This book is great. The stories behind each magnificent animal makes you feel like you were there on the hunt. Very insightful info on the Big Bucks that have been made famous. I am looking forward to the second book Legendary Whitetails II. You won't be disappointed with this one. My hat is off to Dick Idol!!!

If you are a deer hunter-buy this book! The short stories about the 40 greatest deer of all time and photos of these beasts are enough to make the heart of the most seasoned deer hunter thump with buck fever. Since my purchase of this book, I have bought three others for my three lucky hunting buddies. What a book!

Reading this book was enlightening. I came away with the realization that what happened to these people can happen to anyone. Most of the people in the book were ordinary people that just went out hunting. Some were "trophy Hunters" but many were just subsistence meat hunters that were out looking for food to feed their families. Many of them would typically have been happier shooting a nice young fork horn or a doe.

Anyone that is a Whitetail deer hunter would enjoy this book thoroughly. I could not put it down once I started reading it. I can't wait for volume two.

This a great book, for trophy hunters and novice alike. Full of useful information and strategy, the authors enthusiam comes right through the pages. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who loves hunting whitetails.

Comprehensive and well written. Covers the big picture. Has lots of detail on the tactics of hunting big bucks. Very informative on the behavior of these animals. This is an excellent single source for the subject. I learned a lot even though I've successfully hunted deer for over 25 years. Mr Morris is an effective spokesman on the issue of hunting and he should continue to attempt to enlighten the "undecided majority" between those for and against hunting. Could someone tell me how much of this book is covered in the " Advanced Strategies for Trophy Whitetails" by this author?

Dick Morris is full of himself. However, this book is worth reading...particularly if you are a political junkie like myself. "Behind the Oval Office: Winning The Presidency in the Nineties," offers a front row seat to White House political strategy. To this end, the one conclusion that all will agree upon with this book is that President Bill Clinton is a slave to the polls.

In many ways this book reveals how shallow politics can get. Morris is an extremely influential political actor in the Clinton White House and is able to expertly navigate the President through the dangerous aftermath of the 1994 Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole midterm Republican advances. Moreover, there is no doubt that Morris laid the foundation for Bill Clinton's second term victory.

Morris does not enjoy the victory...he goes out in disgrace. Nevertheless, this book shows how the author's twenty-year relationship with William Jefferson Clinton and his wife Hillary allowed this couple from Arkansas to survive many political storms. Morris is a master of polling and offers many insights on how polling tracks voter thinking on many sensitive issues. This book is easy to read and a straightforward account of how the "big boys" win in the political arena.

Bert Ruiz

As a political staffer myself, I am always looking for "behind-the-scenes" type of books. "Behind the Oval Office" provides its readers with a thorough understanding of the Clinton White House and the manner in which it has conducted business over the past few years. Dick Morris, in depth, discusses many of the approaches that Clinton took in his attempt to gain successful reelection in 1996. Particularly interesting is Morris' triangulation approach to governing. I would highly recommend this book to others who are interested in presidential politics.

The undisputed master of polling, political stratagem, geopolitical sagacity, and, er... prostitutes writes an amazingly candid look into the Clinton White House worth reading years later. Morris chronicles his triangulation strategy that unfortunately led to Clinton's improbable 2nd term. Morris operated largely in secret as "Charlie" over the phone and later in and out of the East Wing while Clinton's staff worked separately in the West Wing.

Morris tells how Clinton instructs Morris to continue with the subterfuge to avoid the largely ineffective and overly quarrelsome Leon Panetta and Harold Ickes. Without Morris and his insight, Clinton no doubt would not have signed the Republican-sponsored Welfare Reform Act and would have lost in 1996. Morris, who is a foot shorter than Clinton, was tackled by Clinton while in Arkansas, only later to be consoled by Hillary as she told him that Bill only does that to people he loves. With friends like that...

Dick Morris, well known political operative and architect of Clinton's 1996 "triangulation" strategy has attempted to write a book of political history. He partially succeeds and partially fails. In this book, Morris looks at a number of different political figures from the 19th and 20th century. (Actually, except for Lincoln, all are from the 20th century) In trying to analyze why some had success and others failed, Morris breaks his stories into categories of strategies. Some politicians such as Churchill and De Gaulle are regarded as having stood up for their beliefs while waiting for others to come around to their view. Others are regarded as having triangulated their positions between two opposing views. These would include G.W. Bush and Clinton of course. He also examines politicians who exploited new technologies such as FDR with radio and JFK with television. The book is generally interesting but Morris has two major problems. First, he sees all policy advocated by political figures as strategic. This is certainly what I would associate with the Clinton administration but I hardly think that Churchill had electoral strategy in mind when he entered the wildreness for a dozen years. Morris fails or perhaps cannot differentiate governing from running for office. The other problem is in his insistence on forcing square pegs into round holes. There is really very little similarity between De Gaulle's France and Lincoln's pre-Civil War united States. Nor can Wilson's problems in selling the Versailles treaty be equated with actually running for office. In my view, Morris would have done better to simply take a dozen or so of these stories and looked at each one as unique while using his expertise in electoral strategy to show what a political figure did right or wrong. To force each story into a few very broad categories weakens this book considerably. I would still recommend reading it, however.

Another excellent book by one of the finest political consultants, presidential advisers and at times a behind a scene world shaker in the persona of Dick Morris.

The author outlines several case studies on how a person seeking power can succeed or fail once power is within his domain. I particular found his studies on Johnson to be of insightful accuracy. It is evident that when you become use to power and confident you can handle it, the time of pride is paramount as you fail and fall. Johnson's Vietnam War and War on Poverty were policies that he thought would make him great. He thought he could correct any weakness in them, but they ended up consuming him and all his power. The legacy of death, debt and failure is a price America is still paying just to satisfy his misguided judgment for personal praise.

Additionally, I came away from seeing booby traps that each President or his well intended aides set up for him. For example, Clinton cannot practice American principles and values by violating them. In times of crisis, this kind of leadership is more dangerous than any enemy outside as you weaken the American people's beliefs from within. One can survive as Clinton proved, but he can never flourish and his own legacy is left blemished for others to cover.

And this is clearly contrasted by how President Reagan practice his own power. Regardless of media pundits, created criticism or being called stupid to sleepy, Reagan just stood up and took them all on by standing on his own personal principles of beliefs. It made all others adjust to his vision and in the end set the stage for market economies, bankrupting communism and placing America values in the forefront of an ever-dangerous world bent on socialist societal suicide.

Dick Morris is the first one to call if your a CEO, Elected Official or Foreign Leader in trouble of your own making or choosing. He showed all of us how to handle personal embarrassment and public ridicule by acting on his own principles of values with admissions, apologies, and honesty. No one knows better how to stop the rain of your critics than Morris.

I highly recommend this book because of the writer's insight not because of any poetical or political agenda. Dick Morris knows about power and how to advise someone to use it when they have it. He is to be listened to and learned from, not made fun of because of envy.

If nothing else, you'll walk away from this book with the opinion that Dick Morris is a very bright man and quite the historian. In a sense, this work is almost a series of short history lessons as well as remarkably astute observations about the successes and failures of politicians like Clinton, Gore, Reagan and Nixon...and DeGaulle, Churchill, Lincoln and Rockefeller as well.

I saw Dick Morris pitch this book on Fox News Channel, and the title is a bit misleading if you aren't paying attention...this is definitely not inside gossip about what went on at the Clinton White House, and he doesn't take shots at any of the pols he writes about. Instead, he makes fascinating points: Al Gore cost himself the 2000 presidential election by shying away from his key issue (environmentalism) out of fear that it wouldn't play, and Bill Clinton's ability to triangulate successfully in the mid 90's had him on a course to be on of our country's greatest presidents before the scandals brought him down. There are also fascinating comparisons and contrasts between Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, men whose politics were similar but whose approaches made the difference between vast success and utter failure.

Morris also savages Richard Nixon, but it has nothing to do with Watergate--he blasts the former president for being vague (and ultimately untruthful) about his Vietnam intentions, and he compares yesterday's press which let Nixon get away with not answering questions to today's corps which would have hounded him into submission.

A bit dry at times, and although all chapters and insights are interesting, some of the synopses of the international leaders aren't quite as compelling. But this is fascinating reading for any student of politics, and one heck of a history lesson.

I liked this book alot. Dick Morris is probably the best political commentator on Fox News - therefore the best on TV. His opinions and ideas are usually right on the mark.

I did feel that he tended to hammer his points a little too much in this book. Do we really need 50 pages to convince us that the NY Times is pushing its liberal dogma to the masses? I don't think so.

I would have liked to read more of his thoughts on what I feel is the biggest threat to the American political system - Hilary Clinton.

Dick Morris drops the kid gloves and comes out swinging in this one, taking on everyone who he feels has let the country down and/or set a poor example in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The first chapters hit the hardest and get this book off to a whale of a start, as Morris goes right after the New York Times and ridicules the legendary publication for its weighted polling and agenda-driven reporting--this chapter is especially interesting in light of the recent Jayson Blair scandal, which came to light after the book was written and just before release.

The next target is President Clinton, and while Morris, who worked in the Clinton White House for two years, greatly admires Clinton's domestic accomplishments, he takes the former Commander in Chief to task for putting his place in history ahead of standing up to a clearly growing terrorism problem. Whatever you think of Bill Clinton, this is one take--from a former Clinton aide--you probably haven't heard yet. And it isn't pretty.

The mainstream media is hammered for their continual doom and gloom approach and over-reliance on equally negative retired military "experts" in the studio, and it's disheartening to be reminded of what lengths--like the New York Times--the mainstream media went to in order to ensure that the war effort would backfire. In that vein, Morris savages the Hollywood anti-war crowd, singling out the most egregious and ridiculous comments which were made to push the same agenda. Finally Morris takes France to task and underscores how much of an appeaser they've been to Hussein for the past two decades, and how their utter refusal to come to our side as we prepared for war was simply staggering after everything our country has done for them.

The final four chapters, representing Part Two, aren't quite as compelling. But Morris makes solid points and will open a lot of eyes as he describes the gerrymandering which has all but guaranteed that members of the House of Representatives will be in their slots for years. He paints a terribly disheartening picture of how some congressmen actually put legislation in place which keeps investors from being able to sue companies which defraud their investors, making a strong case that many in Washington on both sides of the political aisle are to blame for the lack of investor confidence in today's economy.

Finally, Morris, who lost his mother to lung cancer, describes the efforts of people like Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore and others who launched the huge lawsuit against the tobacco industry and paved the way for hundreds of thousands of dollars in research and awareness to curb teen smoking--and he spotlights the governors and others who've chosen to spend that money on things other than anti-smoking in order to balance bloated budgets. The final chapter is devoted to the plight of the elderly and neglected in our nursing homes, and it's an equally ugly picture.

This book will make you mad, and it will make you sad. But they are stories which need to be told, and Dick Morris writes, as always, with a high degree of intelligence and an especially enlightened perspective. Very timely, and highly recommended. I almost never give politically-based books five stars, but this one is very close.

There have been many books published since the events of September 11, 2002. Most skewer the Clinton legacy and the left-wing opposition to Bush. Some are excellent (O'Reilly and Coulter), some interesting (Savage) and some in between (Hannity). But this book by Dick Morris has them all beaten and beaten by a large margin. The difference? Unlike the others, who are looking into the fishbowl, Morris has actually lived in the fishbowl as an advisor to Bill Clinton. This special insight is what fuels his book and gives it a special weight not shared by the others.

Although he begins with an attack against the left-wing bias so prevalent in our media, Morris does not stop there. He takes on all manner of sacred cows, and his chapter on the Hollywood liberals transformed by the media into America's newest set of intellectuals is worth the price of admission alone, especially as concerns Streisand and Sarandon. His take, on the disingenuousness of France during the Iraq war, is also hilarious, and dead on target.

What also makes Morris so special from the rest is his strong reliance on facts over opinions and feelings and his refusal to play the game of demonization. Clinton may have been dead wrong in his views and actions on foreign terrorism, but he was not a traitor. The only real venom I saw from Morris was toward France, and there I couldn't disagree with him, especially with their tasteless and racist treatment of Serena Williams at the recent French Open still reverberating in my mind.

Morris does run out of steam at the end when he begins taking on a slew of offenders (elected officials misusing tobacco settlement monies, the tobacco industry itself, and that all-round target, Congress itself), but, still, he does so with a deftness and panache that is simply not found in the other books on the subjects. Funny, informative and on-target.

This is one of the easiest-to-read, most comprehensible political books I have ever read. Dick Morris made his basic ideas about a subject some call "dull" become important to the reader. "The New Prince" provided me with a deeper understanding of politics, giving me new insights into the subject. I have not yet read "The Prince" by Machiavelli, but nonetheless this book appears to have ideas that will prove meaningful in the years to come. Dick Morris gives more credit to voters than most people in the political arena do. He realizes that voters no longer make decisions based on single issues. He recognizes that people today are much more informed than citizens of past administrations. In America, people no longer want to elect a senator, let him do his job, and six years later evaluate his work in another election. They want involvement all the time. The author shows us how these changes in the desires of citizens change how a politician should make decisions. This books expresses great new political ideas in user-friendly vocabulary through an almost conversational tone with understandable, sound examples.

If you can get past any preceived ideas you might have of Mr. Morris, this is an insightful discussion of modern U.S. politics. Morris did not invent modern political polling, he just raised it to an art form. The real villian is neither Morris or Machiavelli. The real and dangerous villian is the Prince who seeks to achieve, first and foremost, political power for himself and distantly second, if at all, to enhance the welfare of the state. Machevelli's and Morris's genius is not in what they created, but rather in what they were able to discern already in operaton in the real world. These observations, which escaped all others until pointed out, are condemned along with the writers as evil incarnate. Morris illustrates how modern politics operates and what motivates our modern politician. Machiavelli's and Morris's most important observation is "Get Real". This is how the game evolved and is now played. To be in the game, either as a player or as an educated observer, Morris book provides timely and valuable insights.

Another straight forward, straight talking and an insider's informative book which the public and all political pundits will enjoy. Dick Morris for all who critique him pretty much follows the public's wishes and get them what they want and this book helps explain that in vivid detail. Whatever you want to say about Mr. Morris, I tell you now, he is a refreshing breath of reality in politics and is not afraid to speak his mind or convey his attitude of knowledge which is considerable. When confronted by scandal he admits the truth, takes responsibility and moves on with life, the exact same thing the Bible and any Self-Help book teaches you.. The book does the same in many aspects of the subject matter. We are never perfect, but we can try to be, and Dick Morris comes closest to political perfection than any other political person in awhile. The book is excellent pure excellence.

Lucky Luke is an American Cowboy as seen by a wonderful Belgian Cartoonist. This is certainly not the best of the series -- I prefer anything about the Daltons or the various tales of 'opening' the west (usually with place names in the title). But they are wonderfully readable and great if you are learning French.

I found this book a waste of time. Looking for actual timber frame plans, instead I found a bunch of pictures in no particular order or organization. May make a makeshift coffee table book for people to read while you think big thoughts in your completed timber frame home, but it sure won't help you design one.

Just as a first impression of this book: Some nice pictures of timber frame homes, but you will find the hideous interior decorating in most of the homes to be quite a distraction. Long on photos and short on text, this may not be the best "planning" book for your timberframe home.

As the editor of LivingHome, I have to say that this new book is a real winner. With the popularity of timberframe homes, many of the best companies put out beautiful brochures (some even charging for them), and some have Web sites, but the photos on the Web don't do justice to the soaring spaces and gorgeous interiors of these type of homes. The authors of this book have gathered some of the best photos from some of the best companies. Plus there is good actionable information and resources for those of us who say that some day we are going to build one these beauties, no matter what.

the vote.com website is laughable, the opinions expressed there are the result of numerous right-wing extremist sites providing direct links to the voting polls- heavily skewing the results. This guy proposes that the world will be revolutionized by the internet. I don't doubt it. He claims that it has the potential to make america a democracy- (whereas before only very tiny countries could be true democracies) there I agree as well- if the path is followed very carefully. The book, however, is an adverisement for his website, and his website is totally worthless.

As someone who likes the idea of using the internet as a vehicle for public opinion, he should REALLY consider taking a statistics class sometime. He would soon realize that his methods of sampling don't come close to representing american demographics, and his questions are sometimes quite leading.

This would just be fun and games, except that politicians use polls like these to claim that president bush has a 90% approval rating or that the american public is disinterested in campain finance reform. Both are totally false.

As an independent, I am quite frustrated by this site. Anyone with a hint of ethics- democrats and republicans alike- should voice their discontent at sites like this that add to the mindlessness of american politics- and push for one of 3 things:

1) big disclaimer that the opinions do not relfect those of the general population (for those with no statistics background that might otherwise be fooled into believing the opinions on this site)- and CERTANLY don't sent these warped opinions to the politicians!!!!! (they say that they do!)

2) change the polling procedure so people can only vote once, and such that the sample is drawn from as random a group as possible. -that means that they can't just let whoever feels like it arrive on their page and vote if they want it to reflect reality in any way, public opinion polls can be accurate with as few as 4000 votes if they have close to 100% response rate and they are sent to a random set of people (even a random set of people with email will be skewed, since more democrats don't have internet access (i.e. the old and/or the poor).

3) shut the site down. my favorite option, since I don't think the author is level- headed enough to follow path #2 : L

Basically what Dick Morris and Matt Drudge have both realized, is that as the cost of communication drops to zero, the political and media institutions that have been based on restricted access to information and power, will be drastically re-formed. Not the sham 'campaign reform' which has been the successful creation of an incumbancy entitlement, but rather the true reformation of participatory democracy. There will be excesses and adjustments. The process is in its infancy, but Morris has seen the trend for what it is. Those who don't like Dick Morris should still recognize him for what he is, the most brilliant mind in politics who is willing to speak his mind. (There may be more brilliant individuals, but they don't tell us what they are really thinking.) If you don't read this book, some of these changes may take you by surprise. If you want to help shape the political future, please read this book.

I don't pretend to know how many of his predictions will come about, but his comments about web site development, traffic generation and cost are right on. If it is available, you can register a domain name of your choice(...). This gives you a worldwide platform from which to present your views. It has room enough to hold hundreds of pages of text and images that support whatever position you choose. If you are clever, funny, interesting, people will find it. Never in history has it been possible for an individual to make his/her thoughts so available for so little.

He is also right about the established parties not getting it. Just for fun, take a tour of web sites. Try to connect to each states abbreviation + GOP and then .com .net .org For example, what is displayed at TXGOP.net. Lest you think I am bashing Republicans here, consider that there is no reason Democrats or others can't register such domains and use them as a platform in the "enemy camp".

You will find that some are for sale, many are registered but not hosted, so they show "error 500 server errors", few understand the concept of reserving multiple domains and redirecting to your main site. Most have that "Corporate" = Boring feel to them. Only one was funny.

There is clearly opportunity waiting for someone to exploit this. I found his insights very helpful in thinking about the possible application of these concepts in the real world.