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The original road novel--even though it takes the form of autobiography. If Guthrie didn't actually invent the footloose, no- strings-attached American hero (remember this guy Twain who wrote something about lighting out for the territory?), he certainly solidified the 20th-century version. Guitar slung over the shoulder as he sprinted to boost himself aboard freight trains, a man of the people equally at home with urban intellectuals, Guthrie incarnated for generations of Americans the artist as free spirit. This is the book that created the legend.
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The Hobo Philosopher.......2007-09-02
This book written by Woody Guthrie was also made into a movie. The movie starred David Carradine and Randy Quaid among others. I have never seen the movie and I had little idea what this book was about until I opened it up and started reading.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was not simply the story of a famous County singer and songwriter's life, but a "Hobo-ing America" adventure story. It was written in the Mark Twain tradition - with all the down home and backwoods country dialect included.
I enjoyed this story - it is a "real" story about real people. Woody did a fine job in telling this story.
The book has great drama and pathos and would be enjoyable reading even if you didn't know who the heck Woody Guthrie was or what he turned into. I read it as a history novel and place it in the category with the "Grapes of Wrath" or "Gone with the Wind".
bound for glory.......2007-01-13
if you area woody guthrie fan you will love this book. well done. it would be a good book for anyone who is interested in music or our country when it was younger.
Good Luck Kiddo.......2006-04-27
Essential reading for those that need a deeper understanding. There are many poetic passages, sad stories and a great reference to what America is like for those who were poor and often at odds with their country. This is a book that holds up so well today and will make you want more. Dylan probably brought you here in the first place. You won't be disappointed. Everybody should read this book.
Under read and underrated.......2006-03-22
This was a really great book. It's hard to believe one man would be so talented as both songwriter and autobiographer. It all had a very Beat feel to it, but I might actually like it better than On The Road because it's got all the fantastic enthusiasm for living, but it's so completely devoid of pretense. It immediately jumped into my top 5.
BOUND FOR GLORY IS GREAT.......2006-03-21
I'm not even done reading it but I love it. This is one of the best books I have ever read. When you read it, it makes you feel like you are right there with him. At times it is very funny and also sad. Even if you dont like Woody's music its still a great book to read.
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“There is a battle, a critical front on the broader culture war, over the nature of the family.” (From Chapter 1)
And this battle is tearing American families apart. Divorce is all too common, and even homes that stay together are often nothing more than a collection of individuals sharing the same roof. What’s worse is that even in the church the family is being torn apart as age- and gender-specific programs break up time together. R. C. Sproul, Jr., decries the alarming state of the family in our time; he calls Christians to look to the Word of God to see how we can be bound together as families and as the church through a biblical understanding of the covenant.
Bound for Glory begins with a conversation between father and son, R. C. Sproul, Senior and Junior, about the importance of leading families in a covenantal relationship with God. R. C. Sproul, Jr., then discusses the implications of this covenantal relationship for husbands, wives, children, and the church family. He speaks especially to men as the leaders in their households, encouraging them to make God’s Word known in their families, to help their wives and children grow in godliness, and to take responsibility for the testimony of their family to others. The book ends with another conversation between father and son about the benefits of homeschooling and the role that parents should play in their child’s education.
Bound for Glory will help you and your family be bound together as a covenantal family for the glory of God.
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Couldn't be better..........2006-09-10
A tremendous overview of how God designed families to interact with each other, within the church, and within the government. Each role (husband/father, wife/mother, child)is thoroughly explained and brought into proper perspective. Sproul, Jr. reiterates that it is essential that each role be fulfilled according to God's plan, though the roles vary in duties/requirements. Excellent choice if you're looking to get your home lined up with scripture!
A Great Book for Knitting Families Together (Including Ones that Have Come Unraveled).......2006-02-26
This is a great book about, just as the subtitle suggests, "God's promise for your family." The author covers the basics of God's design for the family, including each member (husband, wife, and child) as well as the church family, and he does not compromise what the scriptures, themselves, have to say on the matter. The theme of this book is, I think, best summarized in the closing paragraph, from which the following excerpt is taken, "We have been adopted into the only non-dysfunctional family in the universe. And he who has begun a good work in us has promised to bring us to perfection." The pages are filled with reason to hope, regardless of the state your family is in or the stage of life in which you currently find yourself.
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Railroad Religiosity.......2004-08-24
The ingenuity of humans in furthering their own ends is practically boundless. Add to that ingenuity the fervor of 19th and early 20th century evangelists to proselytize and "save" all the non-believers around the country and we see why the railroad chapel car was conceived. Factor in the competitiveness of different denominations and we see why one chapel car grew into a dozen rolling churches representing three different groups, Episcopal, Baptist and Catholic. These specially-designed cars with pews, pulpits, and cramped living quarters for the missionaries (and, when applicable, their wives) saw a long run, too, lasting from the 1890's into the 1940's. THIS TRAIN IS BOUND FOR GLORY is a 382-page history of these twelve special chapel cars, plus a quick glance at two more, the monstrously ornate cars of the Russian Orthodox Church which may have inspired the first American chapel car and the private car of Mormon founder Brigham Young, said to have had angels painted on its ceiling.
So far as the book THIS TRAIN... is concerned, I find reviewing its quality to be a particularly difficult task, for it is without doubt the result of lengthy, exhaustive research, many times in primary sources which required significant travel by the authors. The extensive, meticulous research evident in this book is truly impressive and is far and away its strongest element. There is no question that, based upon the research, the end-of-chapter documentation sections, and the minute historical details that the authors extracted from the huge mounds of historical detritus through which they picked, this book fully rates the maximum of five stars-and then some.
However, the readability of the book does not fare quite so well. Many parts of it read as though the authors had before them a stack of note cards, filled with all sorts of historical facts related more or less to the car being discussed, and merely transcribed these notes into a narrative, paragraphed form, resulting in jerky and sometimes disconnected text. One must also wonder whether some of the extreme minutiae are really worthy of being discussed in even a detailed history book.
Even more troubling to the discerning reader than the uneven flow of the narrative is the apparent moral judgements of the authors that are repeatedly woven into the text. Granted, some of these may be paraphrases from the authors' sources, but the footnoting is not sufficiently clear to show this to be the case. A typical example is on page 117 where the authors proclaim that Gillette, Wyoming was "a godless place" and then proceed to equate the presence of saloons, dance halls, gambling houses and brothels to godlessness. Such moral condemnation has little place in an objective historical account.
Fortunately, every now and then, a bit of significant American history is revealed, the type of history that tells much more about the "American façade" than we shall find in our cleansed and purified public school textbooks. For instance, from page 123, we learn that a "man was forced to kiss the flag because he had criticized President Wilson, and a Union Pacific employee of Russian ancestry was stripped and painted yellow because he refused to buy a Victory bond.... [In some communities] German books were burned." Finding history such as this is more than enough reason to read books that have not been approved by school boards!
A strange index is included at the end of the book. It is more or less alphabetical but is also arranged according to the name of the chapel car to which the index entries refer. Hence, to locate, say, a town name, one must look under each car's list of entries since more than one car (or none) may have visited that town. Looking up references to Brigham Young, simply because that entry caught my eye, I noted that the reference was to a very cursory mention in one chapter while a more significant discussion of the man and his private railroad car was not listed-unless the entry was somewhere else in this confusing "index." In either case, the index is not user-friendly.
The book is formatted in an unusual horizontal format, making it awkward to hold while reading. One really needs a desk rather than a lap to support the book. Yet, it is not really a "coffee table book" because, while there are some excellent historical photographs, its raison d'être lies in the text, and it cannot be lightly browsed.
Impressive research. Uneven narrative flow. Possible intrusion of authors' moral judgements. Important historical insights here and there. Index of dubious usefulness. Awkward format. Shall we "round off" a 2.5 rating and give it three stars? With that rating, however, comes the suggestion that the reader borrow the book from a library before deciding to add it to a permanent home collection.
Connection With Chapel Car History.......2002-04-25
I am a member of Emmanuel First Baptist Church in Sparks, Nevada. My church was one of those founded by Chapel Car Emmanuel mentioned in this book. I am, at present, researching material for a historical novel based on the chapel car ministries. This book, with its photos and descriptions, has been extremely valuable in helping me to write a story of a little known part of American history. I highly recommend this to all railroad buffs and to others who may also be members of churches founded by these cars and the dedicated men and women who made such great sacrifices in the growth of our nation. Diana Dilcher Emmanuel First Baptist Church Sparks, Nevada.
This Train Is Bound For Glory.......2000-03-11
This is an excellent history of the railroad chapel cars used in the United States in the latter 1800's & early 1900's. It is a good review of how the gospel was brought into newly developed railroad towns that had no established churches and in many cases wild & wooly towns. There are many wonderful old historic pictures and bibilical quotations. You will find out how the Episcopalians, Catholics, and Baptists had these chapel cars built. Anyone who likes trains, actively involved with the church, or has lived in towns where the local railroad brought in chapel cars will really enjoy reading this book!
Something for everyone!.......1999-11-25
If you are a history buff, a railroad buff, a Baptist, an Episcopalian, or a Roman Catholic, you will find interesting information in this book. From 1890 until the middle of the 20th century a unique form of ministry for several denominations brought religious services to the most out-of-the way areas in the country. Chapel cars were outfitted and dispatched to bring their message to people who otherwise would have had no access to churches. One of the chaapel cars had elegant and exquisite fittings and brought the beauty of a cathedral to the frontier; others were simpler. Both the opposition to the chapel cars, and their widespread and grateful acceptance are told, with countless letters, editorials, and other news clippings. The details and dimensions of outfitting the chapel cars willl enable railroad buffs to create accurate models. A fascinating bit of Americana is captured forever between the covers of this attractive coffee table-size book.
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Thanks to famous documentary photographs of Americans during the Great Depression, we tend to visualize everything that happened in the 1930s in black-and-white. In fact, Kodachrome first became available in the U.S. in 1935, and several photographers for the Farm Security Administration experimented with the new color film as they traveled across the country. Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43 presents an oddly startling world of small towns and country roads ablaze in the vivid hues of real life. A sunburned family in Pie Town, New Mexico, eat a dinner of homemade biscuits, grits, and gravy. Sisters wearing print dresses all made from the same rose and blue fabric seem dazed at the wonders of a state fair in Vermont. Work horses graze on bright green grass under a moody Kansas sky. Chosen from an archive of about 1,600 vintage color slides, the 175 photos in the book are the work of several documentary photographers, including Marion Post Wolcott and Jack Delano. Partway through this panorama of Americana, the tone and subject matter shift. Suddenly, the U.S. is at war, and the casual, unposed quality of the earlier images shifts into self-conscious glorification of the American war effort by the Office of War Information, with shots of steel mills and train yards, and of women newly hired by factories to assemble bomber parts. It's clear from Paul Hendrickson's engaging introduction that the pre-war images are the ones he finds most captivating. This slender volume--which aptly borrows the title of Dustbowl troubadour Woody Guthrie's autobiography--offers a window on a distant era in which grinding poverty and racial segregation coexist with the simple pleasures of rural and small-town life. —Cathy Curtis
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The photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which recorded American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century. Yet few people know that, along with thousands and thousands of black-and-white photographs, the FSA photographers also took color pictures. Here, for the first time, is a selection of the best of the FSA color photographs-introduced by National Book Award finalist Paul Hendrickson and assembled to create a vivid portrait of America as it emerged from the Great Depression to fight World War II.
Covering countryside and city, farm and factory, work and play, the images in this book open a window onto our national experience from 1939 to 1943, revealing a world that we have always seen in our mind's eye exclusively in black and white. Never before has there been a book that paints this picture in full color.
Published in association with the Library of Congress.
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Inspiring.......2007-06-13
My mother saw the Bound for Glory exhibition in Germany and was so impressed with it that she got ME this book, knowing how much I love to photograph rural Georgia (USA), then became so captivated by it that she was reluctant to give it up. The first time I opened the book I was so overwhelmed that I had to close it again; the images are stunning and truly inspiring, and each photo has so much depth, it takes time to properly digest. Not your average photo book. Highly recommended.
Back and White into Technicolor - Spectacular.......2007-03-16
Like many of us, I have come to think of this era in balck and white - a perception honed through years of poring over my parents books and photo albums. Looking at these images gives me the sense of Dorothy exiting her sepia farmhouse into the Technicolor Munchkinland - it's mezmerizing, and the images themselves tell detailed stories about their itme and place. Another book that evokes the same feelings in a more contemporary moment is Sam Fentress' Bible Road, which has beautifully rendered photographs from across the American landscape in black and white and color - if you like Bound for Glory, you are bound to like Bible Road.
Great collection for any Woody Guthrie fan........2007-01-06
I saw the collection in Fort Worth in 2006, and the photos look as is they were taken last year, not in the dustbowl. Very interesting to any student of americana. It's like having a photo album to go with my Woody Guthrie songs.
Amazing. See. Admire. Be amazed........2005-08-01
The book is called "Bound for Glory" and is a collection of 175+ COLOR photographs of America from 1939-1943. Many of you may be aware of the work of the new deal photographers who were dispatched to document the plight of the Depression. The majority of these pictures (and thus our own viewpoint on the period) was in black and white.
However, in the late 30s, Kodak unveiled Kodachrome film and these gifted "squinters through a box" were given a new weapon in their visionary arsenal -- color.
This book and its barely 10% of the minimal 1600 color shots in the archives is a literal eye opening experience. No Hollywood creation of the era comes close in terms of presenting to us how things really were. But to see men, women, children, animals, stores, and events through the eyes of other photographers is always fascinating... and to see this period as if we had just taken the picture is amazing.
I highly recommend you find this book to just look at -- American or otherwise -- and take in the beautiful work of these masters of our craft.
Marvelous.......2004-11-30
I brought this book after reading a NY times review. Finally-history that is in real color, not the typical black and white we're so use to. It makes the era seem so much more alive and real. The photos displayed are beautiful - there's such a real display of feelings and emotions. I just love this gem.
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Bound for Glory
Manufacturer: Signet
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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There words not ours.......2007-01-26
It is often more interesting to read what those who have been there have to say than what we think they said. Thus is the case with this book. It may not have every fact correct, but it is what the author McClellen remembered. As with "Co. Aych" and "All For the Union," their perception of the smaller picture of the War than the overall history that is fascinating.
I Rode with JEB Stuart.......2002-10-28
More than McClellan's memoir, this is an early Stuart biography, and later biographies such as Davies' and Thomas' rely heavily upon it. McClellan became Stuart's AG in May '63, but his account starts with Stuart's youth.
This is a vital account in showing exactly what Stuart's cavalry did during the war: scouting, raiding, screening movements, fighting rearguard actions, gathering information, etc. One thing I didn't know was that Stuart's horse artillery, often under the command of the general himself and sometimes with regular batteries added, would take up a flank position during infantry battles and fire into the Federal ranks. The perpetual, obviously exhausting, activity of the cavalry also becomes obvious.
McClellan was present for the Gettysburg campaign, and his account is invaluable for this somewhat controversial issue. His writing becomes more personal at this point, and he recounts several anecdotes of interest. He continues his detailed recounting of ANV cavalry activity until Stuart's death; McClellan was present at the deathbed and ends his book there. This should be required reading for anyone interested in the cavalry.
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