Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant

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This is a long-overdue study of one of Canada's most important political relationships. Highly readable and engaging, this work details the relationship between Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe and Prime Minister Mackenzie King, showing how the close association of the two affected Canadian history in many important ways.

Lapointe was the dominant French Canadian in federal politics from the start of the 1920s to the early years of the Second World War, serving as Minister of Justice and King's Quebec lieutenant. In return for promoting Liberal policies in Quebec, he was given an unusual amount of autonomy in his constituency, and, because the Prime Minister had a poor understanding of the province and of the French language, he was relied upon to give King the French-Canadian perspective. Lapointe's role in maintaining Liberal party unity, and, by extension, national unity, was crucial. Lapointe was equally important when it came to foreign affairs. He was known to take the lead over King, and the isolationist stance of both politicians served to undermine the League of Nations in its dealings with Italy over the invasion of Ethiopia.

Lita-Rose Betcherman draws on key primary sources for her material, including the Lapointe Papers, the King Papers, the King Diary, and the media of the times. Ernest Lapointe thus documents Canadian politics and society in a rigourous and accessible manner that will appeal to a scholarly and general audiences.

Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant.(History)(Book Review): An article from: American Review of Canadian Studies
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Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant.(History)(Book Review): An article from: American Review of Canadian Studies
Martin Lubin
Manufacturer: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00082NT94
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1219 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: Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant.(History)(Book Review)
Author: Martin Lubin
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Volume: 34 Issue: 1 Page: 151(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Much More Than Sexuality: Listening to 70 Gay People Talk About Their Lives
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Much More Than Sexuality: Listening to 70 Gay People Talk About Their Lives
Liz Sherblom
Manufacturer: Audenreed Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1879418908

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important.......1999-04-26

This is the best book I have read to explain the way homosexual people really are. Everyone, including homosexuls, is homophobic to some extent, so that TALKING about what it is like to be gay is just not done. The isolation this causes leads to the despair that so many gay people feel, and the hostility of so many straights. These 70 people are real - just like us, and the interviews are so well edited that the voices are authentic. The stories talk about when each interviewee first realized they were "different", how they struggled to be "normal", and how they found happiness. If you are interested in better understanding how you feel about sexuality - your own, and/or that of a gay person, read this book. Even more important, if you believe that there is much more to a person's identity than his or her sexuality, this book will affirm and support you.

Adventures in Aviation - An Autobiography of Captain Kimball J. Scribner
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Best reading of the year!!

Adventures in Aviation - An Autobiography of Captain Kimball J. Scribner
Kimball J. Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner & Associates
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1893358062

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Best reading of the year!!.......2007-05-19

Tell tale adventure of a career pilot. Great reading. My book of the year.

Adventures in Aviation: an Autobiography of Captain Kimball J. Scribner

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Adventures in Aviation: an Autobiography of Captain Kimball J. Scribner
Kim (Ed Scribner
Manufacturer: WB
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ASIN: B000NSOOKG

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Adventures In Aviation An Autobiography of Captain Kimball J. Scribner
Kimball J. Scribner
Manufacturer: Mansfield Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NZYZEO

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Mancur Olson wrote important books in the area of Collective Choice and is considered one of the founding fathers of Public Choice as a field of economics. The chapters in this volume cover three main areas of Olson's life work: Collective Action, Institutional Sclerosis and Market-Augmenting Government. Some chapters directly assess Olson`s contributions, focusing on distinguishing what was original in his works from what was already in the literature, and guaging his impact on the fields of public economics and economic history. Other chapters present new tests and frequently extend his work. Each of the chapters is a new piece of scholarship inspired by and intended to honor Mancur Olson, and extend his influence to another generation of Collective Choice scholars and researchers.

Buried Treasures You Can Find: Over 7500 Locations in All 50 States (Treasure Hunting Text)
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a good "basic" tips book for you to find tips for farther research

Buried Treasure you can Find

I believe the intent was good

Not much information

What was the person before me thinking?

Buried Treasures You Can Find: Over 7500 Locations in All 50 States (Treasure Hunting Text)
Robert F. Marx
Manufacturer: RAM U.S.A., Publications and Distribution
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0915920824

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a good "basic" tips book for you to find tips for farther research.......2007-03-28

it listing a lot of tips 7500---however since it list so many tips--- needless to say it can only give a brief bit on each one----its a good starting point of "local treasure stories /tales" in your state & area that you then must go and do the "leg work" to flesh out the rest of the story. if you are a research based type hunter its a good starting point--- "tips" to get you started ---if you expect ---"well go the the corner of elm and jones street in zippytown,florida and walk seven feet east --dig five feet down and you'll be set for life ---well get real --if it was that easy the bookwriter would do it. good hunting to all.

Buried Treasure you can Find.......2006-03-27

This book is great. It has many great places to look for treasure in every state. The author has done years of research to find many old ghost towns, buried treasure stories, and many other places. It gives tips on metal detecting, but seems to have been paid by Garrett Metal Detectors to advertise and show their detectors in this book. It also informs you how to find good places to look. This book is a masterpiece and very interesting even if you are not going out to look for lost treasures of yesterday.

I believe the intent was good.......2003-09-17

But this writer simply tried to cut too wide a swath. I'd have preferred fewer lost treasures and more information on those.

Not much information.......2000-09-18

This book contains a few interesting and potentially helpful tidbits of information for the treasure hunter. However, most of the information about the "7500 locations" is often little more than can be had from reading the "Welcome to..." signs found as you drive into town. If you expect to have a handy collection of ideas to keep you and your metal detector busy, then this book will be a disappointment.

What was the person before me thinking?.......1999-12-05

Great book. I have found two forts and an old gold mining town close to me to hunt in thanks to this book. It really is a good book.

Advanced Aviation Modelling (Modelling Manuals)
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Not good...unless you scratch build...

Good guide for modelers

a pretty good book

Advanced Aviation Modelling (Modelling Manuals)

Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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ASIN: 1902579054
Release Date: 1998-11-15

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This is the second in the new Modelling Manual series which sets out to help the more experienced modeller to improve techniques and expand their modelling horizons. Working with models like the MIG27 Fulcrum, the A-10, and the WW1 Roland Walfisch the reader is shown how with patience and care these and other models can be superdetailed to a very high standard. Very detailed colour photographs and a concise but explanatory text show the modeller how to turn a basic kit model into a show-stopper.

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Not good...unless you scratch build..........2007-08-07

Not recommended for those who would like to actually have time to do antything else but make custom parts. Lots and lots of scratchbuilding, with very little text. Pretty pictures though.

Good guide for modelers.......2003-05-14

This book is full of photo's and makes the written text more than understandable. This is a must have for modellers, because it's full of tricks and handsome advise how to make your project to a succes.

a pretty good book.......2001-05-23

i have found this book to be a pretty good guide for the subject, with explanations, samples and so on. recommended.

Advanced Six Degrees of Freedom Aerospace Simulation and Analysis in C++

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Advanced Six Degrees of Freedom Aerospace Simulation and Analysis in C++
Peter Zipfel
Manufacturer: Amer Inst of Aeronautics &
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Binding: CD-ROM

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ASIN: 1563477947

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The culmination of Dr. Zipfels renowned teaching tools is this multimedia CD on high fidelity aerospace simulations. If you have mastered his previous publications, or if you are a professional working in modeling and simulation, you will profit from this interactive training of advanced aerospace systems in C++. In 20 Labs you will learn the formulation of six degrees of freedom equations of motions over the rotating elliptical Earth. Study the aerodynamics, propulsion and flight controls of a hypersonic ascent vehicle. Insert a transfer vehicle into orbit, and release an interceptor that rendezvous with a space station or intercepts a satellite. You will use 17 progressively more complex simulations that model such advanced systems as INS, GPS with Kalman filter, star tracker, rendezvous and intercept guidance with phased array seeker. You will be rewarded with a sophisticated simulation for a three stage hypersonic vehicle with orbiting space station and ground tracking radar, as well as Matlab® m-files for flight controller design. This CD builds on two previously published self-study courses, entitled: Building Aerospace Simulations in C++and Fundamentals of Six Degrees of Freedom Aerospace Simulations and Analysis in FORTRAN and C++, and is anchored in the textbook Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics. You may picture yourself being in a classroom at the University of Florida with students who have used the same material to earn 3 graduate credits. All you need is this CD, the textbook, the Microsoft C++ 6 or 7 compiler, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. Use this CADAC web link CADAC web link to apply for a free CD with tailor-made plotting programs.

The instructions come alive with 90 video and audio clips, and about 800 hyperlinks connecting the 619 training charts. A total of 150 hands-on exercises will help you explore the simulations and check your progress against the provided solutions. Once completed, you will have mastered most key components of advanced aerospace simulations.

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Advanced Aviation Modelling
John McIllmurray
Manufacturer: Crowood
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Today’s model aircraft kits are more advanced than ever, including levels of detail unimaginable a few years ago. Yet there is still much that cannot be reproduced ‘out of the box’ and enthusiastic modelers are attracted by advanced techniques and materials to increase the realism of their models further still.

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Advanced Aviation Modelling
John McIllmurray
Manufacturer: Crowood Press
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Advanced Technologies for Air Traffic Flow Management: Proceedings of an International Seminar Organized by Deutsche Forschungsanstalt Fur Luft- Und R ... Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

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Advanced Technologies for Air Traffic Flow Management: Proceedings of an International Seminar Organized by Deutsche Forschungsanstalt Fur Luft- Und R ... Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

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Encounters with Children: Pediatric Behavior and Development (Dixon, Encounters with Children)
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Non-physicians

Exactly what I was seeking

Encounters with Children: Pediatric Behavior and Development (Dixon, Encounters with Children)
Suzanne Dixon , and Martin Stein
Manufacturer: Mosby
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0323029159

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The only text of its kind, this Fourth Edition continues to provide a practical how-to guide to normal childhood development and behavior. In addition to exploring the normal stages of development, this informative text discusses the many familial and societal issues that can influence a child's behavior, such as terrorism and disasters, preschool choices, bullying, and divorce. Organized according to the child's age, it takes readers from the neonatal visit and newborn exam all the way through the late adolescent years. Additional topics include ADHD and learning disabilities, autism and other disorders of communication, and reactions to stress. Clinical examples illustrate development and behavior.

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Non-physicians.......2006-04-20

This is the most impressive volume on child development that I have read. It is a unique effort, presenting reader-friendly and comprehensive information regarding the development of children and adolescents. Although it is written for Pediatricians, the "Perspectives', "Quick Check" behavioral descriptions, and "Heads Up" indicators of difficulty, provide invaluable information for all who work with children. The format, describing clinical issues that may arise at various ages along with brief demonstrative vignettes, is simply outstanding. I highly recommend this book to medical personnel, mental health professionals, and child/adolescent educators because it will add to the competency of all readers. My compliments to the authors.

Exactly what I was seeking.......2000-04-02

I recently entered the world of adolescent psychopathology anddrug abuse. I wanted to read a text that would provide acomprehensive, yet succinct review of child and adolescent development, sprinkled with clinical examples and short discussions of recent research, and noting particulary important developmental highpoints that the clinician or health professional needs to be aware of. The strength of this book is that it accomplishes all that in an exceedingly reader-friendly manner, teaching, but not preaching, pointing out pros and cons, and presenting this difficult topic in a manner that anyone, from the layman to the pediatrician, can reep benefits. The book begins with pre-natal care and systematically progresses to young adulthood. First-time parents may especially benefit by learning the normal course of their baby's development. Parents of teenagers may benefit by an objective explanation of the physiological and associated psychological changes of their children. Researchers may benefit by constructing better targeted interview questions. Clinicians may benefit by learning of alternate or different or increasing number of approaches to pediatric care. And the inquiring mind can simply learn and enjoy.

Encounters with Children: Pediatric Behavior and Development

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Encounters with Children: Pediatric Behavior and Development
Suzanne; Stein, Martin; Dixon, Susan Dixon
Manufacturer: Mosby
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUDBDE

The Life and Music of Bela Bartok
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The Life and Music of Bela Bartok
Halsey Stevens
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CIJBX

Bartok: His Life and Times ([Composers, their lives and times])
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Excellent intro to Bartok

Bartok: His Life and Times ([Composers, their lives and times])
Hamish Milne
Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0882546597

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Excellent intro to Bartok.......2006-06-25

Hippocrene Books had a series of composers, "His Life and Times". My favorites are the Beethoven (by Ates Orga) and this one of Bartok by Hamish Milne. The books are full of illustrations and are also richly detailed biographies. They don't take the place of serious college or grad school research, but they are absolutely appropriate for high school and undergraduate research, or anyone just wanting to get into the story of who Bartok was and why he was such a great composer. RICHARD RUSSELL

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A must-buy for every Bartok fan.

The Life and Music of Bela Bartok
Halsey Stevens
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0198163495

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First published in 1953, Halsey Stevens's The Life and Music of Bela Bartok was hailed as a triumph of musicology and quickly established itself as the classic text. Stevens combined an authoritiative, balanced account of the Hungarian composer's life with candid insightful analyses of his numerous works. To Stevens, the high point of Bartok's genius was the chamber music, which he assessed was of a quality unrivalled by any other composer of the early twentieth century. But he evaluated Bartok's entire output with mastery, picking out the composer's strengths and weaknesses and conveying the essence of his compositional techniques. Stevens's views have greatly influenced the study of Bartok and Hungarian music over the last four decades. Issued in a revised edition in 1964, Stevens's work now appears in a third edition, prepared by the Bartok scholar, Malcolm Gillies. A comprehensive chronological list of works is added, together with a select bibliography and discography. Minor revisions to the text are suggested in a new Introduction, and the text is enhanced by eight pages of photgraphs, some of them little known.

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A must-buy for every Bartok fan........1998-01-29

An excellent book on the great Twentieth-Century composer, being both a biography in the usual sense, but also providing definitive analyses of his major works. The detailed description of Bartok's six string quartets, leaves little more to be said of them -- unless you want to go to monographs like Prof. Leo Treitler's Ph.D dissertation on the Fourth Quartet alone. A must for any Bartok lover. [updated email address]

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Béla Bartók: Life and Work
Benjamin Suchoff
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ASIN: 0810840766

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This book is the first comprehensive biographical study of Bartok as man, composer, and folklorist, including the background and development of his unique musical language and the impact of his pioneering investigations of multinational musical folklore on his composed works.

Bela Bartok A Memorial Review Including Articles on His Life and Works Reprinted from TEMPO, the Quarterly Review of Contemporary Music. A Chronological Listing of Works Bartok on Records

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Bela Bartok A Memorial Review Including Articles on His Life and Works Reprinted from TEMPO, the Quarterly Review of Contemporary Music. A Chronological Listing of Works Bartok on Records
Bela et al Bartok
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Bela Bartok: His Life in Pictures and Documents

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Bela Bartok: His Life in Pictures and Documents
Ferenc Bonis
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The Life and Music of Bela Bartok
Halsey Stevens
Manufacturer: New York: Oxford University Press, 1964
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The Life and Music of Bela Bartok
Halsey Stevens
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The Life and Music of Bela Bartok
Bela] Stevens, Halsey [Bartok
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The life and music of Bela Bartok
Halsey Stevens
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The name 'Schocken'-now primarily associated with the prestigous publishing house-was once emblazoned over a vast commercial empire; across Europe, it stood for quality consumer goods and uplifting culture made available for working people. A sweeping, colorful saga, The Patron is the first biography of Salman Schocken, founder of a large department store chain and Jewish philanthropic titan. We follow Schocken's transformation from an impoverished migrant selling textiles door-to-door to a captain of German industry, at once media magnate, collector, talent scout, and patron. The merchandizing millionaire then harnessed his fortune to a vision: to disseminate Jewish secular culture to the Jewish masses, in much the same way as he marketed well-designed coffeepots to the working class. His task, as he saw it, was not to spread culture but to create it, through publishing houses, newspapers, and the patronage of such influential modern thinkers such as Martin Buber and Thomas Mann. But as the Nazi regime closed in on Schocken's empire, the resilient tycoon transferred his energies and passions to Palestine and New York. The Patron fills in a missing piece of twentieth-century history, the towering life of a self-made man who, with courage and tenacity, helped fashion a people's national and cultural renaissance.

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The story of the great Patron .......2006-07-27

I have read a number of reviews of this book all of which praise Anthony David for his detailed study of the life of Zalman Schocken.
David paints the portrait of a remarkable Renaissance figure, an innovative empire- building businessman , a great patron of the Arts, a humanist, Zionist builder of cultural life in the land of Israel.
Schocken was born in Posen in Prussia, but built a business empire throughout Germany. His department- stores were forerunners of today's Malls. He combined in them a sense of the aesthetic ( Bauhaus architect Eric Mendlesohn was his designer) with a real understanding of the customers' needs.
He also was an autodidact a lover of German and Jewish culture. The shock of his life came with the coming of the Nazis to power, and from then on he shifted most of his activities to Jewish cultural work. He also to a degree recreated a bit of the business empire he had in Germany, in then Palestine and the United States. 'Schocken Books' is one of his cultural monuments. He was the patron of Buber,Scholem, Elsa Lasker-Schuler, and most notably Agnon. Schoken had an eye for talent and an ability to support and sustain it.
One of his major moves was his purchase of the newspaper 'Haaretz' as wedding gift for his son. This would become the Israeli equivalent of the NY Times.
Schocken was also a great patron of the Hebrew University.
Schocken contributed much to the building of Hebrew culture in the land of Israel, and Jewish culture throughout the world.
A highly recommended work.

Zalman Schocken Brought to Life.......2005-05-07

This is a professionally-written biography of the late German-Jewish philanthroper Zalman Schocken. I learned many things from this biography that I hadn't known about his life: that he was actually from Prussian-controlled Poland and thus, was not a "blue blood" German Jew, about his innovations in commerce which lead to the massive successes of his department store chain, and his relationship with other German-Jewish figures in the Zionist movement such as Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and S.Y. Agnon. I learned that Agnon kept his right-wing and very anti-Arab attitudes out of his books because his 40-year patron, Zalman Schocken, told him to do it. I learned that Schocken Books published a whole line of Jewish-subject-related books in Germany after the Nazis came to power, even exploiting their sepearation laws to be a "Jewish publisher."

Up until the Nazis come to power, Schocken appears to be a man of talent and relevancy, both in the realm of business and also in the realm of Jewish cultural revival. The last 25 years of his life are portrayed as those of a man who has had the cultural and business orientation ripped away from him by Adolf Hiter and in relying on his previously-used models of success and meaning,falling into irrelevance.

The author has worked hard to understand all of the angles of Schocken's life: as a businessman, as a successful autodidact and lover of literature and philosophy, as a philathroper, and even a bit about his personal life and his relationship with his family. The author has also mastered the intellectural and political background in which Schocken's life occurs, both in Germany and then in Jewish-Palestine, which eventually became Israel.

Zalman Schocken was certainally a character and personality of an exceptional and excentric order and this books comprehensively explores all aspects of his life, his business endeavors, his social visions, his philonthropic endeavors, his ideas about culture, Judaism, and his relationships with other people.

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