5 comments about Anything Goes.

1. Just a book written by an un-famous comedian (not at where I live) hoping to get people's acceptance on his homosexuality. There is nothing much exciting in this book, it is very similar like the others' gay autobiography.



2. John Barrowman's autobiography is a pleasant chat with a friend peppered with stories from an interesting life. After finishing the book I felt I had some insight into his life and understanding what motivated Mr. Barrowman. I recommend this book for a good read. It gives you insight of how one makes it in the world of Musical Theater and how charm and talent leads to success in acting.



3. I didn't expect much from this book - who writes his life story when he's just pushing 40? But this is a fun and funny, stream of consciousness autobiography, roped into some order by his coauthor sister, complete with humorous/explanatory footnoted asides (well, his sister IS an English professor) and lots of great photos of wee John from childhood on up and his beloved and wacky extended family and friends, productions he was in, up to present day Captain Jack on 'Torchwood.' It's written for a British audience, but anyone on either side of the Atlantic would enjoy it. I laughed out loud at several of his stories of various theatrical escapades and disasters. Not surprisingly, the story is just like the actor seems - what you see is what you get - funny, exuberant, charming, a bit naughty, and full of life.



4. I got turned on to John Barrowman last year after discovering Torchwood. I find it refreshing, in this day and age, to come across someone who is living his life to the fullest, no apologies, no regrets.
   
   The book gives us a brief overview of what seems to be, his very charmed life. I am sure he has had much more grief and frustration in his 40 years then the book lets on, but maybe that's left for another book.
   (And according to Carole, they are in talks to do another one)
   
   He gives us tales of his growing up in Scotland and later spending his formative years in Illinois, becoming an American boy. He returns to the UK for schooling and gets his big break, starring in a big West End show.
   Charmed indeed.
   
   The love he has for his family and partner is evident throughout the book. I had the pleasure of talking to his mother and father at a booksigning in Milwaukee and they were absolutely charming people who are so proud of their son.
   
   It's a really quick read and you will find yourself laughing out loud at some of his stories and sniffling at others. I enjoyed the audio version too as it's kind of fun listening to him talk about his life, almost like you're sitting there and he's talking to you personally.
   Plenty of great pictures too.
   So, if you're just discovering John or just want to know more about him, it's a great place to start.
   
   (I have to admit though, I hate the cover photo.)



5. I actually listened to the audiobook version, read very entertainingly by John Barrowman himself. I can't say whether the book benefits from a slight abridgment, but I suspect it benefits quite a bit by the addition of John Barrowman's always charming delivery. I smiled all the way through, laughed aloud in places, and found myself touched in more.
   Besides the look into his life thus far (his coming out tale, for example), the book serves as good introduction to the hard work a professional entertainer has in store for themselves before reaching success (or at least steady employment!) Talent - something John has in almost unfair spades - and looks, another thing John can't truthfully deny he possesses - are not enough. He details the work he put in, the learning he had to do (and his gratitude to his many teachers), as well as his trials (amusing to hear how he didn't get a part he wasn't considered 'gay enough' for) on the long yet interesting road to Doctor Who, Torchwood and becoming a National Treasure.
   There's also a smattering of fun "behind the scenes" Doctor Who and Torchwood stories for fans like me!

5 comments about Crazy.

1. The author is an investigative journalist who does an outstanding job of describing not only his own struggles with a mentally ill adult son but also the issues and history regarding the serious problem of mentally ill persons involved in our criminal justice system.
   
   I am currently teaching a university course on Mentally Impaired Offenders. I have made this book a required text for the course.
   
   I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in mental illness and criminal justice.
   
   Mary White



2. I have read and purchased over a dozen books to give to people in the community, justice system, mental health, law enforcement, etc. It gives a clear picture of the difficulties loved ones face in getting their mentally ill relative help. Also shows how our criminal justice system has failed to do the right thing and continues to criminalize the mentally ill.



3. This book should be a must read by everyone. It gives frightening details about the plight of the mentally ill. Who would believe that being mentally ill could land you in prison or worse, result in you're being killed by the very people who are entrusted with protecting you? The author's poignant account of his own son's incarceration and legal battles more than alarmed this reader. This is a very important work for our times. Read it.



4. What an absolutely chilling expose of the mental health treatment system in our affluent country. Or should I say "non-treatment system"? Shameful. Tragically, hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people are out on the streets, not receiving treatment thanks to deinstitutionalization. And the ACLU can take much of the "credit" for this.
   
   Earley's pain comes through in his writing, but he has also managed to distance himself enough to present a well-researched and thoughtful book which educates its readers.
   
   Not only are many of those who are chronically mentally ill in denial as to their disease, so too are our society and the healthcare system in denial.
   
   As another reviewer said, the REAL crime was when we stopped helping the mentally ill, under the guise of protecting their civil rights by turning them out of mental hospitals. Not that those "warehouses" are the answer, but neither is prison or living in a gutter.



5. Pete writes the truth, our Mental Health system is in shambles. The Mentally Ill, housed in prisons as prisoners instead of being labeled patients. Something must be done about the way America treats its Mentally Ill.

5 comments about Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir.

1. This was a great book. Very informative. If you closed your eyes it was like you were sitting next to the author of the book. It was hard to put the book down.



2. This was for sure one of the best memoirs I've read, and the best addiction books out there. It stays with you after. I've read A LOT of addiction books to try to understand a friend I had that was an addict. I can't believe how the author got out alive and how honest he is! The things he encounters are not pretty and shamfeful and embarrassing, yet he eloquently describes his experiences without holding back.
   
   This book is well written, a page turner, and extremely graphic and real. He's so young to have gone through so much and I liked at the end how he told the readers how hard it was for his family and gf to read it. Very compelling and a vdifferent from the self pity addiction books like "Blackout Girl" that I've been reading lately.



3. i was blown away by how interesting and inspiring a book about the life of guy on drugs could be. He was so detailed in his writing that you can tell that he has a gift as a writer and an amazing story to go along with it. It was a very hard book to put down and there was never any moments in the book that i just wanted to skip ahead because i was being bored with unnecessary details. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a good read!



4. Bored, tired of reading books with facts and statistics? Yes, so was I.
   
   This book is a great, fun read. The main character Jim (the author James Salant) keeps you on the edge of your seat.
   
   James doesnt waste your time trying to give you statistics on drugs, drug use or even how meth is produced.
   
   This is his story of addiction, from beginning to end. Its not a pretty journey through the countryside, but rather a long walk down a dirty, dangerous back alley.
   
   Meth use is a disgusting, but growing problem in the U.S. This book gives you one mans glimpse of what it was like being hooked on it!!!



5. Salant's book is by far the best memoir of drug addiction I've ever read.
   
   It's precisely the relative absence of shock-for-shock's sake that made this book such a satisfying read. As described by Salant, a drug addict's world isn't exciting; it's just sordid (which Salant acknlowedges in recounting some of the gross and/or unsavory things he did while addicted. Those of us who like to read about unsavory things done by other people - and I'm one of them - do get their money's worth in this memoir). But it's his writing that struck me as singular.
   
   Told by a less talented writer, this story could have been ho-hum. But Salant writes with great clarity and economy, and seems objective as he can be in a book about himself. He does talk about writing poetry in the book, though sometimes he lied about that so his parents would send him money, so I'm not sure how much poetry he actually wrote!
   
   But as for his prose, Salant writes as if he's been writing forever - he's that good. He's an extremely talented young writer, and thanks to that, this book wasn't the cobbled-together addiction exploitation book it very easily could have been.
   
   Another reviewer said he (or she) would have liked more about his recovery. I think that might have been too much; I think Salant was right in leaving off where he did. And for an addict or alcoholic, there is always the chance of relapse; it's risky talking about your "recovery" when you're still in your early 20s. That's just my view, of course.
   
   But this one's absolutely well worth reading.

5 comments about Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio.

1. My son will read this in school this year in 6th grade, so I read it when we purchased it. I could not put it down. It was a great book. I will look for more by this author!
   
   I am also impressed by our school system - this story will give our 6th graders perspective on what real 'problems' are - not just the trivial things preteens and teens are usually concerned about.



2. In our modern age of vaccinations, it seems inconceivable that in 1949, 42,033 cases of polio were diagnosed. It was a disease without a vaccine or antidote that meant excruciating pain, followed by extensive physical therapy assuming that the patient didn't die from complications. There are three main variants: spinal polio, which causes rapid paralysis of the arms and legs (generally asymmetrical), bulbar polio, which causes difficulty breathing and swallowing (and frequently requiring the use of iron lungs as breathing muscles and mechanisms are greatly weakened), and respiratory polio, a combination of the above two. Peg Kehret was twelve years old when she contracted respiratory polio; she was the only victim in her small Minnesota town that year.
   
   Peg recounts her terrifying illness in a very matter-of-fact yet gripping narrative. Paralysis set in rapidly, and she had a fever of 102 for nearly a week as her muscles weakened, requiring her to use an oxygen tent. But Peg was lucky; once her fever breaks (aided by a contraband chocolate milkshake), her recovery is much more rapid than her fellow hospital and rehab roommates. Even though Peg is nearly a teenager, there are small poignant touches of the remnants of childhood; her brother Art sent her a teddy bear that had to be burned once she left the polio ward, and her mother recommended that she donate her old books and toys to the children's polio ward. Peg resists, recalling happy memories with her old books and toys, and is dismayed to find that her parents have redecorated her old room as a surprise.
   
   Peg is an engaging narrator who brings a distant era to life through radio dramas such as The Lone Ranger and the simplicity of a time where books and friendships filled our hours instead of electronics. Her rehabilitation is tempered with humor and spirit; no self-pity here, only the desire to become the best she can be. The Sister Kenny method of polio treatment is described in detail, along with physical and occupational therapy exercises. Peg has a crush on Dr. Bevis, a handsome doctor who makes her feel special by painting her toenails when she's still in intensive care, and promises him that she'll return to walk for him. She makes friends with several other girls recovering from polio, including the bitter Alice, who's lived at the rehabilitation center for ten years after her parents couldn't care for her. The girls are brought together by their shared experiences as polio survivors, and Peg is apprehensive about rejoining her school and the outside world.
   
   The novel is brought full-circle by the sad mention that Peg, along with her former roommates, suffers from post-polio syndrome; around 25% of childhood polio sufferers develop additional symptoms decades after the initial infection, including muscle weakness, fatigue, or paralysis. After working so hard to overcome polio, she's certainly not giving in now. There are also vintage photographs of the author and her roommates scattered throughout. A marvelous introduction to polio's debilitating effects and the power of positive thinking on recovery.



3. Small steps was an enjoyable book and i would definatley recommend it to all of my friends. During this story, a polio patient named Peg, changes, not facial or look wise but mentally. At first she would worry about winning first in something however when she gets diagnosed with polio those worries change. Now she worries about whether she'll make it or not, and she realizes how lucky she really was without the polio. One of my favorite things abobut peg is that she can always take a sad thing and make it better, such as whenshe needs a wheelchair, instead of outing she learns how to wheelie on it! there is one thing i would warn you about; there isnt a lto of dialoge. If you love dialoge and cant get enough of it, then you are just like me! I dont really like books without dialoge. however, when i read this book I realized it has enough dialoge to keep me coming back for more. Although i really like the way it was written too. When in saw that this was a biography, i hesitated to pick it up. But when i started to read, i realized that this wasnt one of the ordinary boring biographies, but a biography written in fictioin form! Also, if your looking for a book written by the author then that is anothter reasen for you to, go out and get this book. Small steps is written in frist person. The plpot of this book is very easy to follow now read carefully; a 12 year old girl named peg is diagnosed with polio, and is taken to many different hospitals. While she is being transfered, she is fighting with all of her gut to kick this polio out of her system. That is as far as i am going with that.
   Wait there is more, if you are also not a fan of long expositions; this book is probably the best one or you. Tyeh exposition is npt long at all. It simply describes where Peg lives how old she is and what she like sto do, and then the action starts.
   
   p.s. if you are going to read this book i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did!



4. My daughter, age 9, was assigned to read this book as part of a Reading Olympics program in her school. I found it at the library and read the first chapter to her while we were still in the library. She did not want me to stop reading. We read it together every night after she had finished her homework. She was so fascinated with Peg Kehret's story that she would work hard to finish her homework in order to leave time for reading before bed. I highly recommend this book for older elementary and middle school age children. The author offers a very engaging glimpse of her experience as a child their age going through an enormously difficult and challenging ordeal. Her courage and humor in the face of her disease will give children insight into coping skills they can use someday.



5. This book is a must if you are looking for a book for your Mother/Daugther book club. We read it when our daughters were 10 yrs. old, but you could certainly be older. All the moms loved it.

3 comments about Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope.

1. Memory is a tricky thing. Decades later, looking back at a time when you were young, in a foreign land and under fire, you can be forgiven if you mistake a few things. In the case of Alan Cope, former U.S. soldier in World War II, there are only a few stumbling blocks in his recollections, but illustrator Emmanuel Guibert has wisely left them intact in ALAN'S WAR. They are few and far between, it seems, and they only serve to render Alan's story all the more human.
   
   To provide just a short background: Guibert met Cope in the mid-'90s by chance, when Guibert asked him for directions. A native of France, Guibert was intrigued by Cope, an American expatriate now living in France. Cope was born in a coastal town in California and drafted into the war immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He did his job, like millions of other men in the greatest generation, and saw the world. He did so without fanfare, and some 50 years later, he still didn't expect any. Cope passed away in 1999, but over their five-year friendship, Cope shared many of his war stories with Guibert, a talented artist who would draw those stories under Cope's guidance. The stories were printed in France, where they were warmly received. Now they've been released here in the United States.
   
   Cope, despite being incredibly open in the sharing of his war stories, was nonetheless a very private man, and Guibert respects that. He recorded their conversations and uses Cope's own words to narrate ALAN'S WAR. It makes it even more personal and renders this long-ago era even more immediate to see Cope's words on the page. There's an innocence at the beginning of the book that speaks to the nature of the world at the time, yet there's also a universality to what Cope experiences that translates through the decades.
   
   When Cope and his fellow draftees miss their train to boot camp, they know they're in trouble. So they decide to enjoy their remaining time by seeing the sights of New York City. In another book, it would almost be a throwaway tale, not worthy of remembering or spotlighting. Here, it becomes a tender look at the playfulness of boys headed off to war, not knowing which, if any, of them would survive the experience.
   
   Cope was an interesting man, and the years that passed since the war did not dull his insight. He kept a soft-spoken viewpoint that allowed him to modestly and subtly detail the friendships he developed and the brutal experiences he endured without ever dwelling in sentimentality. That was his rare gift as a storyteller, and Guibert's knowing move to leave it intact. Better still, Guibert's illustrations shine through with startling clarity in black and white. Cope's stories deserve no less.
   
   --- Reviewed by John Hogan



2. Emmanuel Guibert created "Brune" in 1992, a comics style story about the rise of fascism during the 1930s. He then did several comics for "Lapin", a French magazine, including 'La Guerre d'Alan.' It told the war experiences of Guibert's friend Alan Ingram Cope, an American soldier in World War II.
   
   'La Guerre d'Alan' has now been translated into English and will appear in a number of installments. This first volume is an absolute triumph: the drawings are superb and the text has an honest, direct quality that is very compelling.
   
   If you like this novel, take a look at the wonderful comic novel The Professor's Daughter created by Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Guibert. It tells the tale of a love affair between a professor's daughter and the mummy of Imhotep IV in Victorian London. The sepia tones make London appear as it did 100 years ago; Guibert has drawn Alan's War in stark black and white tones that reflect the World War II as seen through war photographers's camera lens.
   
   The Amazon extract is very good, but check out Macmillan's website at the link in the first Comment; the extracts are much clearer and really sell the book all on their own. This book brought World War II home to me as very few other books have been able to do. Wonderful!
   
   Robert C. Ross 2008



3. 
   
   As modern day North americans, we cannot appreciate the experiences soldiers had. Even with our technically superior computer generated, the memories and emotions that real soldiers lived through cannot be equalled.
   
   Alan Cope and Emmanuel Guibert met by happenstance, and the collaboration that resulted is marvelous. Alan Cope tells us through Emmanuels' art his life as a soldier. Drafted at age 18, he joined the army to fight a guy named Adolph. His travels through France, Switzerland, Germany, California, and all points Europe are fascinating. This book is his journal, rendered in charming art that brings to life significant events and people that changed him from naive youth to wisened veteran.
   
   It is clear that war changes people. While there are no atheists in foxholes, after the experience can turn believers into atheists or scar them forever. Alan was changed. His friends Gerhart and Vera were changed. Jako was changed. Landis changed. In the end, each went on with their lives based on their previous experiences.
   
   As a reader, I was entranced by the simple narrative tone of the book. It was almost like Private Alan Cope was right beside me as I lived his life from training to his final years. While we could not smell the smells of the Alps as he hiked on Sundays, or the fresh dew of the French countryside,or the smell of German cooking, we can feel the effect on Alan. We cannot feel the horror of war, or the physcial exhaustion his training, the pain at losing friends, but we can feel the effect on Alan.
   
   One thing about this book that I loved was the sheer variety of 'famous' people that Alan (or his close friends) knew. I also loved the depth of his relationships with his fellow soldiers, and his determined effort to not let his friendships die. One thing is very clear, Emmanuel's friendship is echoed in this book.
   
   Reading this volume, I almost feel myself reaching over and pouring Alan a snifter of brandy and listening spellbound as the evening sun falls.
   
   Thank you Emannauel and Alan for sharing this deep friendship with us.
   
   Www.firstsecondbooks.com
   
   Tim Lasiuta

5 comments about The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir.

1. Very happy with my purchase and the timely fashion in which it arrived. Purchased several copies for a book club.



2. If you're Hmong, it's a must read. If you're not, it's still a must read.
   
   Why? Yang's writing style warms the heart and soul. The personal journey, the family journey, and the journey of reading this book will make many of us a better human being--for it reminds most of us of the things we forget: life is precious, family is precious, and the ability to turn one's dream (publishing the book) into a reality that others are touched by is too, precious...and priceless.
   
   Looking forward to the next book.
   
   Patch Xiong



3. The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
   
   The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
   
   The Hmong are an indigenous Lao people who were uprooted after the Vietnam War. Many of them immigrated to the upper Midwestern United States, where they encountered culture shock, rejection and sometimes violence. In her intimate memoir "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir" Kao Kalia Yang recounts her experiences coming to Minnesota in the 1970's. She and her sister spoke no English and couldn't read, so they were shunted from school to school. Her family was placed in a converted military barracks with other refugees. Relying on clan and family associations, they established their own diaspora. Food, clothing and transportation were in short supply.
   The experience of the Hmong mirrors that of many immigrants, from those who arrived from Russia, Poland and Ireland in the first wave of immigration in the last centtury to those now arriving from Mexico, El Salvador and the Caribbean.
   Like the second and third generation of other immigrants, the Hmong have established themselves in the professions, academia and business. Yang herself graduated from college and graduate school and has a start-up business providing service to other immigrants. She has written a heartfelt and moving memoir of her life as a refugee from the tropics of Southeast Asia to the snowswept prairies and lakes of Minnesota. I highly recommend her book, as well as "I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience."
   I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience



4. Living as a young child in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand in the 1980s, Kao Kalia Yang says she "discovered the shapes of stories, how to remember them, and how to tell them." Her memoir, The Latehomecomer, is a heartrending account of those stories, from her parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins and siblings--a chronicle of a people who "had not had the opportunity to write their stories down" and whose history is shamefully absent from American accounts of the Vietnam War. The Latehomecomer is also an insightful narrative of Yang's own formation: an émigré becoming an American and a sad, silent child becoming a writer of remarkable wisdom.
   
   The Latehomecomer is a triumph--a testimony to the most beautiful and the most terrible of our humanity. Yang writes with the confidence of one who knows that her family's story is one worth telling. Her story is compelling in its scope of historical events alone. It is a must-read for its lucid portrayal of Hmong immigrants, the lasting effects of the Vietnam War, and the struggles of a people betrayed by our nation's failures during and after that war. But what makes Yang's memoir astonishingly beautiful is the rendering of those events by someone who has been learning from her first years of life how to be a truly gifted storyteller.



5. This is a stunning book, beautifully written by a courageous, young woman with incredible talent as a writer. The best non-fiction book I've read this year and I read a lot of them. Kalia shares the emotional and physical realities of her family's life in Laos during the secret war and the attempted genocide of her Hmong people, the difficulties of life as a refugee and the camps where they live, and the immigrant experience in adjusting to a very different life in America. Also a fascinating insight into the culture of a group that is overlooked in the immigrant stories and experience in the US.

5 comments about My Story: Illustrated Edition.

1. I have always been a fan of Marilyn Monroe. I finally decided to read a little more indepthly about her and thought there would be no better place to start than with her own words.
   
   The book is just fascinating. Although parts were miserable (mostly about her childhood), it was such a brief glimpse that her light spirit remains intact. This book was a real treat since I find her absolutely fascinating.
   
   The eerie entries that almost seem to foreshadow her gradual demise are so coincidental, I wonder if that was not her friend Ben Hecht embellishing after the fact. And even though some people say she could not have written this, I see her voice in the phrasing and choice of words. My only complaint that the book, like her life, was too short.
   
   Highly recommend.



2. Lately I have been on a Marilyn Monroe reading Jag (I do recommend "Misfits Country") that was brought on by watching most of her films. This book offers unique insights as it is Marilyn in her own words. She covers everything from her early childhood, to her rise to stardom, and her rocky marriage to Joltin Joe DiMaggio. There are nuggets here that explain much about how she went from Norma Jean to Marilyn Monroe, and some interesting foresight as to her demise. The books only weakness is that it is way to short, there is so much more I wanted to hear Marilyn talk about....



3. This book is amazing!! Marilyn vividly descirbes her good/bad expierences and her dreams of becoming a famous actress. When reading the book it feels like your going back in time and watching Marilyn grow into one of the most memorable, sensitive, and discredited actress of all time. During some parts I have to admit, I felt chills up my spine and was a little spooked. I have never been able to complete this book because I know that it will not have a happy ending and will forever be incomplete and that Marilyn will never have a chance to try some of the things that she longed for. I would highly recomend that you would read other books on Marilyn before reading her autobiography. You should know some of the people and events in her life because there are no explainations and a reader my get confused.



4. I was so impressed with this book I brought a copy for my friend, this book is really easy reading (great for bedtime) and quite an insight to Marilyn Monroe's own personal biography, the pictures are fantastic and this is a must for any Marilyn Monroe fan an absolute must for any fan's collection. Most enjoyable, if I hadn't broughtit already I'd buy it again.



5. I've read that this book was not actually written by Marilyn. Despite this, I do like the way the story was put together/told. Even though it leans toward depressing, it's still a very interesting read. This book would be better as a much smaller paperback with fewer photos. We know what she looks like. The space fillers can distract. They are great photos, but perhaps limiting them, making them smaller and fitting them onto smaller sheets of paper, or placing them at the end might be better. Smaller paperbacks are easier to take everywhere with you.

5 comments about One Ranger Returns (Bridwell Texas History Series).

1. Book No. 1 was by far the best, but I enjoyed this book as well. There were some good stories about his family.



2. Sometimes there is not enough material for a second book, and this sequel is proof of that fact. Mr. Jackson has interesting tales to tell; his wife and sons do not. I highly recommend One Ranger; the "Return" should have stayed away.



3. Couldn't put the book down. Great sequel to his first. A great sense of history in plain spoken words. Hope he writes another.



4. Seemed a reach to have enough material for a second book--not as interesting as the first book.



5. Nice to hear the other side of the story. Joaquin Jackson's books are a good read.

5 comments about Why Women Should Rule the World.

1. Just an outstanding storied and fact based writing. Excellent insight into the inner workings of the White House Executive office. A motivating portrayal of one woman in a high pressure job working with the Washington press corps along with our top political officials.



2. I find it interesting that those who have cried for 'equality' for so long and finally found that they have had equal rights to run for office, start a business, vote as they choose, develop field programmable logic arrays, clean sewers, scrape hogs, build OC-12 data networks, become prison guards, etc etc ... now find that the best solution for the world going forward is for they, themselves, to advocate the very solution of discrimination that they suffered from only in reverse?
   
   Why do you 'hate' men so badly? This concept is as repugnant as saying people of color should be ruled by white folks. There are good and bad irrespective of color.
   
   Why can't we concentrate on helping 'everyone' do better, rather than such broadly blatant discrimination base upon the shape of genetailia?
   
   Bruce



3. I have followed Dee Dee's career since she worked for Bill Clinton, and i find her book funny, and informative. I'm certain that if women ruled the world, we would be in better shape then we are. Thanks Dee Dee for putting my beliefs on paper.



4. I bought the book for my wife, who was complaining about how unfair the world is to women--and quite rightly so. Speaking for myself, I agree with Dee Dee Myers thesis, but it is hidden behind a lot of wonky poli-sci verbiage.



5. Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2SW8VFXLFH3QQ Here's my video review. I should warn readers though that Myer's book is more a memoir than an analytical work. Thanks for clicking in, Bernard

5 comments about Run, Baby, Run.

1. Run, Baby Run is a powerful book. I bought this as a gift to a mother who had difficulty holding hope and faith for her troubled son who was on drugs and living a life as such. Knowing Nicky's testimony from this scene I saw God's love and power to deliver anyone. It's such a faith strengthener and builder. We see our great God in action helping our young people regardless of their circumstnces. I highly recommend Run, Baby Run.



2. I know this is an older book,but it is still just as good as when it was written.A testimony is always a great story.it is the story of how GOD Changed his life,and it builds faith. It made me cry,laugh,and a little sad at times.But mostly,i have more faith because of it! Thank You JESUS! That is what Jesus does,he takes what was intended for bad and makes it good-If we let him! and Nicki Cruz Let him! Amen,Amen,Amen! MUST READ!



3. I remember reading about Nicky Cruz in David Wilkerson's infamous book, The Cross and The Switchblade. I was in awe by his conversion and wanted to read about his life firsthand. I enjoyed reading his perspective on meeting Pastor Wilkerson for the first time and what he thought about him. I also was inspired by how God radically changed his life. It just goes to show you that with God all things are possible and how we should never give up hope on others.



4. Should be required reading for every Christian. Tells the story of a gang member whose life is turned around.



5. This true story of Nicky Cruz is the same one that I read 38 years ago this summer. I was 15 then and even now I remember it extremely well, as it was the beginning of a 180 degree turn around in my life. I would recommend it to anyone young, as I just bought this copy for my 18 year old son.