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Title: Getting to the web.(Brief Article)
Author: Helen Gallagher
Publication: Training Media Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2001
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Information and Communication Technologies and Broad-Based Development: A Partial Review of the Evidence (World Bank Working Papers)

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Information and Communication Technologies and Broad-Based Development: A Partial Review of the Evidence (World Bank Working Papers)
Jeremy Grace , Charles Kenny , Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang , Jia Liu , and Taylor Reynolds
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Information and Communication Technologies and Broad-Based Development: A Partial Review of the Evidence is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly seen as integral to the development process. This working paper reviews: (a) some of the evidence for the link between telecommunications and the internet and economic growth; (b) the likely impact of the new ICTs on income inequality; and (c) anecdotal evidence regarding the role of the Internet in improving government services and governance. This study looks at methods to maximize access to the new ICTs, and to improve their development impact in both the generation of income and the provision of quality services.

Information and Communication Technologies and Rural Development.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association

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Information and Communication Technologies and Rural Development.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
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Title: Information and Communication Technologies and Rural Development.(Book Review)
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Information and Communication Technologies: A bridge for social equity and sustainable development in India [An article from: International Information and Library Review]

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Information and Communication Technologies: A bridge for social equity and sustainable development in India [An article from: International Information and Library Review]
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Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can reduce poverty by improving poor people's access to education, health, government and financial services. ICT can also help small farmers and artisans by connecting them to markets. India has been a breeding ground of such innovative ICT projects in the rural areas by the government and private enterprises. But these projects have either been geographically restricted to certain areas or have not been successful in reaching out to every individual in the social pyramid. This paper analyses some of the initiatives taken up by the institutions and organizations, and identifies the problems faced by these initiatives in achieving the targeted objectives, respectively. The paper then identifies technological solutions to the various problems experienced and gives an insight into the ways ICT technologies can be successfully and efficiently implemented in achieving the social objectives with which they are identified.

Information and Communication Technology in Development.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Title: Information and Communication Technology in Development.(Book Review)
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A SLOW sign on the information highway. (legal aspects of the information technology developments): An article from: American Journalism Review

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A SLOW sign on the information highway. (legal aspects of the information technology developments): An article from: American Journalism Review
Lyle Denniston
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From the supplier: There is likely to be legal conflict between the government's efforts to mandate open access on the information highway and the First Amendment rights of information nodes. VP Al Gore, in his speech to the Television Academy, stressed the government's intentions of ensuring free flow of information by legislating against information bottlenecks. The bottlenecks are likely to be caused if individual data operators exercise their First Amendment rights and refuse to carry certain messages. The Supreme Court's ruling on the government's decision that cable television stations should carry all programs of local television stations saw the government as violating First Amendment rights.

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Title: A SLOW sign on the information highway. (legal aspects of the information technology developments)
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Television and Social Change in Rural India & Information and Communication Technology in Development: Cases from India.: An article from: Pacific Affairs

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Stephen D. McDowell
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Title: Television and Social Change in Rural India & Information and Communication Technology in Development: Cases from India.
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Transforming India into a knowledge economy through information communication technologies-Current developments [An article from: International Information and Library Review]

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Transforming India into a knowledge economy through information communication technologies-Current developments [An article from: International Information and Library Review]
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Web-based learning versus traditional management development methods. (Research Note). : An article from: Singapore Management Review

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Roger Byrne
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Title: Web-based learning versus traditional management development methods. (Research Note).
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Information and Communication Technologies and Broad-Based Development: Partial Review of the Evidence (World Bank Working Paper, No. 12)

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Jeremy Grace , Charles Kenny , and Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang
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Thaddeus Stevens has been called “the greatest dictator Congress ever had,” a man who in 1867 held more political power than any man in the nation, including the president. In his day Stevens grappled with many of the issues that confront us today: racial and economic equality, affirmative action, and equal access to education. The second volume of a two-volume edition covers Steven’s later years during the tumultuous period from the end of the Civil War to his death in1868. It includes letters, speeches, and remarks Stevens delivered as he championed equal rights for the freedmen and steered key Reconstruction measures through Congress. This volume also contains letters from loyalists and ex-Confederates to Stevens reflecting their reactions to conditions in the South.

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Light but Entertaining final "Good Night" from David

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Sketches Across a Legendary News Career in "Brinkley's Beat"

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Brinkley's Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
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From one of America’s most revered journalists–a richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nation’s capital and of the events that marked the twentieth century.

Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider himself could have given us: Franklin D. Roosevelt counting out enough cigarettes to get through a half-hour debriefing with the press; May Craig, the first female reporter to penetrate Roosevelt’s inner sanctum, who never failed to remind the president that his wife was a newspaper writer, too; Theodore Bilbo, a Mississippi senator and race baiter who effectively became mayor of Washington at a time when it was a segregated provincial town; Jimmy Hoffa, the popular and ill-fated union leader; Lyndon Johnson, whom Brinkley describes as the most impressive and appalling figure he encountered; and Ronald Reagan, whom he found to be the most mysterious of the eleven presidents he covered. Here is also Brinkley’s account of President Kennedy’s assassination and a poignant remembrance of D-day.

David Brinkley was there and saw it all. In the “sour-lovable manner” (Mark Feeney, Boston Globe) of storytelling that he perfected, and in a narrative style that is both “hilarious and instructive” (George Will), Brinkley’s Beat gives us his vivid recollections and the intelligence, acuity, and clear-sightedness on which his unimpeachable reputation rested for more than half a century.

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From one of America's most revered journalists, a richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nation's capital and of the events that marked the twentieth century.

Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider himself could have given us: Franklin D. Roosevelt counting out enough cigarettes to get through a half-hour debriefing with the press; May Craig, the first female reporter to penetrate Roosevelt's inner sanctum, who never failed to remind the president that his wife was a newspaper writer, too; Theodore Bilbo, a Mississippi senator and race baiter who effectively became mayor of Washington at a time when it was a segregated provincial town; Jimmy Hoffa, the popular and ill-fated union leader; Lyndon Johnson, whom Brinkley describes as the most impressive and appalling figure he encountered; and Ronald Reagan, whom he found to be the most mysterious of the eleven presidents he covered. Here is also Brinkley's account of President Kennedy's assassination and a poignant remembrance of D-day.

David Brinkley was there and saw it all. In the "sour-lovable manner" (Mark Feeney, Boston Globe) of storytelling that he perfected, and in a narrative style that is both "hilarious and instructive" (George Will), Brinkley's Beat gives us his vivid recollections and the intelligence, acuity, and clear-sightedness on which his unimpeachable reputation rested for more than half a century.

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From a man who was there.......2007-08-29

This book contains a hundred wonderful anecdotes from the life of a man in the middle of things for four decades. They don't make journalists like David Brinkley any longer.

Light but Entertaining final "Good Night" from David.......2005-12-16

David Brinkley's final work is a brief but often amusing accounts of "persons, places, and events" covered in his long career--a literary post-dinner liquour to be sipped and savored for the moment and the memories. Brinkley is at his best when he recalls his meetings with Washington types, from reporters to presidents, in brief summations. It was fun to once again, for those of us long in tooth, recall the antics of Martin Dies, the racist Theodore Bilbo, the amusing bloviator from the Illinois prairies, Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, the solemn hat-wearing reporter, Mae Craig, and other worthies that Brinkley chooses to comment on. Brinkley also shares his views on presidents he knew and interviewed. There is nothing particularly notable here, but little asides as, for example, his apology to President Clinton after Brinkley's late night put-down of Clinton's long-windedness during the 1996 convention are of interest.

Some of the tales that Brinkley tells are little known, or forgotten, as for example his treks into the hinterland of America, early TV travel documentaries, that he helped pioneer. All of these mini-essays and remembrancs make for a nice bedside book, to be picked up and savored before the sandman arrives. As usual, the writing is clear and unpretensious and his acerbic and sometimes jaundiced view of Life in Washington greatly appreciated, particularly by those who have lived here during many of the events written about.

Brinkley's reflections on his career.......2005-08-25

This book is not a memoir in the traditional sense, or even directly about Brinkley. Instead, Brinkley has composed a collection of essays recounting, as mentioned in the subtitle, the people, places and events that have captured his interest during his career as a television journalist. These compositions provide glimpses into the past sixty years, and are both observant and humorous. Brinkley helps shed some light on the second half of the twentieth century, and in doing so, also provides us a glimpse into his own personality. Through his insights and reactions, we can just begin to get a glimmer of the man behind the familiar face.

Sketches Across a Legendary News Career in "Brinkley's Beat".......2004-12-13

Legendary newsman David Brinkley's final book lacks the narrative sweep of his autobiography or of "Washington Goes To War," his highly recommended history of the District of Columbia's growth during World War II. But "Brinkley's Beat," published shortly after its author's death in June 2003, retains the trademark of his six-decade news career: a walk along the fine line between wry humor and casual, near folksy storytelling, all told with an insider's sense of detail.

It's basically Brinkley clearing out his lengthy, valuable notebook, remembering people he knew and sharing a few pages at a time about them. In chapters no more than a few pages each he recalls infamous icons like Senator Joe McCarthy (with some personal remembrances of Brinkey's sister, who worked for McCarthy), FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover, and Teamsters Union boss Jimmy Hoffa. He also shares his views on presidents from Clinton to John Kennedy. Brinkley candidly assesses each man's career and their enduring popularity and legacy.

Along the way he speaks of personal disdain over Johnson's allegedly wiretapping his phone during the Vietnam war, shares a moving account of the days following Robert Kennedy's 1968 assassination, and even chastises himself for publically criticizing Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election victory speech. (It would be Brinkley's final covered campaign even as another chapter addresses the 24 political conventions he reported at and how television changed the conventions' intent and approach.)

But "Brinkley's Beat" shares its spotlight with smaller, more intimate reminiscences. He writes brief histories of a rogue's gallery of forgotten political figures including bigoted Washington mayor Theodore Bilbo, Roosevelt-era reporter May Craig and long-winded Senator Everett "Wizard of Ooze" Dirksen, describing their foibles with touches of quaint sentiment mixed in with the deserved ridicule.

Brinkey extends his personality studies to places he visited during a series of travelogues he hosted in the 1960s. He writes of Vienna trying to reclaim a past of classical music and rich food, and of Florida beaches and hotels beginning their decades-long, pre-Disney reputation as tacky playgrounds. Brinkley also shares a personal portrait of Normandy at D-day in 1944 and at its 50th anniversary, keeping his wry humor while praising those who fought there and citing the horrid conditions they endured.

Many see NBC's Tom Brokaw and, soon, CBS's Dan Rather leaving their long-held anchormen's chairs as the end of an era in news coverage. To that end, Brinkley's final reflections are his most valuable as he says, "The news becomes not just what happened but what a familiar face and voice says happened, and the meaning of it is to some extent determined by how he says it." David Brinkley's unique approach to the news, from his cadence to the angles he reported it from to the rapport and credibility he gained presenting it, endeared him to two generations and made him an icon the near equal of those he covered. While "Brinkley's Beat's" tone is a bit cranky, it's still a breezy, worthwhile read for history and journalism buffs. Recommended as a solid follow up read to his essential biography.

a nice little book..........2004-11-03

with short essays of varying degrees of perceptiveness. I thought Brinkley's best essays are the ones about relatively obscure politicians like Theodore Bilbo and Martin Dies. (He notes that Dies accused Franklin Roosevelt of PLANNING Pearl Harbor- far worse than anything even Michael Moore said about Bush - and Dies was a congressman of FDR's own party!) By contrast, he doesn't tell me anything I don't already know about Clinton.

David Brinkley: A Memoir (Random House Large Print)

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Release Date: 1995-10-10

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David Brinkley, icon of the American airwaves, has written his autobiography, a classic American story which overlaps with some of the great events and important personages of the era. From playing poker with Truman to riding the rails with Churchill to walking the beaches with D-Day veterans, readers are privy to some of Brinkley's most priceless remembrances. of photos.

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A Man on the Inside of TV News & Politics........2005-12-12

From 1956 to 1970, before the days of Dan Rather on CBS, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley said "good night" to each other at the 'finis' of NBC network news, leaving everybody watching feeling a kind of contentment that "all's right with the world." After his first eighteen years spent growing up, working for the small town newspaper, in North Carolina, his tenure fin the world of television news saw him through four wars, three assassinations, two wives, twenty-two political conventions, eleven presidents, 2,000 weeks of canvassing and reporting the news to the American public and one moon landing, he is on terra firma at last. Born in Wilmington, and educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, he spent most of his life on the Washington, D.C. scene. He had a soft Southern drawl and a knack for brevity, using just the right word or phrase to sum up a situation. This memoir as such is mostly about politics and his role as observer of the leaders then and now.

He was in the press corps. "Even though I was in Washington covering the White House for the last years of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency and reported from the White House every day when there was any news and traveled with him on several trips, we only knew, as everyone knew, the U. S. Treasury paid him one hundred thousand dollars a year." Perhaps no form of governments needs great leaders so much as democracy. The political history of the 20th century lists six men as the best leaders: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. The first four were tyrants; had it not been for the final two, western civilization might have perished.

In March 1946, Harry S. Truman's private pullman, the 'Ferdinand Magellan,' passed on to him after Roosevelt's death, on a private train at Washington's Union Station pulled out with his guest, Winston Churchill, his press secretary, Charles Ross, and others as the Truman-Churchill Express to St. Louis. Churchill was noted for writing his own speeches and used Lord Byron as a part of this particular appeal: "He who ascends to mountain tops shall find the loftiest peaks most wrapped in clouds and snow.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Though far above the sun of glory shine and far beneath the earth and ocean spread round him are icy rocks
And fiercely blow contending tempests on his naked head
And thus reward the toils which to those summits led."

David had grown up watching the Tennessee Williams' plays and movies about the South with its drunkenness and cruelty. "I survived early radio at NBC, and it survived me. The grand old names in radio never made it in television." There had been only one 100-wattt AM radio station in the small town of Wilmington He called a spade a spade. His sister Mary Driscoll worked as legal secretary for Joseph McCarthy, who he called the "Grand Champion American Liar." He routinely pronounced "him to be what he was, a loudmouthed liar." He said, "had he been truthful, ...he might have been a great political figure. But it was only one lie after another...."

The 1956 Democrat Convention was the first he covered. Adlai Stevenson from Illinois was the candidate to run for that party's choice for U. S. President. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee was chosen with the help of Al Gore's dad, Senator Albert Gore, as Vice President. They lost. The 1960 election used "multimillion-dollar mainframe computers bigger than four-door Buicks" to count the votes.

He wasn't impressed by President Nixon ("Before Nixon was forced to resign the presidency, he chose Spiro Agnew as his vice president, only to begin still another degrading and humiliating episode in American presidential politics."). He observed, "While eight years later, Nixon was one of the most intelligent presidents of modern times, he never seemed happy or seemed to enjoyed what he was doing. He always looked mournful and it is difficult to find a photo of him with a smile on his face." He didn't have anything good to say about Agnew, Gerald Ford, or Jimmy Carter. He called Eisenhower the Republican party's first president in twenty years. At the 1964 Convention, the agenda had them denouncing the John Birch Society, an even harder-line right-wing fringe group, along with the klan, and the Communist party."

This memoir was just a beginning; David Brinkley also wrote EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO MY OPINION and BRINKLEY'S BEAT: PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS THAT SHAPED MY TIME.

Plain Writing, just like his speech!.......2003-10-04

As a non-native English speaker who has been watching ABC's "This Week" all these years, I've always found David Brinkley's manner of speaking concise and easy to understand with short sentences and simple vocabulary. This was far cry from many other loud talking heads, including David's own colleagues on his Sunday program. He taught me how English could be spoken plainly but precisely and effectively. His memoir is written exactly the way he spoke. He gets to the point without being wordy and beating around the bush.
One thing I liked about this memoir is that he wrote more about his professional life than personal, which was of little interest to me. This memoir is also a history of American TV journalism, filled with episodes that were new to me. I was particularly interested in learning what he had to say about Joe McCarthy, whom David's own sister served as secretary for many years. Quite a bit is written about Kenndey brothers, too, including JFK assasination. So glad he published this memoir before he passed away.

David Brinkley, a rambling book.......2002-04-07

I was quite excited to get David Brinkley's book, as I have enjoyed his newscasts for years, particularly the early conventions. As it turns out, this is a "Chatty-Cathy" book that rambles on about his life, with his TV persona somewhat as an afterthought. The book is quite readable with his enjoyable laconic style, but at the end, you don't know much more about him, TV, the process of TV news, or the events to which he was an eyewitness....at least not more than you already knew or could surmise.
The book was a pleasant interlude, but somewhat a bit of froth

A fun book.......2002-01-22

Having grown up with the Huntley-Brinkley report and watching them at all the conventions, I truly enjoyed this book. Especially interesting is how Brinkley trashes Jesse Helms.

Light and Entertaining Memoir of Old Style News Man.......2001-04-18

To me, Brinkley always seemed a cut above the modern TV journalist / anchor -- more sober, more professional and less interested in focusing the attention on himself rather than his subject.

David Brinkley tells his life story in this quick book. Growing up with the new medium of television, he and his partner (Chet Huntly) wrote much of the playbook for the way network news and tv interview shows are conducted.

This is an interesting story that tells not only of Brinkley's growth and development but also of the maturation of the tv news industry. Along the way, Brinkley was witness to many seminal events and has of course met many of the notables of his era.

The man's integrity and dedication to the profession of journalism shines through in this book. I can't imagine Sam or Cokie or Dan or Peter writing this book. Too much would be devoted to image and the their impact on the news. Brinkley was able to achieve the incredible credibility he enjoyed because he was made of different stuff -- this is the story of a darn good journalist who understood the difference between covering the news and entering it.

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David Brinkley: a Memoir

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A Memoir - 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations . . .
David Brinkley
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A Memoir - 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations . . .
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David Brinkley: A Memoir. (book reviews): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Neil Hickey
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Title: David Brinkley: A Memoir. (book reviews)
Author: Neil Hickey
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1995
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: v34 Issue: n4 Page: p51(4)

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Barbara Kellerman
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Author: Barbara Kellerman
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Date: March 22, 1997
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Volume: v27 Issue: n2 Page: p379(2)

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David Brinkley
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ASIN: B000OVU4R4

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Susanne Antonetta writes with a poet's precision about the almost unspeakable series of ills that have assaulted her body: cysts on her ovaries, a divided uterus, endometriosis, rampant thyroid tumors, a quadruplet pregnancy (no fertility drugs involved) that ended in miscarriage, and manic-depressive illness treated with the wrong drugs until she was in her 30s. There's not a trace of self-pity as she lists the toxic substances leaked into the air, ground, and water by the chemical company, nuclear power plant, and nuclear missile bunker near her family's summer home in Holly Park, New Jersey. She passes over the gruesome inappropriateness of that bucolic name just as she unblinkingly repeats the brutally frank comments of her relatives, who adored her brother and male cousin, had no interest in the four girl children, and excommunicated any family member who violated their rigid rules. "In the end, I'm grateful," she writes of her extended family. "They have given me the gift of clarity. They've released me. There may be nothing kinder you can do than withhold your love." Clarity is among the principal virtues of Antonetta's unusual work, aptly subtitled An Environmental Memoir. She makes general facts personally meaningful by intertwining a historical account of post-World War II America's love affair with heavy industry and its deadly by-products with the specific details of ailments suffered by herself and the other kids who ran down the streets after the DDT-spraying trucks and drank water "full of good iron, good lead, mercury, cadmium, tritium, alpha radiation, good benzenes, PCBs, chlordane, vinyl chloride, lime, mercury, good cyanide." Her scathing but matter-of-fact tone gives the author greater authority as a prophet of the whirlwind we are reaping from careless contamination of our natural resources. --Wendy Smith

Book Description

For readers of A Civil Action and Refuge, a harrowing story of a body and a place--the New Jersey boglands, one of the most contaminated regions of the country.

This is an American story. Two immigrant families drawn together from wildly different parts of the world, Italy on one side and Barbados on the other, pursued their vision of the American dream by building a summer escape in the boglands of New Jersey, where the rural and industrial collide. They picked gooseberries on hot afternoons and spent lazy days rowing dinghies down creeks. But the gooseberry patch was near a nuclear power plant that released record levels of radiation, and the creeks were invisibly ruined by illegally dumped toxic waste. One by one, family members found their bodies mirroring the compromised landscape of the Barrens: infertile and damaged by inexplicable growths. Soon the area parents were being asked to donate their children's baby teeth to be tested for radiation.

Body Toxic is an environmental memoir--merging the personal and familial with the political and environmental. Intensely intimate and starkly contemporary, it is a story of bravery and resignation, of great hope and great loss. This beautifully composed book presents American families in the midst of the wreckage of the American dream.

Customer Reviews:

Ghosts of Toxicity.......2007-09-03

Let's be clear: this isn't some sob-story autobiography about some chick blaming her infertility on the power plant next door. Antonetta has written a gorgeous, unsettling book that pushes the boundaries of literary memoir.

Written in muscular, skilled prose, the "environment" of Antonetta's memoir points to the sludge-filled and strangely seductive New Jersey Pine Barrens of her childhood; it refers equally to the toxic world created by her impenetrable, neurotic immigrant family. Antonetta tells hallucinatory, poetic stories that float between the two environments while never misstepping into the sentimental.

Indeed, it is a rare pleasure for me to read a woman's story--especially one intimately engaged with problems of fertility and the body--that is so devoid of cliche and self-pity. Antonetta has plenty of honest anguish, but it is balanced with a damning dry humor, and a sharply raw perception of herself, her family, their history and the history of the land upon which the story unfolds.

New Jersey "Go Home".......2007-02-09

Quite an accurate portrayal of the abysmal state of New Jersey. If America was a person then New Jersey would be its rectum, just slightly south of the tingling loins of New York. It is the wretched, malodorous, poison hole that is the repository for everything wrong with America. IROC's, unabashed italian stereotypes, gold medallions, the mafia, Aquanet and most abhorrent is the diaspora of foul mouthed New Jersey citizens out to destroy other states as they have destroyed their own. New Jersey "Go Home"!!!

Sounds like nonsense to me........2004-12-26

I recall reading the New York Times' smug review of this book when it originally came out. How they must have loved another opportunity to slander the state of New Jersey through misinformation, distortions, and gross exaggerations. The perfect example of how well this propaganda works is the individual from Wisconsin who claims how sad it is that the Pine Barrens have been "ravaged." I wonder how someone from Wisconsin who has probably never been to New Jersey, let alone the Pine Barrens, would think they have the right to make such a comment. Just like other rural areas around the country, the Pine Barrens have been victimized by immigration-driven population growth, yet the region is still beautiful. I have no doubt the author of this book has the medical ailments she claims, yet perhaps they have more to do with her lifetime of drug abuse than with living in New Jersey. My father grew up in the industrial badlands of Bayonne, New Jersey; he is 61 and has no major medical problems. In fact, my family is entirely from Jersey City and Bayonne, two cities that are far more industrialized than Ocean County, yet nobody in my family has ever had cancer. This book is another example of junk science giddily peddled by leftist Manhattanite editors who probably haven't been outside of Manhattan in years.

As usual, the masses gobble up such pablum.

Enlightened in New Jersey.......2003-04-06

Body Toxic, the memoir of a poet, is a great book. Instead
of having us laying in her hospital bed taking her medications
and reliving her miscarriages in detail on every page, Antonetta
almost dances around her illnesses in order to bring awareness
of the contamination to earth that is killing everyone.
Michael Klein said "Poets write the best memoirs." Three years
ago I questioned that statement; after reading Body Toxix, I agree.

What happened to John McPhee's Pine Barrens?.......2002-11-25

While I was reading "Body Toxic", I had a nagging recollection of another book and finally remembered John McPhee's book, "Pine Barrens" which was written in the 60's. Read side by side, there would be a great difference in the two accounts of a now ravaged area.

I am not a reader of poetry and maybe that is why I found the prose of this book somewhat difficult to follow. I didn't like the flow of words. The words themselves however were another matter.

"People fought with violence: airplanes,sprays, chemicals. They recruited with zeal. One of the recruitments was the Baby Boom, which my brother and my cousins and I belonged to, the plume of babies that followed the soldiers back from the second world war as if we'd been flushed from their wounds. American men had gone ouerseas and lost limbs and seem themselves die and come back filled with a desire to make new humans. For each of us boom children a soldier lay dead on a battlefield on another continent, and we corrected with our fat and harmless flesh what had been done to their bodies. We are all substitutions."

I finished this book wondering about Susanne Antonetta's health now. I am worried about her and about all of us.

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