TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It
is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but
also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will
determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do
something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where
people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at
least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different
direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to
wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of
presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of
all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Howard Zinn
THIS IS JUST PLAIN WRONG. PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL.
Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight
By ANDREW POLLACKSEPT. 20, 2015
Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a
gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug that is the
standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection.
The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August
by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager.
Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the
annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“What is it that they are doing differently that
has led to this dramatic increase?” said Dr. Judith Aberg, the chief of the
division of infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
She said the price increase could force hospitals to use “alternative therapies
that may not have the same efficacy.”
Turing’s price increase is not an isolated
example. While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new
drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also
growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic,
that have long been mainstays of treatment.
Although some price increases have been caused by
shortages, others have resulted from a business strategy of buying old
neglected drugs and turning them into high-priced “specialty drugs.”
Cycloserine, a drug used to treat dangerous
multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, was just increased in price to $10,800 for 30
pills from $500 after its acquisition by Rodelis Therapeutics. Scott Spencer,
general manager of Rodelis, said the company needed to invest to make sure the
supply of the drug remained reliable. He said the company provided the drug
free to certain needy patients.
In August, two members of Congress investigating
generic drug price increases wrote to Valeant Pharmaceuticals after that
company acquired two heart drugs, Isuprel and Nitropress, from Marathon
Pharmaceuticals and promptly raised their prices by 525 percent and 212 percent
respectively.
Marathon had acquired the drugs from another company in 2013 and had quintupled their prices, according to the lawmakers, Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, and Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland.
Marathon had acquired the drugs from another company in 2013 and had quintupled their prices, according to the lawmakers, Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, and Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland.
Doxycycline, an antibiotic, went from $20 a bottle
in October 2013 to $1,849 by April 2014, according to the two lawmakers.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the
HIV Medicine Association sent a joint letter to Turing earlier this month
calling the price increase for Daraprim “unjustifiable for the medically
vulnerable patient population” and “unsustainable for the health care system.”
An organization representing the directors of state AIDS programs has also been
looking into the price increase, according to doctors and patient advocates.
Daraprim, known generically as pyrimethamine, is
used mainly to treat toxoplasmosis, a parasite infection that can cause serious
or even life-threatening problems for babies born to women who become infected
during pregnancy, and also for people with compromised immune systems, like AIDS
patients and certain cancer patients.
Martin Shkreli, the founder and chief executive of
Turing, said that the drug is so rarely used that the impact on the health
system would be minuscule and that Turing would use the money it earns to
develop better treatments for toxoplasmosis, with fewer side effects.
“This isn’t the greedy drug company trying to
gouge patients, it is us trying to stay in business,” Mr. Shkreli said. He said
that many patients use the drug for far less than a year and that the price was
now more in line with those of other drugs for rare diseases.
“This is still one of the smallest pharmaceutical
products in the world,” he said. “It really doesn’t make sense to get any
criticism for this.”
This is not the first time the 32-year-old Mr. Shkreli,
who has a reputation for both brilliance and brashness, has been the center of
controversy. He started MSMB Capital, a hedge fund company, in his 20s and drew
attention for urging the Food and Drug Administration not to approve certain
drugs made by companies whose stock he was shorting.
In 2011, Mr. Shkreli started Retrophin, which also
acquired old neglected drugs and sharply raised their prices. Retrophin’s board
fired Mr. Shkreli a year ago. Last month, it filed a complaint in Federal
District Court in Manhattan, accusing him of using Retrophin as a personal
piggy bank to pay back angry investors in his hedge fund.
Mr. Shkreli has denied the accusations. He has
filed for arbitration against his old company, which he says owes him at least
$25 million in severance. “They are sort of concocting this wild and crazy and
unlikely story to swindle me out of the money,” he said.
Daraprim, which is also used to treat malaria, was
approved by the F.D.A. in 1953 and has long been made by GlaxoSmithKline. Glaxo
sold United States marketing rights to CorePharma in 2010. Last year, Impax
Laboratories agreed to buy Core and affiliated companies for $700 million. In
August, Impax sold Daraprim to Turing for $55 million, a deal announced the
same day Turing said it had raised $90 million from Mr. Shkreli and other
investors in its first round of financing.
Daraprim cost only about $1 a tablet several years
ago, but the drug’s price rose sharply after CorePharma acquired it. According
to IMS Health, which tracks prescriptions, sales of the drug jumped to $6.3
million in 2011 from $667,000 in 2010, even as prescriptions held steady at
about 12,700. In 2014, after further price increases, sales were $9.9 million,
as the number of prescriptions shrank to 8,821. The figures do not include
inpatient use in hospitals.
Turing’s price increase could bring sales to tens
or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year if use remains constant.
Medicaid and certain hospitals will be able to get the drug inexpensively under
federal rules for discounts and rebates. But private insurers, Medicareand
hospitalized patients would have to pay an amount closer to the list price.
Some doctors questioned Turing’s claim that there
was a need for better drugs, saying the side effects, while potentially
serious, could be managed.
“I certainly don’t think this is one of those
diseases where we have been clamoring for better therapies,” said Dr. Wendy
Armstrong, professor of infectious diseases at Emory University in Atlanta.
With the price now high, other companies could
conceivably make generic copies, since patents have long expired. One factor
that could discourage that option is that Daraprim’s distribution is now
tightly controlled, making it harder for generic companies to get the samples they
need for the required testing.
The switch from drugstores to controlled
distribution was made in June by Impax, not by Turing. Still, controlled
distribution was a strategy Mr. Shkreli talked about at his previous company as
a way to thwart generics.
Some hospitals say they now have trouble getting
the drug. “We’ve not had access to the drug for a few months,” said Dr.
Armstrong, who also works at Grady Memorial Hospital, a huge public treatment
center in Atlanta that serves many low-income patients.
But Dr. Rima McLeod, medical director of the
toxoplasmosis center at the University of Chicago, said that Turing had been
good about delivering drugs quickly to patients, sometimes without charge.
“They have jumped every time I’ve called,” she
said. The situation, she added, “seems workable” despite the price increase.
Daraprim is the standard first treatment for
toxoplasmosis, in combination with an antibiotic called sulfadiazine. There are
alternative treatments, but there is less data supporting their efficacy.
Dr. Aberg of Mount Sinai said some hospitals will
now find Daraprim too expensive to keep in stock, possibly resulting in
treatment delays. She said that Mount Sinai was continuing to use the drug, but
each use now required a special review.
“This seems to be all profit-driven for somebody,”
Dr. Aberg said, “and I just think it’s a very dangerous process.”
HERE'S MY NEW BOOK, AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM AND BARNES AND NOBLE
This is a book of short stories taken
from the things I saw and heard in my childhood in the factory town of Ansonia
in southwestern Connecticut. Most of these stories, or as true as I recall them
because I witnessed these events many years ago through the eyes of child and are
retold to you now with the pen and hindsight of an older man. The only
exception is the story Beat Time
which is based on the disappearance of Beat poet Lew Welch. Decades before I
knew who Welch was, I was told that he had made his from California to New
Haven, Connecticut, where was an alcoholic living in a mission. The notion
fascinated me and I filed it away but never forgot it.
The collected stories are loosely
modeled around Joyce’s novel, Dubliners (I
also borrowed from the novels character and place names. Ivy Day, my character in “Local Orphan is Hero” is also the name
of chapter in Dubliners, etc.) and like Joyce I wanted to write about my
people, the people I knew as a child, the working class in small town America
and I wanted to give a complete view of them as well. As a result the stories
are about the divorced, Gays, black people, the working poor, the middle class,
the lost and the found, the contented and the discontented.
Conversely
many of the stories in this book are about starting life over again as a result
of suicide (The Hanging Party, Small
Town Tragedy, Beat
Time) or from a near death experience
(Anna Bell Lee and the Charge of the
Light Brigade, A Brief Summer)
and
natural occurring death. (The
Best Laid Plans, The Winter Years, Balanced and Serene)
With
the exception of Jesus Loves Shaqunda, in each story there is a rebirth
from the death. (Shaqunda is
reported as having died of pneumonia in The Winter Years)
Sal,
the desperate and depressed divorcee in Things
Change, changes his life in Lunch
Hour when asks the waitress for a date and she accepts. (Which we learn in Closing Time, the last story in the
book) In The Arranged Time,
Thisby is given the option of change and whether she takes it or, we don’t
know. The death of Greta’s husband in A Matter of Time has led her to the
diner and into the waiting arms of the outgoing and loveable Gabe.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/
In
1962, six year old John Tuohy, his two brothers and two sisters entered
Connecticut’s foster care system and were promptly split apart. Over the next
ten years, John would live in more than ten foster homes, group homes and state
schools, from his native Waterbury to Ansonia, New Haven, West Haven, Deep
River and Hartford. In the end, a decade later, the state returned him to the
same home and the same parents they had taken him from. As tragic as is funny
compelling story will make you cry and laugh as you journey with this child to
overcome the obstacles of the foster care system and find his dreams.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/0692361294/
http://amemoirofalifeinfostercare.blogspot.com/
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John
William Tuohy is a writer who lives in Washington DC. He holds an MFA in
writing from Lindenwood University. He is the author of numerous non-fiction on
the history of organized crime including the ground break biography of
bootlegger Roger Tuohy "When Capone's Mob Murdered Touhy" and
"Guns and Glamour: A History of Organized Crime in Chicago."
His
non-fiction crime short stories have appeared in The New Criminologist,
American Mafia and other publications. John won the City of Chicago's Celtic
Playfest for his work The Hannigan's of Beverly, and his short story fiction
work, Karma Finds Franny Glass, appeared in AdmitTwo Magazine in October of
2008.
His
play, Cyberdate.Com, was chosen for a public performance at the Actors Chapel
in Manhattan in February of 2007 as part of the groups Reading Series for New
York project. In June of 2008, the play won the Virginia Theater of The First
Amendment Award for best new play.
Contact
John:
MYWRITERSSITE.BLOGSPOT.COM
JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
Poverty
makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no
pleasure. All work that is not joyful is detestable, I thought. I said, do not
work like that, it will bore you. I wished for everyone the kind of leisure
without which no novelties, no vice, no art would blossom. Andre Gide, The
Immoralist
Sculpture this and Sculpture
that
Giulio Monteverde (1837-1917), L’Angelo della Notte (Cimetière Monumental de Staglieno, Gênes)
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves:
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
DON'T YOU JUST LOVE POP ART?
DON’T WORRY-BE HAPPY
By Elenor Ainge Roy
If we could all just be a little bit happier, wouldn't Dunedin be a
sweeter place? That's the thinking behind an increasing number of health and
wellness coaches branching into ''happiness coaching'' - and it seems there is
no shortage of prospective clients.
''At the moment all my clients are women in their late 20s and
early 30s,'' said Sarah Potter (28), who started her business in March.
''That seems to be a time when people have moved on from
excitement and partying and are starting to reassess their life and how they
feel about it.''
Miss Potter, who works full-time as a primary school teacher and
coaches her clients two evenings a week, says the happiness industry is rapidly
expanding and is most established in the southern hemisphere in Australia and
Auckland.
As the industry is only beginning in Dunedin the majority of her
sessions take place via Skype.
She says the internet has allowed happiness coaches to work from
wherever and whenever they choose, and gives clients the flexibility to call
their coaches after they've put the children to bed.
Miss Potter says many clients come to her wanting to lose weight,
but she sees her role more about making them feel good about themselves than
just make a physical transformation.
Three to six months is the ideal amount of time for small,
permanent changes to occur in people's lives, Miss Potter says, and quick fixes
''never work''.
''It's not about being happy all the time. Feeling frustrated and
feeling sad and feeling angry are all really normal emotions. But it is about
feeling a little bit happier more of the time,'' Miss Potter said.
Nikhil Sengupta, a PhD candidate in psychology at the University
of Auckland, says chasing after ''individual happiness'' can be a threat to
society's wellbeing at large, because it takes the focus away from collective
change and centres myopically on the individual.
''Trying to make each individual person happier is all well and
good but I guess the issue that can be forgotten is what kind of social
constraints are put on people's happiness that they can never tackle
individually but need to be tackled collectively, politically or in a
structural way,'' he said.
Miss Potter is a fan of practical tips to boost happiness and uses
techniques such as vision boards (collages of how you want your life to be),
gratitude journals and lists of five ''small things'' you are already happy
about.
The American best-selling happiness writer Gretchen Rubin released
a book last month called Better Than Before, which shot straight to the New
York Times Bestseller List.
The Dunedin City Library has 10 holds on the book, which details
happiness habits to transform your everyday life, and the title has proved ''so
popular'' it plans to order more copies.
Mr Sengupta says 50% of happiness levels are inheritable, and
largely do not change over a lifetime. However, of 10% to 20% of happiness is
controllable, and this was what the new breed of happiness coaches were trying
to influence.
But Mr Sengupta worried if everyone walked around in their own
little ''happiness bubble'' they might lose sight of the bigger picture.
''Sometimes it takes a certain level of discontent and anger to
provoke wider societal change and individual happiness might be in conflict
with that.''
HERE'S PLEASANT POEM FOR YOU TO ENJOY................
by Reed Whittemore
For the life of her she couldn't decide what to wear to the
party.
All those clothes in the closet and not a thing to wear.
Nothing to wear, nothing wearable to a party,
Nothing at all in the closet for a girl to wear.
For the life of him he couldn't imagine what she was doing
up there.
She had been messing around in that closet for at least an
hour,
Trying on this, trying on that, trying on all those clothes
up there,
So that they were already late for the party by at least an
hour.
If only he wouldn't stand around down in the hall,
She could get herself dressed for the party, she knew she
could somehow,
But he made her so nervous, he was so nervous there in the
hall
That she didn't think they would get to the party anyhow.
He didn't want to go to the party anyhow,
And he didn't want to stand and stand in the hall,
But he didn't want to tell her he didn't want to go anyhow.
He just didn't want to, that's all.
Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. (September 11, 1919 – April 6,
2012) was a poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college
professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet
Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1964, and in 1984
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Whittemore attended Phillips
Academy and received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1941. As a
sophomore at Yale, he and his roommate James Angleton started a literary
magazine called Furioso which became one of the most famous "little
magazines" of its day and published many notable poets including Ezra
Pound and William Carlos Williams. "It was the ne plus ultra of little
magazines" according to Victor Navasky. The magazine was published
intermittently until 1953.
After service in the Army, he published his first volume of
poetry in 1946. From 1947 to 1966, he was a professor of English at Carleton
College. While at Carleton he renewed his magazine under the name the Carleton
Miscellany and published many first-time poets such as Charles Wright. He
taught at the University of Maryland College Park until 1984.
Whittemore was Poet Laureate of Maryland and twice served as
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
His poetry is notable for its wry and deflating humor. The
poet X.J. Kennedy remarked that "his whole career has been one brave
protest against dullness and stodginess." His book The Mother's Breast and
the Father's House was a finalist for the National Book Award for poetry. He is
the recipient of the National Council on the Arts Award for lifelong
contribution to American Letters and the Award of Merit Medal from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters.
In November 2007 Dryad Press published his memoir, Against The
Grain: The Literary Life of a Poet, with an introduction by Garrison Keillor.
At the time of his death Whittemore resided in College Park,
Maryland, with his wife Helen.
HERE'S SOME NICE ART FOR YOU TO LOOK AT....ENJOY!
Howard David Johnson Valkyrie Maiden
I LOVE BLACK AND WHITE
PHOTOS
WHY THE WORLD NEEDS EDITORS.....................
THE ART OF PULP
THE ART OF WAR...............................
Photographs I’ve taken
Wieners (we-nahs) Warwick RI
Ocean City Maryland
Dublin Ireland
Donegal Ireland
Galway Ireland
WE NEED
PAID FAMILY LEAVE FOR AMERICANS
Men
need parental leave just as much as women and kids do
Simon Hedlin
Letting parents take time off to
care for newborns is good for the economy and for women, but it’s also good for
men and children, and we must note that
In America, advocates for
introducing paid parental leave often frame it as anational economic priority.
And they’re right about the benefits: happier employees mean lower turnover
rates, and putting more money into the pockets of working families may increase
consumption. Paying parents to take care of their kids improves the odds that
they will return to the labor market after childbirth, which boosts labor force
participation. This shows that federal and state governments ought not worry
about the costs of introducing paid leave. But the positive economic effects
are neither necessary nor sufficient reasons to do it.
Worryingly, framing parental
leave as an economic issue distracts from the health and social benefits that
really matter. For instance, a paper published in April in the Journal of
Political Economy, revealed that, when Norway introduced paid parental leave,
the reform made parents spend more time with their kids, which made the latter
less likely to drop out of high school. The effect was largest for kids whose
parents, “prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave.”
Financially assisting parents who
want to spend time with their newborns is also a good way to improve children’s
health. A 2013 study of family leave schemes in 19 rich countries over four
decades found that paid leave significantly reduced infant mortality. By
contrast, leave policies that were either unpaid or did not offer job protection
had no such impact.
The health effects of paid leave
for children can be explained by a host of factors. When parents can take time
off work to be with their kids without pressure of foregone income and risk of
losing their jobs, they will be less stressed and more engaged. Mothers are
more likely to breastfeed, and both parents can more easily make sure that
their children get medical care, nutritious food and exercise.
In addition to prioritizing paid
leave as a national economic priority rather than a child-welfare one, it’s
also often perceived strictly as a women’s issue. Feminists who argue that the
absence of paid leave policies in part is a result of the patriarchal notion
that women are best suited for household work may have a point. But it’s to the
detriment of all to exclude men from the equation.
An investigation of leave
schemesacross 24 countries found that parental leave helped fathers build
closer relationships with their kids. Paternity leave has also been found to
reduce alcohol consumption, presumably because promoting caregiving results in
leading a more responsible life overall. Surveys also show that paternity leave
leads to less unequal division of domestic chores and fewer household
conflicts. Perhaps, then, it is not surprising that fathers who take parental
leave tend to have lower mortality rates.
In the United States, a recent
trend among tech companies is to offer their employees more generous paid
leave. This is great news. Regrettably, however, these policies tend to favor
either a primary caregiver (which typically is a woman) or the mother
specifically (which by definition is a woman). But more equal childrearing is
in the best interest of both women and men. As so often is the case, gender
equality is good for men, too, and paid leave is no exception.
I do not deny all the positive
effects that introducing paid parental leave may have on women’s empowerment
and the national economy. But the economic impact is not that important; after
all, I think most of us would still advocate for paid leave even if research
were to find that such a policy causes a drop in GDP or a reduction in
labor-force participation. And although helping women have both a family and a
career is absolutely crucial, presenting it solely as a women’s issue risks
giving the false impression that men have nothing to gain, which makes it so
much harder to win support for a much-needed policy change.
Paid parental leave is a men’s
and a children’s issue, too. And we men need to step up and make that clear.
BLOGLAPEDIA’S
BLOGS
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture
for the blog of it
http://architecturefortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
THE ARTS
Art
for the Blog of It
http://artfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Art
for the Pop of it
http://artforthepopofit.blogspot.com/
Photography
for the blog of it
http://photographyfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Music
for the Blog of it
http://musicfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Sculpture
this and Sculpture that
http://sculpturethisandsculpturethat.blogspot.com/
The
art of War (Propaganda art through the ages)
http://theartofwarcleverhuh.blogspot.com/
Album
Art (Photographic arts)
http://albumartsocheesyitsgood.blogspot.com/
Pulp
Fiction Trash (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://pulpfictiontrash.blogspot.com/
Admit
it, you want to Read this Book (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://goaheadadmitityouwanttoread.blogspot.com/
FILM
The
Godfather Trilogy BlogSpot
http://thegodfathertrilogyblogspot.blogspot.com/
On
the Waterfront: The Making of a great American Film
http://onthewaterfrontthefilm.blogspot.com/
FOOD
Absolutely
blogalicious
http://absolutelyblogalicious.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda (New England foods)
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes (Book support site)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams (New England foods)
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener (New England foods)
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Old
New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
FOSTER CARE
Foster Care new and Updates
Aging out of the system
Murder, Death and Abuse in the
Foster Care system
Angel and Saints in the Foster
Care System
The Foster Children’s Blogs
Foster Care Legislation
The Foster Children’s Bill of
Right
Foster Kids own Story
The Adventures of Foster Kid.
HEALTH
Me
vs. Diabetes (Diabetes education site)
http://mevsdiabetes-bloglapedia.blogspot.com/
HISTORY
The
Quotable Helen Keller
http://thequotablehelenkeller.blogspot.com/
Teddy
Roosevelt's Letters to his children (Book support site)
http://teddyrooseveltsletterstohischildren.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Machiavelli (Book support site)
http://thequotablemachiavelli.blogspot.com/
HUMOR
Whatever
you do, don't laugh
http://whateveryoudodontlaugh.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Grouch Marx
http://thequotablegrouchmarx.blogspot.com/
IRISH-AMERICANA
A Big
Blog of Irish Literature
http://abigblogofirishliterature.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Jokes (Book support blog)
http://theweeblogofirishjokes.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Recipes
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
The
Irish in their Own Words
http://theirishintheirownwords.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
LITERATURE
Following
Fitzgerald
http://followingfitzgerald.blogspot.com/
Shakespeare
http://shakespeareinamericanenglish.blogspot.com/
The
Blogable Robert Frost
http://theblogablerobertfrost.blogspot.com/
Charles
Dickens
http://charlesdickensfan.blogspot.com/
The
Beat Poets of the Forever Generation
http://thebeatspoetsoftheforevergenera.blogspot.com/
Holden
Caulfield Blog Spot
http://holdencaulfieldblogspot.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://thequotableoscarwilde.blogspot.com/
NEW ENGLAND BLOGS
The
Quotable Thoreau
http://thequotablethenrydavidthoreau.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Emerson
http://emersonsaidit.blogspot.com/
The
New England Mafia
http://thenewenglandmafia.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Watch
Hill
http://watchhillwesterly.blogspot.com/
York
Beach
http://yorkbeachfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut History Blog
http://connecticuthistory.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut Irish
http://theconnecticutirish.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
NOSTALGIA
God,
How I hated the 70s
http://godhowihatedthe70s.blogspot.com/
Child
of the Sixties Forever
http://childofthesixtiesforeverandever.blogspot.com/
The
Kennedy’s in the 60’s
http://thekennedysinthe60s.blogspot.com/
Music
of the Sixties Forever
http://musicofthesixtiesforever.blogspot.com/
Elvis
and Nixon at the White House (Book support site)
http://elvisandnixonatthewhitehouse.blogspot.com/
Beatles
Fan Forever
http://beatlesfanforever.blogspot.com/
Year
One, 1955
http://yearone1955.blogspot.com/
Robert
Kennedy in His Own Words
The
1980s were fun
http://the1980swereokayactually.blogspot.com/
The
1990s. The last decade.
http://1990sthelastdecade.blogspot.com/
ORGANIZED CRIME
The
Russian Mafia
http://russianmafiagangster.blogspot.com/
The
American Jewish Gangster
http://theamericanjewishgangster.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Hollywood
http://themobinhollywood.blogspot.com/
We
Only Kill Each Other
http://weonlykilleachother.blogspot.com/
Early
Gangsters of New York City
http://earlygangstersofnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/
Al
Capone: Biography of a self-made Man
http://alcaponethebiographyofaselfmademan.blogspot.com/
The
Life and World of Al Capone
http://thelifeandworldofalcapone.blogspot.com/
The
Salerno Report
http://salernoreportmafiaandurderjohnkennedy.blogspot.com/
Guns
and Glamour
http://gunsandglamourthechicagomobahistory.blogspot.com/
The
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
http://thesaintvalentinesdaymassacre.blogspot.com/
Mob
Testimony
http://mobtestimony.blogspot.com/
Recipes
we would Die For
http://recipeswewoulddiefor.blogspot.com/
The
Prohibition in Pictures
http://theprohibitioninpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Pictures
http://themobinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Vegas
http://themobinvegasinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
Roger
Touhy Gangster
http://rogertouhygangsters.blogspot.com/
Chicago’s
Mob Bosses
http://chicagosmobbossesfromaccardoto.blogspot.com/
Chicago
Gang Land: It Happened Here
http://chicagoganglandithappenedhere.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred years of Murder in Gangland
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
The
Mob Across America
http://themobacrossamerica.blogspot.com/
Mob
Cops, Lawyers and Front Men
http://mobcopslawyersandinformantsand.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dutch Schultz
http://shootingthemobdutchschultz.blogspot.com/
Bugsy&
His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://bugsyandvirginiahill.blogspot.com/
After
Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate on Organized Crime
http://aftervalachi.blogspot.com/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee (Book
support site)
http://virgilpetersonmobbuster.blogspot.com/
The
US Government’s Timeline of Organized Crime (Book support site)
http://timelineoforganizedcrime.blogspot.com/
The
Kefauver Organized Crime Hearings (Book support site)
http://thekefauverorganizedcrimehearings.blogspot.com/
Joe
Valachi's testimony on the Mafia (Book support site)
http://joevalachistestimonyonthemafia.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in the News
http://mobstersinthenews.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dead Mobsters (Book support site)
http://deadmobsters.blogspot.com/
The
Stolen Years Full Text (Roger Touhy)
http://thestolenyearsfulltext.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in Black and White
http://mobstersinblackandwhite.blogspot.com/
Mafia
Gangsters, Wiseguys and Goodfellas
http://mafiagangsterswiseguysandgoodfellas.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred Years of Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Mob (Book support site)
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal (Book support site)
http://ganglandgaslightrosyrosenthal.blogspot.com/
The
Best of the Mob Files Series (Book support site)
http://thebestofthemobfilesseries.blogspot.com/
PHILOSOPHY
It’s
All Greek Mythology to me
http://itsallgreekmythologytome.blogspot.com/
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologically
Relevant
http://psychologicallyrelevant.blogspot.com/
SNOBBERY
The
Rarifieid Tribe
http://therarifiedtribe.blogspot.com/
Perfect
Behavior
http://perfectbehavior.blogspot.com/
TRAVEL
The
Upscale Traveler
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
TRIVIA
The
Mish Mosh Blog
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
WASHINGTON DC
DC
Behind the Monuments
http://dcbehindthemonuments.blogspot.com/
Washington
Oddities
http://washingtonoddities.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
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AMERICAN HISTORY
The Day
Nixon Met Elvis
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Theodore
Roosevelt: Letters to his Children. 1903-1918
Paperback 194 pages
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THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND CIVILIZATIONS
The Works
of Horace
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The Quotable
Greeks
Paperback 234 pages
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The
Quotable Epictetus
Paperback 142 pages
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Quo
Vadis: A narrative of the time of Nero
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CHILDRENS
BOOKS
The
Porchless Pumpkin: A Halloween Story for Children
A Halloween play for young children. By consent of the author,
this play may be performed, at no charge, by educational institutions,
neighborhood organizations and other not-for-profit-organizations.
A fun story with a moral
“I believe that Denny O'Day is an American treasure and this
little book proves it. Jack is a pumpkin who happens to be very small, by
pumpkins standards and as a result he goes unbought in the pumpkin patch on
Halloween eve, but at the last moment he is given his chance to prove that just
because you're small doesn't mean you can't be brave. Here is the point that I
found so wonderful, the book stresses that while size doesn't matter when it
comes to courage...ITS OKAY TO BE SCARED....as well. I think children need to
hear that, that's its okay to be unsure because life is a ongoing lesson isn't
it?”
Paperback: 42 pages
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BOOKS
ON FOSTER CARE
It's Not
All Right to be a Foster Kid....no matter what they tell you: Tweet the books
contents
Paperback 94 pages
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From the Author
I spent my childhood, from age seven through seventeen, in
foster care. Over the course of those
ten years, many decent, well-meaning, and concerned people told me, "It's
okay to be foster kid."
In saying that, those very good people meant to encourage me,
and I appreciated their kindness then, and all these many decades later, I
still appreciate their good intentions. But as I was tossed around the foster
care system, it began to dawn on me that they were wrong. It was not all right to be a foster kid.
During my time in the system, I was bounced every eighteen
months from three foster homes to an orphanage to a boy's school and to a group
home before I left on my own accord at age seventeen.
In the course of my stay in foster care, I was severely beaten
in two homes by my "care givers" and separated from my four siblings
who were also in care, sometimes only blocks away from where I was living.
I left the system rather than to wait to age out, although the
effects of leaving the system without any family, means, or safety net of any
kind, were the same as if I had aged out. I lived in poverty for the first part
of my life, dropped out of high school, and had continuous problems with the
law.
Today, almost nothing
about foster care has changed. Exactly
what happened to me is happening to some other child, somewhere in America,
right now. The system, corrupt, bloated,
and inefficient, goes on, unchanging and secretive.
Something has gone wrong in a system that was originally a
compassionate social policy built to improve lives but is now a definitive
cause in ruining lives. Due to gross
negligence, mismanagement, apathy, and greed, mostly what the foster care
system builds are dangerous consequences. Truly, foster care has become our
epic national disgrace and a nightmare for those of us who have lived through
it.
Yet there is a suspicion among some Americans that foster care
costs too much, undermines the work ethic, and is at odds with a satisfying
life. Others see foster care as a part
of the welfare system, as legal plunder of the public treasuries.
None of that is true;
in fact, all that sort of thinking does is to blame the victims. There is not a single child in the system who
wants to be there or asked to be there.
Foster kids are in foster care because they had nowhere else to go. It's that simple. And believe me, if those kids could get out
of the system and be reunited with their parents and lead normal, healthy
lives, they would. And if foster care is a sort of legal plunder of the public
treasuries, it's not the kids in the system who are doing the plundering.
We need to end this
needless suffering. We need to end it
because it is morally and ethically wrong and because the generations to come
will not judge us on the might of our armed forces or our technological
advancements or on our fabulous wealth.
Rather, they will judge
us, I am certain, on our compassion for those who are friendless, on our
decency to those who have nothing and on our efforts, successful or not, to
make our nation and our world a better place.
And if we cannot accomplish those things in the short time allotted to
us, then let them say of us "at least they tried."
You can change the tragedy of foster care and here's how to do
it. We have created this book so that
almost all of it can be tweeted out by you to the world. You have the power to improve the lives of
those in our society who are least able to defend themselves. All you need is the will to do it.
If the American people,
as good, decent and generous as they are, knew what was going on in foster
care, in their name and with their money, they would stop it. But, generally speaking, although the public
has a vague notion that foster care is a mess, they don't have the complete
picture. They are not aware of the human, economic and social cost that the
mismanagement of the foster care system puts on our nation.
By tweeting the facts laid out in this work, you can help to
change all of that. You can make a
difference. You can change things for
the better.
We can always change the future for a foster kid; to make it
better ...you have the power to do that. Speak up (or tweet out) because it's
your country. Don't depend on the
"The other guy" to speak up for these kids, because you are the other
guy.
We cannot build a future for foster children, but we can build
foster children for the future and the time to start that change is today.
No time
to say Goodbye: Memoirs of a life in foster
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BOOKS ABOUT FILM
On the Waterfront:
The Making of a Great American Film
Paperback: 416 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Waterfront-Making-Great-American-Film/
BOOKS ABOUT GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATUAL
Scotish
Ghost Stories
Paperback 186 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Scottish-Ghost-Stories-Elliott-ODonell
HUMOR BOOKS
The Book
of funny odd and interesting things people say
Paperback: 278 pages
http://www.amazon.com/book-funny-interesting-things-people
The Wee
Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook
Perfect
Behavior: A guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Behavior-Ladies-Gentlemen-Social
BOOKS ABOUT THE 1960s
You Don’t
Need a Weatherman. Underground 1969
Paperback 122 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Weatherman-Notes-Weatherman-Underground-1969
Baby
Boomers Guide to the Beatles Songs of the Sixties
Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-Guide-Beatles-Songs-Sixties/
Baby
Boomers Guide to Songs of the 1960s
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Boomers-Guide-Songs-1960s
IRISH- AMERICANA
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook/
The Wee
Book of Irish Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-Recipes/
The Wee Book of the American-Irish Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-American-Gangsters/
The Wee book of Irish Blessings...
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Blessing-Proverbs-Toasts-ebook/
The Wee Book
of the American Irish in Their Own Words
http://www.amazon.com/Book-American-Irish-Their-Words/
Everything
you need to know about St. Patrick
Paperback 26 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-About-Saint-Patrick
A Reading
Book in Ancient Irish History
Paperback 147pages
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Book-Ancient-Irish-History
The Book
of Things Irish
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Things-Irish-William-Tuohy/
Poets and
Dreamer; Stories translated from the Irish
Paperback 158 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Poets-Dreamers-Stories-Translated-Irish/
The
History of the Great Irish Famine: Abridged and Illustrated
Paperback 356 pages
http://www.amazon.com/History-Great-Irish-Famine-Illustrated/
BOOKS ABOUT NEW ENGLAND
The New
England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook/
Wicked
Good New England Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Good-New-England-Recipes/
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
Paperback 64 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Fifth-Regiment-Connecticut-Volunteers-Rebellion
The Life
of James Mars
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-James-Mars-Slave-Connecticut
Stories
of Colonial Connecticut
Paperback 116 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Colonial-Connnecticut-Caroline-Clifford
What they
Say in Old New England
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/What-they-say-New-England/
BOOK ABOUT ORGANIZED CRIME
Chicago
Organized Crime
Chicago-Mob-Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Mob-Bosses-Accardo-ebook
The Mob
Files: It Happened Here: Places of Note in Chicago gangland 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-1900-2000-ebook
An
Illustrated Chronological History of the Chicago Mob. Time Line 1837-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Chronological-History-Chicago-1837-2000/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Buster-Peterson-Committee-ebook/
The Mob
Files. Guns and Glamour: The Chicago Mob. A History. 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Guns-Glamour-ebook/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized crime in photos. Crime Boss Tony Accardo
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-photos-Accardo/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized Crime in Photos: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Valentines-Massacre
The Life
and World of Al Capone in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Life-World-Al-Capone
AL
CAPONE: The Biography of a Self-Made Man.: Revised from the 0riginal 1930
edition.Over 200 new photographs
Paperback: 340 pages
http://www.amazon.com/CAPONE-Biography-Self-Made-Over-photographs
Whacked.
One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit
Paperback: 172 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Whacked-Hundred-Murder-Mayhem-Chicago/
Las
Vegas Organized Crime
The Mob
in Vegas
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Vegas-ebook
Bugsy
& His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Bugsy-His-Flamingo-Testimony-Virginia/
Testimony
by Mobsters Lewis McWillie, Joseph Campisi and Irwin Weiner (The Mob Files
Series)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-ebook
Rattling
the Cup on Chicago Crime.
Paperback 264 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Rattling-Cup-Chicago-Crime-Abridged
The Life
and Times of Terrible Tommy O’Connor.
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Terrible-Tommy-OConnor
The Mob,
Sam Giancana and the overthrow of the Black Policy Racket in Chicago
Paperback 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Giancana-ovethrow-Policy-Rackets-Chicago
When
Capone’s Mob Murdered Roger Touhy. In Photos
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Capones-Murdered-Roger-Touhy-photos
Organized
Crime in Hollywood
The Mob in Hollywood
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Hollywood-ebook/
The Bioff
Scandal
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Bioff-Scandal-Shakedown-Hollywood-Studios
Organized
Crime in New York
Joe Pistone’s war on the mafia
http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Petrosinos-War-Mafia-Files/
Mob
Testimony: Joe Pistone, Michael Scars DiLeonardo, Angelo Lonardo and others
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Testimony-DiLeonardo-testimony-Undercover/
The New
York Mafia: The Origins of the New York Mob
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mafia-Origins
The New
York Mob: The Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mob-Bosses/
Organized
Crime 25 Years after Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate
http://www.amazon.com/Organized-Crime-Valachi-Hearings-ebook
Shooting
the mob: Dutch Schultz
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Photographs-Schultz
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal. (Illustrated)
http://www.amazon.com/Gangland-Gaslight-Killing-Rosenthal-Illustrated/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City
Paperback 382 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Street-Gangs-Gangsters-York
THE RUSSIAN MOBS
The
Russian Mafia in America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Russian-Mafia-America-ebook/
The
Threat of Russian Organzied Crime
Paperback 192 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Threat-Russian-Organized-Crime-photographs-ebook
Organized
Crime/General
Best of
Mob Stories
http://www.amazon.com/Files-Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-Crime/
Best of
Mob Stories Part 2
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-ebook/
Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters-ebook
Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Recipes-For-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
More Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobs
http://www.amazon.com/More-Recipes-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
The New
England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook
Shooting
the mob. Organized crime in photos. Dead Mobsters, Gangsters and Hoods.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-mob-Organized-photos-Mobsters-Gangsters/
The
Salerno Report: The Mafia and the Murder of President John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Salerno-Report-President-ebook/
The
Mob Files: Mob Wars. "We only kill each other"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Wars-other/
The Mob
across America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Files-Across-America-ebook/
The US
Government’s Time Line of Organzied Crime 1920-1987
http://www.amazon.com/GOVERNMENTS-ORGANIZED-1920-1987-Illustrated-ebook/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City: 1800-1919. Illustrated
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-1800-1919-Illustrated-Street-ebook/
The Mob
Files: Mob Cops, Lawyers and Informants and Fronts
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Informants-ebook/
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The Book
of American-Jewish Gangsters: A Pictorial History.
Paperback: 436 pages
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-American-Jewish-Gangsters-Pictorial/
The Mob and
the Kennedy Assassination
Paperback 414 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-Mobsters
BOOKS ABOUT THE OLD WEST
The Last
Outlaw: The story of Cole Younger, by Himself
Paperback 152 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Outlaw-Story-Younger-Himself
BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Chicago:
A photographic essay.
Paperback: 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Photographic-Essay-William-Thomas
STAGE PLAYS
Boomers
on a train: A ten minute play
Paperback 22 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-train-ten-minute-Play-ebook
Four
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy
Four More
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy/
High and
Goodbye: Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they deserve. A full length play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/High-Goodbye-Everybody-Timothy-deserve
Cyberdate.
An Everyday Love Story about Everyday People
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Cyberdate-Everyday-Story-People-ebook/
The
Dutchman's Soliloquy: A one Act Play based on the factual last words of
Gangster Dutch Schultz.
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Dutchmans-Soliloquy-factual-Gangster-Schultz/
Fishbowling
on The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: Or William S. Burroughs intersects with
Dutch Schultz
Print Length: 57 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Fishbowling-Last-Words-Dutch-Schultz-ebook/
American
Shakespeare: August Wilson in his own words. A One Act Play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/American-Shakespeare-August-Wilson-ebook
She
Stoops to Conquer
http://www.amazon.com/She-Stoops-Conquer-Oliver-Goldsmith/
The Seven
Deadly Sins of Gilligan’s Island: A ten minute play
Print Length: 14 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Deadly-Gilligans-Island-minute-ebook/
BOOKS ABOUT VIRGINIA
OUT OF
CONTROL: An Informal History of the Fairfax County Police
http://www.amazon.com/Control-Informal-History-Fairfax-Police/
McLean
Virginia. A short informal history
http://www.amazon.com/McLean-Virginia-Short-Informal-History/
THE QUOTABLE SERIES
The
Quotable Emerson: Life lessons from the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Over 300
quotes
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The
Quotable John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-John-F-Kennedy/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons/
The
Quotable Machiavelli
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-Thayer/
The
Quotable Confucius: Life Lesson from the Chinese Master
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese/
The
Quotable Henry David Thoreau
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Henry-Thoreau-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Robert-F-Kennedy-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Writer: Writers on the Writers Life
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Writer-Quotables-ebook
The words
of Walt Whitman: An American Poet
Paperback: 162 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Words-Walt-Whitman-American-Poet
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Popes
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Popes-Maria-Conasenti
The
Quotable Kahlil Gibran with Artwork from Kahlil Gibran
Paperback 52 pages
Kahlil Gibran, an artist, poet, and writer was born on January
6, 1883 n the north of modern-day Lebanon and in what was then part of Ottoman
Empire. He had no formal schooling in Lebanon. In 1895, the family immigrated to
the United States when Kahlil was a young man and settled in South Boston.
Gibran enrolled in an art school and was soon a member of the avant-garde
community and became especially close to Boston artist, photographer, and
publisher Fred Holland Day who encouraged and supported Gibran’s creative
projects. An accomplished artist in drawing and watercolor, Kahlil attended art
school in Paris from 1908 to 1910, pursuing a symbolist and romantic style. He
held his first art exhibition of his drawings in 1904 in Boston, at Day's
studio. It was at this exhibition, that Gibran met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who
ten years his senior. The two formed an important friendship and love affair
that lasted the rest of Gibran’s short life. Haskell influenced every aspect of
Gibran’s personal life and career. She became his editor when he began to write
and ushered his first book into publication in 1918, The Madman, a slim volume
of aphorisms and parables written in biblical cadence somewhere between poetry
and prose. Gibran died in New York City on April 10, 1931, at the age of 48
from cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis.
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The
Quotable Dorothy Parker
Paperback 86 pages
The
Quotable Machiavelli
Paperback 36 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-L-Thayer
The
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