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Cheers and Tears: A Marine's Story of Combat in Peace and War
Lieutenant General Charles G. Cooper U.S. Marine Corps (Retired) , and
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Cheers and Tears the memoirs of Lieutenant General Charles G. Cooper U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), details one man's amazing rise in the armed forces, a man who witnessed the genesis of the Vietnam War from where it started.
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marine insight.......2007-01-30
very well written with meticulous detail to time lines, places and names. A great overview of one marine's life. The opening prologue is what originally attracted me to the book. I hope some day that this writer expands on that opening statement.
A true patriot and warrior.......2007-01-10
Charlie Cooper is a classmate of mine from the Naval Academy, Class of 1950. He was on the varsity football team at Navy. After graduation he was badly wounded in Korea as a platoon commander, served with honor in Vietnam, and had many interesting tours of duty, including the command of the Marine Barracks in Washington, DC. Charlie retired as a Lieutenant General in charge of the Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. He tells the great story of his career in a straightforward and honest manner.
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Albert Camus: A Life
Olivier Todd
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Olivier Todd's biography of Albert Camus matches its subject's depth by portraying the man as well as the moralist. Born in Algeria and raised in poverty by an illiterate mother, Camus never forgot where he came from. He made his name in Nazi-occupied Paris--publicly as the author of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, covertly as a member of the Resistance and editor of its newspaper, Combat--but he longed for the North African sun of his youth. During the years of crisis when Algeria struggled to break free from France, Camus alienated both colonialists and revolutionaries by supporting full equality for Arabs but denouncing terrorism. "I believe in justice," he told an Algerian heckler at a 1957 meeting he addressed in Stockholm after winning the Nobel Prize. "But I will defend my mother before justice." It is this preference for the concrete over the abstract that makes Camus such an appealing thinker. Todd's biography, which offers the most fully human depiction yet, is equally engaging.
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In this vibrant, engaging biography of Albert Camus, the internationally acclaimed author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has richly tapped resources never before available—personal correspondence, notebooks, public records, as well as exclusive interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, mentors, and lovers. What emerges is the study of a man caught in conflicts between family loyalties and his own passionate nature, between the call to political action and devotion to his art, between his support of the native Algerians and his identification with the forgotten poor whites. Exploring Camus's impoverished childhood in the Algerian city of Belcourt, his underground activities during the Occupation in Paris, the intrigues of the French literati who embraced him after the publication of his first novel, L'Etranger, Todd uncovers the solitary private man behind the mask of his celebrity. He shows us a writer isolated by his own success, crippled by the charms of women he could not resist, debilitated by the tuberculosis that did not kill him. The auto accident that did adds only to the ironies in the life of this international giant of twentieth-century literature.
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Terrible.......2004-12-24
One hopes that the French edition, which is 400 hundred, not 100, pages longer, is considerably better, but I find that hard to believe. The writing is unacceptably choppy and awkward, with paragraphs springing from nowhere and sentences shifting from one grand topic to another without stopping. It's almost laughable. Chock full of details and totally lacking in style or spirit, this book will only be useful to those seeking a blow by blow chronology of Camus' life - and the chronology is uneven at best (many times Todd goes back several months without clear indication).
Poor writing wouldn't be a problem if there was at least a point of view, but Todd offers us none, preferring instead to recounting facts and quoting at length from Camus' letters. The fact that Camus was such a crystalline writer only makes this book seem like more of an insult.
I was hugely disappointed by this book. (...)
Read the French Edition of this book........2003-05-25
The only real problem I have with this book was that the American edition has been abridged. Over 150 pages have been cut. As a result much of the portrait of Camus as a philosopher has been deleted. So I would recomend reading the French edition if at all possible
a biography of a biographer.......2000-08-26
If you want camus' angle on his life, read the first man, if you want an outsiders opinion, oliver todd is as good as it gets. Todd is a stickler for detail which is what anyone reading a biography really wants, so it's a must read on my list
An excellent job of capturing Camus...........2000-08-21
This book provides an interesting portrait of someone whom most would now qualify as one of the more interesting (if not most important) authors of the twentieth century. This book documents his early life (somewhat disappointingly for anyone who has read 'The First Man'-- Camus' own account) through his dallainces with careers and women to his litery triumphs.
This is a well-written and researched book, with the only negative from me that Camus comes out a lot less heroic and a lot more bitter and stereotypically hepcat and existentialist, which was a disappointment for I, who had raised him toward being a god....
A must read for anyone interested in Camus....
An outstanding and important piece of work.......1999-02-04
If you ever wanted to know anything about Albert Camus, this is the book to read. An exceptional job of research and writing. I hated to see it end. Oliver Todd is an excellent writer and his book a joy to read.
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The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
Tony Judt
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Intellectuals, virtually by definition, are expected to think for themselves. But the spectacle of intellectuals subordinating their independence of mind to dogmatic ideologies, whether left or right, is dismayingly common in the 20th century. The French call it la trahison des clercs. In The Burden of Responsibility, Tony Judt discusses three inspiring French intellectuals--Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron--who courageously lived up to their political, moral, and intellectual responsibilities. Their courage, Judt notes, is all the more impressive since they were all outsiders: Blum and Aron were Jews, while Camus was reared and educated in Algeria, far from the training grounds of the French intelligentsia.
The longest, and arguably most exciting, chapter is devoted to Blum, whose efforts against extremists on the Left and the Right are truly remarkable. As the moral center of the Socialist Party, Blum was instrumental in keeping it independent of Moscow. When France fell in 1940, the Vichy government put him on trial, but he defended himself so adroitly that the German authorities, fearing embarrassment, ended the proceedings abruptly; subsequently, Blum survived two years in Buchenwald and Dachau, serving briefly as prime minister after the war. The chapter on Camus is, understandably, less dramatic, even despite his work in the Resistance; the chapter on Aron, best known for his work on the philosophy of history, is positively anticlimactic. Nevertheless, Judt's juxtaposition of these three intellectuals provides enlightenment not only about modern French history but also about the role of the responsible intellectual in society. --Glenn Branch
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Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their time.
Through the prism of the lives of Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron, Judt examines pivotal issues in the history of contemporary French society—antisemitism and the dilemma of Jewish identity, political and moral idealism in public life, the Marxist moment in French thought, the traumas of decolonization, the disaffection of the intelligentsia, and the insidious quarrels rending Right and Left. Judt focuses particularly on Blum's leadership of the Popular Front and his stern defiance of the Vichy governments, on Camus's part in the Resistance and Algerian War, and on Aron's cultural commentary and opposition to the facile acceptance by many French intellectuals of communism's utopian promise. Severely maligned by powerful critics and rivals, each of these exemplary figures stood fast in their principles and eventually won some measure of personal and public redemption.
Judt constructs a compelling portrait of modern French intellectual life and politics. He challenges the conventional account of the role of intellectuals precisely because they mattered in France, because they could shape public opinion and influence policy. In Blum, Camus, and Aron, Judt finds three very different men who did not simply play the role, but evinced a courage and a responsibility in public life that far outshone their contemporaries.
"An eloquent and instructive study of intellectual courage in the face of what the author persuasively describes as intellectual irresponsibility."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times
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Very Good.......2005-12-22
This is a very good appreciation of 3 distinctive French intellectuals, all of whom played a significant role in larger French culture. Blum, Camus, and Aron were all leftists, but of a moderate sort, and in different ways, opposed to the superficial and dogmatic Marxism that characterized much of the French Left. All were quite accomplished intellectuals, independent thinkers, and French patriots. All were stigmatized by the 'mainstream' of French intellectual life because of their independence. The three essays comprising this book vary somewhat in quality. The best is on Leon Blum, partly because Blum, the major figure of the interwar Socialist Party, was the most important, and perhaps the least known to American readers. Judt offers a very nice, and occasionally eloquent, analysis of Blum's career as a politician and statesman. The essay on Aron is also very good and shows nicely the range of this polymathic figure. The essay on Camus is perhaps the least interesting, but that is partly because Camus' story is relatively well known, rather than because of any deficiency on Judt's part. What contributed to the independence of these individuals? Partly it was a matter of their considerable intellects and distinctive personalities. Partly because unlike many intellectuals, they were all engaged in what might be called 'real world' activities. None was content with a purely intellectual career. Blum was a prominent politician and prior to his political career, a successful attorney. Camus worked as journalist, as did Aron, and the latter was involved in politics to some extent. All were also in different ways outsiders. Blum and Aron were both Jews, and Blum in particular was subjected to anti-semitic vilification which he bore with considerable dignity. Camus was a poor provincial boy from Algeria. All made significant contributions to French life that will probably outlive the achievements of their critics.
Tears to my eyes.......2002-05-31
Perhaps this review isn't justified (I have only read the section on Camus), but this book is a marvel. Tony Judt has created perhaps the most endearing written portrait of Albert Camus I have ever read. If you are interested in the artist's life, please do yourself a favor and read this book (then read Olivier Todd's full biography). Albert is presented here in a most proper fashion: ambiguous but dignified, somewhere between Pascal and Nietzsche. (Much like the characters in his works, no?) FYI: Judt has written a forward for the new translation of "The Plague" - due out soon, I hope. To summarize: Thanks, Tony.
Monumental figures as human beings........2000-02-21
Though this book is not intended to offer three character sketches per se, it has done more to bring these great twentieth-century Frenchmen to life for me than any other work I've read. Judt is able to bring some continuity to the idea of intellectual integrity by not only describing what each of these men stood for but also what they stood against. Yes, they all stood against Communism (with a big C), but each of them stood against elements of political and intellectual fashion in defense of their own convictions as well. Blum stood against malice. Camus, against moral relativity. And Aron, against intellectual ignorance and conformity. Together they did more to defend the human condition from political and intellectual tyranny than all other twentieth century French intellectuals. This is a powerful look at how the temptations of intellectual and political affiliation need not take the place of rigor and conviction. And, to be honest, it's lucid presentation of each character nearly brought this one to tears. Deserves to be read by a general audience, or anyone who continues to be mystified by these great French figures.
I'm not raring the book, but the prof........1999-10-26
The author of this book is my prof. at NYU and he is simply amazing. He is the best history prof. I've ever had, and words can't describe how intelligent this man is. I'm enrolled in his course titled "History of Europe since 1945" and I must say that the prof. is a walking encyclopedia, and really knows everything there is to know about Europe. I haven't had the chance to read any of his books yet, but I will look them up at the NYU library soon.. I have so much reading for his class I don't think I'll be able to do any leisure reading for the rest of the semester, but I'll pick up one of his books this winter break.
Excellent Companion Volume to "Past Imperfect".......1999-06-18
Tony Judt's "The Burden of Responsibility" makes a fitting companion volume to his earlier "Past Imperfect" (1992). While that volume was concerned with how some of the most important post-war French intellectuals willfully blinded themselves to Stalinist atrocities, "Burden" shows us the obverse. Judt presents us with three clearly-written and balanced portraits of men who refused to let ideology shield them from confronting the complexities of their times. Each of these three men - Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron - were men of the Left but they refused to adhere to the (then-)standard line of justifying Communist political violence and terror in the name of the higher goal of revolutionary social transformation. The difficulties that each of these men faced in trying to etch out a moral and practical political position between the bitterly divisive ideological contests of their times, in Judt's view, makes each of these men distinctive. Yet, the author is even-handed enough to point out each of his protagonists' failures - Blum's inability to create a workable governing coalition or a rational economic policy, Camus's philosophical ineptitutdes, and Aron's rather mandarin arrogance, for example. Judt is fair enough to accept that many of their opponents's criticisms of them were justified (he doesn't turn his protagonists into saints or martyrs) but convincingly argues that each man gauged the issues of their day - (Socialism for Blum, Algeria for Camus, and Marxism for Aron) more accurately than their more ideologically-driven counterparts. All this is by way of saying that "The Burden of Responsibility" carries an unstated but not-so-discreet warning against the theoretically-driven academic left of our day. In his intelligent appraisal and recognition of three men who moved past the boundaires of ideological thinking and faced the contemporary issues as they actually existed, Judt also presents us with a model of intellectual enagement that goes beyond mere word-spinning. Both an compelling history of men caught in conflicts of their times (and Judt situates them in their epoch with masterly ease) and an engaging polemic, "The Burden of Responsibility" is an essential read for anyone interested in modern intellectual history.
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Camus: A critical study of his life and work
Patrick McCarthy
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The sea and prisons;: A commentary on the life and thought of Albert Camus
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An advocate of compromise: The life and works of Albert Camus
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Albert Camus (Literature and Life)
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Albert Camus a Life
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Human revolt: a phenomenological description
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The Sea and Prisons, a Commentary on the Life and Works of Albert Camus
Roger, Transl. By Parker, Emmett Quillot
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THE SEA AND PRISONS: A COMMENTARY ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ALBERT CAMUS
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Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, assesses the current state and the future prospects of Medicare, perhaps the most influential health care program of our time. Christine K. Cassel draws upon the latest developments in science and medicine in a sweeping analysis of Medicare's social, demographic, institutional, political, and policy contexts. Writing in accessible language, using case studies to illustrate how policies translate to everyday lives, and applying lessons from the practice of geriatric medicine, Cassel makes a powerful argument for reforming and modernizing Medicare. She offers a new vision of what healthy aging could be and delineates what is needed to reach this vision, including changes in the medical sector, in the policy arena, and in our cultural beliefs about aging.
Cassel sheds light on a wide range of issues pertaining to Medicare, including debates about coverage and the looming deficit in the Medicare Trust Fund. Perhaps the most controversial issue she addresses is the challenge of rationing some kinds of care. Anchoring her discussion of Medicare in the idea that care for the elderly represents a social contract between government and its citizens, Cassel describes both the principles and potential of a progressive approach to geriatric medicine. She further argues that with this approach, we can also address the chronic problems of our larger health care system and provide all Americans, no matter what their age, with high-quality and affordable medical care.
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Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, assesses the current state and the future prospects of Medicare, perhaps the most influential health care program of our time. Christine K. Cassel draws upon the latest developments in science and medicine in a sweeping analysis of Medicare's social, demographic, institutional, political, and policy contexts. Writing in accessible language, using case studies to illustrate how policies translate to everyday lives, and applying lessons from the practice of geriatric medicine, Cassel makes a powerful argument for reforming and modernizing Medicare. She offers a new vision of what healthy aging could be and delineates what is needed to reach this vision, including changes in the medical sector, in the policy arena, and in our cultural beliefs about aging. Cassel sheds light on a wide range of issues pertaining to Medicare, including debates about coverage and the looming deficit in the Medicare Trust Fund. Perhaps the most controversial issue she addresses is the challenge of rationing some kinds of care. Anchoring her discussion of Medicare in the idea that care for the elderly represents a social contract between government and its citizens, Cassel describes both the principles and potential of a progressive approach to geriatric medicine. She further argues that with this approach, we can also address the chronic problems of our larger health care system and provide all Americans, no matter what their age, with high-quality and affordable medical care.
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- Easy, No-Hassle Entertaining
- A great roadmap for prepping a dinner party
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Guests Without Stress: A Cookbook : Great Recipes and Menus to Make Ahead
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This cookbook promises harried hostesses memorable dinner parties that are as relaxed for them as for their guests, and it delivers on that promise with recipes for 80 make-ahead dishes that come together into elegant-and seemingly effortless-three-course meals.
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Easy, No-Hassle Entertaining.......2003-06-30
Over the years, I have collected quite a few books on entertaining. My current "job" is to entertain foreign diplomats, and sometimes this lifestyle gets so hectic, I barely want to pick up a pencil and paper to plan a menu, much less prepare it! I now find myself coming back to this little gem of a book, even when I have time to plan an event from the start. So far, everything I have made has been great, and well-received. The menus are already planned (although I do not adhere to them all of the time--mixing and matching items in the cookbook with my own recipes), and although they are not typical "family dinners," (and I did not expect them to be) they are delicious nonetheless. Some of the foods a little unusual? Yes, but I find my guests really like that. The make-ahead aspect and the countdown menus are real life-savers for me because I can truly open the front door, relaxed and ready to enjoy the evening with my guests! I would definitely buy this book again, and recommend it to others.
A great roadmap for prepping a dinner party.......2002-11-20
I disagree with the premise of the earlier reviewer, who was looking for recipes she could make for her family (including 2 preschoolers)...this is a book for entertaining, so I wasn't looking for recipes that would appeal to kids, necessarily. I was looking for ease and interest, and in that respect, this book was a success. I used 2 of the recipes (Mushroom Bisque and Lamb Packets with Skordalia Sauce) for my first non-family dinner party since my 2 kids were born, and I was really pleased on 2 counts: guests liked the food so much they asked for the recipes, and I *actually could* relax and enjoy my own party. The secret lies in following the authors' "Countdowns" so you can get most of the cooking work done before the day of the party -- something that Gourmet and other food magazines now do. This is a good source of recipes for cooks who like to entertain, if (1) you don't feel the need to make a showy statement with food, and (2) want something a little more special than weeknight family fare.
Not what I thought it would be..........2000-02-29
I am a busy SAHM of 2 preschoolers and love to entertain. I am always looking for ideas on how to cut down on prep time for meals and "do-ahead" type recipes. But when I received this book, it wasn't quite what I was looking for.
The majority of the recipes would not be well received by kids (ie: Danish Blue Cheese Mousse, Celery Root & Beets with Apple Vinaigrette, Carrot & Orange Soup, etc.) -- let alone many adults.
There a few recipes that are quite yummy. But many require some involved pre-preparation. Overall, this cookbook was a disappointment for me.
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