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The Indoor Water Gardener's How-To Handbook
H. Peter Loewer
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He's a little bit country, she's a little bit rock and roll. He's a lot Democrat, she's a lot Republican. The Donny and Marie of politics display a revealing x-ray of the presidential campaign. James Carville and Mary Matalin, themselves key players at the center of the political battles and election headlines that gripped America, tell in candid, stunning detail the day-by-day pressures, near disasters, and triumphs of campaign life.
Book Description
Never before has a more revealing X ray been taken of the modern American presidential campaign than this compelling memoir of the nation's foremost political operatives, Democrat James Carville and Republican Mary Matalin.
Not since Theodore White's legendary Making of the President series has a book on presidential campaigns so intimately recounted the power plays and clandestine maneuvers that are at the heart of American political dueling. James Cherville and Mary Matalin, themselves the key players at the center of the political battles and election headlines that gripped America, tell in candid, stunning detail of the day-by-day pressures, near disasters, and triumphs of campaign life; they take the reader deeper than ever before into the art of getting a president elected.
For anyone interested in politics and the way our nation chooses its leaders, All's Fair is a vital resource, and the most telling guide available to the inner workings of today's partisan conflict.
Customer Reviews:
Consultant as celebrity.......2006-02-11
I can boast of having a copy of this book kindly sent to me by James Carville when it was first published. It's no exaggeration to say it's amongst my most treasured possessions.
There's no denying that James brought the role of the politial consultant into the public eye. Sure, there had been people like Roger Ailes before him, but they'd tended to be shadowy figures, working behind the scenes and known only to political insiders. Carville started the cult of consultant-as-celebrity and his relationship with Matalin - an equally intelligent, equally interesting, but naturally less ebullient figure - whilst both were working for opposing Presidential campaigns catapaulted them both into the public mind.
Perhaps because it was written at the time, the book doesn't have much to say on the subject of consultant-as-celebrity. Of course it was written pre-Stephanopolous / Morris / Rove et al, but it'd be interesting if Carville and Matalin re-issued the book with an epilogue. I for one would like to read their reflections on the trend.
Without Carville and Matalin it's doubtful there'd have been as much focus on the role and influence of Morris and Rove, for instance. Certainly the film "He said, She said" would probably not have been made. Perhaps even "Wag the Dog" mightn't have got off the ground. But have things gone too far when a series like "K Street" makes consultants and politicians players in an imaginary drama?
But for an insight into the Clinton years that's less about the personal and more the political, this is an excellent, lively read. In many ways it comes closer than James's other books to giving an insight into the campaign techniques that made both Carville and Matalin the most successful consultants of their day, as it charts their day-by-day activities.
A cross between campaign diary, a love story and a political how-to manual probably wouldn't work with anyone but the authors at its center. But with Carville and Matalin, it serves to provide a unique way of looking into the inner workings of two Presidential campaigns.
There's probably no other book quite like it - certainly all that comes to mind is Joe McGinniss's "The selling of the President" - for mixing personal observations with professional insight in the midst of a high level political campaign.
It's a book well worth adding to your library, whether you're a political junkie or a romance reader.
from the Romeo and Juliet of American politics.......2004-11-11
Ever since I saw the documentary "The War Room," I have been a huge fan of James Carville's. It also helps that I am a big liberal Democrat. However, for the longest time I did not know that he was married to Mary Matalin, a longtime top Republican strategist. I also was unaware of the fact that they were more or less opposite numbers in the 1992 campaign, when Carville worked for Bill Clinton, and Matalin for President George H.W. Bush.
This book shows the inner workings and machinations of both the Clinton and Bush campaigns in 1992, from the viewpoints of Carville and Matalin respectively.
The book is written in turn; first Carville tells a little of what was happening in the Clinton camp, then Matalin offers the contemporary perspective of the Bush camp. This style works really well. At some points it develops into quasi-conversation, as if they were speaking to each other. There is ample room for the airing of their own personal views of what was going on as well.
There were two overriding themes in the book: the way Carville ran Clinton's operation, best known as The War Room, clearly changed the way political campaigns are conducted in this nation, and, partially because of the innovations of The War Room the Bush effort was off its game big-time. At times it was amazing to see the sheer ineptitude of the Bush campaign, such as when Mary Matalin describes how the White House and the Bush campaign were unwilling or unable to effectively coordinate their activities until the Republican convention.
There is also a lot of discussion of how the media, especially television and newspapers, influence the way a campaign is run these days. Predictably, there is a healthy amount of negativity expressed toward the press, especially Matalin's railing at the so-called liberal media, even though Carville makes some good arguments that Clinton was not receiving the best coverage, either.
A must-have for anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of political campaigns, especially for people who want to get involved in the higher operations of politics.
Small Arms Fire .......2004-09-22
I know that this is the first book I have ever read with two senior people on the opposite sides of a presidential campaign combining on one book. As far as I know this might be the only one out there like it. Just the fact that both sides of the total campaign were discussed point by point would be enough to give this book a high rating, but these two authors (and probably the added professional writer) helped to make this book a very entertaining read. The authors struck the right balance between the exciting blow by blow of the campaign and the day to day decisions that most people would find dull. It was just so interesting reading both sides of each issue as it came up in the race. Reading how each side perceived a situation and then reacted gave the reader a rich understanding of how the campaign played out.
The one area that I found a bit annoying was the rabid partisanship of Mary Matalin. I actually thought that James Carville would be the rip it up partisan trash talker that was going to spell out the red meat attack on every issue. Now I tend to lean a little left so I at first thought it was just my liberal sensitivities getting a bit out of joint, but the more I read and tried to be fair I really got a negative view of Matalin. It is one thing to attack Clinton, heck stand in line, but the over blown attacks on average Democrats was a bit much. It just made me doubt much of what she said when balance was required and it eliminated any sympathy I should have had for her being she was on the losing side.
Another area I found interesting was how much she truly respected and adored President Bush. Now this might be a symptom of any campaign worker, but make no mistake about it, Mary held her love for the candidate front and center. With this being said it is understandable that she would take the loss hard and find some avenues to place a little blame, but her dislike of the press was only surpassed by Bill Clinton himself. Every bad decision or misstep on her side was somehow laid at the feet of the press for simply reporting the event. If Clinton was leading in the polls then Matalin made the claim the press was favoring Clinton. It got to be so pervasive that it took on the appearance of the town drunk arguing that he does not have a drinking problem. It might have been an underling factor as to why the Bush team did not pull it out at the end. Overall I really liked the book and if you are a political junkie then so will you.
Insightful book by two master strategists.......2004-07-26
Even though the Clinton vs. Bush campaign was 12 years ago, this book is well worth a re-visit. The book is relatively long but I found every page of high interest.
Mary Matalin's sections on the Bush re-election were wonderful reading and I am an avowed liberal. She perfectly captured the patrician nobility of Bush Senior and the campaign that destroyed itself. From the disasterous reign of John Sununu as Chief of Staff, the tragic death of Lee Atwater, the paralysis of Margaret Tutwiler, the insanity of Ross Perot, the mean-spiritedness of Patrick Buchanan, the shrill defeatism of Rich Bonds, and the often confused and muddled voice of an out of touch President, George Bush, the characters are vividly drawn and almost sympathetic.
Carville on the other hand is masterful in his analysis of the consciousness of the American Everyman. The strength of Carville's strategy is common sense played offensively. He respects the middle class American sense of irony and skepticism trying to move toward optimism and problem solving.
Even though the book is 478 pages long, it is really a fast read. Both Matalin and Carville are witty, strategic professionals with years of experience. I didn't get the book to read a sappy love story and I was glad the book focused on the considerable professional experiences of this couple rather than on their fledgling romance.
Carville's desciptions of Bill Clinton do the man justice as a flawed but brilliant leader. Matalin's desciptions of George Bush do the man justice as a man who believes his class, gender, and race was destined for leadership but he just can't navigate the reality of the average American experience.
Where both Matalin and Carville converge is in their perspectives on Patrick Buchanan, a mean hateful old man, and Ross Perot, a crazy old man.
Besides a blow by blow detailed story of the Clinton vs. Bush campaigns from beginning to end, the book is full of political wisdom and strategy.
Is all really fair?.......2004-01-04
ALL'S FAIR lively describes what happened behind the presidential campaign of both parties, plus the Perot camp in 1992 in most vivid (and vulgar at times) spoken language.
It makes me long for the 2004 presidential race, in such a way that Hillary decides to run at the end, forcing Carville to leave CNN to run her campaign to repeat the success of her husband. It remains mystery, however, how those two (now) talking heads remain happily married with kids.
Though, in this book, both Carville and Matalin remained rigidly royal in defending their clients (Clinton and Bush) against various accusations, in real life after the 92 election, Clinton ended up acknowledging his womanizing behind the green door of White House library to embarrass his country to the rest of the world in an unprecedented fashion, while Bush Sr. continues his activities which are highly suspected of conflicts of interest, not withstanding what his son is doing in the White House right now. Is ALL really FAIR?
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When your chance for getting into college and your date for the prom are all on the line…
Sixteen-year-old Samantha Taylor is used to having things go her way. She’s head cheerleader and has all the right friends and a steady stream of boyfriends. But when she tanks the SATs, her automatic assumptions about going to college don’t appear to be so automatic anymore. She determines that her only hope for college admission is to win the election for student body president. Unfortunately, with her razor wit and acid tongue she’s bettersuited to dishing out insults than winning votes.
When she brashly bets her classmate Logan that she can go two weeks without uttering a single insult, Samantha immediately realizes that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. And when her current boyfriend dumps her, less than three weeks before the prom, it couldn’t be a worse time to be forced to keep her opinions to herself. Finding a new boyfriend will be a challenge now that Logan shadows her every move, hoping to catch her slipping back into her old ways. Samantha is determined to win the election and find a dream date for the prom, no matter what it takes. After all . . . all’s fair in love and war (and high school!).
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Delightful Read.......2007-06-06
All's Fair in Love, War, and High School is a great teen book. It's a story about Samantha, a popular, head cheerleader, who decides to run for class president after she bombs her SATs. Also, her ex-boyfriend/coworker makes a bet with her that she can't go two weeks without insulting someone.
Janette Rallison creates realistic teen dialogue and situations that teens can actually relate to. This book also shows how teens think and rethink through situations to try and find the correct solution. The twists and turns of the story are just enough to keep readers interested and guessing until the very end. In the end, All's Fair in Love, War, and High School is a delightful, quick read for anyone who wants to escape the drama of their own life.
Wonderful book!.......2007-01-25
"All's Fair in Love,war, and High School" is a wonderful book!
It all starts out when Samantha gets a low SAT score. She figured that her scores were to low to get into a good college, so she decides to run for class president hoping that it would look good in her colledge applications, after Logan said that he got accepted into one of the
colleges because he had "leadership qualities."
When Samantha told Logan that she was deciding to run for president and needed someone to help her make the campiens, Logan laughs and says," Samantha, you can't walk into a room of six people without
insulting five of them." So Samantha makes a bet with Logan that she
could go a week without insulting anyone, but it turns out to be harder
than it seems.
This book is a wonderful book, I recommend it to people who enjoy
a good novel. It deals with clique programs and if you try really hard,
you might be able to achieve what you want.I think "All's Fair in Love,War,and Highschool" is a book that many people can relate to.
-C.P.
from loser to winner overnight?.......2006-08-14
Samantha Taylor is a cheerleader whom everyone thinks has a perfect life. Well, think again. She bombed the SAT, got dumped by her boyfriend three weeks before prom, and is campaigning (and possibly losing) for student council president. On top of all that, she got roped into a bet with an old boyfriend that she can't go two weeks without insulting anyone. But Samantha is determined to live up to everyone's expectations and win-- the bet, the election, a date for prom, and a better score, and she'll go to no lengths to reach her goals. You know what they say: all's fair in love, war, and high school. This book is cute and clever, and though at first you will think of Samantha as ruthless, you will soon come to empathize with her and genuinely want her to win.
Must Read.......2006-05-03
This is a very very good book. I would have to say this is my favorite book. This story starts out as Samantha gets her SAT scores, and they turn out not so good. She recieves a very low score on the tests. In order to get into a good college she has to get some more credits. A class election comes up, and Samantha decides to run for the class president. Logan sees how much Samantha and her friends criticize everyone, so he makes a bet with Sam. Samantha has to go two weeks without criticizing someone or she will have to go out with a very unpopular guy named Doug, and if Samantha wins, Logan has to take Sam on a date of her choice. Little does Logan know, that Sam istrying her hardest to win the bet so she can go to prom with her crush Logan. Will Samantha or Logan win the bet?
Ever since I read the back of this book, it caught my attention. In this book you will find out everything that happens in a teen's life. This book includes everything from boys to school. I like this book because it taught me a lot how I shouldn't talk about other people, because it really hurts their feelings. It also taught me to not judge a person by how they look or who they hang out with, and that the only thing that counts it what is on the inside. This book inspired me, will it inpire you?
All's Fair in Love, War, and High School.......2006-03-28
(All's Fair in Love, War, and High School)
By Janette Rallison
N.Lee
Period three
A teenage-level book for girls called All's Fair in Love, War, and High School is about a girl named Samantha. This teenager wants to run as class president, but there is a bet. Her friend, Logan, bet she would insult anyone for two weeks or else she would go to the prom with Doug, someone she doesn't really like. There are some problems on the way like someone wanting to cheat in the election, and Samantha worrying about her social life. Can she handle it?
There are some things I like about the book. Samantha is around my age but a little older. This book is more about a typical teenager life which includes voting, dating, friends, and of course boys. Learning how a teenager would react to certain events and knowing how a girl feels like jealously, anger, guilty, and excited can be really interesting if you are more like me. If you are a person who likes to read about proms, how girls usually think about guys in the future, and teenage life, then this is a perfect book.
On the other hand, there were some things I disliked. I really don't know what life is like when fifteen or sixteen years old and that was what I was looking for. The author paid a lot of attention on running for president. There were not very many characters to meet and the kids I had read about were just a few of Samantha's friends, Logan, Doug, and Josh. This author wrote too much about Samantha. The book doesn't really give many details about how school works. I would rather know what my life in the future will be like as a teenager.
My favorite and least favorite parts are related to choosing a boyfriend and cheating. My favorite event in the story was in the prom, she chose to be with Logan instead of her crush, Josh, because Samantha likes Logan for who he is. I dislike the part when someone cheated by putting out flyers about her test score. She was so in embarrassed and very angry, and I would fell that way, too. The book had many things I liked and disliked and also very good and bad events, too. This was what I thought about the book.
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The Third book in the enchanting Greek Goddess series
Passionate, inspiring, and full of adventure, this is Athena's tale.
In a time when a girl's place is at home, Athena has been raised wild and free, and resents the limits she's facing. Her blossoming womanhood makes it difficult to indulge her tomboyish ways and she can't understand why women allow men to control their lives. If Athena married anyone, it would be Amoni, the boy from the forge, whose kiss has made her finally feel what it's really like to be a woman.
Customer Reviews:
Spectacular reinvention of the tale of Athena.......2006-07-25
Falling more into the realm of a well-plotted fantasy novel than the "historical romance" category that it lists on its cover, "All's Fair in Love and War" is a wonderful reimagining of many of the myths of Athena and other Greek figures. It blends a human-based reinterpretation of various Greek myths (including Medusa and Arachne) with a bit of the magic from whence they came. Though not a classic romance novel (and certainly not a historical romance by the way of others in the genre), this book is heart-warming and thought-provoking, altogether one of the best books I have ever read.
2.5 stars........2006-01-10
Athena is the daughter of a king, his only child. However, as a girl, she can not hope to inherit, though her mother insists that she should. Her father's plan is for Athena to marry his brother Poseidon, an arrogant man of few morals. Yet, it is a commoner who Athena loves. Moreover, she knows she can be a better queen than her uncle can be king. In a series of adventures that strips the magic from Greek myths, rendering them in mortal terms, Athena comes into her own, preparing her to face the final challenge, where she will prove she is the better of the two.
** Though this is a pleasant enough story, the characters are somewhat hard to relate to. The myths are better with the magical element intact, simply put. However, Athena's Tale is fairly interesting. If Morgan Llewlyn's novels are daunting yet intrigue you, this is a lightweight choice for you. **
Amanda Killgore
An Intriguing Tale for an Intriguing Goddess.......2006-01-06
Alicia Feilds has done the goddess Athena justice in this wonderful tale. For while Alicia Feilds is no sport when it comes to frills and fluff in her novels, she certainly held my attention with her latest installment in her Goddess Series.
Athena in Greek Mythology was the daughter of Zeus, but known mostly as the goddess of Wisdom. She is one of the most influential goddesses in Greek Mythology and probably one of the most written about besides Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love and Artemis, Goddess of the Moon. Her mother was Metis, a daughter of the Titans. In the Greek Myth, it was said that if she gave birth to a son it would kill Zeus, so learning that, Zeus swallows Metis whole. Stricken by a headache so strong he began beating his head against the rocks. Hephaestus comes to his father's aide and splits his head open with his mallet. Then is born Athena, the grey-eyed maiden goddess, bearing a bronze helmet and spear. Athens was named after her. But the olive tree and the owl were sacred to her.
If you have never read Alicia's novels, be prepared. Alicia writes with a very realistic eye and her characters are real people with real problems.
Athena grows up in a time when a young girl's place was strongly belived to be at home. Her mother, Metis, the queen, raises her as she would a boy and lets Athena rome wild and carefree. When Athena grows older she becomes very beautiful and she soon learns to resent the fact that she is a girl when plans are made for her to marry her uncle Poseidon (who in Greek Myth is the God of the Sea). Poseidon is a whoremonger and a very evil man, especially when a young girl by the name of Medusa is raped at his hands and turns into the dreaded Gorgon.
Athena, however much she denies it, she is very much in love with Amoni, her childhood friend. They both know that realistically neither can marry the other, but they become lovers instead. Their love story is very gentle but complicated, especially when Amoni realizes that Athena's power is growing and that she will someday rule as queen.
After Athena's childhood friend, Pallas, accidentally dies, events fall into place that changes Athena's life forever. She goes on a journey, with her friend Nike in tow, across the seas disguised both as boys. But the kind captain Ahiram sees Athena for who she truly is and brings her and Nike to come live with him in his palace. In time, Athena becomes more mature and powerful as she understands her place in the world and how she will someday influence it. She learns that she is a part of a story and so returning home, Athena finds her father the king ill. Returning home, her father becomes better, as if Athena's very presence magically chases Death away.
Poseidon is angered at her return, but still makes his claim that he will marry her. He makes the assumption that he is already king even though Athena's father is still alive. So in a contest of wills, Athena and Poseidon have one year to give the kingdom a gift. The one with the best gift, wins the crown. This is an old story of how Athens came to be named, but just to let you know the tale is Athena presence the people with an olive tree while Poseidon presence the people with the horse, but in the book it's the same but Poseidon presents the people with a spring. Athena wins of course.
But there are other mythical parts of this story that I enjoyed, like how Athena found the baby owl when she was young and raised it as her own. Alicia added something to this book that the other two were missing: ancient magic. But just enough to where it was believable and it keeps the reader entertained.
Honestly, this series holds lots of promise and a lot of potential. While Aphrodite's story lacked what Athena's and Persephone's story did, Athena's story will hold you enthralled. Her character is very strong, complex and beautiful. I loved this story and for those of you not reading this series, you are missing out. It's written nothing like P.C Cast, but that's the refreshing part. Alicia Feilds has a style all on her own and while I was hesitant about her in the beginning, she has however won my undying loyalty as a reader with this story.
Thank you, Madame Feilds, for a job well done and keep it coming. For the readers out there, you're missing out. But what it lacks in glitter and flash, this tale is wonderfully written with an artist's eye for clarity and simplicity.
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All is fair in love and war
Ernest Shriner
Manufacturer: The Twombly Press
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All's Fair in Love and War
Cleveland Bell
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All's Fair in Love and War is a humorous yet all to real story about the ups and downs, highs and lows, and joy and pain that goes along with love/hate relationships. It goes deep into the rollercoaster ride of conflicts surrounding a small circle of friends. This drama filled story entails the lives of four unforgettable characters: Ahmad - the reformed player, N'dia - the strong independent woman, Roland - Mr. Do Right, and Schooter - the doggish ladies man.
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All's Fair in Love and War
Nancy Linn-Desmond
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