Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion. Gautama Buddha
AS
THE WORLD TURNS: THE 5 PIVOTAL ISSUES
OF 2016
From Ozy.Com
BY JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
Because the world hasn’t been so complex and dangerous since
the end of World War II.
The author, deputy director and
acting director of the CIA from 2000 to 2004, teaches at the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies.
Those of us who’ve worked on
foreign affairs for decades disagree often and about much, but the advent of
2016 finds us all in agreement, to the point of cliché, on one thing: We’ve
never seen a world so chockablock full of complex, dangerous and interlocking
issues. For anything comparable in modern times, you’d have to go back to the
late 1940s and the chaos following World War II.
Prediction now is as perilous as
it was back then. Dozens of issues are rushing toward us, headlong, but we’re
plunging in and highlighting the five biggest global issues of 2016: Syria,
Iran nukes, China, Russia and the EU, and oil prices. In each of these areas,
changes in one direction or another would be truly consequential — that is,
they would ripple out broadly, like rocks thrown into the geopolitical pond.
To be sure, other issues, like
cybersecurity, North Korea and climate change, will have short- and long-term
effects, and, of course, no one is thinking about what inevitably will surprise
us. Still, it’s a safe bet that the following five will absorb much of the
world’s foreign policy attention in 2016. Here’s why:
1. Dealing With Syria
The country, now heading toward
year five of a gruesome civil war, must come first. How the conflict evolves in
2016 will affect everything from the fate of the Islamic State to the European
migration crisis, the stability of regional neighbors, volatility on the oil
market, the status of Russia, and the terrorist threat level inside the United
States.
The U.S. is pursuing a
two-pronged strategy: gradually increasing military pressure on the IS by
bombing, while seeking a diplomatic settlement satisfactory to Syria’s
competing factions and the major powers trying to protect their conflicting
interests — the U.S., Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The big benefit of
this strategy is that it minimizes the United States’ chances of getting sucked
into a quagmire.
But the big risk is that it is
eminently gradualist — and assumes that the Islamic State is gradualist too.
That is wrong. The IS continues to grow rapidly and expand geographically.
Despite some recent setbacks – Iraqi forces appear close to recovering Ramadi
city – the IS will likely achieve the capability to carry out or inspire more
attacks like those on Paris and San Bernardino long before our gradualist
strategy achieves its goal.
2. Nukes in Iran
This year will see the success of
the Iranian nuclear agreement, or its failure. The United Nation’s
International Atomic Energy Agency had to report in mid-December on Iran’s
initial compliance. It noted some Iranian shortcomings, particularly its stonewalling
on past nuclear weapons research, which the IAEA is convinced did occur. But
the agency did not recommend halting implementation of the agreement. All of
this and Iran’s probing for soft spots in the agreement, such as missile tests
that defy U.N. resolutions, augur a rocky process.
Iran will probably get what it
wants most: the lifting of some economic sanctions this month. The agreement,
if observed, could delay an Iranian bomb by a decade or more, but the U.S. is
in a quandary: If it gets into a fight with Iran over claimed violations,
Tehran could pull out and again be just months away from a nuclear weapons
capability. In other words, back to square one. Watch Iran push the limits, and
the U.S. and its partners give Iran the benefit of the doubt unless it violates
the agreement blatantly or is caught cheating.
3. China, the Quivering Giant
China will continue to cast a
long global shadow in 2016. President Xi Jinping is trying to steer his country
of 1.3 billion people through a tricky transition from an outmoded economic
model to a new one, with the Communist Party’s standing in the balance. The old
model — cheap labor = cheap exports = high growth — has lost steam, and
economic growth, the bedrock of one-party rule, is now the lowest it has been
in 25 years. Xi has shaken the Communist Party with an unprecedented
anti-corruption campaign and is trying to shift the economy to service
industries and information technology. Watch the growth data: China says it
needs at least 6.5 percent to meet public expectations and keep forward
momentum in the economy.
China, by virtue of its size and
the security organs of the Communist Party, has a way of defying punditry
rumblings about potential instability. Still, conditions in 2016 will be more
challenging than in a typical year — and recent years elsewhere have been
anything but typical.
4. Russia and the EU
Much of what we take for granted
about world order is on the line in the nexus of Europe and Russia. Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine three years ago broke long-accepted international law.
Russian President Vladimir Putin tacitly acknowledged as much with his year-end
admission that Russian troops are inside Ukraine — something he had long
denied. Low-level skirmishes now mark the conflict, but the coming year will
carry the ever-present prospect of escalation.
Meanwhile, the 28-member European
Union continues to struggle with a politically polarizing migration crisis and
worries about the British referendum on membership that could take place as
early as mid- to late 2016. The Brits will probably tip toward staying in, but
referendums are notoriously unpredictable. A U.K. withdrawal would shake the EU
to its foundations.
5. Oil, the X Factor
Oil has long been the X factor in
international politics. Its availability and market price have driven the
international behavior of many countries and determined the domestic character
of others. The world is now awash in oil and its price has sunk to the lowest
point in six years, hovering around $40 a barrel, or less. Credit increased
U.S. production, conservation, China’s slowdown and key producers pumping at
record rates in a race for market share.
Prices are unlikely to change
markedly in 2016, and we will see greater impact in countries whose economies
depend primarily on oil. Already their economic foundations are going wobbly.
To meet its budget, Russia needs prices of at least $100 a barrel. In
Venezuela, the crashing economy has helped conservative oppositionists. And
Saudi Arabia has lately drawn down its hard currency reserves faster than it
can replace them, in order to sustain social programs and subsidies. The
Kingdom recently lowered subsidies of gas, and is reportedly contemplating
levying an income tax. Political shake-ups within any of these countries would,
of course, have ramifications far beyond their borders.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
OZY AUTHOR SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR
John McLaughlin is the former
deputy director of the CIA. He writes a regular column on OZY called “The Spy
Who Told Me” and teaches at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS).
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a
thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma
Gandhi
I LOVE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS FROM FILM
Vivian Maier, Winnetka, IL, 1968
“The Soiling of Old Glory” — a photo that ran across
newspapers in 1976 and won the Pulitzer Prize, showing a white teenager aiming
the American flag like a weapon against a civil rights attorney, during massive
protests in Boston against court-ordered desegregation of the school system.
THE ART OF DANCE
Fred Astaire once called this “the greatest dance number ever
filmed.” A clip from the movie "Stormy Weather" (1943) featuring Cab
Calloway and his orchestra performing "Jumpin Jive" with the Nicholas
Brothers
AND NOW, A BEATLES BREAK
MUSIC FOR THE SOUL
THE ART OF WAR............
I'm a big big Fan of Bukowski
THE ART OF PULP
DON'T YOU JUST LOVE POP ART?
Wayne Thiebaud, Pancake Breakfast, 2008
The Observation and Appreciation of Architecture
The Best Architecture of 2015:
Their Modesty Becomes Them
This year’ s best buildings
proved that architecture doesn’t have to be loud to be important.
By JULIE V. IOVINE
Throughout the year, the loudest
works of new architecture tend to get the most attention. It makes sense;
people want to know: Are the balconies at the new downtown Whitney Museum of
American Art a thrilling new experience? Yes, but getting around inside can be
confusing. Is The Broad Museum worth a trip to downtown Los Angeles?
Definitely, but expect an adventure not an architectural experience.
There are also quieter projects
that slip onto the scene with less hoopla but are equally worthy of notice,
especially when they expand on definitions of what architecture can be.
Here’s to looking at the buildings of 2015 that, even though commanding, don’t shout “Look at me”:
Here’s to looking at the buildings of 2015 that, even though commanding, don’t shout “Look at me”:
The Josey Pavilion, a new meeting
and education center at the Dixon Water Foundation in Cooke County, Texas,
belongs to an emerging category of architecture called “living building.” That
means the structure is made almost entirely from local and recycled materials,
its energy consumption is self-generated and next to nil (“net zero” in the new
jargon), and it is water independent. It was designed by San Antonio-based
architects Lake|Flato, a firm known for ingeniously making traditional building
features—deep overhangs, clerestory openings, air chimneys and ceiling fans—look
new again.
Built around a majestic live oak,
Josey Pavilion’s two rectangular sheds clad in reclaimed pine are pulled apart
and reconnected with walls and doors of slatted wood carefully positioned to provide
shade from the hot summer sun and shelter from winter’s north winds. The Dixon
Water Foundation provides resources and education on water management and
conservation; and the 5,000-square-foot pavilion is surrounded by wetlands that
will be used to filter and recycle wastewater and ultimately restore the local
watershed. Architects Ted Flato and David Lake posit that a connection to
beautiful architecture can lead to caring and a desire to preserve and conserve
one’s surroundings. This low-key, elegant building makes a case that it could
truly be so.
Outside Colorado Springs, Colo.,
regimental tiers of classical modernist blocks at the U.S. Air Force Academy
scaffold the eastern ramps of the Rocky Mountains. Completed in 1962 and
designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), the striking centerpiece of
the Academy complex is the Chapel, a stop-action layering of 17 aligned spires
made of folded aluminum and glass tetrahedrons. Now, over 50 years later, SOM
has returned to add a Center for Character and Leadership Development, an
equally striking building meant to balance the focus on faith with a building
dedicated to reason. Designed by SOM design partner Roger Duffy, the new
46,000-square-foot center sits across the Court of Honor from the Chapel on an
elevated plaza. A ceremonial staircase steps down to a below-plaza-level
entrance. This deferential move actually highlights the propulsive energy of a
105-foot steel-frame and glass inverted funnel—actually, a skylight—that
projects through the plaza at a 39-degree tilt.
The center includes gathering
spaces, a library, conference space and seminar rooms, but at its core is the
Honor Board Room. Here on a marble plinth officers address disciplinary issues
with young cadets seated beneath the oculus of the skylight. The spot is
designed to align precisely with the North Star at all times of the day and
year and remind students of their own moral compass. The newly completed Center
for Character and Leadership Development cost $45 million, more than half in appropriated
military funds (about as much as building a standard dormitory, according to an
Air Force report), and will open officially in late spring.
CENTRO University by Enrique
Norten of TEN Arquitectos
It’s a welcome trend to see
architecture addressing both the symbolic and functional side of spaces
dedicated to education.CENTRO University in Mexico City, designed by the New
York- and Mexico City-based architect Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos, is
another such academic building. With a hybrid curriculum dedicated to creative,
technological and business studies, the new CENTRO campus, which cost over $50
million, comprises four structures—all with either green or solar-panel-covered
roofs—arranged in a way that both buffers and connects to the surrounding
marginal neighborhood. One six-story building forms a prow whose glass wall
provides the cafeteria with views of the city, while across a communal
courtyard another building is laced with exterior staircases overlooking the
public space, and a third building floats above and joins them both. In the
elevated outdoor space created by these interlocking elements, there is a
40-foot-wide, sit-able staircase painted in a black-and-white pattern by the
Dutch-Mexican artist Jan Hendrix recalling the vivacious midcentury pavement
patterning of Roberto Burle Marx.
Columbus Museum of Art’s Margaret M. Walter Wing
Columbus Museum of Art’s Margaret M. Walter Wing
The Columbus Art Museum in Ohio
opened its new $37.6 millionMargaret M. Walter Wing in October with good reason
to celebrate. An overly ambitious plan was scaled back in 2008 and turned over
to a local architect, Michael Bongiorno of DesignGroup. The architect started
by stripping an unlovable 1970s addition to its bones, then rebuilt it to meld
seamlessly with the new 50,000-square-foot wing on the east side of the
original 1928 Renaissance Revival museum (modeled after the Freer Gallery of
Art in Washington). Old and new coexist with each retaining its own identity;
the elegant limestone cornice of the original building is now a visual
attraction inside the skylit atrium of the new wing. With its copper paneling
already a patinated green and its extruded rectangular shape, the new wing has
a distinctive presence. The museum wisely addresses the fact that local
visitors outnumber tourists by providing plenty of places to linger. The new
and renovated pieces of the museum frame an outdoor sculpture garden designed
in 1979 by Russell Page; the once passive space at the back of the museum will
certainly become a popular place to revisit.
Now is an especially good time to
applaud these works of new architecture that stand out not only for their
silhouettes but for working with what already exists, with what their
communities need, with the environment and, above all, with an expectation of
lasting for longer than a season of attention-grabbing headlines.
—Ms. Iovine writes about
architecture for the Journal.
MISH MOSH..........................................
Mish Mash:
noun \ˈmish-ˌmash, -ˌmäsh\ A : hodgepodge, jumble
“The
painting was just a mishmash of colors and abstract shapes as far as we could
tell”. Origin Middle English & Yiddish; Middle English mysse
masche, perhaps reduplication of mash mash; Yiddish mish-mash, perhaps
reduplication of mishn to mix. First Known Use: 15th century
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
(Spanish: Brigada Abraham Lincoln) was formed by a group of volunteers from the
United States who served in the Spanish Civil War as soldiers, technicians,
medical personnel and aviators fighting for Spanish Republican forces against
the Fascist forces of Francisco Franco and his Spanish rebel faction. Of the
approximately 3,015 American volunteers, 681 were killed in action or died of
wounds or sickness.
Seeking assistance in combating
the armed rebellion, the Spanish Republicans asked for volunteer fighters from
all over the world. Americans volunteered and arrived in Spain in 1937. Many of
the volunteers recalled that training as, "They give me a gun and they
give me 100 bullets and they send me to fight." The International Brigade
was usually used as shock troops, and as a result they suffered high
casualties. By the end of the war the Lincoln Battalion had lost 22.5% of its
strength.
The Lincolns suffered heavy
losses during the Battle of Jarama. On February 27, 1937, the unit lost
two-thirds of its strength, including their commander, Robert Hale Merriman
(who was badly wounded), in a futile assault on Nationalist positions. The battalion
remained in combat and was slowly rebuilt while maintaining its front-line
positions. The unit was finally pulled out of the lines for a brief rest before
the offensive at Brunete.
Battalion members fought for many
different reasons. For the 85 African-American members of the battalion, the
Nationalists represented all the injustices they faced back in the US.
The Nationalist army consisted of
colonial troops ruling over Africans or of conscripted Muslim soldiers who
enlisted to escape poverty. Furthermore, Franco was supported by Mussolini's
Fascist Italian army and air force which had only recently conquered the
African nation of Ethiopia, a beacon of Black Nationalism around the globe.
Several Fascist leaders also characterized the war as a crusade against the
"Africanization" of Spain despite the fact that it was the
Nationalists who relied on African fighters. Langston Hughes, a journalist for
the Baltimore Afro-American at the time, wrote, "Give Franco a hood and he
would be a member of the Ku Klux Klan." Though the Lincoln Battalion was
largely white, it was the first integrated American unit in American history.
Most of the original volunteers
in the battalion were communists or Soviet sympathizers. It is difficult to
list exactly how many members of the battalion were communists because
political ideology was not a litmus test for serving in the war. Historians and
veterans of the battalion estimate that between 50 and 80% of the battalion
were actively communist. It is certain though that the vast majority of the
commanding officers were communists. Unlike most of their European
counterparts, the Americans in the International Brigade were much more likely
to be students and to not have ever seen military service before the war.
Not all combatants were motivated
by ideological or political concerns. AS Mo Fishman, a veteran of the battalion
recalled in 2006, "Some men were running away from bad marital or love
situations, but what united all of us was that we hated fascism." Anti-fascism,
more than any other single factor, is what motivated and united the volunteers
of the Lincoln Battalion.
DON'T YOU WANT TO SEE THE ENTIRE WORLD?
I DO
Isle of kye, Scotland
Vannes France
Kenau Flords Alaska, by Mike McRuiz
TODAY'S ALLEGED MOB GUY
In April 2012, Bernardone,
Genovese capo Conrad Ianniello, soldier Salvester Zarzana, and several other
associates were arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy, extortion,
illegal gambling, union embezzlement and obstruction of justice.
Bernardone was smacked with
racketeering raps related to his shakedowns of contractors performing work
throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens from 2006 to 2009 including the
construction of a Hampton Inn on Ditmars Boulevard. He pleaded guilty to
conspiring with mob associate, Paul Gasparrini, to extort $2-per-load of soil
removed from the construction sites.
Bernardone was the former
secretary treasurer of Local 24 of the International Union of Journeymen and
Allied Trades. He was forced to resign from his union position after he was
caught taking kickbacks from construction sites in Queens and Brooklyn for the
Genovese family.
In August 6, 2014 Bernardone was
sentenced to 27 months in prison for mob kickbacks relating to the construction
industry.
Sculpture this and Sculpture
that....
Lenos shaped sarcophagus with Dionysus on a panther, also known as “Badminton sarcophagus”. White marble. 260—270 CE.
HERE'S PLEASANT POEM FOR YOU TO ENJOY................
Venetian Air
by Thomas Moore.
Venetian Air
Row gently here, my gondolier; so
softly wake the tide,
That not an ear on earth may
hear, but hers to whom we glide.
Had Heaven but tongues to speak,
as well as starry eyes to see,
Oh! think what tales 'twould have
to tell of wandering youths
like me!
Now rest thee here, my gondolier;
hush, hush, for up I go,
To climb yon light balcòny's
height, while thou keep'st watch
below.
Ah! did we take for Heaven above
but half such pains as we
Take day and night for woman's
love, what angels we should
be!
HERE'S SOME NICE ART FOR YOU TO LOOK AT....ENJOY!
AND HERE'S SOME ANIMALS FOR YOU...................
HERE'S MY LATEST BOOKS.....
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.
Although the book is
based on three sets of time (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and the diner is
opened in the early morning and closed at night, time stands still inside the
Diner. The hour on the big clock on the wall never changes time and much like
my memories of that place, everything remains the same.
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The Valley
Lives
By Marion Marchetto, author of The
Bridgewater Chronicles on October 15, 2015
Short
Stores from a Small Town is set in The Valley (known to outsiders as The Lower
Naugatuck Valley) in Connecticut. While the short stories are contemporary they
provide insight into the timeless qualities of an Industrial Era community and
the values and morals of the people who live there. Some are first or second
generation Americans, some are transplants, yet each takes on the mantle of
Valleyite and wears it proudly. It isn't easy for an author to take the reader
on a journey down memory lane and involve the reader in the life stories of a
group of seemingly unrelated characters. I say seemingly because by book's end
the reader will realize that he/she has done more than meet a group of loosely
related characters.
We
meet all of the characters during a one-day time period as each of them finds
their way to the Valley Diner on a rainy autumn day. From our first meeting
with Angel, the educationally challenged man who opens and closes the diner, to
our farewell for the day to the young waitress whose smile hides her despair we
meet a cross section of the Valley population. Rich, poor, ambitious, and not
so ambitious, each life proves that there is more to it beneath the surface.
And the one thing that binds these lives together is The Valley itself. Not so
much a place (or a memory) but an almost palpable living thing that becomes a
part of its inhabitants.
Let
me be the first the congratulate author John William Tuohy on a job well done.
He has evoked the heart of The Valley and in doing so brought to life the
fabric that Valleyites wear as a mantle of pride. While set in a specific
region of the country, the stories that unfold within the pages of this slim
volume are similar to those that live in many a small town from coast to coast.
By Sandra Mendyk
Just
read "Short Stories from a Small Town," and couldn't put it down!
Like Mr. Tuohy's other books I read, they keep your interest, especially if
you're from a small town and can relate to the lives of the people he writes
about. I recommend this book for anyone interested in human interest stories.
His characters all have a central place where the stories take place--a
diner--and come from different walks of life and wrestle with different
problems of everyday life. Enjoyable and thoughtful.
I loved how the author wrote about
"his people"
By kathee
A
touching thoughtful book. I loved how the author wrote about "his people",
the people he knew as a child from his town. It is based on sets of time in the
local diner, breakfast , lunch and dinner, but time stands still ... Highly
recommend !
WONDERFUL book, I loved it!
By
John M. Cribbins
What
wonderful stories...I just loved this book.... It is great how it is written
following, breakfast, lunch, dinner, at a diner. Great characters.... I just
loved it....
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.
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http://amemoirofalifeinfostercare.blogspot.com/
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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 No Time to Say Goodbye: Memoirs of a Life in Foster Care and Short Stories from a Small Town. He is also 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:
JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
Have you viewed by blog "Child of the Sixties forever?" You might like it.
http://childofthesixtiesforeverandever.blogspot.com/
Check out my blog "God, How I hated the 70's" at http://godhowihatedthe70s.blogspot.com/
The art and joy of cinematography
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
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Music
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Sculpture
this and Sculpture that
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The
art of War (Propaganda art through the ages)
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Album
Art (Photographic arts)
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Pulp
Fiction Trash (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
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Admit
it, you want to Read this Book (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
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FILM
The
Godfather Trilogy BlogSpot
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On
the Waterfront: The Making of a great American Film
http://onthewaterfrontthefilm.blogspot.com/
FOOD
Absolutely
blogalicious
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The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
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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)
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Wicked
Cool New England Recipes (New England foods)
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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/
FROM LLR BOOKS. COM
Litchfield Literary Books. A really small company
run by writers.
AMERICAN HISTORY
The Day
Nixon Met Elvis
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Nixon-Met-elvis/
Theodore
Roosevelt: Letters to his Children. 1903-1918
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt-Letters-Children-1903-1918/dp/
THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND CIVILIZATIONS
The Works
of Horace
Paperback 174 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Horace-Richard-Willoughby/
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Epictetus
Paperback 142 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Epictetus-Golden-Sayings
Quo
Vadis: A narrative of the time of Nero
Paperback 420 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quo-Vadis-Narrative-Time-Nero
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
http://www.amazon.com/OLANTERN-PORCHLESS-PUMPKIN-Halloween-Children
It's Not
All Right to be a Foster Kid....no matter what they tell you: Tweet the books
contents
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Right-Foster-Kid-no-matter-what
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
Paperbook 440 Books
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir
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
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Emerson-lessons-quotes
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
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The
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The
Quotable Henry David Thoreau
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The
Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
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The
Quotable Writer: Writers on the Writers Life
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The words
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Paperback: 162 pages
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Gangster
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Paperback: 128 pages
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The
Quotable Popes
Paperback 66 pages
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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
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The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 230 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotabe Oscar Wilde
Paperback 24 pages
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The
Quotable Helen Keller
Paperback 66 pages
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The Art
of War: Sun Tzu
Paperback 60 pages
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The
Quotable Shakespeare
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Shakespeare-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Gorucho Marx
Paperback 46 pages
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