This is the true inside information on the nomination of Ike for President. Along the way learn about New York and the New York Young Republicans. A well written story. I feal like I know the man. May he rest in peace.

This collection of remarkable 19th Century watercolors depicts the best known flowers and fruits mentioned in the Bible. The exquisite and decorative work of Victorian piety, showing a love both of flowers and of the Scriptures, was complied by an army colonel who had experienced the heat of battle in the scorching Egyption sun. After a day's fighting, Lieutenant Colonel William McCheane returned to his tent and turned to his Bible and his watercolors. Despite the proximity of the Holy Land, he never went there, and he took as models for his drawings English garden plants with which he was familiar. This gives his drawings, which have never been published, a special charm. John Chancellor's scholarly and informative text considers botanical aspects as well as the symbolism and mythology of the plants, and detailed references are included which list the flowers and fruits mentioned in the Bible with scriptural references.

I read the book about 5 years ago and it told how we gave away all our technology to Europe and to Japan. We would educate immigrants from these countries at MIT and CalTech. Then they would go back home and carefully take our expired copyrights and make fantastic inventions, for example the bullet train in Europe.

This is the single most insightful book about our country and society, how we got here and where do we go?...This is an incredible book that all of the silent majority should read! A wonderful book wish you could get his other books as well! Paul Cedervall

Having come of age when this book was posed I was amazed at how uninformed I was.USA

This is my first book by Anne Rivers Siddons. I must say she has a fine way with words and story-telling. However, I expect this group of stories played better in 1975 than it does today. Siddons portrays herself as awfully childish in almost every essay, crying buckets of tears and fretting over the most superficial aspects of life. If you like the modern-day southern belle genre, you might enjoy this, but if you like your women a little gutsier, steer clear.

The evening news has always drawn me like a magnet - but sometimes watching it is soul wrenching. Past months have been particularly poignant. Mass murder in the name of God and parents murdering or abusing children entrusted to them, and on and on, it all become cumulative. I knew I had to replace my copy of JOHN CHANCELLOR MAKES ME CRY and re-read it. Isn't it too cool when a book is even better the more you read it? Can I recommend this book enough?

Ms. Siddons' foray into non-fiction is an excellent introduction to the depth of feeling and emotion in the many fine books she has written since. There is something that touches me on every single page of this year long glimpse into the life of this very REAL lady. Weather, stepchildren, cats, suburbs, politics, it's all there, along with a delicious slice of Maine and summers on the seashore. "On fast-darkening twilight patios, when you are thrumming with sunburn and clean and still damp from a shower, in fresh cotton and on your second tall drink, it can steal away your workday soul." I find myself again and again in this deliciously emotional piece of non-fiction. "I am a natural if sadly undisciplined and haphazard hostess." "Do not go gentle into that good night." Her love of words, her politics, her empathy make for one of the best reads EVER. Please read this, and love it for me?

I have recently found Siddons works,and have read 6 so far. They engross the reader, take him into the story, and keep him there to the end. I would love to know more about the author, and exactly how she totally captures the audience. Thank you ms. Siddons for many engrossing hours.

As he does most of his book, Verne used some of the events of his age in detailing the adventures of a traveller setting sail from the USA to London. The cargo of cotton catches fire (much like you will hear that square-bailed hay will catch fire if stored wet - due to heat and composting), and the ship struggles to reach land before it burns. To complicate things, the captain is something of a neurotic and has gudied it off course.

The fire is quenched thanks to a crash into a reef; unfortunately the damages that have resulted from both the crash and fire eventually sink the vessel. Two rafts are made; one breaks loose of it's own and the second contains the survivors. Provisions for two or three months are lost during a storm, casualties mount, and canibalism is resorted to. In the end the few survivors land at the mouth of the Amazon.

Verne writes with his usual first person introverted narrative style. Conversation is rare. There's only a faint glimmer of romance involved. In short, this is a serious book, not a "popularist ..." yellowback, as some book critics might note.

Overall, if you are looking for "man's adventure" stories, and a break from touchy-feely novels, this is a good read. It is a break from over-glitz action movies; I could easily imagine a movie, if well directed and not too Hollywoodish, making a bit of money, since no movie I've seen yet has come anywhere near the images that came to mind when reading it. It's a real good suspense/scare story. Makes you glad that despite the failings of today's technology, you don't have to risk getting on board a ship and hear someone say "I've been shipwrecked nine times so far..."