Retire Worry-Free: Money-Smart Ways to Build the Next Egg You'll Need (Retire Worry-Free)

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The experts at Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine explain how readers of all ages can first determine how much they'll need, then how to fill the gap between that amount and what they'll get from social security and pensions. Their strategies will help readers invest wisely, maximize benefits from company savings plans, select the best IRA plan for their needs, and handle early-retirement offers, lump-sum payouts and insurance issues.

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A felicitous and fresh retelling of the story of the emergence of American nationalism! By any criteria the years following the Peace of Ghent, a period inaugurated by what has been superficially called " the era of good feelings," must be considered a time of exceptional growth and development in the United States. Above all, it may be considered a time of the evolution and ripening of American nationalism. It is the special virtue of Dangerfield's brilliant synthesis of the period that he manages to keep the focus on this central theme--the contest between the economic nationalism expounded by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams and the democratic nationalism exemplified by the partisans of Andrew Jackson. That he does so without neglecting America's role in world affairs and particularly the growing economic rivalry with Great Britain, nor without minimizing the parts played by the leading actors on the national stage, attests the balanced judgment and sense of proportion that are evident throughout the volume. It is the confrontation of American economic nationalism with the Liberal Toryism of Lord Liverpool and William Huskisson that this book delineates with exceptional brilliance and depth. Dangerfield, a master craftsman, skillfully weaves many different threads into one magnificent tapestry.

The Awakening of American Nationalism 1815-1828

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The Awakening of American Nationalism 1815-1828
George Dangerfield
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Awakening of American Nationalism 1815-1828

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Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828

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The awakening of American nationalism, 1815-1828.
Dangerfield George
Manufacturer: New York, Harper & Row [c1965]
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The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828
George Dangerfield
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bagpipes and dreams

A brilliant Scottish resourse

The Scottish 100: Portraits of History's Most Influential Scots
Duncan A. Bruce
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
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The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700-2000

ASIN: 0786709693

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This compendium of biographical portraits includes names like Robert the Bruce, Andrew Carnegie, John Knox, John Marshall, Ulysses S. Grant, Edvard Grieg, Martha Graham, Jackson Pollock, and Thomas Edison, whose achievements have won national freedom, built empires, reformed religion, defined justice, become presidents, composed music, revolutionized dance, redefined art, made pictures move, and built engines run by steam—along with ninety more Scots worldwide who have altered the way all of us live our lives.

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bagpipes and dreams.......2004-01-28

a highly informative, entertainingly and elegantly written overview of some notable Scots. In the age of "Black" centered television, minority based social programs and other unabashed celebrations of racial or genetic pride, it is refreshing to those of us from Scottish stock to read pridefully of our own rich heritage. For the record, I'm for celebrating all cultures deemed worthy of exceptional accomplishments.

Anglo and Celtic-phobes BEWARE! Our little nation has generated quite a few feisty geniuses and raucous rebels.

A brilliant Scottish resourse.......2001-01-24

Duncan Bruce has done it again! I really enjoyed his first book, The Mark Of The Scots. It appears that Bruce is establishing himself as a leading authority in Scottish achievements. This new book consists of an elegantly written and remarkably well researched collection of essays. The Scottish 100 is definitely a must have for history buffs and Scottish enthusiasts alike!

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•Chock-full of ideas and strategies for applying solid public relations techniques to the nonprofit •Plan a fundraising event, deal with a crisis, defuse a tense situation, develop a relationship with the media, and all the while promote your organization, keeping its mission in the eye of the public •Let this book be your how-to manual for a successful public relations program

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This book has been a lifesaver!.......2005-05-19

Not knowing what I was getting into, I joined the board of a local non-profit organization and immediately ended up on a new Public Relations committee where no one had a PR or marketing background. We were really struggling. I didn't have any luck on the internet finding any info on this topic so decided to look for a book. God bless amazon.com for having this book! It is very readable and offers an excellent primer for PR, including websites and e-mail communications. It has been a huge help to our PR committee and as a result, we have been able to get our organization's name out into the community more, leading to increased donations. I highly recommend this book.

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Take a journey back in time to an era when movie theatres were movie houses, jazz was king, and vaudeville was one of the premiere forms of entertainment. Lollipop is the late Reva Howitt Clar's memoirs of her colorful career with the legendary brother and sister producing team of Fanchon and Marco and the first inside account to give detailed insight into the workings of this famous pair.

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A dancer's piont of view.......2004-01-24

Well written. Each chapter tends to be quite repetitive. The focus dwells on the hardships of rehearsing and the greuling dancers schedule. Such facts one already knows about dancers' lives, hence one doesn't need to read the book.

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Interesting background to the author,Dare Wright!

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: the Search for Dare Wright

A Little Family, Lonely No More

Interesting

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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Jean Nathan
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ASIN: 0312424922
Release Date: 2005-07-14

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In 1957, a childrens book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book--and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together Dare Wrights bizarre life of glamour and painful isolation to create this mesmerizing biography of a woman who struggled to escape the imprisonment of her childhood through her art. "Although I never read The Lonely Doll as a child or saw Dare Wright's photographs, it's as if I somehow did. Nathan has done an amazing job to capture Wright's life on the page and to bring us into the household of one of the saddest dysfunctional families ever.' -- Cindy Sherman The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll makes absorbing reading, both as biography and parental cautionary tale. Keep out of the reach of children. - The Globe and Mail Its a fascinating read and you cant help but feel compassion for DareThe Secret Life of the Lonely Doll is proof real lives are often more interesting than anything fiction creates. - The Ottawa Sun The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll prove[s] that a skilled biographer can write absorbing books about minor figures, particularly those with secrets. - The Toronto Star

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Interesting background to the author,Dare Wright! .......2007-05-28

As an elementary teacher, I am very familiar with the children's books written by Dare Wright. However, I was not familiar with her life. Therefore, when I saw this book I was intrigued and had to have it.

I am so glad that I bought this book because it explains Dare's life, her ups and downs, and how she decided to write such adorable books. The book also goes into great detail about her family background, which explains why Dare was such a creative and "unique" individual. The book also explains why Dare was such a tortured individual.

An interesting read! The author did a wonderful job!

(PS: the photos are also fascinating!)

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: the Search for Dare Wright.......2007-04-02

I couldn't put the book down it was fascinating! Whether you ever heard of Dare Wright or not I promise this book with spark your interest.

A Little Family, Lonely No More.......2006-11-27

Just as every little girl wonders about the secret life of her dolls -- teddy bear picnics and dolly tea parties when Mommie is not at home -- so we adults wonder about the lives of the authors who have brought us our favorite childhood books. They must have been beautiful princesses, we surmise, or else lonely old maids whose lives were lived through their characters. Dare Wright was an odd combination of the two -- a beautiful child/woman, who was primped and shaped by her mother, Edie, a well-known, well-respected portrait painter of her time, though a devastatingly domineering mother -- but who, after her mother died, indeed became a lonely old maid, bereft of any family ties.
Jean Nathan's "The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright" strips away the pink and white gingham cover facade of the Lonely Doll books to show us the bizarre, unconventional life of Dare Wright, a model/photographer/and author of the books, and her mother, a two-for-one pair all-but conjoined throughout Dare's life.
When first introduced to a child, the adventures of the lonely doll, Edith, and her companions, Mr. Bear and Little Bear, are enchanting. The lonely doll seems to be living in a swanky New York City apartment, but there are no scenes of a little girl's room, or even any evidence that a child lived in that home at all. In fact, Edith doesn't seem to belong to anyone; does she live alone? Is that her apartment? Whose dressing room and jewel box do Edith and Little Bear pillage and plunder? And how exactly did the Bears come to show up on the lonely doll's doorstep?
Reading Jean Nathan's book, it is quite clear to the arm-chair psychoanalyst that Mr. Bear and Little Bear are substitutes for the father and big brother that Edie callusly cast out of her life and her daughter's. For many years, Edie pretended that she had never had a son, while Dare tried to make sense of her buried memories of a family of four people that she could not clearly picture in her conscious mind.
There are parts of the book that don't seem right, and as a doll collector (and owner of a very old cloth doll) I wished had been explored more carefully: the doll in the picture book series is made of fabric (by the Italian doll company Lenci), but doesn't photograph as a 20+year-old doll; the fabric looks immaculate, and shows no signs of wear. In later books, the doll keeps getting makeovers, but somehow the cloth's integrity is sturdy enough to keep up with changing fashions. And I have long been fascinated by the photo of Edith and Little Bear, standing with their backs to the camera, on the totally deserted Brooklyn Bridge. The mechanics of managing that location shoot must have entailed months of paperwork and permits and I would have liked to have just a few details of the artist's creative processes, and the actual task of wrangling those dolls (who truly seemed to have minds of their own) into such perfect poses.
"The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll" is a book for grown-ups; once you have read it, you can never again look at the series of Lonely Doll books with child-like wonder. But for the adult reader it fills in the missing pieces of the books; the lonely Dare Wright created for herself a mother-less universe, with a father and brother who promised to never leave her, and together the three of them would live happily ever after.

Interesting.......2006-11-26

If I had never read this book, I would never have imagined this kind of life. I have never read any of Dare Wright's books but I ordered this book shortly after reading the New York Times review. It read like an extended version of a DC Tales of the Unexpected comic about a possessive stage mother and her devoted income-generating daughter who never grew up and wore a wig of blonde banana curls. Sad to know that this actually happened to Dare Wright. I recommend this book. It's very sad but very informative about selfish personalities and a warning about dealing with such people. It also gives good reason for sleepaway camp. Too much parental contact is too much.

Fascinating Life But Ending seems Farfetched.......2006-07-03

I suddenly became interested in the life of Dare Wright, for no other reason but because I started a small business on Ebay...I am always intrigued by eccentric individuals, and on my ebay search, I found The Lonely Doll, I also collect Lencis, and thought who would destroy such beautiful dolls for art?...Dare Wright's books, did not impress me as books for children, they seemed to be talking to an older audience. In my zest for learning more and more about this woman, I came to this interesting biography of Dare Wright.
The initial 200 pages are fascinating, if indeed Dare Wright lived this horrendous existence, and was such an child-woman all her life, it explains why her books The Lonely Doll series are so much Dare Wright.
What I couldn't quite understand was the end of her life as portrayed by Jean Nathan. I felt the writer embellished the ending, to make Dare's life even more horrendous, and compelling. I must commend Jean Nathan on her writing ability, but what I objected to was Jean Nathan bringing her own life in the epilogue, how can this writer identify herself with Dare Wright's life...Nathan had an angelic existence compared to this abandoned, abused, controlled, woman-child, Dare Wright. The book makes for fascinating reading...I would love Joyce Carol Oates to take a hold of Dare Wright's story and make it her own...

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Jean Nathan
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GREAT NORTH ROAD; A JOURNEY BY LAND AND WATER, ON AND OFF THE HIGHWAY, IN SEARCH OF LONELY PLACES AND CITIES, STRANGE TALES AND THE ODD CHARACTERS OF TROPICAL AFRICA
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Great North Road;: A journey by land and water, on and off the highway, in search of lonely places and cities, strange tales and the odd characters of tropical Africa
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In Search of the Lonely Girl
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In Search of the Lonely Girl is a tragic tale of obsession and desire. After glimpsing a fragile young woman at a party (who leaves as abruptly as she arrives), an awestruck young man begins a desperate journey. Navagating a surreal landscape with a map drawn only on a dream, he tries to find her and win her affection. This is an unflinching look through the keyhole of a door that opens only into madness.

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The lonely generation and the search for truth: A lecture

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The Lonely Search
Indian Life Ministries
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The true story of Albert Tait, a Saulteaux Indian from northern Canada. He was a runaway orphan, a thief, a fighter, a drunk, and a gambler. The years between hold the secret that made the difference--long, lonely years in which he searched for something better.

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The lonely search
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The Lonely Search for God
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