence of political bias this book is extremely informative to the serious athlete. Actual nutrition plans and specific rationale are included from vegetarian athletes with unequivocal credibility. The book is also extremely readable with bios and recipes inserted appropriately to support the nutritional strategies.

My reason for buying this book was to get an edge on my long run times and learn how to recover faster after races and heavy workouts. This book delivered on both accounts.
If you're a weekend mall walker looking for a recipe book, there are several out there that will teach you how to make foo-foo dishes until your eyes bleed. If you are serious about athletic training and understanding vegetarian sports nutrition, you are in the right place.

Not a vegetarian book.......2006-04-20

This book uses many examples of athletes who call themselves "semi" vegetarian. Meaning they still consume meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products, consuming any amount of animal flesh is not vegetarianism.

She also references the lacto-vegetarian diet as consuming poultry, eggs, and dairy. Poultry is meat and does not constitute vegetarianism. Lacto means consuming dairy.

She is a strong voice for the supplement industry suggesting large amounts of creatine supplements as well as protein supplements. It is well known that the body cannot store protein and any excess is excreted in the urine along with calcium used in the process of alkalinizing and excreting the protein which can put you at risk for osteoporosis, not a good idea.

Much of the information in the book is highly outdated, focused on supplements and does not offer any sound advice for a true vegetarian who avoids all animal flesh.

The book has a slight undertone of trying to persuade you away from vegetarianism which I found odd for a book that claims to be for vegetarians.

I would not recommend this book, I should have read the other reviews before buying it. There are numerous truly vegetarian and vegan olympic or world class athletes, this book gives terrible examples of "semi" vegetarians or what should be termed non-vegetarians.
If you are a true vegetarian, I wouldn't buy this book as it really isn't for vegetarians.

deceitful title.......2004-06-16

I read in one review posted above "and you are (or aspire to be) a vegan, then this book is definitely for you." is this a JOKE? THIS reader obviously did not open this book at all! the term "vegetarian" in used so freely that people that eat a burger a week are considered "semi-vegetarians". What is that supposed to mean? And what about "pesco-vegetarians"? This guide is a joke. If you take veganism or vegetarianism seriously, don't waste your money on this title. However, I give it 2 stars because it has some information on vitamins and other supplements. Yet, I can get the same advice from any other "omni/carnivore" regular nutrition book.

Just what I was looking for !!!.......2002-06-21

If you consider yourself to be an endurance athlete (of any type) and you are (or aspire to be) a vegan, then this book is definitely for you. I have seen many other books that say the word "Vegetarian" on the cover, when they really mean ovo-lacto-pesco-vegetarian (eggs, milk, and fish). This book lives up to it's title by featuring lots of recipes, example diets (from professional vegan athletes), and nutrition information for vegans (persons who eat absolutely NO animal products)!

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The basics of medieval cooking, handily collected

Pleyn Delit -Medieval Cookerey for Modern Cooks

Entertaining Scholarly Treatment with Good Stuff for foodies

Excellent resource for those interested in medieval food..

Actually Period

Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
Constance B. Hieatt , Brenda Hosington , and Sharon Butler
Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press
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This is a completely revised edition of the classic cookbook that makes genuine medieval meals available to modern cooks. Using the best recipes from the first edition as a base, Constance Hieatt and Brenda Hosington have added many new recipes from more countries to add depth and flavour to our understanding of medieval cookery. All recipes have been carefully adapted for use in modern kitchens, thoroughly tested, and represent a wide range of foods, from appetizers and soups, to desserts and spice wine. They come largely from English and French manuscripts, but some recipes are from sources in Arabia, Catalonia and Italy. The recipes will appeal to cordon-bleus and less experienced cooks, and feature dishes for both bold and timourous palates.

The approach to cooking is entirely practical. The emphasis of the book is on making medieval cookery accessible by enabling today's cooks to produce authentic medieval dishes with as much fidelity as possible. All the ingredients are readily available; where some might prove difficult to find, suitable substitutes are suggested. While modern ingredients which did not exist in the Middle Ages have been excluded (corn starch, for example), modern time and energy saving appliances have not. Authenticity of composition, taste, and appearance are the book's main concern.

Unlike any other published book of medieval recipes, Pleyn Delit is based on manuscript readings verified by the authors. When this was not possible, as in the case of the Arabic recipes, the best available scholarly editions were used. The introduction provides a clear explanation of the medieval menu and related matters to bring the latest medieval scholarship to the kitchen of any home. Pleyn Delit is a recipe book dedicated to pure delight - a delight in cooking and good food.

Customer Reviews:

The basics of medieval cooking, handily collected.......2007-03-22

If there was one book to get on the subject of medieval cooking, it would be this one. It's a selection of recipes from western Europe in the late Middle Ages, mostly French and English (there is a lot of Middle English in this book, and for the most part it's not that hard to read, though much of it is not in the somewhat familiar Chaucer dialect), with a smattering of Italian and even Middle Eastern. For each dish, the original recipe (translated into modern English if not already in middle English) is given along with commentary and a modernized recipe. The authors helpfully point out such things as transcription errors (i.e. a recipe for Sauce Cameline that lacks the critical ingredient of cinnamon) as well as providing an extensive bibliography showing the original sources of each recipe in the book.

It seems that this book is quite popular among Ren Faire and SCA geeks, so if you want some good medieval recipes to start you off, this is the one to buy. It's got a few weaknesses -- despite an extensive bibliography, there is a lack of deep historical background in the book, and there is a heavy emphasis on British recipes that might strike one as a bit odd. It's not the be-all, end-all of medieval cookbooks, but overall, it's a good start, and more than sufficient if you just have to whip up something for the Ren Faire next weekend.

Pleyn Delit -Medieval Cookerey for Modern Cooks.......2006-03-22

Finally a decent medieval cookbook I can recommend in addition to internet sources. As a person who announces the date, time and place for monthly medieval feasts and who participates in these feasts, I always try to give participants decent sources and recipes for the food preps used in the Middle Ages. Pleyn Delit provides a wealth of useful recipes, all quite tasty, though our modern palattes might require some re-adjusting. The recipes are easy to follow, and this book makes my life as a medieval feast planner much easier.
I hope the authors will expand on the recipes in the future.

Sandra Jones Ireland (avid SCA participant and an excellent cook/baker, feast planner), Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Entertaining Scholarly Treatment with Good Stuff for foodies.......2004-11-18

`Pleyn Delit' subtitled `Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks' by Constance B. Hieatt, Brenda Hosington, and Sharon Butler, all Canadian Ph.D. professional historians, is a scholarly book of very old Western European recipes translated into modern English, modern measurements, and readily available ingredients. Unlike several recent books by Francine Segan on recipes of Shakespeare's time and recipes of ancient Greece and Rome, this is a genuinely scholarly book with much less flash and much more exposition on how recipes were translated from an old English more familiar to Chaucer's pilgrims than 21st century foodies.

One can easily wonder what possible use such a book would be to members of the Food Network generation who do not happen to have any interest in medieval studies. How can one possibly appreciate a cuisine with no tomatoes, potatoes, chilis, corn, or string beans? Well, there are a few things a nonscholar foodie can get from this book.

First, it is an excellent source of recipes for entertaining to a Middle Ages theme. I can easily imagine that after a few years of running through food themes from Provence, Tuscany, Asian Georgia, Lebanon, New Delhi, Saigon, Kyoto, Hong Kong, and Kiev, one can suddenly find themselves at a loss for something new.

Second, for the somewhat more adventurous, who happen to have a green thumb or some nearby friendly greengrocers with an eye to the unusual, there is the opportunity to try unusual herbs and greens, some of which the authors cannot imagine why they have fallen out of favor. In an environment where foodies are searching out nettles and pig's jowls, people will be more than happy to find new scavenger hunt targets such as borage and sorrel.

Third, these recipes are generally very easy, which is not too hard to understand, as the job of collecting the ingredients required a lot more work than a quick trip to the local megamart.

Fourth, these recipes are great for people who are very fond of eggs, nuts, old grains, game meats, and `garbage'. `Garbage' happens to mean odd pieces of flesh that are perfectly edible, but with only a small amount of edible meat such as chicken heads and giblets.

Lastly, the old English vocabulary is really funny to modern eyes. The use of `garbage' is just a sample of the fun one can find in the shifts in word meanings that pop up in these recipe and ingredient names.

All of these delights are available in a very nicely inexpensive paperback from the University of Toronto.

Be aware that the recipe translations are not literal, and the authors make no claim to doing literal translations, as they have clearly proclaimed in their subtitle. They often reverse steps, as when vegetables are diced before being cooked rather than after, as specified in the original recipe. And, recipes are written in a modern style in that prep instructions are given with the ingredients rather than in the procedure.

My only objection to this book is in their technique for citing the sources of their recipes. There is no explanation for the method of citing sources, so I assume it is a commonly accepted English / Canadian scholarly tradition, but, as this is a scholarly book with value to non-scholars, I found the method very annoying. Once I caught onto the method, it was still difficult for me, a person trained in various academic arcana, to track down many of the references. If the authors do a third edition, creating a foodie friendly method of references would be a big improvement.

A very nice and very fresh foodie resource for a very reasonable price. If you are willing to slog through a little old English and some scholarly garnishes, you will enjoy this book.

Excellent resource for those interested in medieval food.........2002-08-15

This was my very first medieval-food book. To my amazement, it actually works well as a "mundane" cookbook too. The recipes are presented with the primary source they come from first (translated if the source isn't in at least somewhat-recognizable English), with a redaction following.

Not all the redactions are easy to work with, and sometimes the results are.. well.. uneven (watch out for the sage sauce one that calls for chopped boiled eggs). I suspect that three people making the same recipe would come out with three different dishes. That said, some recipes are just mouthwatering -- a thickened wine sauce for meats went over well at one feast I helped with, and most of the vegetable recipes are tasty and easy to prepare.

A decent bibliography is included with the work, as well as an analysis of period spices and spice mixes. I'd recommend this to anybody interested in medieval cooking -- it dispels a lot of myths and presents a number of dishes that prove that we haven't changed all that much.

Actually Period.......2000-07-24

Admittedly, this cookbook is not always for the novice. It doesn't tell you how long to cook a roast, for instance. However, if you are into a reenactment hobby (e.g. SCA), definitely get this book and do not get Fabulous Feasts. This book actually gives the source of each recipe so that you can do your own redacting. One of the better easily accessible sources for planning a feast.

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Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks. Second Edition.

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Depression Assistance for Teens: May Save Lives

Good depression book for teens

Depression IS the pits

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Depression Assistance for Teens: May Save Lives.......2000-04-12

An excellent book for teens who are experiencing any level of depression. One of the key things I found in the book is the reminder to tell someone and it discusses the best people to tell, such as mental health professionals. Discusses the symptoms and types of depression, how to get help, discusses medication, counseling and provides personal stories of another teen's experience with depression. This book could save lives.

Good depression book for teens.......2000-04-03

There are very few books on depression specifically for teens, and this is a good one. It covers not only the basics of depression in how it appears in teens, but also how to get treatment. It presents the information in a realistic but positive manner.

Depression IS the pits.......1999-12-07

There seems to be a general shortage of books about depression aimed at teens, and I'm not impressed with this one. It is too cosy, too 'You will get better' (as if after a dose of flu). There is a lack of future projection, bar the three sentences on p.59 that 'Unfortunately, there is at least a 50% chance that depression will come back at some time during your life. If it does happen, however, you'll know right away and be able to get help quickly. Also, putting into practice everything you've learned, or getting a medicine sooner, may make the depression go away faster.' Now 50% is a hell of a return rate, and I would want a book for teens to attack the roots of their depression, to reduce the chances of bad episodes later on. This book pays almost no attention to causes, and has nothing about basal hyperarousal. To be honest, a book on depression for teens should prepare them for the lifetime haul. The two stars are for info. The lack of other stars is for what isn't in the book. If anyone knows better books about depression, aimed at teens, I'd be glad to hear about them.

YOURS FOR THE ASKING.(Review) (book review): An article from: Intervention in School & Clinic

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YOURS FOR THE ASKING.(Review) (book review): An article from: Intervention in School & Clinic

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Title: YOURS FOR THE ASKING.(Review) (book review)
Publication: Intervention in School & Clinic (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: Pro-Ed
Volume: 36 Issue: 1 Page: 56

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