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The "real" Robert Gould Shaw is in these pages.......2006-04-02
If, like me, you have seen the film "Glory", where Matthew Broderick plays Col. Robert Gould Shaw, white commander of the black 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War, you will see only a brief a glimpse of who Shaw was in his short life. Broderick does a masterful job of capturing some of Shaw's personality, but if you want to get inside this young man's head and find out who he really was, I highly recommend reading the book, "Blue Eyed Child of Fortune", ed. by Russell Duncan.
This collection of Shaw's letters shows a far more complex and conflicted young man than Broderick was given a chance to play. While his parents burned with the abolitionist spirit of Boston's intellectual elite, Shaw struggled with his own prejudices and his own self doubts throughout his short life. Never an exemplary student, he dropped out of Harvard to work in his uncle's New York firm, but rapidly found the work boring and unsuited to him. Struggling to find his place in the world, the Civil War came along and gave him a sense of purpose and direction.
Enlisting first in the 7th New York Guards, he served until his enlistment was up, and then joined the 2nd Massachusetts, gaining position as an officer. He "saw the elephant" at Winchester, Antietam and Cedar Mountain, was slightly wounded in two of those engagements, and found out first hand about the horrors of war. During winter camp in 1862-63, his father visited with word that Shaw had been tapped by Massachusetts Governor John Albion Andrew to command a new black regiment. At first, Shaw refused this offer on the basis that he felt a strong bond with the men he had fought and bled with, but then changed his mind and accepted the position of Colonel of the 54th Massachusetts.
Returning home to Boston to take command of his new regiment, he was deeply conflicted over whether these men would pan out to be good soldiers, but as time wore on and they proved their worth, Shaw's respect for his men grew, as did their respect for their commanding officer. After three months training, they left for duty in South Carolina after a grand parade down Boston streets. Shaw chafed for some action for his men, and the first that they saw was the tragic raid and burning of Darien, Georgia under the command of Kansas jayhawker Col. James Montgomery. Shaw was outraged at this action and very nearly refused his orders from his commanding officer, but reluctantly had to obey and ask his men to do what he felt was utterly immoral and against the codes of war. He would write letters of protest to his father and to others.
Eventually, in his quest for real action for his men, they were assigned a diversionary action on James Island to allow Union troops to land on nearby Morris Island for a planned assault on Fort Wagner a few days later. Sustaining light casualties in a skirmish, Shaw was impressed that his men were indeed up to snuff as soldiers, and so, a few days later, after a long exhausting march in a storm to Morris Island during which they got no rest, they were assigned to the lead attack column on Fort Wagner on the evening of July 18, 1863.
Sadly, Union intelligence on Ft. Wagner was badly flawed. It was originally thought that the fort held a complement of only 300 men and that after days of relentless shelling by the Union navies, that the fort would be softened up enough to withstand a frontal Union assault. However, most of Wagner's nearly 1500 men were in a massive bombproof riding out the shelling, and so, when the Union assault began with the 54th leading the attack column, they took the heaviest casualties, including the young Col. Shaw, who foresaw his own demise while speaking to Lt. Col. Edward "Ned" Hallowell, his second-in-command, while on a steamer on the way to their assignment: "If I could only live a few weeks longer with my wife, and be at home a little while, I might die happy, but it cannot be. I do not believe I will live through our next fight."
Rather unfortunately, Shaw was right. He was killed upon reaching the parapets of Wagner, a bullet through his heart killing him instantly. His body was stripped and thrown into a common grave with his men, and his father asked, when the Union finally took the fort a few months later when it was abandoned by the Confederates, that his body be left there with his men. Shaw's burial spot now lies somewhere under the Atlantic Ocean, the island having eroded significantly in the past 140 years since Shaw's demise and burial there.
This book will give you a great insight into a very conflicted, complicated and yet reluctantly heroic young man who was just coming into his own at the time of his tragic death. I am sure that he would have shunned the limelight had he survived the war to live to old age and would have been content to live life with his beloved Annie, to whom he was married a mere two months before his death. Annie would never remarry and lived the rest of her life as his widow, dying in 1907. The war would doubtless have made Shaw and given him the potential to focus his life and go on to great things had he lived to do so. Having lived so much of his young life with such rebellion against his mother's domineering apron strings and not quite sure what he wanted out of life, the war gave Shaw a brief opportunity to find out what it was he was made of. In so doing, he achieved the one thing he never dreamed of, immortality.
Read this book if you are eager to know the "real" Shaw. Letting him speak for himself is the best way to know this fascinating man who died so tragically young at the peak of his life. Follow it up with "Where Death and Glory Meet", Russell Duncan's excellent biography of Shaw. By the time you finish these two books, you will feel as if you know Shaw quite well. If you want to know a few of his men, read "A Brave Black Regiment" by Capt. Luis Emilio, a regimental history of the 54th, "On the Altar of Freedom" by Cpl. James Henry Gooding, a black soldier in the 54th, and "A Voice of Thunder", the letters of Sgt. George E. Stephens, another black soldier in the 54th. I just hope that more letters and diaries from this regiment surface and are published someday. Doubtless there are more hiding in attics and other unknown places.
This book comes highly recommended for good Civil War reading of a primary source, along with the other books mentioned that are by Shaw's soldiers. Together, they beat any historian's account of this historic regiment. Read them all if you are interested in Civil War or black history.
best buy.......2000-10-20
it's must have book I love this book
A hero by default.......2000-06-22
Russell Duncan's compendium of letters both exalts and puzzles.The job of editing the letters and setting them in the context of war, family ties, friendships, etc. is thorough and, for the most part, makes them accessible. Let's not forget, though, that the editor omitted some letters that don't support his main thesis: that Col. Shaw was a rich young pleasure-lover who fought to get back to his privileged existence, never changing this outlook throughout the war; he "never fully understood nor dedicated himself" to the cause of Black freedom (pp.1-2). So here we are presented with a young man raised by abolitionists who went to all the hazards of preparing and leading something new, a black regiment, before dying in the middle of it, without understanding what he was about, or dedicating himself to it. It's fashionable to "debunk" the heros of yore, but even those letters we have tell us otherwise, and Duncan reverses his appraisal, back and forth, several times. We should also beware of measuring citizens of other times against a modern baseline on classism, racism, etc. Apart from these problems, found in the introduction and some footnotes, the book lets Shaw speak for himself (he does it eloquently and enjoyably) and the reader can draw his/her own conclusion on ideas, events, and character development.
Bringing War to Life.......2000-03-03
Robert Gould Shaw's letters home are a very realistic look of the Civil War battles by a unique individual with many perspectives. The brutality of battle along with the emotional turmoil from such a young officer bring the war to life. The authors have given us a true picture of a brave officer and the war. As you read the letters of Shaw you want to pull the blankets closer on the cold winter nights he spent in the field. You can share the suffering along with Shaw at the loss of friends. The courage and love of family and devotion of country are evident throughout his premature adult life. God bless the 54th and may Robert Gould Shaw and all that served with him and under him never be forgotten.
Wonderful Insight Into Shaw's Mind.......1999-12-23
The movie Glory is one of my all-time favourite movies, and I've wanted to buy this book for some time but have always put off doing so. When I finally took the plunge I found myself unable to put it down. The amount of research that must have gone into this work is astounding and I commend the author on his effort! Reading these letters (and the introduction) give the reader a profound insight into the Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts and the mind of Robert Gould Shaw. He is a much different person than was portrayed in the movie and in this book we can see his apprehension and uncertainty about the role which seemed his destiny. I recommend this book to anyone who loves the movie or is a Civil War buff. It is a great read and a wonderful education.
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Great Insight.......2007-03-21
I've found this book very helpful in determining my "gifts" as well as my seven year old son's "gifts." It describes him to a tee! It has been a wonderful tool especially in the area of schooling; it gives good insight into strengths and weaknesses, areas of interest, and why children may do certain things that don't always make sense to us as parents. It certainly gives me more patience when teaching my son as a homeschooler.
Gain understanding of your children.......2000-10-13
I found this book a practical and easy to use help in discovering my children's natural giftings and personality traits. It helps explain why their personality "quirks" are really evidences of their own God-given gifts. It helped me better understand them and accept them. I feel I can help guide them better as I understand them better. I can Cooperate with God in helping them live up to their potential, rather than my expectations.
get to know your children better.......2000-01-13
This book is a great resource for parents. I intend to give copies as baby gifts to new parents, it's just that helpful. With it you will begin to understand your child's strengths, their weaknesses, those "little things they do" that exasperate you. Sometimes, I've learned from this book, that annoying habit is a key to their bent, their greatest strength. It will help you direct their interests, know how to discipline them better, understand their friendships, and communicate with them better.
Great book for parent to learn about who their children are!.......1999-02-13
Better than their first effort, and easier to understand, this book explains some of the reason children behave the way they do and how to "train them up in the way *they* should go". Two little quibbles--spanking is not an effective method of *discipline* (discipline's root is disciple--you *don't* hit your students--at least I hope not) and their insistence on putting homosexuality and masturbation on a list of sexual sins. But those are things that can be ignored, and the rest of the book is very well done.
Book Description
The first biography to explore the troubled life of one of America's most prolific, and visionary artists.
Few American painters have lived so intimately with nature as Walter Anderson, and few have lived as adventurously as he did, on the edge of society, a voluntary exile from "the sordid thing most people call reality."
Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965) is only now finding his place in American painting, partly because he spent much of his life in a small Mississippi town, more intent upon "natural forms" than upon his own place in the annals of painting. Afflicted with mental illness that baffled some of America's leading psychiatrists, alienated for long periods from his wife and children, he led a life of passion and adventure. In pursuit of nature, he rowed frequently to a wilderness island in the Gulf of Mexico; biked and walked thousands of miles across the American landscape; roamed through China during the Maoist revolution; and secluded himself in a cottage where he produced an astonishing abundance of watercolors and drawings, ceramics, wood carvings, and a mural of thanksgiving for the gifts of nature.
Though indifferent to fame, Anderson was acknowledged, after his death, as the South's greatest painter. John Russell of the New York Times spoke of the "quietly excellent power" that makes his watercolors "among the best of their date," and others compared his vision to that of VanGogh and Georgia O'Keeffe.
This compelling, prize-winning biography explores the painting, writing, and uneasy life of a major artist, a fiercely individualistic painter who -despite adversity and hardship- considered himself "Fortune's Favorite Child."
Customer Reviews:
Paul Richard, "The Washington Post," Oct. 25, 2003.......2003-11-09
"The makers of great American watercolors -- Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, John Marin, Charles Demuth-- are a select few. Anderson is worthy of inclusion in that company... Here's this Mississippian whose light-struck pictures throb, as do [Van Gogh's], with furious, methodical ecstasy, and are as American as can be. Art poured from Anderson as it does from such unstoppable producers as Red Grooms and Frank Stella. Anderson was a natural."
An American Original.......2003-11-08
It is the centennial of the birth of one of America's visionary artists, whose fame continues to expand beyond his Mississippi home. Walter Anderson has never before had a full biography, but now University Press of Mississippi has brought out _Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson_ by Christopher Maurer. It will be treasured by those who love Anderson's vision shown in his thousands of prints and watercolors, as well as his murals. It is certainly true that Anderson had an uneasy life as detailed here in full, but also an extraordinarily productive one. The biography cannot explain the idiosyncratic genius which inhabits his pictures; nothing can do that. But it does allow us to appreciate the way in which a talented man could triumph over enormous difficulties, not the least of which was a serious mental illness which prevented normal or reliable work habits or relationships with others.
Anderson was born in 1903, in the garden district of New Orleans, one of the big cities he would return to repeatedly, although his sphere of expression was almost always wilderness or rural areas. He was schooled in art in New York and Philadelphia, and during some of the time he was at school, his family set up a fledgling business in Ocean Springs. Shearwater Pottery, set on land acquired by his mother and financed by his father, was a real family endeavor, with his brothers throwing and designing pots, mother decorating them and worrying over aesthetics, and father balancing the books and promoting the business. Once Anderson returned, he took part in the effort, decorating plates and designing figurines. Shearwater was to become a mainstay in his life, and a financial anchor; he never made much money from it, but he didn't need much money for his unconventional way of living, and he was singularly uninterested in profiting from his artwork. He had an unconventional marriage with many separations and general unhappiness. Nonetheless, his wife knew better than others how to appreciate him, even in the beginning: "He isn't just gifted or talented. He really is an artist, a genius," she wrote to one of his psychiatrists. His attacks on others, and upon himself (with cutting and burning), fueled by delusions and paranoia, would land him into one psychiatric ward after another. He took long trips by bicycle all over the country, and even spent time in China to study murals there, always sleeping rough and traveling with no luxuries. His most famous excursions were of course his trips to Horn Island, the eight miles to which he would row with his watercolors and scanty supplies, spending weeks at a time, away from all humans and rejoicing in the neighbor animals he found.
Anderson died of cancer in 1965, during a hospitalization for a lung tumor, a hospitalization he smilingly admitted was the first one of his own volition. Only afterwards did his family start gathering up the huge amount of notes, sketches, and watercolors with which he had been consumed for a lifetime. But even they had no idea what they would find in the padlocked door of a little room that had been added to his cottage at Shearwater Pottery. When they pried open the door, they discovered that all the walls and the ceiling had been crammed with brilliant murals of sunrise, sunset, nighttime, and all the cranes, fish, pelicans, and other creatures that had been subjects of such intense lifetime study. It was just one more instance of his relentless motion to depict and to participate in nature for his own sake, realizing nature through art. The discovery of the room, now part of the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, is the close of this satisfying, moving, and well-illustrated biography.
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Book Description
The Secret Universe of Names explains, in fascinating detail and name-by-name example, how the sounds of a specific name evoke basic, gut reactions and what this means for you and yours. Accompanying each entry is a short biography, with a photo of a well-known personality who exemplifies the name attributes, and a rating of their charisma, power and leadership skills, sex appeal, and career strengths. The Secret Universe of names is a book to give, to amuse and educate, to speculate about, and to keep forever.
Customer Reviews:
More insightful than other name books.......2007-09-22
I have long had a theory that the sounds we associate with our entire being are bound to have an effect on our personalities. This book explores that theme in a clear and engaging manner. The introduction is extremely interesting and thought-provoking, and will have you scanning through your past, mouthing names from your life and finding words similar to them, finding your own patterns. The name descriptions are often uncannily accurate and make a good deal of sense. I highly recommend this book to parents trying to select baby names, as well as to readers who want a better understanding of people and sound.
Much more accurate than I thought it would be!.......2007-01-13
When my wife brought this book home, to say the least, I was skeptical. In my way of thinking, to surmise that someone's personality could be some sort of derivative of that person's name, was, well, sort of "out there". I put this right up there with things like numerology, astrology and several other "ologies" that have little or no basis in fact.
But I digress. I must give credit where credit is due, and after searching the names of countless friends and family members, in SECRET UNIVERSE OF NAMES by Roy Feinson, I have to say that this book is about 90% accurate, about 90% of the time. Coincidence? You be the judge.
The layout of the book does leave something to be desired. Names are not listed alphabetically. Well, at least not completely. The names are listed via letter groupings. For example, if your name were Reba, Rob, Robby or Ruby, your name would be found under the letters "rb", but if your name were Robert, Roberta or Roberto, it would be found under "rbrt". Seems a bit discombobulated at first, but you'll soon find the method to the madness and won't have too much trouble navigating your way through the pages. And if you find yourself totally lost, there is a name index at the back that is helpful.
Though I did find the book to be rather accurate, it also leaves a lot of questions unanswered. For example, what happens if your parents named you Charles, but called you Charlie or Chuck, then later in life, you took the more professional and adult sounding given name? And yet, many of your childhood friends and family still call you Chuck? Do you now have multiple personalities? And just how concomitant can your parent's choice of spelling truly be to the development of your personality? Can your personality really be predicated on whether your parents chose to spell your name "Duane" over "Dewayne"? According to the book it is. My skepticism remains somewhat intact. Can the stringing together (or grouping as the author calls it) of varying consonants really have a determining effect on how we mature? Once again, according to Feinson, it will have a definite impact. And once again, you be the judge.
Nonetheless, this is an entertaining read that will enjoy, especially if you're into that sort of thing. And if you are planning a family, this could certainly add fuel to the debate over what to name your children!
What is in a name?.......2006-11-01
I found most of the descriptions to be correct in my own and the other names I looked up in this book. Makes for intersting reading. The book hooks you by appealing to your curiosity. Aren't we all a little fascinated with names? I mean a name is a pretty important thing!
I found the way in which the names are broken down and analyzed to be a little odd. But the system/research the author used to arrive at the interpretations given must work, because there was a lot of truth to each person's name that I looked up.
Fun coffee table type book.
Interesting Book.......2006-08-13
This book gives meaning to names based on letter order (essential vowels, and consonant sounds). It gives good reasoning for why a person's name would provoke certain biases or beliefs about a person due to common words with the same consonant or vowel sounds.
The book is easy to use and a vast source of information. The book is a great tool, and very different from other books on the market which typically are limited to telling the meaning and origin of names.
The only "con" I see in this book is that it only relates to what English speaking people would perceive about your name.
What an amazing book!.......2006-02-28
I was skeptical when I heard about this book and the next time I stopped at Borders I hunted it down and read it.
Just as everyone has said -- each name description was dead on. I couldn't believe it as I turned to the names of different people I knew and read about their personalities written right there on the page as if the author had known them. I was so thrilled that I went home and bought the book online (its cheaper on Amazon.com than it is in the store, btw, so don't waste your cash -- get it half price!)
And now I can't help but look up a person's name everytime I meet someone knew and see, as I get to know them, if the book is right. It seems so far that our names and the sounds they make really make us who we are.
In psychology it's common knowledge that people act the way they think people expect them to. Therefore, if you keep telling your children that they're bad, they will continue to act bad because that's what they think you expect of them and vice versa. This book will make you think twice about what you want to name your children!
Book Description
In the exotic interstellar civilization of the Second Starfaring Age, youthful wanderers are known as Children of Fortune. This is the tale of one such wanderer, who seeks her destiny on an odyssey of self-discovery amid humanity's many worlds. Arresting and visionary, Child of Fortune is a science-fictional On the Road.
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Spinrad's Best Space Opera.......2005-06-04
It's hard to decide which of Norman Spinrad's novels should be regarded as his best, since he has written exceptional novels in the science fiction subgenres of Alternate History, Space Opera and Cyberpunk, as well as in Historical Fantasy. Still, "Child of Fortune" has to be regarded as one of his literary triumphs; it is not only a great science fiction novel, but more importantly, a splendid piece of literature. "Child of Fortune" is comparable in scope to what Anthony Burgess created in his "A Clockwork Orange", replete with vivid literary prose and a future English stirred vigorously with liberal doses of French and German too. This is an amazing, over-the-top coming of age saga about a young woman who seeks her destiny amongst the far flung worlds of Humanity's Second Spacfaring Age. Ultimately she finds herself while journeying across the galaxy as an itinerant storyteller, finding a psychological Hell within the exotically verdant Bloomenveldt where a unique symbiosis between humanity and alien plant life is evolving on the planet Belshazaar. I found this book impossible to put down, having been intoxicated by Spinrad's poetically rich, dense prose.
Spinrad's Space Stairs to Paradise!.......2004-05-04
Child of Fortune was one of my few satisfying excursions into Sci-Fi. Though the story; a hefty space opera, is set in the far future it is very accessible.
Reading the book was like being in the best "dark ride" in the best theme park ever built. Spinrad takes the reader into incredible worlds and civilizations; most are wonderful utopias. The charactors are developed and believable. This book will appeal to old hippies and the new Bohemians.
For those who loved Brave New World, the explorations of the McKenna Brothers, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test -- u ain't read nothin YET! So, my advice -- "take a walk on the wild side" and read this book before it gets burned!
One of the most meaningful books I've read........2002-05-30
"Alice in wonderland meets Timothy Leary as they explore the Kama Sutra at Finnegan's wake." -Associated Press. This is the blerb from the front page of the paperback edition I own. This understates the human element of this coming of age book. The ideas developed should be a lesson in what kind of society we want to be. From the planet of Edoku where 'reality itself is no more than a local style', with it's gray Public Service Stations offering gray showers, gray clothing, and gray complete-nutrition fressen bars that taste like wet paper, washed down with bland distilled water.(ALL YOU WANT! ALL FREE!)Complete with it's own counter-culture, the Gypsy Jokers, led by the colorful character Pater Pan. Through the psychedelic jungle Bloomenveld, this book delivers. I've read this book twice 15 years apart. The first time I saw myself, the second I remembered friends that got 'lost along the way'.
brilliantly written and thought-provoking.......2001-12-04
This has long been one of my favorite books. It is a serious, no-simple-answers coming-of-age tale, yet at the same time it manages to imaginative and entertaining, with plenty of laughs and vivid imagery. Thus the story is enjoyable whether the reader is in a contemplative mood or simply craving a good science fiction yarn.
Most of all, I admire the author's use of language and dialect. He creates a form of modified English by incorporating words from several different languages throughout the text, as well as some made-up slang and terminology. (The novel is written in first-person, thus the use of dialect is constant through the text.) This can be daunting at first, but by the time you're a few chapters in you'll have 'picked up' the language to a remarkable degree. Years after my last reading, I still remember it.
Again, one of my favorites. I'm going to buy another copy soon, before my old, often-reviewed copy falls apart completely.
Absolutely astonishing.......2001-02-15
I first tried to read this book when I was a teen. I wasn't ready for it. I recently happened across it, and decided to give it a go. How can I explain this? I've read literally thousands of books. (None of them Norman's until recently). The story is a brilliantly told tale of a young girl growing into herself through a space-style walkabout; but it's more than just that. There are ideas and correlations and connections that are both familiar and alien, none of which left me untouched. I know, you hear "this will change you" from movie critics and the like, but I urge you to find this book, and sit down and really read it. It's not a difficult read; the story flows smoothly and the humor is delightful. Don't let this one get away. Trust me.
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"Who cares if I grew up with money? I deserve this job." --Kyra Fortune, associate VP
Kyra Fortune can't believe she might get fired. Sure, she knows some people think she's a spoiled brat with more family connections than brains, but she knows the game at Voltage Energy Company: don't let anyone see you sweat. So when she's asked to accompany senior VP Garrett Wolff -- her most vocal critic -- to a sales conference in Colorado, she jumps at the chance to prove herself.
Then a car crash in the middle of a churning snowstorm forces Kyra and Garrett to huddle in an abandoned cabin -- and sparks fly. But by morning light, there's new trouble on the horizon. A Voltage conspiracy scandal is electrifying the newspapers. And Kyra's family name is at the heart of it all.
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It sparkles! Very highly recommended.......2002-01-21
Shelves of baby food overwhelm Gunnery Sergeant Sam Pearce. He understands top-secret military maneuvers, but supermarket selections for tikes are beyond his experience. So when old flame Michelle Guillaire spies his dilemma, she quickly steps in with her assistance. Not only does Michelle lend aid and rescue in the supermarket, but while Sam flies to Hawaii to retrieve his twin goddaughters, Michelle also spruces up his house and baby-proofs it.
Sam ingeniously labels the baby's feet with their names to tell them apart when he flies them home from Hawaii, even as he heroically defends them from grouches. Despite his successful transformation to "Sergeant Mom," however, Sam needs help. Once again Michelle volunteers her services, generously providing her babysitting and housekeeping skills. Even as she's liberal with her time, however, Michelle seems incredibly reticent in repairing her relationship with Sam. And now Sam wants to know why.
Author Maureen Child creates a wonderful romance in DID YOU SAY TWINS?! As these twin girls turn the lives of Sam and Michelle upside down, they also provide the impetuous for healing old wounds. Sam's desire to understand the past and Michelle's overachieving in baby preparation result in delightful characterizations that simply sparkle. Once again Child demonstrates her consummate skill at playing upon our deepest emotions with her captivating and endearing tale. This poignant tale of love and laughter comes very highly recommended.
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