The book is not as bad as the one star reveiw, but not great either. It's a good introductory biography of Pershing. I would have liked more detail, both into his military career and the effects of losing his family. It was heartbreaking to read about his wife and 3 of his 4 children dying in the Presidio fire.

Overall, Smith does a pretty good job of bringing Pershing to life. Prior to reading this book, I knew very little about Pershing. This book got me past that, and a good deal more.

The details about Pershing's early life are a little sketchy. As the story moves along, Smith includes more and more info (presumably because more source material exists). I never got a sense of what Pershing's life was like growing up, but I got a lot (bordering on too much) about his relationship with his son and sisters.

I wholeheartedly disagree with the very negative review below. This book stays VERY focused on Pershing and, in my opinion, does not give too much detail about other people involved in the story. And, while Pershing may not have been as colorful (or as politically active) as Grant, MacArthur, Eisenhower, etc., he sure as heck earned six stars (which he never wore). With very little support from home, and against a great deal of pressure from the French and British, he trained and formed a US Army out of practically nothing, beat the Germans (don't argue that the French and British could have done it alone), and was the ONLY major voice calling for Germany's unconditional surrender (would WWII have happened if Wilson & the others had listened?).

The greatness of Pershing's acheivement comes through clearly in Smith's book. Sometimes, it's a little harder to get a feel for the greatness of the man.

Gene Smith has done very thorough research and is a masterful storyteller. There is not a slow moment in this reading, and will open the readers eyes to another time, another way of life and to war. I would recommend this book to anybody who wants to study Pershing, or to anybody who wnats delve into another time and place in history

This is 1997 collection of parts, no how to, no performance numbers. An okay reference source, but you can buy a monthly mag and get better stuff.

This book is just a large collection of specs. and marketing info from various part mfgs. This book doesn't have the information I wanted to make informed part buying decisions(ie.test results). Example: when giving one of the few real world "observations" the review of a supercharger was "... said the additions provided an "unbelievable difference" in performance over the stock configuration." DUH!!! Only good thing about this book I can say is it does have alot of P/N's and company products in one place. I started to send it back but rationalized I would keep it as a reference catalog.

I found this book to be very informational and not too wordy. It was helpful and enjoyable to read. I would recommend it to any Mustang enthusiast as a general knowledge enhancer.

While showing signs of thorough research, this book is peppered with errors and generally flawed by the author's extreme bias against airpower. A more evenhanded approach to the subject matter could have produced a winner from the material available but this is just another pseudo-scholarly rant against US involvement in SEA.

The United States Air Force still believed in 1972 that air power decided wars: precision bombing would destroy enemy morale, forcing surrender. (The peoples of China, Spain, Britain, Germany, Japan and Korea had obviously not shared this belief, and had not surrendered under bombing.)

But the USAF, and Presidents Johnson and Nixon, knew better: they would bomb Vietnam to submit. (Incidentally, British firms made many of the bombs. The British Ambassador in the USA said, "The United Kingdom was naturally only too happy to sell the bombs but preferred in future it not be said that they were to be used in Vietnam.")

The war ended with an agreement attainable at any time, if the US Government had not had delusions of victory. Vietnam refused to negotiate while the bombing continued; it made no concessions to stop the bombing, and when talks resumed after the bombing it had not changed its position.

The book compares the bombing of Vietnam with the war against Iraq: here too, air power was not decisive: "The bombing did not cause the surrender of Iraq." This is also a warning for us now: NATO air strikes on Serbia will not succeed: an air war, to achieve its stated objectives, will have to be followed by a ground war. And just why should British troops kill and be killed in Serbia?

This book, by focusing on the technical side of the war, fails to mention one outstanding fact: that the bombing, like the war itself, broke all international law and morality. As the American historian Henry Commager wrote "some wars are so deeply immoral that they must be lost, the war in Vietnam was one of those wars, and those who resist it are the truest patriots." Successive US Governments failed in their immoral aims, and Vietnam won its unity, independence and sovereignty. As Ho Chi Minh said, "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom."

You know, typically people don't make you pay to read their advertisements. This is an exception. Each of the self-serving articles in this book is followed by a 1-2 page advertisement for the author that, not surprising, offers a service to solve the problem outlined in the article. How convenient! This book is a glorified collection of vendor-sponsored white papers.

This book was a valuable resource. Many tid bits of info that can really make a big difference for your success.

This book is not a good read but full of interesting bits of information. It is drastically in need of editing. Published posthumously, the format gives the sense that the author's notes were simply printed as they were found with information oddly organized or repeated.

I was dreadfully sad to read a review of this book which thought that it was too difficult and not well edited. I'm only 21 and found this book to be fascinating, with much knowledge and information that captivated my interest. It is a text that has to be thought over and studied, making it much more valuable than simply a child-view of such a distinct history of the Thoroughbred horse. It was well written and planned out. I found this to be a brilliant construct of the details of such a beloved tradition as these creatures.

given what i know of john ralston saul and the blurb on the back, i expected much better from this book. decrying corporatism, positing it as a new ruling morality, is genuinely interesting, but i don't think this is an interesting way of presenting it. the story-line is conventional, the female characters stock and tiresome, and the morality tale unambiguous and predictable. this book reminded me of nothing so much as of an ayn rand polemic, harsh words to be sure. while coming at a world view from a diametrically opposite perspective, the writing is similar in its uninterestingness. like the idea, don't like the realization of same.

I first read San Francisco Stories (also edited by John Miller), and I was so impressed that I bought the other available books in this series. Unfortunately, where San Francisco Stories gave me a feeling of a particular place, Cape Cod Stories left me with the feeling that I could be reading about any summer vacation destination on the upper Atlantic. The first half of the book, with long entries by Norman Mailer and John Cheever, left me feeling like I was reading good fiction that just happened to be set in the Cape Cod area. The latter half of the book gives a much better feeling of a particular place.

Unlike San Francisco Stories, which were primarily personal essays and historical accounts, the Cape Cod selections are primarily short fiction. All of the stories are interesting, but they seem to run together. There are few older selections; Henry David Thoreau's description of the Highland Light is the best, but seems brief. The collection also includes a few gems, including Helen Keller's description of her first "swim" in the ocean. My only complaint with the editorial selection is placing "Summertime on the Cape," by Paul Theroux, at the end of the collection, rather than at the beginning. More than the others, his essay gives a needed description of the area, and provides a sense of place.

I should note that I have never been to Cape Cod. Someone who frequents the area may feel that this collection captures the mood of the Cape, even if it fails to provide much background for strangers.

I didn't find this anthology as effective in conveying the feel of a place as say, "A Key West Reader". Some of the pieces, however, made it worth the purchase - "Falmouth Whaling Log" by an anonymous sailor, "Nantucket" by Melville and Kurt Vonnegut's "The Hyannis Port Story" were gems.

This dictionary is a wonderful resource for the composition of Latin prose. Dr. Smith has, indeed, been very full in his definitions, and shades of meaning are distinguished very well, easily steering the user away from careless mistakes that might occur with smaller dictionaries. I have no criticism for Dr. Smith's dictionary.

Wimbledon Publishers have not given Smith his due in this edition, though, and I must recommend against their edition. I have neither seen nor used the Bolchazy edition, but it should be preferred to this one, because Wimbledon has been careless in the preparation of theirs. In using the book only briefly, I have come across two duplicated pages, i.e., page 202 is a duplicate of page 203 (and so the real page 202 is omitted entirely), likewise with pages 182 and 183. I have not yet combed the book for similar repetitions, but one word omitted on page 202 was DESTROY, a loss which any student of Latin composition (or literature) will recognize as a significant hole in the Latin language. Moreover, in several attempts to find redress, I have not yet received any response from the press.

I would suggest this dictionary to any scrupulous student of Latin composition who wishes to avoid the pitfalls and oversimplifications of a Cassell's (or the like), but likewise the unavoidably mannered vocabulary of Bradley's Arnold.

Despite the author's title, I believe James was the beloved disciple. Read the scriptures then read from the book of John where he (John) writes about the beloved disciple resting his head on Jesus at the last supper and where the beloved disciple followed behind Jesus. Mention of the last supper is out of place in this passage of John, and John the author would not be boasting for himself, but he would for his brother James.