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6 reviews
Peter Schilling

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008

A rip-snorting baseball yarn
Peter Schilling, Jr.'s inventive novel "The End of Baseball" describes a mesmerizing 1944 baseball season that might have been - if Bill Veeck had been able to purchase a major league team and recruit an entire team of Negro Leaguer stars. Veeck loses a leg at Guadalcanal. Before enlisting in the Marines, he had been a successful minor league baseball team owner whose innovative promotions ...

Original Intent and the Framer's Constitution

8 reviews
Leonard W. Levy

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000

A Careful Look at "Original Intent" or Lack of Orginal Intent
Leonard Levy's book titled ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE FRAMERS'CONSTITUTION is a well written account of U.S. Constitutional History and a solid refutation that somehow the Framers had an original intent which in fact they did not have. As one reviewer commented modern critics have more confidence of the Framers original intent than the original Framers ever thought of when the Constitution was ...

Against School Reform (And in Praise of Great Teaching)

2 reviews
Peter S. Temes

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003

The difference is the teachers. Duh!!
Temes' central thesis is that nothing succeeds with any kind of student, from the most brilliant to the slowest, like devoted and intelligent teachers. It isn't the curriculum, it isn't how many hours of sex ed they get, it isn't the standardized tests. It's the amount of time and effort the teacher spends working to inspire young minds. Not surprisingly, a top-down approach "designed by ...

John Brown's Body

8 reviews
Stephen Vincent Benet

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1990

An unsung American masterpiece
During the Pax Romana the emperor Augustus commissioned Vergil to write an epic history of the Romans. The result, of course, was The Aeneid, a stunning blend of epic poetry and historical fiction that some would argue has yet to be topped. John Brown's Body is the closest thing we have to an epic poem "about" America. And while it takes place during the civil war and makes no claim to be an ...

The Barber of Seville: In a New Translation and Adaptation by Bernard Sahlins (Plays for Performance)

6 reviews
Pierre A. de Beaumarchais

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1998

Wonderful Concept
I have several "Black Dog Opera" recordings, and they are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to opera WIHTOUT spending a lot of money. This label primarily offers recordings of extremely well-known operas. I had some initial concerns regarding sound quality given the price, but I have yet to be disappointed by them -- Barber of Seville is no exception. Each opera comes in a neatly packaged ...

The Long Season

9 reviews
Jim Brosnan

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2002

An excellent book, not a stone left unturned
While Brosnan ruffled some feathers with this book, it isn't anywhere near as controversial or raunchy as Jim Bouton's "Ball Four." Brosnan does mention his difficult contract negotiation, but it's not as bitter as Bouton discussing contracts. Brosnan has an elephant-like memory for conversations and the batting history of every hitter he faces. You get to see every aspect of a game, from the ...

The Pitch That Killed

12 reviews
Mike Sowell

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2004

Outstanding tribute to Chappie and Mays
This is one of the better baseball books I have read. I remember seeing it in hardcover in a Borders in East Lansing, MI, around 1989. (I never picked it up because I was a poor postdoc). Both Mays and Chapman's lives, and how they fatally intersected, are described in detail, almost as if the author was actually there. Sowell is a talented writer, he covers the era in general outside of baseball ...

None So Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam

9 reviews
George W. Allen

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2001

There Was No "Intelligence Failure"
An outrageously good book! George Allen offers us a look into the notoriously secretive world of intellence analysts. What is stunning is that just as I suspected, there was no "failure" on the part of the Intelligence Community in Vietnam. The CIA predicted,prior to US involvement, that we could not stop the spread of Communism in Vietnam. As far back as the Indochina War, intelligence ...

A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball Volume 1: The Game on the Field

6 reviews
Peter Morris

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006

Baseball's legacy is the result of many influences, inventions and innovations
A GAME OF INCHES: THE STORIES BEHIND THE INNOVATIONS THAT SHAPED BASEBALL isn't your usual coverage of major players or major memorable games: it's the first of two projected volumes to provide an encyclopedia reference covering the origins of the sport's major items, from catchers' masks to cork-center baseballs. Included in each listing are discussions of what led each new item to emerge when ...

To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire

91 reviews
David Cowan, John Kuenster

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1996

engrossing book
This was a fascinating book. I bought it to read on a trip, because of the excellent ratings. We were stuck in a plane on a runway in Dallas for 6 hours. The wait seemed much shorter, because I was thoroughly involved in reading this book. I highly recommend it.

Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post-Cultural America

4 reviews
Christopher Clausen

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000

America, the graveyard of cultures
This book will change the way you think about contemporary American society. With acid wit and one arresting phrase after another, Christopher Clausen shows that the ferocious debate over multiculturalism misses the point. Culture is disappearing in America. Far from being multicultural, America has been a "graveyard of cultures." Ethnic studies programs in American universities "dot the ...

March to the Monteria

5 reviews
B. Traven

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1994

Young Indian trapped in system of brutality and exploitation
This is the third in a series of books written by Traven. They are usually called the Jungle Novels. In the first book; Government, there is a detailed explanation of the social and economic structure under the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. We see how Indian peon work on farms as serfs, always in dept to the large land owners. In some ways the first book reminded me of the books of Victor Hugo ...

Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues

6 reviews
William Brashler

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000

The Best Hitter of His Era
Beginning in 1930 with his debut with the Homestead Grays and extending through a career which featured several years with the Pittsburgh Crawfords and stints with various winter league teams in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, Josh Gibson was quite simply the greatest hitter of his era. While he is often referred to as the black Babe Ruth, the black press and fans of the Negro ...

Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts

4 reviews
Roger Kimball

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008

Counterpoints considered
The New Criterion, Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball's journal of culture and the arts, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. To commemorate the occasion, Kramer and Kimball have put out a new anthology of essays from the magazine, Counterpoints. This is not a work of poetry, but in fulfilling Horace's dictum it is both delightful and instructive. The aim of The New Criterion, the ...

American Beliefs: What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United

5 reviews
John McElroy

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000

America, where some beliefs were born
Beliefs A book review Its been said that we learn nothing from history. This appears to be true, but only to the extent that history is ignored. When we pay attention to history, we are bound to learn something. A good dose of history can sometimes put us back on a road we've tended to leave. This may be the case while reading a brief account of how ...

In Search of Ireland's Heroes: The Story of the Irish from the English Invasion to the Present Day

4 reviews
Carmel McCaffrey

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007

History from the inside sources
Don't be deceived by this book. In Search of Ireland's Heroes is not a "popular history," but it is an intensely intimate history. The author, Carmel McCaffrey, has fashioned a unique and intimate historical look at her native Ireland. What emerges in this second volume of her two volume series (the first, In Search of Ancient Ireland), is history from the inside out. This is not history ...

The Bridge in the Jungle

5 reviews
B. Traven

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2002

Ode to Chiapas
I confess that I am a major afficionado of B. Traven. My politics have mellowed over the years but I enjoy Traven's political perspective. I believe B. Traven was an ararchist at heart. He attacked big government and big business as evil but saw the uncorrupted individual as nobel and good. In the rural Mexican Indian community he found, for himself, the most ideal form of government he had ...

A Higher Form of Cannibalism?: Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography

5 reviews
Carl E. Rollyson

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2005

Examines the foundations of biographical writing
Carl Rollyson's A Higher Form Of Cannibalism? questions whether the enthusiasm over biography has in fact led to its downfall into bad taste. Carol Rollyson is himself a biographer, so is in the perfect position to provide an insider's perspective on the subject he knows best, offering chapters which use anecdotes and criticism to examine the foundations of biographical writing. His own practices ...

The Best of Baseball Digest: The Greatest Players, The Greatest Games, the Greatest Writers from the Game's ...

5 reviews
John Kuenster

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006

You will never sell this book once you buy it! Worth every penny! Does Amazon have a 6 star ranking?
"The Best of Baseball Digest" is truly the bargain of the century considering it's incredible content. I expected alot from this book and when it finally arrived it exceeded all of my expectations. There are over 116 enjoyable articles on baseball dating back to Baseball Digest's start in 1942. This massive collection of 453 pages is presented in a fashion in which the reader can read an ...

The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel

5 reviews
Radu Ioanid

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2005

An Engrossing Read Providing A Window Into Romania's Past
Between 1948 until 1989, the State of Israel had clandestinely engaged in one of the longest and most expensive ransom pacts in history, wherein Romania permitted most its 370,000 Jews, who had survived the Holocaust, to immigrate to Israel in exchange for hard currency and various other considerations. Born and educated in Romania, and director of International archival programs at the United ...

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