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Hollywood is a small town. We don't like strangers here.'' So said a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of Hollywood, The Last Tycoon. And it's true. Breaking into Hollywood and riding to success there are no easy tasks. But Ben Stein and Al Burton have created a road map for succeeding in Hollywood.Twenty-six simple rules from ''There Is No Quitting Time'' to ''Keep Your Eyes on the Prize'' to ''Be Seen'' tell you how to make it in Tinseltown. Anyone with eyes and ears and discipline can follow them . . . and this advice applies to every other kind of lucrative, difficult business as well - finance, politics, law - everything.These are rules for making it in a difficult world - by two men who know the rules, know the pitfalls, and have climbed the greasy pole to the top rung of success. ... Read more

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A blueprint for success
I wish I'd read this book when I was 16 years old, making Super 8 movies in the garage. I wish I'd read it when I graduated high school. I wish I'd read it before I joined the military. And during. And after. Ad nauseam. It's a very helpful book, full of great advice I wish someone had drilled into my thick skull 20 years ago. (Ultimately, of course, the responsibility is mine.) It's commonsense success-in-business information that's been stripped down to its essentials. Much easier and more forceful than many other success books I've read. And vastly more entertaining.

Don't just read it--take it to heart and DO IT. Or be a fortysomething guy posting on Amazon and wondering "What if...?"

A terrific checklist for you life and a wonderful book to read with your young people
The best self-improvement books are focused, provide a means for you to do a self-inventory, and offer clear advice about what to do when you find something you now realize that you need to do better.Ben Stein and Al Burton provide 26 terrific keys to success.They are all practical, things that are within anyone's capacity (if you are self-motivated), and are clear about the trade-offs involved.They both are clear that choosing another path is just fine, but you can't expect to not follow these steps and reap the same rewards as those who do.

What kind of steps do they have on their path to lights, glamour, and riches?The very mundane activities of developing useful skills, getting educated, making yourself invaluable, realizing that good enough never is, staying in the game, being careful with your finances, being loyal, avoiding drug and alcohol abuse, staying in the game, being patient, get the job, look for the good and praise it, and many more.You can see that there is nothing that appears to be magic in the list.But there is!Just as the difference between a good ball player and the hall of fame is about one more hit per week, it is the small but consistently positive behaviors that make so much difference in a life.

As I read through this book, I did find some things that I need to focus on and get back in my repertoire.None of us is in the groove all the time and it sure helps to have a checklist to make sure we are thinking about and doing the right things.It is easy to get deflected from the right path and travel ineffectively for a while only to wake up and find yourself at some distance from where we want to be.Here is a most helpful checklist that is based on solid principles and offers a strong foundation to anyone in any career.

What is particularly interesting about Hollywood is that it is based on short term groups that form to do a project and then end.But the next time a group needs to form, the people tend to work with those they know will contribute value and help the group be successful.It is a fine example of how markets and business work.(As an aside, I wonder why so many of its participants are therefore anti-free market people...)You will be a better, more successful, and, yes, powerful person if you implement these principles in the way you conduct your life.

Terrific for anyone, but you will want to be sure every young person in your life gets a copy and reads it multiple times.The best way to get them read it is to read it with them - preferably just a step a day - and then talk it over with them.And then keep referring to them in reference to your own life as an example for them.Or point out how those they see on the news have missed this or that point or point out how someone in the news got it just right.The wrong way is to keep harping at them about the principles in THEIR life.Don't do that.Let them think about that and come to it on their own.Just keep them in the air all around them.

Enthusiastically recommended.

A Book for the Ages
Well, not quite but I wish I read a book like this when i was starting out. Sure,the advice is basic but it is the basics we too often forget.Don't lose sight of your goals; accept that progress is slow , and don't be discouraged if others, less talented get ahead faster(as golfer Tom Watson remarked on competition,"I dont worry about it;it is just me v. the course"); be sincere and be nice; remember that friends come and go but enemies accumulate. Lots more.Give it to a high school ot college grad. They'll thank you later.

Short, Informative, and Entertaining
This is a book you can read in one sitting. The 26 rules are laid out in 26 short chapters. The authors spice the book up with anecdotes from their own experiences and those of others they know in Hollywood.I especially love the comments comparing "dreamers" to "doers."Take this book to read on your plane trip to Hollywood. You'll be glad you did. ... Read more

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This book treats statistical issues that are of relevance in spatial studies for remote sensing. It consists of contributions by international experts in this field. A brief overview of basic statistics is given, followed by physical aspects of remote sensing. Spatial statistics addresses classification of images by supervised and unsupervised procedures, estimation of spatial structures by variograms, interpolation, simulation, sampling and issues of scale. Geographical information systems allow the integration of remote sensing with other sources of information, concentrating on the concept of the pixel. Attention is also given to decision support for a wide variety of possible and important decisions. A single data set is used throughout the book. This book therefore provides an overview of the state of the art of spatial statistics for remote sensing, highlighting new frontiers in this rapidly developing field of science. ... Read more

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Bestselling authors Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth know that investors are bored with their typical 60/40 stock & bond portfolios and curious about whether some of the new variations going around might be right for them.  At the same time, many alternative strategies are going down-market and opening to the retail investor. Stein and DeMuth recommend that investors look outside of the box to hedge funds, real estate, gold, commodities, and even art as sources of investment income. 

Alternative Investments are not just for the rich anymore.  But which strategies make sense?  Which ones add value and which ones should we take a pass on?  How do we integrate them with the rest of our portfolios?  How much should we use of which kind, and what kind of results can we expect when we do? 

Stein and DeMuth interview the leading experts in the industry, take you on a guided tour of this Ripley’s museum of new and strange offerings, explain in simple language how they work (or don’t work), and tell you how you can use them to manage risk and boost returns in the privacy of your own home.  The authors specialize in making the technical seem simple, the esoteric, accessible, and the dry, entertaining. ... Read more

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JULY 1981 ISSUE OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE. ARTICLES INCLUDE "BURT REYNOLDS ROOMMATE: NO MORE BONES TO BREAK", "REAGAN'S ECONOMY: THE FATAL FLAW", PLUS BEN STEIN, AND INTERVIEW WITH ROY COHN, AND MORE. ... Read more

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America is under attack. The threat of bombs and bullets and every other form of terrorism comes mostly from Islamic extremists. But a powerful threat also stems from homegrown anti-Americanism from the left of the political and cultural spectrum. From "comedians" working for leading Democrat candidates who call the American President " . . . a piece of [expletive deleted]," to the candidates themselves who try to whip up feelings of victimization and anger in ethnic minorities, to universities that preach that America is the main villain on Earth and that 9/11 was richly deserved . . . a full-court left-wing propaganda press is on to drag America through the mud and sap America’s resolve to fight and win the war on terrorism.

Why? Where does this anger at America by Americans come from? Certainly not from reality, since all available historical comparisons tell us that America is the most enlightened, open, and forgiving of nations and the one that offers the most opportunity to its citizens.

In Can America Survive? authors Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth examine this anti-American rage, providing plentiful and outrageous examples from campuses to foundations to Democratic candidate debates to liberal "fund-raisers" that openly tout hate as their message. The authors then attempt to plumb the psychological wellsprings that generate this anger: Is it infantile narcissism? Is it a desperately incomplete maturation process? Is it competition with patriarchal figures?

The authors attempt to create a psychological road map that explores what the psychological roots of this national self-loathing might be. This is a unique approach, attempting to explain political beliefs in terms of psychological background, and the authors believe that it’s the only approach that works, since a realistic appraisal of America would not allow as much rage as we see in daily political discourse.

Finally, the authors offer a plan for how to fight back: They recommend educating your children in such a way as to develop pride in their country, suggest specific reading materials, offer ways to raise your voice to talk back to the major newspapers and TV networks, and even discuss how you can work fearlessly in university settings so that the left doesn’t dominate political discourse.

Can America Survive? is a portrait of what is clearly wrong with the national mood, where that malady comes from, and how those who still believe in America can work in their communities and in the nation to preserve the republic. ... Read more

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The extreme right's view of the left
Stein and DeMuth write from real positions of strength when it comes to finance, since both have solid backgrounds in finance and law. But also, as too often is true of others with business degrees, they speak from positions of almost total ignorance when it comes to social and political issues. Their idea of "thinking" apparently means a one-sided, completely biased way of thinkijng from a completely right-wing perspective. It is true that there are some who hold views they describe in their book, which are as wrong-headed as they are unthinking. However, Stein and DeMuth -- as do others in the far-right crowd --- speak from positions of ignorance and an inability to distinguish shades of (political) coloration. One has the impression they view any criticisms of the United States as fundamentally unpatriotic, something to be suppressed if not banished entirely. That being the case, it is no exaggeration to call their opinions fascist, even by the strictest and most literal meaning of the term.

Moreover, if it's extremism that concerns them, where is their critique of the even more dangerous forms of it we have encountered from the extreme right in the last few decades? As far as I recall, the only -- and the last -- time this country faced threats from the left was in the early 1970s. Right-wing zealots, on the other hand, have sprouted up in all directions both here and abroad, many of whom have declared themselves openly as enemies of the United States. Furthermore, they almost all of these groups have their roots in various stripes of religious extremism: intolerant, fascist, Christian wackos in this country; Jewish/Zionist zealots both here and in Israel; and the murderous, takfiri Muslims concentrated in parts of Europe and the Middle East. That said, one can conclude that hasn't been the lefties who have been our biggest threat, but the sundry, right-wing groups of many kinds and persuasions have been presnted the greatest danger to America, the American ideal, and the American way of life. So, Ben and Phil, if you're looking for intolerance in its most destructive forms, it's OK to look left... but then look far right, too, perhaps even in your own (unwitting) midst.

Satire?
I recently attended a talk by Mr Stein, in which he articulated, very well, the real problem facing America. That the concentration of wealth in America is in the hands of fewer and fewer people. Yet in this books he aligns himself with some of the nations true intellectual lightweights (O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, Ingrams, Buchanan, everyone on FoxNews... the list goes on) and places the blame at the door of "liberals." I hear he's also made a movie blaming Darwin for Hitler and promoting the farce that is "intelligent design". I know he's a smart man.... perhaps he's the new Stephen Colbert and this is an extremely well constructed satire.

Keeping up with the truth facts
I found the topic very interesting and enlightning on the facets of what really happens in the government and the media.

Problems
The problem with writing a rebuttal to the extreme left is that people begin to think that radical liberal views are characteristic of all liberal views.This book is a great disservice to the debate between liberals and conservatives.By allowing conservatives to feel content in their ideology by bashing the far left obliterates any rational inclination to consider valid points from the "other side" that everyone should think seriously about.America has descended into an extremely dangerous form of arguing - that of getting a point across and winning the argument, regardless of facts.I hope people will begin to draw conclusions from facts and not from rebuttals to the perversions of the far left.

A Strong Stand for America
Firstly, this not an unabashed attempt by conservatives to bash liberals.Instead, as the authors verify (albeit a bit late into the text), this is a rebuttal of those in the extreme left who truly hate America.The line of argument tries to expose the extreme good being done by America and capitalism in the world.I think that it is necessary to affirm these goods and continually strive to better America further (as the authors proclaim).Envious hatred of America is never an edifying force.The act of dissent must always be one that builds up and never aims to tear down.It is against the crowd of those attempting to tear us down that the authors argue.

My disagreements with the authors are as follows:

They often begin their discussions with a variety of quotes that are taken from a variety of radicals, drawing their argument into an almost ad-hominem fallacy (as noted by another reviewer).However, this can not be fully maintained, for they do not use the character persons quoted to disprove their arguments.The real problem with this is that it could be interpreted as a narrow attempt at researching the views of America haters. Of course, I will argue that it is often difficult to discern a unified front in extreme liberalism because of its (often part and parcel) denial of objective truth and subsequent elevation of subjective understanding as the ultimate goal.(This is, of course, not meant to make humans into purely subjective computing machines.Instead, I mean to emphasize that a grounding of truth is necessitated because anything else would be a contradiction and yet this contradiction is often maintained by the elite for the sake of being "enlightened", but I digress.)

Furthermore, they are a bit too optimistic about capitalism's ability to lift up the world.I do think that the freedom in capitalism can do much good.However, we must never hope, like communism does, that we humans can work out perfection on our own.There is always the chance for humanity to fall.The authors do not directly assert this but lean that way at times.In all fairness, they hint at the advantage of capitalism: freedom is given to all.Next to the possibility for corruption, we must also acknowledge that we are also directed toward the Truth.Therefore, freedom must be maintained for all, a point truly made by the authors, although masked by an almost overzealous fideism in capitalism.

Finally, their review of "Phariseeism" is incomplete and also unreflecting upon the notion of wealth.I do not, however, read with a hermeneutic of suspicion.Based on the other ideas of these writers, I think that they have just chosen not to address this greatly and directly (although a brief mention is made with respect to gross extravagance).

In Conclusion,
All-in-all, however, this book gives a refreshing look at America.It serves as a reminder of what all we have done as Americans.From this we must take our forward thrust.This tradition must always remain a key motivating factor in progress.From the great things done in America, we must go forward in the hope of always helping our brethren in the world. ... Read more

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Chapters: Orlando Letelier, Ralph Nader, Ben Stein, David H. Rosenbloom, Max Cleland, Michael Salla, Julian Bond, Robin Hahnel, William Shainline Middleton, William Bleckwenn, Eugene Lindsay Opie, Colman Mccarthy, Lauren Ackerman, Juan Rosai, Bernard B. Fall, David Sabiston, Allan Lichtman, Paul Fussell, Leonard Steinhorn, Viola S. Wendt, Barry Freundel, Jehan Al Sadat, Donna Denizé, Surin Pitsuwan, Paul Eston Lacy, Emil R. Unanue, John Marcellus, Arthur Purdy Stout, Philip Stieg, Keith Boykin, Ray Wendland, Floyd M. Riddick, Michael Berenbaum, Lloyd Ultan, Alicia Shepard, Thom Loverro, Leon Hadar, Paul Williams, Khalid Duran, Declan Mccullagh, Richard Mccann, Samih Farsoun, Hamid Mowlana, Mohammed Abu-Nimer, George Ayittey, John M. Richardson, Alan Morrison, Ellis O. Knox, Gary Lafree, David Nalle, Jamie Raskin, William M. Leogrande, Richard Blanco, Karl Přibram, Robert Griffith, Betty T. Bennett, Andrew Holleran, Jamie Shea, Abdul Aziz Said, Edwin Sill Fussell, James A. Thurber, Ann Darr, Karen O'connor, Louis W. Goodman, Anita Alpern, M. E. Grenander, Charles F. Marsh, Caroline F. Ware, Brenda V. Smith, Corinne Mclaughlin, Robert Albert Bauer, Mary W. Gray, Daniel Abraham, William Rea, Candice Nelson, George H. Williams, Lesley Gill, Rick Wilson, Edward H. Bersoff. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 322. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ralph Nader (pronounced ; born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and four-time candidate for President of the United States, having run as Green Party candidate in 1996 and 2000, and as independent candidate in 2004 and 2008. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government. With grassroots democracy civic actions, green poli...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25671 ... Read more

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SEPTEMBER 1980 ISSUE OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE. ARTICLES INCLUDE "HOW PRESIDENTS PAST AND PRESENT STEAL MILLIONS IN PETTY CASH", "WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL DREAM GIRL TURNS OUT TO BE A PORNO STAR, PLUS INTERVIEWS WITH TAMMY WYNETTE, DAVE PARKER, PLUS PENTHOUSE GOES TO CHINA. ... Read more

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Chapters: John Walker Lindh, Sylvester Stallone, Goldie Hawn, Robert Olds, Ben Stein, Nick Adenhart, Dave Chappelle, Joe Alexander, George Pelecanos, Lewis Black, Dominique Dawes, Brady Anderson, Manpreet Singh, Wayne Federman, Carl Bernstein, Tom Hucker, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Joe Glazer, John Bunting, Darrius Heyward-Bey, Donna Richardson, Sam Anno, Philip Gyau, Emily Gould, Lisa Ann Walter, Chuck Driesell, Shawn Springs, Cara Delizia, Lonny Baxter, Michael Ealy, Monika Hellwig, Leo Felton, Jen Miller, Billy Edelin, Rick Leventhal, Patrick N. Hogan, Mathew Mossburg, Visanthe Shiancoe, Marc Davis, Royce Money, Norman Chad, Cliff Warren, Jeremy Duchesne, Kevin Alston, Russ Chauvenet, Aamir Ali, Debra Monk, Chris Edgerly, Ryan Pinkston, Chris Warren, Luke Carlin, John Harwood, Kate Siegel, Debra Granik, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Keith Howland, Patrick Levis, Matt Maloney, Blair Lee I, Brian J. Doyle, Tanard Jackson, Melissa R. Kelly, James Gist, Kat Long, Jack Bentley, Lawrence Moss, Wei-Hwa Huang, Steve Schmoll, Jake Powell, Omar Evans, Bennett Madison, Brock Parker, Derrick Gray, David Alexander, Richard de Angelis, Bill Mcgowan, Wayne Duvall, Robert J. Myers, Michael Kranish. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 341. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert Olds (June 15, 1896-April 28, 1943) was a general officer in the United States Army Air Forces, theorist of strategic airpower, and proponent of an independent United States Air Force. Olds is best known as the father of Brig. Gen. Robin Olds, a "triple ace" fighter pilot of World War II and the Vietnam War. He became an instructor at the Air Corps Tactical School between 1928 and 1931, the crucial period when the theory of strategic bombardment achieved ascendancy within the Air Corps as the most effective use of airpower. With eight co...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22800281 ... Read more

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Chapters: Charles Moose, Clara Barton, Frank Miller, Anthony Mcauliffe, Shane Mcmahon, Carol Browner, Ben Stein, Nora Roberts, Freddy Adu, Kevin Durant, William M. Callaghan, John Fahey, Chris Van Hollen, Oguchi Onyewu, Edmonson Sisters, Connie Morella, Bowie Kuhn, Fred Funk, John Berry, Rose Kushner, Manpreet Singh, Stewart Nozette, Tamyra Gray, Raheem Devaughn, Jeffrey Zients, Margaret Kilgallen, Peter Franchot, Henry Vestine, Bill Guckeyson, Ann Beattie, Chris Carmack, Richard A. La Vay, Megan Williams-Stewart, Ernest W. Lefever, Steve Barber, Jennifer Celotta, Kevin Thompson, Thomas Pratt, Daniel Stern, Mark S. Sisk, Audrey Penn, Steve Armas, Judah Friedlander, Jody A. Breckenridge, Donal Mclaughlin, George W. Getty, Sharmba Mitchell, Darnell Dockett, Justin Maxwell, Hank Fraley, Brian Heidik, Clarence Page, Maia Campbell, Ray Miller, Elijah V. White, Gayle King, David O'connor, Mathew Mossburg, Laurie Ann Haus, Sara Mcmann, Jelani Jenkins, Paula Marshall, Patricia Richardson, Benjamin Franklin Gilbert, Thomas Stewart, William B. Magruder, Richie Anderson, Edgar Thomas Conley, Jimmy Kemp, Newton Steers, Kimberly J. Brown, Joe Aitcheson, Jr., Neil Fallon, Ann Brashares, Mike Venafro, Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., Gilbert Gude, A. Bruce Bielaski, Brendan Mccarthy, Danny Heater, John B. Kimble, Tom Mchale, Scott Van Pelt, Michael D. Barnes, Tony Skinn, Doug Gansler, Arthur Cuming Ringland, William Henry Farquhar, Joshua Aaron Weinstein, Charles Whitebread, Doreen Gentzler, Tim Kurkjian, William Drohan, Bill Reichenbach, Freda Wright-Sorce, Henry B. Heller, Stedman Prescott, Alfred F. Beiter, Jack Bentley, Earl Edwin Austin, Christian M. M. Brady, James Mcewan, Henry Blair, Marty Hurney, Ralph Tabakin, Nancy K. Kopp, William E. Reynolds, Joseph R. Bartlett, Avedon Carol, Tony Greene, Tracy Jackson, Wayne Wilson, Jeremiah Crabb, Jared Williams, Tia Shorts, Spoonboy, Thomas Sprigg Wootton, Benjamin Gaither. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 486....http://booksllc.net/?id=304169 ... Read more

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Chapters: Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Ben Stein, David Berlinski, Avigdor Miller, Avrohom Katz. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (April 5, 1902 OS June 12, 1994 NS), known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or just the Rebbe among his hasidim, was a prominent hasidic rabbi who was the seventh and most recent Rebbe (hasidic leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He was fifth in a direct paternal line to the third Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. In 1951, a year after the death of his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, he assumed the leadership of the Lubavitch movement. He led the movement until his death in 1994, greatly expanding its worldwide activities and founding a worldwide network of institutions to spread Orthodox Judaism among the Jewish people. These institutions include schools, kindergartens, synagogues, Chabad houses, and others, and are run under the auspices of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational branch of the Chabad movement. His focus on messianism was controversial and remains polarising within Orthodox Judaism. During his lifetime and even after his death, a portion of his followers have considered him to be the Jewish Messiah, and Chabad Messianists await his return as the Messiah. Born in Nikolaiev, Ukraine, Schneerson was the eldest of three sons of Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, an authority on Kabbalah and Jewish law who served as the Rabbi of Yekaterinoslav from 1907 to 1939. He had two younger brothers, Dov Ber and Yisroel Aryeh Leib, both of whom were reported to be of unusual character. His younger brother Dov Ber was mentally disturbed from childhood and spent his years in an institution for the mentally disabled near Nikolaiev. He died in 1944 at the hands...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=163056 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Carol Schwartz, Ben Stein, Alexander Robey Shepherd, Linda Chavez, Stephen L. Johnson, David Kranich, Francis Preston Blair, Patrick Mara, Star Parker, Michelle Bernard, Robert J. Kabel. Excerpt:Alexander Robey "Boss" Shepherd Alexander Robey Shepherd (1835 1902), better known as Boss Shepherd , was one of the most controversial and influential civic leaders in the history of Washington, D.C. , and one of the most powerful big-city political bosses of the Gilded Age . He was head of the DC Board of Public Works from 1871 to 1873 and Governor of the District of Columbia from 1873 to 1874. He is known, particularly in Washington, as "The Father of Modern Washington." Early life and career Born in southwest Washington on January 30, 1835, Shepherd dropped out of school at 13 and took a job as a plumber's assistant. Eventually, he worked his way up to becoming the owner of the plumbing firm. He then invested the profits from that firm in real estate development, which made him a wealthy socialite and influential citizen of the city. (One of his luxurious properties was Shepherd's Row, a set of rowhouses on Connecticut Avenue designed by Adolf Cluss ; Cluss would later be the star witness at Shepherd's congressional investigation hearings.) Two days after the Battle of Fort Sumter that initiated the American Civil War , Shepherd and his brother each enlisted in the 3rd Battalion of the District of Columbia volunteers. The term of enlistment at that time was only three months, after which Shepherd was honorably discharged. Approximately six months afterwards, he was married to Mary Grice Young, with whom he had seven surviving children. He was an early member of the Republican Party and a member of the Washington City Councils from 1861 to 1871, during which time he was an important... ... Read more

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Chapters: Pat Buchanan, Charles Krauthammer, Ben Stein, Asa Earl Carter, Chris Matthews, Bill Kristol, Karl Hess, David Frum, George Gilder, Jon Favreau, John Podhoretz, Ken Khachigian, Ted Sorensen, Jeffrey Hart, William Safire, Elijah Hedding, Adam Garfinkle, Raymond Siller, James Fallows, Peggy Noonan, Michael Gerson, David Gergen, Marc Thiessen, Ken Kurson, Beverly Eakman, Elijah Embree Hoss, John Mclaughlin, Erastus Otis Haven, Jeff Greenfield, Peter Robinson, Michael R. Meyer, Linda Goodman, Kim Ponders, Arthur Larson, Matt Latimer, Matthew Scully, Andrei Cherny, John Avlon, Ray Price, Mark Katz, Henry Lee Iv, Amy Holmes, Curt Smith, David Shipley, Samuel Irving Rosenman, Landon Parvin, William Perry Eveland, Aram Bakshian, Theodore Sommers Henderson, Anthony R. Dolan, Judson Welliver Society, Mark Salter, Eli Attie, Jeff Shesol, Lissa Muscatine. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 275. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was a senior adviser to American Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election. He co-founded The American Conservative magazine and launched a foundation named The American Cause. He has been published in Human Events, National Review, The Nation and Rolling Stone. He is currently a political commentator on the MSNBC cable network including the show Morning Joe and a regular on The McLaughlin Group. Buchanan was born in Washington, D.C., a son of William Baldwin Buchanan (Virginia, August 15, 1905 Washingt...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=168890 ... Read more