i am a grand, grand nephew of mr. reedy's! i have known of his lore and have long possessed the book reviewed here. it was written as a college thesis, i believe, by mr. putzel during his studies at washington u. here in st. louis.

i've long been amused by reedy's wit and daring, for st. louis was a very catholic, conservative town in the teens and twenties when his work flourished. fortunately for me, and unlike many irish families in town today, my entire family tree from its roots in clonmel, ireland to my grandparents here in st. louis have been carefully chronicled by the author.

as for reedy's contributions, carl sandburg and vachel lindsay (among others) apparently owed much of their introductory successes to reedy's "mirror", which was a literary journal of the day.

the security building in downtown st. louis continues to house businesses and professionals in its walls. at one time, my great, great uncle published his 20,000 subscriber journal for readers throughout the world. and what a life he lived outside of his office.

hope you enjoy!

It's hard to believe that a man who had such tremendous influence on American letters was all but forgotten before Max Putzel brought him back to life in this extraordinary biography. William Marion Reedy discovered and/or published many of the most important writers of his day, including Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Theodore Dreiser and Zoe Akins. At the same time, he led a rough-and-tumble life in his native St. Louis, once even waking up after a night of hard drinking to discover he had married a local prostitute! Putzel's portrayal of Reedy in all his brilliance and decadence is one of those rare works of excellent scholarship that is also just plain fun to read. I recommend it with gusto!

Steve and his sidekick Max land in central Arizona (in 1882) in the body of a famous actor and his friend newspaperman. The adventures of the next two days are both hilarious and, well, funny. Steve, while sitting in a barber's chair, happens to comment on the HUGE tumbleweed outside the window. Unfortunatly, the town's gunslinger happens to be in the same room. His knickname? The Tumbleweed Kid! OOOOOOPS!

This book is fabulous! Humorous, adventurous . . . it's been a good ten years since I first read it and it still makes me smile. Pick it up --- you'll never forget it! Gery Greer and Bob Ruddick never cease to impress me!

My children and I really like this book. I appreciate the realistic situation in which the little boy is tempted to lie. I think my children could really see something they relate to and they could see the moral of the story about how lies get out of hand. Great book!

I purchased five of the Michael Waite, Building Christian Character books in August of 94. I was most impressed with Max and the Big Fat Lie,it was interesting,very humorous and to the point. I used these books for children chapel at church, it kept the children attention because it wasn't long and rattling, but fun and something they could relate to, and a scripture that was short enough for them to memorize. My next favorites are Casey the Greedy Young Cowboy and Handy Dandy Helpful Hal. Buzzle Billy and Boggin, Blizzy, and Sleeter the Cheater were written in a tongue twister type of rhyme. It had words the children didn't understand, older than 7 may appreciate these, but under that age group don't understand what a buzzle is. Overall they are fun and interesting and have a great message!

This is THE book for all the Max fans out there- me being one of them and kicking myself for not buying it way back then. Sure hope I'll get another chance! So does my son, Max. Maira Kalman has changed the way I see children's books- She's the BEST!

Maira Kalman is a genius of freshness. a fresh breathness of couleur and "dreamy schemes"...she writes of love, amour, le coeur and life, through the use of a dog who finds a wife. She is for all children (those we can see and those trapped in adult's bodies)full of bewilderin' and those who drink toddies...this book NEEDS to be in print, for it creates human spirint for any animal being who should come near it. To max & suzette & maira thankyou merci beaucoup!!xoxoxox! (you've reminded me that life (and art) is supposed to be fun) now i am done. -S.

Max, like Maira's books, is extremely well made. There are a few surprises, which I won't disclose since the best part about Max is exploring his wacky wardrobe and accessories. Max is also the perfect size for the bookshelf, and likes to hang out (where else) with the poetry books. Max's eccentricity and charm is captured in this doll, and he is a must for any big fan.

I couldn't help but to wonder...how the heck was Maira planning to design a dog who has such an abstract and colorful appearance in all her books. And then I got the doll in the mail and knew right away the design was perfect. This doll is an excellent 3 Dimensional representation of Max Stravinsky...with his 2 tone ears, mushy nose, akward eyes and clothes that look like they were purchased at a thrift store (maybe they were). There are a lot of neat surprises with the Max Doll that can be enjoyed by adults of all ages... Be sure to check out Max's boxer shorts while your at it.

An intern brought in a copy of this book into the office and before I knew it, all the designers were demanding they got a copy too!

It's a great book that deals with the stuff that's often forgotten when building a site - like explaining the benefits of good planning from the outset and then getting the thing ranked highly on search engines!

Got the book yesterday and didn't put it down till I read the whole thing from cover to cover! This is great book for anyone wanting to learn the best way to plan, prepare and promote a website and the author's succinct and witty style doesn't make it feel like a class lecture! The in-depth guides about search engines and information architecture means I've learnt how to get my next site right from the start and there's some great inspirational illustrations in there too.

Because Max Karant was my grandfather, I'd heard from his own mouth some of the stories in this book, but I never truly understood the impact he'd had in the realm of general aviation until after his death. This book was extremely informative to me on that level, but it also accurately captures the sense of humor, passion for flying, and a sometimes obstinate (in a good way, from my point of view!) sense of purpose that this man had for his work. If you're interested in Max Karant's life, this is an honest telling of his adult life.

I thought I knew Max well. We both worked for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. However, there were many things about Max, the man, and Max, the crusader for general aviation, that I didn't know until I read this facinating book. Anyone who loves to fly, should read Max's story and be thankful that the "Curmudgeon of Aviation" did battle for so many years to make it possible for them to enjoy the "freedom of flight." Max didn't do it alone, of course, he had AOPA, its staff and legions of members behind him, but perhaps more than any other individual he represented the spirit of general aviation in its formative years. Max's early life was largely unknown to me before I read this book, and I found the descriptions of some of his adventures in the air entertaining reading.

Very colorful, and wonderfully written. This book is about a little boy Max and his pig. As you turn each page it takes you through all of the steps in growing a plant from the seed to the final flower. Whats better is that each page has some type of activity like moving tabs, pop up pictures or lift the flap. Overall with few lines to a page it is a wonderful story for all youngsters, and its scientific!

Our Children's Librarian used this book for my daughter's ToddlerTime class the day that we planted sunflower seeds, and all the children LOVED "Max Loves Sunflowers." The bright colors, simple line-drawings and movement on every page captured the interest of all the two-year-olds in the class. I highly recommend this book for youngsters; kids can watch the sunflower "grow" from seed to seedling to a huge plant. Very entertaining, colorful, and fun!

Red it, read it, read it! So realistic! It is a must. Loved the book. Felt with the charicters. "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn." Best line ever written!

It is a really good help to review for the test, you can't just read the whole book over, so these notes really helped me study!!! I don't know what I would have done without them!!

Provides the Missing Conceptual Framework to Weberian Comparative-Historical Sociology

I can only agree with the comments of the earlier review. This is a great book for those interested in Weber or in social theory in general. I would recommend reading Professor Kalberg's new translation of Weber's classic "The Protestant Ethic & The Spirit of Capitalism" before tackling this book. Kalberg's introduction to PE provides a nice intro to this book as well.

Of particular interest to me were the varied uses of Ideal Types and how they are shown by the author to have a "broad-ranging theoretical capacity" besides being useful has a heuristic yardstick in sociological comparisons.

All in all I came away with a sense of awe and respect for not only Max Weber's, but also Stephen Kalberg's achievement here -- The former in originating and conceptualizing and the latter in synthesizing and reconstructing Weber's intellectually stunning methodology and structure. In short this is a brilliant work from one of today's foremost Weberian scholars.

This work is a superb characterization of the monumental accomplishments of Max Weber, one of the founders of sociology and one of the greatest theoreticians of historiography and law straddling the 19th and the 20th centuries. In this wonderful book, Kalberg addresses himself to some of the major issues of interpretation besetting Weber scholarship, among which are: the scope and character of Weber's appeal to what is widely understood to be his "methodological individualism" (in dealing with this topic, Kalberg stresses the crucial role of the socially-situated TRAGER (in English: "carriers" or "bearers" of a social phenomenon, e.g., 'the Protestant ethic')): the exact nature of what Weber intended with his use of the concept of an 'ideal-type' (beautifully exemplified by Kalberg in so many passages in his book): the characteristics of Weber's comparative-historical method of sociological analysis (which Kalberg demonstrates is so much richer than later versions of such an attempt, especially in US social science circles): and so much more besides. This is a profoundly rich, historically informed and textually precise work of scholarship. One of the finest books on the great work of a great thinker yet in print. I recommend this book to all sociology students and professionals, as well as to historians of ideas, philosophers of social sciences and to general readers who will appreciate the true richness of Max Weber's genius.