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totally correct and professional. With this book's help I knew what I wanted to visit and its' history.

I loved this book so much that I was moved to come on here and tell you all about it. I had always heard of Mary Lee Settle, but had never read her work. I picked this book up in a used bookstore and feel so thankful that I did. Her writing is gorgeous, mesmerizing, full of truths and observations that we all see, but so few can articulate. It's a slender novel and yet rich with detail so you end up feeling like it's much longer than it is. Settle represents this entire community and culture so well that you feel like you know these people, and the love story at the center of the novel is utterly timeless. The book is romantic and heartbreaking and painful not in the popular "pink roses" sense of romance, but so much like the way many have lived romantic love....aching and bittersweet and complicated. I am a writer and an avid reader and this book knocked me out in a way that so few do. Highly recommended. I plan to read all of her other books now.

If you're serious about navigating the crazy streets of Charlotte and the rest of the Great State of Mecklenburg, you owe it to yourself to pick up this book. It is EXTREMELY detailed and very up-to-date. The indexing system makes life simple, and there are several pages with blown-up maps of important landmarks (like Douglas International Airport). Paramedics and EMTs use this book exclusively - we like it so much that our dispatchers send us the page number and grid square for emergency calls! It'll serve you well.

This little booklet is to be a review of the correspondence between Richard Fuller a wealthy South Carolina planter who became a powerful Maryland preacher and a Rhode Island preacher Dr. Francis Wayland who engaged in correspondence on the issue of scriptural basis of slavery. This book of correspondence is available at the price of about $100 if anyone is interested, but our review of the correspondence is not really necessary to the appreciation of this book. Geographically it would seem that Dr. Wayland and Dr. Fuller should be on totally opposite sides of the question. It is worthwhile to note thatDr. Wayland was a student of Moses Stuart. Reverend Hague points out there is not much difference between them. "Eloquent as is Dr. Fuller's argument and appeal, further bad as he is the religious spirit which he breathes, earnest though he is as a creature of bargain to the center, yet, by advocating such a doctrine of slavery as an element of Christianity, he has done greater disservice to the cause of religion and humanity, and could possibly be achieved by all the traffickers of human flesh at whom the law of Christian nations now condemn as pirates.(see page 7).the author believes Dr. Wayland in taking a very soft view of slavery grants a great deal too much to Dr. Fuller. Reverend Hague points out what ever the Roman law was it does not affect the Christian community because their law was the law of Christ. The apostles had been cited as supporting slavery because there is no open condemnation of that in their epistles. "Now in reading what is written to societies so constituted [the congregations in the Roman Empire], it is a great error to infer that the apostles either sanctioned or tolerated any relation between man and man as established by Roman law, because we do not find in their epistles a particular denunciation of it.[p.32]"

The author offers as illustration of the New Testament's condemnation of slavery that very familiar epistle of Paul to Philemon. "According to the law of Rome, Onesimus was still the property of Philemon, who, as a citizen, had a legal claim upon his services; but the letter does not intimate the slightest probability that Philemon, the Christian, would or could urge that claim [see page 43]." the book ends with a parable. We are referred to the time when a great number of white persons were held as slaves in Algiers. "What if, on demanding the release of these captives, their lords should meet us for such Christian arguments as are found in the letters of Dr. Fuller, should declare to us that they had not any thing to do with bringing these poor people there, but they have found themselves in the relation of ownership to them, it just had now become a permanent element of their social organization, if slavery had been tolerated by our old holy religion in the Roman Empire, and that they now appeal to us, by our regard to order, to justice, to civil claims of property which time had consecrated, and especially by a reference for the primitive and prudent teachings of that Christianity which we so much gloried, in which we show ourselves to be lovers of peace, and leave them undisturbed, in the enjoyment of those rights which divine Providence has so long invest in them? Would our friends in South Carolina then be found in yielding quietly to the power of these ` sacred truths,' and paying homage to the intellect of the Christian teacher who headed, by means of them, so wonderfully enlightened the minds of the Algerians? [See pages 47-48]"

The logic of this book is more compelling than many others dealing with the same subject. As a preacher William Hague takes an honest look at the condition of religion in his time and pleads in his last sentence that his readers, "thus, battling against one another sin, they keep it from concealing his native vileness land roving itself in the authority of religion, and proudly wearing the sanctions of Christ, like stars in its crown of triumph."

If you are interested in learning more about this great institution, this is book for you. I couldn't find a better book that describes the rich history of the Citadel in such detail.

This eye-witness account of US troop atrocities on civilians can no longer be hidden. Scholars may have had an excuse for ignoring it, but now that excuse is removed by this easily available, beautifully produced university press edition. The majority of the so-called historians who have attributed the burning of Columbia SC to accident, alcohol, burning cotton, etc., are now shown to be the apologist propagandists for a sanitized American history that they most surely are. In contrast to the eye-witness account, their work now appears laughable. How can we take these "historians" seriously in anything else they do? Truth has a way of getting outside its bottle, and like the genie, it can't be put back. Congratulations to the editor and press for a job well done.

The Civil War In The Carolinas by civil war expert and historian Dan Morrill (History Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Director of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historical Society) is a dramatically presented and extensively researched survey and analysis of the impact the American Civil War had upon the states of North Carolina and South Carolina, and the people who called these states their home. A meticulous, scholarly, and thoroughly engaging examination of the details of history and the sweeping change that the war wrought for everyone, The Civil War In The Carolinas is a welcome and informative addition to American Civil War Studies reference collections.

I had never heard of Ernst Glaeser before but I hope the reprinting of Class 1902 will make him known to a whole new audience. Anyone who has an interest in the First World War - or the literature of war in general - should read this book. While Remarque and Hemingway's classic novels concentrated on the horrors of the front and the necessity of sometimes making a separate peace, Glaeser's book is a little-known masterpiece about the home front in Germany, as seen through the eyes of a young boy as he watches the war, from the age of 12 to 16. Glaeser's hero, known simply as E., is often more interested in solving "the mystery" - adult sexuality - than he is in what's happening at the front. After witnessing a brutal sex act early in the story, E feels he doesn't want anything to do with sex, if that's the way it is. He equates it with a kind of murder. It isn't until a couple years later that he begins to understand that what he saw was not representative of the real "mystery." In the final pages of the book he finds himself on the precipice of solving the mystery. His innocence is indeed finally irrevocably lost, but not in the way you might expect. This book was first published eighty years ago in German. It made its English debut in 1929, the same year A Farewell to Arms was published. Hemingway called Glaeser's work "a damned good book." He was absolutely right. The translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was superb, and I doubt that much of anything was "lost in translation." E., Ferd and August emerge as very real and, even more importantly, sympathetic characters, boys in search of their place in an increasingly complex society as war looms on the horizon and finally descends with a vengeance that leaves them more concerned with finding enough to eat than with what's happening at either front, where their fathers are fighting and dying. Professor Horst Kruse's introduction is very helpful in putting Glaeser's book into a proper literary and cultural context. I cannot say enough about how absorbing and GOOD this book is. If you enjoyed Erich Maria Remarque's books about the Great War and the post-war era, then don't miss this one. - Tim Bazzett, author of Soldier Boy: At Play in the ASA

A very entertaining read; This collection of stories gives a vivid image of daily life as seen from Carolina old-salts and islanders.

A Colonial Complex provides a very interesting look at an often forgotten war in colonial America. The Yamasee War fought by the Indians that would become known as the creeks was a devastating conflict for both sides. It shaped the colonial mindset with regards to the Creeks and developed the role of the Cherokee for the future of colonial relations. It sets the stage for the development of Georgia as a colony and continues the erosion of Indian sovereignty by adding more boundaries to the creek nation. There are very few books that analyze the creek and almost none that take into account the Yamasee war. If you are interested in colonial affairs this is a must read. It is well written, concise and straight to the point.