Sherman Books

Marszalek's evaluation of William T. Sherman's relationship with the Civil War press is first-rate. Newspapers nor newspaper men dominated Sherman's Civil War career, but they did blast him on occasion, inferring that he was insane and incompetent. To retaliate, Sherman used what power he had to intimidate and throw up roadblocks where possible to deprive the press of opportunities to do him, his armies, and his strategic operations any harm. The volatile general, who is explored more in depth in Marszalek's well-received biography, was never one to stand idely by and be assualted without lashing back. Reporters learned that one way or the other. In this book, Marszalek thoroughly explains the hows and whys of the mostly bitter relationship the general had with the press.

To read Professor Marszalek`s book, Sherman and the Civil War Press, first published in 1981, and re-issued in `99 one would come away with the distinct impression that General Sherman was sitting in his tent at Paducah, at Pittsburg Landing, at Memphis, at Chickasaw Bayou etc., etc., wracking that quite outstanding brain of his, not on how to defeat the rebels but plotting the systematic downfall of all reporters. If asked to swallow Marszalek`s assertions and emphasis, the average reader might well find themselves putting down, what is afterall merely an extended thesis, something one might jot off for a P.hd, asking the question, how then did General Sherman manage to Capture Atlanta, make Georgia howl, and march 62,000 men through the Carolinas if he spent his every waking moment agonizing over " pestifirous newshounds" ? The answer is, of course, he didn`t! Lashing out at the reporters who crowded his camps merely to write up stories coloured by the personal views of the enlisted men and predjudiced by the self-glorifying comments of political generals such as John McClernand and Frank Blair was just one more aspect of Sherman`s multi-layed and complicated charactor. He was one of those people who throughly enjoy confrontation, he thrived on, was inspired by, what Londoners nowadays might term "aggro" - But Marszalek would have us believe that compared to the court martial of Knox and the discouraging of other scribblers the rebellion that was tearing his nation apart was a side show. The author portrays the General as wishing to muffle a free press - but if we put this desire into the context of this century`s conflicts, notably The Gulf War, we will realise just how vital, necessary it was to advocate General Sherman`s view - why should the enemy employ spies when the newspapers and T.V. are only too willing to share our military secrets? It is also important to remember, a fact that Marszalek conveniently forgets, that Mr Lincoln refused publishers the right to use the trains to transport their newspapers, even closed a couple when they came close to treason in their editorials. No one called him insane or obssessed. Much of this book is merely a fast track re-hash of Marszalek`s often inaccurate biography of the great General - inaccurate in fact and in analysis and conclusion. I would like to say that what the professor lacks in content and accuracy he makes up for in style - I would like to say it, but unfortunately I cannot, for Marszalek has no style. Stringing together sentances to make chapters, is not style. I wish the professor luck in finding another subject, I think he has taken this one as far as he can. It is fortunate for the professor and other Sherman biographers that the General is not alive today for he most certainly would have made THEM the object of his ire in a book to be entitled " Sherman`s third War - The General and Bad biographies." Since there was no " nil stars" rating I gave it one star for subject matter.

I would like to say that this book is truly for real. Peolpe don't like to think because the truth scares them alot. This books talks about immoral behaviors in all people there no race, no color, no gender- when your living a immoral lifestyle it does not matter who you are. The book talks about how rich, poor , homeless, blue collar/white collar workers it does not matter who you are when your living immorally. The book offers explanation to help you understand the bible. Another good point in this book is the stories that are true and sad. This book also talks about if you are a sociable drinker, sociable drug addict, this is what you are it's time for changes. Brenda gets explicit with sex but like the title I gave it this book is not holding back and it is all true, I believe it. What this book help you with and that is helping yourself, which is what alot of us need to do, get help spiritually not from nobody else but from reading the bible ourself. It is written in all caps I believe because it is all important stuff, there is some lower case. Whether or know this is a important book. I love this book. It's not written in vulgarity, but truth. Kid's who have been out in the streets should read this book. Brenda even challenges you to "change". K. W. Have a nice day!

I am not exactly sure what to write here. This awful collection of rantings about God, and sex, and drugs, and teens, and babies, and black people, and white people, and hispanic people, and everything else the author can think of reads like the ravings of a lunatic. This is accentuated by the all-caps printing of the entire "book." Using a word like "book" does the literary medium a terrible injustice; this bears a much more striking resemblance to a couple hundred pages printed off of the internet and bound. My favorite line pertaining to this is, paraphrased, "SOME PEOPLE SAY WHY WRITE IN ALL-CAPS AND I SAY THAT GOD WANTS HIS MESSAGE TO BE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR AND IF I WERE YOU I WOULD NOT CHALLENGE HIM."
All that being said, this poor woman went through a terrible ordeal because of her husband's infidelity with a "teenage whore". My heart goes out to her. But to the publishing company, Jesus Christ. There is no reason that this should be in print. It's like listening to Jerry Falwell without the eloquence.

P.S. "Whore" is not a verb.

They rode into the town of Gilmet, Texas in the dead of night. First came Zeke, Popper, also known as ZP. The other four hard cases came in the next night. Their goal was to rob the bank and in this they were successful. When this hard bunch left town, three men lay dead with out a shot being fired and a girl kidnapped. Sheriff Tom Keller organizes a posse to go after the killers. Joby Redmond was out doctoring cattle with his sons when he heard gunfire coming from the direction of his house. When Joby reached his house he found his young sister Do had been ravished, most of his horses slain and his wife kidnapped. Joby decides to take his sister to his mothers home to stay before riding after ZP but when he reached his mothers place he finds his mother has also been killed by Popper. Upon returnig to his home with the posse, Joby and Do are met by his soms. Joby has already allowed Do to join in the man hunt and now he lets his sons talk him into joining the posse as well. On the outlaws trail, one of the posse members riding scout with Joby is ambushed. Now before continuing the pursuit of ZP and his bunch, the posse must tend to a wounded man. The search for Popper winds up in a sand storm along the Brazos River. When Joby finally catches up to ZP and the two men left with him, who will shed the blood of these killers? Will it be Joby or the father of the kidnapped girl who is riding with the posse? Jory has some surprises in store for us in the thrilling conclusion of his latest book. It's been much to long between Jory Sherman books but the wait has been well worth it. TEXAS DUST IS AN EXCITING & OUTSTANDING BOOK! I for one can't wait for the next Jory Sherman book.

One of the absolute worst from Jory Sherman. The bad guys are really great. Too bad they are only at the beginning and the end of the book. When Joby Redmond's mother is killed, the process to bury her takes on entirely too much time. That's when you realize that there isn't enough story to fill the book. How about three scenes of people throwing up? Two of them get the dry heaves to max out the effect.
There is suspicion cast on the Sheriff like he might have been involved in the crime at the beginning of the book. Sorry, you'll never know the outcome of that. It's never mentioned again.
The bad guys take the daughter of a local townsfolk as prisoner. The father of the girl is riding with "Joby" to try to catch them. I still haven't figured out why Joby is so rude to this guy. Telling him to shut up. Telling him he WILL do as he's told. Even more insane is the fact that the guy listens to him. But the topper of them all is the fact that the kidnapped girl falls in love with the head honcho bad guy after he bruises her and rapes her. Finally, if you're waiting for a great climatic ending for all the "fodder" you had to plow through, you'll be disappointed tremendously. It ends with a thud.
I've read Sunset Rider, The Barron War and Grass Kingdom. These books by Jory Sherman were so good that it makes one wonder if "Texas Dust" was written by the same person.

This book is what happens when 21st. Century feminist thinking trys to layer itself over the 19th. Century and the American Civil War.

Basicly the book deals with the abuse of white southern women, black women and the wanton destruction of property by General Sherman's campaign through the Southern heart land in 1864. Using limited sources the author builds a case of excessive violence, rape and destruction of property. Gen. Sherman's campaign is well documented and know to historians and although there obviously were examples of what Prof. Campbell described it was not the normal standard of behaviour of Gen. Sherman's Army of 61K.

I have no doubt that the examples given in this text are factualy true but the historicaly records as well as personal diaries and letters that have survived strongly indicate that these atrocities toward Souther civilians or slave were the norm.

This is a very condensed book, mainly dealing with how the war, ( Sherman's March) affected the people in the path of Shermans army. Mrs. Campbell (the author, and a professor of history) uses extensive footnotes, and numerous sources, from a wide spectrum of people, and authors. One thing Mrs. Campbell bears on, is how Shermans march affected the African-American people, and how it differed with it's affect on the white people; and the differences in effect it had on the moral of the people, versus the effect it had on the Confederate soldiers.

If you're new to Shermans March, this is a good book to start with. It's an excellent, quick view of the effect on the Southern people.

If you've read extensively, on Sherman March, this is an excellent book, that adds to your knowledge.

I also recomment, "Sherman's March"-Richard Wheeler; "Shermans March"-Burke Davis; as well as Shermans March through the Carolina's"- John G. Barrett.

In chapter 1 we briefly look at Minkowski's geometric theory of numbers, namely a theory of quadratic forms based on the geometry of lattices. In the course of these investigations Minkowski conjectured that in a lattice tiling of n-space by cubes some two cubes must share a complete face. Minkowski proved this for n=2,3. Our authors couldn't care less about his proofs however; instead we quickly move the the idea that worked for general n: Hajós reformulation of the problem as a simple statement about factorisation of abelian groups. The rest of the book is just more of the same, but without the heart and soul of classical mathematics. So, one may study tilings not only by cubes but by clusters of cubes (chapters 2-5), or one could try to tile some polygon by some triangles (chapters 5-6). The final chapter 7 presents Rédei's theorem, which generalises the group theoretic version of Minkowski's conjecture.

"I am so full of questions, I'm going to burst." So declares 11-year-old Genie Zeiger in this candid memoir of growing up in Queens in the 1950s. As she struggles to make sense of the world, Genie often feels that she has no one to turn to. Her mother encourages her to "do something constructive," her father is distracted, her little sister is too young to understand, and God certainly doesn't seem to be listening. An aspiring writer, Genie finds solace in books borrowed from the library, but these too often open the door to more questions. After reading and re-reading The Diary of Anne Frank, Genie wonders why her parents have never told her about the Holocaust, and how God could have allowed it to happen. At the same time, like many pre-teen girls, Genie is also preoccupied with thoughts of friends, school, and boys. Though somewhat scattered and choppy at times, Genie's voice is funny and upbeat, and propels the reader along at a brisk pace. Modern teens will identify with Genie's search for answers to life's questions, and adult readers--especially those who came of age in the 1950s--will enjoy a trip down memory lane. Ages 10 and up. Reviewed by Alison Kelly

The book is definately for children as described. Does not offer any tips or training info, but does provide a very brief history of the sport.

I have read many books of juvenile sports fiction in my life and I occasionally read one written in the early half of the twentieth century for contrast. This is such a book and to the modern reader, it will appear rather quaint and simplistic. It is a collection of short stories about boys and their lives involving football.
One of the points that I find amusing in these books are the phrases used as substitutes for curse words. In the second story of the collection, the football coach is angry with his players. He berates them by saying, "Who the dingity dong dong . . . ?" I laughed at this expression as the image of a hard-boiled football coach saying that to his players in a motivational speech is truly absurd.
Unfortunately, that was the high point of the book. These are not sports stories of the caliber of Joe Archibald or John Tunis, writers whose prose was so good that the story gripped and held you. Even though they were written over a half-century ago. The stories are plodding and pedantic, even the climactic end of the big game never really excited me.
This book contains some of the weakest examples of juvenile sports fiction that I have ever read. With several hundred books to compare it to, I rank it near the bottom.

I was a little dissapointed in the horror content. But the stories were interesting and very different. Not at all gory/splatterpunkish. If your looking for dark stories with different endings, these would be them

The history is told from the viewpoint of the adminbistration, not the student. This absence of the students'viewpoint is the major weakness. The first part deals with Colonial History up to the early 20th century when W&M became a public institution. As W&M has an extraordinary history, filled with war at the doorstep, constant struggle just to survive, the story is essentially interesting. The most informative part of the second section when the college is public is the insight into funding of a public university and the stupidity of some government officials, as the state auditor who recommended in the 1940s as I recall that all donated money be credited to the state. The contrary argument, which won, was that that would simply kill all donations to the college. This is a good book for libraries and may be used by students of American history to benefit.