Book Description
Foreword by baseball legend Jim Morris, former Major League pitcher with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
It was true in the 1940s, and it is still true today: if you have talent, someone will notice. In Gene Moore's case, that someone was the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Gene Moore was a farm boy living with his family in Sesser, Illinois, a town so small even map makers ignored it. As a teenager, when he wasn't in school or helping his Pop on the farm, slopping the hogs and doing other chores with his older brother Ward and five sisters, Gene was playing baseball with the guys on the town team. Some were twice his age. The older fellows didn't mind having the Moore kid on their team because he could hit the ball farther than anyone else, he was the best catcher anyone had ever seen, he could throw men out from his knees, and not a ball ever got past him. Gene was 15 years old.
Word quickly spread across the United States about the country boy who could hit the ball a country mile. The Dodgers wanted to take a look at this farm kid, barely old enough to shave and still awaiting his first kiss, but brash enough to call the pitches from behind the plate and motion to the infielders and outfielders as to how they should position themselves for certain hitters.
Headed for baseball stardom with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Gene's destiny was interrupted by Pearl Harbor. After playing ball for the Navy in the Azores and North Africa, Gene and his team were sent to the States for a special-and top secret-mission: guarding German sailors captured from U-505. Unable to field a team, Gene convinced his commander to allow him to teach the enemy how to play baseball while he and his teammates waited for the war to end so they could be called up into the Major Leagues. But Gene's future changed irrevocably in Louisiana. His life . . . and maybe our national pastime . . . was forever altered.
Inspired by true events, Playing with the Enemy is the riveting story of a depression-era youth and his brush with destiny. Author Gary Moore, Gene's son, did not learn of his father's remarkable odyssey through World War II and the hardships of minor league baseball until the day before Gene's death. Confronted with evidence of a possible career in baseball, Gene finally broke his decades of silence and spent the next several hours relieving himself of the heavy burden he had been carrying. The stunning news sent the author on his own odyssey as he researched his father's life and interviewed dozens of people.
The astonishing story of Gene Moore's life in and out of baseball is an exciting and often heart-wrenching saga that will capture the heart of every red- blooded American who can still smell the fresh-cut summer grass or remember how it felt to tie on the cleats while dreaming of making it to the big leagues. Jammed with memorable characters from an extraordinary time in our country's history, Playing with the Enemy is a story that will be read and reread for generations to come. And it is one you will never forget.
About the Author: Gary W. Moore is the president and managing partner of Covenant Air and Water, LLC, a motivational speaker, and an accomplished musician. Gene Moore was his father. Gary lives in Bourbonnais, Illinois.
Customer Reviews:
Moore does an excellent job engaging your hear and soul .......2007-09-23
I am not much of a history buff... and I'm even less of a baseball fan, but I loved this book! Moore does an excellent job engaging your hear and soul with an amazing true 5 hour tale he heard from his father for the first time just hours before his death. The characters are truly rich with personality and heart in a way I didn't expect from a "baseball/war" book and Gary skillfully portrays full-bodied characters where he had only key information to build from. Our 'hero' Gene (Gary's Father), is such a charismatic and likable guy that your heart rises and falls with every triumph and disappointment causing you to keep the book in a tight grip. And a surprise twist in the end that left me quite pruny in my bath because I couldn't put it down! It was well worth trying to understand all those baseball numbers I have no clue about and war facts that were beyond me.
All in all `Playing with the Enemy' left me with not only a greater understanding of WWII heroics, the spirit of baseball and challenges born from passion, but the amazing capacity for such a deep passion to touch and alter so many lives across the globe and back again. I think it will be a fantastic movie and I am eager to see that they do justice to the characters I grew to love!
Great story - truely touching.......2007-09-10
This is one of the best stories I have ever read. The story will grip you immediately and is truely touching. As a history teacher and a baseball coach, it was special to see the two tied together. I can not wait for the movie version to come out. The author, while writing about his father, does not make the entire story just about his father. A must read.
Highly recommend!.......2007-08-16
I would recommend this book to anyone even if they weren't a baseball or history fan. This book is an easy read with a compelling story. A page turner that you will not want to put down. This book was obviously written with great heart and much research and not only brings to life a part of history that shouldn't be forgotten but also a heart rendering story of what might have been. This book will appeal to a wide range of audiences.
a compelling true story, told with sincerity.......2007-07-29
Perhaps my best testament to this book's appeal is that, of the dozen or so unfinished memoirs and other nonfiction titles stacked up on my table -- all selected by me -- for several days running this was the one I wanted to read. Consequently, I finished it first while the others lay waiting.
Why? Well, it's an easy read and a compelling story. Personally, I have little interest in pro sports; but baseball -- and even WWII -- are only the backdrop for a much more universal tale of what happens when one's plans and ambitions are frustrated. Everyone can identify with that. If you have unresolved issues about how fate has dealt with your own dreams, this story will speak to you.
I'm giving it four stars instead of five only because, as a professional editor, I found occasional passages where the writing could have been burnished somewhat. Actually, it's a rare book that does not send me groping for a red pen. But those few passages do not detract from the earnest sincerity with which the author presents this carefully and lovingly researched story. In a way, they may even enhance it.
Ageless Story.......2007-07-03
I am a 6th grade literature teacher and I had a student of mine bring Gary Moore's book "Playing with the Enemy" to me. My student really liked this book and had met Mr. Moore in Chicago around Christmas time. Mr. Moore had offered to speak to my student's class if he finished reading the book and contacted Mr. Moore.
Well, my student finished the book, passed it on to me and asked me to read it. I read the book in a weekend. It is a beautiful story that appeals to so many different interests: Baseball, of course, the ideal of small town life, American history, family and finally, most importantly, the life of a simple man who touched so many around him while pursuing his dream.
I loved this book! It is well written, the story flows with just enough details to create a movie in your mind, but not so many details that interest wanes. I was interested in Gene Moore's life and felt Gene Moore's excitement and despair. I genuinely cared for Gene Moore.
Gary Moore did respond to an email from me and my student. He did honor his word and came and spoke to our entire 6th grade --- well over 350 kids. He spoke with the same sincerity, enthus iasm and kindness that he wrote of when he described his father. All I can think, when I read his words, is "wouldn't his dad be proud".
My students and I are eagerly awaiting any more books Mr. Moore decides to write, regardless of the subject matter. I reccommend this book to anyone from age 12 to 102.
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Searching for Bobby Fischer is the story of Fred Waitzkin and his son Josh, from the moment six-year-old Josh first sits down at a chessboard until he competes for the national championship. Drawn into the insular, international network of chess, they must also navigate the difficult waters of their own relationship. All the while, Waitzkin wonders about and searches for the elusive Bobby Fischer, whose myth still dominates the chess world and profoundly affects Waitzkin's dreams for his son.
Customer Reviews:
Chess is Life.......2006-01-13
Searching for Bobby Fischer is a skillfully woven set of vignettes that tell two stories, really. One, of course, is the story of his and his son Josh's discovery of the boy's precocious chess talent, the other the story of the chess environment in the US and the effect of Bobby Fischer's legacy on US chess.
Reading the other reviews I find it hard to understand what some people complain about in the book. For instance, the Russian trip had great importance, both as a contrast to the chess community in the US, and because it was a formative event in the life of the main subject of the book. How do you just leave something like that out?
The actual "search" near the end of the book is truly a beautiful, bittersweet interlude that serves to put under the glaring light of truth the amorphous, romanticized legend of Bobby Fischer. It's a dirty, confusing little search that goes nowhere, and is a telling metaphor for the life course of the once legendary champion.
One important comparison to the movie is the recounting of the Nationals that Josh finally wins. While what they put in the movie was exciting, to me it was nothing like the vibrant, tense denoument in the book. The come from behind save Josh pulled out in real life is the stuff of little legends all on its own.
This is a thoroughly enjoyable book, front to back, poignant, with the ring of truth on every page. I can't recommend enough to both chess players and non-players alike.
Young Fischer.......2006-01-09
Ever since the elusive disappearance of chess genius Bobby Fischer, who beat Russian Boris Spassky in 1972 for the world championship, the only American to do so, parents all over the United States have wondered if their little sons and daughters would someday have the potential to be the next Fischer. Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin is the true story of Fred and his son Josh. In New York City, the only place for serious chess players in the US, Josh discovered chess one day in Washington Square Park. Soon after he began playing he was pronounced a prodigy and taken under the wing of one of the best chess teachers in the country, Bruce Pandolfini. Fred is infatuated with his son's potential and gets drawn into the crazy and obsessive world of chess. The book chronicles the years from when Josh begins playing until he wins the national championship. Along the way Fred travels to Moscow to watch the long awaited match of Karpov and Kasparov, two chess titans, and opposite sides of the same coin. Fred realizes the truth of what being a professional player means and how hard it is the US. He's confused about his longing for Josh to be a great player and how he obsesses so much over it. Deep down he knows Josh is not as good as Fischer, and even if he was how can you compete with these Russian players who are exposed to the game forty to fifty hours a week? Throughout this journey Fred discovers both the glory and failure in being a chess parent of a talented player, and shares his worries, fears, and hopes for his son. I highly recommend this groundbreaking story.
This book captures all the feelings and emotions of being the parent of a precocious child. On one hand, you want them to live a well-rounded life. But on the other hand, your thoughts drift to untold glory and tournaments to be won. You want the child to study and work hard and it's easy to get caught up in immediate results. Then you worry your kid's not having fun or you've pushed them too hard. Especially for chess, a parent has to wonder, why do I care so much about my child's gift, I've seen professional chess players and the dreadful lives they lead. Even the very best players cope with miserable conditions. Unlike a tennis prodigy, for a chess player there's no pot of gold at the end. But week after week these parents take their brilliant kids to tournaments and spend a weekend holed up in a stuffy hotel. They cannot understand their feelings or why they do this, but what if their son or daughter is the next Bobby Fischer?
Searching for Bobby Fischer is not only about chess. It describes the delicate relation between Fred and his son. At first, Josh is a genius. He can do no wrong and wins everything. Kids tremble when they play him. At the nationals, he'll be ranked number one. He is unstoppable. And then Josh loses at the nationals to a little kid with a much lower rating. He crushes Josh in less than twenty minutes. Fred and Bruce cannot understand what went wrong. Fred is confused and wonders why he pushes his son so hard. For six months Josh doesn't want to play and Fred fears this is the end. He feels awful about liking his son more when he wins and thinking how boring Josh's life would be without chess. Soon Fred and Bruce realize what needs to be done and the following year Josh wins the national championship. Fred starts to begin understanding the feelings he has about Josh and chess.
The chapters about Moscow and world championship match between Karpov and Kasparov are fascinating. Karpov is loved by the Soviet Union and has many powerful political connections. Kasparov is more the rebel, outspoken against Karpov and the government. Half of the battle for the title is political and psychological. Rumors that Karpov would poison Kasparov at any cost abound. It is well known in a previous match Karpov employed a hypnotist to sit in the third row and during the game hypnotize his opponent. Kasparov argues bitterly against Karpov having his team of seconds and trainers offer him drinks during the game. He says the drink could contain a message, such as they found a winning line and he should adjourn the game (in those days adjournments for very long games were allowed, meaning the game would be stopped and continued in a few hours), or a long struggle was ahead and he shouldn't drink anything to make him crash. Also, people say Karpov would regularly bribe Kasparov's seconds and trainers to give his team their opening secrets or just rob Kasparov of a critical trainer. Due to his smaller team, instead of preparing Kasparov would have to get on the phone to block Karpov's latest move. Just for the record, Kasparov won the match after six brutal months.
Searching for Bobby Fischer is a fast and thoughtful read. Fred movingly conveys his hopes and dreams for his son, and opens a world up that many people didn't even know existed. A truly good book.
A.M.
A Book For All Chess Players - Good Read.......2005-08-24
This book has the championship chess presence like "The Queen's Gambit" by Tevis and the scholastic excitement of "The Chess Team" by Sawaski - The others are fiction, but what sets this book (SFBF) apart is that it is a real story. However, the title is a hair misleading. This book really has nothing at all to do with the real Bobby Fischer (Former World Chess Champion) - but rather about chess prodigy and future chess grandmaster Josh Waitzkin.
The book itself is very much different from the movie and although the movie was very well done and one of my favorites of all time, the book is outstanding and should be read even if you watched the movie. If you play chess or like to teach chess, this book is highly useful for experience. The whole work just flows nicely and you get excited for Josh on his trials and tribulations. It is a quality book, with interesting experiences and I highly recommend it to all.
superb ! excpet couple of chapters.......2005-07-15
superb book!
postives:
1. insights into everything it covers
chess world, inights into a chess parent
2. smooth reading
3. the suspense in the last chapter itself is worth 5 starts
4. honest expressions about his feelings and his ideas
about others
5. the expression of the dilemma within him (or any chess
parent) on where this is headed.
negative:
1. couple of chapters seemed boring (irrelevant) at times,
but that could be me looking to get ahead with story
of him and his prodigal son.
Pretty Good Book.......2005-06-17
I read this book, and I think the movie is better. This book is about the father of a young boy named Josh Waitzkin, who is a chess prodigy. I think the main problem in this book is that it doesn't talk about Josh as much as it should. Also, I think there were just a few inappropriate things that didn't need to be written. Its a pretty good book.
Note on Josh Waitzkin
It's sad that Josh Waitzlin quit chess. I think he quit because everyone thought he was going to be the next bobby fischer, and deep down he knew he wasn't. He was an International Master at age 16 while Bobby Fischer was a Grandmaster at age 16. The even more sad thing was in a newspaper article, he said he would never quit because he would never want to think about what he could have been. Also, in his book Josh Waitzkin's attacking chess, he wrote that when a prodigy grows up, they may hit a wall. Some people may say he never had it, some may say he never will. But the prodigy should keep going. Anyway, he quit at a ration in the low 2400's.
Book Description
ENHANCE YOUR BABY’S POTENTIAL!
Winner of thirteen national awards, the Baby Prodigy Company’s DVDs and CDs have opened up an exciting new world for babies to explore. Now the creator of this landmark series presents a simple, straightforward guide no parent should be without. This fascinating book shows how stimulation affects the intelligence and happiness of your baby. It provides a program of activities that will enrich your infant’s sensory awareness–hearing, seeing, touching, feeling, and tasting–in order to jumpstart amazing brain growth during the critical first three years of life.
Discover:
• sanity-saving tips for sleepless nights, fussy days, colic, and more
• bonding and soothing techniques to use during your baby’s first three weeks of life
• easy, pleasurable activities to promote development in very young infants
• milestones to look for as your child grows–from birth through toddlerhood
• creative ways to stimulate curiosity, attention span, memory, and nervous system advancement
• the ideal books and toys that will inspire learning and retention
• baby talk: what your baby is trying to say, and how to talk to your baby at every stage of development
Customer Reviews:
FANTASTIC BOOK.......2006-05-17
I bought this book because we have all of the Baby Prodigy Products. My wife is expecting our second child this summer. Even though we have already been through the newborn stage once, I have to say that I have learned so much from this book that I didn't know for our first child. My wife and I really enjoyed it. It is easy and fast to read and the writer has a sense of humor too. I loved all of the stories in the beginning of each chapter. I think all of the educational games in the book will help us stimulate our baby and help her develop at a much faster rate than our first child. It is definitely a must have for new parents, second time parents, grandparents, etc. Everyone can do the stimulating activities that this book provides. Great for caregivers and daycares too. Our daughter was also coliky and now I have some great tips if our newborn has it. We have so many pregancy and child development books but this by far is the BEST. It is the Best fourteen dollars we ever ever spent.
GOOD WORK! Hope to see a toddler book too.
A Must Read For All Parents.......2006-04-18
My sister recommended this book to me. I think it is a must have for all parents, first time or not. It is full of valuable advice and insight. I now purchase the book for all my baby showers, and I would recommend it to anyone!
Book Description
Strongly recommended. M R JAMES NEWSLETTER Stories of restless spirits returning from the afterlife are as old as storytelling. In medieval Europe ghosts, nightstalkers and unearthly visitors from parallel worlds had been in circulation since before the coming of Christianity. Here is a collection of ghostly encounters from medieval romances, monastic chronicles, sagas and heroic poetry. These tales bore a peculiar freight of spooks and spirituality which can still make the hair stand on end. Look at the story of Richard Rowntree's stillborn child, glimpsed by his father tangled in swaddling clothes on the road to Santiago, or the sly habits of water sprites resting as golden rings on the surface of the river, just out of reach. Writer and broadcaster Andrew Joynes brings together a vivid selection of these tales, with a thoughtful commentary that puts them in context and lays bare the layers of meaning in them.
Customer Reviews:
Ghosties, Ghoulies and Things That Go Bump in the Night.......2004-02-12
If you like ghost stories, you'll love the anthology MEDIEVAL GHOST STORIES compiled and edited by Andrew Joynes. Joynes compiled European tales that range from the 8th to the 14th centuries. The book is divided into four sections. Part One is Miracula and the Monastic Vision of Ghosts. Part Two is Mirabilia and Ghosts in Court Writing. Part Three is entitled Revenants, Prodigies and the Restless Dead. Part Four is Ghosts in Medieval Vernacular Literature. Each section has an overall introduction and each author or literary text also has information before it. The information links the stories from widely different periods together and shows that these tales, although quite different from the modern ghost story, are its literary ancestors.
I enjoyed all the stories, but find that I was quite fond of the stories regarding the Wild Hunt, The Tale of King Herla and Bisclavret by Marie de France.
If you are interested in the mindset of Middle Ages or enjoy legends and tales of the supernatural, you will definitely enjoy this lovely anthology. A selected bibliography and index are included.
Book Description
Theodosia Burr Alston was a brilliant, independent, highly-educated and freethinking woman in an age which valued none of those traits in females. She was born June 21, 1783 in Albany, New York, the daughter of prominent attorney Aaron Burr (1756-1836) and his wife, the former Mrs. Theodosia Prevost (d. 1794), a widow. Young Theodosia spent most of her unmarried life in New York City with her charismatic, influential father, who had distinguished himself as an officer in the Revolutionary War. There he served under Col. Benedict Arnold and became a member of General George Washington's inner circle. After her mother died when Theodosia was eleven, she became her father's closest confidante and the mistress of Richmond Hill, his New York country estate. A child prodigy whose education was designed by her adoring and demanding father, Theodosia spoke Latin, French, German, and read Greek by the age of twelve.
For Aaron Burr, providing his little girl with an extraordinary education was a lifelong obsession. But Burr's desire to rear a superior woman-child went far beyond mere education. By the time she could walk, Burr had envisioned an incredible goal for her and crafted a master plan to achieve it. Every waking breath of her day was directed by her father to shape Theodosia into something new, radical, and monumental. He was not interested in turning out just a smart, pretty girl; a father's pride; or a husband's delight. Burr was no petty theorist. He was a passionate, egotistical visionary on scale that made the gods cringe. With his vision and his daughter's talent, Burr intended to push the envelope of mortal achievement to its absolute limit. Burr's goal was to sculpt Theodosia into a model for the woman of the future: a female Aaron Burr. She was not trained to serve hearth, home, or plantation. From her first breath of life, she was groomed and educated to take her intended station in life: nothing less than president, queen... or empress. From her birth into New York's high society, her childhood among the leaders of the new nation, her marriage to Joseph Alston, a Southern slaveholding aristocrat, to her mysterious death at sea at the age of twenty-nine, this is the true story of Theodosia Burr Alston. From the letters she exchanged with her father, Aaron Burr, and her husband, Joseph Alston, and from the accounts of those who knew her personally, emerges a powerful portrait of a true American prodigy.
Customer Reviews:
Aaron Burr Has a Starring Role in His Daughter's Biography.......2007-03-30
I first heard about Theodosia Burr while visiting Charleston, SC, earlier this year. The tour guide mentioned she was Aaron Burr's daughter, a woman educated like a man and raised to be future Empress of Mexico, who disappeared at sea and was rumored to be stolen away by pirates. I was fascinated and determined to learn more. When I looked up Theodosia on Amazon, Richard N. Cote's book came up. I bought it immediately.
I was not disappointed. The biography "Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy" by Richard N. Cote was a fun ride through history. While the book could use more editing, the story itself was intriguing. A Revolutionary War hero and infamous duelist, Aaron Burr raised his only child to be female version of himself: a sophisticated, intelligent, free-thinking prodigy who socialized with French nobility, Native American Chiefs, and quite a few famous Americans, including President George Washington and Dolly Madison.
What I discovered reading this, however, was that Theodosia herself did not interest me as much as her father. In fact, something about her turned me off. I found myself skimming sections about her to learn more about her charismatic father, Aaron Burr, whose mercurial career in politics and wild scheme to conquer Mexico made for a much more interesting story.
All in all, "Theodosia" was a great book in terms of history. I learned quite a bit about our Founding Fathers and what life was like after the War in the newly formed US. I also enjoyed satisfying my curiosity about Theodosia's education and death, as it is an interesting footnote in history. But more importantly to me, I was pleased to learn so much about Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the US. He is the true hero of this book.
Enlightening!.......2004-05-16
I entirely disagree with the reader below me. (Everyone owned slaves back then, except for, notably, Alexander Hamilton, who hated slavery, and yes, he wasn't the only one. But still, the focus of the book was Theodosia, not Aaron.)
I came across Theodosia while I was watching the PBS Home Video "The Duel" (which I recommend if you are interested in Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, the duel itself, or politics in that time period). I wanted to know more about her and purchased this book. I'm glad I did! This biography seems more like a novel because of the incredible, fast-paced journey it leads you on into the past. I especially liked the last few chapters, when the author explored Theodosia's possible fates and the "mystery of the Nag's Head portrait." This whole book never had a boring moment, so if you are interested in this great yet unknown woman or her infamous father, read this book ASAP!
A huge disappointment!.......2004-05-08
I hate to rain on the parade of all these glowing reviews, but this book is a product of shoddy, lazy, amateurish research. A full 59% of the footnotes are based on secondary sources, & a full 25% of those are from one source alone which the author himself admits is unreliable. The section on Aaron Burr's mother is based on a "source" well-known for decades to be [untrue]. The discussion of Burr as a "slave-owner" is totally misleading, based on assumptions for which there is no evidence, & completely overlooks Burr's well known anti-slavery record. I could go on & on, but you get the picture. The book is full of factual errors, misleading assumptions, & faulty logic. Theodosia Burr Alston needs a good biography, but this isn't it.
I Couldn't Put It Down.......2004-04-16
What an in depth and at times riveting account of Theodosia, the beautiful and very gifted daughter of Vice President and scheming traitor, Aaron Burr. This is a story that has been told before but never brilliantly as in Mr. Cote's sweeping tale. The author brings to life the romantic and tragic heroine, Theodosia, so vividly that the reader truly feels her joys and pain. From her privileged upbringing by a father who was a brilliant but flawed man to her marriage into South Carolina's wealthiest family and eventually to her mysterious death at age 28, this is a story that carries us through the ballrooms and political intrigue of the 18th and early 19th Century. Theodosia, the most well educated woman of her time, was destined by her ambitious father to be empress of Mexico in a scheme both treasonous and ultimately ruinous. Theodosia vanished at sea in 1812 leaving behind a haunting portrait that washed up on a North Carolina beach and a story so intriguing that it lingers in the heart and mind long after the book is finished.
The Scare History of Prominent Females and their Males.......2004-01-14
There is little doubt that Vice President Aaron Burr was the single, most important person in the world to this young, and impressionable young woman: and why not? He was, after all, her father, the person most likely to offer her his best nurturing protection, validate her worth, and interpret the world as he would like her to see it, educating her for what he perceived it to be, in its complexity as well as its simplicity. As his most unconditional admirer, she apparently did the same for him, and as his trusted confidant, the author spectacularly preserves and presents their special relationship of father and daughter with reasonable success despite the number of rumors, accusations, and hype that usually accompanies infamous figures in history, allowing us to appreciate the complexities of political environments, personal relations, and complex events in a very readable and eloquent fashion, in today's conjecture of thought and reason as best he can from a 200 year old antique history. An insightful account of a very colorful period of American history. While certain presumptions may well be far fetched, certainly the inquiry is a valuable contribution to what can only be called one of the very few accounts of the importance of females in the lives of historical figures.
Product Description
Billy Joe Chambers, of the notorious Chambers Brothers presents Prodigy Hustler. Prodigy Hustler allows readers to follow Chambers along his journey to the top of the Detroit cocaine game. Chambers gives detailed accounts of life struggles and experiences as he traveled from his hometown, Marianna, Arkansas to the streets of Detroit where he became known as a member of the Chambers Gang , Detroit s largest drug organization. Chambers was recently featured in BET s American Gangster series. Prodigy Hustler is now available for readers enjoyment. I realize that there are many stories about the Chambers Brothers but Prodigy Hustler is the only true story available.
Customer Reviews:
Good Companion Book.......2007-10-04
While this book provides first hand details from the authors life, I was left wanting more. I had previously read and in depth account of the author's life from another writer and was hoping to gain more insight into the author's perspective. I think the most disppointing thing was what seemed to me a lack of acknowledgement and regret for the actions that lead to his downfall. The accounts of various destructive actions, relationships, and the treatment of women seemed to glorify and even excite the author in recounting specific events. Giving latitude for how many, including myself, may misinterpret the author's retelling of certain events. It seems as if no true remorse for certain lifestyle choices were presented. Aside from being incarcerated, what personal contrition is evident and offered to the many families destroyed, community at large, as well as to the author's family and friends for the actions chosen? I think this was a missed opportunity to educate many youths, especially disenfranchised African American males, of how not to follow his many missteps. That said...I would still like to thank the author for offering his side of the story.
good book.......2007-03-27
this book is one mans story of his rise and fall of the drug game. It was pretty good reading. If you grew up on the eastside of Detroit i strongly recommend that you read this book, you never know who you might know.
Book Description
Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.
The immediate manuscript context of the monsters in Beowulf is analysed, shedding light on the poet's treatment of the theme of the monstrous and its integration into his work, and a series of parallel discussions consider a range of medieval treatments of the same theme in a variety of analogous texts (all provided with translation), in Latin, Old English, Middle Irish, and Old Icelandic.
The twin themes of pride and prodigies are suggested by tracing changing attitudes towards the concept of pride and establishing a close link between the proud pagan warriors depicted in Christian tradition and the monsters they fight, and with whom they become increasingly identified.
An appendix contains new editions and translations (some for the first time in English) of the Liber Monstrorum, The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, and The Wonders of the East.
Originally published in 1995 by Boydell & Brewer.
Customer Reviews:
Great approach to an under-read poem.......2007-02-07
There is increasing interest in the 21st century with "Beowulf," that old Old English poem -- largely, I think, because it can be read as a parable for the United States and its War on Terrorism. Orchard's book offers a way of seeing the poem that reveals the work's contemporary nature. It helps make the U.S. v. Terrorism parable more visible. In short, Orchard's book and the poem itself are well worth a fresh read if you haven't taken a look at "Beowulf" since high school or college.
Ian Myles Slater on: Much Ado About Monsters.......2004-12-31
Andy Orchard's volume, "Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the 'Beowulf'-Manuscript," concludes with careful editions of Latin and Old English texts, and modern English translations. It opens with a superb introductory discussion, which is effectively a short book in itself, and probably could have stood alone with some expansion. (But then we wouldn't have the full texts and their translations.)
Taken as a whole, it fills a void in "Beowulf" studies. Since it took a long time to fill, I am relieved to report that it was worth the wait. And the comparatively reasonable price of the paperback edition -- reasonable given that is on Old English literature, a subject of limited interest, and published by a University press -- is more good news.
In addition, the volume is of some importance to the growing interest in medieval ideas about strange people, creatures, and places, and the part they played in concepts about the physical world, and what they revealed about the Will of God. And it contributes to other branchs of medieval studies, as well; even to our knowledge of the image of Alexander the Great. (Yes indeed, the Middle Ages had the equivalent of a "Hollywood Version" ... .)
So, what exactly does it contain, and why is it important? The monsters in the "Beowulf" manuscript would be just Grendel, Grendel's Mother, and the Dragon, and maybe some of the sea-creatures Beowulf fought, right? Actually, no.
"Beowulf" survives in a unique eleventh-century manuscript, officially designated Cotton Vitellius A.xv. That means that the seventeenth-century collector Sir Robert Cotton kept it on the top shelf of a bookcase marked with a bust of the Emperor Vitellius, and that it was item number fifteen on that shelf, after he had it bound with a group of four unrelated (except for being English) texts from the twelfth century. The original, shorter, form is known, after the earlier collector who wrote his name on the first surviving leaf, as the Nowell Codex.
It was recognized by scholars fairly early on that the original codex contained five works. (Any others were lost, with parts of two of the survivors, before it was rebound, in addition to the damage sustained in an eighteenth-century fire.) These five are: "The Passion of St. Christopher," an account of a legendary giant / Christian holy man; "The Wonders of the East" and "The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle," translations of two Latin accounts of strange creatures encountered in the Orient by Alexander the Great; and, following "Beowulf" itself, "Judith," an Old English verse adaptation of a story from the Apocrypha in the Vulgate Bible, unfortunately incomplete. (For those unfamiliar with the story, it features a heroine who has to deal with a heathen invader, whose behavior, at least, is monstrous. Like David -- or Beowulf -- she comes back with a trophy to prove her story.)
"Beowulf" has been receiving attention for almost two centuries now; "Judith" came to scholars' attention even earlier, in a collection of Anglo-Saxon Biblical translations and paraphrases, edited by Edward Thwaite, and published way back in 1698.
But the prose texts, Christian (but not Biblical) or semi-classical, instead of Germanic, have been treated as embarrassing stepchildren (if not worse); although some received individual editions, drawing on other manuscripts when possible, their main treatment *as a group* was a barely-usable volume from the Early Texts Society, edited by Stanley Rypins, "Three Old English Prose Texts" (EETS Original Series No. 161, 1924). It was published about a dozen years before Tolkien insisted on putting the monsters in "Beowulf" at the center of the study of the poem. (And when I say barely-usable, I mean that I tried hard to work with it. Rypins seemed very good at reporting the state of some texts which appear to have confused the scribes who had copied them. Yes, it was *supposed* to be a "diplomatic edition" -- but some diplomatic editions offer more help than others.) Orchard elsewhere described it as "less than satisfactory."
It was almost thirty years after Rypins' edition before Kenneth Sisam published the observation that the Nowell Codex seems to have been a collection of stories about monsters and heroes, and that the selection of texts may not have been random, but represented how "Beowulf" was seen in the late tenth or early eleventh century. And that this possibility deserved attention from critics.
The sort of thing that only a genius of Aristotelian proportions -- or possibly a child -- would think to mention. Completely obvious, naturally, *once* it has been brought to your attention.
Critical consideration of the issue soon followed; although the source materials remained hard to find, with editions scattered, and often imperfectly edited for use in Beowulfian studies. The fact that these were translations from Latin texts with their own confusing histories only compounded the problem.
In the meantime, it had been noticed long before that Beowulf's own King Hygelac appeared, in a garbled form, in a Latin collection, the "Liber Monstrorum." (Yes, Harry Potter fans, an actual "Book of Monsters.") This work, in its turn, seemed to have its own, complex, relationship with the Alexander-texts in the Nowell Codex. And, after Sisam's observation, its separate circulation suggested that the Nowell Codex would not have been a unique example of interest in strange and bizarre (or just very large) inhabitants of lands far and near.
And the "Wonders of the East" itself turns out to have a complicated history, the original version apparently having been presented to medieval readers as a communication to a Roman Emperor, Hadrian or Trajan, and not originally part of the Alexander Cycle at all, although dependent on it. But it had been drawn in (or drawn back in); what, if anything, did that say about the role of Alexander in medieval thought?
And there are lots of other questions. But systematic treatments of what the texts meant for Anglo-Saxons, especially the versions in their own language, have been frustratingly hard to find. (That something interesting was going on was evident. "Wonders" contains examples of the word *waelcyrige* -- now familiar in the Norse-derived form of "valkyries" [valkyrjar] -- in actual use by an Anglo-Saxon scribe, even if the referents are semi-classical, not Germanic.)
As studies and translations of individual texts have appeared over the years, some information has become available to the "common reader." The Old English "Wonders of the East" is translated in Michael Swanton's "Anglo-Saxon Prose." Latin versions of "Wonders" and "The Letter of Alexander" are translated, with much else, in Richard Stoneman's "Legends of Alexander the Great." (Both books were published in the Everyman series, and both, apparently, are out of print. Stoneman's translation of "The Greek Alexander Romance," a more distantly related work, is still available from Penguin, as is Ken Dowden's version of it in B.P. Reardon's "Collected Ancient Greek Novels.")
In "Pride and Prodigies" Andy Orchard has brought together critically edited Latin and Old English texts of "The Wonders of the East" and "The Letter of Alexander," with modern English translations of the Old English, and a Latin text, with translation, of the "Liber Monstrorum." In the substantial introductory section, Orchard considers how the Old English versions are adaptations of the Latin sources, and the possible relationship of these adaptations to the ideas at work in "Beowulf," and whether this sheds any light on well-known parallel incidents in Icelandic literature. The "Liber Monstrorum," a sort of grab-bag of anecdotes from a great variety of sources, many classical, is sorted through for similar insights. Connections are made with continental literatures, and Celtic (mainly Irish) traditions, as well. This is very good, if perhaps a little over-rich for some readers. (I thought I knew the material reasonably well, but I went to my shelves for saga translations, and "Beowulf and Its Analogues" -- it turned out that Orchard was, of course, much, much more reliable than my memories, but I wasn't wasting my time.)
"The Passion of St. Christopher" is part of a tradition of "Lives of the Saints," and offers a different set of problems, and, understandably, the text is not included in an already well-stuffed volume; and the discussion of it is subordinated to the other works. But a text, translation, and study of this work, as part of the "Lives" literature, the Christopher tradition, and in terms of beliefs about monsters, also would be welcome.
Pride and Prodigies; a Cellar of Scholarly Wisdom.......2000-04-01
As a PhD Candidate in Old English, I have found Andy Orchard's text, Pride and Prodigies, to be invaluable in my own studies. Orchard offers the foremost translations in the field of Old English and Latin texts, like "The Wonders of the East." These texts are used to elucidate the question of monstrosity in the Beowulf manuscript, first raised by J.R.R. Tolkien. Though it is difficult to come to any consensus about these monsters, Orchard charts the progression of the manuscript, not fearing to consider the validity of the theme on a continuum.
Orchard's scholarship is incredibly rich and detailed. The array of external primary and secondary sources he uses to understand the "monsters" in these particular texts is impressive. Orchard implements everything from Old Norse, to Celtic, to Latin to ground the 5 works of the Beowulf manuscript in a tradition steeped with monsters.
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In the year 2036, the worlds most elite prep school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest educationand developmental drug regimenavailable. Stansbury graduatesphysically and mentallyare in a class all by themselves. When a string of alumni are murdered, school officialslooking to avoid a public relations disasterdecide to keep the police in the dark. They discreetly ask the schools valedictorian to solve the mystery, but he discovers a massive conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the Stansbury administration and the United States government.
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Prodigy...?.......2006-11-11
This book was so good until it was about 2/3 done. That's when it started to drag and drone about the horrible deed done to one of the not-so-main characters. It made this book less than wonderful and kept taking away from the two main characters. It also didn't help that every other character that I thought was a good guy turned out to be truly terrible.
Slow Beginning, Good Second half.......2006-09-19
PRODIGY took such a long while to develop, I almost gave up on it about 1/3 of the way thru - but it is just at that point that the book starts to contain some decent action and become interesting. It is clear that some editor understood this, and had the writer put an action scene (which really belongs in a later part of the book) right at the beginning of the book - otherwise, this book would have been even easier to give up on, very early on.
The author does a good job of describing a near-future USA, where a specific school has been given almost carte-blanche to teach/develop the next Einsteins, which an over-populated world needs even more than ever... while the school definately succeeds in developing geniuses - it also succeeds in developing a lot of other "screwed up individuals" - and when the school is up for a $1 trillion dollar grant from the US Govt., there are those that would stop at nothing - even murder - to make sure it happes.
Besides the slow opening, the author was also able to sneak in some political propaganda, which would probably have been best to have been left out... for example, his obvious position regarding open immigration.
Worth a read.......2006-08-09
Prodigy is an solid, impressive novel. Kalstein's prose is stylish yet efficient and his characters are richly drawn and sympathetic. Kalstein takes his time early on, but it pays off: Our glimpses of the characters' lives strengthen our connection to them and ensure that we care about their fate, and Kalstein's attention to detail in establishing the story's elaborate future history lends the setting an extra level of versimilitude. And once the plot gathers steam, it's hard to put the book down.
Occasionally, the story's fictional world strains credulity, but not where you'd think. The audacious broad strokes, in which Kalstein extrapolates the politics of this new world, ring true. It's the smaller details that sometimes stick out. Is it just a coincidence that all the main characters' favorite literature and music hails from the "late 20th century"? Each time a reference to Kenneth Lonergan or The Strokes or a classic Shelby appears, it's hard to escape the feeling that the author is name-checking his own favorites. And the surprisingly outlandish laser-syringe feeding system, while facilitating an excellent set piece, also seems to create a forgivable yet significant plot hole.
In spite of these nitpicks, however, Prodigy remains an engaging read with vivid characters and an entertaining rollercoaster plot, as well as powerful moments of genuine emotional weight.
Brlliantly written--give us more.......2006-04-11
Far more than an entertainment with its elements of mystery,sci-fi, suspense, and action, this is a novel about real people and their feelings. Kalstein has constructed an artificial reality, highly convincing in detail, peopled just like the people you and I remember. I eagerly await his next effort.
"Somehow, watching her go, he already knew that it would be a long time before he and Camelia ever got back to this place they discovered in the atrium, just a guy and a girl talking, getting to know each other like they were regular kids. His conditioned, Harvard-bound brain told him to act like it was no big thing. His orphan's heart told him it was the only thing."
Much better than "The Rule of Four".......2006-01-18
The description of this book in the liner gave me the impression that this book was intended to be a science-fiction retread of "The Rule of Four": part thriller, part touching coming-of-age drama. "Prodigy" succeeds at both halves better than did "The Rule of Four."
The best thing this book has going for it is Stansbury Academy itself. While a few plot details go over the top, it is easy to see how Stansbury could have developed in exactly the way Kalstein suggests.
But perhaps more importantly, this book also takes a somewhat satiric view--primarily in the side-plots and backstories--at the pressures society puts on its children to become prodigies, and the price those children pay as a result. In this regard, the scenes regarding Stansbury's valedictorian are particularly brutal. On the other hand, Kalstein also knows that there *are* some real-life prodigies to celebrate; the scene about a star athlete at Stansbury stands out in that regard.
This is a book I would recommend to just about anyone.
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"Six Male Child Prodigies (perhaps) + An Author in 4th Dimension".......2005-12-02
"Nature's Gambit", David Feldman & Lynn Goldsmith, NY, Basic Books, Inc., 1986 ISBN 0-465-04861-7, HC, 251 pg. plus 8 pg. Notes & 8 pg. Index, 9 1/2" x 6 1/2".
With one prior book on cognitive development, Feldman's literary style seems to lack substance, is wordy, apologetic yet pompous & curiously exposes a surreal gambit. In Preface he bespeaks Gruber of Harvard "had once again recognized a deeper theme in my work ..." And, "prodigies had either been ignored entirely...or interpreted as freaks of nature -- exceptions...described but not explained" & he (author) wants "prodigy phenomenon"...recognized as a lawful example of development rather than...anomaly." He believes there is "a dimension to human evolution that is different from evolution in cats or pansies" & his study may teach us "how we might better choreograph our uniquely human dance." As, perhaps, a humble Literary First, Acknowledgements begin: "Although this book bears the name of a single author..." we find cover & title page imprinted "with Lynn T. Goldsmith." (We are told it is his wife).
The 12 Chaps. divided into 3 Parts cover his search, observations & sagacity on 6 prodigies & their gurus & some analyses of cultural encounters & assimilation issues with cohorts, siblings, parents & mentors. He expounds on the term "co-incidence...the major organizing theme...to capture...many sets of forces in development & expression of human potential" which require guidance. The 6 children in study are all boys, the author apologizing thrice for this happening. How "one is Italian" & "one is distinctly Scottish" is far, far beyond me, as is his expose that "Only one...is Jewish, which surprized me" (he fails to reveal if there should me more or none). The 6 prodigies are: Nils (9- music), Franklin (8-chess), Richy (8-chess), Billy (6-math/gen.), Adam (3 1/2- music/Omni), & Randy (6-writer) he observed on occasions over a 10-year period -- & also gleaned reports from one or both parents, sibs & teachers. He confides: "individual potential for prodigious achievement itself is obviously a critical precondition" for a prodigy -- a Pearl of Wisdom? Apologetically, "my wife, Lynn, wanted to be a ballerina, only to learn that her feet were not designed for standing on pointe" but tenders no personal disqualification as stud material. We do learn ages for prodigy domains is, in music (3-4), chess (5-6), math (10-12) & visual arts c. 15-25 & a neologism for multiple domains as "Omnibus prodigy."
Author notes mentor-masters oft use recapitulationistic teachings & "notion of reincarnation is simply an extreme form...of common practice." He decrees: "The reality of occasional deadly typhoons no doubt contributed to the Oriental notion of karma..." Author proffers: "If little Albert (Einstein) had been a girl, I think we would never have heard of her." (If my daughter Jennifer heard this she'd make him apologize).
Part III, Chap. 9 gets weird: "Nonbiological factors may also contribute to the transgeneration transmission of talent and... help explain... talent... tinged... with the unnatural & mystical ...perhaps astrology holds some lessons... although one must remain skeptical of the explanatory power behind astrological accounts... a delicate interplay of forces..."
He discusses zombies, metaphysical, prebirth memories, strong psychic aura, etc. & concludes: "as scientifically risky as it may be to propose broader forces than those of the Darwinian or neo-Darwinian sort, it seems necessary to do so if prodigy is to be comprehended."
Overall, the book falls short of yielding any new information on lives & times of child prodigies -- but exposes an author's prejudices & insecurities to the rest of the world.
Fascinating!.......2003-06-06
Anyone who has any interest in the phenomenon of child prodigies will find this book a fascinating read. It traces the early development of 6 children who are prodigies (able to work competitively at the adult level) in some field. Of the 6, the fields the children excel in are as follows: 2 are in chess, 1 is a writer, 1 a musician, 1 in mathematics, 1 is extremely gifted overall (one of the highest IQs recorded). The author explains why prodigies are more often found in some fields, such as music or chess, than others (such as writing- the writing prodigy was the only 1 of the 6 children studied who was not working at an adult professional level). The author delves into the "coincidences" of time, place, technology and parenting that allow these prodigies to develop. He draws on other examples of prodigies outside of his own 6 subjects. Among these is a severely handicapped youth who, through the dedication of his adoptive parents, was eventually discovered to have savant ability in music. Some may argue that one or the other child in the study may not be a true prodigy, but they are all interesting children to read about, and the author certainly makes some excellent observations on the development of human potential. I found this book hard to put down.
Interpreting Human Anomalies.......2002-05-01
While "it remains true that the prodigy cries out for explanation," Feldman displays an array of insights which demonstrate that (as he approvingly quotes Richard Feynman): "The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting, the part that doesn't go according to what you expected." By drawing together the interplay, the reciprocal threadings, of physical, psychological, and cultural cultural levels in the development of prodigies, Feldman contends that the "end game" of our evolutionary process is to create conditions which maximally deploy the rich potential expressed in human history. Such an end game thus has survival value to our species by increasing the range of human skills and capacities in meaningfully specific ways. As Feldman states, "Prodigies are masterpieces of timing, individuals who manage to find a fully resonant domain very early in their individual life games." This book sensitively portrays, in a nested cluster of apt metaphors, how such a matching of individual and domain occurs. Any given society provides a fecund bed for very specific types of prodigies to flower. Certain times favor particular forms of talent, yet our prodigies often defy predictability and retain "an element of mystery and uncanniness." And, ironically, for all the efflorescence of talent, the development of a prodigy is intrinsically a fragile event. Feldman's penetrating look at such precocity provides a deeper understanding of its preconditions, structure, and outcomes. And all this is presented in the context of human evolution as psychophysiological-cultural reality. A wonderful, provocative book. Pour a cup of java or tea, and prepare to ponder.
nature's gambit.......2002-03-27
Child prodigy which defined in this book as God giving specific gift to achieve some specific task, is indeed nonexistence. The only thing I see in this book is six highly intelligent kids who had been guided to develope some specific skill such as music or chess by their parents and/or their master teachers. The author is a researcher who starts with a wrong assumption, bend his research mathod whenever he likes and at the end, has no courage to admit that his research is misguided and his research subject does not even exist.
The only thing that any parent of gift children can learn from this book is: let your children be, support them but don't push them. The worst thing any parent can do is to behieve like Adam's mother in this book.
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- Ex-prodigy. My Childhood andYouth
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Ex-prodigy. My Childhood andYouth.......2005-08-31
It's an excellent book telling about how it's to grow up as a prodigy and thereby living a life betwwen older in the schools and at the same age when out playing. And besides allso becaurse the books is about living 100 years ago telling about how it was then, and the meating with many famous science person living then. Allso telling about other prodigys problems.
A mathematical John Stuart Mill .......2005-07-04
This is the story of the childhood and youth of a genius. Norbert Wiener who would go on to become an important mathematician and one of the principal developers of communication theory, and his own specific discipline 'cybernetics' tells here the story of his most unusual childhood and youth. At the center is his relation to his father Leo Wiener who was a Professor of Slavic Languages, and an extraordinarily ambitious person. He pushed his son from an early age in much the same way that John Mill pushed John Stuart Mill. In the process he was often cruel. "He would begin the discussion in an easy, conversational tone. This lasted exactly until I made the first mathematical mistake. Then the gentle and loving father was replaced by the avenger of the blood.... Father was raging, I was weeping, and my mother did her best to defend me, although hers was a losing battle." The father pushed Wiener so well that he enrolled in Tufts University at the age of eleven finished four years later with a degree in Mathmematics. The father was also a publicity - hound who publicized his son the genius, and claimed it had nothing to do with any genetic quality or special gift of his son, but rather was solely attributable to his own educational methods. The father too saw too it that the son had a family life, and selected one of his students to be his son's wife, and practical daily life manager.
Wiener despite all this went on to become a distinguished MIT professor of Mathematics, an original genius and a highly respected teacher.
This autobiography is one of two and there is another work by Wiener covering his later years.
However anyone who wishes to know the life- in full should also look at the biographical literature, that contains much about the life of genius he himself did not apparently wish to tell.
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