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A searing attack on the Democrats from one of today's most engaging political voices, and an incisive strategy for victory over the Republican party
Air America Radio host, Laura Flanders, the best-selling author of "Bushwomen," believes there are no such things as "red" and "blue" states. Even in the most surprising places, she's finding progressive change. From Vermont to Salt Lake City to Las Vegas's famous Strip, she journeys through the heartland USA and discovers a simple truth: people don't vote for the GOP because Republicans represent their interests; they vote Republican because Democrats barely field a team.
Adamant, opinionated, funny, and always engaging, Flanders chronicles what she's learned from scores of voters and activists-about how change is happening in Main St. USA, even if it rarely catches the attention of the so-called mainstream media. Mormons defending women's rights, casino owners teaming up with waitresses to raise the minimum wage; blue collar construction workers and lesbian mothers working together to make their workplaces safer and more secure for all. Flanders finds young, supposedly "alienated" Americans, who are driving scores of new voters to the polls.
Fiery polemic, assured narrative, and acute political commentary, Blue Grit will be crucial reading for everyone interested in the future of the Democrats, and this country. Based on Flanders' bottom-up style of journalism, it tells a story of good news: progressives are coming after the conservative establishment with new talent, new ideas, newmedia and new cash, and they have their sights set on building a new progressive movement, whether the Democratic Party is ready or not.
Customer Reviews:
More like Blue Snit........2007-06-10
I just finished reading this book, and my take-away impression is that half the book is about brave individuals working alone or together in little three-or-four-letter-acronym political activist groups to advance "progressive" causes, and the other half is about what is wrong with the Democratic Party.
The book is half blue grit, and half blue snit. It seems there's a split in the Democratic Party these days, and in this book Laura Flanders explains in detail why and how this came about. This would be interesting reading, I would think, to anyone who's into politics, be they on the right or the left.
I don't consider myself a "progressive", but I enjoyed this book mainly due to the detailed accounts of the inner workings of politics, at least on the Democrat side. I also enjoyed Laura's fun, upbeat, not preachy and not mean writing style. I don't agree much with her politics, but I'm reviewing her book not her politics, and it's fun to read.
My one major criticism of the book in general has to do with the order in which material is presented. We start out with detailed accounts of people and activist groups I've never heard of in states where I don't live (Utah, Nevada and Montana) and the one-little-story-after-another just got quite tedious after a while. I almost stopped reading the book after the first two chapters. I suppose a "progressive" would just love this stuff but not being one I found it boring after a while. It would have worked better for me to start with the national stuff that I've been watching in the news for the past few years and then work into the local stories.
One thing this book did for me is confirm what a "progressive" is for me. According to Laura on page 9, "Those on the Left, to a greater or lesser degree, hold to a belief that this whole society is set up to serve those with power and wealth, and oppress all those without." And that's why I don't call myself a "progressive" because this sounds like good old-fashioned 19th century Marxism. Are we still in the South before the Civil War? Do we live in Russia in 1916? How cynical can you get? I would never be confused with someone wealthy or powerful, but a lot of the way our society is set up does serve me, and I don't feel particularly oppressed by anyone or anything. Perhaps I'm just not enlightened enough.
Another thing I would have appreciated is a real bibliography. There are "notes" in the back, and just enough for me to realize that someone who worked on this book understood the concept, and then did just little enough so that it looked like they didn't care.
Then there's the stuff I found downright funny.
On page 178, Ms. Flanders writes, "Much as I love my listeners on Air America Radio, for example, it worries me how little they like to hear from anyone with an opposing point of view." That kind of honesty is as unusual as it is refreshing.
On page 158, she writes about the Fairness Doctrine and says, "The elimination of the doctrine, by the Federal Communications Commission under Reagan, opened the door for Rush Limbaugh and around-the-clock, one-note, wingnut talk radio." The irony of that coming from an Air America personality is beyond words.
On page 186, Ms. Flanders is writing about why the rich out vote the poor. She writes, "In contrast to most advanced democracies, the right to vote in the United States isn't conveyed automatically with citizenship and coming of age. Voters have to prove themselves and always have, and the challenges related to registering, qualifying, and having one's vote be counted have always worked to help manipulate or suppress votes." Really? I can't even remember what, if anything, I had to do to get my voters' registration card. I haven't had to do anything since. My biggest problem with voting is forgetting to do it.
Anyway, this is a fun book to read regardless of the author's politics. And, unlike preachy pundit books, even someone on the other political side from the author can learn something.
This American Life: Flanders is a Political Ira Glass.......2007-05-24
I loved this book, I simply didn't want it to end. Another volume maybe, Laura?
Flanders is a top-notch storyteller, social observer and enthusiastic cheerleader for progressive social change. Her style is refreshing and human; she's tough on all the right assholes, gentle with the good guys and emphatic as she bursts many a bubble of disinformation, misinformation and outright deception. But more than anything, her stories of the courage and committment of small "d" democratic activists across the country make you want to jump into the fray and make a difference in the ways her heroes did.
It's easy living in a progressive city (Flanders reminds us that every metropolis with a population above 500k went for Kerry--take note DNC) to feel defeated by the inability to make real change that matters. For a year following the disastrous 2004 election, Flanders crossed the country, from New Orleans to Utah, from Montana to the Vegas Strip. And while the post-election pundits chastised the Democrats for not being mainstream and centrist enough, Flanders tells us the real decisive victories happened on the progressive left. In union halls. On Indian reservations. With young people. All of whom pounded the pavement to wrack up historic numbers in terms of voter registration and Democratic votes. And yet the Democratic Party infrastructure, ever the gang that couldn't shoot straight, under-appreciated, misunderstood and outright negated these victories time and time again. Flanders talks about the union rep who remarked that "Republicans reward their friends, Democrats reward their enemies."
Flanders' frontline reportage is biting and witty, acerbic and generous. Here she is on the lack of grassroots infrastructure to support change long term: "What the [Democrats] built was a Penthouse Party: all top-floor suites, no load bearing walls, no foundations, no functioning stairway to the street." Time and time again she nails it. What I loved is that like Ira Glass on an episode of This American Life, you find the dramatic, detailed account of regular folks fighting the good fight inspiring and memorable. More, more, more.
Tripe.......2007-05-11
The title of the book tells all: another oxymoron not worthy of a rebutal.
Why some people think the Democratic (or for that matter, the Republican Party) can be changed from within is beyond the scope common sense. Flanders will jump on the Democratic nominee's bandwagon regardless of the candidate. Like the Republicans, the Democrats represent corporatations; those who pour billions into their campaigns. These are not donations at all, but rather 'investments' and corporations expect a return for those investments by way of legislation favorable to their agendas.
If you really want to read something insightful about politics in America, try A Peoples History of the Unites States by Howard Zinn.
True Blue.......2007-04-16
Laura has made a career of spotlighting and supporting the people. She not only reminds her readers (and listeners) the power lies with us, but more importantly, politics is not just for the politicians. Blue Grit is a guidebook for anyone wanting to get involved in changing the Democratic party from a beltway Republican-Light party into one where the power flows from the bottom up and the party leaders recognize it. The stakes have never been higher, thanfully Laura is here to help show the way.
Ground Truth.......2007-04-15
In this riveting new book, Laura Flanders defies the category of Non-Fiction. With the unflinching stories delivered from the mouths of this new 'purple' movement, and heard through the gorgeous prose style and poetic verse rendered on these pages, we feel real blue grit and new hope for social change in the United States. This book will upend the inaccurate perception that real bravery has abandoned the democrats. These new
heroes are here, in the pages of this book, making critical alterations in the political and social landscape of the ongoing experiment that is still America. Laura Flanders delivers these voices to us at a perfect moment.
It is moving, shocking, upsetting and inspiring, and will pave the way to a brand new way to make our social dreams come true. I'm standing in line for her next book.
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- Five stars for the tragic elements, a health warning for the rest...
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Book Description
Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.
Customer Reviews:
Five stars for the tragic elements, a health warning for the rest..........2006-07-25
This is a tragic story and for that (and for that alone - in so far as the book is sold as an account of Treya Wilber's lamentable and extremely moving death) it gets five stars. However, the other side of this book is equally lamentable. It is also a desperately cynical and muddled stab at publicising Ken Wilber's ideas via a `soft' title. It stands as the work of a man who uses his wife's death to grandstand, once again well away from any rigorous academic spotlight, his untested `Integral' vision. He tells us that Treya herself wanted this kind of content to be published with personal diaries after her death, but, really...how sickening does the book rapidly become when chapter after chapter is devoted to stating how much of a genius Wilber is alleged to be, or how incisive his ideas are according to himself and the various spiritually biased writers he turns to for validation? Consequently, I have one or two questions, seeing the book is now actually in danger of being turned into a film starring Jennifer Aniston.
Firstly, I wonder if the movie adaptation will focus on both Treya and Ken's support for the notorious cult leader Adi Da? Ken had written gushing and enthused prefaces for Da's work before Treya's death. After her death Wilber then continued to reference Adi Da and to write further gushing prefaces and supportive recommendations for other ex-students of Da, including Saniel Bonder and David Deida, who he continues to work with and include in both his Integral Institute and Integral University. Is the film to then finish with some mention of this, perhaps as a title card over a black screen saying "Ken Wilber to date still esteems Adi Da as one of the greatest spiritual geniuses of all time, despite the vast number of sickening horror stories offered by ex-devotees of Da's organisation, Adidam, alongside the fact that Da is listed at every major anti-cult website across the internet and in several publications beyond it"?
Likewise, I wonder if the film will mention at all that Ken Wilber's ideas, seeing that they form such a goodly portion of the text, have not in any sense been validated or given the necessary and vital scrutiny by academic institutions/publications/systems of peer review aside from Wilber's own colleagues at the Integral Institute or the Integral University (while the Transpersonal Psychology movement - which I think it would be fair to say does not rate as exactly `crank-free' or thoroughly academically validated - did review them in print and rejected most of them outright). Subsequently, will the film run a reference to this debate or rather the lack of any serious wider debate, and mention that Wilber seems to unworthy of review by the kinds of heavyweight academics that he unflaggingly relies upon for quotes?
Thirdly, I wonder if the film will go on to chart Wilber's support of Andrew Cohen as another guru listed at anti-cult websites across the net, who also has had books published detailing the abuses he has allegedly perpetrated (including one written by his own mother) and who, in reply to his website and magazine What Is Enlightenment? is the subject of highly critical counter-website composed of articles from ex-devotees entitled What Enlightenment? Indeed, as Wilber's support of these controversial figures seems to be a mainstay in the transfer of his theory from page to practice, then one would hope so as the filmed result will be a distorted and sanitised mess if it is not.
Lastly, I wonder if the film will be able to do justice to the context of Wilber's work and its (lack of) general acceptance? There is a tendency amongst Wilber's supporters to act as if Integral somehow meant Accepted-By-All, which I personally consider to be a reflection of Ken Wilber's own distorted presentation of quoted material and highly selective reading of the sciences, of philosophy and of history. As a case in point, Wilber's recent highly misleading comments about evolutionary biology are true to his general form. He claims that evolutionary biology cannot explain `anything' in the overall development of organisms (I've deleted Wilber's term and replaced it with `actually' as it was a crude expletive in the original quote), whereas evolutionary biology both can and does--which is the less Wilber-friendly actual fact. To detail, Wilber uses half-wings and half-eyes as an example of this lack of explanatory power, but as any first year biology student can tell you, both are entirely explicable and Wilber's critique is nothing more than a refuted and out-of-date non-starter.
To conclude, myself and other concerned individuals will be sending our own detailed criticisms of Wilber's work, alongside links to many other refutations and criticisms (covering entire websites and offered mostly by freelance academics) found on-line, to the production company and media who either produce or then review any movie made from this book--that is, if it even gets off the ground! Similarly, it will be considered an ethical project to draw attention to Wilber's allegiance to those associated and supportive of cults, as to do otherwise would be a total and complete dereliction of any moral duty and would truly lack either Grace or Grit.
A mind & spirit opener.......2006-06-25
Other books may be eye openers, this one opened my mind and spirit. It was recommended to me by a friend who'd read it after his mother died, and I took it up after two recent deaths in my family and to prepare myself to deal with my own mother's severe illness. I found this book not only to be soothing and truly inspiring, it also provided something I had long sought for without being able to put a name to it - an introduction to perennial philosophy, a starter and a guide on how to to explore and combine Western and Eastern philosophies and religions.
Although this book is praised as the story of a deep and transcending love, the love it describes - although deeply moving - is not the main point for me, as it goes far beyond the exemplary relationship between two extraordinary people. I would like to thank Treya Willam Kilber for Being, and Ken Wilber for sharing this with so many people.
Paean to Life.......2006-06-19
There are many documented reports of caretakers and victims of terminal illness. Although Treya Wilber's story is that, it would be a slight to suggest that's the whole story.
What gives this story its teeth is the style -- an interplay between Treya's journals and her husband's (Ken Wilber) narrative -- and its philosophical underpinnings. In the telling, we're exposed to a full spectrum of beliefs, myths, reactions, therapies, alternatives and emotions of two people loving, living and fighting for life. Along the way, we're also clued-in to Ken's "integral psychology" which unites consciousness, spirit and psychology, an admittedly thick philosophical stew. Surprisingly, this succeeds and helps carry "the story" along.
On one level, Grace and Grit is a profound philosophical discourse. On another, it is a touching story of the power of redemptive love. On any level it's engosssing, often entertaining, and always life-affirming. Highly recommended.
Goes on and on and on...........2005-11-14
Okay, I am a pretty educated woman, as much as the next person, not glorified as the world's greatest thinker thank God or Buddha or whoever. But this book was about 200 pages too long. The truth is, if this book is to be about Treya's life and death, why in the world is it interrupted with all this other stuff inserted by Ken? I found myself incredibly bored to tears by his interpretations on everything about what his wife experienced that I skipped a lot of it and read the parts that were truly Treya's writings or experiences. That is the human part of this book. Is this man too arrogant to just simply write about his wife and her life and death as the title leads you to believe. Why do I need to know about all the other books he has written and all of his friends and how he spent his younger years working and spending 25% of his salary on books, where he went to college, how much beer he drank, etc. sounds boring right? Right!
At times I got the feeling that this book was not intended for just anyone to read. Lots of things were not explained, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out who in the world "Witness" was and lots of other Buddhist terms and phrases that are used throughout. On the plus side, it is (once you pick out the good parts) a tremendously moving and emotional story. It is truly amazing to what great lengths Mrs. Wilber went to to try to save her life and her willpower must have been awesome, but I would imagine not above the willpower of anyone faced with terminal cancer. I would say that this book overall is too mixed. It goes back and forth all the way through between what Treya said and did and then Ken's interpretations and opinions in between. No doubt that this man loved this woman with all of himself. That becomes obvious quickly. I give it 3 stars because it is a good read for sure, but many parts could have been left out.
Profound wisdom!.......2005-08-17
Just finished reading Grace and Grit and I don't remember reading a book that had such a great positive impact on me. I didn't think I could cry so much reading a book! Not of sadness but a mix of many emotions... Grace and Grit is about so many things and touch us at so many different levels, it is a must read!!!
This book is so profound and of such wisdom that it urged me to rethink both life and death... It made me think about so many things in my life: how I relate to the ones I love; my values, my desire for meaning, it made me think about serving other - about being compassionate. It is making me reflect on how I handle certain issues I before considered depressive and hard to deal with.
There are many good reviews written here and I don't want to be repetitive, I just wanted to leave my comment expressing how much this book touched me (and I believe will change me). This book has a message to all of us in our quest to live more joyfully, integrally and spiritually... Above all, above practices and teachings Grace and Grit shows us in a first person stance the tremendous power of love and compassion, of grace and grit.
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Paul's life was never dull. First appearing in the New Testament as a violent enemy of Christ, Paul later went on to not only put his faith in the risen Lord but to pen thirteen letters of the New Testament--in the midst of being beaten, shipwrecked, snakebitten, imprisoned, and chased out of town. Let Charles Swindoll be your guide as you travel down the road to Damascus with Paul and discover the passion for Jesus that drove this hero of the faith.
Customer Reviews:
Paul: A Man of Grit and Grace.......2007-02-16
Charles Swindoll, gives an exellent expose' of the man Saul of Tarsus. His conversion and the affect it had on him, that lasted for the rest of his life. The continual conflicts, trials, and troubles he endured.
Swindoll, also does a great job of filling in between the lines, from other text, and how we can learn from the examples of Pauls great, faith, strength and courage.
A Thoughtful Presentation of Paul .......2006-08-25
Chuck Swindoll is one of my favorite writers, though I am not in agreement with all of his theology. But this work on Paul is outstanding.
Before reading this work on Paul, I had read several other volumes on Paul, and Swindoll gave me another perspective on Paul that I have greatly appreciated--the devotional touch to this work. As a pastor, I find this work to be encouraging. Swindoll writes with a pastor's pen. And I love that.
I especially recommend this work to all conscientious pastors.
Yo, Dear consumer, Fellow.......2005-02-05
oh yeah, this book is wonderfull. Turned me into something like a Pauline. It gives great illustrations and its quite a good read; what I really got out of it was how Swindoll shows you a real person. Not just Paul the Apostle, not just him as one of the sons of judaism of that time, no beyond that. The man that we read about that filled his letters with so much understanding and knowledge, to be flesh. You read this book and I guarantee you, it will change how you look at him and Christ, and especially what kind of peoples Christ uses. from a man you read of in Acts through Philemon as a character into a man that struggled with his faith and had to take a shower at the end of the day just like all of us. Oh yes, it is really great, I encourage anyone to tear into this mug, and I hear its one of many books- so I really am encouraged to pick up one of Swindoll's other books. Hes a magnificent writer. 5 starsies all the way.
Paul: A Man of Grit and Grace.......2005-01-29
The author is probably a great guy personally, but his writing falls very short. The book does not even address Paul's views on the role of women, or on homosexuality--two areas where people of our times need guidance. It seems as if the author wanted to be "politically correct" and not offend anyone.
He doesn't even address, with any authority, the conflict between Paul and Barnabas over John Mark. He just basically says they should have worked it out. I was completely disappointed in the book.
Another Masterpiece by Swindoll!.......2004-07-08
Swindoll's book on the Apostle Paul is the 6th in a series of Bible characters and in my humble opinion, the best character study so far.
Among the important points Swindoll covers include:
1. Biblical examples of people who waited long period of time before being used greatly by God.
2. An independent spirit does not please God - He much prefers the humble and broken-hearted.
3. Exceptional work is preceded by extended waiting and 4 principles for trusting God while waiting in the shadows (this alone was worth the price of the book).
4. While boasting about our weakness is not popular in today's culture, life is about God, not us!
5. 3 perspectives to have when in a strong disagreement.
6. Sometimes turnmoil, hardship, and persecution means you are in the middle of God's will.
7. 4 excellent points to consider for powerful preaching.
8. Be careful of letting your subjective experiences be your ultimate guide in life - God's Word is much more reliable!
9. Effective ministry and opposition go hand in hand.
10. Patterns of behavior and observations about heroes who stand up while everyone sits down.
11. 4 anchors to hold on to during stormy times.
12. 7 exhortations for faithful service.
The points above are only a few of the many encouragements you will get from this gem of a book! Having read several of Swindoll's books, this one may be my personal favorite!
Read and be encouraged in the Lord and hang tough like the Apostle Paul did!
Highly recommended.
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Eight months after George W. Bush proclaimed major combat in Iraq over in 2003, author Mike Tucker found himself right in the thick of it--dirty, profane, violent, lethal, and daily major combat--with some of America’s most highly trained and accomplished soldiers.
Among Warriors in Iraq is a street-level view of the struggles of maintaining control in the anarchy that pervaded Iraq after Coalition forces declared victory. Tucker journeyed--and fought--with Special Forces groups in both Mosul and Fallujah, cities unconvinced the war was over, and willing to do anything to ensure that the struggle would continue.
Here is his frank and adrenaline-soaked account, seen through the resilient eyes of the soldiers willing to pay the ultimate price for victory.
A street-level view of the hell of combat in Mosul and Fallujah
Eight months after George W. Bush proclaimed major combat in Iraq over in 2003, author Mike Tucker found himself right in the thick of it - dirty, profane, violent, lethal, and daily major combat - with some of America's most highly trained and accomplished soldiers.
Among Warriors in Iraq is a street-level view of the struggles of maintaining control in the anarchy that pervaded Iraq after Coalition forces declared victory. Tucker journeyed with Special Forces groups in both Mosul and Fallujah, cities un-convinced the war was over and willing to do anything to ensure that the struggle would continue.
Here is his frank and uncensored account, seen through the resilient eyes of the soldiers willing to pay the ultimate price for victory.
Mike Tucker is a Marine infantry veteran with a Special Operations background, and an author. He broke Burmese Army lines in 2002 with Karen guerrillas, and has investigated war crimes in Burma and northern Iraq. In 2003, he journeyed throughout Iraqi Kurdistan, interviewing Kurds from all walks of life. Later, he joined U.S. Army snipers, scouts, light infantry, paratroopers, and Special Forces commandos for nineteen weeks on raids and patrols in northern and western Iraq. He remained in Iraq for fourteen months.
Customer Reviews:
Tough read........2007-09-24
For some reason, contrary to most embedded writers, this author makes himself the most important character to the story. According to him, he goes around the battlefield assigning nickknames to soldiers and telling his war stories to them. He talks way too much for someone who was lucky to get permission to observe. This book was just plane corny. Sorry I have to be so rough, but I'm angry for wasting my money. Don't waste yours unless you want to read a book full of corny quotes normally reserved for b-rated war flicks.
The guy at least tried..........2007-09-01
Mike Tucker was just this goofy correspondent dude who shows up right before we get on the helicopters to raid outside Mosul for a big pile of mortar rounds. He misspelled my platoon leader's name, but hey, he was the only guy we had taking notes on that mission. At least somebody noticed I was doing a good job on the mine detector even if it was my second day. Still, I didn't even know I was in this book until two years after it came out. Reading the 3/502 portions, I know most everyone in it, and everyone's at least recognizable if you look at it though the same glasses Mike looks at the world with.
A sleeper.......2007-08-29
For those wanting to find stories of warriors this one has very few in it. Tucker can't help including every mundane detail about the soldiers he encounters as they are in camp or standing around, but has very litle to say about combat. Some of the dialogues he includes verbatim (esp. those of three Ohio reservists) read like an Ayn Rand novel--monotonous! The book has no rhyme or reason, and his insistance on giving every soldier he meets a nickname is uncalled for, confusing, and should have been edited out.
Wacky writing at its best........2007-08-18
In dedication to Mike "The Duck" Tucker, more formally know as "Hero of the Dunderheads", I would like to offer this humble review. As the sunlight glinted off the gun barrell black of the M-4, Harvana Tiger looked at the sunlight and wondered what it is like for authors writing war stories as romance novels. Hero of the Dunderheads gets his friends to write great reviews comparing their friend to Hemingway. Hmmn says this reviewer as he scans the reviews on Amazon. Is this a great story or what?
As the author has proved, anybody can be a great author. I only read one hundred pages and wondered why I was reading what I was reading. I might finish this book, and I might not as I wonder about Hero of the Dunderheads. Good thing the author is in Malaysia. He should try writing in Malay, it might improve his ability.
OK, for those who have not read this fine book, look elsewhere such as Bing West's fine book about Fallujah. I don't think this book is written well enough to satisfy anyone.
"Radio Free Wisconsin" Sgt Lybert Climb to Glory.......2007-05-07
For those who have read, reviewed or may read this book I would like to draw your attention to "Radio Free Wisconsin" Sgt Lybert. Dispute the quality of the book as any of you have free will to do, after all that's part of what our Soldiers sacrfice, provide you, your right to free speech.
I just want it noted along with all these reviews that after a year in Iraq "Radio Free Wisconsin" aka SGT Lybert most importantly my son, was promoted. SSG Patrick Lee Lybert of 3-71 Cav 10th MTN DIV (Recon)deployed to Afghanistan and was KIA 21 June 2006 near Gowardesh, Afghanistan. In a battle facing the enemy as they attacked, not giving one inch I am told by the soldier's he was in front of. My son, an American Hero sacrficed his life for America in a mountain valley far from my arms somewhere in Afghanistan.
I have both my son's copy of this book and the one Mike Tucker signed and gifted through my son to me. Sheepishly gifted I might add because he knew Mom doesn't like course language (although Mom has been known to let a bit fly under extreme stress).
Many of those men written about in this book, with those nicknames some of you poke fun at came from across country at their own expense, without my prior knowledge or personal request to bear my son to his resting place. " No one will touch Patrick but us" one of those men told me. The detail already here graciously yielded the carrying of my son to his Brothers in Arms, the Warriors he served with in Iraq.
Belittle their nicknames if you will, but realize the greatness of what they sacrifice for your freedoms. Acknowledge and take note that behind the title Soldier these men have mothers,fathers, siblings, wifes, family and friends. That my son, once my little boy with bright sparkling blue eyes, his smile wide and warm, a heart so big he had time for anyone is forever gone from me. All I have left are memories, fishing poles, hunting equipment,his ice shack ,his truck, my broken heart and empty arms. I want you to know he was real, warm, I love and I miss him. I want you to know he leaves behind parents, fiancee, brothers, the one younger brother has special needs and our soldier intended to become caretaker guardian for when I no longer could. What happens now? I have not yet found the answer.
Think of our shattered family and the many other families of the fallen when you read about our soldiers. This is not a game. Their sacrifices, the risks they face are real.
Thank you Mike Tucker for giving me an insight (even if there are cuss words but he apologized for them :)). You wrote in my book "To SGT Lybert's Mom, Whose son is brave, tough and smart. Long life and blue skies." One of the last photos taken of my son SSG Patrick Lee Lybert is of him standing a top a mountain in Afghanistan with nothing but blue skies behind him. Blue skies as blue as his eyes.
Book Description
They're called Sweet Potato Queens, Steel Magnolias, Ya-Ya Sisters, and Southern Belles, but at heart they're just plain Grits-Girls Raised in the South!
Now, Deborah Ford, founder of Grits(r) Inc., reveals the code behind the distinctive -and irresistible-style of the Southern woman. Equal parts sweet sincerity and sharp, sly humor, The Grits Guide to Life is chock-full of Southern charm: advice, true-life stories from honest-to-god "Grits," recipes, humor, quotable wisdom, and more. Readers will learn vital lessons, including: how to eat a watermelon in a sundress; how to drink like a Southern lady (sip...a lot); and the real meaning of PMS (Precious Mood Southerner).
This charming book is destined to become a bible for the Southern girl-whether born and bred, expatriated, or adoptive-and her many admirers.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent for Southern Women!.......2007-07-06
Just recently moved far away from my home in Tennessee, so this book had me feelin right a home! I read it twice because, even though I have lived in Memphis all my life, some of southern-oriented material was new to me! I loved the different inserts about history, tradition, and old southern recipes! I would recommend it to anyone!
Hilarious!!!.......2006-06-04
DON'T read this book if you're looking for a guide to life. DO read it if you're a female who was raised in the South! Often a parody of what life really was like for a southern girl, but then at times I would read a phrase and hear my mother (raised in Mississippi) telling me something similar...I've read several snippets aloud (in my best southern voice) to some of my non-GRITS friends and now they're dying to read the book!
Just DON'T take it too seriously!
Grits.......2005-01-15
I was expecting the food grits. This was not. I threw this book in the garbage, after splatting real grits on it. For some reason my very heterosexual guy neighbor loved this book! so if you are like him, buy it!
Not Quite A Gamecock Classic ..........2004-11-13
Deborah Ford's GRITS primer is a sweet little read that can't quite make its mind up as to whether it wants to be a primer or a memoir when it grows up, but is certainly on a literary path that could have been finessed with much better style given an hour or two with a Southern editor. This particular romp isn't nearly as breathtakingly funny as the 'Sweet Potato Queens' series nor anywhere as acerbic as anything from Florence King, Fannie Flagg's hilarious foreword to the contrary.
Southern Girls ROCK!.......2004-10-21
Wonderful book full of Southern wisdom and practicality. If you're not from God's country (the South) and would love to learn more about being a Southern girl, then this is the book for you. Girls raised in the south have impeccable manners and never say bad things about Yankee reviewers...bless your heart. ;-)
Product Description
A collection of regional recipes, inspired photography, and lively, charming stories by renowned southern authors - people like Anne Rivers Siddons, Lewis Grizzard, Terry Kay, and Eugenia Price. Finalist in the 1995 James Beard Cookbook Awards. First Place Winner of the 1995 PMA Ben Franklin Cookbook Award. A 1995 National Winner of the Tabasco Community Cookbook Award.
Customer Reviews:
Amazing!.......2007-02-19
As a member of the Junior League and a collector of Junior League cookbooks, I have to say that this book is one of the best I have ever seen or used. While some of the receipes may be a little time intensive, they are worth it! The chicken pecan quiche and the spicy spinich pinwheels are to die for! You will not be disappointed with this book!
Disappointing.......2006-07-28
I expected some simpler Southern cooking because of the title. The recipes might have came from California instead from Atlanta. No thanks, this isn't Southern fixin's.
Coca Cola Recipe IS wrong!.......2005-06-28
The first recipe I tried from this book was the "controversial" Coca Cola Cake-& it was indeed a flop! In researching other versions of this recipe I found that for the icing, this recipe calls for 3/4 cup of cola whereas most others call for approx. 3 tablespoons! No wonder mine looked lake a "floating isle"! Now I'm not sure I trust the other recipes!
A culinary wealth of delicious home-style cooking.......2003-10-14
Compiled by members of The Junior League Of Atlanta, True Grits: Tall Tales And Recipes From The New South presents a culinary wealth of delicious home-style cooking ranging from traditional faire such as Fried Chicken and Buttermilk Biscuits, to original, mouth-watering offerings such as Pan-Seared Crab Cakes with Lemon Linguini; Kiwifruit Frozen Yogurt; Peanut Butter Chocolate Drops; and more. Helpful hints and enjoyable anecdotal tales in the margins add a friendly and enjoyable touch to this excellent and savory recipe guide.
Five's not enough -- make it 10 stars........2002-07-18
Jr. League cookbooks have come a long way since the first little spiral-bound paper products of some 40 or 50 years ago. I don't know if the Atlanta Jr. League was the first to come up with the cookbook moneymaker project, but I do know their cookbooks have been much respected over the years -- venerated, even.
In this one, though, they've outdone themselves. Even if the recipes were awful (and they're not), there's still enough entertainment in this book to make it worthy of the price. And that's not counting the gorgeous illustrations that place it firmly in coffeetable display status.
It's the stories by famous Georgia writers that kick this volume into the stratosphere of pleasure.
Ferrol Sams's double-take as he watches Katie Couric brave a glass of horse's milk on the Today Show, for example, is bound to split a stitch or two.
Then there's the late Lewis Grizzard on his prowess at the grill. "I come from a long line of outdoor grillers," he says, "My Uncle Jerome still holds the American record for consecutive days grilling out, 178."
Reconstructed Yankee Bill Diehl holds forth on how he came to love the South. He quotes his mentor, Ralph Gill of the Atlanta Constitution, "We must work to make a better North, South, West or New England, because in so doing we make a better America."
The inimitable Anne Rivers Siddons holds forth on the difficulties of finding a bowl of real Southern grits while on book tour in the great Fly-Over Land.
Stuart Woods, Eugenia Price, and Valerie Richards Jackson are just a few of the star-studded literary lights who shine in these pages. What a great idea to showcase Georgia's finest literary talents along with its best culinary talents!
I'll vouch for the recipes, too. I've been married to a full-fledged (and also reconstructed) Yankee for more years that you can count on all the digits of several people and when his side of the family came to visit recently, of course they expected Southern food from the only bona-fide Southerner in the family. So I served Crème Fraiche Biscuits with Chevre and Country Ham Butter, Spicy Grits Casserole and German Pancake with Peach Compote when they converged on me for a reunion brunch. They loved the food, asked for recipes and when I showed them the cookbook, they enthused over that, too!
Every recipe I've tried from TRUE GRITS has been delicious and has garnered raves from my family and friends. Therefore, I can unequivocally give it the highest recommendation from a cook's point of view as well as from one who values -- indeed, treasures -- a good read.
Book Description
"Breakfast shrimp and grits" has long been a staple of the South Carolina Lowcountry, the favored morning repast during the busy summer shrimp season. Now, renowned Southern cuisine maven and author Nathalie Dupree is pleased to offer an entire cookbook dedicated to this famed Southern dish that will inspire people around the world to discover its appeal and versatility for any meal!
Customer Reviews:
Great cooking recipes.......2006-09-03
Another fabulous cookbook by my favorite southern cooking author. I've already tried a recipe and it was a huge hit with my family. PS -- They don't particulary like grits.
Real South Carolina low country cooking .......2006-08-10
This is a terrific guide to real southern good food, centering around grits and, of course, shrimp. The truth is that grits are very closely related to polenta, and they can be great. This book is a terrific guide to good grits & good shrimp as they are eaten in the South. I am a California inhabitent myself, but this food is good. The receipes also are not too complicated and good for family or guests.
A dish born in South Carolina and elevated to new heights.......2006-07-04
Nathalie Dupree's Shrimp & Grits Cookbook presents a dish born in South Carolina and elevated to new heights. Authors Nathalie Dupree and Marion Sullivan reviewed the most famous and the most cherished recipes for shrimp and grits to cull out the best for a cookbook which even covers what kind of pan to use. Another plus: recipes come from top lowcountry chefs, are paired with color photos, and include plenty of variety, from Goat Cheese, Basil and Shrimp Timbales to Shrimp and Grits with Country Ham and Red-Eye Gravy and Quick Tomato-Bacon Shrimp and Grits.
Book Description
The Grit, located in the quintessential boho town of Athens, Georgia, is known far and wide as the touring musicians' restaurant of choice. This classic cookbook features 150 of The Grit's most requested recipes, including 20 new recipes to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this famous establishment. True to its Southern roots, this hip vegetarian eatery combines soul-food sensibility with meatless cuisine, and while there are plenty of Italian, Indian, Mexican, and Middle Eastern favorites to satisfy the well-traveled vegetarian, the heart of this cuisine maintains the down-home, soul-food feeling of simple foods and classic combinations that are guaranteed to please.
Customer Reviews:
This cookbook is one of the best!.......2007-04-15
The publishers ought to be giving me a commission as I have turned so many people on to this cookbook! Seriously, it has fantastic recipes, including the best pancakes I have ever made....the nutritional yeast gravy and the golden bowl are to die for...the stews with Guinness beer rock....the cilantro and pesto quesadillas are always a hit....yum......
The Grit.......2007-01-16
This is one of the best cookbooks I've ever bought. I am eager to make a trip to athens to eat at the actual restaurant. Great gift for your vegetarian or non-vegetarian friend.
great veggie food.......2007-01-10
The Grit is an amazing restaurant to eat at and the cookbook lets me make that same awesome food at home. The food is also fairly easy to make which is a bonus!
I'll give it 5 stars, because it's not the books fault.......2006-08-18
When will it come? I would love to have this book & I ordered it so long ago from Amazon (maybe May?). I still have yet to receive it as I keep getting emails saying it will be 4 more weeks or 1 more month and will I accept the delay. I am not sure if Amazon ever plans to get this book. I was warned by my husband that they do this in order to get your business & not order from others. I keep accepting the delay, hoping it will cause them to get the book and meanwhile I'm seeking it out on other sites.
Relax, you can't go wrong.......2006-04-11
I have owned this book for around 3 years now, and this is by far my most used cookbook. I think one of the most difficult things to perfect as a vegan is baking; cakes never come out like "the real deal", and always hit your stomach like a heavy brick. I was so excited when I was able to replicated the three-tiered, moist, fluffy cakes I had been able to enjoy all through my undergrad in Athens. I often refer back to the book to think of ways to alter my own recipes.
This is a must have book for any vegetarian or vegan for the simple fact that these recipes are used daily in a hugely popular restaurant, and thus have been tested an incredible number of times. If you have guests coming over, regardless of diet, you are guaranteed to create a satisfying meal everyone will enjoy.
Average customer rating:
- Fast forward past the movie and grab the book!
- The book is better than the movie.
- Gutsy western classic
- A TRUE WESTERN WINNER ON ALL COUNTS
- Have this book surgically attached to your body!
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True Grit
Charles Portis
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Book Description
Charles Portis has been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968--and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne (for which he won his only Academy Award). It tells the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, who sets out in the winter of eighteen seventy-something to avenge the murder of her father.
Since not even Mattie (who is no self-doubter) would ride into Indian Territory alone, she "convinces" one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshall, to tag along with her. As Mattie outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten types in her path, as her performance under fire makes them eat their words, her indestructible vitality and harsh innocence by turns amuse, horrify, and touch the reader. What happens-to Mattie, to the gang of outlaws unfortunate enough to tangle with her-rings with the dramatic rightness of legend and the marvelous overtones, the continual surprises, of personality.
True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself, who tells the story a half-century later in a voice that sounds strong and sure enough to outlast us all.
Customer Reviews:
Fast forward past the movie and grab the book!.......2006-11-02
"True Grit" is a perfect example of a tremendous book whose place in our collective literary consciousness has been besmirched by a rather clumsy but well-meaning Hollywood substitute. This book should be on every junior high and high school reading list. It is true feminism on the American frontier -- a woman who won't accept "her place" in a man's world because it doesn't fit her agenda. Mattie Ross is out to avenge the murder of her father "in the Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground."
I get chills even now from the memory of reading the serialized novel as a kid in the pages of "The Saturday Evening Post." Mattie Ross's harrowing experience in the rattlesnake pit was the most exciting thing I had ever read. It frustrates me now that I'm spending this time writing about a book that's been all but forgotton by succeeding generations. Everyone deserves to experience "True Grit." It's the kind of unputdownable book that can make even the most X-boxed kid of the G4 generation want to put down their controller and read for a few hours.
What has diminished this book's reputation over time has been the residual effect of a movie that fell far short of its potential, lapsing frequently into broad stereotypes. In the novel the narrative style fits Mattie Ross's character perfectly. The precise and opinionated spinster who tells the tale religiously avoids the crude employment of contractions in her sentences. Every "isn't" becomes an "is not," and every "he's" becomes a "he is." No one drops their "Gs" at the ends of words. While this sounds totally proper coming from Mattie's prim narrative, some Hollywood bumbler injudiciously decided to keep this mannered speech in the screenplay. Not just in Mattie's speeches but in those of Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne), LeBouef (Glen Campbell), Lucky Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) and the rest of the baddies throughout the Oklahoma Territory. The result is a series of stiltifying portrayals where the rough cobs of the plains sound like Sunday School teachers. Kim Darby's earnest performance as Mattie Ross is lost in this morass. One is left with the sense from the film that the acting is just generally bad but the movie simply suffers from a screenwriter who just doesn't seem to know where the words are coming from.
So why do I make a big deal about the movie when I'm talking about the novel? Only to make the point that you should not let negative feelings about the film deter you from the book. Ironically and somewhat sadly, perhaps the best hope for the future of Portis's work is that another movie version might one day be made, bringing the story again before the public eye. (Are you listening, Mister Eastwood?) After all, shouldn't movie remakes be made of movies that didn't quite get it right the first time? Kurosawa could have done the story justice by setting the film in Japan. So too could Ang Lee. The story is a universal one that transcends cultures. Nonetheless, Portis's novel is a winning and articulate vision of a changing American West. It is one of the important novels in its genre -- one which does not deserve the fate of being ignored. All that aside -- it's a GREAT read!
The book is better than the movie........2006-07-06
Written in the first person we see the adventures of Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old know-it-all girl, as she tries to hunt down the killer of her father. To do it she must hire the skills of the one-eyed U.S. Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn. Made into the movie, in which much of the book was transferred onto the big screen word for word, this book is swift flowing, full of humor and action and, in some ways, very touching.
Even if you have seen the film I would still suggest buying a copy of this book, new or used, to enjoy for a that slow day in which you have nothing else to do.
Gutsy western classic.......2005-02-27
Mattie Ross must be one of the all-time greatest fictional heroines as she embarks, in her own words, "to avenge her father's blood".
I love the humor of Portis's book,
COWBOY: I gave some thought to stealing a kiss from you, but now I am of a mind to give you five or six good licks with my belt.
MATTIE: One would be as bad as the other.
And again,
MATTIE: Do you need a good lawyer?
COWBOY: I need a good judge.
This is a heady mix. The technique of a first-person narrator adds realism and immediacy, which combines with the author's sense of drama and irony to create something quite remarkable. It is only strange that "True Grit" should have found more fame on the screen than on the page.
One thing annoyed me and that is hardly the fault of the writer. The cover blurb states,
"Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earpp and Jesse James" (Washington Post)
Well, perhaps, if only she could jump that thin barrier which separates fact from fiction.
"True Grit" is such a compelling novel that I was genuinely surprised to find that Charles Portis is a living author. I had supposed it had been written closer to the time in which it is set, such is its sense of authenticity.
It is also unbearably sad as well as funny. As the older Mattie states, ruefully reminiscing on her young self, "time just gets away from us." Such wryness is more shocking than all the snake-pits, shoot-outs and dying ponies of the early part of the story.
I have a few quibbles. The two marshals, Rooster Cogburn and LaBoeuff live to great ages (we are told Cogburn lives to 68) when I guess in reality most would have been lucky to reach 40, even if they were not vastly overweight and whisky-quaffing like the hero. But overall I really enjoyed this short novel and its introduction by Donna Tartt, even if she does not fully acknowledge the importance of Portis to her own work.
A TRUE WESTERN WINNER ON ALL COUNTS.......2005-02-26
Mosey on over to Arkansas and Missouri, why don't cha? - and check out this edition of TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis. With a stunning first person narrative voice, you'll find it's an absolute classic of the western genre - indeed, of the novel form itself.
Unfairly underated, or even misunderstood in the UK (my own well-thumbed copy is a child-oriented Puffin edition), Charles Portis' masterpiece has hitherto been quite sniffily regarded by the cognoscenti amongst us who are never stuck for a word or two, and invariably presume to dictate our literary tastes for us. (Naturally, John Wayne and Glen Campbell in the film version will have struck no chords of recognition with the literati!)
But personally, I was really interested to learn recently that novelist Donna Tartt's mother was "so crazy about (TRUE GRIT) that when she had finished it, she . . . read it all over again."
Only once in a bibliophliac lifetime have I been similarly affected by a novel, and that too was by a western: Elmore Leonard's HOMBRE. But, of course, HOMBRE too is an absolute classic of the novel form, though the literary snobs amongst us don't necessarily want us to know that.
I have been grateful too for Donna Tartt's incisive reminder about "the great abiding pleasure of (the narrative voice)" in TRUE GRIT. Because this set me thinking about my personal favourites in this respect. Two of them are listed above; the others being ROOM AT THE TOP; THE GREAT GATSBY; A CLOCKWORK ORANGE; JACK'S RETURN HOME (aka GET CARTER); I, CLAUDIUS; Keith Waterhouse's THERE IS A HAPPY LAND; THE CATCHER IN THE RYE; and ALFIE - to name but a phew!
Or am I showing my age? A golden one. I'll grant you!
Have this book surgically attached to your body!.......2005-02-09
I have read True Grit about 16 times. Every time I go into The Strand or any book store I find a copy and prop it up on the fiction table hoping to infect someone else with the Portis bug. I have read all of his work, even "Gringos," and it is all as funny and real as "True Grit," especially "Norwood." I lobby high school teachers to get "True Grit" or "Norwood" on reading lists and I lend out copies left and right or give them away in the hopes of widening Portis' sphere of influence.
But enough about me. "True Grit" is such a great read, full of jokes. I know I won't do them justice but here are a couple of scenes I like: The degenerate Marshall Rooster Cockburn lives in the back of a general store with a Chinese guy and a cat called Genera Price. He sleeps in a string bed (!) and shoots a rat during a business meeting with Mattie, the 14-year-old protagonist out after her father's killer. Or after Mattie tries to buy a horse from a local business man, vexing him beyond all limits, the business man sees her walking up the path and says "I heard tell of a young girl drowning in a well last night. But I can see you are fine." And the horse Blackie is such a good horse and the scene near the tail of the book where Blackie meets his end is so succinct and sad!
This is a great book that I think just about everyone would enjoy from 10-year-olds to 75 year-olds
Portis is supposedly holed up in a fishing shack in Arkansas writing a new book. I have a google search on his name to keep track of all Portis activity! I can't wait!
Book Description
The white-knuckle pace of a bicycle race drives this novel about a young American's opportunity to compete in the Tour de France. Complex relationships with teammates, personal and professional obstacles, and a terrible disaster cause the young cyclist to redefine his limits. An insider's perspective on the world of professional bicycle racing reveals that the required tactics and skills create a culture in which pain is the ultimate currency and endurance is the most powerful force. The intense pressure the competitors experience offers an instructive look at personal formation beyond the sports world.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent quick read.......2007-10-03
Nice flow that always keeps you in the action and provides the background story at the same time.
It was a fast read.......2007-07-26
It had all the weaknesses pointed out by other reviewers, but I have to admit that I sat in the one-stall reading library so long that my legs went to sleep hooked on reading several chapters. It's a long way from great literature, but it does paint an interesting picture of the inside of the peloton. It ain't War and Peace, but that's a good thing. My legs weren't the only things that went to sleep trying to read that.
captivating.......2007-07-24
This is the first year I've closely followed the Tour de France and this book enhanced the experience greatly (although the Vino incident has left a sour taste). Dave Shields manages to put into words every emotion felt by a cyclist - the pain, the joy, the tactics. One of the reviewers on the back cover says that Dave Shields owes him a night of sleep. I'd like to add to the list of people owed the same!
Not bad at all.......2007-04-17
This isn't the best writing around, but it isn't bad. But if you like cycling, it's good enough that you won't put it down. If you want great writing, get "The Rider by Tim Krabbe. But if you're like me, you'll want both.
The Race - not a patch on "The Rider".......2007-02-19
As an avid cyclist, I was hoping for an adventure along the lines of Tim Krabbe's "The Rider". Alas, whilst the depiction of the riding itself was exciting and plausible, the all too frequent references to the rider's history mixed with improbable relationships past and present created an environment that lacked credibility and created boredom.
I forced myself to not skip various sections, although having pushed through questioned the value of doing so.
Disappointing.
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