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Set during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush, Rilla Askew's Fire in Beulah is a mesmerizing story that centers on the complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung wife, and Graceful, her enigmatic black maid. Their juxtaposing stories-and those of others close to them-unfold against a volatile backdrop of oil-boom opulence, fear, hatred, and lynchings that climax in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, when whites burned the city's prosperous black community. Askew's award-winning first novel, The Mercy Seat, was praised for its astute depiction of family bonds and the beauty of the American landscape. Now she explores the American race story with the same perception.
"A tinderbox of a novel . . . and one that deftly blends historical fact with fiction." (The Boston Globe)
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Set in the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush of the 1920s, Althea Whiteside and her enigmatic black maid, Graceful, are caught in the relentless currents of family and violence. Their stories unfold against a backdrop of fear, hate, and lynchings that climax in the Tulsa race riot of 1921, during which the city's prosperous black section is burned to the ground.
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Authentic, searing portrait of injustice in my hometown.......2007-07-30
As a white male Tulsan, this book illuminated for me the deep, corrupting injustice of racism and sexism that I'd heard dimly but never really understood about my adopted hometown.
I suppose a story about racism and sexism could be told of any Southern city in the Roaring 20s. But Askew's story is uniquely about Tulsa, with its oil-and-water mix of outlaw wildcatters and new-rich oil barons, prosperous blacks and half-Indian Freedmen, and decent God-fearing women and redneck Okies.
Askew brings this rich, disturbing portrait to life through the eyes of a Southern belle hiding from her "cracker" past, and a "good darkie" simmering with repressed rage at the cruelty in her life. If those labels offend you, beware; Askew's language is much more vile, reflecting the accepted bigotry of the times.
This book is required reading at my son's high school, Booker T. Washington; now I know why.
A snapshot of a shockingly bad era in our history.......2005-02-09
This functional account of life in the early 20th century in Oklahoma follows two families, one African-American and the other, White European descent. The story climaxes in the relatively unknown Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
Some of the characters are a bit characaturish, such as the neurotic social-climbing-try-to-forget-my-dirt-poor-roots wife, the oil barron wannabe, and the evil Japheth. But they do not ruin the story. If this were pure fiction, I might not give it 5 stars, but as a piece of historical fiction, I do.
The treatment of African-American's in the story and in the events upon which it is based is downright grim. Does this reflect reality? I honestly do not know, but I suspect that it does. And that bothers me a lot.
I do not think any book has ever lead me to consider the (mis)treatment of African-American's in the United State more than this one. While it is impossible for me to EVER fully understand how someone else feels, I feel that I understand a bit more than I did before I read this book.
My recommendation: Read this book.
Well defined characters in a good story, good history.......2002-01-30
Too little is written about the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, one of the horrendous race wars of the early 20th century. Rilla Askew uses it for the climactic scenes of "Fire in Beulah." That alone stands as a strong selling point for a novel.
"Fire in Beulah" is the study of two women,one white and one black, living with social outrages of Jim Crow. Althea and Graceful are memorable characters that could carry a book by themselves. But Askew clearly defines the supporting cast, including rich oil men, a half black-half Indian mid wife, and criminals both black and white.
Althea is the wealthy white woman and Graceful her live in maid. One tries to maintain strong family ties, the other has spent a lifetime trying to forget family.
The voices are believable, the historical backdrop well-researched and pacing (difficult in such a story) excellent.
Also, Askew manages to avoid cliches and writes a story that is always unpredicatable.
My only minor quarrel is that some elements of the story are not fully realized. Certain plot lines are never explained. Still, this did not detract from my overall enjoyment of the book.
Compelling, Chilling Historical Fiction.......2001-05-27
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1920. Althea Whiteside Dedmeyer, the young wife of an oilman, uneasily co-exists in her household with a black servant named Graceful. Althea has a past that she has hidden from her husband Franklin and there is something about Graceful that provokes her. Then one day, a young black boy comes to the Dedmeyer house with a note addressed to Graceful Whiteside. What follows is a chilling account of racial strife and greed over oil strikes.
Althea's past is exposed by a mysterious stranger who whips up turmoil everywhere he goes, ruining Franklin's attempt to sink a new oil well, goading a white mob into lynching and worse. Rilla Askew has a marvelous literary style that brings the 1921 Tulsa race riot painfully back to life. In doing so, she holds tenaciously to the racial views of the time, which can make for uncomfortable reading today. The characters do not experience sudden epiphanies of racial tolerance; there is no feel-good ending. But at that time and place, there couldn't be, and Askew is to be commended for a wonderful merging of literary writing with history.
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Fire In Beulah
Rilla Askew
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Fire in Beulah
Rilla Askew
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Fire in Beulah
Rilla Askew
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Fire in Beulah
Rilla ASKEW
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Few men know the golf courses of Scotland and Ireland better than Jim Finegan, and no man writes of them more movingly. On one level this is an indispensable guidebook; on another -- in the tradition of Bernard Darwin -- it is simply a great read. -- George Peper, Editor-in-Chief, Golf Magazine
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Every golfer dreams of making a pilgrimage to the British Isles, to play the exhilarating game to be found on the ground that links land and sea. Increasingly, golfers on this side of the Atlantic have discovered that some of the most magnificent courses in the world -- and some of the most beautiful countrysides -- are to be found in Scotland's near neighbor, Ireland.
For the tourist or the dreamer, there can be no better guide than James W. Finegan. A passionate advocate and a charming storyteller, Finegan combines a writer's eye, a historian's knowledge, and a golfer's sense of wonder to provide an impossibly ambitious grand tour of this beautiful land. In a loop that begins in the west at Lahinch and continues clockwise through both the Republic and Northern Ireland, Finegan covers nearly seventy courses, visiting those that have become true shrines of the game, the courses that are well known and respected, and the little-known gems you might otherwise pass right by.
Now updated with new courses and changes to old favorites, Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas is a book to be read, savored, and tucked away in your suitcase when you finally undertake the journey of your dreams.
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Slips off belt.......2007-06-28
Stopped wearing this item and replaced it with a different model from another company. It slipped off my belt too easily.
The Ultimate Guides for UK golf.......2007-01-06
James Finegan's three volumes guides to golf in Scotland, Ireland and England are literate and engrossing. I can't imagine a golfing trip to the UK or Ireland without these guides.
BUY THIS BOOK - BUY FINEGAN'S SCOTLAND, TOO.......2000-02-07
Golf in the Kingdom comes to life with real information.
My golfing buddy and I are in the planning stages of a trip to either Ireland or Scotland. If you appreciate humorous, passionate writing, then this is the book. You can feel the pace of play and exciting in his words. You can also feel his appreciation for the joy of the trip in his conversations with golf pro's, barkeeps, hotel owners.
After reading this joyful book, you'll be hooked on travelling just like he has, same courses, same restaurants and inns.
Makes a wonderful gift for golfers who fully appreciate the game of golf. Between this and the Scotland book, I think that I've given away seven copies.
a must have golfing guide of ireland.......1999-10-09
this book is a must. I am a PGA professional who recently spent six weeks in ireland. thankfully i brought along my copy of emerald fairways. it was just as valuable to me as my golf clubs. his insight on the golf courses are extremely accurate, but the most valuable information is on food and accomodations. It was amazing to have read the book and then experience everything exactly how it read. even the people he comes across and writes about, really exist and are still around interacting in the same manner as he writes. simply a must have for anyone who has even dreamt of going to Ireland. Scotland may be the home of golf, but Ireland is golf heaven. there is a reason so many golf pros (woods, janzen, duval, stewart, etc.) take trips there. Finegan does an amazing job that could not be topped by anyone, not even Christy O'Conner. Enjoy it, I know you will.
How could I go to play golf in Ireland without it!.......1999-02-05
As we plan our trip to Ireland Jim Finegan makes us realize that we need to spend more time there to enjoy more courses from the great ones to the unknown treasures . His epistle on Scotland does the same. My only real question is, Do I need a Michelin guide as well or shall we just enjoy the beauty and finesse of the Irish courses as he tells us to ?? A great manual for Irish Golf.
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good yarn, interrupted by neocon ravings.......2007-08-15
Ringo tells a good story. His experience with the military gives an interesting viewpoint, even if his military protagonists seem to be Übermensch.
But every now and then the story gets interrupted by a character giving a "history lesson" on how global warming turned out to be a crock, or how science has shown that men can't raise kids, or what have you.
It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't really interfere with the flow of the novel. It's kind of like Heinlein's occasional libertarian rants, but A) he wasn't just-plain-wrong, and B) Heinlein did it better.
They really kill the action, and the action is mostly pretty good. It almost feels like he wrote a really good novel, and then decided to go back and make it annoy scientists or something...
By my personal rating system, worth a read, maybe worth buying, not worth book-shelf-space.
Great Author.......2007-05-14
This is the first series by John Ringo that I have read. I read it on the recommendation of a co-worker who also recommended Glen Cook (Garrett Files and Black Company) and Jim Butcher (Dresden Files). If you like either of those authors, I highly recommend this series by John Ringo. It is a great story with amazing combat and tactical details as well as an accurate depiction of the consequences (emotionally and politically) of war. The characters are heroic and loveable and the battles are epic.
Outstanding.......2007-03-09
This is one in a series written by a fellow who is very good with them. The action is not the only thing. The characters and general plot lines are more important, though there is a fair amount of swordplay involved!
I strongly recomend this book to anyone who can read!
Dragons In the Sea.......2006-12-17
Emerald Sea (2004) is the second SF novel in the Council War series, following There Will Be Dragons. In the previous volume, Lieutenant Herzer Herrick of the Blood Lords spent a year and half defending that town from Tarson, a New Destiny stronghold. Harzburg hadn't liked the way he did the job, but Herzer conquered Tarson despite their objections. One conflict, one Blood Lord, was the practical reality of that time.
In this novel, Herzer returns from Harzburg with orders to report to the Academy as soon as possible. First he drops by his farm and gets a homecooked meal. At the Academy, he learns that Duke Edmund of Overjoy wants him.
Edmund needs Herzer for his diplomatic mission to the Mer in the Southern Isles. The Duke is also taking his wife Daneh Ghorbani and their daughter Rachael, both medics, with them on the mission. They are flying to Newfell on dragons and then taking the newly built dragon-carrier Bonhomme Richard to the Isles.
The dragons include Joanna Gramlich, a true dragon, and Chauncey, Yazov, Donal, Shep and Nebka, wyverns. Joanna is as intelligent as a human being and can talk; she is working under contract for the United Free States. The wyverns, however, are only about as intelligent as horses, but with some enhanced learning abilities.
These dragons are tended and ridden by Jerry, Vickie and Koo, who are also working on contract for the UFS; two other dragon-riders backed out after trying to land on the dragon-carrier. While a certain amount of money is included in these contracts, the major part is provision of adequate foodstuffs for the voracious dragons.
Meanwhile, Joel Travante is charged by Queen Sheida with guarding the Southern Isles mission from spies. Joel is a former Special Inspector of the Council, investigating the small, but bothersome, amount of crime occurring before the Fall. Joel flies on a wyvern to Washan and takes a stagecoach to Newfell. There he joins the Navy and is assigned to the Bonhomme Richard as a steward.
The New Destiny is not standing idle during this mission. Chansa assigns responsibility for defeating the mission to Brother Conner, a protege of the Demon. Brother Conner then recruits Brother Martin and assigns him six warships, a pod of Changed orcas, and a school of ixchitl (modified manta rays).
In this story, the dragon-carrier sails south to Flora. There they encounter a dugout canoe bearing Bast the Elf and Bun-bun the AI cyborg rabbit. Bast is very welcome, especially by Edmund, her former lover, and Herzer, her current lover. But Bun-bun is an uncertain guest, since he tends to spread chaos everywhere he goes. In a subsequent meeting with a New Destiny ship, Bun-bun demonstrates his talents to the dismay of the Orcs and crew.
Following directions from the Flora natives, the Bonhomme Richard follows the Mer further south to the Bermuda Banks. There they meet Bruce the Black, the Mer leader. However, Bruce wants nothing to do with the UFS or New Destiny, but rather intends to keep restoring the reefs to their preindustrial condition. Many of the Mer don't agree with Bruce, but he is their elected boss.
Joel is appalled by the ineptness of UFS counterintelligence. Obviously the UFS lacks security education, but the Naval counterintelligence officer that he meets on the stagecoach ride to Newfell is a rank amateur. Joel is going to have an interesting meeting with Queen Sheida when he gets back from the mission. If nothing else, the UFS is going to have to institute a national security program along the lines of "Loose Lips Sink Ships" and something even more intensive in the armed forces.
This book also contains a novelette, In a Time of Darkness, featuring Meagan Samantha Travante, Joel's daughter. Meagan had been in Ropasa at the time of the Fall and has been surviving as best she can ever since. Then Paul Bowman had discovered her washing clothes by a streamside and coopted her into his harem.
The author has a great deal of fun inventing the dragon-carrier. As he says in the Afterword, decades of progress is compressed into a few weeks. One wonders, however, how much knowledge was lost in the Fall. At least, the name of the carrier survived to continue Naval traditions.
Highly recommended for Ringo fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of naval aviation, counterintelligence and sea battles. The novelette is also an enjoyable tale of harem politics and higher intrigue.
-Arthur W. Jordin
The Series Keeps Getting Better.......2006-11-05
Emerald Sea, is book two in the continuing Council Wars series. It continues to build on characters first seen in There Will Be Dragons, with the Blood Lord's blood lord, Hertzer, Duke Edmund Talbot, Bast the wood elf ("a drunkard's dream girl"), and a new series of characters from another group of changed, the Mer people (mermen and mermaids). Ringo's action is fast flowing, you'll cheer the heros and hiss at the villains. And lest I forget, those readers of Sluggy Freelance comic strips will cheer to see that in the future an AI rabbit by the name of Bun Bun was created to take out telemarketers. He plays a role in Talbot's mission.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. There are characters I wish I could be (Hertzer) and characters that are close to being me.
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Cool Waters/ Emerald Seas: Diving in Temperate Waters
John Collins
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Emerald Sea
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THE EMERALD SEA.
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The Emerald Sea: Exploring the Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and
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This photo-essay takes you to one of Earth's richest underwater habitats and describes its geological origins, unique plant life, and sea creatures.
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Great book for people interested in scuba diving.......1998-05-08
This book has some of the nicest pictures I've seen of the waters below the surface in and near Puget Sound, and up into British Colombia.
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- Definitely the Right Stuff
- Impressionistic, with little analysis or insight into the period
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Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."
Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne. Chuck Yeager was certainly among the fastest, and his determination to push through Mach 1--a feat that some had predicted would cause the destruction of any aircraft--makes him the book's guiding spirit.
Yet soon the focus shifts to the seven initial astronauts. Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley
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Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
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excellent read.......2007-05-12
As a 'random' book to pick up and read, I was pleasantly surprised at the depth of information provided in this book. I also enjoyed the writing style. Excellent excellent, must-read book!
Definitely the Right Stuff.......2007-03-18
This book is one of the best accounts of, indeed any scene, I have ever read. Wolfe, with his half academic half layman writing style, explores the men and indeed the whole phenomenon, that was the American space program in the 50ies and 60ies. In a delightful manner he gets to the heart of what makes the people involved "tick", and does a great job in bringing their feelings and through to the reader. The reader can truly emerge him/herself in this exciting world of fast planes, fast cars, hope, fear and glory.
The only thing "wrong" with this book is that it is too short. I would've loved to see 50-75 more pages telling more about the "aftermath", as it were, but that is merely because the book was such a jolly good read to begin with. And, I must add, I'm not even interested in planes, speed or space programs or indeed American history.
Highest possible recommendation.
Impressionistic, with little analysis or insight into the period.......2007-02-07
You carry your expectations to a book, and this one was a disappointment to me. This book, in my view, offers a sophisticated version of hero worship. But, while showing many of the foibles of the characters, it is worshipful and indeed, facile myth generation. You get a bunch of you-are-there style descriptions - the kind of light stream-of-consciousness that made Wolfe famous as a hip young beat journalist - and they are fine as far as they go, but at least for me, I felt there is far too little substance behind it.
In spite of Wolfe's somewhat cynical veneer, the characters fall into some pretty simplistic stereotypes. You get the tough, natural aristocrat, Chuck Yeager, the real yet unknown superstar, and then you get the media-sensation astronauts, who are promoted for political propaganda reasons. Thus, there is John Glenn ("the clean marine") and a host of other less colorful characters. I did not feel I got to know much about them. Glenn, whom I worked for in the Senate 20 years ago, comes off as the most boring of straight men, which I don't think encompasses him well at all.
Then there is the period of history in which it all takes place, the Cold War. Wolfe offers nothing much of interest about this frightening period of technological competition between the US and USSR. I felt it was just kind of a useful background for Wolfe. This stands in stark contrast to Wolfe's wonderful Electric Coolaid Acid Test, which really plumbed a lot of the 1960s psychedelic spirit - that was why I expected so much more, I suppose.
I would recommend this as a fun read, but not much beyond that. It is strictly throwaway and does not demand much concentration or stimulate the reader to dig deeper elsewhere, which for me signals a failed reading experience.
Right Stuff, Wrong Movie.......2006-10-14
If you've only seen the dreadful movie version of this book, stop reading these reviews and click back to the ordering page right now! There's little relationship between the bombastic (and highly inaccurate) film version and Wolfe's wonderfully detailed and nuanced book. Although his "New Journalism" style is becoming a bit dated compared to the newer space histories and autobiographies, there's still no better introduction to the whole "figter jock" mentality that permeated NASA's astronaut culture at least through the 1980s, even among the non-pilot astronauts.
The Right Stuff; the Right Edition.......2006-08-24
This book was my introduction to Tom Wolfe - and what an introduction it was.
The country was mired in a black hole. President Nixon had resigned the Office of the President in disgrace. There was the continuing debacle in Iran. The anti-hero was king.
Who would have guessed a book about old-fashioned heroism could capture the public's attention?
Yet that is exactly was Wolfe penned. Beginning with the early test pilots and then proceeding to NASA's Mercury program's assault on the final frontier - space. A tale of good, old-fashioned American heroism; a thought, which to many in 1979 that was foreign, or at best, long-forgotten.
The book was controversial. As a New Journalist, Wolfe inserted himself into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. It was a true story that tintillated the reader's imagination. No novel could have done it better.
Beginning with an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Anyone who has ever read it will never forget its Blue Uniform litany. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines on the edge. I recall having to punch myself to be reminded that I was not reading a book about the stock brokerage business.
Although Wolfe's command of the English language is unparalleled, this edition is enhanced by the inclusion of images culled from Life and Look magazines, NASA and the Library of Congress. The photos chronicle the lives of the people and the social and political climate that created our country's nascent space program.
The Right Stuff is my favorite book. Tom Wolfe is my favorite author. This edition is a tribute to both. Yet more than that, it is a tribute to the people and the spirit that made this story possible.
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The Tibet Center and Gere Foundation present one of the world's great spiritual leaders and author of The New York Times bestsellers An Open Heart and The Art of Happiness.
In Mindful Enlightenment The Dalai Lama explains how we can obtain tranquil abiding -- the single cultivation of the mind. Most of the time we experience consciousness through our internal and external interactions. Through daily practice, if we clear away all obstructions and allow the true nature of the mind to shine luminously in the simple present moment of experience, we will be enlightened.
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