AIA in favor of no-fault auto ins. in R.I. (American Insurance Association): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Title: AIA in favor of no-fault auto ins. in R.I. (American Insurance Association)
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 23, 1990
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n30 Page: p5(1)

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Calif. Assembly passes no-fault auto proposal.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on February 12, 1996. The length of the article is 479 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: No-fault automobile insurance legislation is one step closer to reality in California as the state Assembly passed a proposal that would limit most crash-related claims. Supporters of the bill, which was sponsored by Assemblyman Jim Brulte, believe that insurance premium costs are skyrocketing because of lawsuits related to automobile crashes. However, opponents of the bill believe that no-fault hinders those injured in an accident from being compensated fairly. The bill faces difficult opposition in the state Senate.

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Title: Calif. Assembly passes no-fault auto proposal.
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 12, 1996
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n7 Page: p8(1)

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Calif. Gov. moves for vote on no-fault auto initiative. (Pete Wilson): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Title: Calif. Gov. moves for vote on no-fault auto initiative. (Pete Wilson)
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1991
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Issue: n26 Page: p3(2)

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Calif. governor backs no-fault auto initiative.(Pete Wilson): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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From the supplier: California Governor Pete Wilson is supporting Proposition 200 that would create the first pure no-fault auto insurance system in the country. The law, which would require accident disputes to be settled in 30 days and would prohibit claimants from going to court, is designed to clear auto insurance claims from the courts. Exceptions to the rules would be cases involving drunken drivers or crime suspects on the run, and accidents causing serious injury. The measure will appear on the Mar 28, 1996, ballot.

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Title: Calif. governor backs no-fault auto initiative.(Pete Wilson)
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 22, 1996
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n4 Page: p6(2)

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California considers no-fault auto system.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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California considers no-fault auto system.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Alfred G. Haggerty
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Title: California considers no-fault auto system.
Author: Alfred G. Haggerty
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 13, 1989
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'Choice' no-fault gives no choice to insurance buyers.: An article from: Trial

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Philip Buchan
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From the supplier: The Auto Choice Reform Act does not provide enough information to consumers so that they can make informed choices. Conceivably, consumers could waive their rights to receive noneconomic damages and accept no-fault coverage without understanding what they have given up. The legislation's consumer info program is inadequate and ATLA opposes the bill.

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Title: 'Choice' no-fault gives no choice to insurance buyers.
Author: Philip Buchan
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Volume: 33 Issue: n9 Page: 11(1)

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Dukakis Backs Federal Auto Choice Legislation.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Dukakis Backs Federal Auto Choice Legislation.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Steven Brostoff
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 14, 1998. The length of the article is 608 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dukakis Backs Federal Auto Choice Legislation.
Author: Steven Brostoff
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 14, 1998
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Fighting with lawyers on auto no-fault called 'nuts.': An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Fighting with lawyers on auto no-fault called 'nuts.': An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
David C. Jones
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on October 8, 1990. The length of the article is 819 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fighting with lawyers on auto no-fault called 'nuts.'
Author: David C. Jones
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 8, 1990
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Issue: n41 Page: p2(2)

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Ga. insurers, lawyers debate auto reform law.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Ga. insurers, lawyers debate auto reform law.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Robert G. Knowles
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Title: Ga. insurers, lawyers debate auto reform law.
Author: Robert G. Knowles
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Date: August 14, 1989
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Ga. no-fault auto threshold challenged.: An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Robert Knowles
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on February 27, 1989. The length of the article is 7012 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ga. no-fault auto threshold challenged.
Author: Robert Knowles
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Date: February 27, 1989
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Top Renaissance Art !

About the deck

Not Really a "Tarot"

Silver-Foiled Beauty

Mantegna Tarot
LO Scarabeo
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Although this breathtakingly beautiful deck is not a standard tarot deck, there is no doubt of its ability to inspire and guide. These silver-gilded cards reflect all the delicacy and intricate beauty of the medieval cosmology that it depicts. Departing from the traditional division into Major and Minor Arcana, these cards are divided in five groups of ten cards each. Paralleling the medieval world view, the groupings represent: social stations of mankind, the nine Muses plus Apollo, the Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Cardinal Virtues, and the Heavenly Spheres. Because this view of life may be unfamiliar to those of us in the 21st century, the twenty-five teaching cards provide interpretations to the perhaps unknown Terpsichore, Polymnia, and Melpomene. As the light dances on the silver foil, let the Virtues direct you, the Liberal Guides guide you, and the Muses inspire you.

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Top Renaissance Art !.......2005-07-13

Though not a conventional 78-card tarot deck, and really an oracle deck of five suits that originated about 500 years ago, this is a beautiful reproduction of a gorgeous piece of Renaissance artwork. One story has it that the original deck was actually commissioned by a Pope, for use as a card game. This version has been carefully printed with a lovely palette of colours, and then enhanced with silver foil stamping, to make it literally shine, twinkle, and dazzle the users. It is an exceptional example of card-makers art. More than worthy for the card game, divination, or for the serious collector, this deck has very few visual equals!

About the deck.......2005-03-04

They were called "Trionfi" already in 1493. They were called
Mantegna Tarocchi at least more than 200 years ago.
The "Universal Tarot" for instance is not very universal, and the "Golden Tarot" not made with gold, so why not use "Mantegna Tarocchi", when everybody knows, what is spoken about? ... :-) and "Oracle cards" is a nonsense name that is just there for marketing. So what is the Virginian's issue?

Mantegna Tarocchi is good enough, as long the real engraver isn't known and it isn't totally obvious, that Mantegna had nothing to do with them, although it's very likely, that he wasn't the engraver. isn't that well researched ..

But the tarocchi is beautiful and old and worth having partcularly if you are interesting the development of the cards or just engraving in particularly.

Not Really a "Tarot".......2004-12-25

A reworking of the deck (according to Jonathan Dee) made for Pope Pius II during the Congress of Mantua in 1459, and attributed -incorrectly- to the Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. This is not a "Tarot" deck. It is an "Encyclopedic" deck representing a model of the universe. The number of cards, their symbolism, their organisation, and the way they are used are all very different from a standard Tarot. This deck consists of 50 cards, in 5 groups of 10, and they gradually go up in rank, from #1, "The Wretch," all the way to #50 "The Divine Light," the Source of All Things. Group 1 (cards 1-10) are the "Human Conditions" which depict various strata of rank & prestige in late Medeival society. Next (cards 11-19) are the "Muses" representing forms of artistic expression, ruled by #19, Apollo, the Prince of Knowledge. Cards 21-30 are the "Arts and Sciences" the general fields of study in Medeival academia. 31-40 are "Geniuses and Virtues," which starts with Intellect, Senses, Vital Functions, and the seven virtues. The last 10 cards are the seven Planets, the Upper Heavens, Prime Mover, and Divine Light.

The artwork is excellent, the symbolism is valid, the deck is actually quite fascinating, but I can't give it any more than 3 stars because the publishers have insisted on calling it a "Tarot" when it isn't. This deck represents an entirely different system, and it's going to be confusing and distracting for students who are trying to learn the traditional Tarot.

Silver-Foiled Beauty.......2004-11-12

For sheer interest and beauty, it is hard to beat the Mantegna Tarot. This 50-card deck is actually an ancestor of the modern Tarot which has been exquisitely updated by Atanas Alexandrov Atanassov. Steeped in Medieval symbolism and philosophy, the deck is divided into 5 classes of 10 cards each, each covering different spheres of life, or as the accompanying booklet explains, "social situation(s), the intellectual dimensions, and the spiritual worlds." Also included are 25 beautifully rendered 'cheat' cards that have short, easy to remember meanings for each card of the main deck. The images of the Mantegna deck are colored in soft but vibrant pastels and embossed with silver-foiled filligree, making each card a lovely work of art. The gorgeous images alone would make this deck a worthy addition to any Tarot collection. This deck does have a few problems however, and criticisms would include the following: at times, something seems to have been lost in the translation to English of the divinatory meanings and the result is a sometimes terse one-word, not very illuminating explanation of the card. Meditating a bit on each card and comparing the meaning given in the accompany booklet with the 'cheat' card helps to overcome this problem. Unfortunately, some of the meanings given in the booklet seem to differ from the meanings given on the 25 'cheat' cards, so again, a little thought is required to clarify the card's meaning. Finally, in the booklet the meanings of the Knight and the Gentleman have been reversed from what it shows on the 'cheat' cards, so don't be confused by this error. In spite of these minor problems, with a tiny bit of effort, the Mantegna Tarot is a fascinating and really beautiful meditative tool/divinatory system for anyone looking for something a little different.

Suite d'estampes de la Renaissance italienne dite tarots de Mantegna, ou, Jeu du gouvernement du monde au quattrocento, vers 1465

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Suite d'estampes de la Renaissance italienne dite tarots de Mantegna, ou, Jeu du gouvernement du monde au quattrocento, vers 1465

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This is the seventh in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.

Olivier Blanchard and Stanley Fischer are both Professors of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contents: What Shall We Do Today? Goals and Signposts in the Operation of Monetary Policy, Ben S. Bernanke and Frederic S. Mishkin. A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore, Alwyn Young. International Trade and the Wage Structure, Steven J. Davis. Imperfect Information and Macroeconomic Analysis, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald. Asset Pricing Lessons for Macroeconomics, Lars P. Hansen and John H. Cochrane. Postmortem on the Debt Crisis, Daniel Cohen.

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1995

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Contents: Wage Inequality and Regional Unemployment Persistence: U.S. vs. Europe, Guiseppe BErtola and Andreas Ichino. Capital Utilization and Returns to Scale, Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo. Banks and Derivatives, Gary Gorton and Richard Rosen. Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilizations: Theory and Evidence, Sergio Rebelo and Carlos Vegh. Inflation Indicators and Inflation Policy, Stephen Cecchetti. Recent Central Bank Reforms and the Role of Price Stability as the Sole Objective of Monetary Policy, Carl Walsh. Is Central Bank Independence (and Low Inflation) the Result of Effective Financial Opposition to Inflation?, Adam Posen. The Unending Quest for Monetary Salvation, Stanley Fischer.

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1998

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The goals of the annual NBER Macroeconomics Conference are to present, extend, and apply frontier work in macroeconomics and to stimulate work by macroeconomists in policy issues. Each paper in the Annual is followed by comments and discussion.

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Nber Macroeconomics Annual (NBER Macroeconomics)
Stanley Fisher , and Oliver Jean Blanchard
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This is the first issue of a new Annual from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Annual is designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.

Macroeconomics is becoming increasingly sophisticated and, at the same time, increasingly remote from current issues. As the profession loses touch with these issues, however, both it and economic policy suffer. Macroeconomics divorced from policy lacks vitality, and policy loses from the lack of serious, objective analysis.

Contents: Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem, Olivier Blanchard (MIT) and Lawrence Summers (Harvard); comments by John Kennan and Robert Hall. Efficiericy Wage Theories: A Partial Evaluation, Lawrence Katz (Berkeley); comments by Lawrence Weiss and Joseph Altonji. The Budget Deficit and the Dollar, Martin Feldstein (Harvard); comments by Alan Stockman and Rudiger Dombusch. Why is Japan's Saving Rate So Apparently High? Fumio Hayashi (Osaka); comments by Albert Ando and Paul Roemer. Do Equilibrium Real Business Cycle Theories Explain Post-War U.S. Business Cycles? Martin Eichenbaum and Kenneth Singleton (Carnegie-Mellon); comments by Robert Barro and N. Gregory Mankiw. Macroeconomic implication of Profit-Sharing, Martin Weitzman (MIT); comments by Alan Blinder and Russell Cooper.

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3.5 Stars - But I'll Admit It Took Me Twice

Wins Funniest Title Award

My favorite Grizzard book

One of Lewis's best

It hits the nail on the head.

If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground
Lewis Grizzard
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Release Date: 1997-08-27

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"Lewis Grizzard is one of America's zaniest writers."
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
Funny, sad, outrageous, irresistible, and unforgettably true, here is Lewis Grizzard's one-way, non-stop climb to the top of the newspaper heap. Of course, along the way, he drove a train and was a preacher, but the one and only life for this self-proclaimed Promising Young Man from Georgia was that of the ink-stained, stop-the-presses, honest-to-gosh newspaperman. This is his story.

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3.5 Stars - But I'll Admit It Took Me Twice.......2006-11-27

I was first introduced to the musings of the late, great Lewis Grizzard in 1988, when I was a freshman at college. I noticed even my Dad would split his sides reading Grizzard's latest commentary, so I became a fan. Then my best friend was given one of his comedy tapes, and I was hooked.

So in the summer of 1993, I moved to Little Rock, and while waiting for cable to be installed, I needed a hobby. Reading books from the base library sounded good to me, so I picked up and ran through several of Grizzard's tomes while my wife enjoyed her new favorite author, John Grisham.

I liked all of the other books, but the first time I read this one, I really hated it. It didn't seem funny, the type was small, and it seemed a third-person biography that nobody could care about other than Grizzard himself. I liked the beginning, but it didn't do much for me.

It all changed when I read the final chapters and the sad saga of Lewis versus Lacey J. Banks, a sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times who also happened to be black and whom Grizzard suspended for insubordination when he was the sports editor. The story was tragic, something even Grizzard acknowledged in the years he had matured, and he even took the blame for some of what happened.

Yet if you've read Grizzard's books - as opposed to some of the later ones where they just put out a bunch of his columns - you notice that he references things he discussed earlier in the book. So when the Banks case told of an earlier court appearance, I realized I had to go back and read the entire thing to understand what Grizzard was saying.

I did, and I laughed out loud hysterical a number of times.

I wanted to be a journalist when I was in high school, but a talent show victory in music and a momentary lapse of reason (with apologies to Pink Floyd) put me in the Music department. Grizzard told stories of the strange people who work - or more precisely used to work - in newspaper publishing houses.

The book, originally released in 1990, is somewhat dated. Lewis died before the Internet made every half-baked nitwit with a computer a political advisor, and I wonder how he would have adjusted. But the story had a lot of laughs, regrets, tears (particularly over his divorces), and a touching end.

Perhaps I perceive it different than other readers. In 1975, I moved to England with my family for three years. When we returned in 1978, we arrived in Atlanta, Georgia just as the sun was going down. Grizzard wrote about being rehired at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution by Jim Minter, the guy who had originally hired him in 1968 upon his graduation from Georgia. It was freedom and a return to the South for a man who had spent three winters in Chicago and bailed out in the spring of the same year I returned, 1978. Thus, the book spoke to me on a different level than most people because I appreciated what it was like to return back home to the native South.

Grizzard did, in many ways, lead a charmed life that he probably didn't appreciate until this book (as the book makes clear). He had a faulty heart valve problem, discussed in many of his books, that kept him out of the social experiment of his youth, the Vietnam War. He got a big break when Ed Thelenius, the sports announcer for Bulldog Football, offered him a job as a spotter his freshman year. And he was in Atlanta when Hank Aaron thumped home run number 715, a story told in this book about how he put together the paper that evening and worked 23 straight hours with a first-day intern.

The problem with the book is this: unless you already adore Grizzard, you are not going to like it. It's just that simple. It is actually a well-written chronology, complete with his smart aleck remarks and comebacks as well as his self-deprecating humor. But it is a major drawback: unless you are already familiar with a few of the stories, it is simply not going to be a good read.

For Lewis Grizzard fans only.

Wins Funniest Title Award.......2005-01-31

The titles of Grizzard's books are the most funny part of them. He talks in this book how he always concentrated on having a zippy title for his content so that the reader would want to read on. This book is his life story in the newspapers and when he was growing up. I get the impression he is a anti-intellectual common man who loved his sports, tabloid people stories, pretty ladies, beer, cigarettes, and the Elvis diet. And he especially loved newspapers. His story is not all comedy and he has many stories of his news buddies dying an untimely death. I will say that's probably due to the long hours, low pay, divorces, newsroom stress, beer, cigarettes, traditional southern diet, and lack of sleep. But no matter, these quirky characters loved the newspapers also, so they lived a good short life.

Grizzard even went up north to Chicago in a management position for one of its papers. It was folly though. He should have remembered that southerners don't like the north and vice-versa. He didn't like the two seasons of weather, "winter and the fourth of July", as he puts it. And he couldn't get any grits or pork barbeque. He alsos had trouble with an affirmative action hire that played the race card when he got fired for being a terrible writer and columnist who wouldn't listen to advice. There was a lawsuit and Grizzard was tarred as a racist from the south. The plaintiff won and was back in the newsroom again, although Grizzard appears to be a fair-minded, but naïve man who just wants a quality paper put out. He does make a lot of sarcastic comments about political correctness. Ironically, it was political correctness that helped win the suit against him.

Grizzard enjoyed the first part of his career most when he worked for a new newspaper that was competing with a really bad local one in Athens, Georgia. He liked the competition of getting a scoop before the other paper did and the tabloid people stories, such as a woman getting her pet chicken stuck up in a tree. Grizzard loved the local news and didn't really care about "riots in South Yemen", as he put it. He also did a story on a police chief who threaten him with violence when he asked him about speed traps in a small community. The extent of the story was that one question and reaction, but it got the chief fired--mission accomplished. To be a good newsman, it helps if you like making a nuisance of yourself.

But that paper got bought out by the rival, and it was on to the Atlanta Journal and then the Constitution. He met one of his heroes and then after getting to know him, found out that he was the tyrant of news room, always ready to blame others for supposed mistakes in the sports section. Grizzard also had trouble with the printer's union that often gave some workers an uncooperative attitude towards getting things done before the dead line. He even had someone called the Reverend, a printer who started speaking in tongues right before a deadline. This event made the paper go over the deadline. One guy died in the ever stressful printing/composing room where everyone is screaming at each other to get the paper out on time. They put his obit in second edition and carried on. After reading through it, I thought that a normal person would be disappointed about being a journalist, but no matter to Grizzard, he still loved newspapers.

This is a good book for finding out how journalism worked during the sixties and seventies. It's got some chuckles throughout, although nothing as roll-on-the-floor funny as "The Dog that Bit People" by James Thurber or as good a style as Class by Paul Fussell, those other famous satirists. Grizzard seems to make some errors in logic in the book; must have been the beer.

My favorite Grizzard book.......2003-05-31

I love Lewis Grizzard's humor, but most of the time, I found him more heartwarming when he wasn't trying to be funny. That is why I have read this book many more times than any other Grizzard novel. Don't overlook this jem just because it wasn't labeled as funny as say 'Elvis is dead...'.
This book is all about the newspaper trade. It tells us of Lewis growing up trying to break into the newspaper game, all the way to his life as a humorist weekly writer in Georgia. It's a quick, funny, informative book I have re-read many times.
I go back and forth on which is a better book about growing up in the news business, this one or Charles Kuralt's book 'A life on the road'.

One of Lewis's best.......2001-08-21

IMO, this is one of Lewis's best works. It is not a collection of columns as many of his books were, but an autobiographical account of his career as a journalist, spanning from his days at the University of Georgia and working for the Athens newspaper to his brief career in Chicago to his eventual, grateful return to Atlanta.

Inspiring, thoughtful, and downright funny at the same time (the scene with one of Lewis's editors planning coverage of the Second Coming is a riot), If I Ever Get Back to Georgia would make a great gift for any college student aspiring to break into newspapers. What better way to be inspired than to read one of the great Southern humorists!

It hits the nail on the head........2000-04-06

This book was spectacular. Not only did you get to see how he adjusted from college to the workforce in journalism, but you also got to see some of the shortcomings in his life. I read this book while I was in high school and it was one of the things that prompted me to study communications in college. Thanks for the encouragement, Lewis. Rest in peace.

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