Louis J. Weichmann would be little more than a footnote in the story of the assasination of Abraham Lincoln had he not shown himself to be ...individuals associated with a second, almost darker tragedy...the execution of an innocent woman.

Weichmann rented a room in the boarding house of widow Mary Surratt, where many of those who conspired to kidnap and later assasinate Lincoln lived at the time. Once the conspiracy was uncovered, overzealous federal officials alleged Mrs. Surratt was an active participant. Historical fact, as well as the testimony of the conspirators themselves, stood in sharp contradiction to these allegations. Weichmann, who was barely acquainted with any of these individuals, testified that she was an active participant. It was later determined that his motive was to curry favor with government officials in hopes of obtaining a federal job. Based on Weichmann's false testimony, an innocent woman went to the gallows. Weichmann later wrote this book in attempt to cash in on the public's thirst for knowledge. The problem is, he had none. He just happened to be in the same place as some of the conspirators for a brief period of time.

It is with this knowledge of the author's motives that anyone considering reading this book should approach it. Weichmann has earned his place in American history as a liar and a coward. As an author, he is not worthy of belief.

Over 100 years after the assassination of President Lincoln, the words of Louis Weichmann finally reveal the true events of the day. This is an invaluable work as a first-hand, true accounting of the conspiracy and its aftermath. Told not for profit or personal recognition (the book was not published for nearly 75 years after the author's death), this work seeks to preserve for history an intimate record of the words and deeds of the conspirators. It seals the fate, once and for all, of the Surratts and Booth, as the testimony of Weichmann did originally at their trial. Furthermore, the work relies not only upon the recollections of Weichmann, but is supported by historical documents and testimony of his contemporaries. It is a book not to be missed by anyone interested in the facts about what happened the day that Lincoln died.

Don't ever read this book. It is a waste of time

This book was commissioned by the Salvation Army to declare the deeds of the brave women who went to help those who did not have the comforts of home. While at times this book was campy in nature and clearly of a direct leaning towards the Salvation Army it also contained many accounts of hard work and perserverance in the face of great physical and mental hardship. The women did everything they could to encourage the young soldiers to act as true heroes. They did things from making donuts to creating a place where soldiers could come as a refuge from the ravages of war. This book helped me to feel more supportive towards those who serve in the armed forces.

A tale about a social pariah, Joe Louden, who as a young man is maligned and much talked about in the small midwestern town of Canaan. Leader of the talkers is Judge Pike, the richest and most powerful man in the city. Joe, even though he is poor, turns to reading books and studying law in his spare time. He eventually leaves town and gets himself through law school. He begins to practice law and only handles the scoundrels of the town because Pike and the rest of the town scolds anyone who should use his services. With the help of a woman, he wins the respect of Canaan and is able to usurp Pike's power.

I thought this book was fairly dry. There were some interesting parts, but overall, I found it hard to get into. I suspect, Tarkington's early works were not as polished and his older ones.

I'm the author of this book and wanted to note that it is now
out of print.

A story about the most sought after young woman, Julia, and her meddling nephew and niece. The story's primary focus, despite the title, is actually from the niece, Florence, who is 13.

Florence sees something in the town's uncouth loser, named Noble Dill and wants Gentle Julia to marry him. He is one of many wanting Julia's hand in marriage. Her other suitors have more class and wit but have their quirks about them. Julia likes Dill; however like most romances, it is on again off again....

The kids, whose antics and fate interweave trouble for Julia and Dill. Not as funny as Penrod, Tarkington does have some humor here as the kids in their innocent dealings cause turmoil.

The book was a bit uneven and I was left wondering what Julia ever saw in Dill (he is a nice guy but definitely was "geeky"). At the end of the book, the reader is left wondering what will become of their relationship... probably Dill still wanting to marry her and Julia playing games, so nothing was really resolved. The children's antics though were humorous and their were some memorable characters and interesting statements made about relationships (one I remember stating that all the poets say how great they are but in reality they are a lot of work and heartache) .

Written as a play, this book debunks the popular at the time theory that all workers should own all the businesses and that everyone should receive the same pay(from the profits). The story begins with Andrew Gibson, owner of a piano manufacturing company whose successful product is the "Gibson Upright". He is in turmoil with his on-the-verge-of-striking workers. The workers insist on even more benefits than what they currently have (they have now what resembles our modern day work schedule). The workers spout their socialistic beliefs in an attempt to get more out of Gibson, claiming he can afford it with all of his riches.

Gibson, not wishing to concede to their demands, decides to fulfill their wishes. In a comical way, he simply hands over the rights to the factory -- letting the leaders of the strikers run it as they see fit. The workers unite and are excited over this prospect. However, this new routine quickly becomes their undoing as the factory's accountants leave and the workers become even more lazy. Of course, as Tarkington can only do, there is a love story here where Gibson and one of the striking workers have a "bond."

This story was incredibly simple and pointed out some of the fallacies of the Socialist movement. While on some levels, the story works, yet on others it was a bit too contrived. All in all, though, the book/play was fun to read, despite the somewhat sappy plot and ending.

This book was certainly INTERESTING... in both good and bad ways!
Throughout the book are absolute GEMS of wisdom, that are unfortunately mixed with beliefs and ideas that were just a little too esoteric for my taste! Because there was so much valuable info, I would recommend this book, but you might find it to be a very difficult read overall.

Starting with chapter one, the book stresses that you must accept the fact that you are "worthy" of success. It starts out just fine... and rather inspirational, but by chapter two we are being exposed to the "voilet flame" and "the goddess of supply named Fortuna".

Chapter three again becomes motivating with it's emphasis on faith and the idea that worry will keep prosperity away. This chapter is excellent and also stresses the need to realize that God is the doer... not us, that we must relinquish our control. It also talks about the need for constancy and perseverance. "Faith must be planted in the soil of gratitude". Above all, you should always keep moving toward your goals and toward your fears.

Unfortunately... chapter four gets into more "unusual" concepts with the introduction of the four lower bodies, the three upper bodies, the body elemental and the seven rays. Chapter five continues along the same lines with the "great divine director's novena".

Chapter six has a wonderful gem... "God is where I AM: All that seperates me from God is my failure to acknowledge that there is a difference between God and myself." This wonderful idea and others like it is what makes this book worth it despite it's other very unusual concepts.

Chapter seven also covers the interesting concept of blessing money and things and reminds us that "we increase whatever we praise". This chapter is also excellnt in that it stresses that giving is a major secret of prosperity, "it is more blessed to give than recieve", but if you do not first recieve how can you give? Chapter Eight was also interesting about tithing... but chapter nine again went over the top with it's "healing " ideas, again emphasing the "voilet flame".

The book ends with a workbook that has many good ideas and a glossary that TRIES to make sense of the variety of esoteric terms the book uses throughout. Because this book did contain so much worthwhile info, I will probably read it a second time. I'm hoping that a second reading will also make some of the more "difficult" concepts more understandable. This was in many ways a great book, but it was such a difficult read that I could not rate it higher nor recommend it to a reader just starting on their spirtual journey or just starting to work with abundance concepts.

This book was a bit difficult to read. It is set before the Civil War -- President Polk's era ( mid 1800's ) however this wasn't revealed until almost 3/4th's through the book. In addition, the location ( state ) of the book was never revealed. At first I thought it was Indiana ( where Tarkington is from ) and then thought perhaps Louisiana.

At any rate, this is a typical Tarkington love story involving mistaken identity. A beautiful, rich girl ( Betty Carewe ) comes back from a convent at the age of 18. She runs into Tom Vanrevel -- the town saint and winsomest man. She also encounters Criley, the town love-maker / partier. Both Tom and Criley are best friends and are partners in a law firm.

Her dad warns her not to see either of them as Tom is an ardent abolitionist and her dad hates those sorts. Criley is too much of a scoundrel.

However, she confuses the two and throughout the book thinks that Criley is Tom and that Tom is Criley. She falls for Criley thinking that he is Tom. Criley can only turn on his charms and take advantage of the situation.

By the end of the book and after several misadventures, Betty ( the girl ) figures out who is who. However tragedy does strike.

Really atrocious. The story begins with the X-men disbanding, and then just reforming for no reason with new members. No explanation is given as to why these characters come in, or even what the point of it all is. The was decent in places, but on the whole pretty [disappointing], and there was basically no characterization. I felt cheated after reading this even though I hadn't even bought it. Thank God Grant Morrison came along and saved the X-men.

This TPB reprints X-Men #92, Astonishing X-Men #1-3, Uncanny X-Men #375 and X-Men #95.

The innocent and scared little Nina calls out to Jean Grey for help. A mysterious warrior called Death is hunting her and her friends down. Jean and Cyclops team up with Cable, X-Man and Wolverine to help them out. But as the story progresses, they find out that they're dealing with much more than what they expected.

This is the prologue to the unfortunately poorly executed Twelve storyline - with a truly surprising and questionable ending. The story in this one is average as the X-Men are perpetually searching for the children and their hunter - Occasionally retreating back to base. It has some okay twists. The action scenes are pretty good and there is another big surprising action scene that goes a little bit over the top.

My major gripe with this one is mostly the art. I mean, it's very good and the colouring is excellent (although a bit too polished at times - especially the characters), but the characters don't look anything like how we know them. They look entirely different. Cable looks a bit like MacGuyver and lost some pounds, while Gambit gained some in his chin, Nate looks more like a little boy (more than he already is), Cyclops also seems to have found the fountain of youth and some drawings of Jean Grey are a terrible disgrace.

But that doesn't take much away from the comic overall. Still a pity though, cos it would have raised my rating. And with no numbering of the pages (I don't think they should ever start doing that), the page numbers on the chapter index seem a bit useless. But it's nice to know how many pages this TPB has before you start reading it.

You might want to read the Twelve storyline after reading this anyway, but as of writing it's not out on TPB form yet. I'd suggest waiting for the TPB, which will be released sooner or later - Or if you're really in a hurry, head down to the local comic shop and get the induvidual comic issues.

The X-Men Dream Team, that's the cast of the TPB collection of the Astonishing X-Men-Cyclops, Phoenix, Wolverine, Cable, X-Man (Nate Grey) and Angel. Beautifully drawn by Brandon Peterson, this prequel to the end of the millenium X-Men epic "The Twelve" is well scripted and action packed and contains a shocker ending that will leave you breathless. I just wish however that they will follow this up with an X-Men "The Twelve" collection so the readers wont feel cheated by the shocker ending. All in all, the art, writing and most especially the cast, makes this collection a must have for old and new X-fans.

Que books usually excel by providing a well-organized presentation with a good ratio of pictures to useful text. This book is an exception.

VFP is an object-oriented language (if you don't know what that means skip down to my last paragraph) but the introduction to OOP begins on page 420. That does not stop the authors from discussing methods and properties at length in the first several hundred pages of the book. This will destroy people who have not worked in other OO languages. People who have worked in other OO languages will crave the OO details instead of procedural code with different syntaxes for doing the same thing.

The sample code snippets are terrible in that they include syntax and semantics that have not been explained. As far as I can tell there is no online version of the code or the book.
It is even worse than this because there are examples using databases and files that are not provided or described anywhere in the book.

There are large sections of the book that are totally repetitive. Other sections that are totally worthless provide cheerleading and saying things like, "Your use of the Project Manager will depend on your programming experience, your interest and your needs." (Very useful information isn't it).

Spend your money on Hentzenwerke books instead. They are wordy but not junk.

This is an introductory book and definitely not a complete reference book on your desktop. I know the programming under Foxpro for DOS but is completely new to Visual programming. This book would be good enough as your first guide to VFP. All subjects are covered at basic level. So, look for other detailed references if you want to be a killer in VFP.

I've read several Visusal FoxPro books, and to me, this was one of the better ones. It's not really designed as a reference book, but rather as a guide to helping the reader learn to use the various functionaliy available in VFP. This is a big topic, and the author addresses a wide range of issues. I would recommend this book to users who already have some (but not necessarily a lot) of VFP experience, and want to advance from a beginner to the next level. The book is over a thousand pages, so if you're looking for a "Learn VFP in 5-minutes", this is not the book for you.