PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...
Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Thomas Jefferson. The total number of letters written over his lifetime probably exceeds 10,000. Their breadth is equally astonishing -- with friends and family, with politicians, children, and other private citizens, Reagan was as dazzling a communicator in letters as he was in person. Collectively, his letters reveal his character and thinking like no other source. He made candid, considerate, and tough statements that he rarely made in a public speech or open forum. He enjoyed responding to citizens, and comforting or giving advice or encouragement to friends. Now, the most astonishing of his writings, culled in Reagan: A Portrait in Letters, finally and fully reveal the true Ronald Reagan. Many of Reagan's handwritten letters are among the most thoughtful, charming, and moving documents he produced. Long letters to his daughter Patti, applauding her honesty, and son Ron Jr., urging him to be the best student he can be, reveal Reagan as a caring parent. Long-running correspondence with old friends, carried on for many decades, reveals the importance of his hometown and college networks. Heartfelt advice on love and marriage, fond memories of famous friends from Hollywood, and rare letters about his early career allow Reagan to tell his own full biography as never before. Running correspondence with young African-American student Ruddy Hines reveals a little-known presidential pen pal. The editors also reveal that another long-running pen-pal relationship, with fan club leader Lorraine Wagner, was initially ghostwritten by his mother, until Reagan began to write to Wagner himself some years later. Reagan's letters are a political and historical treasure trove. Revealed here for the first time is a running correspondence with Richard Nixon, begun in 1959 and continuing until shortly before Nixon's death. Letters to key supporters reveal that Reagan was thinking of the presidency from the mid-1960s; that missile defense was of interest to him as early as the 1970s; and that few details of his campaigns or policies escaped his notice. Dozens of letters to constituents reveal Reagan to have been most comfortable and natural with pen in hand, a man who reached out to friend and foe alike throughout his life. Reagan: A Life in Letters is as important as it is astonishing and moving.
In Tokyo, hidden by towers of steel and glass, huddles the ancient temple known as Zojoji. It is a sacred haven where thousands of stone effigies of stillborns are scattered, awaiting the arrival of the deity, Jizobosatsu, the Shinto rescuer of lost souls. It is also the place where one of the effigies defiantly holds a small American flag. That lone statue is all that remains to the memory of the POW abuse at nearby Omori prison and to the young men who perished at the hands of their captors. After waiting fifty-five years, one of the POW survivors, Harry Kaplonsky, has initiated a lawsuit against the Japanese government to even the score: he is suing for an apology. Coincident with the litigation, Harry is being interviewed, his memoirs considered a literary gold mine. Aspiring author, Tinker, his autobiographer and the story's narrator, has cornered him at the annual USS Houston reunion eager to record the deeds that have turned Harry into a vengeful old man. Early on, she discovers Harry is dying of cancer and quite eager to divulge the truth about the abuse that took place at Omori. It is Harry’s guilt over the deaths of five crewmates that has sparked his desire to tell-all; likewise, his culpability has led to a fifty-year schism between himself and the remaining survivors. With the litigation, Harry is hoping to not only gain public attention for the plight of fallen comrades but also clear his name with his POW brothers. The legal action pits the old veteran against the might of the Japanese government and a U.S. State Department eager to gain trade concessions.
This is the phenomenal true story of the world-renowned psychic medium George Anderson—the groundbreaking book that first brought afterlife experience into the light. For over 12 years Joel Martin documented evidence of Anderson's powers—the ability to reach 'the other side'—and repeatedly astonished believers and skeptics. This is the book of those universal visions, the inspiring messages of hope, truth, and peace, and a glimpse into eternity to answers to the unfathomable questions about life and death.
Ice Stylusis the final volume of Anderson'sUnsubdued Singingtrilogy.Many of the sequences inthe previous volumes begin in a geography which is both real and subliminal: the Essex salt marsh. This is also Isaiah's "parched wastes of salt": here manifestation of wilderness, the condition of spiritual inanition.
David Martin Anderson perfectly blends three alternate realities into one superbly striking story in his latest novel. BEATY BUTTE.. Written with a first-person perspective, it is impossible not to fall completely in love with the main protagonist (Billy Bartell), not to mention the magnificently fleshed out supporting characters. The reader gets the opportunity to see three different endings to three different stories. All three endings of this book left me feeling satisfied, crying happy tears, and sporting delighted goosebumps. Anderson did not hold back on this exquisite piece of literature.There is absolutely nothing I disliked about this book, and so much I loved. Even though the book is fictional, it does a wonderful job of seeming quite realistic. I was coerced by the descriptive landscapes and mountains and ended up doing a little googling of my own. There is a real Beaty Butte Wild Horse Training Facility that tames the wild horses in the 437,120-acre area, and eventually allows adoption and homing of these extraordinary creatures. This book is dedicated to the volunteers of this awesome program.I almost instantly knew that I would give this book a perfect 5 out of 5 stars. It is impeccably edited, and I had to search to find any errors. I look forward to reading more books by this gifted author." - onlineBookClub.org.... Billy Bartell has languished in a Montana prison cell ten years into a life sentence for a murder committed in 1939 while defending wild mustangs atop Pryor Mountain. Now, at age 27, he has become a seasoned inmate without hope of parole and no means of protecting feral herds still being ravished by man. Recently, Billy’s warden has awarded the veteran horse whisperer ‘Model Prisoner’ status and bestowed the management of the prison’s fledgling ‘horse rescue’ program. This first-of-its-kind prisoner rehabilitation program offers an opportunity to save horses but not enough freedom to stop the mass extermination carried out by Billy’s former nemeses, Captain Leonard Belial. Then, a fateful day arrives when the warden permits Billy to attend a funeral of a mutual friend. Lifers are never gifted such indulgences but the warden makes an exception for his favorite prisoner. Granting Billy a clandestine two-day furlough puts the warden’s job on the line. Once outside prison walls, Billy discovers his ex-lover’s eleven-year-old child, Samantha, is alive and living with the girl’s widowed aunt on an Oregon cattle ranch. The ranch has fallen into receivership and needs an experienced drover to help turn it around. With this news, Billy is torn between returning to prison, thereby fulfilling his promise to the warden, or fleeing to Beaty Butte, Oregon and parenting the little girl. Beaty Butte is one of the last refuges for wild mustangs. Thus, Billy has to make a life altering choice (a left turn or a right turn on a country road), requiring the telling of two parallel stories based on the outcome of each choice. . . .Read the award-winning prequel, THE LAST GOOD HORSE.
SYNOPSIS: Hunting Snipes +four.... a story collection consisting of five novellas, each summarized below.... Hunting Snipes is a literary fiction, 27,000-word length (novella), and a dark comedy, perhaps, best classified under the genre of General Fiction. The setting is the year 2000, in southern Utah. The protagonist is a sixty-nine-year-old ex- Air Force pilot named William Snipe. William is a Korean War fighter ace who takes early retirement after the Vietnam War to fly a U.S. postal air route in the remote outback of Southern Utah. By the year 2000, William’s wife, Dorothy, accompanies him on his twice-a-week mail route. Life for William remains uncomplicated with his stalwart spouse by his side, other than the fact that a competing female admirer, Edna, wants him to forget Dorothy and marry her. After all, from Edna’s perspective, William is quite dashing and, more importantly, possesses a hefty pension. Coincident with this geriatric love triangle, a serial killer is on the loose and holed-up in the Bryce Canyon region. When William’s Cessna crashes in this uninhabited area, the killer comes to his rescue only to turn the rescue into a hunt, a snipe hunt, with William the prey. Thus, our protagonist is forced to flee for his life with Dorothy by his side. Methodically, William works his way back to his ranch, Little Zion, stoked by a macabre idea he and Dorothy will somehow turn the tables and kill the killer.... Colette and Cole is a contemporary story set in 2020, a 18,000 word novella, and, perhaps, is best classified under the genre of General Fiction. The protagonist is a seventeen-year-old woman, Colette Thomas, who is about to turn eighteen and inherit her parent's estate of $150 million dollars. Five months earlier, Colette's parents perish in a tragic airplane accident. This event leaves Colette alone in the world because she has no family or, at least family she claims. Without brothers and sisters, Colette is posed to assume the estate's full fortune until word is received Colette has a long-lost half-sister, the byproduct of her father's bawdy days at college twenty-six years earlier. The half-sister is an attorney of questionable reputation and moral values, who threatens to assume the helm of Thomas Enterprises, a world leading apparel manufacturer, and steal Thomas family assets from Colette. Oddly, Colette cannot receive her full inheritance until she turns eighteen, four weeks away and, as stipulated in the will, must be "of sound mind." The only problem is Colette is despondent not only because of her parents' deaths but also because her longstanding boyfriend dumps her for a young promiscuous cheerleader. Combined, these two events throw her into a downward manic spiral. Depressed and alone, Colette attempts to take her life by jumping off a bridge into the churning waters of the Wabash River but is stopped short by a storm and an errant lightning bolt. The lightning strike damages her brain and when Colette awakens, she finds herself hospitalized at a mental institution. To make matters worse, Colette can no longer speak; when she opens her mouth it instantly erupts into Cole Porter show tunes in what her psychiatrist diagnoses as “amnesia coupled with musical hallucinations (aphasia).” As it turns out, Colette's guardian angel is none other than Cole Porter and Cole strikes a deal with 'The Grand Maestro' to return Colette alive (after her failed attempt at suicide) and back to earth as long as she sings his songs. The motivation is quite clear to Cole: singing makes one happy and Colette needs to be happy to move on with her life. Unfortunately, nonstop singing means Colette may be schizophrenic, which also means she is not of 'sound mind' and, therefore cannot inherit any of the Thomas estate. This becomes a central theme of the plot.... how can Colette achieve 'sanity' to thwart her half-sister's attempt to claim the entire Thomas fortune and remain happy? The story is laced with musical scores and lessons to be learned and is both lighthearted and fun. It plays as robust as a 1930s musical comedy and is certainly a movie-in-the-making. Orson Welles and the Lindsay Park Redemption is a contemporary story set in Brooklyn, NY in the year 2020. While it is a literary fiction, it also has historical fiction overtures. At roughly 12,500 words, it is considered a short novella. In its essence, the story is about the love between a grandfather and grandson. The plot traces to the year 1938 and the night of Orson Welles’ infamous ‘War of the Worlds’ CBS radio broadcast. The story begins with an elderly grandfather summoned to quell a family crisis. The man’s grandson has an autoimmune disorder that has kept the boy in a medically sterile bedroom since birth. Recently, the eleven-year-old has undergone a bone marrow transplant boosting his immune system and allowing him to leave his cloistered habitat within six months. The only problem is the boy's patience has exhausted and he can no longer wait to partake of the outside world’s festivities. The boy is angry and frustrated as Halloween approaches and he (still) cannot revel with other children on Beggar's Night. His parents are at wits' end and send in the boy’s grandfather to quench the flames. To calm the boy, his grandfather tells him a tale tracing its roots to 1938 and the night (also on Beggar's Night) when Orson Welles spun a fantastical CBS radio yarn. The grandfather's story, while whimsical and clever, is also a serious attempt to teach the boy a life lesson about patience. The grandfather’s story parallels Welles’ yarn of Martians attacking earth and, in this case, the neighborhood where the boy currently resides. Runner Speaks is an action-packed historical fiction set post-Civil War in West Texas. While loosely based on the only hostile attack on a Texas fort (Fort Lancaster, 1867), the plot, itself, is historically accurate. The protagonist is an eleven-year-old German immigrant, the lone survivor of the Nueces River massacre of 1862 (a slaughter initiated by ruthless Confederate soldiers). Seeking help, the boy wanders to the Union-controlled Fort Lancaster one hundred miles away only to find the fort abandoned; the remote fort sits on the banks of the Pecos River in a desolate corner of Texas. For five years, the boy lives off the land along the river, alone. Running nonstop becomes his catharsis to ease traumatic memories of murders he witnessed along the Nueces. Coincidentally, the boy has lost his ability to speak because of mental anguish suffered during that killing spree. In the summer of 1867, U.S. Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers reoccupy the fort but the boy refuses to intermingle with any adult wearing a uniform. Now, at age sixteen, a ‘hostile’ raid besets his tranquil Pecos valley. Kickapoo warriors have successfully stolen the fort’s horses but their Comanchero brothers want to continue fighting until female hostages are taken. This means a massacre will undoubtedly take place because Lancaster soldiers refuse to surrender anyone. Badly outnumbered 800 to 40 and with no horses available for a messenger to ride to Fort Stockton to summon reinforcements, the boy is sequestered into carrying a letter on foot the eighty-mile distance. If he reaches Fort Stockton in less than two days, the survivors at Fort Lancaster stand a chance to live; if he fails, death will surely follow. The Comancheros discover the boy’s flight and pursue him in a twisted hunters’ game of ‘cat-and-mouse.’ En route, the boy’s letter is lost. Thus, if the boy somehow survives his mission to Fort Stockton, he must find the strength to overcome past ghosts and verbally communicate the situation to the fort commander. Jessica Collector is a short story (7,700 words) set during the 2020 pandemic in Iowa. The story, itself, falls under the genre of commercial fiction. The protagonists are Dr. Rick Gaines, a motivational ‘life coach’ age 40, and Jessica Collector, a young woman who is a professional debt collector assigned to Rick to assist him with collecting on past due receivables. Early-on, we discover Dr. Rick has a small business as a motivational speaker inspiring a flock of devotees to pursue their dreams as entrepreneurs. However, with Coronavirus running rampant, his clients are not current with their financial commitments (a paltry $50 per month each), leaving Rick stone broke and rapidly becoming destitute. With a whopping $90,000 in outstanding past due receivables, Rick’s banker encourages him to take on an assistant to help with collections. Thus, Jessica becomes his partner in this undertaking. Only problem is that Jessica uses her multiple physical handicaps to gain sympathy from deadbeats, evoking a tactless ruse (unbeknownst to Rick) to collect money. Jessica, as it turns out, is a former St. Rude’s kid turned out to pasture late in life because she no longer is cute and youthful; her ability to raise donations from TV ads on FOX News falters as a teenager and she is fired from the network. Hence, Jessica starts her own business (debt collections) and, as we later learn, because of an inspirational Dr. Rick YouTube video. Rick’s message is simple: you can do it if you try. As the story unwinds, we meet some of Rick’s deadbeat clients and the shameless tactics he and Jessica use to collect money. All goes well until Rick attempts to collect from a mafia boss who threatens both him and Jessica with physical harm. Then, all hell breaks loose….
This compendium edition of all three volumes of Martin Anderson's The Hoplite Journals evokes events and places largely in South East and South Asia as well as the West, exploring allegiances and identities within the troubled context of mostly colonial and ex-colonial possessions.
A Country Without Names offers a conspectus of human activity from its earliest imagined days and the formation of agrarian state sedentism to our own day. Its tesserae, gathered from beyond the boundaries of a single country or culture, constitute a mosaic in which might be gleaned all the fury and fatuity of the pursuit of that gilded phantasmagoria of a just and beneficent state. Whilst a certain sombreness - from Flowering Midnight's dark elegy for the English pastoral lyric, to the fate of Congo's Patrice Lumumba in the contemporary, and near contemporary, political parallels animating Under Jui-yi Shan - imbues the collection it should be seen, however, as no more than the corollary of an unsentimental probing of experience, in a collection which is both paean for the natural world and indictment of those human qualities and structures which threaten it. Ian Seed, reviewing Ice Stylus the last volume, after Interlocutors of Paradise and Obsequy for Lost Things, in Anderson's Unsubdued Singing trilogy, noted "its highly charged lyricism ... the language ... sparse, staccato, pared down to a minimum." And pointed to "its timeless, archetypal quality" to "the sense of an epic journey into the darkness of the western psyche ... One is reminded above all, in the tension between the aesthetic qualities of the writing and its political, historical and philosophical subject matter, of the work of Ezra Pound ... In the current political climate this is a book which may also be read as ... a plea to begin anew with a narrative that acknowledges the humility of our place within the universe and our responsibility to it.
On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the decisive events that led to the end of the Cold War. In penning this book, New York Times bestselling authors Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson drew upon their unprecedented access to more than eight million highly classified documents housed within the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California—unseen by the public until now. Using his top secret clearances, Martin Anderson was able to access Ronald Reagan’s most privileged exchanges with subordinates and world leaders as well as the tactical record of how Reagan fought to win the Cold War and control nuclear weapons. The most revelatory of these documents are the minutes of Reagan-chaired National Security Council meetings, the dozens of secret letters sent by Reagan to world leaders, and the eyewitness notes from Reagan-Gorbachev summits. Along with these findings, the authors use Reagan’s speeches, radio addresses, personal diaries, and other correspondence to develop a striking picture of a man whose incisive intelligence, uncanny instincts, and quiet self-confidence changed the course of history. What emerges from this treasure trove of material is irrefutable evidence that Reagan intended from his first days in office to bring down the Soviet Union, that he considered eliminating nuclear weapons his paramount objective, and that he—not his subordinates—was the principal architect of the policies that ultimately brought the Soviets to the nuclear-arms negotiating table. The authors also affirm that many of Reagan’s ideas, including his controversial “Star Wars” missile-defense initiative, proved essential in dissolving the Soviet Union and keeping America safe. Riveting and eye-opening, Reagan’s Secret War provides a front-row seat to history, a journey into the political mind of a remarkable leader, and proof that one man can, through the force of his deep convictions, bring about sweeping global change.
Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy was well established in his first year in office and did not change throughout his presidency. It was to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Soviets that they too would be destroyed in a nuclear war—even as Reagan sought an alternative through strategic defense to make nuclear missiles obsolete and thus eliminate the possibility of an all-out nuclear war. This book offers new perspectives on Ronald Reagan's primary accomplishment as president—persuading the Soviets to reduce their nuclear arsenals and end the Cold War. It details how he achieved this success and in the process explains why Americans consider Reagan one of our greatest presidents. The authors examine the decisions Reagan made during his presidency that made his success possible and review Reagan's critical negotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev—ending with the 1988 Moscow Summit that effectively ended the Cold War. They present Gorbachev's thoughts on Reagan as a great man and a great president 20 years after he left office. But ultimately, they reveal the depth of Reagan's vision of a world safe from nuclear weapons, painting a clear portrait of a Cold Warrior who saw the possibility of moving beyond that war.
The Lower Reaches is framed within precise geography, the Lower Hope region of the Thames estuary where the author was born and grew up beside a river on which the dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empire floated. Anderson lived for decades in the Far East. His meditation interrogates the formation of national identity and freights with poignant significance the old maxim that so much of British history happened overseas.
LES TROIS PAPILLONS ('The Three Butterflies') is a story about three generations of men who fall into misfortune because of a bad decisions made at key junctures in their lives. Oddly, the timing of their decisions coincides with the 28-year cyclical migration of Swallowtail butterflies out of the south of France. The plot begins in Germany in 1944, resurfaces in 1972, and concludes in America in 2000. Thus, each chapter is divided into three sub-chapters describing each man's journey until the climactic final chapter where their lives converge. While there are three distinct plots, there is really only one true protagonist, Mitchell Jameson. Mitchell is an American author who in the year 2000 uncovers the hidden lives of the other two men, men he is devoting his latest novel to. One of the subjects is his estranged biological father, a US Army officer during the Vietnam War; the other is his Grandfather, a German SS prison guard at the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II. As for himself, Mitchell is in the middle of tragic marital affair with the timing of the infidelity taking place during the migration of the butterflies. For Mitchell the doomsday timing seems too coincidental for his fate not to already be sealed. But the real question for Mitchell becomes how much does free will determine his destiny or is his destiny preordained, as if by some genetic predisposition. Will he repeat the tragic patterns of his father and grandfather? And, being a writer, how much of an illusion has his imagination played in discovering the supposed truths about his predecessors, especially with so little information about them available 28 and 56 years after-the-fact. Ultimately, the question for Mitchell is will he fight fate or choose his own destiny and reunite with his wife. Classified as a literary fiction, because of the historic perspective of the plots, this novel can also fall under the ‘historical fiction’ genre.
In the last years of Ronald Reagan's life, his voluminous writings on politics, policy, and people finally emerged and offered a Rosetta stone by which to understand him. From 1975 to 1979, in particular, he delivered more than 1,000 radio addresses, of which he wrote at least 680 himself. When drafts of his addresses were first discovered, and a selection was published in 2001 as Reagan, In His Own Hand by the editors of this book, they caused a sensation by revealing Reagan as a prolific and thoughtful writer, who covered a wide variety of topics and worked out the agenda that would drive his presidency. What was missed in that thematic collection, however, was the development of his ideas over time. Now, in Reagan's Path to Victory, a chronological selection of more than 300 addresses with historical context supplied by the editors, readers can see how Reagan reacted to the events that defined the Carter years and how he honed his message in the crucial years before his campaign officially began. The late 1970s were tumultuous times. In the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, America's foreign and domestic policies were up for grabs. Reagan argued against the Panama Canal treaties, in vain; against the prevailing view that the Vietnam War was an ignoble enterprise from the start; against détente with the Soviet Union; against the growth of regulation; and against the tax burden. Yet he was fundamentally an optimist, who presented positive, values-based prescriptions for the economy and for Soviet relations. He told many inspiring stories; he applauded charities and small businesses that worked to overcome challenges. As Reagan's Path to Victory unfolds, Reagan's essays reveal a presidential candidate who knew himself and knew his positions, who presented a stark alternative to an incumbent administration, and who knew how to reach out and touch voters directly. Reagan's Path to Victory is nothing less than a president's campaign playbook, in his own words.
The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan ; Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson ; Foreword by George P. Shultz
The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan ; Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson ; Foreword by George P. Shultz
Throughout his career, Reagan expressed himself through storytelling. Here--drawn from original manuscripts--are 34 of his best, most touching and wisest stories. Writing samples, photos and illustrations throughout.
Introduction to Sport Law With Case Studies in Sport Law, Second Edition, uses an accessible, jargon-free approach to fundamental legal issues in sport law, including liability issues, protecting legal rights, and managing risk.
Examines in text and vivid photographs a thirty-year span of Detroit Tigers baseball, from 1920 to 1950. In the three decades between 1920 and 1950, the Detroit Tigers won four American League pennants, the first world championship in team history in 1935, and a second world crown ten years later. Star players of this era--including Ty Cobb, Harry Heilmann, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Mickey Cochrane, George Kell, and Hal Newhouser--represent the majority of Tigers players inducted into the Hall of Fame. Sports writers followed the team feverishly, and fans packed Navin Field (later Briggs Stadium) to cheer on the high-flying Tigers, with the first record season attendance of one million recorded in 1924 and surpassed eight more times before 1950. In The Glory Years of the Detroit Tigers: 1920-1950, author William M. Anderson combines historical narrative and photographs of these years to argue that these years were the greatest in the history of the franchise. Anderson presents over 350 unique and lively images, mostly culled from the remarkable Detroit News archive, that showcase players' personalities as well as their exploits on the field. For their meticulous coverage and colorful style, Anderson consults Tigers reporting from the three daily Detroit newspapers of the era (the Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, and Detroit Times) and the Sporting News, which was known then as the "Baseball Bible." Some especially compelling columns are reproduced intact to give readers a feel for the exciting and careful reporting of these years. Anderson combines historical text with photos in six topical chapters: "Spring Training: When Dreams are Entertained," "Franchise Stars," "The Supporting Cast," "Moments of Glory and Notable Games," "The War Years," and "The Old Ballpark: Where Legends and Memories Were Made." Anderson presents sketches of many fine players who have been overlooked in other histories and visits characters who often acted in strange ways: Dizzy Trout, Gee Walker, Elwood "Boots" "The Baron" Poffenbeger, and Louis "Bobo" "Buck" Newsom. Tigers fans and anyone interested in local sports culture will enjoy this comprehensive and compelling look into the glory years of Tigers history.
In this revised pictorial history of the Detroit Tigers, William M. Anderson highlights the greatest players and moments in Tiger history. The Detroit Tigers begins with the team's membership in the National League 0881-1888) and covers its history through the 1998 season. Containing over 440 photographs, three- fourths of which are new images, The Detroit Tigers captures the traditions of baseball and fuses them with the memories of a beloved team.
Harry Kaplonsky is a veteran of World War II, a survivor of the USS Houston's sinking in the South Pacific, and one of the few men still alive who can recount in detail the one thousand and fifteen days of captivity in the notorious Omori POW prison south of Tokyo. It is there Harry was tortured and beaten and witnessed countless atrocities including the murder of his best friend, Curly. Only problem, Harry can't seem to erase the event from his memories, and he sure can't seem to forgive his captors for the barbaric things which took place during his imprisonment. Now, sixty years later, he's angry and on a mission to sue the Obuchi government for an apology. Since his liberation in August, 1945, Harry's life has been spiraling downward, highlighted by one failed relationship after another, five marriages in total, all marred by battering and cruelty. For Harry the suit is more than a legal means to even the score, it is the last opportunity to lay blame for his own failings. Only days from death, Harry's litigation appears to be lapsing with his demise unless he can convince one of the other four Omori survivors to collaborate in the litigation. Unfortunately, all four despise him and won't enjoin the suit. Furthermore, the U.S. government is siding with the Japanese in hopes of winning trade concessions, and vows to fight Harry to the end. The government's legal team is led by none other than Harry's bastard son, Harold, turning the legal battle into a nasty family affair. All appears to be going adversely against the old veteran. Enter Tinker, an aspiring author in the throws of a literary dry spell. She is searching for the one great story (oddly, a non-fiction piece) to turn her fledgling career around. It is the television interview with Harry by Larry King, however, that motivates her into journeying to Texas for the annual USS Houston survivors' reunion and a shot at the rights to Harry's story. A victim of childhood physical abuse herself, Tinker's past soon becomes intertwined with Harry's, the battering both experienced providing common ground. During the course of the interview, Tinker discovers the dark secrets surrounding Harry and his seeming culpability in the deaths of five crewmates. It is this connection which has created a schism between Harry and the last of the Omori survivors. In the end, Tinker must not only reunite the five Omori brothers, she must also come to terms with her own past and forgive her estranged father.
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