The Rockefeller Women: Dynasty of Piety, Privacy, and Service

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Based on never-before used letters, diaries, and photographs from the Rockefeller Archive, The Rockefeller Women reveals the life of four generations of an extraordinary family: Eliza Davison Rockefeller, the Mother of John D., who instilled in her sons drive for success in business and Christian service; Laura Spelman Rockefeller, the wife of John D., the daughter of an Underground Railway operator and early supporter of racial freedom; Edith Rockefeller McCormick, the daughter of John D. and Laura, who became the queen of Chicago society, studied under Carl Jung and became a lay analyst; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, the wife of John Jr. and mother of six children -- Winthrop, Laurence, Nelson, John III, David and Babs -- who helped found the Museum of Modern Art; Margaretta "Happy" Rockefeller whom married Nelson.

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Clarice Stasz
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Just the mention of his name brings smiles to the faces of sports fans everywhere. Landry: The Legend and the Legacy is a tribute to the man behind the hat, the look, and the game. In rich texture, Bob St. John tells the story of a quiet kid from Mission, Texas, who grew up to be a quiet, intense, and respected man. Favorite memories of Landry are shared by others who knew him as a person and as a friend: Dan Reeves, Mike Ditka, Charlie Waters, Bob Lilly, Charles Swindoll, Roger Staubach, Drew Pearson. Pictures from throughout Landry's career and recollections from friends and fellow players help depict the man who molded lives and changed the course of football forever.

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Changed my attitude.......2004-01-20

After looking through this book it changed my attitude and outlook on a lot of items.

Very good read.

A Wonderful Tribute to The Man in The Funny Hat.......2002-05-26

If you are a Dallas Cowboy fan, then you will truly enjoy what Mr. St. John did in this wonderful biography. Having received this book as a birthday present, I completed this touching tome in three days.

During this journey inside of Landry's fedora, anger raced through me as I pictured myself in the bowels of Texas Stadium at the time of Landry's dismissal. That someone who touched so many in spite of his stoicism would be uncerimoniously canned the way he was is one of the greatest travesties this sports world has ever known.

I went with Tom and Alicia Landry back in time, from his days as a defensive mastermind with the New York Giants (can you actually Imagine Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi as assistant coaches? WOW!!! BTW- I'm currently reading my other birthday present - When Pride Still Mattered.) and marveled as his innovative genius. From the 4-3 system he implemented to the "Flex" defense he employed in Dallas, he was ahead of his time.

Reading about the Cowboys through his eyes brought back so many memories. Remember how the offensive line used to do their "Set" in unison after breaking the huddle? How about the Shotgun formation in the 70's? I was almost ten years old when watching the "Hail Mary" break the hearts of many Viking fans in Metropolitan Stadium, even younger on that Thanksgiving Day in 74 when Longley hit Drew Pearson for the winning touchdown. I won a bet with my brother over Super Bowl XII. Having watched all those Green Bay/Cleveland heartbreaks on NFL FILMS on numerous occasions, I found myself rooting for his eventual breakthrough as if I were transported back to the late 60's early seventies. That ICE BOWL loss was something. But as champions do, Landry steered his team through the mental anguish, further adding to his legacy. That he also stayed the course with his father-like image to so many of his players definitely impressed me, for he was cognizant that Professional Football is only a small portion of a man's like. (He later proved this is his last decade on earth after football.)

However the things that touched me the most about this tome is his Christianity and the love he shared with his wife Alicia. I felt his goodness burning through the pages, as his EVERYDAY Virtues inspire me to aspire for greatness when doing life's simple things.

Perhaps the best tribute of this man came in his passing. So many of his players came back; from Eddie Lebaron to Danny White, Don (MEREDITH), Craig (MORTON) and Roger (STAUBACH) mixed in between. When my day comes to shuffle off, I can only hope that I made a difference in lives as this man did. What a great man!!!! What a great Book!!!

A Wonderful Tribute to The Man in The Funny Hat.......2002-05-26

I went with Tom and Alicia Landry back in time, from his days as a a defensive with the New York Giants (can you actually Imagine Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi as assistant coaches? WOW!!! BTW- I'm currently reading my other birthday present - When Pride Still Mattered.) and marveled as his innovative genius. From the 4-3 system he implemented to the "Flex" defense he employed in Dallas, he was ahead of his time.

A Blinding Tribute to a Great Man.......2002-03-30

It has always been easy to hate the Dallas Cowboys. One can point to their arrogance spawned by an extraordinary success spanning four decades. Perhaps the gruff, bull-like intensity of Tex Schramm was never endearing. The egotistical hillbilly antics of Jerry Jones is certainly a factor. And then there's Michael Irvin, Nate Newton, Duane Thomas, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, Jimmy Johnson, Barry Switzer, Don Meredith, Dan Reeves and...my God.....the list never ends.

But it has never been easy to hate Tom Landry. A constant monument for 29 years as head football coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Landry in many ways became the leader of professional football and, more importantly, the community of Dallas. "Landry: The Legend and the Legacy" author Bob St. John embraces this theme with his loving tribute to a man he covered for many years as sportswriter for The Dallas Morning News. Anyone who ever stood in the presence of Mr. Landry could sense his strong character and kind nobility. Bob St. John, undoubtedly, stood in his presence many times and he was certainly blinded by that aura.

I know Tom Landry had his faults, but you will be hard-pressed to find them in "Landry: The Legend and the Legacy." And that's why Bob St. John was the wrong man to author this biography. What a story this would be if a writer from outside of Texas could pen this multi-layered tome. In many ways, a great American is still waiting to be discovered.

But let's not get too negative here. "Landry: The Legend and the Legacy" is a terrific account of the life and times of the one and only Tom Landry - high school football star in Mission, Texas; University of Texas football player and assistant coach; New York Giants defensive back and punter; New York Giants defensive coach; friend and rival (and personal opposite) of Vince Lombardi; head coach of the Dallas Cowboys; loving family man; community volunteer; strong Christian; heartbreaking victim of modern-day business/sports.

Mr. Landry's story is never boring, though one of the most defining moments of his public life - his disturbingly insensitive firing at the hands of Jerry Jones - takes up a large portion of the first quarter of the biography. This is the highlight of the book. Bob St. John (and his editors) would have been better served to tell Landry's story in chronological order.

Certainly the most memorable and harrowing passages of the book are the retelling of those traumatic days leading up to his dismissal - termed the "Saturday Night Massacre" by Dallas sportswriters. These pages (and the long, overly-detailed chapter describing his funeral) should have closed this biography.

The greatness of Tom Landry was, if anything, strengthened by his own handling of his abrupt firing. This is properly detailed by Bob St. John, but once again, far too early in the book. What for many was a professional tragedy of mythic-like proportions, which to this day echoes in the minds of many long-time Dallas residents, should have been left for the closing and final chapters.

"Landry: The Legend and the Legacy" is a loving tribute to Coach Landry. If it was rushed to publication following his death in 2000 (it was), then perhaps after a few years of retrospection, a definitive account of this man's life can be written.

Landry - A huge disappointment!.......2001-10-13

It was with eager anticipation that i awaited receipt of what i thought would be a biography of a football legend. On its arrival i hurriedly opened the first page and started to read.
Landry starts with the great mans death and reads like a lengthy obituary column with eulogy after eulogy after eulogy.
There is NO balanced perspective, it is the sort of book that only a doting daughter/son or parent could write.
For all that, i suppose it is well written, just don't buy it if you are looking for an informative biography!

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Darling Book on a Silent Movie Beauty.......2007-07-25

Madge Bellamy is not a name the average person, or even the average movie buff, would know - her fame rests on two films, John Ford's silent classic OLD IRONSIDES and especially the talkie WHITE ZOMBIE, made on the cheap in 1932 but recognized for decades now as one of the essential horror films of the era. Madge was one of those big-eyed innocent looking starlets so popular during that the silent era and was a good if unremarkable actress. She was also quite cute, beautiful even, and appealing on screen. Perhaps her greatest personal success was the silent version of LORNA DOONE, which has been rediscovered in recent years and is currently available on DVD.

DARLING OF THE TWENTIES is Madge Bellamy's autobiography published coffee-table book style with many large photos throughout the text. Opening with a warm and sympathetic introduction by the silent film historian Kevin Brownlow, Madge recounts her life from her troubled relationship with her parents, her years of stardom at Fox Studios to her fall from grace in the early years of talkies (she unwisely had a spat with the studio just as the new talkie era was beginning and despite having a hit with her talkie debut MOTHER KNOWS BEST she left the studio and was unable to keep her stardom much longer), her erratic career in 1930's talkies (I actually feel she was much more beautiful during this era judging by the photos here) to her romance scandal of the 1940's that put her back in headlines if not in movies when she shot and wounded a lover to her later decades in poverty so extreme she and her mother went rummaging through a trunk of old unopened fan letters in hopes of finding quarters once sent to pay for photographs. Madge's chaotic story came close to having a happy ending when in her last years she sold her property during the 1980's California real estate boom for what she says was more than she made during her film star years but there was one final tragic twist with Madge dying just months before her autobiography was published and unable to enjoy the new attention it would have no doubt brought her.

Far from an empty-headed starlet, Madge enjoyed intellectual pursuits and attempted (unsuccesfully) to become a novelist. Madge's willfullness perhaps made her her own worst enemy, indeed she is brutally honest about herself. "I maintained my independence, but in the process, lost many of the rewards of life...it took me eighty years to know the stranger within." Yet one cannot help but admire this courageous woman who remained strong throughout her melodramas and this beautifully designed, nostalgic book is a great success in capturing what life is like as someone who caught glory, lost it, and lived to tell.

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Complete perhaps, but uninspired.......2001-04-07

Third edition Dungeons & Dragons changes the veteran races of gnome and halfling, but those resistant to such change shouldn't pick up this volume to see what it is they preferred about the older versions, nor should enthusiasts of the races, of any version, think they're getting something that will be of much use to them, either for ideas or actually crunchy rules stuff.

Part of the problem is that both races had (and perhaps still have) something of an identity issue. Second edition AD&D (and previous) halflings are hobbits, and all the protestations in the world can't make that go away. There have been successful AD&D and D&D supplements about halflings, but they chose to ignore this fact and give richly detailed backgrounds that would fill in why halflings are how they are, without the looming presence of the Tolkein estate hovering in the background. Ed Greenwood did an especially nice job with the D&D "Five Shires" Gazetteer, for instance.

Here, though, we get few new details, other than a reiteration of what we already know (halflings like community, food and comfort ... all of which we picked up in the first 10 pages of "The Hobbit"). Instead, there's a comprehensive gathering of halfling information from previous AD&D sources. While there may well be campaigns that would like to import the kender from the Dragonlance world, some of the other inclusions are baffling: Wouldn't anyone who wants the cannibalistic halflings of Athas have bought "Dark Sun," and not this book? Who needs the polar halflings?

What makes this more frustrating is that space is at a premium in this supplement, as the two least-popular races are forced to share the same space. So the pages wasted on polar halflings, Athas halflings and (arguably) the kender, could and should have been used for something, anything to round out the standard races that the consumer presumably purchased the book for.

If the halflings are too identified with their source, gnomes suffer the opposite problem. Most D&D players asked to describe gnomes draw a blank, mumble something about illusions or Dragonlance tinker gnomes, and then change the subject. The simple fact is that most gamers (and D&D authors) don't have the cultural grounding to use mythic gnomes in D&D and gnomes were something of a blank slate until the Dragonlance novels were published, filling that blank slate with something new of Weis' and Hickman's invention.

For better or worse, the tinker gnome idea caught on, with even TSR allowing the idea to spread to other game worlds: A far better supplement than this is "Top Ballista," for the OD&D game, detailing the flying city of Serraine, built by the tinker gnomes' more successful cousins in the world of Mystara, the skygnomes. Today, hundreds of thousands of EverQuest players are familiar with the tinkering gnomes of Norrath, and the idea has appeared in other versions elsewhere.

Now, if there wasn't a desire to use the tinker gnome template more widely in this book -- although we already got Spelljammer, Dark Sun and planes-hopping references in this book, and sometimes in the mouths of the characters used in the game fiction -- surely the all but untapped origins of the gnome could have been explored. We would have also gotten a breath of fresh air in a D&D cosmos that often smelled like Tolkein's musty old study, where little fresh air had entered in decades.

This isn't a horrible product -- and there were those in this line of Complete Books -- but it's also not very good. This is really only worth purchasing if you're a D&D completist. If you're a fan of either of these races, you'll most likely be disappointed. Go hunt down "The Five Shires" or "Top Ballista" instead.

Something is missing.......1999-09-29

I liked the book and some of the kits were useful in my campaign, but why are there no proficiencies listed like the complete book of dwarves? Good book but it doesn`t beat the complete book of elves and dwarves.

Another strong entry, if a bit sketchy.......1999-01-17

A good book that suffers from dividing it between two races. The biggest saving grace: Halflings aren't presented as a race of thieves like they are in Forgotten Realms. This book presents them more as the rural, bucolic type thrust into adventure unwillingly. The kits for Gnomes and Halflings are uniformly good.

Great book for the Gnomish Folk.......1998-09-26

I have this book and it has helped me a lot with making my Paul Con-Con Gnome chararcter. It gives you all the facts about gnomes and halflings whether you be a stalker like me or a tunnel rat halfling like my brother this is the book you'll want!

Very easy to understand and extremely helpful!.......1998-06-07

For anyone who wants a Gnomish or Halfling campaign, or wants to add more depth and character to a Gnome or Halfling PC/NPC, this book provides very helpful information. It introduces a ton of new sub-races, it gives all the stats and special abilities for each, it gives out a huge amount of kits and it even goes the extra mile to give out a sample village, automatically drawn up and described, for any DM who wants to use an automatic setting or map for an encounter or homebase for the little folk. Of course, the book contains two sections: one for gnomes, the other for halflings. It describes their culture, personality and mthology in greater detail, and it gives out more special abilities. On the down side, however, since this book has to be divided for two different races, there are some sections missing that are commonly found in other "Complete Guides". This book contains no special equipment, no special role-playing personamlities, and no special non-weapon proficiencies. But it is still a very elaborate and helpful book for anyone who wants to make a Gnomish or Halflingish campaign more enjoyable and colorful.

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MAKE MONEY IN REAL ESTATE TAX LIENS How does a guaranteed short-term profit of fifteen, twenty-five, or even fifty percent sound? What if you could acquire a property valued at $100,000 with just a $10,000 investment? In the tax lien game, those kinds of profits aren't just possible, they actually happen! In Make Money in Real Estate Tax Liens, Chantal and Bill Carey show you how to profit from this safe and reliable wealth-builder. Inside, you'll find answers to all your important real estate tax lien questions: What are real estate tax liens? What are the risks versus the returns of tax lien investing? Why should I buy tax liens? How, when, and where can I buy tax liens? Will I have to foreclose on properties? Does my state offer tax liens? How do investors redeem tax lien certificates? Will I end up owning property?

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Tax liens aren't all that.......2006-11-11

I learned about tax liens from the Rich Dad series and when I read some of the information provided in this book, the 50% returns clearly shows that it is just part of the hype. Really you won't get up to 50% returns, with the industry average hovering around 8-9%. To the book's credit, it does state that you "could" go up to 50% or more not necessarily that you will.

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You Can Purchase Tax Lien Certificates.......2005-05-19

These certificates pay a guaranteed rate of interest which varies, but can be about 5 or 6 times the interest rate of money in the bank. In additon, there can be a bonus at the end of the certificate time (sometimes 2 years). If the lien is not paid off with interest and fees the governmental taxing authority will sell the lien to you and then you own the property because you paid the taxes on the property.

Some useful details, but ..........2005-05-17

... the text is written in an informal conversational style targetting an average 8th grade student. If you want something that can fill its pages with solid substance, look elsewhere. On the other hand, if taxes and legal jargon intimidates you, the baby-talk tone of this book is for you.

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