2 comments about Hillary.

1. HILLARY, by Dr. Thomas Moore, is more radical than... is Mind Blowing... is brand new and bridges between fiction and nonfiction to tell a strange if true story of government secrets that no one wants us to know: about psychotic delusions, and lies. This story of greatness and weakness, of genius and hallucination, is based on the conflicted and parallel lives of Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, and Newt Gingrich...
   Taken together their lives prove that truth is elusive, that media advice is a freeway to plastic, that knowledge has limits, and that structure can reveal past corruption. Dr. Thomas Moore masterfully brings these characters together in a slightly fictionalized version of their lives. This novel is no mere assemblage of biographical transcriptions. We are very much within the mind of a narrator that resonates with insights to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Newt Gingrinch.



2. 
   "HILLARY" ... a brillant work in a new genre, by Dr. Thomas Moore;
   Alphar Publishing, $16.95 www.alpharpublish.com
   
   HILLARY is funny, insightful, and revealing novel which contrasts the PR images of our aspirants Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, with endearing literary characters, such as the maligned survivor Carl Meeks, his granddaughter and philosophical prostitute Carmella, her whistle blowing husband Tony, and the seductive sleaze of her PR agent, Mr. Gingrinch: "Hillary could declassify national secrets. I want Tony to produce a Hillary TV script that will destroy her credibility. Democracy is too fragile a flower to risk in the hands of a woman."
   
   Just as The Newton Show offers a metaphor for contemporary American culture, HILLARY depicts the plastic images created for our politicians by media giants such as Newton PR, a media landscape of lifelike fantasies of our political candidates and our values. Hillary is trapped in the prison of her manipulated public media image, disguised as the real person. Our entire society may be living in an enclosed, high-tech, drug-induced deception of self-indulgence.
   Hillary feels blocked by malevolent simulators and high-tech manipulators who are intent on keeping her inside the plastic bubble of her public image. In the end, Hillary goes on a journey to escape this realm of smoke and mirrors: Dr. Thomas Moore uses a docudrama comedic genre to trace the history of government corruption, questions the manipulation of our youth, and promotes a survival strategy to resist the threat of global catastrophe.
   
   Midwest Book Review.
   
   A page-turner that is so oiginal in concept, marrying biography with fiction to create an "up-close" insight to Hillary, Obama, and America on the brink.
   Steven Holla
   
   "HILLARY" IS RECOMMENDED because it is entertaining, educational, and revealing. We get understand the preaent from a historcal perspective... and see Hillary and Obama in a new and fresh light.
   Alice Noble.
   
   
   HILLARY may be outrageous in attempting such a huge task of revealing the private Hillary versus Obama and the media... but it works. Amazingly original and effective.
   Sharon Richter
   
   It is crucial that We The People are able to view Hillary and Obama up close and personal. Until now we have been barraged by negative images of Hillary by some media -- why are they so afraid of her.
   It is important that the Obama/Hillary campaign reveal the full nature of our candidates as our country seeks to regain respect within the global community, and is called upon to prioritize issues around the war, the economy, mitigating global climate change, providing universal health care, promoting family values, and promoting a strong US and global economy.
   The current issue is not only the confusing of the data about global warming, about the feasiblity of telecommuting to reduce emmisions and promote home-life, about the economic gridlock, and about the inefficiency of the current healthcare system -- but also the questioning of the integrity of our national character.
   This integrity issue evolves from the repetitive behavior of a group of powerful men within America who invariably got so enthused about their latest program to promote their wealthy dynasty that they lost their moral compass. The result has been unfortunate suffering for our working families and youth.
   "The good old boys aren't going to like a government of integrity. It is the nature of reactionary men to behave badly when in pursuit of an empowering project -- such as making war or making billions; and in this desire for power and pleasure the moral fabric of our national identity... integrity, was sacrificed."
   This "Hillary" book will do nothing but good for America.
   Evan Rodman
   
   Unfortunately most of Hillary's biographers have done something cliched: instead of exploring the character of Hillary they have focussed on the gossipy events surrounding her... and almost always from the view of reactionary older males.
   The women, men, and youth of America want constructive and progressive leadership... therefore we want the inside human story of Hillary's understanding of herself, her God, and our national destiny in the global village.
   Here is recently published data that demonstrates Hillary's capacity and frailty: that combine to initiate constructive and wholesome progress.
   Elsinore Times
   
   HILLARY Clinton's husband pardoned Carl Meeks and his mutinous buddies after Port Chicago explosion.
   The catalyst was Manhattan Project Y: HILLARY (Hydride Isotope, Laboratory Los Alamos, Rapid project Y), was a fast track option conceived for the development of a nuclear bomb to destroy Japan, but also to intimidate Russia aggression in the looming Cold War. Dr. Moore humorously weaves Hillary Clinton's dual realities -- the PR façade versus the self-actualised leader.
   PR Review
   
   "Hillary" gives hope to the reader through a fast paced dramatic adventure packed with a true to life dramatic story of spiritual battle, deliverance, and finding God's purpose. Compelling, strong, and tight.
   Anne Taylor
   
   Inspires hope to those ensnared by the cycle of abuse, race restrictions, and limitations.
   Bruce Lamar
   
   Thomas Moore shares a lesson in trust, acceptance, and communication. Carmella's kiss changed Hillary Clinton's approach to life and self acceptance.
   Sally Latham
   
   Dr. Moore has a way of drawing the reader into his story... a merging of biography and fiction. As a reader I felt a strong desire to respond to the need, to become involved and to participate in fulfilling the visions of Hillary and Obama.
   Donald Exter
   
   "Hillary" is the kind of book that should be read by every individual involved in community outreach, by agency program directors, and individuals who have been touched by the underprivileged, abused, misrepresented and emotionally disabled... and all those subject to the distortion of reality by media images.
   Gary Letts
   
   Dr. Moore has given a message of hope, inspiration, and the challenge to make dreams become a reality.
   Linda Cropp
   
   Dr. Moore continues with Hillary from his previous popular successes, Upland Road and The Progress Of Man... and reaches new heights. Many searching stories exist in the annals of literary fiction about virtuous leaders who are flawed (e.g., Hamlet), and occasionally in the journalistic press (e.g., John F. Kennedy). Sadly, in our hustling world we rarely have time to consider issues of spin doctoring versus integrity. This book describes an ambitious but plastic image, Hillary Clinton, who is challenged by the ridicule of her enemies, and the brillance of Obama: "How could Hillary harm America?"
   "She wants to declassify national security secrets. I want you to produce a Hillary script that will destroy her credibility. Democracy is too fragile a flower to risk in the hands of a woman, especially a woman who is a bitch."
   There is a disparity of integrity between the professionally spun images of political leaders versus the literary record of endearing public characters such as the maligned Carl Meeks, his granddaughter and philosophical prostitute Carmella Meeks, the gypsy aristocrat Tony Chaytor, and the seductive sleaze of Newt Gingrinch.
   Dr. Moore compares, in this book, the plastic images we vote for with the real but complex heroes of literature that we read about and seek to emulate. He compares the deceit of our leaders around mysterious events such as 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and Port Chicago, with the regular deceits of the citizens.
   Just as the Newton show offers a grand metaphor for contemporary American culture, "Hillary" addresses the plastic images created for our politicians by media giants such as Newton PR -- who engineer created images living in the virtual world of Madison Avenue. The message is that we are immersed in a media landscape of lifelike fantasies of our political candidates and our values -- that serves the interests of those powerful people running the PR firms. Hillary is trapped in the prison of her manipulated public media image, disguised as the real person. Our entire society may be living in an enclosed, high-tech, drug-induced deception of self-indulgence - a world that is really an undisclosed environmental melt down awaiting the death camp of global warming. Newton PR dumps Hillary for an opportunity to buy real estate on the recently thawed Northwest Passage in the Arctic Circle... and is eager for global warming to thaw out more land to advertise on their new PR show, Oceanfront Property.
   When Hillary, the dissapointed one, is confronted by the authenticity of her friends, Tony and Carmella, she realizes that things aren't what they appear to be. Hillary tries to make an escape for an illicit rendezvous. If Hillary wants to be free and have a chance at redemption she has to distance herself from the safety and comforts of the media-saturated culture of Newton PR, and be willing to live in the real world. She feels blocked by malevolent simulators and high-tech manipulators who are intent on keeping her inside the plastic bubble of her public image. In the end, Hillary goes on a journey to escape this realm of smoke and mirrors.
   Hillary is a funy psycho-drama that traces the creation of dominant American power from the nuclear bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to the Iraq war. The journey is marred with government secrets and deceit. The twenty first century issue is not just the unreliability of the data about the safety of the nuclear program, public buildings, and global warming, but also an issue of integrity of national character. This issue evolves from the repetitive behavior of a group of powerful Bosses who invariably got so enthused about their latest boyish program to make their America more powerful, that they lose their moral compass. They indulge in greater lies, deceit, and nepotism to promote their search for gratification. The result is invariably the killing of the innocent. The pattern has been repeated from war to war, from bedroom to bedroom, from Port Chicago to Bikini atoll, from Pearl Harbor to Watergate, from the torture and rape of civilians in Vietnam, Cuba and Iraq, to the fabrication of war heroes by Hollywood and the Pentagon.
   Hillary's redemption rises or falls upon whether she can assure We the People that the government of Obama behave with integrity? Hillary's starting point could be to repeal the recent patriot act that allows corruption and deceit to go unpunished. But the good old boys aren't going to like that. There is an explosion... It is the nature of men to behave like boys when in pursuit of a boyish project such as making war or making billions; and in this boyish enthusiasm for pleasure and victory the moral fabric of our existence... integrity, is easily abandoned. Hillary uses the tools of fiction, woven with biography, to extrapolate history in order to determine where We The People might lead our government.
   LA Chat
   
   "Hillary" is so much, including an insight to the China challenge: In the late 1990s in Beijing, Rupert Murdoch declared he had yet to meet any communists in China.
   However, ideological debates in various guises are still alive and kicking and play a pivotal role in policymaking... Policy will not be approved if it undermines China as a socialist state, No one should doubt the resolve of the communist party to maintain its grip. Rupert Murdoch, who exclaimed last year that China's leaders were "paranoid" about the foreign media's destabilising influence, is surely clear about that now.
   Pip Aller
   
   Dr. Moore is an insider who Reveals 6 Hidden Secrets Your Government Prays You'll Never Find Out. Can We Trust Nuclear?
   Dr. Thomas Moore, structural engineer, who has performed forensic investigations of earthquake damage in many countries, including nuclear facilities in Japan, says we may be seeing just the tip of the iceberg at Tokyo Electric in regard to issues of nuclear safety.
   
   Dr. Thomas Moore alleges that "the closing down of the nuclear plant at Kashiwazaki due to only a moderate earthquake is significant news... because the Japanese bulding code is relatively stringent with regard to seismic resistance." Dr. Moore says he has performed forensic investigations of the earthquake-resistant performance of buildings in many countries, including nuclear facilities in Japan, and says "we may be seeing just the tip of the iceberg in regard to issues of nuclear safety."
   
   This book also deals with the issues and effects of child abuse in later life: A partly biographical and partly extrapolated fiction, HILLARY Clinton calls the home of Carl Meeks who was unjustly punished by the navy with a mutiny trial and dishounorable discharge after refusing to load munitions the day following a (nuclear) detonation at a Naval base at Port Chicago, CA, in 1944. (Hillary's husband pardoned Carl in 1999)
   Grandaughter Carmella answers the phone and a long term friendship ensues due to Hillary's compassion for "broken wings."
   Carmella's father is an ambitious and driven captain in the navy, because of his father Carl's discharge.
   Elsinore Times.

No comments about Robert Todd Lincoln: A man in his own right.

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2 comments about U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition..

1. This book was a marvelous read. The author kept my interest throughout the first two-thirds of the book. However, he does deal blandly with Grant's political career. Overall though, quite touching and well done.



2. Bruce Catton was the man who salvaged Ulysses Grant's flagging reputation in the 1950's and 60's, and restored him to his deserved place in the pantheon of America's greats. Catton wrote a marvelous trilogy of Grant's military career and also wrote this little gem which is, by a wide margin, the best introductory work ever written on Grant. This isn't intended for people who are civil war historians or who have a vast knowledge of Grant. It's meant for those who know little about Grant and are curious to learn more. Look no further than the pages of this book.

   Catton understands Grant nearly to perfection, and this is a hard task given his subject's inscrutible nature. He admires him tremendously and the reader will undoubtedly share his feelings by the end of the book. Grant was an immensely likeable, honest and decent man; he loved his wife, his children and his country and sacrficied immensely for them all. One weakness here is that Catton gives very short shrift to Grant's Presidency; he seems to run out of gas a trifle after Appomattox.

   If you are new to Grant and want to learn more, this is *the* book to purchase. You won't be sorry.

1 comments about The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents: From Washington to F.D.R. (The Freethought Library).

1. very good. it has letters by clergy's and others who wrote about the beliefs of the presidents very interesting

No comments about Golda Meir (Mujeres en la historia series).

3 comments about Lawyer Lincoln.

1. This book shows how the practice of law on the Illinois frontier shaped Lincoln into the leader he became during his presidency.



2. 
   Woldman, Albert A., Lawyer Lincoln. 1936. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001.
   Lincoln's career as a lawyer was a strange mixture. For 23 years he handled cases both large and small, for fees ranging from nothing to $5,000. The author takes inconsistent positions, now claiming that Lincoln had no use for law books and that he practiced at a place and time when precedents were few, and gave little preparation to his cases. But then he complete reverses himself and says that Lincoln studied precedents closely, that he argued 178 cases before the Illinois Supreme Court, ranging from a $3 hog case to one involving a third of a million dollars in taxes, and that his cases included conditional sales, fraudulent conveyance, surety, conflicting liens, false imprisonment, jurisdiction, equity of redemption, set-offs, seduction, wagering, slander, recording, land improvement, licenses, trusts, slavery, patent, mandamus, usury, ejectment, out-of-state depositions, trespass on the case, foreclosure, rescission, assumpsit, writ practice, liquor licenses, reapportionment, admiralty, land accretion, minor's contracts, homicide, and important railroad cases involving eminent domain issues, as well as cases involving constitutional questions such as interstate commerce. In addition to railroad corporations, Lincoln represented municipalities, banks, gas companies, insurance companies and large manufacturing and commercial concerns. He litigated stockholders rights and corporate charter provisions. He never refused to represent "soulless corporations" and often tried merely to hold down the amount of damages, as any defense lawyer would. Naturally, he could not do this complex work operating solely by the seat of his pants.
   Obviously, the man was unique for his day and definitely was not a hayseed lawyer, though he gave the appearance of one by wearing trousers that ended two inches above his shoes. Contrary to what the author tells us, quoting Lincoln's long-term partner, William Herndon, (p. 242) that "Practically he knew nothing about the rules of evidence, of pleading, or practice, as laid down in the textbooks, and seemed to care nothing about them," Lincoln knew his pleas in abatement and in bar, his demurrers, claims of laches, joinder issues, and his appellate bond rules. The parts I like best about him are the events that I can relate to myself: his standing in the Bar for integrity and honesty, the fact that he related to jurors on a personal basis and was unassuming, his refusal to befog, and that he never stood on technicalities but was concise and kept the case simple and direct. There is a "Vic and Sade" quality to Lincoln's downstate Illinois experience (one of his associates was named U. L. Loop), which took me right back to early childhood and my radio days. I learned that Lincoln opposed the Mexican War as preemptive, unconstitutional, and a sneaky way for slavery to be extended west of the Mississippi. I felt his agony at seeing a losing case slip away, and his loss of enthusiasm for it. As a trial lawyer he was a ham (making a plug serve as a button when one fell off his coat; allowing a broken suspender to hang from his shoulder during closing argument), and was accused of switching almanacs in the famous "moonlight" murder case, which he did not do. The author quotes the famous "bleeding feet" closing argument in the case of the Revolutionary war veteran's widow seeking her pension. "He possessed the necessary attributes of a good jury lawyer: a strong personality, a readiness of wit and invention, and a strong dramatic sense."
   I also liked the fact that he both trained young lawyers and acted as judge pro tem and arbitrator by request, two activities that I engaged in heavily. In this he was blessed with the rarest of all qualities of a great judge: he had an open mind. I also liked it that when he had finished saying what he had to say, he stopped, and sometimes said nothing at all. I did that once as a young lawyer, submitting a case without oral argument, and my client, who was present in court, almost fainted. We won.
   Lincoln fought the Dred Scott decision which declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to be unconstitutional, and which was followed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, but he did not advocate ignoring it. I suppose his great weakness viewed from today's perspective was his grudging respect for the Constitutional approval of slavery and his belief that it remained the law of the land until amended. In this he was a lawyer's lawyer, looking past what was just to what was technically the law.
   The book discusses his debates with Stephen A. Douglas, and some of his legal actions as president (such as international law questions during the war).
   The book appears to me to be a collection of articles pasted together, with some inconsistencies and contradictions, but with plenty of interesting information and insights thrown in. I'm glad to see it back in print.



3. Abraham Lincoln was a self-taught lawyer. He did "read" and learn the trade from another and did very well for that time. Now, there is someone calling himself a Lincoln lawyer, which fooled me big time, as I expected it to be about one A. Lincoln. The new one is about an unscrupulous, on the down side of life lawyer who has to do his business out of his car. I remember when Debbie Reynolds said that she had to live out of hers out there in L.A.
   
   It shows what an unethical person does in the gutter as opposed to the very ethical A. Lincoln of the 1850s. He was known as honest Abe. You can't say the same for the lawyers represented in the new Lincoln book. I have worked for lawyers, and had a couple as personal friends, and I have some knowledge of how that part of the law works.
   
   To tear one down for no good reason, is to be on a par with such a seedy, lowdown attorney-at-law who is so low he can't afford a respectable office from which to do legitimate business. Of course, Mickey and his father who gained the gangster's gun as a reward for getting a guilty person off, are not respectable. He was told not to ever let an innocent person go to prison, but that is exactly what he did and it is time to face the music of his own un-doing. Only lowlifes would go to someone who does his business out of a car. It amazes me that even a character in a novel such as this could belong to the Legal Profession.

No comments about How McGovern Won the Presidency & Why the Polls Were Wrong.

No comments about John Quincy Adams - Old Man Eloquent (Biography).

No comments about Theodore Roosevelt (American Presidents Reference Series).