Anyone picking up this book should know from the start that this is as about as unobjective a biography as one is bound to find. Henry Adams has multiple scores to settle, on behalf of John Adams and John Quincy Adams (his great-grandfather and grandfather, respectively), with John Randolph of Roanoke (who never had a kind word for either of the Adams presidents). The reader would be strongly advised to read both the introduction by Robert McColley, as well as the notes on the text (located at the end of the book) which deals with specific matters of interpretation in the book.

Adams uses this book to savage Randolph at every opportunity. The bulk of the book follows Randolph in his congressional career up through 1806, when he broke with the Jefferson administration over the administration's attempt to pay France two million dollars to secure Western Florida from Spain. Up until 1806, as Adams puts it, Randolph was the "spoiled child of his party and recognised mouthpiece of the administration." (p. 118) Randolph was in the thick of things up to that point, including the Louisiana Purchase, the approval of which he helped shephard through the House of Representatives. He was also given the responsibility for the February 1805 impeachment of Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. At that point in history, the question of the Executive Branch's authority over the Judicial Branch was far from settled. A successful prosecution of Justice Chase might well have changed the history of Executive-Judicial relations, but Randolph botched the job thoroughly. Adams can barely contain his glee when describing how unequal to the task Randolph was.

The bungled Chase impeachment increasingly made Randolph an embarrassment to the Jefferson administration. Randolph's political prospects were damaged beyond repair after 1806, and from that point on, as he became increasingly erratic, was on the periphery of the American political scene. He quarrelled, at one point or another, with every administration from Jefferson to Andrew Jackson. Adams devotes only 70 pages to Randolph's life from 1806 until his death in 1833. It is evident at this point that Adams is more interested in directing criticism at Jefferson and his successors in the Virginia Dynasty than he is at studying the life of Randolph.

Adams does make good points in his book, especially regarding the notions of states' rights. Coventional wisdom holds that Randolph was one the early advocates of the states' rights philosophy that John C. Calhoun subsequently embraced, but Adams argues persuasively that actions such as the Louisiana Purchase and the protection by the federal government of slavery (such as the Fugitive Slave Act) were in themselves encroachments on the rights of individual states and helped further the centralization of government in the United States. Far from being a traditional states' rights advocate, Adams contends, Randolph did a great deal to undermine the notion of states' rights as it existed in 1789.

Despite the rather venomous nature of the book, it is none the less a wonderful piece of literature that is worth reading. Adams' skills as a writer are evident throughout. The three stars represents a dual rating: 5 stars for the quality of the writing, 1 star for the utter lack of objectivity...although what could the reader seriously expect anyway?

Mildred Downey Broxon, Lin Carter, Marylois Dunn, George Alec Effinger, Gregory Frost, Joseph Green, Linda Haldeman, R.A. Lafferty, Shariann Lewitt, Brad Linaweaver, A.R. Major, Mary H. Schaub, and Lynn Ward.

McLean provides complete translations of all the plates of the Magical Calendar printed in 1620, which is an occult document that includes portions of the Jewish Kabbala and deals mainly with spellcasting and prophecy. Outside a small section of notes at the end, McLean fails to provide much narrative on various portions, and most parts must be further looked up in other works. The plates are in copier black and white, somewhat low qualoty. The binding is fair.

Here is 104 pages of analysis of 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7. The opening is one of the sharpest and most heavily analyzed openings in chess. Much is outdated since this book was published in 1977. Uses English Descriptive. Lots of diagrams. Needs to be updated.

This book was good in my opinion because it told how her death could have either been suicide, an accident, or a murder. The problem was it wasn't very clear in the death part and it only associated with JFK, RFK, the mob and not as much with Ralph Greenson or the housekeeper

I didn't particularly like or dislike this book. It wasn't as informative and detailed as Vaultreports.com, but it did have a wide variety of companies.

This is an excellent book, one of the leading standard texts on the subject. The first edition (Prentice-Hall, 1969) has been a well-used reference of mine for well over 15 years. The major strengths of this book are the chapters on transmission line and waveguide theory, signal analysis, and measurement of scattering parameters - the fundamental operating basis of modern vector network analyzers. Other excellent sections are on the use of the Smith chart and on graphical analysis of microwave systems.

However, if you already have the first edition then do NOT waste your money on this one. This second edition is a word-for-word reprint of the first. The only differences I can find are in the publishing information, and a new random ink blot on one page. I would have expected some coverage of the advances in the RF and microwave field that have been made over the last 30 years. I was disappointed in that respect.

If you are looking for an excellent book on this topic, and do not already have the first edition, then get this one. Just be aware that the content dates from 1969 and, while the basic theory and mathematics does not change, a lot of the application is now quite dated.

When I read this book I was impressed with the plot development and the characters. I felt as though I was reading about someone and something important. My only gripe about this one was that there was almost TOO much sex. I couldn't figure out if this was a mystery or gay porn. I felt as though I was reading two novels. The Mystery is done very well and so is the sex. At times I had trouble dealing with them both in a single novel.

I read the Philadelphia Ghost Stories first and thought it was pretty interesting, being a Philly resident. So I went and bought Montgomery County also. Well, I wasn't that impressed with the book. I didn't find myself hurrying to turn the page. In fact, I know of a lot more stories that just weren't published in this book. It had a lot of holes. As an alumus of one of the colleges featured, I know of hauntings that just weren't mentioned at all.

This small book contains about 50 different animal connect the dots projects. Each picture has a little hint, such as "If you come too close, I'll hop away" for a bunny. After the child is done connecting the dots, he or she can use it as a coloring book. This is a good book to take on a road trip.