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This book moved me!.......2007-04-17

What a wonderful childrens' book! Dawn Fitzgerald's telling of the story of Vinnie Ream is inspirational, the presence of Abe Lincoln is magical, the mix of artistic achievement, youthful determination, and living history is opulent, and Catherine Stock's illustrations enliven the story and make the book sparkle. To me this book is perfect proof of the power of a story for children about people who were real and who did great things.

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Vinnie: The Autobiography
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Vinnie Ream: An American Sculptor
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Wrestle Radio U.S.A.: Grapplers Speak
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Gorgeous work, beautifully written and illustrated.......1999-06-21

A tremendously satisfying volume that straddles art history, political history, and civil war remembrance, written by a descendant of Vinnie Ream. Copiously illustrated with a compelling narrative set in a first-class book design. A pleasure to read, view and touch.

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

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History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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A Helpful Contribution to Gothic Debate
Wildly inaccurate and poorly researched.
Interesting & Illuminating Read!
If "Anti-Oedipus" had a little gothic cousin...

Goth's Dark Empire
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In Goth's Dark Empire cultural historian Carol Siegel provides a fascinating look at Goth, a subculture among Western youth. It came to prominence with punk performers such as Marilyn Manson and was made infamous when it was linked (erroneously) to the Columbine High School murders. While the fortunes of Goth culture form a portion of this book's story, Carol Siegel is more interested in pursuing Goth as a means of resisting regimes of sexual normalcy, especially in its celebration of sadomasochism (S/M). The world of Goth can appear wide-ranging: from films such as Edward Scissorhands and The Crow to popular fiction such as Anne Rice's "vampire" novels to rock bands such as Nine Inch Nails. But for Siegel, Goth appears as a mode of being sexually undead—and loving it. What was Goth and what happened to it? In this book, Siegel tracks Goth down, reveals the sources of its darkness, and shows that Goth as a response to the modern world has not disappeared but only escaped underground.

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A Helpful Contribution to Gothic Debate.......2007-01-13

I have to take some issue with Anja Flower's review of Goth's Dark Empire. I read Carol Siegel's book very much from a British experience of Goth and Gothic culture (and that limited), and so I do have issues with (as Anja says) Carol's strong linkage of that culture with resistance to mainstream American identification and representation of sex and sexual identity. That certainly isn't what I find in Britain - here Goths seem to be fairly representative of the rest of the population, and even, if anything, rather conservative in their sexual habits. Nor do I know much about Deleuze-Guattari psychological analysis, and I don't think very highly of such theories anyway. But that aside, I was pleasantly surprised to find 'Goth's Dark Empire' very readable, and, so far as it goes, insightful in its discussion of the various products of the Goth culture it deals with. Carol Siegel clearly has her own point of view, which one may or may not have issues with, but she doesn't claim her treatment of the sexuality of contemporary Stateside Goth-dom is all that can be said about the matter; provided you remember that, and don't approach this specialised academic book as the 'guide to Goth' it makes no pretence to be, it makes a helpful contribution to the debate. At least it shows an academic taking Goth and Gothic seriously, which is always welcome! And even better that she's done a good deal of her work by talking to real Goths rather than simply sitting in a university study.

As to Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails - the ultimately sterile and futile 'Is it Goth?' debate may amuse teenage Goths in web-based discussion groups, and provide fun for the Goth style police who have always been with us. But, in the first place, Goth/Gothic is a multifoiled and multifaceted beast, has no (or virtually no) abiding identity, and its ability to absorb and process almost any form of entertainment, art or history and turn it out figured Gothically is part of what makes it so exciting and interesting. Secondly, Messrs Manson & Reznor have helped to process, represent, and popularise Goth imagery to the American public - and arguably debase it, but that's a matter of personal taste rather than anything more concrete. Check Catherine Spooner's fine 'Contemporary Gothic' (Reaktion Books, 2006) if you don't believe me! Try and tie Gothic down to anything in particular - or rule anything out of the ring - and you'll find it rising up to bite you in the neck.

Wildly inaccurate and poorly researched........2006-12-17

This is a fanciful, wildly innacurate book. Marylin Manson, goth music? Whether he is a quality musician is widely debated, but no music lover in their right mind thinks he makes goth music. For that matter, Nine Inch Nails is industrial rock, not goth; many rivitheads and industrial lovers would have a fit hearing him called goth. The emphasis on sexuality in goth culture is massively overstated, as well, and many seminal musical groups and literary and artistic influences entirely ignored. The importance of 19th century gothic fiction is glossed over, as is the separate nature of various subcultures related to, but not one with, goth, such as BDSM, rivit/industrial, cyber, deathrock, and vampire culture.

Take it from a goth: Carol Siegel, while correct in some of her conclusions on the nature of our culture, hasn't really got an inkling what she's pontificating about. Don't read this book.

Please, don't waste your time.

Interesting & Illuminating Read!.......2005-10-07

Carol Siegel's Goth's Dark Empire is an insightful exploration of Goth and its creepings into popular culture. From a clear, straightforward definition of Goth and its historical place in American culture to a discussion of misidentification and vilification of Goth and what drives the subculture, Siegel clarifies and demonstrates the importance of this changing subculture and its growing influence on art, literature, and music. Siegel uses her obvious expertise and deftness in cultural studies and academic theory to untangle the complexities of this topic.
Drawing from sources that range from Trent Reznor to Angela Carter and Thomas Ligotti, Goth's Dark Empire is an interesting, in-depth discussion of Goth's delightful darkness and its impact on American culture.

If "Anti-Oedipus" had a little gothic cousin..........2005-08-28

...it would be "Goth's Dark Empire." This book first caught my attention due to its application of Deleuze and Guattari to gothic youth culture. Having spent a great deal of time with both Deleuze and Guattari's work, I was interested in how Professor Siegel was applying these radical philosophical concepts to a genre of music and culture that I also possessed something of an interest in. Needless to say, this book illustrates what is so Deleuzoguattarian about goth culture and does this in a very original and charmingly idiosyncratic way.

Regarding the table of contents, I was surprised to see what at first seemed like disparate topics. How exactly was a Deleuzian book on Goth going to weave through criticism on abstinence programs, the work of Angela Carter (a British author who is only now being appreciated for her transgressive and amazing body of work), and the Brandon Teena tragedy? The fact that the book brilliantly juxtaposes discussions of Virginia Woolf with Fields of the Nephilim lyrics, and passes from Carter to Poppy Z. Brite (thus seeming to suggest Brite as a kind of successor to Carter's throne while also making the argument that both authors represent a "minor literature") is the book's ultimate triumph.

Further, what makes this book so important is that it challenges the flawed academic conception that goth culture is unworthy of study by showing its movement across women's and feminst studies and its direct connection to the anti-capitalist philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus. For example, Siegel argues early on (upon the heels of Foucault's intro to "Anti-Oedipus"), in what may be the thesis of her book that "The look of Goth, its style-as-substance, can thus be understood as a potentially very powerful force of resistance, a way of generating affects that can stand against State institutions of control and the discourses of power they authorize. Goth cannot tell us how to live both darkly and against fascism, but it can show us" (25). By functioning as a minor culture that works beneath the normalcy of the mainstream, Goth culture redefines an era where the sexual revolution didn't fail, but has instead been reconfigured to account for the threat of AIDS; thus explaining Goth's romanticizing of death. Goth is also a deterritorialized cultural resistance to the zombie-bourgeoisie whose lives are plagued with denial of both their bodies and sexuality, as well as the sources of their own unmaking-a concept that grounds the anti-Oedipal argument that capitalism possesses covert ways of turning one's desire back on one's self.

Again, it is the bridges that Siegel constructs that facilitate movements and gateways between goth culture and standard academic fare such as Asian-American literature, British literature (both Joyce and Lawrence strongly figure in during the conclusion) and of course Deleuze and Guattari. An example of such bridging is Siegel's excellent chapter on the Japanese animated film "Vampire Hunter D." Throughout her analysis of the film she expertly historicizes its revision of Asian male masculinity. She places the film in recent debates concerned with representations of Asian-American males. She regularly cites authors like Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kinston, and Chang-rae Lee when observing the ways the film responds to constructions of masculinity in Asian-American literature. After reading this chapter it seems only natural that "Vampire Hunter D" as well as other gothic portrayals of Asian-American masculinities should be taught alongside the above authors.

Professor Siegel also fills a crucial gap in studies on goth cultures by showing the strong connections the movement shares with BDSM. While critics such as Paul Hodkinson claim there are no direct links between goth culture and BDSM, Siegel suggests otherwise by relaying how nearly all the participants in her ethnographic research were able to successfully point out and name the fetish gear adorned by artists such as NIN. In fact, it is the connections with BDSM that allows goth to experiment with radical sexuality in a way that embraces the darkness of living in a post-AIDS world, while also disrupting the strict binary of the sexes that perpetuates the tired and "dead" capitalist mainstream. In this way, Goth is surprisingly quite life-affirming.

Siegel's rhetoric is also enjoyable. Her love for Deleuze and Guattari is immediately evident in her writing. At her most polemical, Siegel composes some of her most inspired and calculated prose. In her conclusion she writes that "Goths escape the willed stupidity of the American Dream to find in the nightmare of fallen knowledge a becoming that is also a coming to knowledge with no goal beyond intimacy with life's dark side. They refuse end goals, remaining, instead, fascinated with natural decay and the falling apart of all things that current mainstream values formed. By valorizing perversion and artifice for its own sake, they express their desire for a regime of endless desire" (166). Siegel's reading of goth culture through an anti-oedipal, schizoanalytical lens seems so natural and even common-sensical that it is truly a wonder other Deleuzians haven't noticed goth as a cultural reflection and manifestation of the basic arguments of "Anti-Oedipus."

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