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Wonderful Portrait of Michael Landon!!!
I Promised My Dad: An Intimate Portrait of Michael Landon by His Eldest
Daughter by Cheryl Landon Wilson with Jane Scovell

When I was 11, I fell in"love" with Little Joe on Bonanza.For 14 long years, I watched that show, then watched Little House, then Highway To Heaven.I still have photos from Photoplay in my movie scrapbook of Mike, Dodie and Mark.Years later, when I had the honor of spending time with my close friend Heather in her suite in Mike's Beverly Hills Mansion in early '80, and met Leslie, I was so honored to receive a specially autographed picture of Mike as a Wedding gift.I treasure that gift, one of his photos as Charles Ingalls.Mike was admired by so many and Cheryl's intimate memoirs bring Mike up close and personal.His family meant the utmost to him.Even with his tragic upbringing with an abusive mother, Mike turned things around with his family, bringing unconditional love into his nine children's lives.I was moved to tears while watching Mike on The Tonight Show 9 May '91, when he shared with the world his quick battle with Pancreatic Cancer.I know what it's like, as I've battled my Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma for 6 years, though have embraced it all just like Mike did with his indomitable courage. When we were watching him on Johnny Carson, it was actually my BD, 10 May, when we saw him.Mike, we miss you, b ut your legacy lives on!!!!This is a wonderful book!!!!Thanks Cheryl!!!!One thing about Mike that I so admired about himwas that he had LDS people working for him.

Forever Friends Rating 5 Stars by Teri
Until Next Time, See You Around the Book Nook


Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Pub. Date: November 1992
ISBN-13: 9780671793524
224pp



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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 343 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Richard Feynman, Martin Scorsese, Dennis Tito, 50 Cent, John Frusciante, Ja Rule, Drake, Lucy Liu, Michael Landon, Hank Azaria, Fran Drescher, Adrien Brody, Jon Favreau, Tobin Bell, Mike Starr, Robert Davi, Gene Mayer, David Schwimmer, Ron Jeremy, Gordon Willis, Lamar Odom, Ll Cool J, Diane Pershing, Donald Trump, Kenny Anderson, David Caruso, Debi Mazar, Rosemarie Dewitt, Drea de Matteo, Anita Page, Matthew Libatique, Steven Weber, Obba Babatundé, Dina Meyer, Mercedes Ruehl, Rafer Alston, Consequence, Sandy Mayer, James Maritato, Rahzel, Jason Patric, Margo Guryan, Norman Krasna, Tony Bennett, Moira Kelly, Kelly Price, Nicholas Turturro, Keith Giffen, Don Rickles, Pharoahe Monch, James Donald Wetherbee, Adrienne Shelly, Peter Camejo, Havoc, Shari Headley, David Gallagher, Andrew Bergman, Joseph Simmons, Eric Fromm, Jess Mcmahon, Charles Camarda, Dick Mcguire, D. B. Woodside, Charlie Villanueva, Marley Marl, Big Ali, Phil Buckman, Kara Goucher, Brian Buccellato, Rammellzee, Robert Weinstein. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : 50 Cent (« Fifty Cent »), de son vrai nom Curtis James Jackson III, est né le 6 juillet 1975 dans le Queens, à New York. Rappeur, compositeur, interprète, acteur, producteur américain et homme d'affaires, il a connu un grand succès grâce aux albums Get Rich or Die Tryin', The Massacre, Curtis et Before I Self Destruct. 50 Cent a acquis des reconnaissances multi-platinum et vendu 35 millions d'albums dans le monde. 50 Cent a grandi dans le quartier de South Jamaica dans le Queens, à New York. Il grandit sans père et est élevé par sa mère Sabrina Jackson qui lui a donné naissance alors qu'elle n'avait que quinze ans. Sabrina vend de la cocaïne mais elle éduque néanmoins son fil...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Nicholas (Michael Landon) Wade, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2899 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Such was the praise for the first edition of The Curriculum. Now Landon E. Beyer and Michael W. Apple join together with other notable contributors in this new edition to examine a range of issues, ideas, and practices connected to the development, evaluation, and effects of curriculum ideas and practices. With substantially new and revised material, the book includes both historical and contemporary efforts to redefine the public school curriculum. It analyzes both the explicit ideas that are conveyed through the curriculum as well as the social, political, aesthetic, ethical, and moral perspectives and values with which curriculum is connected. In outlining both theoretical and practical aspects of the curriculum, and the social values and purposes with which they are connected, the book raises a host of important questions and dilemmas about the nature and direction of educational policies and practices. Taking an integrated perspective, The Curriculum outlines both theoretical issues and practical possibilities, in the process raising questions about the nature and direction of educational policies and practices. As it clarifies the connections between social possibility and the concrete realities of classrooms and other educational arenas, this book elucidates the meaning and value of education, and some of the reasons for the continuing debates within the field. ... Read more

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Beginning with their expulsion from Nauvoo in 1846 and for the succeeding ­twenty-­two years, the migration of Mormon ­pioneers­some 70,000 of ­them­was a compelling saga of the settlement of the American West. Mostly poor, they traveled on ships, canal boats, trains, and riverboats, and then came on foot, in wagon trains and in handcart companies. Their story is told by two arhivists with the LDS Church History Department in this beautiful book, filled with fascinating photographs. ... Read more

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The Mormon Pioneers' Story
Bill Slaughter and Mike Landon did an excellent job researching and telling the story of Mormon pioneers' challeges as they moved to the west to develop a new area.

One of the finest
I have read many books related to the Vangard Company of 1847 and others, like those written about the handcart company tragedies of 1856, Wyoming forts, journals of Mormon pioneers, etc.

This is truly a stunning book.It is not a highly detailed history text, but rather a comprehensive summary of the Mormon Trail and its primary companies.

Perhaps the most outstanding freature is its collection of photographs.There are photographs in this book I have not seen in others of its class.Some [photographs]are what you may call rare, others are quite commonplace and find their way into practically every Mormon Trail piece of literature.

The PBS special to which this book accompanies, is also noteworthy and recommended.

For a fairly brief and photograph rich history of the Mormon Trail, "Trail of Hope" is well worth the time and nominal prices found on Amazon.

A seemingly objective history of a nation-shaping exodus
In the early-1800s, the Mormon Church--or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it's formally called--was founded when a young man named Joseph Smith, not even twenty years old, produced a book he said had been translated with divine help from an ancient record found buried on a hill near his family's New York farm.The book, "The Book of Mormon," told the story of two cultures, the Nephites and the Lamanites, that lived in the Americas during the time of Christ, and claimed that Jesus had appeared to those cultures after his resurrection.(Many Mormons believe today's Native Americans are the descendants of those cultures.)
Joseph Smith said he received the book after he prayed to find out which church to join, and that God and Jesus Christ appeared to him themselves and told him not to join any of them.The Mormon Church grew quickly, with Joseph Smith as its leader, but as it grew, it gained enemies.People resented Joseph Smith's claims, covered him in tar and feathers, and violently tormented his followers.The Mormons moved from place to place: to Ohio, to Missouri, and to Illinois, building settlements and towns, and fleeing when enraged mobs burnt down the Mormons' homes and churches or massacred the Mormon men and boys.The Governor of Missouri went as far as issuing a military order for the complete extermination or deportation of every Mormon within his state.Eventually, Joseph Smith was assassinated by a mob, through the windows of an Illinois prison, where he was being held for ordering the destruction of the printing presses of an anti-Mormon newspaper.
Most people thought Joseph's Smith death would be the end of the Mormons, but it merely made him a martyr for his people.Brigham Young, a tough, fiery-tempered man, became the Mormons' second leader--their second prophet--and in the mid-1800s, led the Mormons westward, toward what was then Mexican territory, and is now the state of Utah.The Mormons traveled in covered wagons, or pulled wooden handcarts, and large numbers of them died from cold, hunger, sickness, and Indian attacks.Along the way they built towns and outposts, and gave English names to the mountains and rivers.
This book is the story of that journey, and it's a well told account of it.The book is full of beautiful and historic photos, as well as copies of letters and journal entries, and a good narrative that ties it all together and injects new and little known facts into a story familiar to many.This is a great book for any interested in the history of the West.It seems objective, though it comes from a Mormon-owned publishing company, and it's never boring.It's one of the best books on the Mormon pioneers I've ever read, and I recommend it highly. ... Read more

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