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Here, in his own words, is the story of one of the greatest wrestlers ever-Rowdy Roddy Piper. The bagpipe-playing legend gets down and dirty about the world of professional wrestling-and his own career.
He takes readers back to his life as a teenage runaway and his first match, when he stepped into the ring for $25. He recalls his triumph as the youngest World Light Heavyweight Champion, and how he helped make the World Wrestling Federation the phenomenon it is today with little more than a microphone stand and a bow tie.
From a man who joined the game long before it emerged as big-time entertainment comes a story that tells it like it is-and that's filled with as much excitement as the jam-packed arenas where he fought his fiercest foes.
Customer Reviews:
An Eye Opening Read.......2006-08-31
In the Pit With Piper: Roddy Gets Rowdy does not disappoint. Raither it educates the reader with Piper not holding back. Remember, Piper is not under contract when he wrote this book so he did not pen this book out of fear of upsetting a promoter. Piper lays the wrestling business all out for the reader and the reader sees an unwritten message about the wrestling industry: "all that glitters isn't gold."
What Piper does best in this book is he freely admits he's not perfect. He admits he did some stupid things during his time on the road. However, Piper does has a redeeming quality about his views of life on the road. In the end it was all about supporting his family and finally getting home to his family.
Piper also shows how so many wrestlers were responsible for the boom of the WWF in the 1980s but only a select few were justly appreciated. Case in point read Piper's take on the aftermath of treatment he and Hogan received before and after Wrestlemania. Also, Piper lets the reader in on how shady promoters can be. A few saying Piper uses to illustrate this point: "if you can walk you can wrestle," and "if you're going to die die in the ring its good for business." Piper's stories about his less than friendly relationship with Mr. T is worth a look. You can't but help but understand Piper's reasons for refusing to take a dive to a movie star, they're not in his business and don't know anything about how to improve wrestling.
Piper's book does bring up a hard fact, wrestling has changed for the worse. Piper lets the reader know how wrestling has declined and the best thing Piper does is hold out hope that improvments will come in time. In the end pick up Piper's book and be prepared to never look at the wrestling industry the same when you finish. Piper not only relates the rigors of his life in wrestling, he teaches you the two contrasting views of the wrestling business and himself. Wrestling: money comes first and to Hell with you and your family. Piper: his wife and kids come first. Piper has the better view!
Could be better.......2006-08-23
I have been a fan of wrestling for a while now (from the days when it was cool to now, when you see a bunch of 'roided up mutants with the speed and mobility of continental drift). I bought this book because it was the only one in the local bookstore that was written by a wrestler of the previous era of wrestling.
I had mixed feelings at the end of the book. On one hand it was certainly a book from the heart and there was not much (if any)ghost writing. No ghost writer could write this choppily! Far from making the book worse, the piecemeal style of Piper makes this book all the more enjoyable as you don't expect to see Shakespeare but something straight from the heart. Some stories were outright disturbing, but I liked Piper's honesty and straight-shooting style even when telling such stories. He didn't try to hide behind a facade of morality or fake regret. He seemed to call 'em as he saw 'em in the book.
The story about Theodore Roosevelt Reid was especially touching and it exemplified the fickle world of wrestling. Piper told it beautifully.
But there were too many things about the book that I didn't like. First, and most glaring, the self-aggrandization. Sure, Piper was a great wrestler and he could actually make squibs like Hogan look good, but to attribute to himself the sudden popularity of wrestling in the 80's and 90's is going a bit too far. He makes it sound like it was him who turned the world of wrestling around. Much as I love the guy I can't help but call bullcrap here. But to be fair to him, he does admit that he, like all other wrestlers, has a huge ego.
Besides, to claim that the world of wrestling changed because of his interviews is a bit much!
Another thing about this book I didn't like was the fact that a huge chunk of it was devoted to his time before the WWF and the WCW. This may have been intentional, to show the world that there was more to wrestling than WWE, but for many of us outside the US, (I am in Singapore), our first exposure to wrestling and guys like Piper was through the WWF and I personally wish that he had given greater exposure to his feuds in the WWF and WCW, because those were feuds we can relate to. He does mention occasional feuds with Adrian Adonis and especially Ric Flair, and then the Hart brothers but he could have given these more detailed coverage than a feud in a promotion no one has heard about.
Of course one can't please everyone, but I wish he had.
Another issue about Piper's writing which I didn't like was he tends to come off as someone who believes that the world of wrestling is immune to criticism, no matter what these guys get up to (including what might be called attempted murder). His reactions to fans who claim wrestling is fake sounds rather disturbing (including at one point saying, he'll choke your guts out before you get the words out of your mouth). While appearing to be a tough, no-nonsense streetfighter at other times, when he starts to pontificate about how tough wrestlers have it and all, he comes across as just being thin skinned and whiney.
Piper was one guy who didn't need a championship belt to get over with fans. In the WWF he only won the Intercontinental title once but that did not diminish his immense appeal one bit but his writing is something that has not quite lived up to his reputation as a wrestler and speaker.
In the Pit with the ego .......2006-04-21
Informative read but also very one sided and littered with self promotion , which isnt that surprising all things considered.
Piper is very old school in his handling of the story and his storys are told with a strong sense of " my era was about real men being real men goddamnit"
His ego was in no way kept in check and at times hesimply got carried away with his telling of a story .
Still i think if he'd been able to write this book back at the height of his career it might of come out a little less jaded .
Still i was glad to see he didnt get on his soap box and rant on about the tragic death of Owen Hart , which i thought he would considering how hes addressed the subject in past .
Hot Rod can write.......2006-03-25
A wrestler you loved to hate and a man you couldn't not love and respect. I had the opportunity to meet Roddy and have him sign my book.
A great read and an insight to the mind and life of those who choose to wrestle. The many men who met an early demise due to this activity. I highly recommend for anyone who grew up watching professional wrestling.
Hot Rod at his best.......2006-01-29
Roddy Piper is one of the most colorful people alive. This book is a great look at his life. The book is a fascinating read about an interesting man.
This book doesn't tell much about his childhood nor about his private life, but it does give a good look at his public life. As an admitted Piper fan, I absolutely loved this book.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Roddy after the book was published. His regret was that too much was left out due to circumstances beyond his control. My only hope is that Roddy comes out with another book and tells more of his story.
Book Description
Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson's magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War.
Recent studies, while conceding the importance of social factors in the unraveling of the Confederacy, still conclude that the South was defeated as a result of its losses on the battlefield, which in turn resulted largely from the superiority of Northern military manpower and industrial resources. Robinson contends that these factors were not decisive, that the process of social change initiated during the birth of Confederate nationalism undermined the social and cultural foundations of the southern way of life built on slavery, igniting class conflict that ultimately sapped white southerners of the will to go on.
In particular, simmering tensions between nonslaveholders and smallholding yeoman farmers on the one hand and wealthy slaveholding planters on the other undermined Confederate solidarity on both the homefront and the battlefield. Through their desire to be free, slaves fanned the flames of discord. Confederate leaders were unable to reconcile political ideology with military realities, and, as a result, they lost control over the important Mississippi River Valley during the first two years of the war. The major Confederate defeats in 1863 at Vicksburg and Missionary Ridge were directly attributable to growing disenchantment based on class conflict over slavery.
Because the antebellum way of life proved unable to adapt successfully to the rigors of war, the South had to fight its struggle for nationhood against mounting odds. By synthesizing the results of unparalleled archival research, Robinson tells the story of how the war and slavery were intertwined, and how internal social conflict undermined the Confederacy in the end.
Customer Reviews:
A Dedicated Historian's Final Testament.......2005-03-26
The late Armstead Robinson was a gifted, committed scholar. Writing apparently did not come easily to him; his mountain of data, painstaking methods and final illness delayed this book's appearance til after his passing. This long-awaited posthumous revision of his PhD thesis took years to complete, but is worth the wait. A wealth of detail supports his findings on the scope of resistance and internal dissent in the Confederacy. While it is not the last word on this subject, it advances debate in numerous ways. African American participants in the Southern cause mostly contributed under duress, had close social ties to white neighbors or were wealthy slaveowners themselves. This important issue deserves fuller treatment. Black rebels were an interesting phenomenon, but the tiny percentages of willing volunteers made them statistically insignificant, and most of the book focuses on Southern whites anyway. Neo-Confederate reviewers dishonor the memory of a dedicated historian who cannot defend his work against distortions. 25 years ago L. Litwack's "Been In The Storm So Long" revealed slaves' hatred of the Confederacy and welcome of freedom. W. Jordan, "Tumult & Silence at Second Creek" tells how Mississippi planters brutally crushed a major wartime slave conspiracy. W. Freehling, "The South Vs. the South" is a concise survey of divisions in the Confederacy.
Review from New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 20, 2005.......2005-02-21
In 1861, the Washington Artillery left New Orleans to join the Confederacy in Richmond. This elite company, whose ranks included members of some of the Crescent City's most prominent slaveholding families, did not travel alongside other Louisiana volunteers. Instead, they rode to Richmond aboard a special train that "carried a chest of gold donated by doting relatives." In Virginia, they dined separately from poor enlisted men on delicacies prepared by Edouard, a cook borrowed from a fine New Orleans restaurant. "Ah! He was magnifique," unit member William Miller Owen remembered. "His dishes were superb, the object of adoration of all the visitors who did not enjoy the luxury of French cuisine in their own camps."
In "Bitter Fruits of Bondage," Armstead Robinson notes that the members of the Washington Artillery were not alone. Other slaveholders claimed similar privileges. Some also dined in separate mess tents where their slaves prepared meals with ingredients paid for by the mess tents' "members". Many brought personal servants who attended to laundry and other chores. And slaveholders were far more likely to made officers than non-slaveholders. But rather than being "the object of adoration" of those who did not enjoy such perks, the slaveholders' privileges caused dissension. In an army where poor yeoman farmers did most of the fighting, Robinson asserts, the slaveholders' inegalitarian behavior fatefully undermined the army's esprit de corps.
By 1862, according to Robinson, animosity between slaveholders and yeoman increased exponentially. The Confederate congress instituted a draft that exempted overseers on plantations with twenty or more slaves from service. The draft law also allowed wealthy men to buy their way out of the war by paying for a substitute to fight in their stead. Confederate leaders justified these measures by citing the need to maintain order and discipline on plantations. Some planters and overseers, they claimed, needed to man the homefront or chaos would ensue. But many non-slaveholders remained unconvinced. They began to view the conflict as a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight." These yeoman joined up initially, Robinson argues, to defend their homes and because they feared the results of emancipation. But as the war ground on and wealthy planters appeared not to be carrying their share of the burden, many poor farmers began to feel that they had been duped into fighting a slaveholders' war. As class fissures grew, Robinson maintains, support for the Confederacy waned.
"Bitter Fruits of Bondage" is Robinson's magnum opus, a book he had been researching and writing for over twenty years. A legendary figure in the field of African-American Studies, Robinson died unexpectedly in 1995. His widow Mildred brought the unfinished 1,200 page manuscript to the University of Virginia Press. Enlisting the editorial acumen of Barbara Fields, Eugene Genovese, and other leading scholars, the press has now shepherded the project to completion. The result is a compelling book that is sure to spark contentious debates because Robinson rejects the popular notion that the South lost the Civil War only because it lacked the manpower and industrial might of the North. He notes that the colonists in the American Revolution and the Vietnamese who fought the French and the United States in the 20th century persevered despite even greater odds. Instead, he attributes the comparatively swift collapse of the Confederacy to the debilitating effects of slavery and class conflict.
Although Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens called slavery "the cornerstone of the Confederacy," Robinson argues that the "peculiar institution" undermined the Confederate war effort from the outset. After Fort Sumter, slaveowners feared that their slaves might view the war as an opportunity to revolt. Rumors of plots and insurrections swirled in Louisiana's Tensas Parish, Mississippi's Jefferson County, and throughout the South. To prevent uprisings, dissident state Governors like Georgia's Joseph Brown refused to turn over weapons seized from federal arsenals to the Confederate government in Richmond and, instead, armed their state militias and slave patrols. As a result, over 200,000 Confederate volunteers had no weapons in the war's early stages. If armed, those men might have allowed Confederate generals to follow the rout at First Bull Run with an invasion of Washington that may have brought the war to an immediate close.
The selfish behavior of individual slaveowners also undermined the war effort. Planters proved reluctant to lend their slaves to the Confederate army. Robinson attributes key defeats in the West, including the fall of Forts Donelson and Henry, to poorly-constructed fortifications that could have been strengthened by slave labor. Reports also circulated that many planters continued to use their land and slaves to grow profitable cash crops like cotton even as food shortages caused women to riot in Richmond and Confederate soldiers to starve. While planters reaped profits, many yeoman found "that they were expected to fight to save slavery and to replace with their own bodies slaveholders and overseers who avoided military service."
As non-slaveholders' disgruntlement grew, Robinson argues, many simply quit fighting. In 1863, Jefferson Davis warned the Confederate Congress that one-third of the army had deserted. Louisiana Governor Henry Allen reported a "terrible state of affairs" noting that there were over 8,000 deserters in the city of Alexandria alone. By September 1864, almost three-fourths of Confederate soldiers were absent without leave. Today, Alabama is called the "Heart of Dixie." But during the Civil War, northern Alabama was roiling with anti-war dissent and was home to secret organizations like the Order of the Heroes of America who met Confederate draft officials with violence. Resistance also flourished in East Texas, East Tennessee, northern Louisiana, Arkansas, and the upcountry of Georgia, the Carolinas, and Mississippi. Many southern yeomen even fought for the Union. An estimated 104,000 white southerners eventually served in the Union Army.
Black southerners also helped bring down the Confederacy. Slaves provided crucial intelligence to Union scouts and spies, sabotaged the work on plantations, and freed themselves by running to northern lines when the federal army drew near. Over 170,000 former slaves donned Union blue and fought against their former masters.
Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis acknowledged the significant contributions African-American soldiers made to the northern war effort. In the desperate, final weeks of the conflict, Robinson notes, the Confederates abandoned their doomed nation's founding principles and made a surreal effort to recruit their own black regiments.
Because "Bitter Fruits of Bondage" was so long in the making, many readers will already be familiar with some of Robinson's central arguments. The important role the slaves played by fleeing to Union lines, for example, is by now an oft-told tale. But there is also much here that is as fresh today as the day it was written. Robinson's forceful prose, meticulous research, and command of the subject, make this an important book. He provides powerful evidence to refute those who argue that all white southerners, slaveholder and non-slaveholder alike, supported the Confederate cause until its last moments. Because of slavery and its discontents, Robinson contends, the Confederacy began to unravel even before the first battle was fought.
Bitterly disappointing work.......2005-02-08
Mr. Robinson's long awaited Bitter Fruits of Bondage, proves to be a bitter pill to swallow. I expected far more than suppositions , guesswork, and mere personal opinion. It truly was a major disapointment. Fortunately the book was loaned to me and I am not out any hard earned money. I give it one star.
Opinions rather than research.......2005-02-08
Robinson contends that the superiority of Northern military manpower and industrial resources were not decisive in the defeat of the South, but that discord between slaves, poor whites, and the planter class was instrumental in its downfall. Pure rubbish, since Southerners of every color went eagerly off to War and fought to the bitter end while the slaves supported the troops in the field by working back home. Even though slave revolts could have brought the South to its knees, none occurred, much to the chagrin of Lincoln who hoped for such when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Don't waste your money.
Extremely disappointing Civil War work.......2005-02-06
This long-awaited work proves disappointing to Civil War historians and buffs alike. Robinson contends that the Confederacy lost the war as much through demoralization at home due to the pending demise of slavery rather than the defeat on the battlefield, a supposition which easily collapses under the weight of historical fact. Less than ten percent of the men who fought for the South ever owned a slave, and neither did the vast majority of white southerners. Slavery was not the sole cause of the war and hardly a reason for people who did not own them, and thus were unaffected by either its existence or its demise, to fight in its defense. Taken against the fact that the Confederate government in its last year was willing to free slaves in return for fighting - which would have dismantled slavery, this allegation simply has no basis in reality.
Virginia was the first state to ban the African slave trade and in 1859 the Virginia Legislature very narrowly defeated an amendment that would have ended the "peculiar institution" in that state. When added to the fact that thousands of non-whites (including my grandfather and his Cherokee nation), including free and slave blacks also fought for the Confederacy, Robinson's allegations are unfounded in real history. This book adds nothing to the student's understanding of the war and is based on supposition rather than historical fact.
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Practically all Civil War historians agree that after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and Lincoln's triumphant reelection in November, the South had no remaining chance to make good its independence. Well aware that Appomattox and Durham Station were close at hand, historians have treated the war's final months in a fashion that smacks strongly of denouement: the great, tragic conflict rolls on to its now-certain end.
Certain, that is, to us, but deeply uncertain to the millions of Northerners and Southerners who lived through the anxious days of early 1865. The final months of the Confederacy offer fascinating opportunities-as a case study in war termination, as a period that shaped the initial circumstances of Reconstruction, and as a lens through which to analyze Southern society at its most stressful moment. The Collapse of the Confederacy collects six essays that explore how popular expectations, national strategy, battlefield performance, and Confederate nationalism affected Confederate actions during the final months of the conflict.
Customer Reviews:
Top-notch collection of essays..........2003-04-13
Grimsley and Simpson offer a brilliant collection of essays by various historians musing philosophically on the demise of Confederate States of America. With only 180+ pages of text, the six essays are nicely paced and well footnoted. From the possibility of Southern guerrilla tactics to the role of women at the homefront, this modest-sized book gives thought-provoking slants to varied aspects of the final options/last days of the CSA. I would recommend this book for readers more mature in their Civil War studies. I think the novice reader may get "lost" in the name-dropping of battles and personalities.
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A panoramic history of the collapse of the Confederacy.
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His General Besmirked By Amateurs........2006-05-28
After the Civil War fiasco, Jefferson Davis encouraged the South to "bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations," but the South will never surrender. He declared that the past is dead. His first wife was Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of U. S. President Zachary Taylor. Davis was a congressman, senator, secretary of war, and President of the Confederacy. His horse's name was Thunder.
In 1858, Horace Greely called Jefferson Davis "unquestionably the foremost man in the South today" and a great president. He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. "His occasional unintentional arrogance came from his sense of great commanding power.
One of his generals during the war, declared the best by Robert E. Lee, was besmirked in 2005 by two college professors thusly:
This book was written in association with Texas Christian University for the American Crisis Series, Books on Civil War Era. Previously, I reviewed ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR by John C. Waugh. This one, however, is what the title says all 'myth' written by two journalism professors at the University of Tennessee. I guess they were assigned this personage, the greatest Civil War General, according to Robert E. Lee, because they work in Tennessee. Neither are from the state of Tennessee and know nothing, no facts about this great soldier of the Civil War.
They know nothing about history per se, so I am just wondering why the history department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville would not have been a better selection to write about one of our native heroes. These frauds call their subject 'white trash' because the klan wore white sheets in his reincarnation of the group(now they wear purple, green and white outfits) used to protect everybody from the carpet baggers after the Civil War. These men are not from Tennessee, and should never have been chosen to write this book.
It is biased and slanted and exactly a 'myth' a fairy tale of the worse sort. Forrest was from a good background and family (father was a locksmith/doctor) and born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, in Bedford County. These men thought he was born in Memphis as they dwell on something which happened which was infamous instead of famous. Those of us at the public meeting where they talked had not heard of that specific incident, and we are native Tennesseans. His life was not a 'morality tale,' as they claim, nor was he a comic book figure. He was a real live hero, not something made up in the comics. They even equate him with Forrest Gump, how dumb can a person be? They are blasphamous in their assertions that he was less than they.
Anyone can get a PhD and still not be competent. I have three PhDs in my family, and they have no common sense. Neither do these writers. Don't believe anything you read in this book. It is all made up, that's what journalism is these days, manufactured lies. These teachers are in the journalism department at U-T, not the history area, so they never should have taken on this endeavor.
They make N. B. Forrest out to be a dumb, silly "white trash" from Tennessee when they know better. It is just to sully his reputation as a great general. They don't know how to present facts or truth. They did not research this book adequately, so just read it as fiction.
Jefferson Davis was born into a patriotic American family at Fairview Kentucky. He would have drawn his sword if he could have been around to read this garbage about one of his best generals and a great American in his own right.
Good, even-handed account of Davis' flight.......2004-06-10
The Long Surrender is a good book with the wrong title, because Jefferson Davis certainly did not surrender. This book chronicles the events beginning in April of 1865, when Lee surrendered and Richmond fell. Jefferson Davis and his entourage fled with the remaining treasury. The author gives a well-researched and even-handed account of the flight of Davis. It captures his determination to somehow rally the remaining forces and continue the war, despite the advice of his generals. I bought this book because I wanted to understand Davis better and learn what is known about his postwar days. It's a bit dry, but nevertheless interesting. Davis spent two long and miserable years in confinement, and was treated inhumanely by his captors. It recounts the anguish of his wife and her efforts to obtain at first better treatment and finally his release. The book is chock full of little known facts about this dark period of history. It gives a fairly detailed accounting of the Confederate treasury and the personal funds of Davis. There is no glossing over the flaws in judgment and intransigent attitute of Jefferson Davis, but the book also illuminates his courage, conviction, and many good qualities. For those who want to see the bitter end of his "presidency" this book is a must.
This is how the war ended.......2000-07-22
Most people think the Civil War ended at Appomattox with Lee's surrender to Grant. Actually, the fighting carried on for a couple more months and included many events, including General Joseph Johnson's surrender, Lincoln's assassination, the flight of Jefferson Davis, a steamboat tragedy on the Mississippi River, the final land battle in Texas (ironically, a Confederate victory), the escape through Florida of several Confederate political leaders including John Breckinridge and the continued plundering of Union merchant shipping by a Confederte raider well into the fall of 1865. Burke Davis chronicles all of this as well as Jefferson Davis's post Civil War life as an unreconstructed rebel. It is a fascinating read for those interested in the Civil War.
A Terrific Book.......1999-04-15
This is a terrific book by Burke Davis. This book follows Jefferson Davis and his cabinet during the last days of the Civil War using first-hand accounts, newspaper articles, memoirs, and other never-before-published materials.. The books follows Davis, his cabinet, Lee, the Confederate treasury, Davis' family and others. Even though there are many people, Burke Davis writes in a way that is easy to follow and enjoyable to read. This book also looks at Davis' imprisonment and the post-war years of Davis, Lee, and the others above mentioned. It also attempts to answer the question of what happened to the Confederate treasury. This is a great book about a little-written about part of the Civil War.
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Title: Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865.(A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868)(Book review)
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