Morgan Reviews

This is, in my opinion, the best book Astrid Lindgren has written. The moving, intriguing, and entertaining story of brotherly love and the struggle between good and evil in the land beyond death is a classic in this genre. The brothers get separated when the older dies saving the younger's life. They get reunited in a fantastic land with a dark secret. Together they engage in the war on the terrorizing dragon. A must-read for children of all ages

I read Broederna Lejonhjaerta in Swedish as a Scandinavian studies student in college as I was taking Swedish classes. While intended as a children's book, it is touching, exciting, and entertaining for adults as well. I have never seen an English version of the book; however, I would agree that they should be printed so that those who aren't Scandinavian studies students can benefit as well. Astrid Lindgren died...at the age of 94. While her death is a great loss to all who have enjoyed her works, we are fortunate that through her timeless writings her spirit can live on in all who have been inspired by her characters. Graat inte, vi ses i nangiaala!

Purple House Press is pleased to be bringing this wonderful classic back in print in hardcover this summer/fall 2003. Illustrated by Ilon Wikland, translated by Joan Tate. We're also reissuing Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren.

Although a fictional account of one family's experience of the aftermath of Y2K, this book could very well be a true story. Obviously well researched and accurate in it's depiction of possible ramifications of the Y2K "bug", this drama and many others like it could very well be played out in the months following 01/01/00, including sinister plots hatched by corrupt government officials. Ironically, it was both chilling and uplifting. Chilling because it's literally right around the corner and uplifting because of the way this family deals with the crisis (sinister plots and all!). This is definitely a must read for anyone concerned about Y2K.

I read many books, and this one ranks at the top! The book has the elements of a great read: compassion, suspense, unusual and unpredicted twists - and very readable. Plus, the research the author must have done makes it all the more real. The book is really not as much about Y2K as it is about what could really happen, and who stands to benefit. I won't give away the plot, but I will tell everyone who reads this review - to READ THIS BOOK! You won't put it down once you start. Stan Emert, Host, The BookWeb

The author has dealt with a different and controversial topic in this action-packed, page-turning thriller. The story grabs the reader from the beginning and takes you through a nightmare of the worst kind..right up to the surprising twist on the last page. Bradford Morgan has an extraordinary talent and I highly recommend this novel.

Author Adam Morgan went hunting for the second most successful brands. He sought commonalities among them to develop guidelines for those who are challenging the number one brands in their fields. In other words, if you are coming into the battle in the number two slot, here's your strategy for winning the marketing wars. Morgan is very adept at breaking things down into precise action steps. Witty and engaging, he offers a detailed analysis of the current consumer attitude about brands plus strategies you can use to market your second or third rank brand. We recommend this compilation of competitive ideas to those who want to boost their "Challenger" brands.

I am new to marketing and I wanted a good book on marketing. This one delivers, particularly for challenger brands something that is becomming more apparent in eCommerce. While the book does not talk about eCommerce many of the concepts and thoughts apply. Overall worth reading to learn about branding and marketing.

To my knowledge the first book/research study that doesn't fail into the common trap of synthesizing the marketing secrets of the cathegory leaders, that 99% of us are not.

In that way a very interesting approach to marketing. That aside the insights presented here are brilliant and relevant. Also Morgan writes in a very enjoyable and lively style, which definitely makes the understanding and digestion easier.

All in all an entertaining book about a field that should interest everybody involved in managing or marketing a business. Not bad at all!

Every sales person will agree that keeping sales contact information updated and organized is the key to success in business. The tools provided in this book have helped me to use Act effectively and efficiently. Since I started using Act I can't live without it!!

The 101 Sales Action Tool book not only serves as my "How To" manual but is a complete "Action Plan"
I refered it to a Community College teacher who now uses it for preparation in his "Act 6.0" class.
In the past year I have opened new business worth over $5,000,000,as a result of tips from Brad Sandy, and his book 101 Tools in Act! This is a good reason for me to suggest that you purchase it.
Brad has an easy way to show how to use Act.

I am an ACT! Certified Consultant so I am strong in my technical skills and upon the first read felt this was just another rehash on the user guide or other How-To books on ACT! Was I ever wrong!

When I picked up the book the second time I began digging deeper into the strategic concepts Brad covers (especially in chapter 3), then the ideas began to flow. I have not only implemented many of these items internally, I now recommend this book as a "must read" for all of my clients.

If you just need to know how to schedule an activity, or do a simple lookup, read the user guide, if you need to synchronize with remote users, call an ACC (ACT! Certified Consultant), if you want help developing a strategy for getting more from ACT! and yourself, buy this book, read this book and use these ideas!

Anne Shirley is a redhaired, imaginative, orphan that wants a family of her own. By the time she is twelve, her imagination has grown and she thinks that she has finally found a family. Unfortunetly, the family that wanted her actually wanted a boy, not a girl. they decide to put her on trial to see if she would be teh right one for them. By having Anne stay just on trial, the family who was in the past very stern and straight, have fallen in love with her featherbrained ways. She often gets into scrapes, including falling off a ridgepool of a roof, smashing a slate on a boy's head, and even dying her "horrid" read hair away(only to make it a green color.) After reading this enrathing book, continue to get pulled into Anne's world by reading the rest of the 7 book theory and even the 3 movies that were made inher honor. This is a book that you will enjoy and cherish for years to come. *Note: this book is set in the late 1800's.*

I have read many books in my lifetime, and I must say, without a doubt, this is my favorite. When Mathew Cuthbert goes to pick up his and his sister's, Marilla Cuthbert, adopted child, he finds out she is a girl. They consider not keeping her, but soon they decide that she can stay a Green Gables. Marilla slowly loves the imaginitive high spirited girl more and more each day. Anne encounters many adventures from the age of 11 to 16. This book was so good, I found my heart bursting with joy. I would reccomend this to any girls and women. I loved it!

Our club loved Anne of Green Gables. Anne's character felt like a part of each of us. We liked Anne's imagination and her use of big words. She is a very interesting character, and her personality is perfect for a book. We loved the beginning when we learn about Anne's terrible childhood which lands her in an orphanage and then learn about how her life really begins to go well starting with Marilla and Matthew. Two of our favorite parts are when Anne dyes her hair green and when she makes Diana drunk. They are quite funny yet both have lessons to them: think before you act. The characters are interlaced very well, and opposite personalities give the book very good twists. We liked the relationship between Anne and Gilbert because he is the only person who could get under Anne's skin. After reading the author's biography, we agreed that, much like the author, Anne has a unique personality. Although the story line is very jumpy at times, it flows well. Anne of Green Gables is well written and entertaining. It is an excellent story for everyone.

There is little that I can say that has not been said already. I love this book and have read it several times. The only thing I would change is the HORRIBLE back cover! The amount of laughter people have had at my expense because of the back cover is almost unbearable and I am certain it has driven many away from reading it.

I am truly torn between wanting to see this brought to the big screen and my fear of what Hollywood would do to it...

Lion of Ireland is one of the most interesting, well-written books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Llywelyn clearly portrays life in 1000 AD Ireland.
I've read it and The Pride of Lions twice and am still entralled. Llywelyn tells Boru's story in a way that both the serious reader and the pleasure reader can enjoy.
Even if you're not a history buff, the tangled love story and fantastic battle scenes make it a book anyone can read and revel in.
Thank you Morgan Llywelyn.
I connected so much with the characters, I named my daughter after Boru's father, Cennedi.

Lion of Ireland is one of the best books I've ever read; and for the record, I'm not one of those guys who makes that statement when the only other nominees are The Catcher in the Rye and The Cat in the Hat. I read voraciously, averaging a book a week, and this novel gripped and inspired me like few others since my childhood Rauld Dahls. Each chapter is full of well-drawn, 3-Dimensional characters, dramatic (and rarely corny) dialogue, and breathtaking, illistrative battle scenes. It doesn't do much good to keep throwing out superlatives, but I don't know how else to get you to read it. If you're one of those puritans, don't be put off by the smutty back cover. You owe it to yourself to pick up the most gripping royal adventure since Henry V. (Lion of Ireland would make an instant classic of a movie, but I fear that the uneducated public would simply see it as a "Braveheart rip-off". Not quite. Brian came first, and Brian won!)

Chernow excellently portrays our country's most famous banking dynasty from its formation during the early 1800's to the late twentieth century. Throughout the book, readers are entreated with not only the history of the Morgan family but also the transformation of American banking and finance of the past two centuries.

The Morgan history began with Junius Morgan. He was concerned with establishing America's financial credit with European countries, which were very reluctant to lend money to a country that had been recently formed. Their doubts were reinforced when several American states repudiated payment on loans. In his efforts to preserve America's credit worthiness with Great Britain, Junius Morgan created a financial link between the Anglo-Saxon countries that would influence Morgan politics for the next century.

The most famous member of the family was J.P. Morgan, who presided over the bank during the Age of the Robber Barons. During his tenure, the Morgan bank would play the role of lender of last resort for America. Because laissez-faire capitalism was the prevalent practice during this era, only the Morgan bank under the energetic J.P. Morgan possessed the financial and political clout to organize efforts to stop widespread bank failures and catastophic stock declines. Despite being portrayed in the media by Populists as crooked and elitist, the Morgan bank continued to play this important role for the American economy and remained influential nationally even after the creation of the Federal Reserve System.

Although the Morgans were economically powerful, they possessed many human frailties. Many of the Morgan men were reluctant to participate in the family business. Even J.P. Morgan, despite his fame and power, was for most of his life fearful of his father and felt constantly nervous about the imperfections of his nose. Chernow is lauded for depicting the personal lives of the Morgan family.

Despite desperate attempts by the Morgan bank to remain influential and anonymous, the combination of the American public's demand for accountability, its fear of elitist organizations, and the rise of international finance and trade, divided the Morgan bank and forced its successors into such mundane practices as the public listing of its financial records and the offering of common stocks. The abandonment of such traditional practices as the Gentleman Banker's Code culminated in the merger mania of the 1980s, as Morgan Guaranty, Morgan Grenfell, and Morgan Stanley each sometimes assisted one client in acquiring another of its client.

From cooperation to cutthroat competition between bankers, the House of Morgan is filled with triumphs and tragedies of Morgan and American history. It is recommended for every American adult. I am looking forward to reading Titan.

Ron Chernow's "The House of Morgan" is both an engaging history of the Morgan banks and a brilliant account of the growth of global finance from Victorian times through the late 1980's. It's every bit as enjoyable as Chernow's "The Warburgs," but provides a better analysis than the Warburg book of key business and political developments of the 20th century.

No one should be intimidated by this book's length or the complexity of its subject. Its pages are rich with lively portraits of the sometimes quirky men who ran the Morgan banks, the high and mighty of the world with whom they did business, and the world's many critics of such concentrated economic might. Pierpont and Jack Morgan and their successors at the top get the most detailed treatment, but figures as diverse as Brandeis, Mussolini, Lindbergh (the son-in-law of a top Morgan partner), Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt and Margaret Thatcher all play a part in the story, not to mention interesting but lesser-known figures like Ferdinand Pecora, Judge Harold Medina and central bankers from Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan.

As a backdrop to the Morgan saga, this book includes accounts of the main events of 20th-century financial history, such as the Panic of 1907, the creation of the Federal Reserve system, the Crash of 1929 and the depression and bank failures that followed it, the New Dealers' attack on banks led by Pecora that resulted in the Glass-Steagall Act and the separation of commercial banking from investment banking, and the rise of hostile takeovers, Eurodollars, petrodollars, Latin American lending, junk bonds and the securitization of debt, all refreshingly written for laymen rather than experts.

"The House of Morgan" has perhaps two overriding themes. The first is that as the years have passed, and the Morgan banks have faced increasing competition, the Morgan bankers' need to maintain their global preeminence has led them to take bigger and bigger risks. Some of these risks have resulted in large financial loss, but more often they have resulted in a loss of both public and customers' confidence, which has eroded the very preeminence that the banks seek to maintain. The second theme is that the top Morgan bankers have consistently underestimated the power of government to control what they do, and even make their lives miserable. From Pierpont on down, they have ignored government at their peril. It's almost a certainty that with the next big economic downturn, the Morgan banks will be attacked again, and I hope that Chernow will be on the scene to provide an account of it.

"The House of Morgan" is one of the best business biography books I've ever read. It is an unbelievably comprehensive piece of research work on an important banking history in the United States. The stories of the people behind JP Morgan & Co give readers so much hopes and belief that anything is possible in your life. Mr. Chernow covers the company's historical and current background in great detail. He also presents a more technical view on what happen in the cycles of US economy that spans over many decades. What I like most about the book is the coverage of individuals involved in building and leading the firms (JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley). These groups of talented individuals are amazing leaders whose stories are worth reading.

I thought that the first 40 pages were pretty slow, but the actions did pick up real soon. By the 700th page, I was hoping there would be a second book written on the House of Morgan. I was especially impressed with Mr. Thomas Lamont that I proceeded to read a separate biography on him. I loved the book so much that I went on to buy some other books related to it - (RJR Nabisco story on Leverage Buyout and The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst). It's a thick book but it's really worth the time to read. You'll be pleased with yourself!

This book contains fantastic, extremely insightful and practical information for anyone who wants to build their career, who is considering a career change or is looking to reach other goals in their lives. Peter Kash has allowed the reader to look into his life as a successful business man and see the tools he utilizes everyday in "the web of life". He tells us of many of his business deals he worked on, especially those that seemed like they were completely impossible, that everything was wrong and how he was able to put these deals together. He explains how everyone is given opportunities in life, we just need to recognize them. This book has made think very hard about my goals, life and has helped me to define who I am. I now know that you CAN make your own luck.

This insightful and inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who wants to be successful in life, and not just business or a career, but successful as a human being. Peter Kash visited Pace University, where I work as an administrator, and gave a spirited lecture to our grad and undergrad students in which he sighted many of the anecdotes that are featured in this book. The students were so responsive to his lecture that many of them started following up on the suggestions he made to them, and organizing these ideas into action via student clubs etc. This book will help any reader to positively focus on the opportunities that life presents and learn how to make the most of them.

After reading this book, I feel ready to go out and create my own destiny. This is a wonderful account on how everyday actions and decisions can create the life you want.

Masters of Networking offers some warm and inspirational stories, but fails to serve up meatier content. I found many stories about the greatness of networking, but few articles that offered effective strategies.

I also didn't like the books tendency to be repetitive to a fault. For example a lot of the articles tell you not to be a "bore." This is an important fact, but I am smart enough to get it the first twenty times.

I enjoyed this book, but it didn't help me much....although it did allow me to write a review with a lot of buts.

I loved this book, it is very easy to read. The stories are very uplifting, motivational and educational. Sometimes when a person thinks of networking it brings to mind the business professional and sales person standing around at a chamber event, this book destroy's that perception. Masters speaks to everyone who spends the time to read it. From the stay at home mom to the top executive of a corporation, there are stories for everyone and practical information that we can all use. Pick it up, read it, you won't be sorry!

In today's world where everything is an acronym, Masters of Networking, with so many contributing authors is a "WOW". It doesn't matter who YOUR favorite is chances are he or she is in this fantastic book! Kudos to Ivan Misner & Don Morgan in being able to bring such a list of truly remarkable authorities, visionaries, mentors and sheer 'Powerhouses' together in this phenomenal book! This is a book that will become a reference source that you will pull off the shelf again & again. If you can't find out everything you need to know about effective 'Word-of-Mouth Marketing' or 'Networking', you must have skipped a few pages because it's 'in there'. I would venture to say you'll never see the names Naisbett, Chopra, Peters, Mackay, Hansen, Edwards, Tarkenton, Asner, Levinson, Poe and many, many more on the same cover again in this lifetime or any other lifetime! If motivational reading is a passion in your life you'll be 'extremely' passionate about this book. It's a must read for anyone in business today!

Is this a good read? Yes it is, but not necessarily for the accounts of combat missions flown by Robert Morgan, pilot of the famed Memphis Belle, the first B-17 of the 8th Air Force to successfully complete 25 missions, and memoralized by William Wyler's photography and, in 1990, by a movie. More to the point, the story is one of what happened to the heroes of WWII, to those who flew, who were in the foxholes, who strode the deck of a warship. Did everyone come back to marry, buy a house, have children and live happpily ever after? Read this book and perhaps you'll understand in a small way what war meant and what it meant to those who fought in it.

Raised in upper class surroundings in Ashville, North Carolina, Robert Morgan seemed to have a care-free life of good times, fast cars, and plenty of women. But World War II intevenes and Morgan, at loose ends, joins an expanding Air Corps in late 1940. He fell in love with flying, but his career was often jeporadized by his propensities for buzzing buildings and beaches, and his disregard for proper military attire and the finer points of military discipline. There is no doubt of Morgan's abilities and courage, however, because in 1943, after a lengthy tour with his Memphis Belle and crew on a bond drive, he volunteers for the brand new B-29 program. As a squadron commander, Lt. Colonel Morgan is part of the 73rd Bomb Wing, based on Saipan, and flies the first B-29 mission to Tokyo, November 1944, in "Dauntless Dotty." After twenty-six often perilous missions, he is grounded and returned to the States in the summer of 1945. Later discharged, Morgan returns to civilian life with wife and now children and enters the business world begun by his father and headed by his brother, David.

But Robert Morgan's flying career is only part of his story. The other is his personal journey, a trek tinged with sadness and search Despite the privileges and luxury, his father was distant and his beloved mother, a friend of the Vanderbilts, was often away. The suicide of his mother when Morgan was 18 was a serious psychic blow, perhaps accounting in part for his numerous love affairs and marriages. As was true with many others who had seen too many friends killed or lost, Morgan continues for years after the war to wonder "why was I spared, my buddies killed." A drinking problem becomes more serious and it is not until Morgan seeks help from his "Command Pilot," God, and counsel from Billy Graham, does to come to grips with the demons that plagued his life.

Another story is also told; the story of Morgan's greatest love, "The Memphis Belle" and his efforts and those of others to have this fabled plane properly enshrined in Memphis. May Morgan and his "Memphis Belle" have tranquil times in their remaining year.

Robert Morgan had fame thrust upon him for being the pilot of arguably the first air crew to complete the obigatory 25 missions alive and in one piece. The Memphis Belle flew early on in the war, without the benefit of effective long-range fighter escort, a time of heavy losses for the US 8th Air Force, and the US government, looking for a way to publicize the successes of the US bombing campaign, decided to put together a film about one crew--the Memphis Belle was selected. William Wyler masterfully put together one of the finest documentaries of World War II, and a legend was born. In this respect, Morgan was somewhat of an accidental legend, as was his plane. However, Morgan's willingness to return to combat as a pilot of a B-29 in the Pacific when he could have taken it easy and rested on his laurels, proves him to be a man of true heroic qualities. This book deserves to be read, if for no other reason that that it is written by a man who experienced aerial combat in both theaters of combat in World War II. Morgan and his co-writer have done a masterful job of telling the story of what it was like to be a bomber pilot in World War II. The human element is there as well, as Morgan reflects on his personal successes and failures, on his agony at writing letters to the families of crewmen shot down, of his coming to know God after being a Hell-raiser, his problems with alcohol and a failed business, and eventual success and contentment later in life. The Memphis Belle and her crew are living legends, and the story Robert Morgan has to tell goes way beyond a surface treatment of that legend. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the true story of the Memphis Belle, and anyone who simply likes a good biography, honestly told.

If you want to read a great book about real American heroes who know the meaning of the words "sacrifice," "duty," and "honor," you should read this book. It's one hell of a starting point.