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Legacy--4.5 stars
This autobiography is unusual to say the least.It is replete with deep, profound, mystifying, eye-opening, tantalizing personal experiences rather than mundane happenings.It reads, at times, like a fantasy novel.I'd call this powerful book an impressionistic painting of Jung's life and work.It's very personal and very revealing.It's no wonder he left it to the very end of his life.Fortunately for us, he did provide the data & it was posthumously published.It provides a depth of context for his work that is available nowhere else.It is, however, expurgated--presumably by his family who didn't want all his dirty laundry (e.g. affairs with clients etc.) made public.After all, it was published not long after his death.There is much to learn from this book--even by those offended by it.As Jung says, p.247 "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."George MacDonald said "Those don't know England who only England know."Jung asks, p. 246 "How, for example, can we become conscious of national peculiarities if we have never had the opportunity to regard our own nation from outside?Regarding it from outside means regarding it from the standpoint of another nation."Similar to his more scientific works, this one contains innovative thinking & timeless observations.
You gotta be crazy to analyze crazy people
If a regular person described the things that Jung describes in this biography, you'd say "this person is completely insane".
"But Who Manipulates The Apparatus?"
More than any other work in his oeuvre, Carl Jung's biography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961) takes the reader inside the mind of the eminent Swiss psychologist.Jung was both a self-admitted gnostic and an introvert, and this very personal account of his life, which he was completing at the time of his death, is correspondingly subjective in tone.
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Subjects:  1. (Carl Gustav),    2. 1875-1961    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. General    8. Jung, C. G    9. Jung, C. G.    10. Jungian Psychology    11. Movements - Behaviorism    12. Movements - Jungian    13. Psychoanalysts    14. Social Scientists & Psychologists    15. Switzerland    16. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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How to Have your Cow and Eat it Too
While Dr. Grandin's poignant unraveling of the mysteries of autism deserves the accolades it has received, her perspectives on animals are deeply tainted by her research into "humane" slaughter techniques, which ultimately have an economic rather than a purely scientific rationale. After all, the meat industry cares not one iota about whether animals are treated humanely or not, only whether they can be "disassembled" as quickly and efficiently as possible. Thus, while Grandin's work may indeed make the treatment of farm animals more humane when they reach their brutal demise, it nevertheless facilitates the expansion of an industry that is anything but humane, bringing ever greater numbers of animals under the sway of its remorseless logic of bloodthirsty death. History does not judge the petty functionaries of the Final Solution, the ones who devised more efficient means of killing human beings, to be heroes; nor should history judge Temple Grandin to be a savior of animals. If her concern for animals goes as deep as she claims it does, she should turn the wealth she garners from the meat industry against its practices, donating all of her meat industry earnings to animal rights causes. Ultimately that is the only way she can begin to free herself of the moral stain of responsibility for the brutal death of innocent creatures.

An enlightening glimpse into the autistic mind
I have a 6-year-old autistic son.Though we love him tremendously, my wife and I have struggled greatly in raising him.This breakthrough book has helped us approach our interactions with him in a more effective manner.It also sheds precious insight into the autistic world for any curious or thoughtful person with an interest to know more.Thank you Temple Grandin for your remarkable achievements in life, which give us great hope for our son.And thank for giving us invaluable perspective on autism.You have blessed the lives of countless people.

Insightful and beautiful!
This book is an incredibly insightful view into the world of autism and animals. I've read a few books written by autistic authors just because I am extremely curious of neurological conditions that drastically alter one's perception and experience of the world and Temple Grandin being a highly intelligent and sensitive person is able to articulate her world with great detail and poetry. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals    2. Autism    3. Autistic Disorder    4. Biography    5. Biography & Autobiography    6. Biography / Autobiography    7. Biography/Autobiography    8. Cognitive Psychology    9. General    10. Patients    11. Personal Narratives    12. Social Scientists & Psychologists    13. United States    14. Biography & Autobiography / General   

Editorial Review

In 1985 William Styron fell victim to a crippling and almost suicidal depression, the same illness that took the lives ofRandall Jarrell, Primo Levi and Virginia Woolf.That Styron survived his descent into madness is something of a miracle.That he manages to convey its tortuous progression and his eventual recovery with such candor and precision makes Read more

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Little insight into Styron's "madness"
I have just finished reading Styron's book Darkness Visible and I have to say that I was quite under whelmed. The reader is left with little insight into Styron's battle with severe depression. Maybe this is just me, but I find that writers seem capable of expressing their feelings of despair and suicide in only in the loftiest of literary terms. Their writing screams, "I'm famous, well respected and admired, therefore I cannot express myself the way that an ordinary person would. That would be too plebeian." That and the frequent name dropping made me feel alienated from the author. For this reason the reader gets no clear understanding of the nature of his depression. We get glimpses but don't feel privy to his deepest thoughts. In fact, I cannot fathom why he even wrote the book. It certainly doesn't speak to the common people - especially those of us who have spend our lives trying to get the mental health system to advocate for us. Many of us are treated more like criminals than someone with a disease that needs adequate treatment - something that is not going to be found in the state mental health institutions in which the ordinary person is held.
Eloquent - isms
As I read this book, what became evident was that his story was an eloquent rendering of deep stage alcoholism and drug addiction and that his depression was not the cause of those things, but a result of those things.Pity that the author doesn't arrive at this understanding, as it may have helped him.

Not Impressive
I have to strongly disagree with the editorial and reader reviews on this essay, even though it was a national bestseller. The book is touted as possibly the most rational description of a descent into morbid, clinical depression and suicidal despair. I didn't find it so. Styron was descriptive but rather than probing and baring the depths of his mind and emotions during his depression, I felt he only hinted at the tip of the iceberg. I didn't find any riveting, palpable tracing of his depression. It was rather moribund for a subject with such potential. There is a detachment throughout that many attribute to Styron's calculating dismantling of his own emotions to throw light into the abyss. I found the detachment sort of hovering over the pond, unwilling to dive in, which robs the reader. Candor, yes in some aspects. Precision, somewhat missing.
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Subjects:  1. 1925-    2. Authors, American    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Depressed persons    8. Depression    9. Literary    10. Mental health    11. Social Scientists & Psychologists    12. Styron, William,    13. Suicidal behavior    14. United States    15. Biography & Autobiography / Literary    16. Biography: general    17. Literature: History & Criticism    18. Styron, William   

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Deeply moving and inspiring
I devoured this book. It had story after story that opened my eyes to possibility and brought me peace. Twist is wonderfully human as she writes about her journey that would humble the best of us. The book is very well written. It develops it's points skillfully. And it is a great read full of stories that lighten my spirit.

A beautiful, soulful, and unique book
This book causes one to think and look deeply into money as a true reflection of our state of being. So much more than a shallow "make a lot of money" book, or even a slightly shallow "manifest a lot of money" book, if you allow yourself to really reflect on Lynne Twist's words, they will bring you to reflect deeply on the mentaility of scarcity (that we can inhabit in any moment, no matter how much money we have), and the mentality of sufficiency (which, too, we can have no matter how much money is in our pockets).
The Soul of Money
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Conduct of life    5. Money    6. Motivational & Inspirational    7. Personal Finance - General    8. Personal Finance - Money Management    9. Personal Memoirs    10. Psychological aspects    11. Social Scientists & Psychologists    12. Mind, Body, Spirit    13. Personal finance   

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powerful, beautiful, evoking
I began this book because I am a student of Annie's. I could not put it down, feeling like I myself was becoming somehow involved with her relationship with Ben (the 5 year old boy with brown hair and bangs). I felt like I was getting inside both Annie and Ben while watching the beautiful way in which they interacted. I could not be in the room with this book without wanting to read on into the relationship that evolves. The personal aspect of the patient-therapist relationship becomes the center focus as does Annie's life outside of these interactions with Ben. The reflection, time, energy, and exposure that is demonstrated by the author in this book was by far the best I have ever seen. This has become my favorite book, one that I will never live without, and also one that will remind me of what I want to do with my life and how to do it.

The Prevalence of Dismal Psychotherapists
Harvard child psychologist and severe child abuse survivor Annie Rogers suffered psychiatric hospitalizations once or twice a year from puberty until her late twenties -- when, after a six year insidiously inept and crazymaking "therapy," an attempt to stab and shoot that therapist and one last hospitalization for another word salad psychosis (and no more insurance), her exceptional and no doubt desperate sister and friends found the gifted and pro bono analyst Dr. Blumenfeld. If this exceptional memoir hasn't become a classic must read in psychology with many reviews by both patients and therapists by now, there are unfortunate reasons. One is that Annie's politically correct adolescence shows in her disdain for the "medical models and diagnoses" Dr. Blumenfeld himself could afford to abandon only because he knew them and the blind therapists who live by them so well -- and thus could authentically reach and stabilize the talented and brilliant, borderline and psychotic personality and doctoral intern Annie. "You have a kind of giftedness, Annie, that probably has always been inseparable from your suffering, and we don't know very much about that yet." What we need now is a wonderful book from the exceptional and sainted Dr. Blumenfeld and more from the healed and gifted writer Dr. Rogers on the two sided magic of play therapy with children. You must meet Annie's beloved "oppositional" 5 year old patient Ben and ponder the 7 foot angel "Theosporus" who protected and accompanied Annie from age 6 to Dr. Blumenfeld's office at 27. A Shining Affliction raises more questions than it answers -- it might have been twice as long, and it's hard to tell if important details were deliberately or unconsciously left out. As it is, it's a daring memoir by a once psychotic Harvard child psychologist that should be a controversial must read classic in both child and adult psychotherapy.

a strong memoir, about which I have a few criticisms
At its best it reminded me strongly of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, in that it shows the healing relationship between an excellent therapist and a disturbed female patient.This book had the added benefit of having the patient/author also be a therapist, and while being healed herself doing a marvelous job of participating in the healing of a young boy whose problems are remarkably similar to her own.Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - General    4. Social Scientists & Psychologists    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling   

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despite some other reviews.....
this is a very good book.it's basically an auto-biography and gives the reader an insight into sylvia's early life and early psychic adventures.also, shows childhood pics and pics of her sons and grandchildren...definitely a good read!!

Save your money
One star is too much. I didn't know much about Sylvia Browne before I read this book, but I now know all I want or need to. This book left a distinct bad taste. The first 60 pages were devoted to chronicling the young Sylvia's social life and the succession of beaus that were supposedly in love with her, as well the various outfits she wore and how she styled her hair before going out on a date. Gifted or not, the whole book seemed boastful and conceited. Plus I really question the spirituality of a person that could dismiss her mother's death as "no real loss" and refer to her ex-husband as "evil" andproceed to slander him at every turn. She constantly wanders off in her anecdotes focusing more on details of crimes rather than psychic ability. This is a vanity book. Save your money and find something else to read.

What those with lost loved ones want to hear
The name Sylvia Brown sounded vaguely familiar to me when a friend of mine told me about this book and borrowed it to me so that I could read it.She grew up in a non-religious household and seemed eager for something to believe, and so she enthusiastically recommended it to me.I suppose I fit comfortably into that category of people that "believers" classify as "skeptics," and I am amazed by some of the reviews for this book that recommend it to all skeptics, saying that it will make a believer out of them.It will not.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Browne, Sylvia    6. Channeling    7. New Age    8. Parapsychology    9. Parapsychology - ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy)    10. Psychical research    11. Psychics    12. Social Scientists & Psychologists    13. United States    14. Women    15. Biography: general    16. Parapsychology, psychic powers, ESP    17. Spirit communication & mediumship, spiritualism   

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A fitting tribute to one of the greatest thinkers of all time
Anyone who has taken a course in macroeconomics knows who Keynes is. Economics is full of camps, conflicting doctrines, feuds, rivalries, etc. Keynes was unique in that, unlike other economists who are indoctrinated or are in love with a theory, he was never scared of giving up an idea that did not work. If one was to read his "Tract on Monetary Reform" one might be fooled into thinking that it was Milton Friedman that was writing and not the J.M Keynes who revolutionized economic thought with his General Theory. This pragmatism is what sets Keynes apart from every other economist. But why Keynes was so different from others is something students never learn. This biography does an admirable job of tracing Keynes' upbringing, his education, career, and contributions in the light of circumstances that Keynes lived through and shaped his ideas. It is also full of nuggets about Keynes' idiosyncracies which humanizes the biography and shows the real person behind the aura. The book is long, but 63 years of action-packed life requires such detail. The Chinese say, May we live in interesting times. Keynes certainly lived in interesting times with the result that this book is just as interesting.

An excellent,nontechnical biography of J M Keynes
This book is Skidelsky's one volume abridged version of his previous three volume biography(1983,1992,2000)on J M Keynes.Skidelsky successfully weaves all of the different aspects and strands(personal,familial,historical,social,political,economic) of Keynes's life into a beautifully constructed historical tapestry that will keep the reader's attention from the first page to the last.All of the different talents Keynes possessed and displayed during his lifetime come alive on the pages of this book.Skidelsky is the master of his material as long as he concentrates on the vast nontechnical aspects of the life of his subject.Skidelsky has clearlymastered the historical and chronological events and interrelationships that occurred during Keynes's life.Unfortunately,Skidelsky does not have the necessary formal training in mathematics,logic,statistics or probability in order to properly understand or assess any of those parts of Keynes's scholarship that involves the use of formal logical and mathematicalmethods or analysis.These technical deficiencies in Skidelsky'sacademic training arethe maindefect,not only in this book but in the entire corpus of Skidelsky's writings on Keynes going back over 30 years.I will concentrate on Skidelsky's error filled statements concerning Keynes's A Treatise on Probability(1921;TP) and the logical theory of probability.On p.95,Skidelsky conflates the principle of indifference(poi) with the principle of insufficient reason.They are not the same.Keynes's poi requires a balance or symmetry of the relevant,available evidence or factors involved before equiprobabilities are assigned.The poi can't be applied if there is no relevant evidence.Advocates of the principle of insufficient reason,on the other hand, argue that equiprobabilities can be applied in states where no relevant evidence exists.Keynes always rejected this kind of reasoning.Skidelsky bases his assessment of Keynes's logical theory of probability on the error filled work of A. Carabelli and R.O'Donnell.Carabelli and O'Donnell base their assessments of the TP on four sources:1)Keynes's introductory guide to the measurement of probability in chapter III of the TP;2)F. Ramsey's 1922 book review of the TP in The Cambridge Magazine;3)F.Ramsey's 1926 book review of the TP in his article,"Truth and Probability",published in 1931 in a book of articles;and 4)Keynes's 4 page eulogy and very brief review of the book in 1931.In chapter III,Keynes had already made it clear to the alert reader,who had a mind of his/her own (and would not ape the preposterous ,nonsensical claims made by F. Ramsey that by nonnumerical and nonmeasurable Keynes meant that numbers could not be used in general to estimate probabilities,i.e.,that Keynesian probabilities were like a surveyor assigning nonnumerical heights to a mountain hidden in the mist)that the vast majority of Keynesian probabilities used in common discourse were/are interval estimates.John Maynard Keynes is the originator and founder of the interval estimate approach to probability.Keynes spells it out in a number of places in the TP:"...we judge that the probability of the actual argument lies between these two(numbers;reviewers note).Since our standards,therefore,are referred to numerical measures in many cases where actual measurement is impossible,and since the probability lies BETWEEN(Keynes's emphasis)two numerical measures..."(1921,p.32).After warning the reader not to reach any conclusions based on chapter III alone until after Part II of the TP was reached(p.37),Keynes gives his definition of nonnumerical in chapter 15 of Part II on p.160 of the TP.On pp.161-163 and pp.186-194(ch.17),Keynes presents his approximation approach .It has nothing to do with ordinal rankings(see Skidelsky's queer claims on pp.284-285,for instance).An upper bound and a lower bound are specified for some 13 worked out probability problems.One of these problems(a revision of Boole's problem 10)is then made the foundation for Part III of the TP.Part III is then made the logical foundation for Part V. Carabelli's and O'Donnell's "reading" of Keynes's TP is very poor,at best.Skidelsky's conclusions,based on their very poor reading,are very poor.Skidelsky also appears to have been misled by Richard Kahn and Joan Robinson into believing that Keynes was a strictly literary economist, who was a poor mathematician by 1927. Supposedly,Keynes had never taken the twenty minutes that was necessary to understand the theory of value(microeconomics).Based on these bizarre beliefs,Skidelsky comes to the queer conclusion that Keynes deliberately refused to present any formal mathematical model of his general theory in the General Theory(1936;GT).Any mathematically trained reader can find Keynes's completely worked out model,with the results presented in the form of elasticities so that a reader of the GT can compare Keynes's results with those of A C Pigou,in chapters 19,20,and 21 of the GT.Keynes then compares and contrasts his model with Pigou's model,who had also presented his results in the form of elasticities, in the appendix to chapter 19 of the GT.A technically trained economist should purchase a copy of the GT instead of this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1883-1946    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Business    7. Economic History    8. Economic Theory    9. Economists    10. General    11. Great Britain    12. Historical - British    13. Keynes, John Maynard,    14. Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists   

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Secrets of the Talking Jaguar
This book is such a pleasure to read and reread.... lots of food for thought about modern culture and alternative ways of living, about aging, about wisdom, about Mayan culture, and about seeing the challenges of life in humorous ways!

beautiful & intelligent book
I give this book as a gift to everyone I know who has read Marlo Morgan's appalling book of lies about the Australian aborigines. Here is a story that actually HAPPENED, has none of the racial arrogance of many "new age" books where some rich whitey goes off and lives "with" the natives and grants them recognition. (Morgan's 'Mutant Message Downunder" has made +100 million, even though the woman made the whole thing up, stole a whole lot of religious symbols out of some anthropology journal that shouldn't have published them in the first place, stole the end sequence from a film called "Quigley Downunder", wrote absolutely absurd and stupid things about the Australian landscape and when the real aborigines demanded that she stop spreading lies and saying they want to die out and are no longer real aborigines, and to stop pretending she is the true guardian of their culture, she admitted the fraud, but her publishers sheltered her and told her to keep going.)
Don Juan wearing jaguar skins
As genuine Guatemalan scholars have written, "a self-puffing volume without any scholarly basis whatsoever". With more blatant commercialization but far less scholarship, Prechtel adopts the fantasy writing style of Carlos Castenada to take cultural banditry to new levels. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - General    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Cultural And Social Anthropology    5. Guatemala    6. Miscellanea    7. New Age    8. Philosophy    9. Religion    10. Santiago Atitlâan    11. Shamans    12. Social Science    13. Social Scientists & Psychologists    14. Spirituality - Shamanism    15. Tzutuhil Indians    16. United States    17. Biography: general    18. Social & cultural anthropology    19. Social Science / Anthropology / General   

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Good Collection of Nash Writings!
I only rate books that I really enjoy reading. While this one has some techy chapters, readers without a strong math background can still enjoy it. excellent
Personally, I found this book to be very interestring.The proofs and ideas are presented in clear and non-rigomorphic fashion.One is able to read the works of Nash in the way he himself presented them, and hopefully appropriate some mental strategies used by this genius.There is much that goes on behind the scene of creation of proofs.I think mathematicians of today would greatly benefit from availability of larger number of books which would contain the mathematical works in the way they were originally presented.This is certainly a major step in that direction.

A Most Welcome Mathematical Banquet
I can't begin to express how deeply satisfying it was to peruse these papers by John Nash. You almost felt you were right there at his side, as he penned them.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Econometrics    5. Economics    6. Game Theory    7. Mathematics    8. Riemannian manifolds    9. Scientists - General    10. Social Scientists & Psychologists    11. Biography: general    12. Mathematics / Advanced    13. Political Science and International Relations    14. Reference   

Editorial Review

Oliver Sacks calls Temple Grandin's firstbook--and the first picture of autism from the inside--"quite extraordinary, unprecedented and, in a way, unthinkable."Sacks told part of her story in his Read more

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Moving, inspiring, thought-provoking
Temple Grandin is an autistic who refused to take early retirement from life.With the help of her mother and some forward-thinking teachers, she drew upon her own inner resources, talents and strengths to move into the world of people who think in words and in two dimensions, rather than in 3-dimensional pictures.
Thinking In Pictures
This book provides a wonderful account of how one person with autism views herself and the world.It helped clarify some perceptions I had about people with autism and is a must for service providers.

Thinking In Pictures : and Other Reports from My Life with Autism (Vintage)
A fascinating account of the author's efforts to overcome her
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Subjects:  1. Animals    2. Autism    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Grandin, Temple    7. Patients    8. Social Scientists & Psychologists    9. United States    10. Biography & Autobiography / General    11. Clinical psychology   

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A model for uplifting our youth.
More than anything else, our youth need people to be there for them for the LONG-TERM.Not for 1 day, or 1 week, or 1 month, but as Oral Lee Brown shows us, for years.Imagine how our next generation would be impacted if adults nationwide reached out in just 10% of the way that Oral Lee Brown did? Go Ms. Brown for inspiring us all and go Caille Millner for doing such a wonderful job capturing this story. You're both heroes!

Using A Common Sense Approach For Life
After reading this book and having met Ms. Brown in person during a family situation in June, I was totally impressed and influenced by this Woman of courage. Ms. Brown happens to be the God Mother of my step-son who lives in Tulare, Ca. She and I started our conversation about this new generation of young people. It finally led to her being a book writer. One thing I can say about her during the 30-minute or so meeting is the need for properly educating our youth. If everyone cared as much as she does about education for all on the same level, then maybe more of our children would realize how important it is. The parents, neighborhood, and the churches should take a more visible interest in seeing that all kids, poor and rich would get these tools for enriching their lives.
Everyone should read this book.
This book is written the way that an average person speaks, which is to say that it rambles a bit and frequently repeats things;but it's an easy read that I think every reader (both young and old) should find very approachable.As literature goes, it's not a great work of linguistic mastery.That being said, this is an excellent book that I wish everyone would read, because there's an extremely important lesson for all of us here.
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Subjects:  1. Benefactors    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Brown, Oral Lee    7. California    8. Education Of Black Students    9. Elementary school teachers    10. Humanitarians    11. Oakland    12. People of Color    13. Personal Memoirs    14. Social Scientists & Psychologists    15. Women    16. Women benefactors    17. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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"I've always been an enemy of gravity"
Don't blame the messenger. Kindly read my review, and not just the stars (I'd mark about 3.6 if I could; I rounded up) before you rate its helpfulness. It'd be a thoughtful gesture for all those who have entered the fray and who (I trust) have actually read the book carefully. This does not mean you agree or disagree with my own ranking, simply that a review assisted you in better judging the work under scrutiny. Such care, as Leary would have I expect emphasized, needs to be given to ideas and people that we may at first react to cautiously or with fear. This care also goes for those of us reviewing who have taken the considerable time and effort to read Greenfield's weighty biography. Greenfield himself, in taking up such a figure lionized or lambasted, shows also considerable courage, and chutzpah. We reviewers of his biography often (considering my predecessors at least) seem here to get attacked by low ratings, if rated by of course different readers of these posts on Amazon.
Way out of context
I didn't expect a book written in the Dr. Phil age to be kind to Leary, or even fair. It is very efficient at detailing the transgressions against our current mores in regard to family life, child-rearing and professionalism, and less successful at recreating for the reader a world that could have celebrated someone as crazy and provocative as Leary.
Genius and ineptitude
This version of Leary's life captures both his genius and his ineptness.Unfortunately, like so many who came of intellectual age in the 60's, the mind was willing but the flesh was weak.Leary had the right ideas but lacked a sufficient spiritual center to implement them in a healthy, constructive, life-affirming manner.His pre-occupation with Self precluded attention to the surrounding universe (which included his family and friends, in too many cases).Just as Christianity cannot be disproved by reference to the Crusades, Leary's legitimacy and importance are not necessarily negated by his failings as a human being.Neither should these failings be overlooked in a balanced look at his life.This author has portrayed the balance quite effectively, in my opinion. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1920-    2. 1920-1996    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography And Autobiography    7. Biography/Autobiography    8. Leary, Timothy Francis,    9. Leary, Timothy,    10. Popular Culture - Counter Culture    11. Psychologists    12. Social History    13. Social Scientists & Psychologists    14. United States    15. United States - 20th Century    16. Biography: general    17. History / Social History    18. USA    19. c 1960 to c 1970   

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Moving story of what makes life so worthwhile!
Heard THE WHEEL OF LIFE by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the author
Where is my item ?
I never received my product. I only purchased this product as it was of very sentimental value to my mother, however I was bitterly dissapointed to find the product was lost in transit. I would love to say amazon made every effort to find my product, I personally could not believe this to be true. I do appreciate the jesture of a full refund, but I can honestly say I feel totally dishartened by the whole ordeal. I only purchased from amazon as I knew the item was difficult to locate but to pay almost 13 dollars for it to be lost is in my opinion both unacceptable and extremly unsatisfactory. I shall not purchase from amazonm in the future.
An honest Memoir
Those who grouse & are dismayed at the second half of the book perhaps have not traveled far enough on their own spiritual journeys yet to understand. I found the book, like all her works, thoughtful, insightful & honest. Having worked in hospice nearly 30 yrs, in part due to Dr. Kubler-Ross, I can honestly say that in hospice you see many things that are beyond the scope of everyday life. The more I see of human Spirituality in hospice paitents & their families the less judgmental I tend to be. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

John Kenneth Galbraith has led an extraordinary life. The world's most famous living economist started teaching at Harvard when he was just 25 years old and has sold seven million copies of his four dozen books. One reviewer said Galbraith wrote "history that reads like a poem." During World War II, at age 32, he was named "tsar" of consumer-price controls in the United States, and he later advised three American presidents and served as ambassador to India. Now in his 90s, Galbraith is still active and has received 50 honorary degrees. All this was accomplished by a Canadian born in a tiny Ontario farming hamlet, whose major at an obscure agricultural college wasn't even economics but animal husbandry. Such an irony is typical of Galbraith's renowned iconoclasm, writes Richard Parker in his 820-page biography Read more

Reviews (12)

Overall: excellent, but with some minor flaws
A thorough and well-researched biography that captures the essence of the man, his work and his times.The book's only flaw is that it should have had a rigorous examination by a fact-checker and a copy editor; there are minor errors in facts, spellings of names, titles etc., which unfortunately detract from its overall excellence.

Worst Economist of 20th. century. Russia, India, China are Evidence.