Norman Spencer spent his young years believing his mother’s story that his father had been an English soldier, killed in World War II. It was only when he went through her papers after her death in 1976 that he realised the truth – his father had been an American GI who had enjoyed a brief affair with his mother before disappearing back to his homeland, leaving her pregnant with the only child she would ever have. This shattering discovery started Norman on the hunt of a lifetime. Only after 34 years of searching official archives and newspaper libraries and making repeated visits to the USA did he finally unearth the sad and extraordinary truth.
This is the life story of a Midwesterner who grew up on the 160-acre farm his grandparents homesteaded. It's about him going away to college, where he enrolled in mechanical engineering and was mandated to enter ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps). A few months after his graduation, he became a field artillery second lieutenant. He then began training as such in Washington, California, and Hawaii, before entering combat in the South Pacific and Korea. There he served with distinction in Guadalcanal, New Britain, the Philippines, and Korea. Reading this book places the reader at the scene of many World War II campaigns.
Madame Millicent Moffett, a 92 year old psychic, is about to die. In a last attempt to make some money she solicits her clients with the promise to communicate with them from the other side. We observe five of them as they receive her letter and respond to it. First there is Audrey who is concerned about her Uncle Albert who is sponging off her and her husband. She contemplates murder but Uncle Albert dies a natural death and remains in the house as a ghost. Eleanor Helms writes letters to her dead husband every day. She has become a secret drinker and is finally possessed by a demon. Andy Bloom a womanizing writer has writers block. Madame Moffett promises to break it if he goes back to his wife and daughter. Lorraine is tired of being a waitress. Moffett finds her a job in a Spirit Boutique where she meets a handsome Hindu whose wife is insane. Lorraine learns they had been lovers in Persia in a former life. Finally Dr. Fuller a teacher of metaphysics has a dark spot in his life which his spirit guide identifies as his rejected daughter. Fuller seeks out his daughter ,forgives her and makes an honorable death .Madame Moffett guides them all into the true path, returns to the other side and claims her just reward. All the characters lives are touched by one fragile ancient spirit. Norman Spencer Graham
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Henry Longueville Mansel (1820-1871), Anglican theologian and philosopher, has wrongly been remembered as a Kantian agnostic whose ideas led to those of Herbert Spencer. Francesca Norman’s book provides a thorough revisioning of Mansel’s theology in context and reveals the personal basis of Spencer’s animus towards Mansel. Mansel is revealed as an orthodox Anglican theistic personalist whose ideas inspired Newman to write his Grammar of Assent. Located in context, Mansel’s personal connections with leading Tory figures such as Lord Carnarvon and Benjamin Disraeli are explored. Key controversies with Frederick Denison Maurice and John Stuart Mill are interpreted with reference to the party political elections of 1859 and 1865. Norman offers a vital vision of nineteenth-century theology, philosophy, and politics.
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