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For twenty-five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning television producer and reporterthe last fifteen of them for CBS News, principally for The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes. She had the bedrock respect of her peersin the last year alone, she broke the story of the Abu Ghraib prison tortures (which won CBS The Peabody Award) and the existence of Strom Thurmonds illegitimate bi-racial daughter Essie Mae Washington. But it was Dan Rathers lightning rod of a story on George W. Bushs National Guard Service that brought Mapes into an unwanted limelight. The firestorm that followed the broadcast led not only to Mapes being fired and Rathers stepping down from his anchor chair a year early, but to an unprecedented internal inquiry into the storychaired by former Reagan Attorney General Richard Thornburgh. But this, it turns out, is only part of the story. In this book, Mapes talks for the first time about the riveting behind-the-scenes action at CBS, as well as exposing: Groundbreaking new details on Bushs Guard career Information from the independent internal review The connection between a controversial news story and a corporation under fire from the federal government An emergence of digital McCarthysim as conservative bloggers manipulate the Internet How news organizations are collapsing under politicaland commercialpressures. Peopled with a historic and colorful cast of charactersfrom Karl Rove to Sumner Redstone to John Kerry to Col. Bobby Hodgesthis groundbreaking book about how the news is made (and unmade) will be making news this fall. My story of George W. Bushs Guard service had run on 60 Minutes the night before, and I felt it had been a solid piece. We had worked under tremendous pressure because of the short timeframe and the explosive content, but wed made our deadline and more importantly, wed made newsI got congratulatory emails, phone calls, and pats on the back. Other reporters called repeatedly as they worked to catch up to my story. I was thrilled. All that changed about 11 AM, when I first got word that a handful of conservative web sites were saying that the documents had been forged. I was incredulous. That couldnt be possible. Even the White House hadnt attempted to deny the truth of the documents. In fact, the Presidents spokesman Dan Bartlett had claimed that the documents supported their version of events: then-Lieutenant Bush had asked for permission to leave the unit. Within a few minutes, I was online visiting web sites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Powerline.
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Dan Rather haters should be forced to read this........2007-02-16
There was absolutely nothing wrong that Dan Rather did in this episode.
The ultra right wing media of which CBS is a part of totally distorted this
episode.
Finally the truth is told by the woman who produced the National Guard
Story of 2004.
Most people know now what a disgraceful person President Bush is.
Excellent expose. Factual and filled with detailed insight........2006-11-06
I didn't know what to expect when I first read this book. After reading it and cross checking several verifiable facts I was astounded at the sheer arrogance that the priviliged wealthy families displayed by circumventing their citizens duty to serve in our military in a time of war. Nothing surprises me anymore as far as the total corrupt, treasonous behaviour of this family and their ilk.
Great book. Buy it, read it and tell all your friends about it.
Amen.
Funny Title.......2006-09-08
Shouldn't this book be called "I was wrong, and I'm sorry?"
What arrogance.
A riveting, well-written and revealing look at a news industry more influenced by profit and politics than principle and truth........2006-09-02
Ms. Mapes is an excellent writer. I couldn't put the book down. Of course, I would expect nothing less from a successful television news producer/reporter with over 25 years of award-winning experience under her belt. A career that includes the breaking of the history-changing story of the Abu Ghraib prison torture for which she won a Peabody Award.
The book is witty and amusing, yet also completely honest. Something President Bush has never been with regard to his truncated National Guard service.
I am a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Upon graduation I was committed to serve my country for five long years as a nuclear submarine officer. Five years. Six deterrent nuclear submarine patrols. 1,826.21099 days of dedicated service. Not one day, not one hour less. I did not have the option to skip town a year or two early with the excuse that I needed to work on some political campaign. I would have been punished for going AWOL. I was completely accountable for my military service commitment. Mr. Bush was not held accountable. He somehow served his country significantly less than required.
This is the crux of Ms. Mapes story on CBS. Yet, instead of focusing on THIS story, the right-wing bloggers and conservative spin doctors spent HUGE amounts of time and money discussing typewriters and fonts.
Such diversionary tactics make me disheartened and angry.
Ms. Mapes also does an excellent job of describing the way she was completely abused by her employers, put on some ridiculous mock trial facilitated by an inappropriate, biased investigation team comprised of people with absolutely no television news experience. She was then very publicly fired such that she was basically the sole scapegoat for this entire debacle. As if Ms. Mapes single-handedly wrote, produced and aired this National Guard story completely by herself...without any supervision, CBS news organization/team, or leadership.
In my books, Ms. Mapes is the hero when it comes to seeking the truth and doing her duty. And the current President Bush and his minions are ever the cover-up artists. Covering up the truth and side-stepping their duty. This has been proven time and time again to be the case. So sad.
I know Ms. Mapes will land on her feet and may she continue to seek the truth and hold our government leaders accountable for their words and actions.
All hail, Queen of journalism standards.......2006-07-03
scene 1: a filandering sociopath running for President is about to become a blip on the political landscape, because the nightclub dancer who he claims he doesn't know, captured a phone conversation between the pair on tape. Forced to face his lie, and his lie about his lie, he seems to be a dead politician walking. But fear not slicky Willy, CBS TO THE RESCUE, with a scripted post-Superbowl interview where he begs for forgiveness and admits his 'mistakes.' His web of lies is all but ignored, nor is he asked to account for his actions or promise this is the last we'll see of his 'mistake' laden behavior. Gee, I forget how this story eventually ends...
Scene 2: 12 later, another man is running for President, yet this man is ALREADY President. He foolishly believes the campaign should be based on the issues and the differences he holds with his flip-flopping opponent on matters such as taxes, fighting terrorism, and being scored as the most liberal senator out of 100. What a dork! Doesn't he realize that elections are based on what CBS and the other networks decide they will be based on? Doesn't he realize that the media are ultimately going to blame and punish him for the actions of over 5 dozen decorated veterans' condemnation of the lies and cowardice of his opponent?
No, Mary Mapes should be not be blamed, nor should she have been fired. After all, she was just upholding the long tradition of doing what CBS does best - propogate the views and selective facts of America's liberal democrats. After all, it was producer Leslie Midgely, in his book "How Many Words Do You Want" that bragged about how he and Walter Cronkite ended the Vietnam War through their news coverage.
So Mary Mapes, you deserve a medal, or at least a promotion and pay raise, because you did what CBS has always done best; twist the facts to support liberal democrats and do it with impeccable timing to cause just the right effect during an election. So what if this one backfired because you - as the producer of a "news" organization - posted and relied on documents that from their very face are clearly unauthentic. Dammit you tried, and doesn't that count for something in America today?
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Fascinating, if a bit uneven.......2007-05-01
David Poyer is a naval writer of some distinction. Some years ago, I read one of his books and wasn't impressed with it. I returned to him to try again when I bought Fire on the Water, and then its two sequels, A Country of Our Own and the current book, The Anvil of Our Souls. Frankly, I think I'm glad I gave him another try, and I'm considering going back and trying his other stuff again.
The three books mentioned above are part of a series of novels that deal with the American Civil War, focusing on the naval aspects of the campaign. The first book recounts the experiences of the crew of a United States warship, most of the officers of which are Southerners. The second book follows the executive officer of that ship as he becomes a Confederate raider on the high seas. This third book instead focuses on most of the rest of the characters from the first book, following the black escaped slave who was a gunner, the doctor (a Southerner), an engineer who understands steam engines, and so forth. One of the main characters of this third volume is the ardent Southerner from the second book, Minter, who's portrayed rather negatively in spite of the fact he's a rebel.
The central portion of the plot of this book surrounds the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac. The author is obviously a sailor himself, and he's apparently done a prodigious amount of research, so everything is very authentic, right down to Worden's Elmer-Fudd-like accent and the method of pointing the guns in the Monitor's turret away from the enemy when reloading. The battle is recounted in considerable detail, and occupies what must be the middle 200 pages of the book. Even though you know how things come out, it's still suspenseful and interesting.
I enjoyed this book a great deal, and I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.
Interesting, but not all that I had expected........2007-04-12
In reading this novel it comes across as more about the Merrimack and some about the Monitor. It seemed that the author was sympathetic to the South and anti North. Even more so, it seemed to be anti Lincoln in that over and over again Lincoln was referred to in various deragatory manners by people of the south as presented by the author. I came away with the feeling that the author was presenting the South as noble and in a favorable light while the North in a less than favorable light in that they were usurping the free men of the South the right to keep people in slavery. Furthermore, the wife on one Southern naval officer being held by the North is raped by another Southern naval officer and totally gets away with this. Maybe there is another book that will follow that will redress this incident, but I do not think I will waste my time.
Fragile History Could Go Either Way.......2005-08-17
Don't miss this book. Once more Poyer weaves his tale masterfully, but this time he's telling a story about an internationally famous and widely studied event. Many pitfalls no matter how he presents it. So he has taken us inside the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, and shows us how it was to those on the scene. They have no clue to the outcome, and they know how many times in the battle a close call could go either way. Tragedy or victory, ending the war, seems within fingertips througout the epoch shaking confrontation. Technology makes a difference and individual personalities makes a difference, but no one could have predicted the end result of a standoff, the most tenuous of all possibilities. Rarely has historical fiction portrayed so well the context surrounding a famous event, showing that "nothing had to happen the way it happened when it happened", as David McCullough reminds us.
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At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long scramble to finish first, in a race filled with intrigue and second guessing, blundering and genius, the two ships -- the
Monitor and the
Merrimack -- after a four-hour battle, ended the three-thousand-year tradition of wooden men-of-war and ushered in "the reign of iron."
In the first major work on the subject in thirty-five years, novelist, historian, and tall-ship sailor James L. Nelson, acclaimed author of the Brethren of the Coast trilogy, brilliantly recounts the story of these magnificent ships, the men who built and fought them, and the extraordinary battle that made them legend.
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Fine scholorship plus talented writing equals a great book........2006-10-19
Been a longtime civil war buff and recently my attention has turned to the naval side of the war and specificly ironclads. This one covering the battle of the Monitor and the Virginia is easily the best book on the topic I have read so far.
What really makes this one stand out is not just the writing or the scholorship, but the combination of the two. So often civil war history is written by scholors who know their facts but don't always have the best writing talents. In this case however James Nelson is an established author having written a number of fictional titles in the historical naval genre. Here however Nelson shows that his talents as a scholor rival his talents as an author. The result is a book of history that reads like a novel.
The book itself starts off with a bang literally as Nelson chronicles the Virginia's opening attacks on the Congress and Cumberland. From there we go back to the beginning and explore the long and winding roads both the Monitor and Virginia took to reach their epic confrontation. It's a facinationg trip as those in charge try and grapple with this new technology.
The story of the Monitor is especially interesting as it's visionary designer John Ericsson fights the doubters who don't even believe his ship will float let alone defeat the Virginia.
I do hope in the future that James Nelson writes more in the Civil War genre as this book is a must read for anyone interested in ironclads and leaves the reader wanting more.
In Depth and Readable.......2005-06-23
Reign of Iron is how history should be written. The detail is terrific, every aspect of the building and operations of these ironclads is covered, in greater depth than in any of the other accounts I have read. Nelson, incidentally, discusses at length why the ship was still called Merrimack even after the Confederates had her, and goes into a lot of detail concerning her names. I have to guess the other reviewer has not read the book. William Davis's Battle of the First Ironclads is also incorrectly named.
Anyone who loves maritime history or Civil War history should read this book! I love Nelson's novels, but this makes me hope he will write more history too.
monitor and merrimack?????.......2005-06-03
the monitor and merrimack were both union ships.....why were they fighting each other???? i know the winners write the history books, but at the time, this fight was between the monitor and the virginia(formerly the merrimack).....
One of the finest history books I have read.......2004-12-18
James L. Nelson put his considerable writing skills of naval fiction into creating this outstanding historical work. Most history is dry reading, but this book reads like an excellent novel. Nelson covers the political turmoil and indecision at the outset of the Civil War and the failure of the incompetent commander of the Norfolk/Gosport naval facilities to destroy military stores and the Merrimack. The Confederates captured large numbers of cannon and tons of ordinance as well as the repairable Merrimack and a good dry-dock. When it was discovered that the Merrimack had been raised and the Confederates were converting it to an iron-clad, the Union panic began. It was hard to get the Monitor built because the old-school naval commanders did not like to innovate. Finally, the design of Swede John Ericsson was accepted, but to get the ship built, Ericsson mostly financed the construction with his own money.
In early March 1862 the Monitor was completed and sent to deal with the Merrimack (CSS Virginia), but she almost sank in rough seas and was barely saved. Meanwhile, a day before the Monitor arrived, the Merrimack had destroyed to Union frigates, the Cumberland and the Congress. It was a fierce battle but the wooden ships in the area could do nothing but run or be destroyed. The only thing keeping the Merrimack from escaping were large caliber cannon on forts in the area that could deliver plunging fire. On the 9th of March, the Monitor and Merrimack dueled for several hours with little damage to each other, few casualties, and no clear winner, but the Monitor and the forts were enough to keep the Merrimack bottled-up. The Confederates wanted to move the Merrimack to Richmond, but the waterways were too shallow, so they blew her up. The Monitor remained on station for several weeks before being sent to Charleston. On the trip, she again encountered heavy seas and sank. What a stupid waste.
What I found most interesting about this famous engagement was the weapons used by the ships. At times the ships were almost touching and a point-blank range, neither ship could deliver a crippling blow. Nelson reveals that the Merrimack was using explosive shells, which are very destructive when hitting wooden ships, but of no penetrating power when exploding against armor. The Monitor had large caliber cannon firing solid shot which should have been able to penetrate the sloping armor of the Merrimack. But the Monitor's cannon were restricted to using half powder charges. Using full charges would have enabled the Monitor's solid shot to penetrate the Merrimack's armor. One would think that after seeing the shots bouncing off the Monitor, someone would have had enough sense to increase the powder charges.
The Legend Comes Alive.......2004-12-01
I first found James Nelson's writing when I was given "Glory in the Name" as a Christmas gift last year. It was one of the more unusual books I had read about the Civil War as it dealt with the Confederate Navy and was told from their point of view in a most riveting fashion. Since reading that book I have read all of Nelson's writings concerning Thomas Marlowe and his adventures in piracy and Isaac Biddlecomb and his adventures in the Revolutionary War, eight books in all. I have also read "The Only Life That Mattered" which involved a pirate legend and was highly entertaining.
Reign of Iron is Nelson's first venture into non-fiction and I can assure you that nothing suffers with the change. Exhaustively researched, Nelson brings back to life the days when the navies of the two waring factions were about to move from the days of wood to the reign of iron.
It is an important story, but one that was relegated to a supporting role in the overal panorama of the War Between the States. Now, Nelson has brought it forward, front and center and explained in detail the trials and tribulations that ushered in this dramatic change in how control of the oceans of the world evolved.
Most of us grew up with some knowledge of The Monitor and The Merrimac, but as Nelson explains, our general knowledge was superficial and usually wrong. This is the true story and it is an important one. Fans of this author will not be disappointed.
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Ironclad: The Monitor and the Merrimack
Arthur Mokin
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With a novelist's eye and the historian's devotion to research, Mokin recreates these early years of the Civil War, immersing the reader in this time and place. We share the motivations and emotions of the country's leaders, the soldiers and sailors, and the families at home-feeling their fears and experiencing their frustrations. Ironclad is immensely readable-popular history at its best.
"Arthur Mokin's vivid account...presents absorbing portraits of the personalities involved, as well as lucid account of the naval tactics and strategy on both sides."
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So Far the Best Text.......2003-12-15
I reviewed "The Battle Of The Ironclads" by Quarstein and called it the best book that I'd read on the Monitor and Virginia/Merrimack. That was before reading this book. This book has more source material and, consequently, more detail and is a better text. "The Battle Of The Ironclads" has more contemporary illustrations so both books complement each other in some ways. Despite the additional source material there are strange omissions in Davis' book, for one he does not mention why the Navy Department disliked Erickson: "The Princeton" affair wherein a gun, not designed by Erickson, blew up killing some high govenment officials when tested on the Princeton, a ship designed by Erickson, and Erickson was blamed for the deaths. Davis also casually mentions that the Confederacy was working on an ironclad called the Richmond when the Confederates abandoned the Norfolk Boatyard. In fact, work was proceeding on both the Richmond and Virginia simultaneously and it is possible that the Virginia could have been completed earlier with more devastating affect on the Union fleet if all work had concentrated on her.
Davis' work is the more scholarly of the two with an index and list of references. Either one is a great read with much detail and the true student of the Battle or of the Civil War will want to read both.
An Excellent Account of the Battle of Hampton Roads.......2001-10-31
"Duel Between the First Ironclads" is probably the best book I have read about the historic clash between the CSS Virginia (Merrimac) and the USS Monitor. It relates the fascinating tale of the development and fight between the two great ironclads and their meeting on March 9, 1862.
William C. Davis is both a historian and a storyteller. He expertly weaves memoir and journal accounts from actual participants to reveal a human side to what many would consider 'dry' history. That Monitor and Virginia were the first Ironclads to meet in battle is notable. But it is the men who commanded those ships, fired their guns and worked their engines who were behind it all. Davis expertly captures that and brings it to life. It is this mesh of human drama and military might that makes this book so valuable.
Then there's the fact that it is simply well written, well paced and just entertaining. While this subject has been covered before in countless books on Civil War Naval history and military, none I have seen has gone into this much depth, both for the human side and the historical background.
I really enjoyed this one. I think it's written well enough that I could suggest this book to just about anyone who has an interest in military history, or just likes a good story.
Well written and well researched........1999-05-12
Wiliam C. Davis chronicles the race to build the ironclads as well as the dramatic battle that ended unresolved. All of the colorful charactors on both sides of the war are portrayed as both human and visionary, in their desperate gamble to win.. More importantly, however, Mr. Davis places this battle into its proper context as a crucial turning point in military and naval history. The chapter on the development of ironclad technology after the battle and war is the proper ending. For the first time, the true importance of this battle and the race to build the ironclads was brought home to me. Highly recommended.
Bad Title, Great Book.......1999-03-16
The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex-Merrimack) were not the "first" ironclads... rather, it was the First Duel of Ironclads. It can only be supposed that the title was forced on Mr. Davis by the publisher. Still... this is perhaps the best of all books on the historic fight between the Monitor and the Virginia, stirringly re-created and well annotated, and is a vital work for anyone wanting to know what really happened on the water in the Civil War. Highly recommended.
Book Description
America’s first arms race reached a blazing conclusion on May 9, 1862, when the CSS Virginia charged its full 275 foot length of ironclad momentum toward the USS Monitor. On the shores, crowds waited for the explosive collision between the two bulwarks of the sea. The clash of these mighty military machines, destined to fight each other for the first and last time in the second year of the American Civil War, instantly brought the age of wooden naval ships to an end.
Using vivid paintings, cross-section diagrams, and technical drawings, Patrick O’Brien unfurls the story of the battle that immediately changed the course U.S. naval warfare.
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Iron and Heavy Guns: Duel Between the Monitor and Merrimac (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series)
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March 1862. The Union ironclad warship, Monitor, with its two eleven-inch Dahlgren smoothbores in a unique revolving turret assembly, leaves New York City under tow to serve blockade duty off the coast of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the Confederate ironclad Virginia (formerly the wooden frigate Merrimac) is raising havoc with Union blockaders in Hampton Roads. The inevitable showdown takes place on March 9. For more than four hours the two ironclads battle furiously at close range. The Merrimac finally withdraws and returns to Norfolk to protect the river approaches to Richmond, leaving the Monitor in control of the Roads and in position to protect the Union blockaders. In May, the Merrimac is destroyed by its own crew to prevent capture; in December, the Monitor sinks in a storm off Cape Hatteras while under tow from Hampton Roads to North Carolina waters. An exciting account of two ships that would change naval warfare forever.
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Merrimac and Monitor.......2003-04-18
The story of these two ironclads is one of the most famous incidents in naval history. As stated in the Ken Burns Civil War Series, "for a moment, every other navy in the world stood obsolete." This book is very effective in chronicling the story of these ironclads, and should be viewed as such, instead of focusing on petty details.
worth the read.......2002-12-05
This is a very well-put-togther, informative book about the ironside USS Monitor and its Confederate counterpart, the CSS Virginia. The title of the book was obviously off-putting to one reader, since it referred to the Merrimac (the name of the Virginia before it was re-fitted and re-christened by the Confederacy), but don't let that stop you!. This book delves into a fascinating part of American military history. The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac changed the course of naval history, and had repercussions all over the world. This book is a great introduction into that period in history.
For those who are still concerned about the use of Merrimac as opposed to Virginia: 1) the US gov't never formally recognized the Confederacy as a sovereign state, therefore the Confederacy would have had no authority to re-christen the ship (ergo, the original designation of Merrimac is, in fact, correct); 2) even during the Civil War, in both the North and the South, the name Merrimac was still widely used to describe the ship -- and remains the more widely recognized and acceptable of the two.
The Monitor never fought the Merrimac.......1999-05-05
I would not buy this book because the Monitor fought a Confederate Ironclad called the C.S.S. Virginia. The Virginia was built upon the salvaged hull of a union ship called the Merrimack (with a "k"). There was another ship built by the union, called the Merrimac (without a "k") but it was a paddle wheel boat and it never fought the Monitor.
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Brave Ships of England and America
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