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Hot Potato: How Washington And New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball And Changed America's Game Forever 5 reviews
Bob Kuska
University of Virginia Press, 2006
Great book on Basketball History
Seldom does a basketball historian find a book on basketball in which more than 75% of the material is new to him. Bob Kuska's new book - Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball and Changed America's Game Forever is such a book. It is a chronicle of the earliest days of Black basketball in the two cities where its impact was greatest and covers the period 1905 ...
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The Adventures of Amos and Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon5 reviews
Melvin Patrick Ely
University of Virginia Press, 2001
Thoughtful and Well-Written
As the title indicates Ely's work is frankly a work of social history, not a performance biography, and is less interested in exploring "Amos 'n' Andy's" significant impact on the broadcasting medium than in viewing it as window into mid-20th Century American racial attitudes. Analysis of the program's content focuses on that perspective to the exclusion of all others, and detailed examination of ...
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Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life Of Samuel Francis Du Pont (Nation Divided)6 reviews
Kevin J. Weddle
University of Virginia Press, 2005
Much More Than a Great Biography
For those of you who eagerly await the one book on Civil War naval history for every fifty released concerning the land war, you will not be disappointed. Not only is this book an exceptional biography of Admiral Du Pont, but it also provides a thorough look at the Navy during the service's formative years prior to the Civil War. This is possible because Du Pont's influence proved instrumental ...
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The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia5 reviews
University of Virginia Press, 1998
Great Resource
For my senior seminar, I wrote a paper on desegregation/busing in the South. While I was doing research, a librarian found this book for me. I had to wait 2 weeks to get it through interlibrary loan, but it was worth it!! The essays really bring home the complexity of Southern desegregation when viewed through the lens of class issues. I can only aspire to produce such insightful ...
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Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima (The American South Series)5 reviews
M. M. Manring
University of Virginia Press, 1998
Fantastic book!
Very often, histories/studies of Aunt Jemima and the mammy stereotype are simply descriptive; this book does a great job of showing how Aunt Jemima's image and products were designed to complement/support ideal white femininity. My only criticism is that Aunt Jemima's presence on television and radio wasn't discussed enough. A great read for anyone interested in issues of race, gender and ...
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An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold5 reviews
Suzanne McIntire
University Press of Virginia, 2002
An excellent resource for all gardeners
An American Cutting Garden provides in depth information for anyone interested in growing his own cut flowers. Whether you are a novice or a pro, this book offers practical advice that gardeners of all experience levels will enjoy. You'll no longer have to pour through book after book to decide what to grow and how to grow it. Everything you need to know about a cutting garden is contained in ...
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Snakes of Virginia5 reviews
Donald W. Linzey, Michael J. Clifford
University Press of Virginia, 1995
Terrific book
I checked out this book from the library and liked it so much I had to have my own copy! It's a great reference book and has good pictures of the snakes and maps of the areas of Virginia they are found in. The text is informative and has subtle humor in places. These guys really like snakes, and it is contagious, even to someone who really doesn't like them! It has helped my daughter's ...
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Never Ask Permission : Elisabeth Scott Bocock of Richmond5 reviews
Mary Buford Hitz
University of Virginia Press, 2000
An Eccentric CEO
Knowing a bona fide eccentric, especially a benevolent one, is simultaneously an entertaining and exasperating experience. Sharing that experience with others is usually daunting. Either the essence of the person being described becomes lost in a jumble of amusing but disjointed anecdotes or eccentricity overwhelms the eccentric, rendering a flat, one-dimensional cartoon in place of a complex, ...
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The Afrikaners: Biography of a People (Reconsiderations in Southern African History)8 reviews
Hermann Giliomee
University Press of Virginia, 2003
The best book on South African history
This fascinating book is subtitled, "Biography of a People," and it certainly lives up to it. The book follows the history of the Boers of South Africa, from their arrival in the seventeenth century, through to the final collapse of apartheid and beyond (the book having been published in 2003). Along the way, the reader is treated to an in-depth and yet highly readable history that makes South ...
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Martin's Hundred10 reviews
Ivor Noel Hume
University of Virginia Press, 1991
An outstanding book for the non-archaeologist
I purchased this book on a visit to Williamsburg and it sat on my shelf for quite a while before I seriously dove in. This book combines a clear explaination of archaeological methods with the building suspense of a good detective novel. As The author and his team uncover the existence of an early Virginia colony and utilize an astounding range of techniques and research to slowly piece together ...
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The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic5 reviews
Jeffrey L. Pasley
University of Virginia Press, 2003
How newspaper editors created our political system
Jeff Pasley's "The Tyranny of Printers" is a fresh look at American politics and journalism in the early Republic. The traditional narrative of journalism in the early Republic is that a weak press tyrannized by political parties produced some of the most subservient and unfree journalism ever seen in America. Pasley turns this narrative on its head, arguing that printers and newspapers in fact ...
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Wildflowers of the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains4 reviews
Oscar W. Gupton, Fred C. Swope
University of Virginia Press, 2002
Helps me hone in on plant identification
Nice guide targeted at our area. Each page is on a specific plant - there is a large photograph covering the first 2/3 of the page with a short description below. The photos are excellent - very useful for identification (or at least narrowing in on the id) if the plant happens to be in bloom at the time. The descriptions are quite short - only a few sentences but do tell if the plant is ...
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A Useful Dog4 reviews
Donald McCaig
University of Virginia Press, 2007
Delightful Dog Book
This small book was purchased as a gift for a young lady who wants a dog. She thoroughly enjoyed Donald McCaig's wonderful prose. Any "dog person" will appreciate this delightful story.
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Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation5 reviews
Natalie S. Bober
University of Virginia Press, 2008
The Most Lively Biography On The Market
Thomas Jefferson is to me: one of the most admirable people in history.This book has an amazing fictional aproach but yet it is still factual and educational and you can still be one of the biggest Jefferson buffs out there and not have to do years of studying.This book is to me the most animated biography that mosturizes dry facts to fertile entertainment.
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Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South4 reviews
Bruce Adelson
University of Virginia Press, 1999
It's about time!!
This is a wonderful book, recounting a largely unknown story of American and baseball history - how the southern minors' integration was part of the larger civil rights movement. 20th century baseball integration began but did not end with Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby. Unitl now, no one had taken their legacy to the next step. Bruce Adelson now has in a powerful account of what it was like ...
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A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (Page Barbour Lectures)4 reviews
Freeman J. Dyson
University of Virginia Press, 2007
The biased review sets the stage for all further input.
Freeman Dyson is one of the most forward thinking people of the last 100 years. For some book review to simply dismiss his resume out of hand is absurd. This is a complex issue that demands we think with our heads and not with our hearts. The study of this issue requires that those familiar with the complex mathematics involved have a say so, and not just climate scientists with only a cursory ...
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Clouds4 reviews
Aristophanes
University of Virginia Press, 1960
Aristophanes attacks Socrates the sophist as a Sophist
The legend is that when Aristophanes' comedy "The Clouds" was first performed in Athens in 423 B.C., his target, Socrates, stood throughout the performance so that everyone in the audience was aware that he was there and hearing what was said of him. The portrait of Socrates clearly satirical and most critics consider it to be inaccurate. But Aristophanes is making fun of Athens' renowned ...
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Persian Cooking4 reviews
Of Virginia University, Nesta Ramazani
University of Virginia Press, 1982
Very Good Persian Cookbook
I'm from Iran and have used various Persian cookbooks. This is the only one in English where the recipes turned out as they should have.
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