Back in AD 1964, the sordid details of Joe Kennedy's life were kept secret. So what you have here is a very incomplete picture. But, if you want to understand his stock trading or his ambassadorship to Great Britain, then this book is for you. But compared to Kearns-Goodwin and Kessler, this is very lop-sided.

oddly, you may be surprised about the kennedy's of massachusetts when you finish Whalen's work. It is possible that many have been quick to judge the family in a negative manner. Whalen, however, certainly points out Joseph Kennedy's very wonderful points including love of his family and gracious help for mankind. His charity for a man who wandered into his office off of the streets of Boston having just lost his son-and Mr. Kennedy buying the man a suit and paying for the funeral of that son-is particularly touching. Also of great interest to anyone interested in making a buck is how Mr. Kennedy made so much money in so many different arenas-sold out and took his profit on to the next venture-a sixth sense he had for making big money! author whalen points out this was almost always the case except his keeping ownership of Chicago's Merchandise Mart in the Kennedy name up, I believe, until currently-1998. Buy this work and then be prepared to not put it down for 48! ! hrs.! Of added interest was a historical look at how Joseph Kennedy got into B grade motion picture producing in Hollywood in the early days.

A brilliant account of Roeg's films by the author of "Elevator Music". It takes a profound overview of an almost unknown filmmaker - a very cult one. Roeg's gems such as "Performance", "Petulia" and "Walkabout" are here criteriously analysed. Roeg is an authentic creator of surreal landscapes and plots, often mixing dreams and drug trips. If you're into mind-blowing stuff, that's well worth a look.

Ever since viewing Roeg's masterpiece 'Don't look now', i became obsessed by the man.

This book, in its deft construction which alternates interviews and analysis, pays hommage to the director and its sources of inspirations.

This book dates back to the early 60's and many of the illustrations and photos look even older. It is a very delightful work even with such dated material as the cutaway illustration of a passenger steamship. That in fact gives it some of its charm. It presents a dated French lanugage which is overly formal. Children, for example, address their parent's as "vous". Still it employs a high frequency vocabulary and builds up a useful vocabulary. I certainly would not prescribe it as a primary text but it is nostalgic look at the French and France of a bygone era.

I agree with the previous reviewer's observation that the "overly formal" usage and illustrations are a bit dated. A French friend agreed; when I showed this text my friend, originally from Bordeaux, she grinned a little and said, "We don't speak French like this anymore."

However, I feel that this book helps beginners with transliteration more than any traveler's phrase book. This book describes how French is pronounced more graphically and emphatically than any other similar book I've seen or read. At the end of each unit is a brief review so that you can apply what you've learned to other scenarios. So, without even trying, you actually learn something about French grammar! I applaud the authors for writing arguably the first book on building grammar skils and memorizing vocabulary through the use of typical travel scenarios and French-to-English transliteration.

If you're looking for something more modern, than I'd suggest "Berlitz Essential French," which I feel is also good at transliteration. Otherwise, this old inexpensive text from Dover books will work just fine.

This text serves as a good reference, however, it is not necessarily well-suited for self-learning. The exercise sets need some revamping.

From the definition of a conmutative ring to the fundamental theorem to solvability of equations by radicals in 65 pages, 80 theorems and 106 exercises. The exposition, wich follows the now classical tradition of "Artin's" Galois theory, is quite efficient, packing much material in a limited number of pages. The greatest asset of this book is its nice selection of topics, focusing on the fundamental theorem of Galois theory and its application to solbability of equations by radicals, but pausing to make excursions to finite fields or to work out explicitly some iluminating examples. The style is no-nonsense, crisp but nop hurried. The final 40 pages consist of appendices discussing group theory, ruler an compass constructions and old-fashioned Galois theory. This latter appendix deserves special mention, since it is not customary for a textbook of this size and scope to include such a detailed sketch of the historical motivations behind the theory it describes. One can only agree with the author when he wonders how such thoughts occurred to Galois in the late 1820's, and be grateful to him for providing his reader with material for an answer.

Viktor Reimann's biography of Joseph Goebbles is informative and readable, but ultimately lacking. Reimann brings a German perspective to Goebbles, but ultimately fails to really penetrate the legend on the man. Checking in at only 326 pages, and including many of Goebbles's speeches and writings verbatim, it leaves the reader with only a skeletal sketch.

As Viktor Reimann spent five years in Nazi prisons, it is not surprising to find that he is unable to suppress his anger toward Hitler, the Nazis and Goebbels. Unfortunately, such anger tends to detract from objective works. While Reimann provides good biographical data on Goebbels, he too often leaves objective study for opinionating which some readers may not find of great interest. As a consequence, this is not a sufficient biography on Goebbels, forcing readers to consult other books. While the work provides some info on Goebbels personal life, it tends to concentrate on his professional career. For example, while Goebbels diary constantly mentions one Ursel Quandt, the name does not appear in Reimann's book. Worth reading, but understand that the book is quite often a platform for Reimann to attack those who persecuted him.

I REALLY LIKE THE COVER OF THIS BOOK ,BUT I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND IT .IT HAS OLD INFO OF THE BOYS,THAT MOST FANS ALREADY KNOW.

I have been a hanson fan for 7years i'm a 15year-old girl from tulsa.ok.and hanson are still my fav guys ike is now19,um,20 and tay is now 17 and zac is now 15 ther older with age but i still love'em and this book is soooooooooooo cool go and buy it...NOW!! a hanson fan forever and a day Danielle

I had read and enjoyed other essays by Joseph Wood Krutch before I ventured on to this biography of Henry David Thoreau, and I must admit that I was surprised and disappointed. The writing is fine, the essence of Thoreau appears, the major life details are all there, and Krutch is obviously familiar with his subject matter. But whenever he quotes the naturalist, he never includes specific citations locating those words. How frustrating for any reader who is enticed here by a turn of phrase or an idea and wants to pick up _Walden_ or Thoreau's _Journal_ to find them for himself / herself! If other sources or friends like Ralph Waldo Emerson or Ellery Channing are quoted, no further information on origin is provided. We have no clue where Krutch found those communications. He wasn't in Concord in the mid-1800s, so he must be repeating words written in other documents or published works. For the casual reader, maybe this major omission is not a problem. If you just want the basics of Thoreau's life and philosophies and writings, then maybe this volume is enough for you. But with no citation notes and no credits and no bibliography, I found it wasn't enough for me.

If you are sincerely interested in the man who is most often identified with Walden Pond and with the concept of civil disobedience, then pick up one of the classic biographies of him -- either _The Days of Henry Thoreau_ by Walter Harding or _Thoreau_ by Henry Seidel Canby. Those two volumes are a little longer and more extensive than Krutch's (especially Canby's), but they will serve you better. I believe they serve Thoreau better as well.

Joseph Wood Krutch, professor and conservationist, paints a word portrait of one of the great minds of American literature. Using source material from Henry David Thoreau's better known works, including Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, as well as depth materials from Thoreau's Journals, Krutch lets us inside Thoreau's thoughts and character. "Rich and full bodied", "an ornament of contemporary American criticism", and "brilliant" characterize the reviews from Dell Publishing, Saturday Review, and Commonweal. Rich and full bodied because Krutch carefully weaves a deepening apprehension of the dimension of the man through carefully selected examples of the way Thoreau's mind and thought process worked. An ornament because few critics capture the spirit let loose here. And brilliant because the book is packed with new information and insights. For any fan of Thoreau, and of good contemporary criticism, this is must reading.

Aimed at the vacationer or business traveller, the strength of this guide is its guided walks/day trip itineraries...and in for a place whose coastline and skyline is forever changing, not to mention its complete change of sovreignty, the more up to date your guidebook the better!

I found the guide to be quite good and conveniently compact. My one criticism is that information for a given area is in several different places in the book. For example, there is a section on Wan Chai as a tour, another for Wan Chai at night, another section under excursions, and then Wan Chai restaurants are listed in a fourth section, altho some are included in the previous sections. This made for a lot of page flipping back and forth. This should all be consolidated into one section on Wan Chai. I thought the info was very good, just a lot of page flipping ("Now, where did I see that?")

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I at the age of 12yrs old had to read this porm forclass and to let the class know how i like the book, and the book it and always be very good to read this is from me . ADDIE

Barron's has a history of making bad test-prep books, though unarguably, REA is worse. I took the SAT II Biology last year, received an 800, but it was most certainly not the Barron's book that helped. The Barron's book was completely off key in giving difficult enough information, and falsely boosted my confidence in entering the actual test, which was much more difficult than the questions in the Barron's book. In contrast, for the SAT II Chemistry, some of the questions seem unreasonably abstruse and irrelevant (just like REA), providing information that does not help you for the test. Princeton Review has too much of a relaxed tone and misses out on some information as well, and Kaplan also has some unnecessary stuff like (Delta G = -RT ln Keq, some extra electrochemistry stuff), and doesn't have the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation etc. Though a mix of Princeton Review, Kaplan, and Barron's ultimately works. You should definitely stay away from REA though--best to borrow these books from your local library than to buy them.

This review book was really good. I only had like a week to prepare for the test so I turned to this book as a last resort. It is better than some of the AP Chem books. I wished I had this book for AP Chem. It is so helpful. It goes over the major topics in detail and most importantly, reviews the labs, which are really stressed on the SAT II Chemistry. It's true what my teacher told me. After you take an AP class, you will forget everything. I did pretty poorly on the SAT II Chemistry. My fault for procrastinating. I get my scores back tomorrow. Hope I got like a 700.