Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)

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For devotees of American decorative arts, Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) needs little introduction. A Congregational minister turned author, photographer, and wildly successful entrepreneur, Nutting was the principal authority on early American furniture for much of the twentieth century and played an important role in the development of a colonial revival aesthetic and ideology. He collected, reproduced, and marketed colonial artifacts, and the goods and experiences he offered his middle-class customers promoted his idealized notion of a time and place that he called "Old America." This handsomely illustrated book is the first full-length study of Nutting's life and work. Thomas Andrew Denenberg describes Nutting's interrelated endeavors, from his varied writings (including Furniture of the Pilgrim Century and the monumental three-volume Furniture Treasury) to his photography (both amateur and professional), chain of restored museum houses, renowned collection of seventeenth-century furniture, reproduction colonial furniture business, and advertising program. By charting Nutting's activities, Denenberg creates a picture of an influential cultural critic who deftly combined myth and materialism, contributing significantly to both the growth of consumerism and the development of an antimodern worldview in the twentieth-century United States.

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Colonial invention and re-invention.......2004-05-09

Though I didn't see the show for which this book serves as a kind of catalogue, my enjoyment of it isn't limited to that. I don't know much about the Colonial revival in American culture, and this book is a splendid introduction to the ways in which our present-day culture have been modelled and molded by a series of cultural enterpreneurs like Nutting, for history is invidious and in the post-modern condition we can no longer distinguish between what is "real" and what is the simulacrum. Nutting saw clearly how through mass production he could disseminate his own vision of what colonial New England history was like, in ways that would reinforce his own prejudices towards nationalism, etc., while gibing with his genuinely moving and democratic feelings towards beauty akin to the Arts and Crafts movement of the UK and the USA of a slightly earlier date. Thomas Denenberg has all the facts and figures at his fingertips--he's a wonderful companion and never allows the readers to lose sight of the overall picture amid the myriad pleasues of Nutting minutiae. I'll have to find out more about American historiography, especially if it's this deliciously presented.

Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America

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Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America
Thomas Andrew Denenberg
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich-all were icons of beauty and glamour in 1930s Hollywood. Screen Style reveals the impact of celebrities like these on women filmgoers, looking beyond the surface of the films and fashions of the era-often described as forms of escapism from the difficult realities of the Depression-to show how Hollywood presented women with models for self-determination during a time of rapid social change. Revealing the public and cinematic fascination with the strong-willed women featured in so many movies-ambitious gold diggers, career-minded working girls, social climbers, dangerous androgynous females, and other exotics-Sarah Berry presents a lively look at films, fan magazines, and advertising of that time.

Sarah Berry writes on film, media, and cultural studies and designs interactive multimedia projects. She teaches film studies at Portland State University.

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An outstanding contribution to fashion & cinema history........2000-06-04

This survey of women's fashion issues in 1930s Hollywood provides a fine social history of 1930s film style, survey the impact of female celebrities on fashion and showing how Hollywood used actresses as models during a time of social change. Screen Style explores changes in fashion marketing approaches during the 1930s and is a recommended pick for students of fashion history.

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A new cartoon collection from nationally syndicated "Sylvia" cartoonist Nicole Hollander, featuring inscrutable felines of impeccable taste. Cats who think too much, cats who plot dastardly deeds but get distracted, cats who hypnotize their owners, cats obsessed with food, food, food. A veritable kitty feast!

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More fun some repetition.......2004-07-06

Nicole Hollander's grasp of cat-human relations (you'll note which comes first) is pure genius, and in this second collection she was again delivers some of the most side-splitting bits of prose I've ever come across. Of course, to be fair, I do suppose you have to be something of a cat lover (or at least, live with cats) to understand her wit and humor -- in other words, the concept of two cats holding their owner's 1040 hostage for food might be lost on the uninitiated.

The only negative thing I will say is that this particular volume, "My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big Boned", contains some of the same material as her earlier "Everything Here Is Mine", which is the only reason I gave it four stars and not five.

Here's how your cat really thinks..........2004-03-07

Nicole Hollander's Sylvia comic strip is one of the most overlooked (and most hilarious) strips out there. She has many colections out there ("My weight is always perfect for my height--which varies" "You can't take it with you so eat it now" "That woman must be on drugs" etc). She is the Anti-Cathy. She is sarcastic and wacky...dry and droll...and literate and witty. Best of all she has many cat themed collections which are a hoot. THIS one is probably the best. So if you are on the look out for a laugh or if you are a cat person who wonders what is going on inside the walnut-sized brain of your favorite fur-person, the Sylvia collections (especially this one) are just the ticket!

Extremely funny book.......2000-06-19

Anyone who enjoys Nicole Hollander's sly and amusing view of the world will like this book; anyone with a particular fondness for cats probably will, too. If you have ever tried to imagine your cat's motives for doing the things they do, you will enjoy Sylvia's cats, whose motives are hilarious. Many of the jokes are probably above the heads of children, but even they will enjoy the antics the cats get up to.

It's as great -- and even better -- than her previous books.......1999-07-22

I bought this book from Amazon.com about two months ago and, as an admitted cat lover, am still loving this book dedicated to cats (and a small section to dogs). It's on my desk to my right and whenever I need a laugh, I just open up to any one of the pages. Thanks, Nicole!

If you think really hard.... you might get one of the jokes!.......1999-05-08

I saw the cover of this book, and thought it would be a funny addition. I coulden't wait to get it, and laugh my socks off. Once again.. Don't judge a book by it's cover. She has a few funny art clips, but nothing great. I found the book to be more of a put down, than funny. The book is black an white. Not color like the cover. It has 111 pages, and maybe a little cute art. Not a book I would recommend. Why bother wasting your time?

My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-Boned 2005 Calendar

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My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-Boned 2005 Calendar
Nicole Hollander
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Binding: Calendar

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A kitty feast of cartoons by nationally syndicated "Sylvia" cartoonist Nicole Hollander. Features: -- Cats who think too much -- Cats who plot dastardly deeds but then get distracted -- Cats who hypnotize their owners -- Cats obsessed with food, food, food (and what cat isn't?)

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Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, a loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years ago, lawmakers across the country first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight. To this day, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme?
Downing unravels the worldwide confusion occasioned by decades of clock manipulation. He sifts through a century of Congressional hearings and contemporary newspaper reporting to offer a portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling stew of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time-zone boundaries. It is a true-to-life social comedy with Congress in the leading role, surrounded by a supporting cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stockbrokers, labor leaders, educators, sports fanatics, and farmers. This dizzyingly hilarious debate seems destined to continue for as long as we ask one another, “What time is it?”

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Downing's and Prerau's books compared.......2007-02-13

Michael Downing's Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time is one of two books about Daylight Saving Time that were published in 2005, the other being Seize the Daylight by David Prerau. Downing and Prerau cover much of the same ground in their respective volumes, both authors detailing the complex history of DST since its adoption in England and the U.S. during World War I. But there are, of course, differences between the two books. Downing's is a shade more conversational in tone than Prerau's, and Downing seems to be less sold on the benefits of DST than Prerau, his relative negativity toward the time shift perhaps signaled in the "Madness" of his subtitle. Another difference between the two books is that Prerau's approach to telling the story of DST is primarily chronological, while Downing adopts more of a thematic approach to the subject. He offers chapters on DST and sports, for example, on New York City's role in the DST debate, and on the oddities of time management--sidereal days vs. solar days, solar months vs. lunar months, and so on.

Certainly Downing provides information in Spring Forward that Prerau does not include in his book. Downing offers a fuller account of the 1966 U.S. legislation that regularized (more or less) DST, and he writes about the attempts of various Pacific island states to profit from the millennial celebrations by tinkering with their clocks. But on the whole Prerau's Seize the Daylight is the more thorough and informative of the two books. Prerau's approach to the subject is easier to follow and, frankly, his book is simply a more interesting read. If you have the time, as it were, by all means read both books. But if you're going to read just one book about DST, I recommend you make it Prerau's Seize the Daylight.

Debra Hamel -- author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece (Yale University Press, 2003)

Time mismanagement.......2005-09-20

This short and colorful book gives a condensed history of Daylight Savings Time; specifically the history behind its use, legislation, misuse, litigation, and propaganda for and against it. The book is written approximately in chronological order, though it jumps back and forth to pick up loose ends here and there.

According to the book, it was Ben Franklin who first joked about changing times in certain locales to affect the behavior, and hence economy, of certain peoples. One hundred years later state and local legislators in both the US and western Europe starting doing exactly this, with chaos resulting. Within the US, Daylight Savings and related time-changes went in and out of vogue through the 1900s as each war and presidential administration brought a new change in attitudes. What did not change was the constant opposition by farmers to daylight savings, which was contrary to public opinion.

Its continued support was led by New York City's financial district, who wanted to time their financial markets opening time to the closing time of London's markets. In turn, NYC influenced other cities to go along, often against their surrounding rural areas. Against this backdrop, the US federal government tried to stay out until it finally stepped in with a plan that systematized Daylight Savings, and gave each state the option of in or out. Only two states chose out as of the book's publication.

All in all a fast read, a comical read, but sometimes the comedy gets in the way of meaninful discussion and I lost track of what the author was trying to say.

Use your "extra" hour for something useful.......2005-07-14

Guess I never (pardon the pun) took the time to ponder the origins or latent nonsense of Daylight Saving Time until I happened to catch one of Mr. Downing's book signing talks on C-Span or the like. He seemed a natural story-teller and so I guessed his book would be as pleasurable to read as his talk was to listen to. It is, and then some. He teaches creative writing, and it shows. His brief review of good old DST is as crisp as a mid-summer dawn and as reassuring as that night's sunset, the times of both distorted by DST. Great summer read. And why not, you do have an extra hour to devote to it.

A history not just of daylight savings time's evolution, but all kinds of clock tinkering processes.......2005-07-04

Almost a hundred years ago lawmakers embraced the idea of saving an hour of daylight: their movement made law but leads to modern confusion over why clocks should change. Here's a history not just of daylight savings time's evolution, but all kinds of clock tinkering processes around the world. Spring Forward: The Annual Madness Of Daylight Saving Time uses news reports, Congressional hearings, and more to chart the origins and modern controversies of daylight savings.

As the government dithers, the sun stays on time.......2005-06-14

For those of us who have grown up at a time when we automatically spring ahead and fall back each year, Michael Downing has written a wonderfully detailed and hysterically funny book about Daylight Saving Time and the attempts to come to some justification and standardization for it. As he indicates, how does one "save" sunlight?

Downing begins with Congress's passage of a Daylight Saving bill in 1918 only to be repealed a year later. The ensuing chaos is worth the price of the book. State legislatures, local governments and citizens up in arms tried (and often succeeded) in changing the time that would suit themselves or their constituents best. The book is full of witty anecdotes. On April 24, 1932 he cites two persons who "died" of DST....the first account tells of a Chicago woman who climbed a ladder to change her clock, fell, and broke her neck. On the same day a Pennsylvania man who was so concerned about getting together a petition to repeal Daylight Saving Time died of a heart attack. Downing, however, has many serious points in his references. I couldn't quite believe it when I read that for years China, geographically as large as the United States, had only one time zone!

"Spring Forward" delves into the proponents and opponents of DST and how they've jockeyed for positions of power on the subject. It is an exposure of years of government dithering and Downing delivers a quick thrust of the knife into the heart of political cowardice. I heartily recommend this book as a quick, easy, informative and very funny read on the subject of Daylight Saving Time.

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Very Interesting

The InterWorkings of a movie mastermind

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Mediocrity is the essence of this book

Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The Inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History
Paula Parisi
Manufacturer: Newmarket Press
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Paula Parisi, who spent a decade covering tech-heavy films for The Hollywood Reporter, is among the very, very few journalists whom the notoriously thin-skinned director James Cameron trusts. He granted her amazing access to Titanic, the costliest film ever made. Parisi puts you there on that fascinating, top-secret set, while Kate Winslet flirtatiously calls out from the dark, moody grotto of the 100-foot water tank to Leo DiCaprio, "Darling! Come join me on the debris!" We get privileged glimpses of Cameron shaping his star's performance, right down to his gait in his crucial entrance to the high-society dinner--"You're a little too funky chicken there, Leo ... don't nod to the waiter!"

She has great details about the infamous incident in which some jerk poisoned the crew with the terrifying hallucinogen PCP, sending 56 people to the emergency room. PCP transformed Cameron into a replica of Schwarzenegger in his film Terminator. "Life imitates art," Cameron's pal Lewis Abernathy tells Parisi. "One eye was completely red, just like the Terminator eye. A pupil, no iris, beet red. The other eye looked like he'd been sniffing glue since he was four ... I'm thinking call an organ donor bank, next of kin ... And he puts on this big ol' grin and says, 'Finish the movie, Lewis, you know what to do!'"

The set medic tamed panic with pop music, just like the Titanic orchestra--only Roy Orbison instead of ragtime. Star Bill Paxton made a daring escape from the hospital and got back to the set in time for the conga line.

Cameron's ego is so damn can-do that he feels he could have saved the passengers of Titanic if he had been the captain. To save everybody, Cameron tells Parisi, the captain simply should have loaded everybody aboard the iceberg! "They would have been cold, but they would have lived."

Parisi is the opposite of the typical scorpion-like showbiz reporter; she is pro-Cameron. To get to her unrivalled inside scoops, you have to wade through gushing sentences such as, "The symmetry and perfection of the room are as awesome as anything out of Kubrick's Barry Lyndon or The Shining." She does not dwell on the script's weaknesses, as most of the press and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did.

But if you have a scintilla of interest in how this infinitely difficult and technically innovative film was made, Parisi's is the book to buy. --Tim Appelo

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The only full-length narrative book, including excerpts from Cameron's journals, on how this landmark film was made, drawn from three years of research and interviews. Its 18 chapters read like an adventure story, and cover Cameron's technique, biography, his research, writing, casting, production and costume design, budgeting, music, marketing, and studio dealings. Twenty-two photos, many seen here for the first time, accompany the text. 22 color photos.

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Kind of biased and not historically correct.......2004-01-26

If you are looking for a book on the movie Titanic that includes quotes from the stars, this is not the book for you. The author rarely quoted Leo and Kate and even put in some criticizing facts, like Leo playing video games everyday and Kate calling in sick everyday. While these may be true, she seemed biased because she turned around to praise Cameron. At times it seemed more like Cameron's biography than a book on his movie.
This author is also not an expert on Titanic. What little historical information that is included is wrong. For example, she says the Titanic hit the iceberg at 10:30 pm and sank in 2 hours and 40 minutes, at 2:20 am. It should be that the Titanic hit the iceberg at 11:40 pm and sank at 2:20 am. If she had done her research on the event as well as the movie and it's making, she would have known that.
This book is okay. I would not recommend buying it because I have read better books on the making of this great movie.

Very Interesting.......2001-08-19

I found this book very good. I am very interested about The Ship Titanic and it's terrible fate.This book is very easy to read and explores just on how James Cameron made the movie.There are many interesting facts therein that as you watch the movie, will make it that more entertaining.(VLS)

The InterWorkings of a movie mastermind.......2000-06-27

This book brought the movie into a new perspective. It made it very easy to explain certain scenes to our kids, so that they could truly understand the complexity of the movie and thus of the disaster. The actors/actresses speaking of the fear they felt on the set just trying to recreate the worst maritime disaster in history-gives us a small glimpse of what the passengers/crew faced that nite. Also, it gave us a new respect for all the hard work, long hours, difficulties that had to be overcome to delivery the greatest movie of all time to the public. Also, we get to see that James Cameron is human, he gets frustrated and upset just like everyone else, that in and of itself was reassuring, because he is so often portrayed as larger than life.

The Inside Scoop.......2000-04-27

This book is the closest thing to actually being there whilethe film was made. Parisi's exclusive access to the set and Cameronpermits an over the shoulder view describing details and nuances that went into making a movie of epic proportions. Many facets of directing are not generally known and we are made aware of the struggle and persistence to get things done. Thus we have insight into the genius of Cameron and respect for the author's ability to translate the enormity of making this masterpiece. I enjoyed being a fly on the wall thanks to Parisi's book.

Mediocrity is the essence of this book.......1999-12-07

I read this book about six months ago, and at the time I was very interested in learning whatever I could about the experiences and vision that this fine director brought to his artistic achivement "Titanic." Now, a short tme later, I can't for the life of me remember what the book had to say--and that's unusual for me, to finish a book and then not retain any clear sense of what the book had to say or what it contributed to my knowledge/understanding of a subject. The book itself is very easy to understand--simple-minded, even, in its handling of the material--yet it leaves no lasting impact on me. Far more vivid for me, as far as getting a sense of how Cameron looks at things and what "Titanic" meant for him, was "James Cameron's Titanic." That's the book to read if you want to get a feel for Cameron's emotional and working relationship to the movie.

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New Complete Book of Bridge (Master Bridge Series)
Albert Dormer , and Ron Klinger
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No other bridge book covers bidding and play in such comprehensive detail. Written by two of the leading names in bridge, this is a must for anyone with aspirations to become a good player.

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Another Great Book

Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich...Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards

Teaching to be financially smart.

Don't waste your time or money on this...

Great read. Very helpful.

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The real trick to building personal wealth is learning how to transform 'bad debt' into 'good debt.' This quick-hitting book explains how-without having to cut up credit cards. This is the eighth book in the phenomenally successful Rich Dad series. This book was originally published as an e-book and now joins the Rich Dad series in trade paperback format.

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Who wants to be a millionaire? #1 bestselling authors Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter know that the answer is: everyone. In their bestselling books Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Cashflow Quadrant, and Rich Dad's Guide to Investing, they outlined what anyone can do to become rich. Now, in their first eBook, Kiyosaki and Lechter distill the wisdom of their Rich Dad books into a motivational guide to making money.As a young man, Kiyosaki had two mentors: his father, a highly educated professional who could not manage his money, and his friend's father, a man with less formal education but serious business acumen. Kiyosaki shows how the lessons he learned from his "rich dad"--some unconventional and unexpected--are the foundations of success. With Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich . . . Without Cutting up Your Credit Cards, Kiyosaki and Lechter explain why simply being cheap is not the answer to financial problems--it only makes you a cheap person. Instead, they show how building assets is the key to a prosperous future.

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Another Great Book.......2007-05-27

Another Great book to add to all of his others. I find it a great insperation to those of use on the hard road and looking to turn their lives around. Great lessons on what your bankers see as assests and liabilites. A great idea that comes to mind from his book is when he tells us "to get richer buy a car". Use the things in life that we want to drive us to the goals we need to achieve those things.

Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich...Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards.......2007-05-14

The book is written very well. It is hard to believe that Robert Kiyosaki almost failed his English class. It is more of an Inspiration rather than a "Guide", however most of the advice is applicable in the real life and I would recommend everyone, who needs a little "push" in life to read it too.

Teaching to be financially smart........2007-01-09

This book teaches you to be financially smart with the use of credit cards and that you don't have to cut up your credit cards, but to be financially smart when using them wisely. Credit card companies are just waiting for you to make a mistake and in the world of investing and your portfolio is your report card. Just like in school you've got to maintain that B average and shoot for that A+ card and keep fixing all the little mistakes until you do achieve it.

Don't waste your time or money on this..........2006-07-06

...unless you've never read any of his other books. Don't get me wrong, I can't say enough good things about Robert Kiyosaki's books. If you haven't read them (Rich Dad Poor Dad, Cashflow Quadrant, etc.), I highly recomemd that you do. But there's nothing new in this book. It just a retread of ideas already presented in his other books, and not as well. If fact, reading it felt like a advertisment for his other books and products.

Great read. Very helpful........2006-06-27

The way the author explains money makes cents! Really. It's simple, and most people should be able to follow his instructions and get out of debt. It will require sacrifice and diligence, but without these you won't get anywhere anyways!

Rich Dad's Guide To Becoming Rich Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards

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