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This book is entertaining, uplifting and a valuable resource. The book categorizes the quotations by author and, unlike most books of quotations, it provides background information on the person such as the dates of birth and death as well as his or her occupation. The Index references the quotations by subject.
As a publisher, author of 26 Books, over 90 revised editions, six translations, 51 reports and over 500 magazine articles, I spend a lot of time looking for appropriate quotations. I need the best tools. This book is a great tool. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.
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It is about a poor woman who pleades with a shoe maker to make her grandaughter a pair of shoes for Christmas because she has none. The shoe maker refuses to do it, then changes his mind because of events that occur through out the book. The book also has beautiful illustrations in it , that keep you fixed on the pages
Dr. Shelton's book was first published in 1989, and contains a wealth of information about his own work from the early 1950s to the last atmospheric tests in 1963, along with additional information about the subsequent underground testing up to 1989.
He details each testing event with an excellent summary of the historical context, and goes into substantial detail about each shot, results, and his own thoughts and opinions about the motivations and rationale.
It was a wonderful read, and fills in a lot of gaps that other sources just can't supply; after all, he was there, and has a far better understanding of the whys and wherefores than someone trying to write about events 30 years later. I found his comments on the high-altitude tests to be extremely valuable, especially as little in the way of first-hand accounts is available anywhere else. Sometimes it's too easy for people today to just dismiss a lot of the "goofy-sounding" test programs; the context was very different back then.
The book is beautifully printed, and includes many gorgeous color photographs. It's expensive, but I feel the price is more than justified by the contents and its size.
If you have any serious interest in the history of the US nuclear weapons program, you won't regret this purchase.
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Jimmy Walker,Sam Liebowitz,Tito Schipa, the Ballet Russe,the Follies and Vanities chorines,Bugsy Siegel,Damon Runyon,Frankie Yale,the Dodgers,Fred Thompson--the notable and notorious of the roaring Twenties and ensuing decades, May I suggest a companion read by the same author, his Under the Blue Skies of Naples,a picaresque novel in which the scion of a magnate pizza manufacturer in the USA sends his callow son to Naples to eatablish a frozen pizza franchise. The premise is kinky from the start with uproarious situations in the manner of Tom Jones by Fielding .It is a romp through Naples.The author has all his bona fides and credentials, he is a distinguished translator of Neapolitan poetry. Yes, this memoir is a sesame to a culinary enchantment.Buon appetito!
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