April 2012 | Newport Ri Mansions

Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Edmund Morgan's "The Puritan Family" explored the structures of the Puritan social and political elites. John Demos's "A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in the Plymouth Colony" dug deeper to uncover information about the lower social classes in the early American settlements. Ann Marie Plane's "Colonial...

The Jamestown Experiment: The Remarkable Story of the Enterprising Colony and the Unexpected Results That Shaped America Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is badly written and poorly organized. It contains large sections that have been paraphrased or copied from other works (e.g John Smith papers) and often confuses the names of companies, officers, and locations. The author's negative treatment of the Powhatan is one sided and no balance is...

Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs (Studies in Maritime History) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you have ever dreamed of sailing the high seas, or wondered what it must have been like to be a real pirate, then you must read this book. For instance, do you know how pirates washed their clothes while they were away from port all those months, or where the term buccaneer came from? This book tells...

Pacific Beat Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Having read many of Parker's more recent books, I decided to read Pacific Beat, which was his third book written in 1991. This book clearly demonstrates that even early-on in his career Parker had a strong talent for creating intricate plots, rich characters, lots of atmosphere and believable, tough...

Forever Young: Photographs of Bob Dylan Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Forever Young is a collection of pictures of Dylan taken by Douglas Gilbert in the summer of 1964. These were to have been published in a Look magazine feature article which was killed when the editors determined that the appearance of Dylan was "too scruffy for a family magazine". Released forty one...

The Golden Orange Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Sometimes a book takes a sudden twist that knocks you for a loop. Other times, you find yourself reading a book where you have a pretty good idea what the twist is going to be, only you keep reading because you care so much about the central character you hope you're wrong. The second kind is more impressive...

Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This was one of the first books I read about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and though I've read many since, I still consider this one of the best. It is filled with reminisces of events experienced by the author, a cousin of Jackie's who kept in touch with her throughout her life. The author has done extensive...

A View from the Deckplates: Two Decades Aboard Destroyers during the Cold War (1950-1970) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is an outstanding story of a mans 20 years association with Destroyers in the US Navy from 1950-70, researched from Ships Logs in the National Archives and is also a valuable historical document! At times it is humorous, and will bring tears to old Destroyermen and non-sailors alike!Click Here...

Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Particularly striking are the many plates which provide a rare insight into the artistic notions of a culture that generally frowned on decoration. As a document on early American notions of form, the books holds its own with the best studies of architecture, pottery and antiques that I have seen.Click...

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)R. Serge Denisoff, editor of Popular Music and Society, called this oral history seriously flawed, noting that the persons quoted are not always properly identified, and their statements (at least one of them wrong) are occasionally presented unquoted, as fact. My own gripe, which applies to so many...

Moon Chesapeake Bay (Moon Handbooks) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Chesapeake Bay includes information about Virginia and Maryland locations both big and small. It even mentions areas in Baltimore and Harford counties in Maryland. Because its subject matter is so inclusive, information about some of the major sites is of necessity abbreviated. I'd like to see a bit...

Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics & Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Through a series of well-researched arguments, Susan Juster, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, seeks to show in this monograph that the participation of evangelical churches in the revolutionary cause during the late 18th century had a profound impact upon the place that women were...

Pocahontas: Young Peacemaker (Childhood of Famous Americans) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In my class we have to do a book report every month. The month of December we did biographies. So, I picked this book, Pocahontas. There are 176 pages of interesting events that happened in Pocahontas's life. Although some of them are sad, they are written in a great way. At the beginning of the book,...

The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour and Tragedy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a must read for anyone interested in the Gilded Age. The Vanderbilts were a huge part of it, and the women of the family are as dynamic as the men, in spite of the Commodore's opinion of them. Included in the book are little known figures, such as the Commodore's much put-upon wife and daughters....

Cycling Orange County: 58 Rides With Detailed Maps & Elevation Contours Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)this book sucks!!! most of the rides are really short and the direction for the trips are badClick Here to see more reviews about: Cycling Orange County: 58 Rides With Detailed Maps & Elevation ContoursCycling Orange County takes you from the boardwalks and streets of the coastal areas, to the winding...

I Should Be Dead By Now Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is not a book that will fill you with great amounts of unknown knowledge, nor will it require heavy thinking on your part to understand. What you will get out of it is a great deal of amusement. Here are dozens of short, kind of random thoughts, little stories and anecdotes by Dennis Rodman.In summary...

Outsourcing for Radical Change: A Bold Approach to Enterprise Transformation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When I first saw this book I wondered two things. First, how is the author's notion of "transformational outsourcing" any different than the time-tested, well-understood practice of handing over back-office or "non-core" business functions to a company that can perform them more cheaply. Second, why...