Bullock Books

Gaston Means was a bagman for Harding's Attorney General Harry Daugherty's Justice Department and a private investigator for Mrs. Harding getting the dope on the President's activities with Nan Britton. Means kept diaries and told his story to May Dixon Thacker after he got out of jail in 1928. She seems to have believed him. The book went through eleven printings from 1930-31, so it must have been a big story then.

Net/net, Means protrays Mrs. Harding as a wacko who all but tells him she killed her husband to save him from the gang who manipulated him and the scandal that inevitably broke. My interest in the book was less about Harding himself but how it relates to three books, "Carter Beats the Devil", "The Jazz Bird" and "Roscoe", all of which touch on the era. I suggest the following:

Harding and "The Duchess" did not share the romantic feeling Glen David Gold suggests; they hated each other.

George Remus probably did pay $500,000 to Daugherty through Jess Smith (who later committed "suicide" but was probably murdered if you believe Means' intimations).

There is as much chance that Gaston Means' story is the whole truth as there would be if William Kennedy's Roscoe told it!

If you have kept up with Texas politics and enjoy it, you will want to read this book.

This is not a scholarly piece of Texas history. This is similar to
what Sandra Brown writes and I love her books (look up her web site if you don't know who she is). It is a tall, Texas tale. It is quite simply historical fiction. It is not researched, not attributed, not fact checked. It is an old reporter with an axe to grind taking an important historical and political figure and elaborating and attributing the worst of intentions and actions to someone that owned up to a plethora of personal problems. Bullock's demons and his attempts to carry on in spite of them are what counts. Most of what counts is what he did for Texas and how much he loved this State. He loved this State so much that he overcame enormous personal odds. He was all too human and wasn't afraid to talk about it and admit it.

Bullock should be cast as an inspiration to all those poor souls
still struggling with addiction problems and those that suffer from
chemical imbalances/neurological problems that make their life a
living hell. Bullock is living proof that you can overcome it all
and achieve great things.

I do not see this certification from IBM. They removed it this month. Any reason?

Unlike most books in the 'certification' series, this book does not give you enough information to assure you will pass the exam. The sample questions provided at the end of the book are much easier than the actual exam questions and give a false sense of confidence. Supplement your reading with other books on connectivity, such as "The Universal Connectivity Guide to DB2."

ORDERED THIS PRODUCT BUT NEVER RECEIVED IT. UNABLE TO CONTACT ANYONE TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE BOOK OR REFUND!

Either Woodward is making this book up as he goes along or he feels the best way to communicate Bush's character is to tell as many lies as he possibly can. Beginning in the prologue (xiii), we are told that in the mid 1970's, the CIA fresh from turning most of Latin America into military dictatorships, "was at perhaps its lowest point." On page 3, we are told that although George W. Bush is not known to have shown up for duty with the Texas Air National Guard (all the records of this Congressman's son's service, if there were any, having mysteriously disappeared) he learned to fly the F-102 jet (and why not, many a movie has shown us that a child can do it first time out of the box.)

I'd relay more lies had I not stopped reading.