Shelby Reviews

This book makes a great addition to anyone's GT40 collection. Friedman's pictures document not just the races, but a fair amount of the preparation necessary to get the cars in shape for competition.

As a pervious review mentioned, the coverage stops right after Ford's 1967 Le Mans win, thereby totally ignoring the JWA/Gulf era, but in all fairness, Shelby wasn't involved in those years. This is a book about the *Shelby* GT40 afterall.

I especially enjoyed some of the coverage of the GT40's competitors: Ferrari, Chapperal, and Porsche. This made the book just a little richer.

I became a fan of the Ford GT's on a sunday morning in June of 1966. I was 13 years old. Up early before my parents I turn on the T.V. to try to find some cartoons and lo and behold there in living color is the 24 hours of Le Mans. I did'nt really know much about it though the name Le Mans did mean something to me. I was enthralled. As the Ford Mk.II's finished 1,2,3, I became a Ford fan forever. This book recaptures those days and Ford's epic assault on Le Mans in pictures and captions. From the beginning of the program to the all-american victory in 1967 by Dan Gurney and A. J. Foyt in the Mk.IV. My only complaint is that the book ends abruptly with that victory. Boom. But like the jacket says, "to take a look inside is to take a trip back in time." And what a time it was.

This book focuses on Kenneth, an private investigator and Daisy, a Florist. Kenneth lives in Kansas and Daisy lives in Guthrie. Kenneth visits Daisy in hopes of getting her to marry him, but Daisy is all wrap-up, tied-up and tangled-up in her Flower Shop and her upcoming Garden Show. This is a good read, not too happy with the ending, but maybe a sequel is in the making.

Daisy Rogers garden shop owner first meets private investigator Kenneth Gunn in "Simply Wonderful" when she find him beaten and thrown in her green house. Months later they are maintaining a long distant relationship between Kansas and Oklahoma or where ever Kenneth job takes him. He is headed to OK to see Daisy after six week, to help her with her first flower show. The keynote speaker for the show is murderd, but the show must go own. Not knowing who can be trusted beside each other they try and get to the bottom, but before they do a second murder is committed. Daisy is trying to hold onto her independence as Kenneth is trying to convice her they belong together as husband and wife. When the murders are solved and it's time for Kenneth to go back to work, Daisy relizes she doen't want him to leave, she lets him know only to realize the love they share has gone from "Simply Wonderful" to "Simply Marvelous."

Stanton does what he did with WW2 Order of Battle, in bringing structure to the units that served in the Vietnam War. Born right after WW2, I grew up a military brat and often wondered about the units that made up our effort in WW2. To me, reading Vietnam Order of Battle was not difficult, but I would imagine that it would present a challenge to others.

Stanton does what he did with WW2 Order of Battle, in bringing structure to the units that served in the Vietnam War. Born right after WW2, I grew up a military brat and often wondered about the units that made up our effort in WW2. To me, reading Vietnam Order of Battle was not difficult, but I would imagine that it would present a challenge to others.

Being a little too young to remember live broadcasts of Howard Cosell, I read this book in an attempt to gain insight into why this sports figure was so controversial. Whether you love or hate him, it seems that there are very few people without an opinion about Howard.

And rightly so. The man clearly has a huge ego, and his self-aggrandizement oozes off every page, often with hollow qualifiers like "I don't mean to brag, but..." He claims to be a close friend of nearly everyone. And he makes weighty accusations and statements in the name of telling it like it is. One particularly egregious one (though correct, in my opinion), regarding the toll a baseball superstar's gambling scandal took on the late baseball commissioner and good friend of the author- "There's little doubt that Pete Rose was a factor in the death of Bart Giamatii." Ouch.

Kudos to Cosell for attacking sacred cows. It really was refreshing to read someone put athletics' big-mouths and butt-kissers in their places; I just wish I could have seen and heard Cosell do the same live. Cosell was a champion of a lot of important aspects of sports and sports reporting that are resolved nowadays, unpopular, or foregone conclusions. For example, Cosell advocated that sports reporting is as important as other news reporting, and demands the same scrutiny and lack of bias. He was a tough critic of college sports programs and coaches, particularly those which turn a blind eye to the delinquency of their players, and those whose reverence of sports undermines their institutions' dedication to academics. He was a staunch promoter of minority representation in sports management and ownership. He believed boxing suffered from a lack of consolidation of leagues, and from the influence of crooks like Don King. He squawked about the mob's influence in professional sports.

I wish Howard was around today to give the world his take on the current state of sports, but- alas- he passed away not long after this book came out (1991). That this book is so dated is a sad commentary on today's sports scene- everything Howard lamented more than 10 years ago in print (outrageous sports salaries, gambling and numbers in sports, sports figures engaged in criminal pursuits, biased reporting) exists tenfold today. Heck, Mike Tyson alone is enough to make any sports enthusiast wince and long for the good old days... [Incidentally, in Howard's words re. the biting one circa 1991, "I think [Tyson] needs professional help from persons expert in the field of mental health."]

Anyone interested in sports beyond the scores should read WHAT'S WRONG WITH SPORTS, the last(published 1991) of four books by the late great journalist Howard Cosell. It's almost as good as his COSELL (1973) and I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME (1985), two others you should seek out. For as much impact as Cosell had in his sports broadcast career, does anyone have tapes of his radio and TV announcing? You've got to read Howard Cosell's books, as they are pretty much all we have left of the man's courageous commentary.

Clara Blue's husband is a history professor whose cerebral nature was attractive to her before they married. Now that she has lived with him for several years and they have produced two young sons, she realizes that he speaks a different language than she does--that he revels in the production of a history book while she delights in being in the moment, watching a raccoon in the yard. To his credit, her husband encourages her pursuits by supplying her with clay and with art lessons from an artist named Locke. As she learns to work with first clay, then wood and stone, she learns more about herself and what she needs in order to be fulfilled. As she evolves into the person she wants to be, she can better allow the same for her husband. This is a beautiful little book about fulfilling your destiny while you encourage others to fulfill theirs.

As stated in my summary, this book provides a good overall view of the Civil War and would be a good read for any Civil War beginner. However, the best feature about the book is its photographs of modern and Civil War-era type. The modern ones are all worthy of being framed art and the Civil War ones are blown up as to let the reader feel he's actually there. Also the book has many photos that I've not come across in my voluminous readings. The book's major shortcomings are the lack of real inclusion of any other Civil War causes other than slavery and occasional inaccuracies (One inaccuracy: Black CSA soldiers weren't in combat. In fact, the ones recruited at the end of the war DID combat. Also there were many who fought with the South through the duration of the war). This book is a MUST for any Civil War photo buff.

This book is wonderfully laid out and the way that Jean Burroughs writes is wonderfull and i very much recomend this to any one who enjoys reading about history.

I was raised Anglo Catholic. I was also taught that Faith is a gift. I was also taught that the Resurrection of Christ must be believed even though there is no way to prove it. Well, Bishop Spong did the impossible! First he offers us a very deep (and quite probable) speculation of what was going on between the crucifixion and resurrection. He also goes beyond the Scriptures and speculates on what may have been going through the Apostles' minds when all this happened. But the greatest thing Spong does is that he actually proves the resurrection. What he does is he shows you what happened BEFORE Easter, and then he shows you what happened AFTER Easter. In my opinion, even the most obtuse person would be able to see that if one looks at the picture before and after, the resurrection HAD TO HAVE HAPPENED. This belongs in the library of ANY Roman Catholic or Anglo Catholic. I also feel that Bishop Spong hit on something that THOUSANDS of priests, bishops, and cardinals would have loved to stumble upon. Bishop Spong did the church a WONDERFUL service when he wrote this book!

as i am just starting in the field of molecular biology techniques, i found this to be very helpful for guiding me through a variety of techniques, particularly cDNA library screening. however, if you want more general information you might try something like the series by Maniatis et al.

Cile Tait is married to a staid and rigid Presbyterian minister. Although not sure of her beliefs, Cile attempts to be a good wife and to serve her husband and the church. When she comes across her old high school boyfriend Andy, they begin an affair and eventually plan to divorce their respective spouses and marry one another. In some ways, the announcement is ridiculously (and somewhat unrealistically) easy. None of their four kids seems to have a problem with their parents' marriages breaking up and the congregation waves Cile a world-weary goodbye without any of the recriminations which one might expect. In other ways, the breakup seems to cause problems as far as Andy's farmland and Cile's independence is concerned. The book has a lot of flashbacks which are sometimes hard to distinguish from the current action. The book is saved by the wry commentaries on life in small-town Texas and on the greed which seems to be at the center of so many events of the 90's.