Tennessee Books

This is the most beautiful book that has ever been written. I cried as I read it. My tears over it's beauty and poetry could fill the ocean (probably the Indian Ocean, because the Atlantic might be too big of a stretch.) I foresee a Nobel Prize for literature in its future. Even the cover of this book makes me tremble with delight. The buxom beauty is drawn with such classical perfection that I sigh with pleasure as i look upon her lily-white breast. Her story is told with such passion, such fervor, my palms filled with sweat merely holding this sacred book. I plead with all the world to read this novel! Oh, beauty, thy name is Emily Donelson

Fantastic Invasion is Douglas Adams in Africa galoshes and all....discovering new tribes like the WaBenzi's and the like. This is a look at the modern African continent with a bit of tongue in cheek and none of the paternalism or simplistic viewpoints that normally pervade literature about Africa and its problems. If you are not a sensitive viewer and want your mind blown away by someone that tells it like it is read this journey through Africa. Notwithstanding that this book is more than 20 years old it still has lessons to teach us all.

I found the book rich in ideas and well documented in traditional academic terms and recommended Dr.Westhues consult it for his current work on mobbing (workplace mobbing).

It is wonderful to have this collection reissues on a cd, with Tennessee Williams reading his own work in that wonderful Mississippi voice of his.

I THOUGHT THIS BOOK GAVE A EXCELLENT OVERVIEW OF WHAT TO LOOK AT IN ESTATE PLANNING VIA TN LAWS. WHEN DEALING WITH PLANNING IT IS GOOD DO KNOW THE BASICS BEFORE DIGGING IN WITH THE ATTORNEY AND FINANCIAL ADVISORS. IT REALLY SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE TOPIC.

This book updated Oral V. "Curley" Rhodes' "Music City Quick Look" annual directory. Rhodes' labor of love was a true "Who's Who" of Music Row "movers and shakers."

I was pleased to be regularly listed in both Rhodes' directory and in Sadler's "Everything You Want to Know About the Record Industry in Nashville, Tennessee, Country Music Capital of the World."

(Despite his annual disclaimer, while David Ross' "In Charge" purports to be the modern-day successor to Rhodes' and Sadler's efforts, it is less a "Who's Who" than a social register. More along the lines of City Press Publishing's *N Focus,* "In Charge" commits a journalistic no-no by trading editorial for advertising, while including in its listings, realtors, attorneys and those who reside outside of Music City- some even outside of Tennessee- with only a tenuous connection to the music industry- at best.)

Curley and Barry would not have approved. So, while it is dated, I would heartily recommend Barry's book to those who want to know not only about other aspects of the business that ring true to this day, but also who the leaders of our industry were at a time when the emphasis was on music and creativity rather than the business of bean-counting forced upon it by consolidation.

Stacy Harris
Editor/Publisher
Stacy's Music Row Report
www.stacyharris.com

Fast moving romance between two unlikely souls....."passing in the night". Quick read on how love can conquer adversities and how individuals from different classes and temperaments can come together. Also the characters mature and learn to accept help when needed. Excellent, descriptive writing of a rural setting.

Brian Crozier asks a fascinating question. The covert 'war in the shadows' between freedom and slavery is generally presented as a clash between governments: during the Cold War, it was NATO and the West versus the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact; CIA versus KGB; MI6 versus GRU. But why? Why couldn't there also be a private-sector organization, a collection of free agents, doing what the Free World's governments couldn't or wouldn't do?

That forms the basis of this fascinating book, part history, part autobiography, about Crozier's efforts, and those of his allies, to undermine and destroy international socialism on a private-sector basis.

Crozier is a journalist and political scientist, but also an experience intelligence hand and long-time advisor to governments. Motivated in part by Western spy agencies' bureaucratic incompetence, their penetration by Soviet moles, and their governments' 'own goals' and shortsighted legislative restrictions, Crozier struck out on his own. This book is chock-full of stories of disinformation campaigns, subversive tricks, and spy-versus-spy maneuvers that rank, in my mind, with some of the best of Ludlum or Le Carré. Conservatives will also enjoy the eyewitness portraits of Reagan and Thatcher in action.

Very highly recommended to any student of espionage or the Cold War, or any fan of spy fiction.

My 9 year old daughter (a reluctant reader) loved this book and gained knowledge of the Civil War too!

Dava Lee Russell is a wonderful author (and teacher), I highly reccommend this book to anyone.