This product features two audio tapes. One each on Johnson and Carter. Robert Dallek and Hendrik Hertzberg are the speakers. Their speeches from 1995 show great knowledge and insight into their respective Presidents.

Hendrik Hertzberg was a speech writer for President Carter during his last two years in office. Hertzberg is a good speaker and often used humor to describe Carter and his administration. Hendrik describes Carter well. He portrays him as a loner and someone opposed to pomp and glitter. He also stated that Carter was no idealogue. Rather he handled issues one by one as they arose. And he spread himself too thin. Hendrik descibes some of the major events of the Carter Administration. The Panama Canal Treaty, the Israeli/Egyptian peace talks and the failed Iranian hostage rescue mission. Hertzberg portrays Carter as a courageous moral leader. But he also shows that Carter was not a great political leader.

Robert Dallek is a successful author and he shows here that he is also a good speaker. Dallek studied Lyndon Johnson thoroughly and clearly understood him. He states accurately that Lyndon Johnson was a complex man with a seemingly contradictory personality. Dallek quotes several stories about Johnson to show his sense of humor and his temperament.

Dallek provides data about Johnson's popularity over the years. As President, his approval ratings were good. As an ex President he's less popular. Dallek gives three reasons why he thinks LBJ's popularity has fallen. His assessment is probably correct.

Dallek then proceeds to rate Johnson as a President. He gives LBJ high marks in the realms of vision, pragmatism and consensus building on domestic issues. And he states that Johnson was very successful in passing his bills through Congress. Dallek provides a whole list of good bills which Johnson pushed through. In summary, Robert Dallek's assessment of Lyndon Johnson and his Presidency is very accurate and well informed.

I highly recommend this book, mainly because Bushyhead of the Eastern Band of Cherokees is an excellent teacher, and Mr Pennington did a good job of translating .. wado to them both for bringing such a gift to our children outside the rez!

i like the doll song best

I found this book to be delightful even at the age I am! I was raised in the forties and our trees were alway cut trees and very simple,so I could relate to trees not being very beautiful in some peoples eye but these trees were beautiful to me and I I enjoyed this little book since I could write down all those memories and pass them onto my children. I wrote some of the stories and passed the book onto my daughter to write some of her own memories of trees at Christmas. Sometimes simple books like "Christmas Trees" are the best. I would like to purchase two more books like this for gifts.

I have been impressed by the Our Presidents series published by the Chld's World, which provides a solid introduction for young students to the lives of the Presidents, so I was not surprised that the Our People series, which follows the same format, is equally as strong. This volume by the team of Cynthia Klingel and Robert B. Noyed looks at the life of "Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross." Following the standard four chapter format, we learn how Barton spent her early years as a teacher, became the Angel of the Battlefield during the American Civil War, worked to have United States be part of the International Red Cross, and then served as the first President of the American Red Cross. Young readers are going to be hard pressed to name many Americans, of either gender, who have been responsible for helping more people than Clara Barton. She is also called the founder of the American Red Cross, but this volume makes it clear exactly what that title means.

This volume is illustrated with photographs and etchings from throughout Barton's life; the photograph that appears on the first page of the text, which was taken in 1865, is the most famous (and the basis for Barton's stamp in the Civil War series) and one of the interesting things about this volume was to see other photographs of Barton. Chapters include detailed sidebars on topics like the Suffrage Movement and the modern American Red Cross. The margins contain Interesting Facts, such as John D. Rockerfeller donated the money to build the American Red Cross National Headquarters, and the back of the book has a Time Line, Glossary Terms, Web Sites and Books for Further Information, and an Index. This is the first Our People volume I have found and I will be interested to see who else is included in the series since I am up to the R's on the Presidents and want my education on American biography to continue.

Nothing spectacular to write home about. When I bought this book, I was hoping for the old radio dramas that I used to listen to when I was a kid on Sunday nights. I will say that there were some very good stories. But a few left you rather wanting.

this item was great for my 10 year old who enjoys making up poetry herself

For college students that do not have much time to read, this book offers the basics on the major ethical positions from around the world -- not just from the west! There are nice biographical pieces and the position summaries are broken up nicely. For a short introductory ethics course this or the Clark and Poortenga seem to be targeting our contemporary students well.

This book-- the first edition of which was printed in 1904-- provides the student of Mesopotamian antiquity with an astounding examination of the famous Code of Hammurabi, a king of Babylon who provided his subjects with what was probably the most comprehensive set of laws in existence at the time in which they were written. It is interesting to note that the laws themselves are said by Hammurabi to have been rendered unto him directly by Marduk, an ancient Sumerian sun-god.

The book is amazing in many ways, not the least of which being the fact that the actual codes themselves were found, engraved on a large block of black diorite, in 1901 CE and yet were fully transliterated by a diverse group of scholars and in print as early as 1904 CE. This feat of having rendered a complete transliteration of the codes-- along with several extremely difficult passages that appeared in the epilogue-- is a truly impressive scholastic effort, the incredible work of several eminent Assyriologists of the early 20th Century CE.

A great deal of information concerning the social structure of Babylon may be gleaned by reading through these codes, revealed both directly and also by inference. We are able to see quite well what their system of social prioritization was like, and by being so acquainted with their mores, proscriptions and so forth, a very clear picture of the Babylonians as a collective group emerges.

This book would be most valuable to those who are interested in the history of ancient Semitic people, but also to those who are interested in the history of torts and criminal codes in general. As it is, the Codes of Hammurabi can be seen to have influenced subsequent legal codiciles, allegedly to include even the Ten Commandments as transferred by Moses. As these latter codes were to become a cornerstone of the subsequent ethical apperception of Europe-- thus having a further impact on the rest of the world, even unto this very day-- one might say that by reading the Codes of Hammurabi we are able to see how the laws of most Western people evolved over the past four millenia.

While this book does not present us with a very difficult read, it might not be entirely interesting to the casual perusal of the average person. Even so, it is possible that virtually anyone who picked up this book and read some of it would learn a great deal about a famous society that became extinct around 1100 BCE, that is, the society of the ancient city-state known as Babylon. Perhaps by so knowing, we may also be facing an examination of ourselves.

Jean Toomer should not be classified as "African American." He rejected that racist "one drop" classification and deserves praise and admiration for doing so. Toomer's parents and grandparents were not "black middle class" but looked whiter than many Americans who call themselves "white."