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Bowwow is so cute if i ever meet him i will fate right in frot of him.And i would like to know him better.

The Lil'BowWow Scrap Book is siimply Off Tha Chainz" It has exclusive information avaliable only to you! From letting the fans know what type of gurls he like to bangin pics and pin ups; the Lil'BowWow Scrap Book should be the first thing you should cop. Start of your year 02' right and support this multi-talented pup. You will definitley need to get the second edition to this 'Hangin With Lil'BowWow' Scrap Book! Support BowWow 4 sho!

I think that Lil Bow Wow scrapbook is great book. It saws you pictures and tells you about him. In this scrapbook you can find and learn a lot of things about him and how he came in to the rapping bussiness.His scapbook is amazing. If you are just one of his fans who don't know nothing about him but just likes him becuase his cute well you can find out things about him.I advice you to get this book it tells you and shows you every thing that you need to know.Everything you need to know is right in his scarpbook.This is a wonderful book.I will give this book five stars. I think that it is one of the best books. For all of Lil Bow Wow's fans I think that yall should get this book it is so good.

THE BOOK WAS GREAT. I THINK HE SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER ONE COME OUT VERY SOON. I LIKE BOWWOW SO I KNOW WHEN HE DOES THINGS YOU SHOULD ALWAYS EXPECT THE BEST.YOU SHOULD EPECT THE BEST CAUSE HE REALLY LOVES WHAT HE DO. THE BOOK REALLY GIVES YOU HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT HE IS LIKE IF YOU DONT ALREADY KNOW SO I THINK ITS REALLY GREAT FOR FAN WHO CANT REALLY GET OUT TO SHOWS AND STUFF. I MAKE IT TO ALL OF THEM SO THIS BOOK IR REALLY LIKE A REVIEW FOR ME AND I KNOW AS WELL AS TO OTHERS.

Lil Bow Wow is hot from is Cornrolls down to his Air 1's. No one can deny his talent for music and Basketball. And now that is first book dropped his reputation has gone sky high. If you like the book you will love "Beware of Dog" and "Doggy Bag" Also Bow Wow will be staring in a movie called "Like Mike". The book is blazing. IF there's something you don't know about Shad Moss you can find it in the book...

What can I say? It was funny. I dig funny books. Pick it up, why don't you.

I loved this book by Lani Diane Rich. This is by far her best book! Dialogue was very witty. Read this book in one day it was so good. I hope she will continue with Jess and Dig's story.

I would give this book 4 1/2 stars if that were an option. I enjoyed it from almost the start. I had a little problem getting into the beginning. I thought the angel part was a little hokey, but after the initial I was hooked. I loved the story and fell hook line and sinker. What a great story. The story between EJ and her Mother was amazing. Throw in the story of a left lover and Jess the angel, what could be better. This is a great story with just enough emotion and realism to make it all work. What a great fun summer read. Don't miss this one you won't be sorry.

I couldn't put it down. It's fun and funny and warm and sweet but not sappy. Now I want the next book.

Ever since I had my first baby I've been reading nothing but fun, easy, chick-lit. Unfortunately, even though it's all my tired brain can handle, it always seems to leave me only half-satisfied. I expected that same lukewarm satisfaction from this book. Imagine my shock when my expectations were shattered. Chick-lit? Yes. Easy read? Yes. Trite? Heck No! I laughed out loud and cried too! I liked this book so much that the day after I finished it, I started it all over again. I am truly impressed, and will pass this book around to my friends and relatives. This, in my world, is the best compliment I can give a book. Enjoy!

As an advisor who works with folks near retirement I purchased Live Long, Live Rich as an addition to my library. After reading it I "loaned" it to a client. The next week he told me "I Get It. I now have a better understanding about inflation, and some of the terminolgy you use." Then I had to call him 3 times to get my book back. If you are just starting towards investments or near retirement I would recommend this book. A very small investment in your future.

I purchased this book in the hopes that I would be able to help my father increase his income. He is well into retirement and his income is not keeping up with his expenses. The book was easy to use and finding additional ways to increase his income was easy to do. I recommend this book to anyone who not only wants to increase investment income but needs to help others do so as well.

Craig Rappaport has done a GREAT job in taking the mystery out of financial investment jargon. Terms are brought down to earth so that we all can understand investments and investment strategy. This book will empower you to ask smarter questions and make smarter decisions that can result in greater wealth accumulation at retirement. If you've sat helplessly listening to a financial advisor talk over your head, this is the book for you. Instead of being at the mercy of an advisor, you will have a greater knowledge of financial options and be better able to work with an advisor to meet your financial wealth expectations. I only wish he had written it 20 years ago!

I just retired and have been speaking with my financial planner about how much income my accounts can produce and at what withdrawal rate I should use for my 401K. I brought up just a few of the points made in the book that my broker had not considered and we are using them as the basis for my plan. Everytime I read a chapter I seem to be able to understand and use the information in discussions with my broker. When I think of a change I might make I just plug the new numbers into the software and see how it will effect my results. It's easy to use and adjust. Best of all, my broker asked for the name of the book.

I haven't finished reading this book yet and I'm already hoping for a sequel. This book is so easy to follow and understand. The one issue that no author seems to address is how do you create a paycheck or generate cash flow from your investments. Live Long, Live Rich covers this topic very well. And as far as the software that Mr. Rappaport recommends, I've already upgraded to the full version. It's as easy to use as stated. So, with the mouse in one hand and the book in the other, our retirement plan is becoming much clearer. This book has helped us see the big picture.

This book was so great. It really explains so much about being for real. Not religious and fake. Highly recomended.

This book is unbelievable. I couldn't put it down. I read a lot of books and this book really suprised me. I purchased this book because the author is a pastor @ Free Chapel church and I've read books by Jentezen Franklin (senior pastor of Free Chapel) before and loved them.

I bought this book on a whim and this is hands down the best book I've read in a while. A must read for any christian.

This book will challenge you, humble you, and speak to you. I hope Rogers continues to write, I'd buy anything else he'd write.

This book is very informative and really shows you had to have a deeper walk and anointing in your life. It is also very good in laying out a way to make a difference as a individual christian. It is very revelant for the day we are living. I found it very interesting and go back to it for references and also have used some of the information in the adult sunday school class I teach. It is a book I want to keep in my library.
Donna Cox
Colorado Springs, Co.

One of the better books I've read to take you higher in your walk with God. Food for thought and action on every page. Well worth the investment.

What a wonderfully challenging read. One cannot read this book without continually asking the questions posed through-out. You are ultimately asked, "are you ready to live for and with God?" What a timely book for the church and a generation that has fallen asleep while living within the "confines" of church life. Thanks Dr. Rich for sounding a call to arms, a call to obedience, but most of all a call to really LIVE! I hope anyone who reads this book is moved from passive to active relationship with God.
The only question I was left with after reading was, "where's the study guide...?" What a great book to use in small groups, youth groups, covenant groups, etc.
Thanks Dr. Rich, for sharing Gods work in your life, for helping to move others towards the kingdom of God.

Making money is one thing, acquiring the tasteful mannerisms of the rich is another. This book helps newly minted money acquire the ways of old money.

I can't even begin to tell how many times I've met the noveau riche, and they've annoyed the heck out of me during the summer parties I've hosted in Newport, RI. I've instructed my butler to discreetly slip a copy of this book in the offender's butler's pocket so they may acquire better manners and taste.

These days, when I'm called on to deliver commencement addresses at sundry universities, I always make it a point to mention the book so that the kids know how to behave as soon as they sell their first dot-com. I'm also sponsoring translations of the book into both Chinese and Hindi so the newly rich from those countries can fit into our social scene here.

One final thought... show some taste by acquiring the hardcover. Leave the paperbacks to the staff "downstairs".

First, let me start by saying, based solely upon Tennant's book jacket author photo, he is probably one of the best looking straight dude authors I have seen in ages. This alone, would normally make me a little skeptical but the book is just so damn thorough that it makes it impossible to hate the guy.

Not only does he have an encyclopedic understanding of the lifestyles of the rich and fabulous but he actually conveys knowledge about stuff most people (including myself, and I happen to have impeccable taste) don't already know, and in a way that is informative, witty, impassioned and borderline satirical.

Also, following up the Preppy Handbook is no small feat but Tennant really gets an ace in the hole on this one. Doesn't disappoint!

If, like me, you find the immoderately rich kinda fascinating in their loathsomeness--think Goldie Hawn in the guilty-pleasure movie, Overboard--this book will totally feed that fascination. It's also quite impressive as a tour de force of McSweeney's-esque chartiness.

It reminds me of the time I visited a college friend in Ohio and quickly realized she'd failed to warn me she was filthy rich. Her grandmother's "cottage" turned out to be a sprawling turn-of-the-century home with a vast formal English Rose Garden and a daunting assortment of cutlery (each piece intended for some insanely specific purpose...I remember they had a fork specifically for duck.) The whole trip was a nightmare and I ruined an entire set of "heirloom sheets" with ink from a cheap, crappy Bic pen while documenting the family's alien qualities in my journal.

Had I been equipped with this comprehensive book, things might have gone a lot better.

Great book! Tennant nails the rich & fabulous life to a T (or so I've heard...) Go buy this book ASAP!

Most enjoyable read in a long time! Well written and clever while giving information that, while not necessary, should not be missed!

Victor's talent for writing and impressive memory brings you right into his story. You feel as if you are there, witnessing it all. All the while, I became was his personal cheerleader in my mind, encouraging him to succeed, which he does. Victor has lead a tragic and exciting life, but most important, he became a survivor and a champion for all who are like him. Breaking the chain of abuse is a long hard road, but it is possible. I hope those who struggle with breaking that chain will hear his story and know it can be done.

We all grew up in dysfunctional families. But some might be called suicidal rather than dysfunctional. How does a child who starts being beaten when he is fifteen months old grow up to be even sane? How does a child grown up into manhood and break the only pattern he has seen while growing up?

Perhaps the answer comes when you see the photograph of the author first holding his own new born son in his arms. He says, "The moment I held Eli in my arms, I knew I could never hurt him the way that my father hurt me." The day you first hold your own new born is a kind of magic day in your life. I remember it well.

This is a story of great sadness. This is a story that happens all too often. And all too often the cycle of violence continues from one generation to another. This is also a story of great triumph as the author preports on how he managed to overcome a childhood from hell. This part of the story doesn't happen often enough, it's glorous when it does.

A PRIVATE FAMILY MATTER takes up the story of one of Hollywood's leading actors, whom you have seen in so many TV shows and movies, and strips off the surface to reveal that behind the handsome mask he wears, a nightmare of terror and horror will forever haunt Victor Rivas, as the demons that have haunted him since childhood keep whistling through his mind like witches on broomsticks. He never has had a day without reliving the traumas of his difficult youth, particularly standing in the shadow of an abusive Dad, whose beatings he endured on a regular basis. Sometimes the father seems so wound up he's unreal, but through the eyes of a child, evil often wears a human face, and all too often, as Mr. Rivas demonstrates, that evil is in the father.

I liked all the Cuban stuff, an area I know little about. The family left Cuba when Castro came to power, because his father's family occupied important positions in the cabinet of the corrupt dictator Bautista (still fondly remembered, it seems, by many anti-Communist Cuban Americans). When you read A PRIVATE FAMILY MATTER perhaps you, like I, flashed back to the great novel by Reinaldo Arenas, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, with its odd mixture of a longing for indigenous culture and a fleeing from its misogynist and anti-child aspects. The smells and sounds come out at you in waves of sensuous description.

Most of all, however, you feel the boy's pain. His father was truly a monster, and his mother was completely cowed by what amounts to the abuse he meted out to whoever got in the way of his anger and machismo. Beyond that, Victor reveals what it took to get him to become a productive adult. There had to be a lot of repair work done on this man. Next time you see him in the movies, think of how much his acting talent comes from the resources it took for him to find the light in a dark world of abuse. And now he helps others who have suffered some of the same syndromic abuse. Highly recommended.

Victor Rivers is a handsome man. Movie star, college educated, Football player.
A big, strong, tough man who was reduced to weeping when taken back to his horrific childhood in countless nightmares. So terrifying, so brutal for his wife to endure, she could only cry as he fought the demons of domestic violence.
Countless women have told their stories. Hoping to save, `just one person.' Reliving their own personal hell with each word. You will relive Mr. Rivers personal hell. He takes the reader from a little boy to a full grown man, still fighting the little guys fight. He tells his story to help others. I believe it will.
If you know nothing of domestic violence, you will have a better understanding after you read this book. You may find it hard to comprehend. You will ask yourself, `How do people let this happen?' `Why not just leave?' Read on.
If you're a victim or a survivor, it is graphic. Mr. Rivers does not soften his story. He shouldn't. You will ask yourself how every domestic violence story can be so similar. You will cry many times. You will laugh a few times. You will love him when his son is born.
No one looks at Victor Rivers, with all of his successes, and thinks of domestic violence. He was a victim, he is a survivor. For all of these reasons I thank him, and his family, for telling his story. I respect him for wanting to help, `just one person.'

This is an incredibly well written book!! It's hard to believe anyone can survive such circumstances and even more impressive is the man Victor turned into. He has overcome terrible abuse to become a loving father and husband. If only everyone who experienced abuse could break the cycle! He goes on to become a national spokesman against violence to help other families and other children like himself.
There isn't a boring page in this book, very highly recommended!!

I ordered this book and finished it in one day.The other reviewers were extremely accurate when they said it was hard to put it down.Peter Kalafatis has created a fast paced masterpiece that not only shows brutal honesty but an uncanny talent for allowing the reader to actually visualize the story at hand through his writing.He brings out very good points about about the system as well as his feelings about the tragic death of his brother.I highly recommend it.

This book was gripping and cinematic from the first page, opening in a happy place before a disturbing phone call changes the authors life direction completely. Once at odds with his own troubled past, wherein he lived off the grid of society. A disowned dropout, a violent skinhead, a semi-absentee teenage parent, and eventual suburban gang organizer. Our narrator finds himself mulling over the different paths of his life when he finds out that his beloved younger, and recently estranged brother has senselessly died by what appears to be a self inflicted drug overdose. Between the time of the phone call, and the time of the funeral he begins to realize that it was he, not necessarily his brother who had made the wrong choices as of late. He had been lulled into conforming, while his brother still slipped past all of the traps that attempt to make you woosie with material love and the desire to aquire. It was now clear to him that his brother got the ultimate punishment for his sins of disobediance. Society saw fit to kill him. It was murder by the Rich against a true rebel.
How would our narrator seek his revenge? You will burn through the pages in one painful, yet beautifully written sit until you find out in the last page how he chooses to manifest his rage.
This book is an instant classic.

Set aside time, because you won't be able to put it down. A Rebel Life is a heart wrenching reflection on growing up in a system that is designed to crush those who can't conform to it, and demoralize those who do to reluctant resignation. It deals with guilt, grief, rage, anger,loss, and loyalty. This is a no excuses book, and takes a blunt look at the roles we all play and why we play them. Its a piercing tribute to a life cut short.

You see it at every level of society: conform or be rejected, sometimes violently, and with no alternatives. Peter Kalafatis' book makes stunningly candid and frighteningly accurate observations on the world today.
More and more I have been noticing the growing differences between the classes, and the complete eradication of the middle class altogether. This violent extraction of an entire social class will produce waves of turmoil that ripple through the future of our society. But it is not just the other classes that destroy the middle class (the rich exploiting and the poor feeding off of) it is ourselves as well. "A Rebel Life" examines the repercussions of what is happening in the war of the classes - it lifts up the flowerpots and examines in detail what crawls underneath - and it is us...
Whoever you are, whatever you do, you need to read this book!

This book was amazing. From the minute that I picked it up I didn't want to put it down. It has so much heart to it, and each page is worth turning. Not for a minute did I want to quit reading this one. The way Kalafatis expressed himself was great, and each new letter made you feel that much closer to him. Each page assured you that he was a real person. I would read this book again with no questions asked. Great book! Buy it! Read it! Find out for yourself.

Thank you, Bernard Waber, for inspiring me to make a great band. I know this thing says I'm 12, but I'm really 16 and all, but this book was awesome, my friend Andrew read it to me five times a day for three weeks...it's given me the courage to keep going, no matter how tough it gets, because I know someone out there has it worse than me...

I enjoyed reading the book Rich Cat, Poor Cat! It was about these two cats one is a street cat and is poor, scubby, dirty, no one pays attention to him, and he has to find his own way to live, his own shelter, food, and the other cat is a indoor cat that lives with a very rich family that cleans, feeds, give shelter, and takes care of him! Yes, I think this book is great for kids because it makes you think about all the cats out there that don't have homes! I think children would like to read this book because it teaches you things about cats and you should take care of every pet you own!

A wonderful book, was a favorite of my childhood, and now my childrens favorite. We named our stray kitten Gwendolyn, after the Heroine. A hearwarming story highlighting the differeneces between the haves and have nots.

A few years back, one of the major school market book clubs published a paperback edition of this lovely book. I think it was Scholastic Book Club, but I gave my only copy to a cat lover who adopts and nurtures every feral cat she finds. She has 18 Gwendolyns, and the book made her cry.

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This is the best book I have ever read in my entire life! It touched my heart in so many ways. I realized that there is so much good in the world. I am so happy that Gwen found a good home. I have read this book 184 times and every time gets better! Thank you so much!

They stay the same is worth your while to read! The characters and situations are believable, and the author draws the reader into this saga about two families who are torn apart for many years! You really care about these families and their problems, making the ending so poignant. They stay the same is a thought-provoking novel that shines a light on the difference between surface and true tolerance to others and their differences. Not bad for a first time author!

They Stay the Same is a true to life story of two families. The Marenos are Italian Catholics, and the Rosens are Russian Jews. Al Mareno and Jake Rosen become business partners, and soon their relationship evolves into a close friendship. It is inspiring to the reader to see the characters' families grow close together in spite of their religious differences.

When their children, Gary Rosen and Tessa Mareno fall in love, the two families are thrown into turmoil. What they thought did not matter, suddenly does. The parents' intolerance split the families apart.

Unable to withhold their love, Gary and Tessa get married in secret the night of their senior prom. Soon graduation is over, and Tessa's grandmother Rose insists Tessa accompany her to Italy. While in Italy, Tessa is sick and her great-aunt quickly deduces what is wrong with Tessa. She is pregnant. Tessa is afraid to tell the families. Now that she and Gary are having a baby, they can no longer hide the fact they are married.

Neither family accepts the news well, and Gary and Tessa move in with Grandma Rose. Tessa gives birth to a baby girl, Ali. And so, the family saga moves forward, from one generation to the next. Ali faces many challenges, which become challenges for the Rosens and Marenos. Losses, breakups, and disappointments see to come one after another. Ali marries Mark, and their marriage also presents challenges.

The story moves forward at an even pace, to subsequent generations. They Stay the Same is a story of two families overcoming the obstacles of prejudice. It is a story of individual lives making decisions and facing the consequences, some of them being poor choices, acted quickly out of emotion or desperation, sometimes out of what they believe were moral choices, sometimes immoral. The message in They Stay The Same is that love binds people together in their families and friendships. On the opposite side of the spectrum, the book shows how prejudice can tear relationships apart. But the most important is that even when a parent, spouse, child, or friend disagrees with their love one's choices, love over shadows disappointment and grief.

They Stay the Same is a strong family saga, a difficult genre to write. I commend Toni Rich for her work.

Contains strong sexual content.

"They Stay the Same" is a page turner. It is lively, even exciting, and draws credible pictures of inter-family relations. .... It's what people do! I loved it & recommend it to serious readers.

I have just finished this wonderful book. I was enrapt by the story from the very first page to the last. Toni Rich described her characters and scenes so vividly that I became emotionally involved with them. Read it yourself, you'll be glad you did.

For her first book, Toni Rich took on a heavy subject and did it with panache. In this fictional account of two families through several generations, she shines a clarifying light on our deep seated prejudices as humans. The results are entertaining, humorous, troubling, and poignant.

Jake Rosen is a Russian Jew who arrives in the U.Sl in 1928 with high hopes and big dreams. Around the same time, an Italian Catholic Al Mareno begins his new life on American shores. For them, the American dream takes wings, becomes reality. Despite their different backgrounds and religious beliefs, Al and Jake become fast friends and business partners. Their wives Becky and Rita, and the children of both families are intertwined through shared goals, dreams, and friendship. They share each other's religious holidays, troubles, and joys. Until Gary Rosen and Tessa Mareno fall in love. What follows is a shattered friendship and a successful business dissolved while Tessa and Gary struggle to make their marriage work despite familial chaos and disapproval.

As the years pass, the Rosens and Marenos experience more than simply religious prejudice. The younger generation grows up in the infancy of Black Power and the fight for equal rights. Infidelity and other troubling scenarios play a pivotal role, touching each generation to varying degrees. Every generation of Rosens and Marenos faces a different but equally difficult set of "taboos." The beauty of this story is in how they cope, come to grips with, and eventually overcome each trial.

They Stay the Same is a family saga worth reading. The characters are human and believable and the story an American tale that captures time and place through each generation. The back cover blurb was right. I was not prepared for the ending.

Not recommended for young or sensitive readers due to sexual situations.

The title caught my eye, and although there are no sensational exposes revealed (as other critics have also noted), it was eye-opening for someone like me who hadn't read the Enquirer and assumed it was still publishing articles about 3-breasted women with screaming headlines like "Headless body found in topless bar". So it was a shock to learn how seriously the Enquirer pursues real (not fabricated or fanciful) stories and how frequently it lands scoops that have been the envy of mainstream publications like the NYTimes. As editor, Calder frequently threw enormous resources at stories sending vast teams of reporters and photographers to cover notable events and outstripping in quantity and quality the journalistic talent of big city daily competitors. While building his case for a ranking atop the ranks of professional journalism, it is amusing and disappointing to find Calder listing among his "great" gets the 'news' (!) that Lisa Marie Presley was all of two months pregnant at one her weddings. But this is a mere quibble. Calder is immensely entertaining in his account of learning the trade as a youngster in the bruisingly competitive Scottish newspaper wars, and then, having crossed the pond, his ascent through the ranks to the leadership of the Enquirer, as well as the rise of investigative journalism applied to celebrities.

I absolutely loved this book.
It was full of interesting stories of how the management of Enquirer and its reporters got scoops on hot stories, even before any mainstream media knew what was happening.
I have been reading the Enquirer since I was about 10 yrs old, which is when I saw the cover showing Elvis in his coffin. The story on how they got that picture is worth the price of the book alone. Great read for an Enquiring mind!

Hundreds of Tabloid pros were fired by America's Most Feared Editor, Iain Calder - I was one of them. No matter, one simply should not bugger off AWOL to Egypt and not tell the boss!

Iain's fantastic romp down Tabloid Memory Lane took me back to many forgotten NATIONAL ENQUIRER escapades.

Yes, we carried $ thousands in cash, yes, we hired helicopters by the dozen, yes; we got the story before the local press even knew we were in town. Small wonder the "legitimate press" dubbed us the Foreign Legion of journalism. Poor scribes, they simply could not compete.

The ENQUIRER was also used in classrooms as an educational tool; we exposed Government waste, published happy pictures of our staff dog, Lucky, visiting big name stars; we published Rags to Riches stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

NE medical reporters were the best in the media - diets that really worked; we broke the World's First Test Tube Baby story, too.

An editor on the NE during those swashbuckler days, even I was unaware of many of the UNTOLD STORIES so vividly described in this five-star adventure yarn - Can't wait for the movie.

Kudos to Calder!

The National Enquirer has a bad reputation that can never be overcome, and the magazine is proud of it. No one working for the Enquirer will ever win the Pulitzer Prize, whether he or she deserves it or not. The rag's rep is based on gore and gossip and ever more shall be.

That's from the horse's mouth. Iain Calder, a Scotsman who left school at 16 and was a millionaire by the time he got his pink slip from the Enquirer, spent twenty years in the traces, sniffing out some of the best stories the paper handled. His breeze-easy journalistic style makes this book a fun read, and the stories he turns over like moss-covered rocks will keep you giggling, even if you don't approve of the Enquirer's tactics.

Largely the brainchild of Generoso Pope, Jr., who was rumored to be seriously mobbed up, the Enquirer's flame burned brightest during his regime. Pope lived up to his name by his love of hard-luck stories and his personal generosity to many of the causes the paper championed. In those days the Enquirer was purple but personal, with small features including rags-to-riches sagas as well as tales of those who had made it big and were getting away from the rat race. Sick kids needing medical treatment was another favorite theme. All had perennial appeal to the housewives of America, and getting the paper on the racks at supermarkets was one of the biggest strategic breaks of Pope's dynamic career.

The Enquirer, while noted for its nasty photos of beheaded animals, ghastly human follies and bloody death, scooped more than poop. It was often the first with an important story (Jesse Jackson's love-child, Clinton's pardon of an errant brother-in-law and subsequent $200,000 kick-back) and its rivals never seemed ready for the rag's rough-and-tumble determination to be fustest with the mostest. When Princess Grace died in a tragic car crash, the Enquirer staff "bought" the gardener in whose yard the wreckage landed and held him hostage in his own home to keep him from talking to other papers. After a week the poor man got so stir-crazy that he took a rifle and shot a hole through his cottage roof. To be fair, they had offered him what they often handed out to other sources --- a holiday. The man was just too dumb to take it.

But then we have the seaman on board Aristotle Onassis's yacht who was easily bribed and blabbed about everything going on with Ari and Jackie. He even took photos and was sent back to Greece where his fiancée awaited, all on the Enquirer's tab. And the distant relative of Elvis who was paid surprisingly little money to take flash photos of the corpse as it lay in state at Graceland. There was an absolute ban on photos, but whatever the Enquirer wanted, it usually got.

The book is chock full of such stories, but Calder manages to keep his sources safe from detection, even now. The one major exception is Tom Arnold, who actually ratted on his bride-to-be, the famously profane comedienne Roseanne Barr, who had threatened to sue the paper for its outrageous stories of her and Tom. When an Enquirer staffer held up the canceled check signed by her inamorata on Geraldo Rivera's TV show, Roseanne was furious --- not so much at Arnold (whom she married anyway) but at the Enquirer operative, who was later sent a punch in the schnozz and a bouquet of flowers, compliments of the unsinkable Ms. Barr.

Calder praises, rather than buries, the Enquirer, so those expecting the worst may be disappointed. But even when only mellow yellow, the paper's scurrilous tactics and its staff's plucky antics make for a great read.

--- Reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott

The Untold Story is a tribute to the people that made the National Enquirer a journalism trendsetter and one of best selling newspapers in the nation. Iain Calder, the former editor-in-chief of the Enquirer, has written the biography of a newspaper with obvious affection and pride. Included in this accolade are the hardworking and colorful employees of the Enquirer-writers, photographers, editors, and business managers. The celebrities, physicians, stars, and ordinary people that filled the pages of the Enquirer appear in The Untold Story treated with obvious respect and affection. Interwoven through most of the book is Gene Pope, an extraordinary man and boss with rare vision, insight, and daring, albeit often coupled with a complex personality mix of compassion and uncompromising demands.

Calder has done a fine job with The Untold Story-the book has a brisk pace, flows well, and always keeps the reader engaged and entertained. The Untold Story is not an expose, and anyone looking for a detrimental gossip or the airing of nefarious deeds or secrets will be disappointed. The book will not disappoint any reader looking for a clear and compelling story of one man's unique, challenging, and interesting career.