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Classic and authoritative. Buy it and keep it for your grandchildren.

This book is a very good ECONOMIC history of Colonial America, focusing on the Chesapeake Bay region. The "down-side" is that it reduces all the colorful, interesting, tragic events of that period (pirates, revolution, famine, slavery) down to their impact upon the economy (imports, exports, balance of trade, etc.) and could be very "dry" reading. The book tends to focus on maritime issues, simply because that was the major transportation mode at that time. If you are interested in Colonial America, particularly the Chesapeake Bay region, I recommend reading this book simply to give you an understanding of the economic forces that had so great a role in shaping this region.

This is one of the best books on the eastern seaboard from the earliest of times. Easy to read and terrific research. If you are writing anything about this time and place, this book is a necessity.

..just wish he would read it now! It does no good for me to read it and badger him about all i discovered that could help him fight his addiction. He needs to realize he has a problem first and WANT to change!!

Addiction-Free Naturally has been an incredible resource. I have suffered from addiction for many years, and I find Mar's book an incredible resource. She encourages a program of recovery, including support networks, nutritional info, aromatherapy, acupuncture and pressure and herbal therapy as well. I had the delightful opportunity to meet Brigette when I lived in Boulder. I see that she had continued her studies and practice of her healing arts. I look forward to more books by Mars.

This book is an excellent resource tool regarding "legal drugs" that people regularly abuse. This book explores the addictions people have to alcohol and tobacco and does a thorough, in depth study of how these substances not only impact negatively on individual health, but on society as well. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

Brimming with information, statistics, and assessments of "America's Drugs of Choice," this book presents an overview of alcohol and tobacco use in a highly accessible and easy to read format, without sacrificing quality of content. Like other books in the Information Plus series,its reference materials also give readers a source and direction to access further information. "Must" reading for general information, or research.

Camel is one of the most famous trademarks of all time, and in this book you will get a chance to see some of the funny things, that the RJR-people have made to promote the cigarette.

I'm generally thought of with a magnifying glass in one hand, and the bowl of a pipe in the other, but truth be told I've been a cigarette man most of my life, and since discovering Camel cigarettes in the 40s, they are my preferred brand. I was always quite fond of the illustration that adorned the package of the original non-filtered Camel cigarette, and at one time collected the empty packs until a doctor friend of mine told me that my smoking habit was bad enough without adding another addiction to the mix.

This fine book, "Camel Cigarette Collectibles: The Early Years: 1913-1963" should bring back warm memories for all those who would walk a mile for a Camel if only their failing lungs would let them. I still smoke 'em, enjoy 'em, too, but people lacking my sturdy, nay, indestructible constitution, are advised to heed the advice on the package and quit. Now that you can read about Camel cigarettes, that's almost as good as smoking them.

Sherlock Holmes (yes, the one and only)

If Amazon would check books in print, you'd be able to tell your patrons that this book was reprinted in the early 1970s and is still available.

Pipe and Pouch is a great book for people who love poetry and an occassional smoke. In an age when tobacco users are a group of almost outcasts, this book gives pleasure and comfort to the stalwart smoker. Light that pipe or cigar and join Daniel Webster, William Cowper, Lord Byron and others as they sing odes and sonnets to the joys of tobacco.

This very timely look at hardcore smokers and the particular difficulties that they often face when attempting to stop smoking is addressed in this book. It raises the question or co-morbid conditions that most probably affect the outcome for smokers who are truly attempting to quit but don't succeed for reasons of unaddressed co-morbidity. Unfortunately very few health professionals are aware that smokers very often suffer from hidden or asymptomatic conditions. This book begins to touch on an emerging area of study that holds much promise for the dependant individual. Why 4 stars and not 5? There is a wealth of information available that was not touched upon in this book and although still at the benchside I believe that it is time for a paradigm shift with respect to smoking and dependency ( versus self-medication ). All in all it's a good place to start opening horizons.

This is a well-written, comprehensive guide that every clinician treating tobacco dependence should read. The chapters cover both theoretical and practical issues in the treatment and prevention of tobacco dependence. This book also addresses special populations of smokers: adolescents, women, the elderly, and those with comorbid disorders. Everything from group psychotherapy to nicotine and neurotransmitters is covered in this guide, and all information is based on the latest empirical research in the field. I highly recommend this text, and I refer to mine often.

College and university histories are notoriously weak, most serving as feel-good souvenirs for anxious, sports-crazed alumni. This one is an exception to that rule. The book is a well-written narrative history, not a glossy coffee table book full of NCAA highlights. The story begins in 1789, and progresses through chapters, ordered by chronology, right up to the 1980s. The original text was published in 1992, so there's no history of recent athletic exploits.

The book's core is the story of the economic and political development of an essential academic institution, with athletic and social subplots. There are few photographs, the author preferring to allow the words to do the work. And the emphasis is on the words, for Snider is not a "facts and figures" historian.

Generally, I recommend this book for readers curious about the founding and growth of our early state universities. Whereas private, sectarian colleges proliferated in New England, the secular state university has a particularly distinguished history in the South. The universities of North Carolina (1789), South Carolina (1801), Virginia (1819), Tennessee (1794), Georgia (1801) and Alabama (1831) were all early foundations modeled on the example set in Chapel Hill.

As the first public university in the United States, UNC truly served as a "light on the hill" in advocating for public higher education. Tar Heels will love learning about the history of their illustrious university and all its traditions and legacies. This book is historically accurate and intellectually provocative, while still compelling and interesting for leisure reading.

This is a great gift for any Tar Heel!

So seldom, so very rare, to find a contemporary author with the literary ability of Wimberley. If you have not experienced the rough scrub, back country of Florida's panhandle, you will capture it in A TINKER'S DAMN. Your senses will rain down about you in feverish torrents of colors, smells, and imagery, then be gripped in tension as the tale's swelled emotions rip the fabric of the characters' lives. This novel of a father-son relationship searching for common ground moves with crushing impact not unlike Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons", but vividly more. It draws a reader in like a vacuum and never lets go. A haunting. I read it in three sittings, and struggled in between with a constant pull to return to the pages. Revenge, justice, redemption... all interlaced in a fiery meltdown of the characters' wills, and poured out redefined in the outcomes. Loved it. No need to go out 'Finding Forrester'--he's here among us, in these pages.

"Tinker's Damn" is the story of a man who most readers would consider to be moderately successful in his life. He, his wife and son (from whose point of view the story is told) live in the Depression-era Florida panhandle. They have a house, land, enough to eat, and work. Tinker "Tink" Buchanan, however, doesn't have the one plot of land he feels that is his own; his father had lost their family land when Tink was a child, and Tink's one purpose in life is to make enough to buy the land back. Tink's son, Chance, doesn't understand the cancer in his father's soul, especially after he falls in love with the daughter of his father's enemy. "Tinker's Damn" is a very-well-told story of generational conflict, and its tragedy comes in softly but dramatically. When I finished the book, I literally had to put it in a drawer before going back to look at it again. I understood Chance's life in a way that disturbed me, which is a mark of a great storyteller. Mr. Wimberley has brought a spark of the universal into this small story of a small tragedy. I eagerly look forward to reading more of Mr. Wimberley's work. His is a rare gift.

If you follow Politics and Current Affairs,and more importantly if you watch Fox News,you are familiar with Dick Morris. Dick published this book a year ago and since that time he has published another blockbuster "Fleeced".
Dick knows Politics as well as anyone else around;and he tells it like it is.Even Bill O'Reilly stops and listens to Dick, even when he disagrees with him.
In this book, Dick addresses many of the "Outrages" that are being bantered around these days, as the Federal Election is in full swing.
Last evening ,O'Reilly was ranting,along with many others,that nobody,either elected politicians,those charged with the responsiblity to oversee the financial markets,or the financial institutions themselves ;warned of the financial mess we were heading into.
Well,O'Reilly was wrong,Morris,for one, warned us in spades, and it's all spelled out in this book in chapter 4,The 2006 Congress,chapter 8,Fannie Mae,and chapter 9 ,The Bankruptcy Bill.
There is an old ,but wise adage,that has never been more true than today;

"Never let the dog watch your food and never let the Government watch
your money."

If you really want to know what the real truth behind many of the issues,or as Morris calls them "OUTRAGES",read what he has to say on:

Illegal Immigration

United Nations

Congressional Ripoffs

Student Loan Overcharges

Tobacco Companies

ACLU

Education and Teacher's Unions

Katrina Ripoffs

Special Interest Trade Protection

This is a book that should be read by all Americans,Democrats,Republicans,Independents;and even Canadians. The reason I include Canadians is for the simple reason that the same issues are prevalent in Canada.Except for one thing,there is no TV Network in Canada that gives balanced reporting.The National TV network,CBC,is Government run and unargueably highly Left-Wing biased. Also,there is no writer publishing books anything nearly balanced as what we get from Dick Morris.
One good example is a recent event with our Socialized Medical system that the Goverment and Media hold up as a great solution.
Last week,in Winnipeg,Manitoba,a man without legs in a wheelchair,was dropped off in the Hospital Emergency Room. He was not given any attention until 34 hours later,when finally someone checked him.He was dead and rigormortis had already set in.Our Socialized Medicine is filled with stories like this,long waits for beds in hospitals,tens of thousands who cannot find a Family Doctor,and despite this ;there is no "OUTRAGE" --just promises from the Government and Politicians of all stripes ,that they are going to fix it. And that's what you get when you have Socialized Medicine and half of all the Government's Budget is spent on the system.

I have not finished this book yet but it is one I feel everyone should read before they vote in the November elections. I want to say---------WAKE UP AMERICANS----the lobbyist and special interest groups are in control of Congress and the laws that are made. Both parties are equally at fault over the lobbyist problem and earmarks inserted in bills. The economy will always have problems when our politicians make promises and vote to enhance their own power and wealth instead of voting for what is best for the majority of citizens in this country.

'Outrage' outlines a wide range of horrible conduct by Congress, corporations, and others.

Dick Morris reveals treachery and incompetence by Congress (both Republicans and Democrats), the president, the United Nations, pharamaceutical companies, the teachers' unions, Fannie Mae, the news media, and others. In addition to pointing out the problems, he offers some solutions.

Some of the most revealing sections include the following:

Congress - The evils catalogued in this section are numerous and perpetrated by both parties. Some of the issues are corruption (selling votes for campaign contributions), automatic pay raises, inappropriate relationships (financial) with lobbyists, and more. He names names and several are very prominent including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, and many more. One of the outrages is the way that leaders of both parties circled the wagons to prevent an FBI investigation of bribery by a member of 'the club' (William Jefferson, D-LA).

Illegal immigration is another outrage. Our inept federal government has no tracking of those who leave the country so there is no way to tell who has overstayed visa times. How pathetic is that! Another issue is that many visas are issued when they should not be (as in the case of 15 out of 19 of the 9/11 terrorists).

There are many more of these abuses. Some of those exposed include: student loans, tobacco companies, insurance scams, and the ACLU.

One section that is highly educational that needs to be understood by everyone is the chapter on trade protection. Morris does a superb job of schooling readers in the benefits of free trade and the damage done by protectionism.

This book should be read by every American voter.

The book makes good and valid points, however much of it is filled with statistics, graphs, and long lists not many would be willing to wade through. It is very simply written, easy to read, but unfortunately mixes fact with opinion. The annoying "action agendas" at the end of each chapter were seriously annoying just because they are all the same and involve nothing more than common sense exhortations. Really not much I did not know already in here, and I probably would not buy another Morris book, although I'll watch him on Hannity and Bill O.

I'll never forget when Morris was forced out of his pollster job in the Clinton Administration after reports of drug use and depraved sexual activity, including engaging in S&M activity with a prostitute and singing "Popeye the Sailor Man" to her on a hotel balcony in his underwear. It's good to see that he's recovered from that shameful episode. He has now entered into a highly lucrative career stringing long lists of random, unrelated issues like Obama, United Nations, John Cusak, tobacco companies, lobbyists for foreign governments, drug companies, John Kerry, Madeline Albright, etc., and creates these delightful book titles out of them and fills the pages inside with his highly informative analysis of how liberals are to blame for everything that is wrong in America. Even though he was publicly exposed as a depraved sexual deviant during his Clinton job, Morris nonetheless makes valid points about how liberals have destroyed the moral fabric of this great nation.

As a son of the south, reading another child of the south is always an interesting adventure, and "Tobacco Road" was one of the great forbidden books of my childhood, along with "To Kill A Mockingbird," and forms a fairly neat flipside for that enduring and endearing tale of justice and innocence. "Tobacco Road" is that story from the Boo Radley house, plus some.

Caldwell's grotesques (you can hardly call them characters) are clearly cartoons and yet speak to a sad Southern truth that those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 60s knows always dwells there right below the surface ... that maddening ability to hear at astounding and intricate length grand designs for success while the shingles fall off the house, as well as the tendency to blame every misfortune on everything short of one's own rotten front door. The sultry sexuality, which Caldwell no doubt used to move mountains of books, is about as natural and animalistic as it comes, while also having an odd whiff of indifference and inconsequent confusion to it. Caldwell takes his particular variety of stereotypes (that die-hard defenders of the South yowl long and hard about) down the same steamy, dusty, bloody road that such other great Southern writers as William Faulkner and especially Flannery O'Conner do, but at a wholly different kind of remove that lets you know this is the wellhead for this school of writing. It's lean, taut writing (imagine Hemingway reborn into the Piedmont) counterbalanced by a keening repetitiveness when the characters run up against the same old fences that they have day-in and day-out for years. Menace always hangs slightly above the ground like spring-burning smoke, and that is a genuine Southern thing. It doesn't play the same in the North or the West. Caldwell finds that distinct Southern nerve, and hits it with a ballpeen hammer.

You may love it, you may hate it, but you cannot deny that with "Tobacco Road" you're at the very start of something lean, mean, and cruel in its unvarnished honesty. Mayberry be damned, this is the real South.

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My comments are only a recommendation, but I promise you will be well-rewarded. Jeeter Lester with his dirtwater family of 17 kids sets
near the throne of southern literature.

It's been a lot of years since I read "Tobacco Road," but I thoroughly enjoyed it. "This Very Earth" and "God's Little Acre" are two other great reads. These are all short novels about down-and-out families, or those living at the edge of society in the South.

You'll love Erskine Caldwell--very rewarding.

I find it rather humorous to note that not only do the majority of the people getting offended by this work of literary brilliance hail from south of the Mason-Dixon, but also that no one seems to have a clue of Caldwell's primary intention. His always-controversial characters, particularly the men, represent not a backwards view of the South or an attept to persist a stereotype, but the abstraction that humans are little more than hairless animals. Caldwell reminds us that man is capable of regressing to a feral state when pushed to the very brink of survival. As we all have differing breaking points, so does each Lester, and each is depicted in varying states of "mental regression."

If you're interested in a book that you can read at face value and take a story and then go on to another book, look elsewhere. Someone else said it earlier: if you want a read that is basically a compendium of the post-depression South, read Steinbeck. If you want to take a look at the true, ugly, primal nature of man, pick this book up, especially if you're writing a paper...lots of material here!

I'm not easily offended, but found Tobacco Road obscene. Not for the sex, for the protrayal of poor, white Southerners without compassion, or, in my opinion, any real understanding. Is making the same joke about physical deformities again and again and again satire or even good dark comedy? Not in my book. In well-drawn humor we are able to see our own wekanesses reflected and recognize the human link between ourselves and the most foolish. But Caldwell's characters are so devoid of humanity that poking fun of them just seems juvenile and cruel. Additionally, I found whole passages of the book poorly written and repetitious. I confess to being a Southerner and from poor stock and perhaps that colors my view. But I love Faulkner and O'Conner. I think Caldwell is best forgotten.

Don't waste your time on this book!

While I certainly didn't expect it to be cheerful, given its look at the life of subsistance farmers in the depression in the deep south, I was unprepared for the utter lack of redeeming quality in any of the characters, the plot, the themes, or the writing.

The characters in this book are utterly selfish, coarse, and debased. They are barely human beings, seeking only to satisfy animal needs. They kill and maim and destroy thoughtlessly. While out on a joy ride, two of the characters kill a man; they later kill a family member. There is no remorse. The characters repeatedly make fun of physical deformities. They revel in destruction of property. They're racist and ignorant.

This could be thought of as a type of satire, a hyper-exaggeration to produce comedy (as others reviewers have suggested) except that there is a problem with that. The writing, 99% of the time, isn't funny. Humor comes from the same word as "human" and with such grim material, there's little there to recommend it.

Still trying to purge this from my memory (sadly hard to do) and I'd suggest you pass this one by. Literature is suppose to uplift, or if it cannot uplift, it should educate, or illuminate. This just debases. Read Steinbeck instead.