This is a great book for anyone nearing the close of any scholastic or professional carreer. The book is an easy read and the interviews are short enough that even young readers would enjoy this book. It is a great window into life lived with passion. It is an example that success is not always immediate, but if you stay true to yourself and your dreams, the payoff is personal success, which is always greater than personal gain which is much easier to find. The interviews are fun and diverse. No matter what path in life you are taking, there is an interview that will probably mirror your experience. Even more interensting than the interviews themselves though, is the story of the author and how he and his friends landed the interviews in the book. The only reason for the four star rating is that I was always wanting more at the end of each interview. Although this may be the goal of the author, it is not everyday that someone gets to peek into the lives of some of the world's most successful people. Overall though, I highly reccomend the book.

This is a great book for anyone nearing the close of any scholastic or professional carreer. The book is an easy read and the interviews are short enough that even young readers would enjoy this book. It is a great window into life lived with passion. It is an example that success is not always immediate, but if you stay true to yourself and your dreams, the payoff is personal success, which is always greater than personal gain which is much easier to find. The interviews are fun and diverse. No matter what path in life you are taking, there is an interview that will probably mirror your experience. Even more interensting than the interviews themselves though, is the story of the author and how he and his friends landed the interviews in the book. The only reason for the four star rating is that I was always wanting more at the end of each interview. Although this may be the goal of the author, it is not everyday that someone gets to peek into the lives of some of the world's most successful people. Overall though, I highly reccomend the book.

Very nice, easy to read book. Without any verbiage or pomposity, gives you a sense in how many different ways people live out their lives, and how different things matter to different people. Interspersed in the book are true gems of wisdow that interviewes occasionally drop. Things you've all heard before, but here having strong credibility, because they are clearly life's lessons these people learned through toil and struggle, not read off a fortune cookie.

The author has previously written for such unusally reliable sources as Time, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. There are 1,078 references in this book in 426 pages of text covering an introduction, a prologue, and 18 chapters. The references are from such sources as memoranda and reports from U.S. government agencies, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and the New Republic, to name only a few. The author, therefore, cannot be dismissed as some sort of right wing crackpot. What Timmerman does is document Jackson's unashamed schemes to line his own pockets and those of his friends and family in the name of racial diversity, economic opportunity, and other buzzwords popular with income redistribution leftists. But Jesse is the quintessential capitalist. He doesn't do anything he can't get paid for, to include NOT speaking up in favor of minority groups who have sought his assistance in the past but didn't have the money to pay his fee! SHAKEDOWN is an appropriate title for this work, as Jackson has managed to get governments and businesses to pony up for his schemes in order to keep from being branded as racist by Jackson. This book could have been subtitled "Show Me the Money!" He has definitely helped himself, and made himself rich in the process. Whether he has helped others is truly open to question, as the author has convincingly documented.

What an eye opener! This books seems to be very factual. The events and circumstances surrounding the Reverend Jackson, excuse me so called Reverend Jackson, are appalling. This book shows a sad fact in America today. That the corporations, the press and even the average white person are petrified by the thought of being accused of racism against an African-American. And Jesse Jackson has taken full advantage of that to enrich himself and his family. This book is a must read for anyone who would like to see some of the details of the stories we have been seeing on the news. Adding credibility, in my opinion, to the facts presented in this book is the fact that this book has been reviewed on many news programs and talk shows and Jesse has refused to make any appearances rebutting the facts. Those that have attempted to defend him on these shows have reverted to pointing out the good he has done (I'm sure there are good things). This book presents information on the bad things he has done, with indepth information that does not appear on the evening news. This will not be the last book I read on the subject but I feel that it is a very important book for anyone to read that is interested in the man, the history and the smoke screen that Jesse has created.

This is a magnificent expose of one of the most evil and destructive creatures of our time. It is truly a tragedy that a cretinous subhumanoid like Jackson has been given the power and influence that he has-and that the number of honest and ethical black leaders is so very small. Timmerman makes very clear the horrific crimes with which this phony so-called "Reverand" is affiliated (street gangs, African butchers and many others), his racist contempt for whites, his hatred for the United States, affiliations with Communists etc. This of course will not affect the loyalty of his horde of brain-dead followers-and their imbecilic chanting, slogans and "boycotts"-but it is vital information for the rest of us!

Rekdal's sentimentality in A Crash of Rhinos is almost as cloying as her sentimentality in The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee. I want to like the poems, because the author seems genuinely smart and insightful, but what music and power they have is drowned out by a pervasive self-consciousness.

these poems get under your skin. Quirky, witty, wise and moving, Rekdal's poems have both sweep and focus. In one poem, she deftly connects the planet Pluto with the underworld god with the Disney cartoon... while exploring the end of a relationship. These are poems informed with history and humor, poetry that's never ashamed to entertain. "Sex, like dinner," she reminds us, "has serious consequences."

This is a book of poems with a pulse. Page after page thumps with a rhythm and a language that is both corporal and spectral, sensual and sacred. The inspiration here is a breath of fire, and those with a passion for poetry will most certainly feel invigorated by it.