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"Full of solid, insider information with just the right amount of cynicism."
--Travel Savvy magazine

Are you tired of clichÃ©-ridden guidebooks packed with promotional fluff? Then move over to the IRREVERENT GUIDES--the travel series that no tourist board would dare to recommend.

Look inside for the lowdown on:
* Great hotels for hipsters, families, conventioneers, and luxury-seekers
* The inside line on restaurants for all tastes and budgets
* The top sites for museum lovers, talk-show junkies, pork-belly enthusiasts, and Wrightophiles
* Hip boutiques and shops to keep you from falling into the gap
* The best nightspots for cruising and schmoozing
* And much more!

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Great book, great times..........2007-03-08

Like all Irreverent Guides, this title showcases all the highlights the city and surrounding area have to offer. Compact, easy to use and highly informative.

Not that irreverent..........2007-01-08

What I love most about the irreverent guides (I own the ones for Boston and for SF) is that they're straight forward, quick-witted, and give you very interesting tidbits about local history. It's like getting the inside scoop from your best friend vs the information kiosk.

So the fact that the sharp wit is missing from the Chicago guide is a nuisance. In fact, I really can't say it's irreverent or funny at all. Almost as if someone from Frommer's traditional guide staff -- or perhaps, an attendant at the information kiosk -- wrote it. The recommendations are good enough, but if you're looking for humor to go along with it, you won't find it here.

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irreverent guide to chicago
Good introduction to a *huge* city

Frommer's Irreverent Guide To Chicago
Dan Santow
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds
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"Like being taken around by a savvy local." —The New York Times "Little fluff and lots of fun." —Boston Globe Are you tired of cliché-ridden guidebooks packed with promotional fluff? Then move over to the Irreverent Guides—the travel series that no tourist board would dare to recommend. Look inside for the lowdown on:

Great hotels for retromaniacs—and which ones to avoid if you hate conventioneers
Pizza that locals line up for in the dead of winter
The top sights for techno-heads, talk-show junkies, pork-belly enthusiasts, and Wrightophiles
Target zones for unrepentant shopaholics
Where to hang out with raging Bulls fans and listen to blues with the locals
And much more!

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irreverent guide to chicago.......2002-07-01

disappointing to say the least - much of the book looked as if it had been recopied at kinko's. the maps were extremely hard to read - no color at all. i can't quite figure what's supposed to be irreverent in the book unless it's the fact that every so often the author says something less than favorable about a site or restaurant. save your money.

Good introduction to a *huge* city.......2001-08-24

I spent my first 18 years around and in Chicago, so I was very curious to see what the Irreverent people suggested about my hometown of sorts. A word of warning... there is the usual quibble that applies to all of the irreverent books: they are more designed for reading a whole section at once, as the organization scatters litle info-nuggets about one particular place across a number of different sections. With that being said, the index in the back can guide you to the relevant pages for a specific place you are looking for.

All in all, I found this an incredibly fun and informative book that covers a large range of establishments and attractions in the few hundred pages it was given. It seems aimed at the younger or more adventurous traveler. Let's face it, almost everyone knows the Field Museum, the Art Institute, Brookfield Zoo, Sears Tower, etc. What this guide will help you do is find a great nightclub buried in the industrial district (Crobar), the surreal summer sports customs (16-inch softball!), the famous Frank Lloyd Wright architecture that is spattered around the city (Roble House), alternative shopping complexes (Belmont and Clark), where to grab a drink before a Cubs game (Cubby Bear), and famous local theater (Steppenwolf).

So if you are traveling to Chicago, and want to get a feel for the city that isn't completely upper-middle class and whitewashed (which the traditional Frommer's and such can fall prey to quite often), this book would be a great travel guide to help you out. It's even an interesting read for people living *in* Chicago, as there were a number of places in the book I was not familiar with which sound like quite a good time.

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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Chicago
Dan; Savage, Todd Santow
Manufacturer: Frommer's
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ASIN: B000O95RPK

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Frommer's Irreverent Guide: Chicago
Dan Santow Todd Savage
Manufacturer: Macmillan General Reference
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ASIN: B000O93IVK

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Frommer's irreverent guides: Chicago (Irreverent guides)
Dan Santow
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Tax counseling financially distressed businesses under the new laws: Program material, February 1987
Elmer Dean Martin
Manufacturer: California Continuing Education of the Bar
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Taxation of Financially Distressed Businesses
David B. Newman
Manufacturer: Clark Boardman Callaghan
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It's useful, but not advanced........2002-04-04

It might be considered as "advanced" by an accountant.

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Awesome cure for insomnia

the Cold War reconsidered

The McCarran Era

Shades of McCarthyisms.

Dispassionate Fairness

Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt
Michael Ybarra
Manufacturer: Steerforth
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1586420658
Release Date: 2004-09-28

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IN THIS SWEEPING, monumental work of American history, journalist Michael J. Ybarra tells the story of Senator Pat McCarran’s extraordinary career for the first time, and he vividly re-creates a passionate era of politics that reshaped America and echoes to this day. Brilliantly researched and energetically written, Washington Gone Crazy makes a significant new contribution to our understanding of the United States in the twentieth century.
McCarran was one of the most shrewd and powerful — and vindictive — lawmakers ever to sit in Congress. Joe McCarthy gave his name to the cause of zealous anti-Communism, but it was McCarran, a lifelong Democrat, who actually wrote the laws, held the hearings, and bullied the State and Justice Departments into doing his bidding. McCarran was consumed with looking for Communists in Washington and his obsession almost consumed the country.
The son of illiterate Irish immigrants, McCarran was born in 1876 in Nevada, where he grew up to be a sheepherder who taught himself the law around the campfire, becoming a legendary defense attorney and judge. After struggling for years against the local Democratic political machine, McCarran rode Franklin Roosevelt’s landslide into the U.S. Senate in 1932 — and broke ranks with Roosevelt during the New Deal’s first week. But it was President Harry Truman who would become McCarran’s real nemesis. A master of parliamentary procedure, McCarran turned his Senate Judiciary Committee into a virtual government within the government. McCarran worked with J. Edgar Hoover to undermine the Truman Administration before McCarthy even got to Washington. He created the most far-reaching anti-sedition law ever enacted in America (the McCarran Internal Security Act), which filled Ellis Island with immigrants alleged to be subversives and set up concentration camps to hold suspected traitors in the case of a national emergency. McCarran’s Senate Internal Security Subcommittee cowed the State Department into sacrificing the careers of diplomats accused of helping the Communists take over China. McCarran virtually blackmailed more than one attorney general into carrying out his policies. From Capitol Hill to the United Nations, from union halls to Hollywood, McCarran’s wrath broke careers and lives and ultimately, in a self-destructive fit of pique, cost his party control of the Senate. Ybarra’s even-handed narrative shows that McCarran was ultimately half right: There really were Communists in Washington — but it was the hunt for them that did the real damage.

Customer Reviews:

Awesome cure for insomnia.......2007-02-15

This book is great.... if you are looking to cure your insomnia. Another book about McCarran with no new outlook or insights. Skip it.

the Cold War reconsidered.......2006-03-07

The title of the book (a phrase of columnist Joseph Alsop) has to be understood as ironic. The collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent examination of its secret archives -- the Venona project -- reveals the 'paranoids' like McCarran and Nixon were right about the Communist penetration of the New Deal.

From the post-Cold War perspective, Pat McCarran looks mighty perceptive. It is a flawed greatness, of course.

This is mainly a book about Nevada. Ybarra has written one of the first twenty-first century histories of Nevada. The book turns upside down all of our received wisdom of Nevada history. This is a story of Nevada's maturation into full statehood after a long struggle to survive.

Modern Nevada history begins in Tonopah, and Ybarra has given us a wide-ranging account of its political history. Tonopah men Tasker Oddie, George Wingfield, Key Pittman -- and McCarran -- are all authentic expressions of Nevada. And who else but a Nevadan would give election speeches into the 1940's on the value of Silver. "The Great God Pat," my dad still calls him.

When McCarran writes of Nevada (in his letters) it is with the loving voice of a native.

Nine out of ten readers will misunderstand this book because they are so unaware of their Cold War blinders and the conventional wisdom they carry around with them. Sorta like the reviewer who has missed the Venona revelation that Hiss was a spy and not a victim. McCarran wasn't a saint. He was extremist but not deranged.

I think Michael Ybarra writes with great style, and this is a very well researched book. The publisher could have done a better proofreading job. (The Truckee flows westward at one point, and McCarran travels by train from Reno to D.C. in a day.) Probably, the publisher failed to appreciate the historical magnificence of this work.

The McCarran Era.......2005-09-21

It probably says a lot about Pat McCarran that he grew up in a world where men learned to castrate sheep with their teeth.

We think of the post-war period as the McCarthy Era. But McCarthy was, at the end of the day, a buffoon and a drunk. Even his advocates will concede that he didn't have the staying power for the long haul. By contrast, as Ybarra makes wonderfully clear, it was McCarran who had the energy, the persistence, the focus, to stay on issue and to get what he wanted-to congeal the forces of paranoia and xenophobia that go so far to make us what we are today..

McCarran's toughness and endurance surely owe something to his sheepherder past. His background influenced him other ways perhaps not so obvious. One is that it equipped him to be a loner who really didn't care for anyone else's good opinion. Better to be both loved and feared, said Machiavelli; but if you must choose one, choose fear.

Another McCarran quality was the sense of permanent outsidership, the conviction that he was one of life's insulted and injured. Finally, we have that favorite of the Freudians: an impassioned mother, convinced that her son might grow up to be a hero.

Ybarra is not a graceful stylist. But he is a dogged researcher which, in the end, is a virtue perhaps more to be valued than style. Others have remarked that he goes on a bit long. This second criticism seems a bit harsh: in the age of biographies as heavy as anvils, Ybarra is no more than a middleweight. He does have a bit of a weakness for going of on tangents: he seems not to know how to tell a McCarran story without giving the entire history of the issue that led up to it. Some may regard this as a disadvantage, but I must say, as one who obsesses over the history of the postwar period, I found every page a pleasure to read. For specialized tastes, surely, but for the right audience, this one is hard to beat.

Shades of McCarthyisms........2005-08-18

This book is about conservatism, radical politics, liberals, and Soviet espionage (like a spy novel). This was the 'same old, same old' personal attacks on innocent people back in 1954, called just another Communist Hunt. McCarren was called a 'force of nature' in American politics,' and Lyndon Johnson called him 'an earth shaker.'

Because of this powerhouse Democrat (worse than McCarthy tenfold), many distinguished diplomats in the United States State Department and those in the movie business lost their careers, including Alger Hiss. This is like history but there's too much ancient history ad infidunum. Truman said, "the McCarran Committee became more of an inquisition than an investigation."

McCarran was a mere sheepherder from Nevada, the son of illiterate immigrants from where? Who cares where he's from? He was a danger in this regard, having taught himself to become a feared defense attorney and challenged McCarthy even.

Written by Michael J. Ybarra, it is like a 800-page Russian novel. He graduated from Berkeley and received a grad degree there in political science. My daughter-in-law Valerie also has one from Vanderbilt. 'Nough said.

Dispassionate Fairness.......2005-02-14

This book contains something missing from almost every other book on the subject of the spy hunts of the 1940's...dispassionate fairness. There are no angels or devils here. Even Americans who spied for the Soviet Union like Whittaker Chambers, Alger Hiss, Elizabeth Bentley, Earl Browder, Harry Dexter White, and others, are shown in the context of the times and as almost ordinary people. The good guys have their faults and the bad guys their virtues. Judgements are left up to the reader. Even the main character, Pat McCarran, comes across, at best, as a kind of anti-hero. If, like me, you're tired of writers who try to push their point of view on the reader, then you're find this book a refreshing change of pace.

Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and Great American Communist Hunt

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Two books for the price of one.

Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and Great American Communist Hunt
Michael Ybarra
Manufacturer: Steerforth
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Binding: Paperback

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This celebrated work of political history – featured on the covers of the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Book Reviews – adds a new chapter to our understanding of the U.S. in the twentieth century and does so with rigor and verve. Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada was a force of nature in American politics, one of the most shrewd and powerful – and vindictive – lawmakers ever to sit in Congress. Joe McCarthy gave his name to the cause of zealous anti-Communism, but it was McCarran, a lifelong Democrat, who actually wrote the laws, held the hearings, and cowed the State and Justice Departments into doing his bidding. “An earth-shaker,” Lyndon Johnson once called McCarran, “who impressed his personality deeply and indelibly upon the institution of the Senate and upon the history of the nation.”
But McCarran’s career is not only the story of one man’s extraordinary drive to power – the son of illiterate immigrants, McCarran was a sheepherder who taught himself the law and became a great defense attorney – it is also the epic journey of America from the Great Depression to the Cold War. Unlike many other writers who have examined this most contentious of periods in American history, either ignoring or exaggerating the existence of hidden Communists in the federal government, journalist Michael Ybarra takes a different approach. He vividly recreates the world of McCarran’s conservatism and its collision with the worlds of radical politics and Soviet espionage, bringing to life the people and ideas that convulsed America for two decades, culminating in the tragedy of McCarthyism. Like a great Russian novel, Washington Gone Crazy seeks not to condemn but to explain, to show how men can both make history and be trapped by it. It is a masterful work of storytelling but also essential history, Pat McCarran’s story but also America’s.

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Two books for the price of one. .......2006-02-20

The 760 pages of narrative text in this paper edition represent two books. One book is a biography of Senator Pat McCarron along with a history of Nevada during McCarron's life. The other book is a history of the Soviet-directed infiltration of the American Communist Party into American government and institutions in the 1930s and 1940s. If this period or subject is your special interest, you will probably like this book. Also, if you like to read about how undemocratic the US Senate was in the years before absolute seniority was abolished, you will find the "book" on McCarron interesting.

Unfortunately, the author has simply interleaved a few pages of one book and then a few pages of the other repeatedly with the result that McCarron continuously disappears for pages at a time.

The author seems to feel the need to include absolutely every story and fact he turned up in his research. Perhaps this would not be so bad if he were an excellent prose stylist. Unfortunately, his prose is pedestrian at best.

I started this book with great anticipation. Unfortunately, after a few hundred pages, everytime I put the book down I had a hard time convincing myself to pick it up again. After struggling with it for a month, I gave up on page 458.

Washington Gone Crazy : Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt

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Washington Gone Crazy : Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt
Michael Ybarra
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MU86TK

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Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist, Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democratic party over Vietnam. His stunning challenge to Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 New Hampshire primary inspired young liberals and was one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history. But the 1968 election ultimately brought Richard Nixon and the Republican Party to power, irrevocably shifting the country’s political landscape to the right for decades to come.

Dominic Sandbrook traces one of the most remarkable and significant lives in postwar politics, a career marked by both courage and arrogance. Sandbrook draws on extensive new research – including interviews with McCarthy himself – to show convincingly how Eugene McCarthy’s political experience embodies the larger decline of American liberalism after World War II. These were tumultuous times in American politics, and Sandbrook vividly captures the drama and historical significance through his intimate portrait of a singularly interesting man at the heart of it all.

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An exciting (and controversial) political biography .......2007-06-15

Sandbrook's work is intelligent, well-sourced, and persuasively argued: the campaign of the 1968 did lead to the end of New Deal Liberalism.

I also think Sandbrook does a wonderful job at giving readers an understanding of the intellectual roots of McCarthy's politics.

I have two serious reservations. One: I think that New Deal Liberalism would have been on a crash course with or without McCarthy's campaign. The Old Left had not successfully adapted to the Baby Boom generation and its ethos.

Furthermore, I think the author's Britishness leads to a skewed understanding of American Liberalism. Sandbrook suggests - rightfully, in a sense - that liberals had never had it better than under Johnson-Humphrey: it was the zenith of American Social Democracy. So Sandbrook seems dismissive of anti-War liberals of the late 1960s. This seems (in my point of view) a misreading of American liberalism...American liberalism was never purely (or mostly) social democratic or based on principles of economic democracy. Rather, moral concerns (abolition, civil rights, progressive reform, peace) have always been at the heart of its politics.

That said I highly recommend this book. This is what political biography should be.

Not just about McCarthy.......2007-05-20

This is a great book, as it is the story of mid-20th cenutry Minnesota and national politics told from the story of a man who is essentially known for one thing - the New Hampshire 1968 primary. As the book chronicles, this unusual character (sometimes more interested in the 13th century than his political day job!) who rode the wave of postwar ADA style liberalism, rising to US Senator, getting overshadowed by fellow Catholic Kennedy, fellow Minnesotan Humphrey and of course LBJ, getting a comeback of sorts in 1968 as he captured the spirit of the left at the time, only to later become a parody of his former self as the Democratic party lost its way and the center stage to Nixon and later Reagan, and he himself failing to notice that his moment had passed. The author does a good job of how McCarthy changed with his party, as well as stepping outside of it. It is an unusual American life. As a small negative, the author is perhaps a little too critical of McCarthy's general demeanor and chracter. However, this book shines in that it is not just about McCarthy, but about exactly what the subtitile states - the rise and fall of postwar American liberalism. Those who are interested in the subject should definitely read this book.

A hatchet job.......2005-07-08

Riddled with factual errors, an exercise in character assassination for reasons that are never frankly stated, this book is an excretion.

Trying To Understand an Enigma.......2004-10-03

Undeniably, Eugene McCarthy remains one of the most enigmatic figures of the 20th century. A controversial figure within his own party, McCarthy can only be understood by the meticulously insightful probing into his Catholicism. Ironically, I found this part of the book somewhat complicated and difficult to understand-- especially Benedictine Catholicism. Fully comprehending what drove Eugene McCarthy remains unclear to me still, but Sandbrook offers a fair appraisal of his persona and influence. It is, to be sure, remarkably researched and extremely well written. I enjoyed it and recommend it.

The Art of Political Biography Lives.......2004-05-26

With style and sophistication, Dominic Sandbrook's book traces the fortunes of liberalism through the career of former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy. For anyone wanting to know why the Democrats have won the White House only three times since 1968: read this book. Along with liberalism's decline, Sandbrook also traces the rise of Reagan's conservatism and the rise of neo-conservatism, both of which have converged, with depressing results, in the current Bush administration. Moreover, McCarthy's eventful life itself makes for compelling reading. This is an outstanding example of political biography, a rare breed these days. Beuatifully written, tightly argued, and exhaustively researched, this is a must-read for anyone voting in November!

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The Best Canadian Author You've Probably Never Heard Of.......2000-04-10

I came across McFadden's "A Trip Around Lake Erie" about eight years ago, when a clerk at Schwartz Booksellers in Milwaukee recommended it. In the days before amazon.com, I spent a couple years collecting the trilogy, which took me to bookstores in Minnesota and McFadden's hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, which really is as dirty, dreary and burnt-out as McFadden describes it.

McFadden mixes fiction and non-fiction together as he tells the story of his family's road trip in a Volkswagen camper around Lake Erie. He later wrote about their travel adventures as they toured the Lake Huron area. He had planned to write about trips around each of the Great Lakes, but then his kids grew up and he got a divorce. Ten years after he went around Erie and Huron, he finally tackled Lake Ontario alone, except for a three-man film crew that followed behind him and tried to stay out of his tale.

The reader is never sure whether McFadden is telling the truth or making it up. It doesn't detract from the story. Actually, it's a hoot when you come across the surreal parts of his tales. At one point in "A Trip Around Lake Erie," dead fish somehow migrate from the beach at Point Pelee to every room in the McFadden's Hamilton, Ontario home.

Each short chapter (many lasting less than one page) is a sly little poem. A movie scriptwriter had told McFadden that to make these books more saleable, he should have someone chasing him. McFadden doesn't need such Hollywood conventions. His stories of the road and his many digressions (including bicycling kinesiologists and a brown dachsund named Schenley, because his owners like the whisky)are a fanciful read in themselves.

I hope McFadden eventually makes it around Superior and Lake Michigan. Even if he doesn't, there's enough humor and magic in this fine trilogy to keep you smiling for years.

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Larry Logan Tells His Story.......2002-11-05

I have loved the sound of Classical harmonica since the first time I got to see Larry Adler. There is something oddly appealing about using the humble harmonica to make the beautiful of Gershwin, Bach, Ravel and others. Like Harry James said about bringing the Goodman band to Carnegie Hall, "I felt like a whore in church". Classical harmonica players elevate their humble instrument to unexpected levels of virtuosity and amaze the uninitiated.

Larry Logan is a world-class harmonica player who has been playing since the 1930's. He performs regularly with orchestras around the world has released some absolutely amazing recordings. His shows delight audiences with his remarkable musicianship and he punctuates the music with his affable Irish wit.

This book tells the story of Larry's life and career. you will find keen insights into the lonely, thankless job of playing Classical music on the harmonica. Logan takes ample time to give us a rare glimpse into the prejudices of the movers and shakers of the Classical music field and leaves wishing that we could hear more of his kind of music. There is quite a bit of detail as to how he works, both as a musician and as an artist struggling to overcome the misconception that the harmonica doesn't belong in high-brow music.

This is definitely one book worth reading if you're interested in Classical harmonica.

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