I just ordered this book and waiting for it to arrive. I have no clue as to what kinnda stuff this book deals with but i cant wait to see Dr. Walmsley's work. This guy is a genious and has a great sense of humour. I have a History test tomorrow in his class which I am definatley going to fail. Ahh i wish i would've studied.

This is a great book for anyone who is interested in a more dynamic view of politics in pre-revolutionary Boston. Walmsley demonstrates, in interesting and readable prose, how previous assessments of Hutchinson have too often been influenced by the biased and facile rhetoric of his Bostonian peers. Dr. Walmsley successfully portrays Hutchinson as a political and social actor and victim of the tumultuous Boston scene. Through his writing we are able to conceive of Hutchinson as a man who acted for both personal and political reasons. Hutchinson cannot be so easily characterized as simply a placeman for the British. Neither was he a villain who delighted in crushing Boston's radical crowd. Rather, Walmsley shows that Hutchinson was a very human figure who often found himself caught between the intransigence of British colonial policy and the self-serving rhetoric of the Boston radical elite. I recommend this book to both laymen and professionals alike.

Despite his status of 'whipping boy'with much of the academic community - the 'icon' to be smashed - Wordsworth's literary merits endure. Or rather - his power to inspire, endures. Wordsworth made an important diction - between the public and the people. The pseudo-sophisticated wish to pander to fashionable modes of literary criticism; they will try to convince you that Wordsworth's poetry is passe, the 'tin god' of gemutlich Victorian dreams. Meanwhile, the 'people' still read W, and they always will - especially those who turn to the bosom of nature to nourish the spirit. J.S. Mill cured himself of chronic melancholia after opening himself to Wordsworth's work -the prospect (or 'project') - it endeavours to lead us toward. This text is De Selincourt's judicious editorial work. Otherwise expensive, this p/back version is worth buying.Be warned tho', Wordsworth did not live to see 'The Prelude' published.For that, Stephen Gill's ed is much to be recommnded.

HE IS INDEED THE MEMORABLE OF THE FINNEST ARTS THAT WORLD HAD PRODUCE.HE IS A RARE GEM OF ALL THE JEWELS.WELL INDEED HIS WORKS WERE ONE OF THE RARE COMODITIES IN THIS PRESENT WORLD OF LETURATURE.

This is a very worthwhile book. It provides an excellent commentary on Irish company law. It considers the issues at the heart of the subject. I regret to say that the providers of this site are incorrect in their assertion that this book is out of print - it was @subjected@ to its third re-print in December 1997 - YAHOO please take note... I would unreservedly recommend this book to all readers.

This book is SO cool, I just loved it! I'm like speachless! It was very helpful, and ou just don't want to pass it up, and I mean if it's too expicive, just go check it out at a libray, good chance that they'll have it.

The author did a great deal of research and believes that none of it should be lost. So we learn who went where of an afternoon, by what route, with what kind of contraption and how many horses, and what they had for tea. This book needs tightening up. Also, I find it very one-sided British. While the author mentions the Stamp Act and the Tea Party, he never really mentions where the basic call for freedom came from and how it developed into the ultimate uprising.

Engrossing, a real page-turner and indeed a study of how to write well and bring history to life. Ben from Brooklyn's review is totally concurred with by this Aussie. Author Philip McFarland's superb narrative brings back the diplomatic tensions and intrigues as the mother country and her colonial siblings slide to war. Sir Thomas Hutchison, a great if tragic American Loyalist figure is portrayed sensitively as his lonely exile becomes a permanent fixture, to his death in 1780 with the American Revolution still raging. On the patriot side,the author describes the 'turning' of that colossus and diplomatic agent, Ben Franklin, after being humiliated by the Privy Council, over leaking Hutchison's stolen correspondence. Josiah Quincy is the tragic young figure in all the diplomatic wrangling 1774-75, dying aboard ship on his return voyage, in American waters. Above all, the author does not engage in an anti-British tirade and indeed Dartmouth and Lord Richard Howe are revealed as having warm feelings towards the Americans. For anyone interested in the American Revolution this is a must-read.

I bought this because of specialized interest (Franklin) but found that it was a real page-turner (not my usual response to American Revolution). For anybody with the faintest interest in American History this is totally engrossing. Probably also a good study on how to write well -- I think it's the structure and organization.

John Galvin guides the reader through Boston politics in the fifteen years preceding the Revolution, 1760-1775. Mr. Galvin focuses on the three men he contends were the most influential in the events in Boston in the pre-revolutionary years (Thomas Hutchinson, James Otis, and Samuel Adams).Very readable and a good source of behind-the-scenes activity that led to the beginning of the American Revolution.

Author John R. Galvin explores the personalities of three key figures whose actions and discourses constituted the roots of the American Revolution. Galvin's admirable scholarly discipline and his keen analysis deserve praise. His scope is very precise: it begins and ends with the period where Hutchinson, Adams, and Otis were interacting. Readers interested in Hutchinson, Adams, or Otis should read this book to gain a deeper insight into their personal philosophies and into the political struggles and challenges which made or defeated them, and which ultimately constituted the unyielding backdrop of their social existence and historical judgement. Readers interested in mid-18th century Massachussetts or American politics will learn much about the many groups and organizations of the period.

I found this to be a helpful overview of weight training for women, but my major criticism is the shabby job of coordinating the layout of text and drawings. Most of the drawings demonstrating an exercise are not put on the same page as the text description of that movement! A major drawback to an exercise book...

I have examined a number of books on this topic, and found them wanting; in this small volume I found precisely the information I needed. The Fahey/Hutchinson book shows exercises for Nautilus and Universal Machines, and free weights as well. It is organized by regions of the body; for each exercise, the muscle group to be focussed upon is depicted by a line drawing, helping the trainee to visualize the region. The final chapter relates the important topics of diet and exercise in rather summary fashion, but as in every chapter, references are given for periodical articles and books on the subject. I would have liked a chapter on stretching, and how weight training might fit into an overall exercise program, and how exercise and aging interact. But those are minor quibbles; this book gives clear and safe instruction for the woman who wants weight training to be a part of her life for reasons of health and appearance

I was assigned this book for AP U.S. History class and was excited to read a book that focused on the point of view of a loyalist during the pre-revolutionary era instead of the typical rebel point of view that we've studied in the past. I reccommend this book to anyone who likes alternative points of view on possibly controversial subjects. The only drawback, the reason I did not give it four or five stars, is that it gives a lot of facts from the era like specific act names. I don't deem these things important when trying to understand where a loyalist in this area is coming from.

I'll cheerfully agree with the reviewer below who claims that Bailyn's biography of Thomas Hutchinson, who was a fixture in Massachusetts politics for the last two decades of the colonial period and who was the loyalist governor of the province at the time of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party, presupposes a general knowledge of American Revolutionary History and the acts of Parliament which figured so prominently in it. In fact, I'll go a step further and say that one's enjoyment of this book would be greatly enhanced by reading two of Bailyn's other works which provide the scholarly framework for Bailyn's argument in this book: THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN POLITICS. Bailyn's central argument in this book is that Hutchinson, the prototypical Loyalist, failed because he could never conceptually understand the ideological underpinnings of his opponents' thought. He was convinced that a small group of demogogues motivated by base self-interest had managed to convince the populace at large that the British government was plotting against them and their God-given rights when it was clear to Hutchinson that all notions of a perfidious British plot were absolutely ridiculous. Unfortunately, Hutchinson's analysis of the situation was severely flawed, and Hutchinson's failure to understand his opponents made him incapable of convincing them that they were in error.

Bailyn is the foremost living historian of the American Revolution, and this book is what one would expect from someone of Bailyn's stature. It's wonderfully researched and wonderfully written, and it truly is a joy to read. It's not the first book that one should read about the American Revolution, but it's certainly on the list.