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This guide brings history to life with richly detailed, engaging descriptions of the most important battle sites, museums, and reenactuments.

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Great for travel logistics and historical information.......2006-08-17

This guide really helped us sort out how to plan our trip this summer. With maps, detailed information on the best ways to get around, and good tips on historic inns, we managed to pull off our tour of the Virginia/Maryland area really seamlessly. The book also provided a good amount of background so that everyone in our family--both the serious history buffs and the less knowledgeable among us--could understand the relevance of what we were looking at. Really made the war accessible. While there are obviously countless Civil War history books out there, this one stood out for us because of its focus on making touring easy for visitors from outside the area.

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Athletronics, Inc. is an aggressive developer and marketer of sports-related information systems and software. The rapidly growing company offers an excellent scenario for conducting ratio analysis and industry comparisons. This practice set emphasizes the effect of generally accepted accounting principles on decisions based on accounting data.

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A Tale of Brazen Politics that also Charts an Extraordinary Choice and a Journey of Personal Redemption

How a small-town Arkansas woman became a nationally known felon is one of the most fascinating and unexamined legacies of the Clinton presidency. Born to a U.S. Army sergeant and his Belgian bride, Susan Henley was one of seven children in a boisterous Arkansas family; in her teens, she regularly made patriotic speeches at her local American Legion hall. In 1976, she married Jim McDougal, a mercurial entrepreneur, who soon turned their life into a rolling sideshow of bank acquisitions and real estate deals, including one fatefully dubbed Whitewater.

In the mid-1990s, Susan McDougal unexpectedly found herself facing federal prosecutors who represented Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. They offered her a deal—relief from legal jeopardy that included Whitewater charges in exchange for damaging information on Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Initially willing to answer prosecutors' questions, she soon realized that if she did testify truthfully, she'd be opening herself to a possible perjury trap by contradicting Starr's chief witnesses: the felonious former judge, David Hale, who, it was later revealed, received financial support from the Clinton-hating right-wing millionaire, Richard Mellon Scaife; and Jim McDougal, by then her ex-husband, who had also cut a deal with Starr. Frightened, depressed, and facing financial ruin, in an extraordinary act of courage she simply refused to testify—and was immediately slapped with civil contempt and incarcerated. Though imprisonment was meant to coerce her cooperation, twenty-one months in seven jails—including a hellish seven-week stint in lockdown 23-hours per day in a Plexiglas-enclosed, soundproof cell—failed to extort from her the testimony Starr hoped for.

Now McDougal breaks her silence. In this long-awaited book, she examines the life choices she has made as she narrates her story in a candid and wry voice. She also offers fresh anecdotes about the Clintons' early years in politics, a close-up view of Starr's sinister investigation, and a moving portrait of what happens to women in American prisons. For millions of Americans who believe that Starr, appointed by Republicans dissatisfied with the first Whitewater prosecutor, pushed his investigation too far, Susan McDougal remains the very embodiment of the ordinary citizen whose liberty is usurped by a coercive government.

The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk stands boldly as a cautionary tale for all Americans eager to hear a voice speak truths about our government louder and more fully than the media ever does, because they've been learned firsthand and at great personal sacrifice.

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Should be in "Profiles in Courage", but wrong decade..........2007-09-29

It is now 2007. I bought this book in Feb. 2003. Even now, if someone were to ask me who I would list among the most couragous individuals of my generation, I would place first Susan McDougal.

Yes, there are many lately who have actually died, but I am impressed with Susan because she could have gotten out of it so easily and she chose the narrow path.

Many people here have said that every American should read this book. I agree, but want to go one step further. This should be REQUIRED READING in every high school in America, with discussions of students/teachers about what happened and why. We don't seem to understand anymore that this Democracy/Republic we have is a fragile thing and is premised on the balance of powers-each section balancing and working together for the good of all.

We don't have to agree, but WE DO HAVE TO PLAY NICE. Playing nice is exactly what DID NOT HAPPEN with the Republicans during the Clinton administration. Susan's experience should be an historic example of what can take place, even in a Democracy, when there is enough money and power at stake and the people don't use their own eyes and voices.

We must all be vigiliant that one party does not get the sort of cart-blanche that the Republicans enjoyed for so long. Please people, everything we stand for is at stake.

... and no, I am not a Democrat.

Courage to Refuse to Commit Perjury.......2007-09-16

Robert Fiske, the original independent counsel, found no evidence of wrongdoing by Bill or Hillary Clinton, and being a man of integrity, he so reported. The Republicans then had him replaced with Kenneth Starr, who cared little about the truth in his quest to nail the Clintons.

Susan McDougal was between a rock and a very hard place. The Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC) was demanding her testimony against President Clinton, and made it clear that only testimony incriminating Bill and/or Hillary Clinton was acceptable. Because Kenneth Starr's OIC was interested only in nailing the Clintons, Susan was led to believe that she would be charged with perjury if she told the unacceptable truth that she knew of no wrongdoing by the Clintons.

Faced with the choice of telling the truth and being jailed for perjury (since her lawyers were no match for the OIC's), or committing perjury to gain her own freedom, she refused to testify, and was jailed for civil contempt, and when she had been in jail for nearly 18 months (the maximum time for civil contempt) the OIC charged her with criminal contempt and obstruction of justice in retribution for her refusal to commit the perjury they wanted.

The story of Susan's jail time, and her reasons for believing that the OIC intervened to make her jail conditions as cruel as possible, should be read by every American.

Interesting human insight into the Whitewater trial.......2004-11-21

This book is an autobiography of McDougal, tracing her family life, her 8-year marriage at 20 to then 35-year-old Jim McDougal, her divorce, her ongoing conflict with the Office of the Independent Council in the investigation of Whitewater, her time in jail, her trial in California for theft from Zubin and Nancy Mehta, and the brief aftermath of her court- and jail-oriented life.

Whatever the reader believes McDougal's guilt to be in Whitewater, Madison Guaranty and the Mehta cases, she seems to have a bigger problem of attaching herself to people who need her, but don't care about her. Her husband, an untreated manic-depressive for his adult life, was an entrepreneur, mostly, it seems, because he couldn't keep his attention on anything long enough to settle into a long-term endeavour. He was constantly starting up businesses, real estate deals and companies, banks and financial institutions, losing interest and committing himself to something else just when it was crunch time. Leaving Susan in charge against her will, and apparently against her natural abilities, the businesses would fail due to lack of attention and follow-through. According to the book, the Clinton investment in Whitewater, was a partnership in just such an undertaking. The $300,000 small business loan she signed for from David Hale, she writes, was another example of what she usually did: she did what Jim McDougal told her to do and believed it was the right thing to do. With Nancy Mehta, she writes, she again attached herself to someone needy and mercurial, and who would, when it suited her, turn on and betray the author out of spite and malice.

The book traces the Whitewater investigation in some detail and Jim McDougal's part in the issues at hand, and I am not going to do that here. Where this book resonates is in how she seemed to be maliciously prosecuted by Starr and the OIC. They insisted that she offer them information on the Clintons, and if she did, they would give her "blanket immunity," which included the Mehta charges in California. Though she considered giving them what they wanted to hear, others had and had been paid "walking around money," etc., and had many of their crimes forgiven, a friend told her, "Susan, if you do this, you will be lying for the rest of your life." And that's why she went to jail for civil contempt for 18 months and then withstood a trial on criminal contempt after the impeachment trial of Clinton was over.

The interesting thing about this book was highlighted to me when I told a friend about what I was reading, and he said, "Why would she testify against her friends?" People seem to have an idea that she was staunchly protecting the Clintons, who were her close friends, but that is not the case, according to her book. She knew them through Jim McDougal, who'd been an Arkansas political operative, but she was not close to either Bill or Hillary. She does not maintain contact with them after her marriage, and, frankly, never got along that well with Hillary, whom she found to be withdrawn and perhaps cold at times. She heard about her presidential pardon for the Whitewater guilty verdicts on television. She refused to testify, not to help them but because she felt it would be wrong for her to lie to the OIC to save herself, because she didn't know anything that the Clintons had done wrong, and because she had seen what the OIC did to people who didn't testify in the way that they wanted (perjury charges, etc.).

The time that McDougal spent in jail is well detailed and focuses on the women in jail and their sad situations. She found most of the women to have come from violent and sexually abusive situations, where they had left home or been taken from their homes and had become a kind of detritus of humanity. She writes movingly of the sad case of an Arkansas woman who was convicted of killing her children and was executed, presenting a human and loving picture of the mother, that reminded me of Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking.

This is all an underlying theme to McDougal's book, her religious beliefs based on love and charity, rather than heavy "justice" and judgment. The religious hypocrisy of the OIC attorneys and associates sickens her, as they make "the walkin' around folks'" lives miserable and then speak in press interviews about how they pray whilst jogging, etc. Whatever you think of McDougal, that she was a serial grifter, that she hooked on too hard to people who weren't worthy of trust and was manipulated, that she is "spinning" her own part in all these issues, a lively and compelling portrait of a woman who cares for "the least among us" surfaces in this book in an amazing way.

Because I live in Arkansas, I found the book to be loaded with "local color" and information. I recommend it.

Emotional catharsis.......2004-09-27

I was disposed to like Whitewater figure and Kenneth Starr nemesis Susan McDougal before I ever read her book and have long felt that a justice system which rewards those who tell prosecutors what they want to hear (immunity, plea bargaining) and penalizes those who insist on their innocence or their right to a jury trial, is flawed. So I'm not exactly unbiased. But who is?

The first part of McDougal's emotionally engaging narrative covers childhood, then marriage to real estate developer and founder of the ill-fated Madison Guaranty S&L, Jim McDougal. The Marriage and various businesses failed and she embarked on a romance with Madison Guaranty employee then lawyer, Pat Harris, and a claustrophobic employee/friend relationship with Nancy Mehta.

Outgoing and shy, loud and retiring, depending on the company, McDougal does not come across as the sort of person to go to jail rather than answer questions. One minute her life is going along willy nilly, from one controlling, needy, demanding personality to another, when wham! Suddenly neurotic, vesuvial Mehta is charging her with grand larceny and the Office of the Independent Counsel is offering dire threats and deliverance from all - including the Mehta charges, which hardly seems within their purview. Friendly and likable, McDougal seems primarily characterized by her optimistic naivety. She even looks forward to her first session with the OIC: "I felt that there were a lot of false statements and ridiculous rumors, particularly about Madison, that I could help clear up."

But her get-out-of-jail-free card comes with a catch - testimony against the Clintons. McDougal does a fine job of describing her flabbergasted outrage and her dawning awareness of the trap closing around her. Aghast after the first Whitewater trial when she was convicted of things "I was not even aware had happened until ten years later," McDougal begins to fear the OIC will stop at nothing to get Clinton. It was not bravery, she says again, that made her clam up, but the certainty that Starr would indict her for perjury if she insisted on the truth - she didn't know anything bad about the Clintons. She knew she might go to jail for contempt, but she never dreamed it would be for the full 18 months allowable by law.

The second half - prison - is riveting, horrifying and inspiring. Her first jail was easy, comparatively. The food was lousy, but she made friends. The worst hardship was lack of reading material - the only book inmates were allowed was the Bible. But no sooner does she say on the phone, " `I could do the whole eighteen months here,' " than she's whisked off to a mental ward in a federal facility and from there to lockdown (23 hours a day solitary confinement) on "Murderer's Row". There were seven prisons in all, but however bad things got (sadistic guards, overflowing toilets, body cavity searches, sensory deprivation) McDougal always found some interest to sustain her - usually one or more of the inmates who, needless to say, all had lives immeasurably worse than hers.

On her release, the OIC filed criminal contempt and obstruction of justice charges against her and she still had the Mehta charges to face. Triumphing against both, McDougal spares an ounce of sympathy for Nancy Mehta, but her flush of victory against Starr and the OIC is unadulterated glee and great fun to read. In the end, McDougal says jail was good for her. She still hates the people who put her there and believes they were behind many of the special humiliations and privations she endured, but "there's no doubt in my mind that I'm a far better person than I was before."

Spiked with emotional peaks and valleys, McDougal's memoir is compulsively readable - and believable.

Brave, special, rare person.......2004-08-25

I admire this women for the strenght , courage, and integrity that is almost impossiable to find. An extrodinary lady that deserves the best in life.

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Shortly after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1886, two young sisters from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, took the train west to British Columbia. Jessie and Annie McQueen each intended to teach there for three years and then return home. In fact they remained sojourners between British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Ontario for much of their lives.

Drawing on family correspondence and supported by extensive engagement with current scholarship, Jean Barman tells the sisters' stories and, in doing so, offers a new interpretation of early settlement across Canada. As did many other women of these years, Jessie and Annie McQueen remained bound by daughterhood's obligations and sisterhood's bonds even as they got involved in their new communities. Barman takes seriously women as sojourners and uses Jessie and Annie McQueen's letters home to evoke the boundless energy and enthusiasm shown by the thousands of women who helped to form Canada's frontiers.

Like other sojourners, the McQueen sisters did not come to their new home empty handed. They brought with them a distinctly Scottish Presbyterian way of life, consistent with ideas of the nation being promoted in the public realm by fellow Nova Scotians such as George Monro Grant. Confident in their assumptions, including the central role of religion in the formation of a grand national vision, women like these sisters were critical in uniting Canada from coast to coast. Broad in its critical approach and nuanced in its interpretations, Sojourning Sisters is a major contribution to the field of life writing and to the political, gender, and social history of Canada.

Jean Barman, Sojourning Sisters: the Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen.(Book Review) : An article from: Labour/Le Travail

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Jean Barman, Sojourning Sisters: the Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen.(Book Review) : An article from: Labour/Le Travail
Valerie Korinek
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Title: Jean Barman, Sojourning Sisters: the Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen.(Book Review)
Author: Valerie Korinek
Publication: Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
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Sojourning Sisters: Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen.(Book Review): An article from: American Review of Canadian Studies

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R. Mancuso
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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 September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 846 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: Sojourning Sisters: Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen.(Book Review)
Author: R. Mancuso
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
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Volume: 34 Issue: 3 Page: 563(2)

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This timely book of photographs features intimate, never-before-seen photos of John Kerry--from his return from Vietnam, to the rise of his political career, to his family life--all documented by photographer and Kerry confidante George Butler.

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Portrait of a Loser.......2005-01-31

Isn't it funny how John Kerry always has a camera ready for certain occasions? If nothing else this book demonstrates that John Kerry had set his political ambitions as far back as 1964 when he first met George Butler.

And who is George Butler? His only meaningful success came in the 1970's covering the subculture sport of bodybuilding and a rising personality named Arnold Schwarzeneggar, a man who Butler would later betray ala Judas by creating lies about Arnold having been associated with Nazi's in Europe during Schwarzeneggars successful campaign for governor of California in 2003. Of course Butler would become very involved in John Kerry's bid for President just months later and would go on the talk show circuit on behalf of Kerry.

It would appear as though both George Butler and John Kerry were opportunists and are big losers.

Seeing Kerry .......2004-10-16

These photographs will appeal to those who like to use images to spark their imagination. There is one picture taken in 1972 at a peace rally in Bryant Park, NY. Kerry and Butler were sheltering from the rain in the back of a truck. The hydrolic lift on the truck starts up and rises. On it are John Lennon and Yoko Ono, seemingly levitating right there in front of them! After it reached full height, and the couple stepped into the truck; Butler says he called out to Lennon who turned and he took the picture. What a moment! You could just hear the opening lines of Gimme Some Truth (I'm sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics...All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth.......
Butler is not my favorite photographer but as a photo-journalist/film maker, he certainly makes the case for whoever his subject is. The message I got from these pictures? Kerry is a "Do-er". I got closer to knowing him from seeing these images. Am I glad I got the book? I'd have to say - Yes! I recommend it to anyone who wants to get past the talk and to the man. You can make up your own mind after that!
For the record - I was not a bonafide fan of the man and the book was sent to me as a gift -

A John Kerry love fest.......2004-09-29

This book is great for anyone who believes John Kerry should be the next president. I do not believe any book that fawns over the candidates, and this book is no exception. I had trouble getting through it. If you love the man and want to hear only glowing positives, this book is for you.

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Ron Faucheux
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Title: 2004: a voter portrait.(ON THE RECORD)
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Date: December 1, 2004
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"Once upon a time not so very long ago there lived a good witch and her name was Mabel Dodge...She was beautiful and intelligent and sensitive and vulgar and wise and generous and kind." So begins Jane Wodening's The Book of Legends, a charming antidote to the monster biographies we have come to expect in recent days. Her stories are brief lives of some of the people, animal friends and spirits she has known. Some of the tales are not much larger than Aubrey's, but each reveals the essence of its subject. Wodening's is a concoction of Beatrix Potter and Warhol's Factory with healthy dashes of feminism, eco-poetics, projective verse and Haitian voodoo thrown in for good measure. Her subjects are often the artists, writers and characters like Maya Deren, Charles Olson and Joseph Cornell, whom she knew during the time she and Stan Brakhage lived and worked together in New York and while raising a family in Colorado; or, at the other end of the spectrum, the animals and people who have populated her solitary life in the Rockies. By Jane Wodening. Paperback, 4.5 x 7 in./232 pgs / 0 color 15 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20291

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In this significant study of the music of Pierre Boulez, Dr. Koblyakov provides a complete analysis of Le Marteau sand Maître and deals with the development of serial music in the twentieth century and the problems of serial organization in general. He reaches stimulating conclusions about serial thinking and harmony in themusic of Pierre Boulez, thus enabling an understanding of the intricacies of this major composer's compositional techniques.

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a dissection of an avant-garde masterwork.......2000-05-03

Le Marteau sans Maitre, or The Hammerless Master was after the Surreal poet Rene Char, he was part of the Resistance to the Nazis during World War 2. Boulez was the first to realize the creative implications of the dodecaphonic language begun by Arnold Schoenberg later Anton Webern. Serialism was a vigorous extension of the utilization of the profound number of 12, all of the tones in the tempered system. This 12 was extended to rhythm,duration, articulation and dynamics, so not only pitch was a point of organization.What this created was a situation where sound could now be projected in an infinite variety of shapes and designs. Serialism was a brief epoch like any epoch with a beginning middle and end, and it came to a marvelous end around the late Fifties. Its demise can be explained by the exhaustion of the language, of its music materials. Each work was an excursion into eradicating itself. Boulez, of his gneration was always the most musical, always with tangible gestures and emotive threads traceable to Debussy,or Webern or Messiaen, wheras composers like Stockhausen, or Nono, Berio,tried to erase this connection. Boulez brought an informed musical sensibility, an aesthetic of the sensuous, the exotic, and mysterious to his music,informed by World Music as well, as the instrumental constitution that Marteau suggests. Serialism had its problems however, structurally, it couldn't extend itself into larger forms,orchestration was also problematical, and there was a point where the complexity the density of the phrase existed purely for itself, for no one could hear it. Marteau however is a classic precisily because it harbored modest expressive goals, albeit within an incredibly complex structural plan.Koblyakov discusses Boulez's use of harmony, a concept others of his generation might well dismiss. And the fascination here is the analysis of points,and simultanaeities of density, how they function within locally from note to note and from movement to movement, how harmonies are constructed, their gradations and shape.Marteau unfolds as the three poems Boulez selected in three discreet sections composed of shorter movements, with what is now a classic avant-garde instrumental combination of voice, viola, alto flute, guitar and a large array of handheld percussion&(vibraphone).As a tribute to this works profundity, there were countless works by Boulez contemporaries with this identical set after. Boulez's aesthetic always sought the means toward multiplication, how a germ of an idea can sustain, refigure and reproduce itself. This is done here with reiteration of the materials of the serialized 12, with harmonies accreting and diminishing as the work progresses.How pitch reproductions can exist on alocal level within each movement and on a global level, within the entire work. Koblyakov impeccably traces these complex transformations of pitch with wonderful graphic tables equally exhaustive as the work. A full score of the work projected into screens defining the works relationships is also provided here.

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My Version of the Facts is the self-portrait of a middle-class Italian Jew whose entire world was unexpectedly altered by the rise of fascism and the invasion of World War II. Pekelis's recollections form an absorbing, delicately nuanced portrait of a life transformed, and a world transfigured, by the relentless currents of twentieth-century history.

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