Buy one from zShops for: $24.95
List price: $29.95 (that's 30% off!)
Used price: $5.67
Buy one from zShops for: $13.94
The first entire volume says little about Washington, because Marshall felt he needed to set the stage with a condensed history of the colonies prior to Washington. Few of Washington's later biographers went to such subsequent introductory lengths, but then Marshall's law practice ended up acquainting him with the early pre-history of the deeds and conveyances of Virginia, the further elaboration of which can be interpreted as enveloping the rest of the colonies.
This is also a history of the U.S. Army, and how it fought and starved in successive cycles which are described in minute detail exceeding most other accounts. Some of this covers organized military campaigns preceding the declaration of independence, the scope of which I had not heretofore realized by undergoing annual waves of pilgrim-study in "My Early Education."
Leading and embodying this story of land and armies, and ideas, Marshall gives us Washington, illuminated most clearly by excerpts from Washington's own letters. Marshall also gives us Marshall, distilling out of military examples and instances of weak government preceding 1789, potent arguments for increased federal power to do the things our federal government has since done quite well: raise armies, raise taxes, subdue the Indians, kick out the European powers, build a strong navy, and take no back talk from smallish tyrants resentful of centralized governmental power directly and simultaneously exercised on each citizen, and on each state.
When Hamilton wrote that we need "energy in the Executive" he had to have been thinking of Washington, and Marshall catalogs this energy with meticulous documentation of each British officer leading campaigns against us, each subordinate officer on our side under Washinton's command, and how the constant maneuver of armies up and down the length of our seaboard was accomplished--usually without many shoes and without much dry powder.
So Marshall knowing Washington probably insulated him from too much disconnected iconography, and his writing is free of modern fixations on negative or unseemly personal or pychographic tidbits of trivia. Modern readers are left to cling to factual reporting of how Washington handled this British Lord or that recalcitrant congress.
There's a lot here in all five volumes, and the flow of the over-written parts isn't that bad once you get used to it. When one man had such a central role in all of the key events of our country's founding, and rode out the formation into its institutional phase, thereafter to die in bed at home, Marshall may not have been able to write it any other way than to go over all of the events, to catch the essence of the man.
Neat discovery: LaFayette was only 24 years old while commanding the French at the battle of Yorktown. Marshall quotes from the letters of Cornwallis (or maybe it was Sir Henry Clinton) who refers to LaFayette as "the boy." This is the same boy who later presented Washington with the key to the Bastille, which today hangs on the wall of the stairway of Mount Vernon going up to the second floor.
Used price: $20.00
Author John Paul Marosy is a former family caregiver, and has also served as CEO of leading organizations in elder and home health care. He takes a pre-emptive approach to management intervention, proffering simple and elegant ways for managers to avoid, for example, the tension-related blowups that happen when employees are stressed.
He also suggests dialogues that put both managers and employees at ease when discussing what for most people is an intensely personal, family issue. He details how managers can collect resource information that empowers employees to make their own decisions and includes a list of national organizations.
This book should become a resource on every manager's shelf. It's one thing to strive to run a family friendly company and another to run such a company WELL. This book, if utilized properly, could save a lot of jobs and well being.
Christina L. Pappas Managing Editor Worcester Business Journal, Worcester, MA 4/14/99
Used price: $15.00
Used price: $7.00
Buy one from zShops for: $9.82
List price: $19.95 (that's 30% off!)
Used price: $13.87
Buy one from zShops for: $11.95
Jung, this voyage speaks eloquently about the complex relationships between men.
Used price: $100.00
Used price: $6.42
Buy one from zShops for: $8.10