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Never before has so much information on the lives of so many Texas Baptists appeared in one source prior to this work, one would have to examine dozens of books and visit dozens of libraries and private holding spread across the state of Texas and beyond to acquire the information found in this one text. One particular strength of this book may be found in Early's excellent use of primary source material. By doing his own research Early corrects many of the biographical errors that have been perpetuated in Texas Baptist history texts for more than one hundred years. Whether one is doing intricate research or simply wanting to know more about the heroes of Texas Baptist past, Early's book is a must read.

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Part of a Great 1-2 Punch.......2004-07-09

Joseph Early has started his publishing career with a bang! Together with his Sourcebook of Texas Baptist History, this collection of biographies should be required reading for everyone who ever speaks about, reads about, or even thinks about Texas Baptist history.

I count somewhere around 250 Texas Baptist leaders in the book. All the heavy hitters are here, along with introductions to some people you probably do not know. You won't be able to do your dissertation from these brief articles, but the bibliographies that follow the entries would get you well on your way. Early has demonstrated a gift for encapsulating the most important facets of each life in the alotted space. Kudos to him!

The biographies are arranged alphabetically. The greatest drawback of the book is the typesetting: The font is not particularly large, and the heading for each bibliography is set with greater weight than the heading for each personality, making it appear that each person goes with the preceding bibliography rather than with the bibliography following the entry.

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An engrossing portrait of a great mayor and the city he tried to save.

Vincent Cannato takes us back to the time when John Lindsay stunned the New York political scene and rode into Gracie Mansion with a liberal Republican agenda, a WASP sensibility, and movie-star good looks. When Lindsay became mayor of New York in 1966, he was seen as a White Knight, the last best hope for a stagnant, troubled city.

At the height of his popularity, leading politicians of both parties, including Nelson Rockefeller and Bobby Kennedy, feared the growing cult of personality surrounding him. Lindsay ended his second term, however, conquered by racial, financial, and economic crises. With peerless authority, Cannato explores how Lindsay Liberalism failed to save New York, and, in the opinion of many, left it worse off than it was in the mid sixties.

The Ungovernable City is also the story of an American city-perhaps the American city-during a crucial period in twentieth-century history. And all the while, Mayor John Lindsay found himself asking the same questions that Cannato explores: Is New York City governable? How much can the mayor of any large American metropolis really accomplish?

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The system, not the man.......2003-01-05

An excellent book, but Cannato is too quick to criticize Lindsay without pointing out the constraints that New York and other cities are tied with. Cannato asserts that Lindsay's failings came from his personality and liberalism, but I believe they came as much from the structure of NYC's governance and from the turbulence of the 1960s than the mayor himself.

New York City is burdened with more local responsibility for programs for the poor than any other county/city. Everywhere else in the country, Medicaid is entirely federal and state, not so in New York. No where else in the country does a city have to pay 50% of non-federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (and w/ the successor too). Most states have neutral school funding, or funding that tries to help poorer districts, not so in New York, where the formula actually aggravates existing disparities. In common with other cities, New York City is home to concentrated poverty, unlike other cities, New York is made to deal with those problems alone.

NYC's mayor is also a weak one. He has/had to share power with the Board of Estimate, borough presidents, and independent school boards. Due to there not being a machine, to win elections you must pay off public sector unions. Lindsay had not been backed by the unions, but the years of appeasement of previous mayors had made the unions the most militant in the country, there was little Lindsay could do to temper them. Chicago has its problems, but public sector strikes are not one of them. New York also is an experiment in socialism in one city. It was during Lindsay's administration that New Yorkers realized the impossibility of that dream.

With more resources, and in a calmer time, Lindsay might have been a success. In another environment Lindsay might be remembered the same way Robert Kennedy is remembered, and not as a dupe.

Should have left out the political bias.......2002-03-25

Like many other reviewers, I found this to be an engaging review of some of New York's most recent history, and was pleased to have the opportunity to reflect on that tumultuous era. However, as a Native New Yorker who lived through Mayor Lindsay's administration, I was troubled by the inaccuracies of which I personally was aware, and therefore was led to question the scholarship generally. Otherwise, I share the same problem with many other reviewers: The fact that the book could have been better if the author had left his disdain for liberal policies on the floor with other discarded parts of the first draft.

I guess the theory that Lindsay's administration was a flop would have been appreciably harder to substantiate if there had been an accurate description of the racial turmoil New York avoided due to his leadership. I vividly recall what happened in the late sixties in Newark, and Detroit, Watts and a half dozen other cities. It matters not at all what the author says (particularly when it is a repetition of the mantra that because only two were killed and twenty arrested, Lindsay was wrong to deny that this constituted a "riot").

I don't know what another reviewer means when he speaks of a New Yorks's time as a "quiet riot" That seems rather onymoronic to me. The fact remains that New York avoided the turmoil that infected too many other cities because of Lindsay himself. Thousands correctly believed that Lindsay cared enough to actually interact with people who had been ignored (save at election time) in the past gave them a sense that there may well have been an alternative to destroying the City. I guess that the facts obscured the author's political agenda.

While it is certainly "Inside Baseball", I must point out that the author (in discussing Lindsay's relationship with teachers) describes the allegedly deteriorating relationship between teachers and kids at Springfield Gardens High School. Cannato quotes a teacher saying that prior to the strikes in 1968, life was better at that school. However, as a proud student of S.G.H.S. from those very same days, I know that the school didn't have its first graduating class until that year. Since it was not open in the years before (the good old days, I guess), I must question the validity of this comparison. Makes me wonder how legitimate some of the other justifications and his other "facts" are...

I grew tired of the unnecessary characterizations of some of the other individuals who were quoted. Noted sociology professor (of N.Y.'s Queens College) Andrew Hacker could have been quoted (like others) without having his political beliefs being labeled as he was. The truth will show itself, without varnish of this hyperbole.

Practically ignoring the fact that Lindsay inherited staggering deficits from his predecessor but responded with a string of balanced budgets reflects (at least to me) that Cannato is more interested in asserting his theory of the inadequacy of the Lindsay years than the facts. Without balance, there is simply no legitimate analysis.

Given the author's admitted bias, it is inexcusable to be so critical with NO suggestion whatsoever of what policies Mayor Lindsay should have put in place rather than those he did. What would Cannato have done with students at Columbia University, surrounded by the neighborhood hostile to its expansion on one side, and young activist students on the other? Ditto the New York municipal unions, like the Police, Transit Workers, Teachers and the Sanitation Department. Does Cannato suggest that the appropriate response would have been to bring in the National Guard to run the trains or teach the children? Or, should he have immediately capitulated to the Sanitation Workers, rather than seek the Court's intervention? It is so easy to be critical now, thirty years and some appreciable prosperity later. But even with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, we are not afforded the author's wisdom. Be nice to hear what he would have done differently, as opposed to just telling us what he thought was wrong.

The bottom line? The challenges faced by Mayor Lindsay in The Big Apple were later seen by big city and small-town mayors all across the country. It sure made it easier for some others to respond after they had the chance to see what New York had done first, and respond either by imitation or contrast. Cannato has shown that those who can do, and that some of those who cannot merely criticize.

The failure of Liberalism.......2002-02-01

John V. Lindsay was a peculiar choice for mayor of New York Cituy. A WASP with absolutely no talent for administrative detail and a xstrong sense of noblesse oblige, his politics was the politics of platitudes and bromides.

I was 12 when Lindsay was first elected in 1965 (he never received 50 percent of the votes in either of his two campaigns). On his first day on the job New Years Day 1966 he was faced with an illegal strike of transit workers. After first standing firm against them, he caved in to most of their demands (a pattern he was to display with all the municipal unions) conceding benefits to them that would help bankrupt the city a decade later.

During Lindsay's tenure we were "treated" to lectures about white racism and the plight of the poor by a man who if you were a white ethnic from the outer boroughs who worked hard and paid your taxes and obeyed the law, he had no use for you. Lindsay never was able to connect with the outer boroughs middle classes and they sensed his distance from them and as a result New York City during Lindsay's 8 years lost almost 1,000,000 residents. The streets became more and more dangerous, the subways were full of graffiti and full of fear and menace. Municipal serivices fell apart and ..."the sunny city of Breakfast at Tiffany's gave way to the sullen despair of Midnight Cowboy." To which I could ad the terror and identification that so many people felt watching the movie Death wish in 1974.

The turning point for many people was the disastrous school strike brought on by the Ocean Hill-Brownsville decentralization controversy in the Fall of 1968. Militatns using anti white and anti Semitic language tried to fire white teachers for no other reason then they were white. Before that was the horrible Columbia University student takeover. That was quickly followed by the failure to remove the snow from the borough of Queens in 1969. It was obvious that Lindsay did not have any managerial skills and although a lot of the problems would have been there even if Lindsay were not the mayor, Cannato shows that Lindsay's philosophy and management style helped exacerbate the situation.

Lindsay is often given credit for keeping the city "cool" during the 1960's urban riots throughout the USA. However Cannato points out that that is misleading. Although New York CIty did not suffer the fate of Newark, Washington D.C. and Detroit, we did have several "quiet" riots during Lindsay's mayoralty such as East Harlem, East New York and sporadic rioting after the death of Martin Luther King. Lindsay referred to tehm as "local disturbances" and a sympathetic press went along with him. Lindsay also paid off many community militants by putting them on the city payroll. Lindsay's relationship with the police department rank and fiel was already starained by the controversy of the Civilian Complaint Review Board which he supported but was opposed by the police and defeated in a referendum. He seemed not to notice that the problem wasn't brutal cops in minority neighborhoods, but not enough law enforcement in those neighborhoods. Cannato also points out the interesting fact that Lindsay the champion of urban schools and integration never set foot in a public school as a student, nor did his wife and 4 children.

Ironically Lindsay losing the Republican nomination in 1969 helped get him reeelected that year on the Liberal Party line. As in 1965, he won against two more conservative (Democrat and Republican) candidates who split up the anti Lindsay vote. By this time Lindsay had become so left wing after joining the Democratic party in 1971 that when he ran for the Democratic nomination for President in an abysmal campaign in 1972, it was to the left of George McGovern!

By the time his term ended in 1973 Lindsay was a beaten and exhausted man and had no energy or politcal capital left to try to run for a third term. Shortly after he left City Hall, New York City went bankrupt -a result of Lindsay's ruinous fiscal policies. He resurfaced briefly in 1980 in an attempt to gain the Democratic nomination for Senator but came in a poor 3rd. After that he dropped off the radar screen until his death in December 2000.

This book is a good read for New Yorkers who need to be reminded how far this city has come from the years of Lindsay, Abe Beame (the hapless Controller who succeeded Lindsay as Mayor and who was taken by surprise when the city almost went bankrupt), to the inept David Dinkins. The mayoralties of Ed Koch and the great Rudy Giuliani stand as a sharp contrast to the failed liberalism of John V. Lindsay.

A memoir of false hope.......2002-01-06

In this thorough account of the John Lindsay years, Vincent Cannato seems to have condensed a life's worth of research into the few years it took to write this book. Though Lindsay wasn't a success by anyone's imagination, there are important lessons to be learned from this story of his failure.

Cannato begins The Ungovernable City with a discussion of Lindsay's ideological moorings. Given what Lindsay became (he ran for president as a Democrat a notch to the left of George McGovern) he may have seemed like the most unlikely Republican to have lived in the last half-century. But his rationale on why is revealing: "It seemed to me... that this was the party of the individual... It's the party of Lincoln, of civil rights, the protection of the person and his liberties against a majority, even against big business or the federal bureaucracy." Lindsay would go onto to decry "antilibertarian" impulses in a way that might make today's conservative proud. In reality, Lindsay's "individualism" led him in a very different direction: a distaste for unions and the "power brokers" who were virtually sovereign over the city, an embrace of the mindless youth rebellion, with its iconic portrayal of the whimsical individual overcoming sprawling organizations, and a lukewarm commitment to law and order. Lindsay's reluctance to impose standards of civil behavior, even in the most disorderly parts of the city, degenerated into a government-assisted permissiveness where welfare recipients would not (and indeed, in the Lindsay worldview, should not) be required to work, and where (often radical) community groups would be given more control over neighborhood schools.

These policies created new political fault lines that aren't likely to be replicated ever again: a liberal Republican mayor allied with ghetto blacks and upscale Manhattanites, standing against the heavily Jewish teachers union (and labor unions in general), white ethnics in the outer boroughs, and the police. The eruptions that shook the Lindsay mayoralty were too many to count. From our own immediate perspective, perhaps the most symbolic of these confrontations took place in lower Manhattan in 1970, when blue collar hard-hats (including a contingent of constuction workers from the World Trade Center) clashed with anti-war protesters. The mayor was harshly critical of the blue collar workers in the dispute.

With the successes of the Rudy Giuliani years fresh in mind, this is an important time to read Vincent Cannato's story of good intentions gone terribly wrong. As others have noted, this is also very much a story about Giuliani, whose way of running the city contrasted sharply with John Lindsay's reliance on sentimental dogma as a substitute for sound management. One hopes that Cannato will follow up with an equally meticulous and well-researched account of the Giuliani era -- a story with a decidedly happier ending.

Enough Balance?.......2001-12-28

Cannato aptly describes the social disintegration of New York City during the 1960s and early 1970s. The forces that changed New York, were also those that forever changed Newark, NJ, Washington, DC, Detroit, MI and many other major cities. What is lacking here is some perspective on how Mayor Lindsay's programs compared to programs in other cities. It seems to me that Cannato looks back at the Lindsay years through a Guiliani lens. That is patently unfair, can you imagine what the riots would have looked like in 1968 if a Diallo incident happened then? Especially since following the Diallo incident, Giuliani was notably quiet on the incident?

John Lindsay deserves more credit than he is given here.

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Mary Lou Williams--pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz--receives the attention she has long deserved in this definitive biography.

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The Empress of Jazz Piano.......2006-11-10

It's too easy (and condescending) to say that Mary Lou Williams was one of the greatest female jazz artists; she actually was one of the greatest, period. Her compositions and arrangements for the Andy Kirk band while she was a member throughout the 1930s brought much praise and admiration at the time (and still do today). (She also arranged for Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, and other top-rated swing band leaders.) She was a sensational pianist, too, one of the finest boogie-woogie and stride players in jazz; she was also a great innovator and was among the first to master and play bebop in the 1940s. She greatly influenced many modern pianists, and personally changed the styles of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. Mary Lou was a deeply religious person and wrote much religious music and kept very close relations with the Catholic Church (Ms. Dahl covers this aspect of Mary Lou's life very thoroughly.) Williams was a demanding player and seemed to have her greatest difficulties dealing with incompatible bass players (she once fired the great bassist Richard Williams during a New York club engagement). Linda Dahl has written a detailed and comprehensive biography of Mary Lou, covering all her musical and extra-musical activities. Included is a nicely organized selective discography. Anyone familiar with Mary Lou's playing or arranging and would like to learn more about her will benefit greatly by reading this excellent biography.

Review of Morning Glory.......2005-07-12

Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams is an interesting work that captures the personality of the wonderfully talented musician. The biography captures the struggles and achievements of Williams; it also shares some amusing details that make the book hard to put down for anyone interested in the careers of early black musicians.

A rewarding experience.......2001-08-18

An engagingly written book on a much ignored, extremely talented musician. Mary Lou Williams was (and is) respected by music giants the world over, including the likes of Duke Ellington. This book puts Williams' importance to American music in perspective, and gives her the overdue credit she so obviously deserves.

My recommendation is to put on a MLW disc, sit back and read. It will be a rewarding experience.

Highly recommended reading for American Jazz fans........2000-05-04

Mary Lou Williams' jazz experiences are detailed in a biography which covers both her life and career and her role as an Afro-American female musician. Dahl was given unlimited access to the Williams archive and her first full-length biography of Williams makes for an important coverage.

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Ernest G. Heppner was only a boy when the devastation of the November 1938 pogrom, euphemistically known as "Crystal Night," introduced a new level of Nazi horror that ended his family’s happy life. Heppner and his mother sailed to Shanghai, the only city in the world that did not require a visa.

The 18,000 Jews who fled to Shanghai were confined by Japanese forces to an area one mile square. Heppner describes the daily struggle to survive: overcrowding and disease, the underground world of criminals, hunger, heat, and humidity. Nevertheless, Heppner was self-reliant, energetic, and clever, and this first documented nonfiction account by a survivor is a tribute to human endurance.

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