Michel Seuphor (Belgian, 1901-1999)
THE BEAT POETS
Beat
poetry evolved during the 1940s in both New York City and on the west coast,
although San Francisco became the heart of the movement in the early 1950s. The
end of World War II left poets like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso questioning mainstream politics and
culture. A Brief Guide to the Beat Poets | Academy of American Poets https://www.poets.org/poetsorg
11 JUNE 1965: ALLEN GINSBERG AND THE BEAT POETS CREATE A CULTURAL STORM AT THE HALL
By Lydia Smith
The Royal Albert Hall has always been a keen promoter of poetry but on 11 June 1965, when the Hall hosted the International Poetry Incarnation, it found itself at the forefront of a cultural revolution.
The International Poetry Incarnation is now recognised as one of the first British ‘Happening’, where beatnik poets met emerging hippie culture, and a landmark event of the the 1960s countercultural revolution.
An audience of 7,000 packed out the Hall to watch and hear readings by seventeen mainly American and British poets including Adrian Mitchell, Michael Horovitz and Beat guru Allen Ginsberg.
The poets were not given any running order and the evening ran with seemingly little structure. Adrian Mitchell read his popular poem, a rant against the Vietnam War – To Whom it May Concern to huge enthusiasm. Allen Ginsberg read New York Bird by Russian poet Andrei Vosnesensky; the poet was present but forbidden to perform by the Russian authorities. To round off the evening Ginsberg read two 2 of his long poems – The Change and Who Be Kind To.
The audience were handed flowers as they entered the arena which, full of a heavy-drinking crowd, quickly became filled with a marijuana smoke, flying paper darts and foliage.
The International Poetry Incarnation encouraged a lurking underground
Introducing the Band-Aids of
the Future
MIT engineers are developing
a "smart" bandage that can monitor and deliver drugs to a wound
By Heather Hansman
Not much has changed in the
world of sticky bandages since 1920, when Josephine Dickinson and her husband,
Earle, an employee at Johnson & Johnson, stuck gauze to a piece of adhesive
tape and invented the Band-Aid. A Hello Kitty top sheet and a little bit of
antibiotic ointment on the inside may be the biggest developments.
But now, a group of
mechanical engineers at MIT is trying to change things up. They've developed a
bandage made from a stretchy, rubbery hydrogel. Embedded with a range of
electronics and drug reservoirs, this "smart" dressing can actually
monitor a wound, administer drugs and alert a doctor when more medicine is
needed.
First, the team, led by
professor Xuanhe Zhao, had to create a hydrogel that behaved like human skin.
To accomplish this, they decided that the material, like skin, would have to be
predominantly water. In November, Zhao revealed the results of the work—a hydrogel
made of a thin web of biopolymers and composed of 90 percent water.
The material sticks to the
metal or glass of electronic devices the way tendons stick to a bone.
“Electronics are usually hard and dry, but the human body is soft and
wet," Zhao told MIT News. “If you want to put electronics in close contact
with the human body, it is highly desirable to make the electronic devices soft
and stretchable to fit the environment.” Zhao and his colleagues just published
a paper about their hydrogel bandages in the journal Advanced Materials.
To put the hydrogel to use,
Zhao and his team ran titanium wire through it to make it conductive. They
bonded electronics, such as temperature sensors, to the material, so that the
bandage can detect any heat that is indicative of an infection. Then they
drilled holes and cut channels in it to distribute medicine, like topical
antimicrobials, across the injury. They even put LED lights in the bandage.
Attached to the sensors, the LEDs light up when a wound reaches a concerning
temperature. Eventually, since it's controlled remotely, the bandage could
alert doctors through an app.
The engineers had to make
sure it all still worked when it stretched, and that it could keep both rigid
electronics, such as chips, and flexible ones, like wires, in place. Zhao is
particularly interested in the interface between electronics and the human
body, and trying to develop materials that closely mimic how we naturally move.
The bandage bends in tricky spots, like on a knee or an elbow.
Zhao’s next goal is to use
the material to build probes that can go inside the body and the brain. Neural
probes, in particular, are incredibly hard to build, because the brain has a
highly sensitive immune response to foreign objects.
“The brain is a bowl of
Jell-O,” Zhao told MIT News. “Currently, researchers are trying different soft
materials to achieve long-term biocompatibility of neural devices. With
collaborators, we are proposing to use robust hydrogel as an ideal material for
neural devices, because the hydrogel can be designed to possess similar
mechanical and physiological properties as the brain.”
Zhao says they’re not
looking at commercialization quite yet. The bandage has not yet obtained FDA
approval, but he says some of the earliest applications could be for dressing
burn wounds, which need to be covered, monitored and treated.
How Elvis Presley
Became A Narc In Nixon's War On Drugs
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January 07, 2016
By James McClure
Elvis Presley is a
hero to legions of rock fans. But many don't know he was also an enemy of
America's cannabis culture.
In December 1970,
Elvis wrote a letter to President Richard Nixon while flying to Washington,
D.C. It was a statement of his views on America, which he claimed was under
siege from the counterculture of the 60s.Elvis wanted to help, so he asked to be enlisted as a secret agent in the war on drugs. In the pitch, Elvis told the president that his acceptance in the counterculture could help bring it down.
Here's how Presley introduced himself and his political stance:
I am Elvis Presley
and admire you and have great respect for your office. I talked to Vice
President [Spiro] Agnew in Palm Springs three weeks ago and expressed my
concern for our country. The drug culture, the hippie elements, the SDS [
Students for a Democratic Society], Black Panthers, etc. do not consider me as
their enemy or as they call it the establishment. I call it America and I love
it. Sir, I can and will be of any service that I can to help the country out. I
have no concern or motives other than helping the country out.
Then he proposed his own sit-in, telling the president that he would stay in D.C. until he got his credentials as an honorary narcotics officer:
I will be here for as long as long as [sic] it takes to get the credentials of a Federal Agent. I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and Communist brainwashing techniques and I am right in the middle of the whole thing where I can and will do the most good.
After landing in
the capital, Elvis hand-delivered his letter to a perplexed staff at the White
House. But an aide named Egil Krogh, who was also an Elvis fan, persuaded his
colleagues to set up a meeting between the president meet the King of Rock and
Roll.
On Dec. 21,
Presley was brought into the Oval Office, where he again asked for (and later
received) his honorary status as a law enforcer. According to Krogh, Elvis also
showed Nixon his collection of police badges. And he trash-talked some rivals,
telling the president that The Beatles promoted anti-Americanism in the world.Then they posed for one of the most bizarre photos in White House history:
There are a number of competing theories about Elvis' motives for the meeting. Krogh thinks that the administration was had. Elvis, an avid collector of law enforcement paraphernalia, wrote the letter and arranged the meeting because he wanted to add the narcotics credentials to his collection:
"Oh, man, we were set up! But it was fun," Krogh told The Daily Mail years later. "He said all the right words about trying to do the right thing, and I took him at his word, but I think he clearly wanted to get a badge and he knew the only way he was going to get it."
But Priscilla
Presley has a couple other theories. In her 1986 memoir Elvis and Me, the
King's ex-wife claimed that Elvis' ulterior motives went beyond pranking Nixon:
"With the federal narcotics badge, he [believed he] could legally enter any
country both wearing guns and carrying any drugs he wished."
Elvis' addiction
to prescription drugs would later lead to his death in 1977.However, Priscilla later claimed that Elvis was sincere in his anti-drug crusade.
The art and joy of cinematography
45 years, (2015) Director of Photography Lol Crawley
45 years, (2015) Director of Photography Lol Crawley
I'm a big big Fan of Bukowski
Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo
spends 60th birthday behind bars
China’s only Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Liu Xiaobo spent his 60th birthday in jail on Monday. The famous
dissident writer is serving an 11-year sentence for “inciting subversion of
state power” over a political manifesto calling for democracy and an end to
one-party rule. Liu’s supporters, including
Amnesty International, posted birthday wishes to him on Twitter. They also
called on the Chinese government to release the human rights activist.
According to the Centre, Liu’s
mother-in-law was unreachable after speaking to the family on Monday. In
Guangzhou, three dozen people gathered to celebrate Liu’s birthday. A picture
of the gathering was posted on the Weibo microblogging platform, according to
RTHK.
In Germany, a group of Liu’s
supporters were set to hold a rally to read the writer’s works, reported
Rheinische Post. On December 10, a protest was held in front of the Chinese
embassy in Berlin to call for Liu’s release. In Hong Kong, demonstrators echoed
that call on Christmas day.
Liu was one of the authors of
Charter ’08, which was published on December 10, 2008 on the 60th anniversary
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He was convicted in 2009 and was
unable to go to Norway to collect his Nobel prize in 2010.
His wife Liu Xia has also been
placed under house arrest.
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 Golden Gate Bridge under construction
2000 Years Before Mt. Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the volcano devastated many settlements in the Avellino Eruption. Preserving the footsteps of those fleeing for their lives in pumice and ash.
Alexander Graham Bell making the first transcontinental telephone call, by Irving Underhill, 1915
An Ash Disposal Site, Somewhere in the Ukraine
Claude Monet
GOOD WORDS
TO HAVE…………
Mugwump \MUG-wump\ 1 : a bolter from the Republican party in 1884 2 : a person who is independent (as in politics) or who remains undecided or neutral. Mugwump is an anglicized version of a word used by Massachusett Indians to mean "war leader." The word was in early America sometimes jestingly applied to someone who was the "head guy." The first political mugwumps were Republicans in the presidential race of 1884 who chose to support Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland rather than their own party's nominee. Their independence prompted one 1930s humorist to define a mugwump as "a bird who sits with its mug on one side of the fence and its wump on the other."
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HERE'S SOME ANIMALS FOR YOU
Canadian company sells four-legged pants
A dog is shown in Muddy Mutts pants in an undated photo. (KABC)
By ABC7.com staff
A Canadian dog wear maker is trying to convince people that man's best friend should wear pants.
A 19-year-old student in Belgium said his girlfriend's dog Rocky got him thinking how dogs would look in pants. He posed the question online and people went nuts joking and debating the question of not just should dogs wear pants, but how they would appear in them.So should dogs wear pants on just their hind legs or on all four legs?
A 19-year-old student in Belgium said his girlfriend's dog Rocky got him thinking how dogs would look in pants. He posed the question online and people went nuts joking and debating the question of not just should dogs wear pants, but how they would appear in them.So should dogs wear pants on just their hind legs or on all four legs?
Tim Skelly, owner of Muddy Mutts, tried to settle the debate by saying a pup should wear pants on all four legs. He and his wife sell waterproof nylon waders that go for $50 in the U.S.
He said the pants for dogs are a good idea.
It looks really funny, but when you get tired of cleaning a dog for 20 minutes after a walk, it's really practical," he said.
It was a niche product until a diagram of dogs in four- and two-legged pants went viral online - that's when sales jumped 2,800 percent, Skelly said. Now there's a waiting list, and Skelly races to make more Muddy Mutts.
He said the easiest way to put the pants on your furry friend is to start with the front legs. Each leg goes through the opening and is fastened with Velcro cuffs.
Thanks to Skelly's Muddy Mutts, even Rocky - the dog who inspired the debate - may soon be in a pair of his own.
Paid Family Leave
Gets More Attention, but Workers Still Struggle
Claire Cain Miller
@clairecm
This year is
shaping up to be a big one for paid family leave.On Thursday, the Independent
Democratic Conference, a breakaway group of New York state senators, plans to
introduce 12 weeks of paid leave as part of its legislative agenda; Gov. Andrew
Cuomo is reportedly considering similar legislation. At the end of 2015, Bill
de Blasio, the mayor of New York, signed an executive order giving 20,000 city
employees six weeks of fully paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child.
Nationally,
meanwhile, some presidential candidates — the Democrats and at least one
Republican, Marco Rubio — are making it a campaign issue.
But for all the
political sparring and lobbying to pass paid leave laws, they address just a
sliver of the challenges that working families face.
After the first
few weeks of a child’s life, working parents have at least 18 more years to
juggle work and child rearing. And many of the policies don’t address the huge
numbers of workers who need time to care for ailing parents or spouses or to
deal with their own health problems.
“It doesn’t take three months to raise a
child,” said Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at
the University of California, Hastings. “Paid leave is a drop in the bucket.
It’s a very important drop, but it’s a very empty bucket.”
The United States
is the only industrialized country to offer no paid family or sick leave (the
Family and Medical Leave Act gives certain employees 12 weeks of unpaid leave.)
Advocates say state and local paid leave laws are a first step — if a small one
— toward addressing the bigger issues.
“We recognize the
standards we’re working for are minimum and minimal, but we’re trying to help
educate people,” said Ellen Bravo, executive director of Family Values @ Work,
a network of groups pushing for paid leave.
Though a national
policy seems far-fetched in the current political climate, some policy makers
are trying. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat of New York, and
Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat of Connecticut, have introduced the
Family Act, which would give Americans paid time off to care for babies or sick
family members.
They would pay for
it by creating a trust fund within the Social Security Administration.
Employers and employees would each contribute 0.2 percent of wages, so business
and government would not have to pay when workers took time off. That model is
similar to the one in the three states that offer paid family leave;
California, New Jersey and Rhode Island finance it through payroll taxes for
existing temporary disability programs. The New York State Senate proposal
would also do this.
Yet even a
national policy would not address a deeper problem in the American workplace,
people who study the issue say: a culture of overwork. Americans’ hours have
increased sharply over the last four decades, according to Current Population
Survey data. Earners in the 60th to 95th percentile work an average of 2,015
hours a year, essentially a full day’s work every workday with no time off.
Long hours have become a status symbol among the well paid, and people at these
types of jobs are expected to be reachable 24/7 for more off-hours work.
with not getting
enough hours and unpredictable schedules. They also have many fewer of the
additional family-friendly benefits that some highly paid workers get, like
backup child care, free food or the ability to telecommute.
“Employers assume a worker who’s always
available for work, with no other responsibility,” Ms. Williams said. “If
you’re not, whether you’re a nurse’s aide or an investment banker, you’re
seriously disadvantaged.”
Parents struggle
with inflexible jobs long after their children are newborns, and taking care of
older family members is becoming a bigger issue as the baby boomers age. Grown
children are the single greatest source of care for the elderly in the United
States. Nearly half of Americans between the ages of 40 and 60 have a parent
over 65 and are supporting a child. A third of them say they always feel
rushed, according to the Pew Research Center.
For politicians,
paid parental leave is one way to address economic anxiety among workers. But
they may soon find Americans who are stressed balancing work and family seek
relief beyond the first few weeks of their children’s lives.
All
the World's a Frozen Sculpture at China's Ice and Snow Festival
Thousands
flock to one of the country's coldest regions to see the stunning displays
By
Jackie Mansky
smithsonian.com
In
2000, Harbin, the capital city of China's northernmost provincea, decided to
welcome the new millennium by creating a giant ice and snow exhibition. In the
bitterly cold winter, where temperatures average around 20 to 30 degrees
Fahrenheit below zero, thousands of sculptors and artists cut and hauled ice
from the Songhua River, which flows through capital, to sculpt massive
sculptures that they then illuminated with LED lights.
The
result, the Harbin Ice and Snow World, has become a yearly tradition, the crown
jewel of the province's famous Ice and Snow Festival that includes an art expo
that features large snow sculptures and the child-friendly ice lantern fair
that dates back to a centuries-old tradition of making lanterns out of frozen
blocks. While the festival celebrates its 32nd anniversary on January 5, the
Harbin Ice and Snow World, however, already opened its doors to the public this
week.
The Ice and Snow World display takes up a massive 750,000 square meters of space, in order to make room for the hundreds of buildings created by carvers who started working on their designs in late November. Typically, sculptors choose to recreate iconic landmarks or images inspired by Chinese fairytales. In years past, many have tried their hand at recreating the Great Wall of China, the Egyptian Pyramids and Iceland's Hallgrimskirkja. After a Disney licensing company took over operations in 2009, more references from popular culture have been added to the mix. Now, it wouldn't be surprising to find Cinderella's castle or a life-size markup of Mickey Mouse nearby a Thai temple. Last year's main attractions at Ice and Snow World included a 160-foot "fairy tower" made of ice and steal, as well as full-sized steam train.
Sculpture this and Sculpture that
Secret Service: Man claiming to be Jesus
planned to kidnap one of the Obama dogs
In addition to leading agents to his arsenal during his
interview, Stockert also claimed he was the son of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn
Monroe -- adding that he had come to the District to go to the Capitol to
advocate for $99 per month healthcare and to announce that he was running for
President. After his arrest, Stockert stated he was Jesus Christ, and that this
could be verified on his license.
Robert
Henri's "Snow in New York," painted in 1902. A leading realist,
Robert Henri was an influential teacher to many young graphic artists and
painters. Henri urged his students in Philadelphia and New York to reject
idealism and to focus instead on reality, whether it be banal or harsh. He
said: "Draw your material from the life around you, from all of it. There is beauty in everything if it looks beautiful to your eyes. You can find
it anywhere, everywhere."
Henri's "Snow in New York" depicts ordinary brownstone apartments hemmed in by city blocks of humdrum office buildings. This calm, stable geometry adds to the hush of new-fallen snow. The exact date inscribed—March 5, 1902—implies the canvas was painted in a single session. Its on-the-spot observations and spontaneous sketchiness reveal gray slush in the traffic ruts and yellow mud on the horsecart's wheels. Robert Henri, "Snow in New York," 1902, oil on
Henri's "Snow in New York" depicts ordinary brownstone apartments hemmed in by city blocks of humdrum office buildings. This calm, stable geometry adds to the hush of new-fallen snow. The exact date inscribed—March 5, 1902—implies the canvas was painted in a single session. Its on-the-spot observations and spontaneous sketchiness reveal gray slush in the traffic ruts and yellow mud on the horsecart's wheels. Robert Henri, "Snow in New York," 1902, oil on
Why
Ellsworth Kelly Was a Giant in the World of American Art
The
artist’s minimalism put the essence of his subjects above all
By
Alex Palmer
smithsonian.com
Ellsworth
Kelly, considered one of the great American artists of the 20th century for his
pioneering work in minimalist painting and sculpture, died Sunday in his
Spencertown, New York, home, at the age of 92. Recognized for his vivid use of
geometric blocks and intense colors, Kelly built over seven decades a
reputation for colorful abstraction and works that explored the essence of
their subjects.
His
earliest works of art were created in service to the United States, as part of
a special camouflage unit in France during World War II. Kelly and his fellow
artist-soldiers were tasked with fooling the Germans—using rubber and wood to
construct fake tanks and trucks—into thinking the multitudes of Allied troops
on the battlefield were much larger than reality. While this seems an
unconventional early training for an artist, it proved a fitting one for Kelly.
He
was able to understand that there were these realities that for most of us are
camouflaged,” says Virginia Mecklenburg, chief curator at the Smithsonian
American Art Museum. “He would evoke those realities—a distinct feel of
gravity, or the physics of weight and momentum that we rarely think about in
tangible terms. He was able to get that across.”
After
his service, Kelly enrolled in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
and returned to Paris in 1948, absorbing an array of influences, including
Picasso and Matisse, Asian art and Romanesque churches. He came back to the
United States and presented his first solo show in 1956. Three years after
that, Kelly’s work was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) 16
Americans exhibition. His geometric abstract works, along with those of other
American painters including Ad Reinhardt and Brice Marden, was dubbed
“hard-edge painting” by art historian Jules Langsner in 1959.
Throughout
the 1960s, he carved out his own niche separate from the New York City and
Paris art worlds. Mecklenburg says what she finds remarkable about his work was
the way he pared down the architecture, images, and other visuals he saw in the
world and in art, turning them into direct, visceral abstractions. Using basic
colors—blue, green, white, black—and single canvases (later moving into
multiple canvases and sculpture) he created statements that were “less descriptive
than evocative,” as she puts it.
“They
take time to look at, but once you step back, you realize you are looking at
something you have seen over and over again,” says Mecklenburg, giving the
example of the 1961 painting “Blue on White” on exhibit in the American Art
Museum, which she says evokes a leaf unfurling. “All of a sudden you begin to
understand that if you dissociate narrative ideas, how strong the visual
impulse is in every human being.”
He
showed at the Venice Biennale in 1966 (and would show at three more in
subsequent years), had his first American retrospective at MoMA in 1973, and
his first major European retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam six
years after that.
“Ellsworth
Kelly made the transition from postwar geometric abstraction to the Minimalist
movement that began in the early 1970s,” says Valerie Fletcher, senior curator
at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which possesses 22 of Kelly’s
works, including “White Relief over Dark Blue” from 2002, on view in the
museum’s third floor, and an untitled 1986 sculpture displayed in the garden.
“If you look at his paintings compared to others in his generation, they are
far simpler.”
Some
of these works take on a “totemic” quality, as Mecklenburg describes it, pointing
to “Memorial,” his wall sculpture of four white panels at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum. “How do you talk about something of that magnitude?”
she asks. “There are either a million words or no words, and he chose no
words.”
His
simple, geometric approach had an impact on the next generation of
Minimalists—Frank Stella, Donald Judd, and others—with works that explored the
essence of ideas or emotions in tangible and tactile ways.
“He
had a huge impact on the art world, but the work speaks in a visceral way to
whoever looks at it,” adds Mecklenburg. “I have to say there is a sense of joy
and a sense of energy to so much of his work. You sort of come back to the
center when you look at it.”
Jan Staller’s Images Show
New York’s Untrammeled Snows of Yesteryear
By ALAN FEUERJAN. 2, 2016
Winters in the city are
beautiful only for a moment. A pristine lace of snow falls, but then, within
minutes, a taxi — or a dog — comes by to dirty it up.
This season, snowless so far
in the city, hasn’t offered much of a chance to test that proposition. But the
photographer Jan Staller has spent nearly three decades capturing those brief
pure periods of winter in New York when the landscape is transformed. “I would
go out in the middle of a blizzard when there was nary a soul to be seen,” Mr.
Staller said. “It’s only when the snow is still falling that you can enjoy it.”
In his image of Sutton
Place, from 1983, the snow is no longer falling but rests untouched atop a
sidewalk, marred by nothing but the shadows of silhouetted trees. His
photograph of a snowbound Central Park, from the following year, presents a
virgin landscape in which the only signifier of civilization is a colorfully
glowing stoplight.
Mr. Staller, who is 63 and
lives in downtown Manhattan, has had an interest in New York’s natural world since
arriving in the city in 1976 after several years at boarding school and college
in New England and Baltimore. He began his exploration of the cityscape, he
said, by taking long walks along the Hudson River where he could glimpse the
horizon and the clean, clear light that the unobstructed view afforded.
“The winter photos are often
about the mixture of artificial and natural light,” he said. “It’s
transformative work where the qualities of the medium, the subject and my own
sensibilities combine to get beyond simple description or ‘the pretty
photograph.’”
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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
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
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 230 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotabe Oscar Wilde
Paperback 24 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons-words/
The
Quotable Helen Keller
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Helen-Keller-Richard-Willoughby
The Art
of War: Sun Tzu
Paperback 60 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Shakespeare
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Shakespeare-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Gorucho Marx
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Groucho-Marx-Devon-Alexander