What a subtle, beautiful, thought-provoking book. Indispensible for understanding how teenage pregnancy shapes the lives of young people. Offers a poignant view of a variety of American teens facing parenthood, of different classes, different races, different religions and regions. Would be particularly valuable for high-school researchers, or as a complement to drier, more statistical or policy-oriented analyses.

The photographs are fantastic and will capture your heart and mind. The pictures communicate in a way words never could. You will feel like you know and understand these young mothers.

This book goes step by step through all the aspects of the art of conducting. It covers all ensembles, stlyes and issues faced by the modern conductor. I recommend it to the serious conducting student.

This is a must own. The photographs are beautiful but what makes this book so powerful is that the people of the Delta are living in the '90's just as they did in the 'teens. For all of the positive changes that have happen since the civil rights movement it obvious that these people have been left behind. The photos will bring tears to your eyes. I would suggest to those people who churches may not be doing that 'Trip to the Holy Land with Pastor so and so' Think about organizing with Habitat for Humanity and doing some building in the Delta.

_Freedom Summer_ is a richly detailed account of a young white woman who participated in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's summer project in Mississippi in 1964. The text covers one incredibly intense summer from the basic training session in June to the Democratic Convention in August. I will assign this text in my Civil Rights Autobiography course next semester because, aside from being a clearly-written account of a chaotic time, it will answer some of the questions I know my students will have, such as: what was it like to be a Civil Rights worker? what was it like to be arrested and thrown in a Mississippi jail? what were the day to day activities of people working in the Movement? how were the workers received by the black and white communities? or how do you decide go enter Mississippi after you've just learned that three summer project workers have disappeared and are presumed dead?

One of Edgar Cayce's greatest gifts to humanity was his unraveling of the bible stories. (Edgar Cayce's own life story is itself fascinating.) Anyone who wants to really understand the bible and human existence itself would want to read this book. But this type of information is not for the skeptical. It requires faith and an open mind. This book contains information which could only be obtained psychically. For example there would be no way to know that Eve and Mary were the same soul entity just by studying historical documents. This book indicates how intelligent life first starting appearing on and affecting the earth going back hundreds of thousands of years. Not surprisingly the selfish force manifested itself almost immediately with horrible consequences. Explanations are given for the legends of mythology and other myths. Quite a bit is explained about Moses and the many strange events surrounding the Exodus and wanderings of the Israelites. Moses was a very passionate person who killed an Egytpian that had messed around with his sister apparently in some disrespectful way. This is an interesting example of how Cayce's version of the event differs from the biblical version. Obviously Moses was enraged by this event and the general injustice being perpetrated against the Israelites by the Egyptians at that time. To say Moses was a mysterious person would be a gross understatement. He was a god like creature. The book doesn't state this but I would suspect that maybe Moses and Abraham were the same soul entity in different forms. Both spoke directly to God in some way. But it was Moses who dramatically demonstrated an intimate knowledge of God's powers. For example when the Khoras rebelled Moses indicated they would fall into the earth as the result of some type of earthquake. And they did ! But Moses had his problems and made his mistakes which is consistent with the idea of the soul learning during the earthly existence. Towards the end of the book there is an indication that Satan and the arch angel Michael somehow argued over or about the physical dead body of Moses. I'm not sure what that means but I think it indicates Moses had very pronounced characteristics for both good and evil. Both of these forces influenced Moses as I suspect they do for most people. Cayce indicated that Moses working with Joshua wrote at least some of the book of Genesis as well as other parts of the old testament while in a state of deep meditation.

This is one of the most amazing books on the holocaust that I have ever seen, and I've seen my share. This book shows you things and stories that have never been heard my most people. It sometimes speaks in a humorous tone, and other times it is dramatically serious. It shows you pages and pages of pictures that capture the readers attention and make the reader want to continue on and on. The pictures draw the reader in and the captions offer the knowledge. It is very serious and accurate. I would recomend this to anyone intersted in the Holocaust whether it be for personal reasons or not.

Paintings by Mose Tolliver, the key folk art painter from Alabama, who is one of America's greatest living treasures, inspired this gem of a book of poems by Robert Ely. The 8" 1/4-by 8 1/4" volume, published in Alabama by Black Belt Press, includes a brief introduction by Julian Bond. Twenty of Mose T's best known images are finely illustrated here in color, alongside the witty poems they inspired. Featured in the book are the fanciful inhabitants of the town of Slapout, among them the "Hoodoo Man...who learned his art from Kulba Khan," the "Jick-Jack Girl...who "kicks off her shoes when she begins to feel the blues" and "Mose t" himself, the artist who "paints pictures made with real paint...and many folks find them quaint."

--David Ebony, Assistant Managing Editor, Art in America magazine.

This book is a helpful tool for anyone looking to do things better-in all apsects of their lives. Its refreshing to know that such things as humility, truth telling, and compassion are traits of a great leader. The advice given by Dilenschneider makes a lot of sense.

The value of any book that the purports to be a guide to spiritual growth lies as much in its content as it does in the power the background the author brings to the task. Dr. Winer's book shows us the vast panorama of the life of Moses. This is a subject whose appeal is so strong that it merits revisiting.

But what makes the "Ten Commandments for Success" unusually worth reading is the distillation of experience as physician, neurologist, psychiatrist, family head and spiritual leader that Dr. Winer uses to bring a vital contemporary relevance to that well-known story.

Early on Dr. Winer acknowledges that each of the "commandments" he offers the reader (if strictly followed) is as useful in building worldly success as it is in building spiritual maturity. He does not apologize for this. Rather, he sees that obedience, empathy, diligence, fidelity, vision and the others, however they may be applied to a secular experience are essential if one is to grow into the "new creation" modeled on Jesus.

Using Moses as a type of Jesus, Dr. Winer highlights aspects of his life and makes them contemporary with a variety of tools. He, for example, often uses themes and experiences in his own life. He also quotes from such diverse personalities as Lincoln, Franklin, and John Arnott. With these tools he defuses the remoteness of the Moses experience and brings it within the grasp of anyone who seriously ponders spiritual things. And while rewarding for anyone, the book is particularly valuable to those who are called to congregational leadership whether that leadership is in church foundation or for one who is, "... a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord."

Readers will find this young Philadelphia physician's style both clear and attractive. He uses a seemingly endless variety of ways to reduce heretofore ponderous and weighty spiritual matters to refreshingly bite-sized paragraphs. In fact, this may be the only real flaw of the book. Some of the paragraphs are so distilled that it is possible to wonder if the author deliberately tried not to overburden the reader with things considered too obvious. However, all too often the reverse is true and one wishes for an occasional "time out" to reflect on the tightly-packed nature of the text.

On balance it is a book worth not only a second reading but a permanent place on the shelf with Thomas Merton, C. S. Lewis, and Hannah Hurnard. There is a great deal more to this book then its 160 pages would suggest.

David Maguire was the Editor of the Archdiocese of Wilmington, DE newspaper, the Delmarva Dialog and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Review. This review appeared in the Delmarva Dialog.

Dave Maguire

One cannot over state Robert Moses' impact on New York's very landscape. Nor is it possible to underestimate his almost rapacious ability to amass political power, his skill at manipulating the political system, nor the degree to which he was able to out maneuver and bully elected officials to his will. As someone who has spent ten years making a living in politics there can be no doubt that Moses was the maestro of politics with an unmatched ability to call the tune. For this reason, this is a must read for those interested in politics.

That said, Caro goes too far in attacking Moses on a broad front, often on charges that are spurious. At the same time, he does not sufficiently acknowledge the contributions Moses made to the City and the Nation. This book follows a problematic habit of Caro of needing to paint his subjects in a purely negative light, attacking them viciously and always underestimating their positive contributions.

On the unfair attacks, Caro charges Moses with ruining NYC riverfront by running highways along them. While that is true as a matter of fact, he fails to explain that, at the time, driving was seen as recreation and every American city followed the identical path. On another score, Caro criticizes Moses because his highways generated traffic thus requiring the creation of more highways. Again the charge is unfair. Traffic studies were at best primitive and the effects of traffic multiplication were little understood.

At the same time, Caro fails to appreciate the sheer scope of Moses vision and the works he built. Nor, while he attacks Mosses' manipulation of the process, does he ever deal with the really tough question of whether another way to build great public works exist other than with a man like Moses.

For all that, Caro's book is still an essential read for those interested in the art of politics and power as well as urban planning. While the book is long, occasionally over written, and shares with Caro?s other works a rather unfortunate tendency towards melodrama. it still offers the reader much that they cannot learn elsewhere. Moses was an artist who used America?s greatest city as his canvas. Sadly, his masterpiece showed signs of early wear and mistakes by the artist.

At 1200 pages, the Power Broker is one of the longest books about a New York City figure ever written. Yet, despite its length, even the Power Broker can't go into everything Moses did.

Some things, like Moses stopping O'Malley from building a new stadium for the Dodgers, and Moses almost smashing Greenwhich Village and Soho aren't gone into at all, other things, like Moses building Lincoln Center and Shea Stadium, hardly get any attention, despite being major events. there is also little contrast between what Moses was doing and what was done in other major cities.

If Caro leaves things out, then how did the Power Broker make it to 1200 pages? Caro has these annoying five page descriptions of how beautiful the financial district's skyline is, and how great Jones Beach is. Caro is also repetitive about Moses' dislike of public transit.

Finally, Caro has a tendency to only focus on Moses' victories, and not his defeats. If you read Jameson Doig's Empire on the Hudson, about the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, you will see that Moses had more defeats than Caro will admit. The Port Authority won its battle with Moses over the Manhattan Bus Terminal, won its battle with Moses over the Queens airports, won its battle with Moses over the Twin Towers, and several other smaller victories. Also, Caro says Moses was soooo powerful that only Nelson Rockefeller, the ultra rich governor of New York and brother of the chairman of Chase-Manhattan could beat him. But by the time Nelson was beating Moses in the late 1960s, Moses was already very unpopular.

Anyway though, this is a great book about New York. You should read it. If you want to know more of Moses, try to watch Ric Burns' New York: A Documentary History. They have a lot of archival footage of Moses giving interviews. He literally said thigns like "cities are for traffic" and "if the end doesn't justify the means, what does?"

I too read this book shortly after it came out. At the time, I had just graduated from college and was working at a series of odd jobs while I tried to figure out what to do with my life. I happened upon this book and was swept away. By any measure, it sets a standard that few writers can hope to equal (and Caro himself may go the rest of his career without ever writing another book as good as this first effort). Whether read as a work of biography about a larger-than-life, repellantly fascinating character, an engrossing history of New York, or a penetrating critique of politics and urban planning, you will eat this book up. "In New York City, in the postwar era, the discretionary power resided principally in Robert Moses, and like filings to a magnet -- or, more precisely, like flies to a sugar bowl -- the corrupters, the men who possessed influence over the city's political or governmental apparatus and who were willing to sell that influence for money, were attracted to Moses, and to the seemingly bottomless sugar bowl for which he possessed the only spoon. And Moses did not send them away disappointed." (p. 718) If you like to read, it simply doesn't get any better than this. I've never read anything like it.