In this day and age where what seems to make it in this worldis that and those people who conform to the do's and don'ts ofcorporate America, or perhaps I ought say america with a small"a", FM is a most refreshing change that renews my belief that there are still original thinkers out there making personal and important statements that are not only artistic, but personal, cultural, politically relevant, psychologically astute and desperately needed. It is hard to hold onto the hope that individuals can grow up in this world, develop and hold onto and feel good about an authentic sense of self - so kudo's to Lisa Adams for creating this book, and for those whos work appears. I am always impressed by the work of Lauren Hartman who seems to really have found a path to her authentic self - may she never lose that, and may this book inspire others to find theirs.

I homeschool my 5 children, ages 6-14. We have read this out loud several times. They never get tired of listening. It opens up the mind to the what ifs, maybes and I think I cans' in life! This is a must read for anyone who loves space, challenges and a good plot! I thank Rick for writing a book that has kept the doors of my children's imagination open. I wish the series went on forever! Thanks again. I recommend this book to adults and children alike.

This has been one of my favorite books since its re-publication. Not only is Jack a fabulous story teller, but the illustrations drawn from the works of Walter Inglis Anderson resonate with the texts and vividly bring to life those familiar creatures found in the intertidal zone of the Gulf of Mexico.

This book itself seems alive when you read it. And I know of very few authors who can make one appreciate more the tremendous need for all us us to learn about and become respectful of the web of life around us. This book belongs on the shelves of all armchair marine biologists and explorers of the seas.

I had read "Moral Discourse" in an anthology and thought the poet worth exploring. I knew I had a gem when in "The White Chapter" I read "Strangers will hand their words to you wrapped in flour, and you will sift them grain by grain until the vowels lose their accents." The language and imagery of these poems runs from the very mundane to highly creative and apt images. I would not class them all as "prose poems" - some I would call "sudden fiction", some "literary tidbits", some "prose poems".

Some of the more memorable poems: "The Mysterious Barricades; or , The Enchaiments of Memory" which purports to explain the origin of the title of music by the same name - the explanation following a traditional chain of dance instructors. "The Sincere Poet" which satirizes the sincere, confessional poet. "Phalaris and the Bull: A Story and an Examination" which explores the reader's ethics in the context of an allegory. "Life on the Moon", a piece reminiscent of the best of Andrew Ramer, in which the waxing and waning of the moon reflect actual change in the land mass of the moon. "A Window in the Poem" a reflection on windows in painting ...

There are a few pieces I consider "duds" but this is only because the breadth of content and style is so broad that no reader will have them all "speak to me."

This book is well worth your time - as very short story or as prose poem.

Columnist Jack Anderson never suffered self-esteem or objectivity problems. Yet in his autobiographical Peace, War and Politics, Anderson displays humility and a degree of introspection that is shocking to anyone familiar with his often self-aggrandizing muck.

Anderson often pumped out scandalous drivel in which he conspicuously cast himself as the central figure. It could be speculated that if Anderson had not been such a successful publicity hound, he would have become a serial killer obsessed with newspaper clippings and broadcast reports of his crimes. Yet a decent and moral man emerges in this account of a colorful life.

Although several of Anderson's more convoluted conspiracy theories are rehashed (the JFK assassination chapter is incomprehensible), the book is mostly solid and an enjoyable read. Early chapters devoted to Anderson's boyhood in Depression-era Utah and his World War II adventures in China are excellent.

Anderson's running battle with the Nixon Administration, and his seething rage at what he saw as Jimmy Carter's hypocrisy and total incompetence, reveal a righteous indignation that is simultaneously tedious and fascinating. While he rightly condemns the excesses of J. Edgar Hoover, and even digs through garbage bins for dirt on the late FBI director, Anderson also is objective enough to admit the G-man never politicized his agency.

Anderson makes some very insightful observations. For example, he shares his fear that former Soviet scientists might one day assist rogue Islamic states. Written well before 2001, this and much more speculation about the aftermath of the Cold War proves well-founded.

The most surprising aspect of Peace, War and Politics is Anderson's self-deprecating humor. When potential sources offer juicy details for cash, Anderson humorously remembers he didn't have the funds to pay for them, and ethics were a secondary consideration. In addition to himself, Anderson reports on the foibles and strengths of his poorly paid interns and associates. Many like Brit Hume went on to become prominent reporters and broadcasters. The degree to which Anderson acknowledges these young, underpaid muckrakers is as admirable as it is surprising. Anderson also turns the spotlight onto a hypocritical national media that shunned him yet often followed his lead.

The highlight of the book is a very brief chapter about the return of General Anthony McAuliffe, whom Anderson describes as the most decent person he ever met, to a hero's welcome in Bastogne. Gen. McAuliffe is remembered for his reply "nuts" to a Nazi demand that he surrender his 101st Airborne troops and the Belgian town they defended during the Battle of the Bulge. McAuliffe tells Anderson that he "never cared " for General George Patton after Patton surveyed the frozen enemy bodies at Bastogne and commented "these are the types of Germans I like to see." McAuliffe, who commanded the troops who killed the soldiers, said the dead were mostly boys like the Americans who fought against them.

Given such humanistic insight into people, it is apparent Anderson never wet the bed into his late 20's, engaged in pyromania, tortured small animals in his youth, or fantasized about serial murder. No, if he hadn't become a muckraker, Jack Anderson very well could have been a Mormon church official albeit a very opinionated and self-absorbed one.

A very informative and influential book. I now know things about the goverment that I never knew before. My views on the goverment and on politics have now changed after reading this masterpiece of a novel. Everyone should read this superb book. I have read alot of books and this is one of my personal favorite books.

Very informative, yet very influentual. Lets you know what has really happened in past wars and what has happened in the goverment, that the average citzen doesn't even know about now. I have very diferent issues on politics now that i have read this book. I recomend it to anyone & everyone. I've read alot of books and this happens to be one of my personal favorites.

I would have given this five stars except for its "thrown together" feel. It started as a full-scale biography but the source materials simply were not available. The book that was written consists of some short character sketches and a recapitulation of JO'C's hunting trips and writing career.

The author is a hunter so he does justice to his subject.

In my view, this book has two serious omissions. First, the author repeatedly asserts that O'Connor was the dean of gunwriters in his time. This is true (IMHO) but the book does a poor job showing why this is true and what made JO'C's writing special.

Second, this work does not discuss the feud between Elmer Keith and O'Connor. Ostensibly the point of contention was the effectiveness of small, fast bullets like the 270 Win. But the Keith side (since Elmer's acolytes got in on the fun) made it personal. JO'C, in contrast, showed a sense of humor and charity that reflects favorably on his character.

Jack O'Connor: The Legendary Life Of America's Greatest Gunwriter is the definitive biography of one of twentieth century North America's premier sportsmen, big-game hunters, and gun experts. Biographer Robert Anderson drew upon information provided from interviews with O'Connor's family and friends, as well as O'Connor's own papers, photos, and correspondences. The O'Connor papers from Washington State University were to prove invaluable in presenting a complete portrait of a man who had a great zest for love, despite a concurrent ability to be egotistically and occasionally mean spirited. A superb record of O'Connor's achievements as a hunter, the reader will learn about the early years of hardship in Arizona, the personal family tragedy of losing a son, the post-World War II "glory years" when O'Connor hunted tiger in India, sheep in Iran, buffalo in Tanganyika, and encounters with the ruling class of foreign land, and the corporate moguls of hunting and firearms industries. All of which gave O'Connor a special prestige to the point where his writings could spell success or failure for products and armaments marketed for the sportsman hunter. If you've ever read one of his columns or experienced the thrill of a big game hunt, you will want to read Jack O'Connor!

Plot synopses:

YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN: U.S. government casts a time machine increasingly further into the future to gather political and demographic data, in an attempt to avert a looming civil conflict.

THE WINDS OF TIME: A spacefaring race crashes a ship on earth in prehistoric times and travel to the future by hibernation, waiting for a civilization to arise with sufficient technoogy to repair their spacecraft.

THERE WILL BE TIME: Random humans are born with the ability to move themselves forward and backward through time purely by mental will. They ally and utterly change the world.

All of these are excellent stories, with THERE WILL BE TIME standing out as the best of the three. Anderson beats the stuffing out of the time travel theme, as Alfred Bester did for telepaths in THE DEMOLISHED MAN. Not only do the characters jump between historical periods, they also find interesting uses for jumps of a few minutes forward or backward. Babies time travel with surprising results. THERE WILL BE TIME is very well thought out and worth the price of the book alone.

Three very different tales, each excellent in its own way. Shows the versatility of the time travel idea. Interesting how gloomy these authors thought the future (in some cases, our day) would be

this is one I read more that once. Startling now, how well Oliver portrays both the emptiness and boredom of 1950's middle class life and how well he gets us to fell the sense of loss among human like aliens whose spaceship crashes on Earth..all in the course of a really good story. Don't miss it!

This book is especially interesting and easy to follow. It provides a sound overview of the history of dance with special focus on ballet and modern dance. This book introduces the novice to the legendary art of dance and captures the reader's attention with crafty storytelling. I particularly enjoyed the portion focusing on the history of ballet. Anderson introduces the reader to many of the individuals who shaped and popularized this art form while providing a firm background of the origins and development of this art. This book begins with a history of dance in the Greco-Roman era and brings the reader full circle with discussions of recent triumphs in dance. Anderson creates a book that is informative and thorough while presenting the reader with drawings and photographs of many influential artists and great performances.

I've read tons of information and have researched into Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis' life and found Anderson's book to be almost fiction at times. He starts the book in a dialogue format and continues to use dialogue throughout the BIOGRAPHY. I found myself asking, "How does he know the exact words that Jack and Jackie said to each other when they were in private". The book is narrated many times and it just didn't seem to be authentic. It was a good story, however and it would be nice if the book was 100% accurate. I just like to know that when I'm reading a biography, I'm reading Non-fiction...not FICTION!

It was very good and I thought I was watching it right before me. But one thing I didn't like was the pictures. I have read other books about Jack and Jackie Kennedy's marriage and they had better pictures and more pictures than they did in this book. But overall, the book really good and good information. I wonder how long it took to write the book.

I enjoyed this book from beginning to end; and I could hardly put it down!!! I have read alot of material on the Kennedys, but there was a great deal of information in this book that I had never come across. Excellent!!!!

I will give this book the compliment of readability, but I hesitate to go further than that in its praise.

As a voracious reader of biographies, and having read all other Jackie novels I could get my hands on, I would rank this book as low to middling in its portrayal of the former first lady.

Granted, no one, even an autobiographer, can paint an entirely accurate portrait of a biographical subject, but this book does, I think, fall well short. Do I think Jacqueline Onassis held Aristotle in contempt, as Anderson says? I find it easier to believe Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos's comments in her book The Onassis Women than those of Anderson; Mrs. Moutsatsos WAS quite closer to Ari and Jackie than Christopher Anderson ever was. Do I think she slept with Marlon Brando? I find myself more inclined to believe, for example, J. Randy Taraborrelli in his book Jackie, Ethel, Joan, as his account makes more SENSE than Anderson's... Jacqueline's character in THIS particular book screams with inconsistency. I think that was Anderson's point, as she was a woman bereft and hunted. However, considering the sum of Jacqueline as a biographical subject, this book's dissonance in the face of the greater context is difficult to reconcile. But it is entertaining.

This was the first book that I read about Jackie, and the one that will probably stick out in my head the longest. I love reading about Jacqueline. I can't seem to get enough. If only I was alive to see her, atleast on television, I would be a truly happy person. lol. But life, is as it is. And I'm only 15. Hopefully as I get older I will be able to learn more about her, and get to see what she was really like. (Their are so many things that you never learn about her) But this book gets really close to letting you sit right next to her, and have a little chat with the former First Lady herself. E-Mail:Switchbladexo

This is a very good book, the author seems to bring Jackie O to life right before you. You see all sides of the most famous First Lady in America's history. You see the person behind the famous smile and sunglasses, her grief and depression after JFK's murder, her restless traveling and fascinating and ultimately unsatisfactory marriage to Ari Onassis, her rediscovering herself after Ari's death and her final years with the true love of her life, Maurice Templesman. The author makes you realize that this was a real life person, not some Goddess from Mt. Olympus. She was a flawed human being, but then again, aren't we all? I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn about this fascinating lady.