Commodore Vanderbilt

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This book tells the tale of Cornelius Vanderbilt, better known as Commodore Vanderbilt, an American prominent in the transportation and finance arenas. Vanderbilt founded freight and ferry businesses, was a ferry boat captain, established his own shipping service on the Hudson River, established and financed a line to California via Nicaragua, owned a controlling interest in the New York and Harlem railroad, the Hudson River railroad and the New York Central railroad, as well as being embroiled in a bitter stock market dispute with James Fisk and Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad. He was an intriguing man, with the ability to get what he wanted and succeed.

Chancellors, Commodores, & Coeds: A History of Vanderbilt University

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VANDERBILT
Tell All About Vanderbilt University
A MUST READ FOR VANDY FANS

Chancellors, Commodores, & Coeds: A History of Vanderbilt University
Bill Carey
Manufacturer: Clearbrook Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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VANDERBILT.......2006-04-13

This book is by definition thorough, I mean I don't think there is anything about this great Southern Institution that is not uncovered. You really don't need to be a fan of Vanderbilt to enjoy this book. This history of this school is fascinating, I really had no idea that Vanderbilt was at the forefront of so many things. I found it interesting that Vanderbilt only gave the school five million dollars, I was stunned, I mean Duke gave his name sake 45 million, now that is an endowement!! I also know Rice gave tens of millions to his namesake, I guess Vanderbilt got his name on this fabulous school on the cheap, but I digress..this is a great book and the Vanderbilt name did give the school some early cache, I guess that is worth something, verdad? At any rate a great book on a world class institution.

Tell All About Vanderbilt University.......2003-06-19

from bookmanbookwoman.com Saralee Says Fortunes, Fiddles and Fried Chicken: A Business History of Nashville was a tell-all book about the business community of Nashville. Bill Carey brought to life many of the people who were involved in Nashville's healthcare, life insurance and political landscape. At the time Fortunes was published - 2000, it was a book everyone was talking about, first of all seeing if their name was in the book and then studying all of the pages to see what they could learn about the Nashville notable. If you did not buy a copy of Fortunes, Fiddles and Fried Chicken, that's too bad because the book is now out of print and almost impossible to find. Don't make the same mistake with Bill Carey's new book Chancellors, Commodores, & Coeds - A History of Vanderbilt University. Buy your copy now because this is the next book all of Nashville will be talking about. This book is an easy to read history of Vanderbilt, which is well researched and organized. Part One reviews the source of the Vanderbilt family fortune and the ties with the Methodist Church. Part Two is about Bishop McTyeire while Parts Three and Four review the years of Chancellor Kirkland and Chancellor Branscomb. In Part Five - my favorite section - the good stuff is the years of Civil Rights and Stokley Carmichael and Perry Wallace. In Part Six Vanderbilt acquires Peabody and Chancellor Wyatt retires. I liked being able to pick and choose how I read this book. You can start right in the middle and then finish with Part One and Carey has a great index. It is easy to find out who made the cut and whose name was left out - no easy feat when you are writing about Vanderbilt. As a bibliophile, I wish there had been more than the few pages devoted to the Agrarians. However, Carey makes up for this in his frank discussion of integration of Vanderbilt and the lack of promotion of women. The truth about Vanderbilt, like many other places of higher learning is not pretty but there it is. My questions for our book club are many. Why would anyone not affiliated with Vanderbilt want to read this book? I think this is a great story of Americana, after all, a college is made up of people and the truth about people is always more interesting than any work of fiction. Is Vanderbilt University deserving of the title the 'Harvard of the South?' or is that just wishful thinking among some of the alumni? Are you as big as fan of Chancellor Gee and Vice Chancellor David Williams as I am? Vanderbilt, like many exclusive institutions will always be interesting and intriguing which is why this is such a fascinating book. Larry's Language Vanderbilt University has consistently been ranked among the top 20 universities or colleges in the United States (that's in academics and not athletics). Why? How does a college become a major national institution? For Vanderbilt, the answer has been leadership by several outstanding chancellors, money, research faculty, and students. Bill Carey's new book, Chancellors, Commodores and Coeds illustrates, in a breezy and episodic manner the growth of Vanderbilt University from a small southern finishing school to a larger and diversified national center of learning. While the 1985 formal history, Gone with the Ivy by Paul Conkin, gives the academic, heavily footnoted version of Vanderbilt's development, Carey's new book reads more in the style of a lengthy issue of the Vanderbilt student newspaper, The Hustler. This is a fun read that requires no heavy lifting since the author is direct and revealing about the people and motivations that both slowed and advanced Vanderbilt's fame, glory and failures. From its early days as an affiliated church school through its luck in attracting two generations of Vanderbilt family millions, this university has grown steadily in reputation. Of course, some of that reputation is not well respected today: forcing integration leader Reverend Jim Lawson out of the Divinity school in the early 1960's; the student body voting not to integrate in 1962; the urban renewal land grab by the university of a beautiful older neighborhood in the 1960's and 1970's. But most of these college stories are inspiring and heartwarming because they focus on the everyday students who received academic, occupational and personal education. Some took courageous stands like John Sergent and Lionel Barrett; some were leaders then and now like Perry Wallace and Lamar Alexander; some were just having fun (author Carey does not identify the streakers, the panty raid organizers or the revealing student publication photographs ). You will learn about Steve Martin's first performance at Vanderbilt in the early 1970's and how he got carded coming back from the Krystal on West End. You can relive the excitement and tension of visits to Vanderbilt by two Kennedy brothers, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Stokley Carmichael, Gloria Steinem, Allen Ginsberg, Sister Souljah, and Barry Goldwater. Omitted are the more recent appearances by Anita Hill and Cornell West. This book is rich with the experiences of Vanderbilt's leaders in the 1940's and 1950's and for all those who have often remarked that Vanderbilt has never been a good neighbor in Nashville, the recent leadership of Chancellor Gordon Gee and Vice Chancellor David Williams proves that Vanderbilt can prosper both nationally and locally. om Bookmanbookwoman.com

A MUST READ FOR VANDY FANS.......2003-06-07

I bought this book and could not put it down. It is a gread read in an enjoyable format. It tells in a wonderful narrative about how a small private school grew to become a national university. You don't have to be a Vandy graduate to enjoy this book. If you like good stories and southern history in general, then this has to be on your summer reading list.

Just a taste: Did you know that Vanderbilt had the first black men's basketball player in the SEC or that Bear Bryant once coached at Vanderbilt?

This book tells the good, the bad and the ugly about a very unique institution. If you didn't attend Vanderbilt, you will feel like you did after this great read.

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Free Lover/Victoria Woodhull

Free Lover: Sex, Marriage And Eugenics in the Early Speeches of Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Manufacturer: Inkling Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1587420503

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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was fiction. Victoria Woodhull's Brave New World was to be frightening real.

As the first female Wall Street brokers, Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennie had reputations to protect. They fretted about Tennie's well-publicized remark, "Many of the best men in [Wall] Street know my power. Commodore Vanderbilt knows my power." She had meant her skill as a fortune teller, but the press quite rightly picked up hints the attractive pair traded sexual favors for assistance in their business. To make matters worse, in their magazine the sisters had published articles promoting free love, although distancing themselves from what was said. Taking the offensive, Victoria advanced, step by step, until in a speech on November 20, 1871, she boldly proclaimed:

"And to those who denounce me for this I reply: 'Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional, and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law can frame any right to interfere.'"

Having come out of the closet, she had to defend that lifestyle from those who warned it meant the ruin of civilization. The nation's best-known political cartoonist, Thomas Nast, even portrayed her as a horned "Mrs. Satan" (as the cover of this book illustrates). Her response was fierce. In speeches across the country, she championed a new society that, in its nineteenth-century context, was remarkable similar to Huxley's 1932 classic, Brave New World. Babies were not grown in bottles, but pregnant women were to be treated as "laboring for society," "paid the highest wages," and once a baby was weaned, "the fruit of her labor will of right belong to society and she return to her common industrial pursuits."

To critics who warned that free love meant children growing up without parents, she replied that, "not more than one in ten" mothers was competent, and that parents should be replaced by the State because, "It is but one step beyond compulsory education to the complete charge of children." In her Brave New World, you could have all the sex you could attract, but it would be impossible to be a genuine parent.

Her legacy remains powerful today, particularly among those who champion both free love (sex outside one-man/one-woman marriage) and social betterment through the State. Now as then, their opponents are those who hold religious and traditional notions about marriage and family. Read these controversial speeches by Woodhull along with introductions that put them in context, and you'll find yourself better understanding the cultural and political debates that trouble our nation.

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Free Lover/Victoria Woodhull.......2006-11-10

This is a wonderful addition to the Victoria Woodhull literature. Her actual speeches on free love are very readable and will bring people in touch finally with what she meant by free love: what the movement was all about then and now. Again this book is flawed only by the choice of a male critique interspersed between speeches.This person not a great choice as he was quite opbviously never a woman nor destined to think like one.This is a must chick book!!!!

Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Edward J., Jr. Renehan
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0465002552

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The first modern biography of an American financial giant.

Using previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. narrates the compelling life of Cornelius Vanderbilt: willful progenitor of modern American business. Vanderbilt made his initial fortune building ferry and cargo routes for sailing vessels. Then he moved into steamboats and railroads. With the New York Central, Vanderbilt established the nation's first major integrated rail system, linking New York with Boston, Montreal, Chicago, and St. Louis. At the same time, he played a key role in establishing New York as the financial center of the United States. When he died in 1877, Vanderbilt left a fortune that, in today's dollars, would dwarf that of even Bill Gates.

Off Wall Street, Vanderbilt was a hard-drinking egotist and whoremonger devoid of manners or charity. He disinherited most of his numerous children and received an editorial rebuke from Mark Twain for his lack of public giving.

Commodore sheds startling new light on many aspects of Vanderbilt's business and private life including, most notably, the revelation that advancedstage syphilis marred his last years. This is the definitive biography of a man whose influence on American life and commerce towers over all who followed him.

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Look at the Cover Photograph!

Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement
Arthur, D. Howden Smith
Manufacturer: Cosimo Classics
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1596056428

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Corneel flung up that lion head of his, a mingling of amusement and resentment mirrored in his frosty eyes. "Steamship, gal," he corrected. "Steamboats don't go to sea. The Prometheus is the sightliest craft in these waters. I didn't see her beat in England, either. And I'll tell ye something else. She's the fust ocean steamer ever built with one man's money." A flame of high egotism ennobled his conqueror's face. "She's Cornelius Van Derbilt's, as she puts to sea. No other man owns ary dollar of her. She's mine, b'God, mine!" -from Chapter IV His name has not endured like those of his contemporaries, but Arthur D. Howden Smith was, in the early years of the 20th century, a tremendously popular author of pulp fiction on a par with E.E. "Doc" Smith and Edgar Rice Burroughs. And the same boisterous enthusiasm that made his adventure tales of pirates and Vikings so rip-roaring readable bursts forth from his nonfiction as well. Here, in this 1927 work, Howden Smith tells the story of the life of American railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, from his family's roots in Holland to the last weeks before his death, when he clung to life with the pitbull tenacity that has taken him from a humble Staten Island childhood to wealth, fame, and power. Fun and feisty, this is a terrific work of classic biography. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Howden Smith's John Jacob Astor: Landlord of New York. ARTHUR DOUGLAS HOWDEN SMITH (1887-1945) was an enormously prolific and diverse writer, penning numerous short stories, biographies, and business studies, but he is best remembered for his many pulp novels, including Porto Bello Gold (a prequel to Treasure Island), The Dead Go Overside, The Doom Trail, Swain's Saga, and others.

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Look at the Cover Photograph!.......2007-05-22

What sort of a biography of a very well known person would use the wrong picture on the cover. That photograph is of William Henry Vanderbilt, who was the Commodore's son. They didn't even resemble one another. The fact that this book made it to press with such a glaring blunder right up front is reason enough for me to avoid it.

The 1927 Commodore: Year Book of Vanderbilt University

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The 1927 Commodore: Year Book of Vanderbilt University
The Students of Vanderbilt University
Manufacturer: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K8AL6U

The 1930 Commodore: Being the Year Book of Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee

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The 1930 Commodore: Being the Year Book of Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee
The Students of Vanderbilt University
Manufacturer: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K892K6

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The Commodore 1928
Vanderbilt University
Manufacturer: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K8EK7G

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Commodore Vanderbilt
Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Manufacturer: Reilly & Lee Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Commodore Vanderbilt 1794-1877: Forefather Of The New York Central

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Commodore Vanderbilt 1794-1877: Forefather Of The New York Central
Gustav Metzman
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1432595997

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THE NEED FOR SPEED

Racing star Jeff Gordon is hot. The youngest Winston Cup Rookie of the Year, the youngest winner of the Inaugural Brickyard 400, and the youngest Winston Cup champion, Gordon always knew he wanted to drive fast--and he meets that challenge every time he hits the tarmac.

In NATURAL BORN WINNER, author and journalist George Mair reveals what makes Jeff Gordon tick, what turns him off, and what makes him such a phenomenon. Is it his number 24 Monte Carlo? The Rainbow Warriors? The stepfather who paved the way for his success? His beautiful young wife? The millionaire sponsors? Or does he simply have an amazing gift for victory?

A must for every racing fan, NATURAL BORN WINNER tracks Jeff Gordon from his childhood in California and Indiana right up to the '97 NASCAR season, providing valuable insight on the man behind the hype!

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this is great!!!!!.......2001-06-13

This was one of the best books I've read!! I loved learning more about Jeff Gordon and his life. I recomend it to every NASCAR fan!!!!!!

Interesting, but nothing to write home about.......2001-02-17

I read this book hoping to get insight into Gordon's past, which I did get, somewhat. I've read articles that were more informative, but I did enjoy reading the book, mostly because I am a fan, so anything is something. This would have been a great book, had there been more substance and less repeated information. After reading it, I was glad I did because of the few things I did learn, but I probably won't read it again. From an editor's point of view, the mistakes in this book were constant and annoying. I'm a senior in high school, and the editor of our school newspaper, and I would be ashamed if these kind and quantity of mistakes were present in our paper.

Terrible!.......2000-05-26

This book was badly written for a couple of reasons. First of all, there are a lot of grammar mistakes, making it seem like it was just thrown together. Secondly, most of the information it contained is already very well known and some of it false. It contadicts itself in several places. There are quite a few good books out there about Gordon, but this is definatly not one of them.

This is the worst book about Gordon written!.......1999-08-04

I am a huge Jeff Gordon fan and I have read and enjoyed almost anything written about him, but I have nothing good to say about this book. It is poorly written and reads very slowly. The facts in it are already well known and are repeated over and over again. I have gotten more info about Gordon in a two paragraph newspaper artical then this contains. After reading it, I felt like I wasted time and money. In general, I would say, don't waste anything on this book, it's not worth it. I also feel George Mair needs to go back to school or get a new editor. A bad book for many reasons.

It was one of the only books i could read the whole thing!.......1999-07-13

I am a young Jeff Gordon fan and i didn't know to much about him. But after this book i new so much more

Natural Born Winners, How to Achieve Your Ambitions and Create the Success You Want

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Natural Born Winners, How to Achieve Your Ambitions and Create the Success You Want
Robin Sieger
Manufacturer: Century
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PRYK90

Natural Born Winners: How to Achieve Happiness and Personal Fulfilment

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Its all in the mind
Encouraging in Tone, Brilliant in Execution: The Best.
ambitious 14 yr old girl

Natural Born Winners: How to Achieve Happiness and Personal Fulfilment
Robin Sieger
Manufacturer: Random House UK
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0099476673
Release Date: 2004-11-23

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'Sometimes life can seem so unfair. You work hard, you do your best - but nothing seems to change. And yet there are others who, with the effortless ease of angels, always seem to get what they want. Why?' We are all Natural Born Winners - but although we're born with the ability to succeed, it can often be lost in early childhood. Robin Sieger shows how that ability can be rediscovered with ease, and immediately put to use in the pursuit of both personal and professional goals. The principles governing success are constant - and you can learn them. Thousands of people have been spurred on to greater success through the inspiring principles of Natural Born Winners, published around the world in five languages. With this remarkable and inspiring book as your guide, you can share in their success, and rediscover the Natural Born Winner in you.

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Its all in the mind.......2005-04-06

This book continues to be a support for me. I have read it a few times now, each time when I feel down, useless, de-motivated and just a waist of life, and each time it has picked me up, made me dust the cobwebs of self doubt and negativity away replacing them with a feeling of renewed power, enthusiasm and happiness. Success is within all of us as Robin says "it all starts in our minds". All the best on your own journey to becoming a success!

Encouraging in Tone, Brilliant in Execution: The Best........2005-02-28

Mr. Sieger's book, Natural Born Winners, is the most applicable self-development book currently available. As applicability is the most important quality of any book in this genre, NBW must also qualify as a candidate for Best Self Development Book Ever.
Sieger begins with a brief memoir then smoothly transitions his life lessons into principles from which we can all learn. The transition happens early, carefully keeping the book's focus on the reader. Robin maintains a caring & encouraging tone throughout; he wants you to grow, to realize your full potential. NBW is stuffed full of engaging quotes and anecdotes, all neatly laid out; creating a personal development safari as anchored by a seasoned guide. The book's pace is torrid, it's three hundred pages can be read in a couple of days. NBW is also wonderful as a reference, it's steps for realization are well segmented and an ease to locate.
With this revised edition of NBW, Sieger should no doubt be listed alongside Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale as the best writers of the genre. I highly recommend discovering what it is to be a Natural Born Winner.

ambitious 14 yr old girl.......2003-10-11

My dad actually bought this book (he read it before me) and i decided to pick it up for myself and read it...I haven't finished it yet, but I'm about halfway through and it's really good. It really makes you believe you can do anything with just a few extremely basic, simple, easy principles. How could I not think of it before? Basically, this is some of the stuff your parents and educators have told you to do your whole life ("believe in yourself", etc.) but the author puts it in an understandable, easy-to-read format that makes you think, "Wow this is all I need to know. I really should be doing this." and he really proves his point really well by giving great explanations, examples, and inspiring anecdotes along the way. And everything just makes sense!! There isn't really a word to describe it, but really anyone, no matter the age (but since I am younger and have my whole life to think about, this became a real inspiration to me). I recommend this. I just can't get over it...IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE!!

Natural Born Winner: The Jeff Gordon Story

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Natural Born Winner: The Jeff Gordon Story
George Mair
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: B000OW39WK

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Natural Born Winners: How to achieve your ambitions and create the success you want
Robin Sieger
Manufacturer: Century
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K6S1V4

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To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing that are truer to actual human vision.
Beginning with the proposition that the images of cinema and vision derive from the same basic elements--light, movement, and time--Wees argues that cinematic apparatus and human visual apparatus have significant properties in common. For that reason they can be brought into a dynamic, creative relationship which the author calls the dialectic of eye and camera. The consequences of this relationship are what Wees explores.
Although previous studies have recognized the visual bias of avant-garde film, this is the first to place the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film in a long-standing, multidisciplinary discourse on vision, visuality, and art.

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Linking Margaret Mead to the Mickey Mouse Club and behaviorism to Bambi, Nicholas Sammond traces a path back to the early-twentieth-century sources of “the normal American child.” He locates the origins of this hypothetical child in the interplay between developmental science and popular media. In the process, he shows that the relationship between the media and the child has long been much more symbiotic than arguments that the child is irrevocably shaped by the media it consumes would lead one to believe. Focusing on the products of the Walt Disney company, Sammond demonstrates that without a vision of a normal American child and the belief that movies and television either helped or hindered its development, Disney might never have found its market niche as the paragon of family entertainment. At the same time, without media producers such as Disney, representations of the ideal child would not have circulated as freely in American popular culture.

In vivid detail, Sammond describes how the latest thinking about human development was translated into the practice of child-rearing and how magazines and parenting manuals characterized the child as the crucible of an ideal American culture. He chronicles how Walt Disney Productions’ greatest creation—the image of Walt Disney himself—was made to embody evolving ideas of what was best for the child and for society. Bringing popular child-rearing manuals, periodicals, advertisements, and mainstream sociological texts together with the films, tv programs, ancillary products, and public relations materials of Walt Disney Productions, Babes in Tomorrowland reveals a child that was as much the necessary precursor of popular media as the victim of its excesses.

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Wish Someone Would Have Warned Us!.......2006-08-01

The tie to Walt Disney's name might have been a good marketing strategy, but it does not make for a satisfying study of Disney's influence upon modern culture.

The text uses Disney's media machine to fabricate a thesis in support of the studio's (Walt's own?) supposed efforts at social engineering. Since when does one use movie studio publicity as the bedrock for academic study? To present an argument as if Walt Disney had somehow personally engineered the resulting contemporary "child" is a stretch, at best.

No doubt, children of all generations have a deep affection for the timeless stories created during Walt Disney's lifetime (1901 - 1966). However, the reason they embrace these films is largely due to Disney's own masterful storytelling ability. It had nothing to do with shaping the "product" (children) of subsequent generations. Set a new bar for creativity? Yes. Comprehend a responsibility in creating entertainment that can be appreciated by every family member? Absolutely. Reorder the world? No.

The public is simply entertained best by those who understand them... who know what they enjoy... and can provide that entertainment with the highest standard of quality. Walt Disney expanded the boundaries of all that the entertainment industry had formerly accepted as standard fare. He raised the bar because he believed that the public was ready for something better. He was right. Then, and now.

How many times in one text must an author refer to Disney's "hagiography"? Does a reader accept as fact Disney's "Fordist" social agenda, simply because the author implies added meaning from the array of 1930's and 1940's ladies magazines that are quoted? This pointless cerebral exercise would be a bore if it weren't so laughable.

Where are the interviews with the men and women who worked in Disney's marketing or research departments? Where is the source information that can push beyond an intellectual reinterpretation of Disney studio press releases?

This text, though over 400 pages, is completely inadequate in giving sufficient study to Walt Disney's influence upon modern culture.

Childhood in World History.(The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s)(Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the ... An article from: Journal of Social History

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Childhood in World History.(The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s)(Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the ... An article from: Journal of Social History
Stephen Lassonde
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Title: Childhood in World History.(The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s)(Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960)(Book review)
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Famed film couple — "America's Singing Sweethearts" of the 1930s and '40s — represented by 2 dolls and 25 authentic and beautifully rendered costumes from 8 films, including "Naughty Marietta," "Bittersweet," "Maytime," "The Girl of the Golden West," "Sweethearts," "Rose Marie," "New Moon," and "I Married an Angel."

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very nice.......2007-05-07

Who love Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy will accept them in any shpe.

Nelson and MacDonald.......2005-04-13

These paper dolls are not up to Tom Tierney's usual standard. The dolls themselves are well drawn, but some of the costumes are too bright in color and look as if they've been drawn by someone else (eg the lace gown from "Maytime", the ballgown from "Naughty Marietta", to name just two). It would have been good to include more of the wonderful contemporary costumes designed by Adrian for Miss MacDonald, instead of focusing almost exclusively on the period/theatrical pieces.

This is a "must have" for the collector..........2001-11-23

The Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy paper dolls are a collectors dream. So artistically beautiful and in brilliant magnificent color. I reccomend purchasing several just in case you might want to actually cut one up for playful purposes. It's truly a fun collectable item to have.

This is a "must have" for the collector..........2001-11-23

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ACT! 2005 will help you manage your business contacts and relationships (not just with customers, but also with prospects, vendors, and suppliers) more efficiently and effectively. But there is a catch—you have to ACTivate it. ACT! 2005 for Dummies helps you get your ACT together with basic information about fields, records, files, and navigation, and step-by-step guidelines for:

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Written by Karen S. Fredricks, an ACT! Certified Consultant, ACT! Premier Trainer, and self-professed ACT! FanACTic, ACT! 2005 For Dummies covers both ACT! Standard Edition 2005 and ACT! Premium Edition 2005. It shows and tells you how to:

Use ACT! Notes and ACT! Histories to maintain records of all communications and activities
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Use ACT! reporting and forecasting tools to manage and track sales

Contacts and relationships are the key to any successful business. With ACT! 2005 helping you manage them, you can focus on building your business. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a lot of new customers to add to ACT! 2005?

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The fun and easy introduction to the latest update to ACT!, the leading contact management/customer relationship management (CRM) software that allows users and organizations to manage their business relationships effectively
* Shows how ACT! keeps customer info in one place, providing instant access to names, phone numbers, addresses, appointments, call histories, follow-up activities, etc.
* Author Karen Fredricks is well-known in ACT! circles and is the ideal person to cover all the bases, such as setting up a contact database; adding, deleting, sorting, and finding contacts; scheduling activities; using the basic ACT! reports; creating sales opportunities; and much more
* Addresses the new relational feature that allows all contacts in the same company to be grouped together

Customer Reviews:

ACT! Software Instructor.......2007-02-20

I use Karen's ACT! for Dummies (2005, 2006, 2007) books as course materials for most of the classes I teach. Her books are well written, easy to understand and contain soem real life examples. She certainly helps me look good to my students. Thanks Karen!

Too Cool.......2007-01-04

Great Seller - This is one of my favorite book's - Too, Too Cool!

ACT 2005 is the greatest.......2006-02-27

I want to thank you karen for the remarkable book, it is very easy and at the same time have everything in it . I enjoyed reading the book and hope you can write more, so many people in the IT industry will enjoy reading Books again. Please keep on the good work. God Bless you.

Acts 2005 dummies.......2006-02-24

Book is easy to follow, very helpful to a beginner. It would probably be helpful to an experienced user but I am so new to this that I have not even looked into advanced features. I highly recommend this book.

Review from the Author.......2004-10-23

Don't be fooled by the "Dummies" title - Wiley Publishing has a very successful formula that they've developed for this series. As much as I'd like to think that you're going to read this book from cover to cover, alas, it's meant to be a reference book that you can pick up and instantly find the answer to your most pressing questions. I've covered the most commonly used of the ACT! features and included many of the "gotchas" that I've encountered over my many years of ACT! consulting. I've given you easy, step by step instructions that don't require you to work with "pretend" contacts. Most importantly, I've tried to infuse the book with a sense of humor because to me learning a software program should be fun and non-threatening.

Karen Fredricks
Author, ACT! 6 for Dummies
Author, ACT! 2005 for Dummies

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