Bush Books

This is the only reporter, besides Michael Moore, who ever even mentioned the fact that President Bush couldn't get out of his car at the 2001 Presidential inauguration, because there were too many protestors lining the entire parade route. This little book is like a classic pamphlet from colonial times, telling the story the mainstream wouldn't tell -- because they used a staged photo, as this book documents! You didn't hear about this book because it also documents how and why the media was also the target of protests that day in Washington. But this one really tells it like it is. It's also amazingly well written. Well worth it.

I worked with this author before in his role as multi-media producer in the edutainment industry in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a very talented writer and an insightful person. It makes me glad to see his work being published and receiving national noteriety here.
This is a well-researched book on an important topic that our corporate news media purposely ignored. It is crucial to telling the story of this Presidency. I recommend Dennis Johnson's book.

I was interested in this topic after seeing the author on C-Span. I purchased the book and finished it in about 45 minutes. It really is a long article disguised as a book. Big type, small booklet format, etc. If it had been printed as a book, I doubt it would exeed 50 pages. I somehow fely short-changed.

The writing was OK, but styled more like a newspaper article.

I suggest you save the money and try to catch the author again on C-Span

This book is a knockoutt, telling the real story of dissent in America -- the administration is suppressing it, and the mainstream press isn't reporting it. Not only a revealing book, but an interesting one -- the story of the 2000 inaugural protests is fascinating, full of odd characters and military occupations and wild dissent and even great good humor. And you have to admire the author's bravery -- he obviously didn't care if the New York Times gave him a good review!

The Burning Bush is an extraordinary reference work by a skilled theologian and lawyer. He discovered the work of Austrian born Rudolph Steiner and all the "seeming contradictions" in the Bible were resolved for him. This book will become as famous as the dictionary by Webster or Oxford Press. If you ever wanted to read the Bible but found it strange, read this book and the Bible will be unveiled. I hold my breath for further volumes.

The Burning Bush is essential reading for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the Bible. This large volume is filled with amazing insights. It combines the author's own life-long search for the deeper meaning of the Bible with the discoveries of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the founder of Anthroposophy (The Wisdom of Man). The book unveils what people have had to believe only through faith. In a series of penetrating essays the author explains such mysteries and seeming contradictions as the accounts of the Nativity, the nature of the second coming, and the meaning of the Burning Bush.

I don't mean to disparage this book in any way. It is an impressive work by a passionate autodidact. It helpfully organizes many of Rudolf Steiner's brilliant insights into biblical passages. Since these are widely scattered through Steiner's writings and lectures, it is a great service to have them available in this way. Until the complete works of Steiner are translated into English and available digitally, Smith's three volumes of commentary will be a useful resource for any English-speaking reader interested in Steiner's interpretations of the Bible and of Christianity in general. And if Smith's work leads others to read more of Steiner, that seems a tremendous benefit, too.

The difficulty with Smith's approach, from my perspective, is that it comes out of an incorrigibly literalistic, fundamentalist approach to scripture and to texts in general. His chapter-and-verse approach to the Bible, using Steiner to finally unveil the line-by-line mysteries of God's inspired word, seems to me discordant and even antithetical to Steiner's own approach. Steiner delivered his insights in the course of lectures and writings designed to transform the members of his audience. He was, I think it's right to say, profoundly adverse to providing discrete bits of occult data that might be assembled into a nearly cybernetic system that could output the hidden meanings of the Bible.

I grant that there may be a place for Smith's type of systematizing work, but I wish it were more deeply informed by Steiner's own broad-ranging curiousity and profound imaginative insight. Smith's doggedly literalistic approach leaves out so much of Steiner's vitality that his commentary seems to me nearly unrecognizable as anthroposophy, despite its sub-title.

I see Smith's commentaries as the personal monument of a indefatigable, self-trained scholar. Smith has done his work in virtual isolation from broader currents of cultural discourse about biblical texts and less broad but still vital interpretations of Rudolf Steiner. I wish Smith had spent less time compiling notecards from every translated Steiner work he could find and more time in intellectual conversation with, for example, recent work on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other early Christian texts. Smith's nearly autistic obsessiveness as a writer extends so far as to citing definitions from English-language dictionaries, as though he refuses to assume even a mutual cultural literacy among his readers, much less a shared imaginative or spiritual faculty.

I've ended up sounding too harsh. Smith's work is valuable, if often maddening. Hopefully it will inspire someone with broader training and deeper theological insight to present and interpret Steiner's radical approach to the Bible and Christian religion.

When I ran into this book almost five years ago, I had no idea what I was in store for. I opened it up, and saw chart and table after chart and table and they all had this kind of magic power. Based on the pictures alone, I bought the book, excited. And then...I read the book.

There is a huge amount of information here, for anyone interested in Steiner or anyone who is not satisfied with what they have learned in regards to Christianity. Here, Smith takes Steiner's Biblical insights, and presents them with both sharpness and depth. For me, certain things that I was taught never added up. After reading this book, I discovered a richness and depth I never knew were present in the Bible, or the world.

Five years later, I have read many works by Steiner (all of which are amazing) and, looking back, I must say how truly blessed I am to have had this book appear in my life. Another reviewer noted how this book will one day become a classic in Christianity, and I agree wholeheartedly.

All in all, I was blown away at the penetrating lucidity for such complex topic.

...and then I read David's Question!

This is just a fun little book.What we have here is a collection of 107 photos.There is nothing special about any of these pictures.A lot of them were actully posed for but a totally unconnected caption is added that makes the connection very humorous.A lot of the others are shots that are taken when the President is off guard,relaxed,or even clowning around.It is easy to get shots like this since the cameras are flashing continuously.It kind of reminds me of when I tried to get my 3 kids to pose for a group shot.It also shows how much expressions change even when they are aware that a camera is on them.So, to anyone who has lots of "discards",it is quite simple to spread some out and come up with some great comments to attach to them.One should not take offense at these photos or add any particular political bias over it all as it has been done about many prominent persons.Any world leader and particularly the Queen of England and the Pope are often subjects and of course all presidents at all times.
I am sure President Bush would get a good laugh out of them,and could even come up with as good or better captions.
An even better approach would be to take an actual comment made,then add it to a totally disconnected photo.It would even be fun to take the photos in this book,remove the captions and come up with your own.Hey,have I just invented a parlour game?
This same thing has frequently been done with animals.One of my favorites is a head shot of a Bald Eagle with the caption "But I am smiling".
For some time I have kept a collection of shots of celebrity faces ,with everything removed but the eyes.It's like a puzzle book where the object is to guess who the eyes belong to. Maybe it would be fun to make your own book of photos,either your own snapshots or photos from papers or magazines and come up with your own captions.Who says you could never write a book?
Anyway, an entertaining little book that is good for a half hour's look through;but an idea that could be developed as a personal or group entertainment.

This book features a great selection of mostly less-than-flattering images of W. The captions that accompany each photo make for a pretty hilarious, light-hearted book. Even if you're a Bush fan, there's enough humor in here to keep you laughing out loud.

President Bush has, by all accounts, the most visually interesting face for cameras since Nixon was President. President Bush just manages to be expressive and strikes so interesting poses. Throw in some very high speed cameras and you have photo ops turned into photo oops.

The writers took a number of photos of President Bush, some staged and others not, and added captions below the photos. The captions are funny and try to capture what could have been happening in the photo. There are also photos of Kerry, Edwards, Rice, Cheney and a host of others.

This would make a great gift for the person who collects presidential trivia or for someone who has a dislike for President Bush.

The first book "Photo Oops" contained photos of many different politicians both Democrat, Republican and others in awkward moments.

This book contains solely photos of President Bush in awkward moments. From this, it appears that the authors decided to join in on the "Bush bashing" Aren't there enough new photos yet for a bipartisan book? (not that I suppport Bush) There are certianly a lot of Bush photos, maybe because he got most of the media attention.

They should do a third book after the election is over with some of the candidates in awkward moments. The photo of Howard Dean's famous scream would be a great cover photo!

if information like "studies suggest exercising helps you live longer and better" is new and helpful to you, then this book is as good as any. I only made through the first half of this before giving up as a waste of time, so I stand open to correction from somone that struggled through the entire thing, but there was simply no there there. No new insights or interesting research studies in this. I could have written this book, and I have no expertise whatsoever in this field.

This was a good read. As a busy professional, it's easy to forget to incorporate the healthy things into life because "busy" just seems to take over. This book not only offers ways to "fit" them in, but I read it months ago and the tips have stuck with me.

Fit To Lead is an absolute must-read. It brings together a synergistic blend of data and concepts that are substantiated by genuine research data (not just "a new idea that ought to sell"). The concept is laid out in a manner that is doable for even the busiest executive. It is informative, motivational, and right to the point (another plus for busy people).

The title may be just the positive suggestion to establish some necessary life extending and enhancing strategies. Well written, organized and researched without being tedious, it's a great book to loan out or give to the people you care about.

The Fantagraphic series of Krazy Kat reprints is a fantastic journey back in time.The strange thing is that it could have been written yesterday.Anyone remotely interested in comic strips or cartoons needs to get as many of these volumes as possible.Krazy Kat came to life in his own strip in 1913.The same year Charles Chaplin made his first silent film.As a student of the Chaplin films,the first thing that came to mind was how Herrimans' comic strip reminds you of the work Chaplin did.This was not intentional I'm sure.They were geniuses of their time and in fact,of all time.

George Herriman created Krazy Kat as a "downstairs" strip to his The Family Upstairs. The devine Kat soon had a strip of his/her own, both daily and Sunday.

Hyperion press published the Family Upstairs strips from 1910 - 1911. Eclipse published the early black and white Sunday strips, 1916 - 1924, in volumes which also included the full color Saturday strips from 1922. Now Fantagraphics has published the rest of the black and white Sundays, 1925 - 1934, closing the gap between the last Eclipse book and the first full color Kitchen Sink book, which begins with the 1935 color Sundays.

The daily Krazy Kat strips are much harder to find. Pacific Comics Club has published (almost) complete years 1921 - 1923. Comics Revue monthly has published the dailies beginning in 1931 (currently they are finishing 1933). The Menomonee Falls Gazette published more than half of 1934 and 1935.

Krazy Kat ended when George Herriman died in 1944.

I have nothing to add to the praise for Herriman's marvelous creation, which you can read about in the comments below. Anything I'd say to that effect would only echo what has already been written.

Alas, the 1933-1934 volume in the Fantagraphics release has some problems. It has nothing to do with a dropoff in the humor of the strip itself -- there was none, as "Krazy Kat" never experienced a noticeable decline in quality -- but with the print quality of the Sunday strips as they are presented here. Although I'm sure Fantagraphics did their best when they went through page after page of ancient newsprint drawn from who knows how many private collections to find the best possible specimens, the sad fact is that the majority of strips reprinted in this collection are blurry and shaky. This makes it very difficult to fully appreciate Herriman's skills with pen and brush, and worst of all, makes the subtle facial expressions and body language of the characters much harder to interpret. A small handful of pages, with sharp outlines and shadings, stand in contrast to the rest.

By all means, you should become acquainted with this wonderful comic strip if you aren't already. But you'd do much better to get the next volume in the series, A Wild Warmth Of Chromatic Gravy. Along with featuring the return of sharp, clear lines, "Gravy" is in full, vibrant color (pre-1935 Sunday strips were all black-and-white) and even includes an insert that features newly unearthed, better-quality scans of a few of this volume's worst offenders. This volume is strictly for Kat kompletists.

Well, here we go again. Another sumptuous collection of one of the best comic strips ever published. Fantagraphics has more than fulfilled its pledge to keep the series going with this the 5th volume of Krazy Kat Sunday strips.

This installment, like all previous installments, has amazing bonus material. The first thirty pages include articles about Herriman and Krazy Kat, early pre-Kat Herriman strips (including "Baron Bean", "Mary's Home From College", "The Amours of Marie Anne MacGee", and "Embarassing Moments"), as well as some rarely seen Krazy Kat dailies. Also, the series editor announces that the next volume will be the first KOLOR KRAZY KAT edition. After 1934, the Kat et al appeared in amazing Kolor. So here stand bound the final black and white Krazy Kat Sunday pages.

And as always the book plumps with the justifiably famous Krazy Kat Sunday strips. Some of the strips had to be painstakingly reconstructed from papers that shrunk Herriman's original sized papers to miniscule proportions. All of the reconstructions are listed in the back of the book. Fantagraphics pulled this feat off with much gusto, as anyone can witness in the book.

For the initiates amongst us, the strip's main theme is love. Krazy, a Kat with indeterminate gender, loves Ignatz, a temperamental mouse. The only sign of affection Krazy can extract from Ignatz is a brick solidly and violently tossed at his skull. So, brick equals love to Krazy. Meanwhile, Offisa Pupp loves Krazy (in a rather repressed manner) and has made his mission in life to halt Ignatz's vile tossings. The entire strip revolves around this variation on a theme. Helplessness and hope in the face of seemingly hopeless love seeps out between the ink marks. Isn't it romantic?

Lastly, February 19th, 1933 has to be amongst Herriman's best "silent" strips. Krazy and Offisa Pupp ride a see-saw and Ignatz repeatedly picks up the brick, drops it, picks it up, etc... Be sure to translate the español on the wall separating the parties.

Carry on, Fantagraphics, carry on...

This was a college text book I used a couple years ago. It was a great resource to learn about various marketing research methodology.

Suffice it to say, it was an assigned text in an upper division college course. Suffice it to say also: I started a market research firm after graduating. The content of the book and lessons set a great foundation for my work.
There are two areas I would like to see improved upon in future versions however:
1) Have closer editing and copy proofing. There were far too may grammatical errors.
2) At times the author(s) used terms or names/labels that weren't already defined or described, so it left me having to stop reading and go back for a precise definition so that I could understand the intent being covered at the point in the text.
Other than that, well worth the read and investment. I still have it on my shelf and refer back to it when needed.

I found the authors put in a lot of extra wording where it really wasn't needed. Really great examples throughout the text though, and a must have for anyone doing marketing research.

I used this book along with a Marketing Research class at Drake University. The text clearly explained the principles of marketing research and provided real-life examples. I highly recommend this book to anyone involved with Marketing.

When I first sat down and opened this book, I just expected to get a better idea of what day-to-day life is like for a cadet at West Point. Boy, was I wrong. It's an exciting and unpredictable story that's hard to put down. I'm extremely impressed with the talent of Keith Bush and I look forward to his next publication.

A suspenseful thriller that is very unique in its theme and story development; Keeps you guessing and want to turn the page to find out what is next. Takes its time getting going but once the character development is complete it moves fast and finishes very well...

This book takes you behind the walls of West Point and even beyond. The author has great attention to detail, and really depicts well the lives of First Class Cadets Girardi, Straup, Polanski, and McConnell. There's also the very smart, honorable Fourth Class Cadet Thorne to add to the list of great characters in this novel. I won't give away the story, coz I know I don't like that too much, but I do have to say.. I already knew the main plot before reading it, and there were still enough surprises for me to thoroughly enjoy the book. It's a great read. It's got a new and old quality to it. It's got danger, action, intrigue, love, betrayal, and idealism all put together quite nicely. It will make you think more deeply of what YOU'RE notion of HONOR is as well. Really interesting. I recommend it to anyone and everyone! GET THE BOOK. It's worth it! *Suggestion, don't read past the first paragraph of the inside flap coz it gives away something.

As an "Ol' Grad" I found the book extremely disturbing. While the book itself was very entertaining it did not acurately portray the Cadet life that I experienced. I feel that the autor has some deep feelings of bitterness that he has yet to deal with and this book was a method of "venting". Bottom line is that in my opinion the author wishes heavily that he was a "Ringknocker".

Zelnick's exploration into the Bush v. Gore controversy serves as an entertaining narrative and gives personality to the faces behind the legal battle. With a twinge of Republican bias (and by twinge I mean satanic Bush worshiper), Zelnick recounts Election 2000 in an entertaining day by day story. If you're looking for insightful legal or political analysis into the decision, then this is the wrong place to look, however, if you want quick read to familiarize yourself with the Conservative perspective of the case, then this is a good buy.

This was a well written book. I was able to comprehend the steps that the Bush team used in their plight to win Florida. He introduces the reader to several key players in Bush's campaign run and includes excerpts from interviews with them which provide the reader with a first hand account of what actually happened. There was indeed method to this madness! It does, however, have a conservative lean; after all, he did interview Bush's top advisors for his campaign. He also hints the fact that the RNC had a meeting that touched on the possibilities of a recount way before it ever happened! Interesting, huh? I recommend this book to anyone interested in anything regarding the politics involved in the Florida election

Zelnick's exploration into the Bush v. Gore controversy serves as an entertaining narrative and gives personality to the faces behind the legal battle. With a twinge of Republican bias (and by twinge I mean satanic Bush worshiper), Zelnick recounts Election 2000 in an entertaining day by day story. If you're looking for insightful legal or political analysis into the decision, then this is the wrong place to look, however, if you want quick read to familiarize yourself with the Conservative perspective of the case, then this is a good buy.

The most unsettling thing about this book is it becomes clear that the news media, Gore's lawyers and many others, including the Florida Supreme Court, knowingly conspired to steal the election of 2000

The saddest thing to me was that both Gore and the media knew what they were doing, and that Bush had clearly won the election, and yet Gore continued to mount a case he AND his attorney's knew was a lie, and the media assisted in the plot by allowing attacks on Sec. Harris and any others who wouldn't "Play Ball"

This book is the single greatest case against allowing partisans to have any part in elections. The Gore team cared little about legal votes and less about the law.....

Algore's beard is a visible example of how much he believes in the Taliban code of justice.....our way or die.

This is one of those volumes you might want to add to your collection in that is is quite informative and quite concise. It covers the American Presidents from Washington through Clinton. Each section is devoted to one president. Each section leads with a selection of information such as birthdays, former employment or profession, their political careers, date of death and years served as President. Each then is given a short biography, well written, I might add, and summation of their administration. There are photographs throughout the book of each of these men. The first ladies are addressed and little interesting facts thrown in here and there. Each of these short chapters is not, of course, ment to be the beginning and end of all presidential biographies, they only present brief facts. These facts are given is such a way though, that you actually learn something. I like biographies. By having a brief sketch like this book offers, I am more able to make up my mind which full lenght biographies might interest me and which I might not like as well. As an example, I could care less about reading a biography of James Buchanan, but do like to know a bit about him. This book offers as much as I really wish to know. David Whitney had given us a very nice bit of helpful work here. Recommend this one highly.

For those who would like to know about US president for the first time, or for just support your knowledge, this book is excellent enough to fulfill your needs. A must buy for junior high students.

Clear, compact and concise reference book of all the American Presidents. The main section of this book devotes a few pages on each President (from the 1st to the 42nd) with historical facts, dates and places. A small section at the back, lists such things as key facts about each President and Vice-President, the First Ladies and all Presidential Elections; also for anyone interested in the making of the Presidency or intend visiting presidential historic sites. A must on any book shelf for those interested in American Presidential history.

I'm not sure the author intentionally meant it or even noticed it but many of his arguments seem to follow many Catholic beliefs right down to the disapproval of divorce. The author describes it as "violence" against humanity.

His arguments are not new and are issues that have been discussed over the centuries by Catholic and other Christian scholars about how to be better disciples, apostles and hence followers of Christ. Still, it's refreshing to re-visit these issues again in a more modern context.

In heavily drawing from the letters of Paul, Katz tries to rekindle a fire within his readers hearts to be more "apostolic", more involved in their faith and not be passive, Sunday Christians, who seem to be holy on one day of the week and then revert to becoming "demons" for the other six.

Given his own Jewish and worldly past, it's no surprise that this author is a big fan of the one who was Saul and probably identifies personally with him. He has also taken it upon himself to set up a group of followers for his Ben Israel (Son of Israel) mission in Minnesota focussing on his brethren with a yearning similar to the one expressed by St Paul himself in his letters, that they may one day see the light.

If you want to know why being Sunday Christians is not enough, this book may well set your fires alight!

Mr Katz has indeed defined genuine christianity. "Apostolic Foundations" cuts through the facade that has defined our cultural christianity and is helping us redefine what living IN Christ truly is. In an age where we love to have our ears tickled, Mr. Katz has brought back the reality of being identified with Christ in both the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. I do not normally recommend books outside of the scriptures to others, but this book deals so much with what is true and real in light of eternity that I have given it away to others. I will tell you, it does not have any of the pomp or glamour that many charismatic books have, but to me it makes it that much more credible and valid. I challenge you to read this book slowly and humbly and see if it does not challenge you to the core of your own heart.

Some books can be read very quickly, and read for enjoyment. Some books have one main point, which you can come to grips with very quickly. Others again say things that are totally uncontroversial and don't really need saying. Others go to the oposite extreme and put foward a set of positions for the sake of controversy. This book fits into none of those categories.

I found that as I read it I was at the same time reading something that was geneally logically sound, new, and yet fitted with how the world actually is. The book took me a long time to read because almost every sentance was packed with so much meaning that in order to understand it correctly I found that I could only read about 1 page every 2 hours.

The fact that I never gave up, despite the time that it took to read is proof of the hold that it had on me. I have recommended it to many people.

Stylistically it is brilliant. The content is sound, and although I feel he is too imbalanced against faith for now against faith for eternity, I feel that it was a very valuable asset to have put into my mind.

I recommend it to anyone who wants to come to a greater understanding of how the Church is supposed to work.