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“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions. But the stories of the Court and the Justices that come from the ‘out of order’ moments add to the richness of the Court as both a branch of our government and a human institution.”—Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
 
From Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court, comes this fascinating book about the history and evolution of the highest court in the land.
 
Out of Order sheds light on the centuries of change and upheaval that transformed the Supreme Court from its uncertain beginnings into the remarkable institution that thrives and endures today. From the early days of circuit-riding, when justices who also served as trial judges traveled thousands of miles per year on horseback to hear cases, to the changes in civil rights ushered in by Earl Warren and Thurgood Marshall; from foundational decisions such as Marbury v. Madison to modern-day cases such as Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Justice O’Connor weaves together stories and lessons from the history of the Court, charting turning points and pivotal moments that have helped define our nation’s progress.
 
With unparalleled insight and her unique perspective as a history-making figure, Justice O’Connor takes us on a personal exploration, painting vivid pictures of Justices in history, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of the greatest jurists of all time; Thurgood Marshall, whose understated and succinct style would come to transform oral argument; William O. Douglas, called “The Lone Ranger” because of his impassioned and frequent dissents; and John Roberts, whom Justice O’Connor considers to be the finest practitioner of oral argument she has ever witnessed in Court. We get a rare glimpse into the Supreme Court’s inner workings: how cases are chosen for hearing; the personal relationships that exist among the Justices; and the customs and traditions, both public and private, that bind one generation of jurists to the next—from the seating arrangements at Court lunches to the fiercely competitive basketball games played in the Court Building’s top-floor gymnasium, the so-called “highest court in the land.”
 
Wise, candid, and assured, Out of Order is a rich offering of inspiring stories of one of our country’s most important institutions, from one of our country’s most respected pioneers.

Praise for Out of Order
 
“[A] succinct, snappy account of how today’s court—so powerful, so controversial and so frequently dissected by the media—evolved from such startlingly humble and uncertain beginnings.”—The New York Times
 
“A brief and accessible history of the nation’s highest court, narrated by a true historical figure and a jurisprudential giant.”—The Boston Globe
 
“A vibrantly personal book [that] displays O’Connor’s uncommon common sense, her dry wit and her reverence for the nation’s institutions.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
 
“Full of riveting anecdotes . . . a compact history . . . albeit a more lighthearted, personality-filled one than you might find in a high school classroom.”—Associated Press

• Sales Rank: #455444 in Books
• Brand: O'Connor, Sandra Day
• Published on: 2013-03-05
• Released on: 2013-03-05
• Format: Deckle Edge
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.55" h x 1.08" w x 6.54" l, .1 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

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Since retiring from the Supreme Court, O’Connor, the first woman justice, has pushed for greater civic awareness of how the U.S. government, especially the court system, works. In this collection of stories about the history of the Supreme Court, O’Connor offers a sense of how the high court has changed since its formation and how it works in relation to the legislature and the presidency. She recounts Roosevelt’s failed attempts to pack the court after repeated rulings against parts of his New Deal program and Truman’s failed efforts to control the steel mills during the Korean War, when strikes were threatened. She also offers the history of how the once itinerant court came to be located in its stately building and how the court’s customs, including the art of arguing before the court, have changed from lengthy oratory to briefings peppered by the justices’ questioning. She recalls some of the larger-than-life justices, the history-making “firsts,” and some lighter moments on the bench. Photos and illustrations enhance this engaging look at the history of the Supreme Court. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: This personal look at an American institution from the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court will attract plenty of off-the-book-page interest. --Vanessa Bush

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“[A] succinct, snappy account of how today’s court—so powerful, so controversial and so frequently dissected by the media—evolved from such startlingly humble and uncertain beginnings.”—The New York Times
 
“A brief and accessible history of the nation’s highest court, narrated by a true historical figure and a jurisprudential giant.”—The Boston Globe
 
“A vibrantly personal book [that] displays O’Connor’s uncommon common sense, her dry wit and her reverence for the nation’s institutions.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
 
“Full of riveting anecdotes . . . a compact history . . . albeit a more lighthearted, personality-filled one than you might find in a high school classroom.”—Associated Press
 
“Candid, opinionated and even entertaining throughout . . . a well-considered, lively survey of what the Supreme Court does, how it’s constituted and, bonus round, how to argue before it.”—Kirkus Reviews

“In this delightful collection of tales, Sandra Day O’Connor shows us the personal side of the Supreme Court while reminding us of the critical role the Court plays. It’s a lovely book—and a valuable treasure for all Americans.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
 
“A maker of history, Sandra Day O’Connor proves herself an engaging historian in this fine book, taking us inside perhaps the most important and least understood institution in American life: the Supreme Court. With her characteristic clear-eyed common sense and a natural talent for storytelling, Justice O’Connor has given us a valuable and entertaining gift.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
 
“We have always known that Sandra Day O’Connor was a wise and thoughtful Justice of the Supreme Court. But we haven’t always appreciated what a talented storyteller and historian she is as well. This, her most recent book, contains succinct and readable stories from the history of the Supreme Court, and it nicely demonstrates that remarkable talent.”—Gordon S. Wood, author of The Idea of America
 
“Justice O’Connor has written an insightful and charming insider’s take on the workings of the Supreme Court of the United States throughout history. A historical figure herself—the first woman to sit on the Court—O’Connor is the perfect guide through the twists and turns that have made the Court such a powerful force in shaping American society from the Founding to present times.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello
 
“Justice O’Connor has written a brief  history of the Supreme Court that is lively, informative, and often inspiring. Drawing on her own experience and wisdom, she is giving us a civics lesson, but it’s like nothing you remember from high school.”—Evan Thomas, author of Ike’s Bluff

About the Author
Sandra Day O’Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised on the Lazy B Ranch. She attended Stanford University, where she took Wallace Stegner’s writing course. She began her public service in Phoenix, and was majority leader of the Arizona Senate before becoming a judge. She is the author of Lazy B, a memoir about growing up in the Southwest, and The Majesty of the Law, a reflection on American law and life. President Reagan nominated her as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and she served from 1981 to 2006. She serves as Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, and is on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

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45 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
Some may be charmed; I was annoyed by the frivolity and evasiveness
By Stephen O. Murray
Having already published two unrevealing written-down (to middle-school reading level) memoirs, Sandra Day O'Connor, the upbeat and amiable first woman to be a justice on the US Supreme Court (1981-2006) has authored (or at least bylined) another book of "Gee whiz!" stories about customs of court (important things like the order of entering or egressing from the public chambers, wan attempts to show a lighter side of that merry prankster Gilbet-and-Sullivan-fan William Rehnquist, and the dry wit of David Souter). She also provides verbal sketches about some colorful justices and advocates of yore that are less informative than Wikipedia entries. I'm not saying the book was researched on line; there are references to hard-copy publications in the notes. But I suspect a less superficial book than this one could have been derived entirely from Wikipedia.

Though providing a detailed history of the two oaths of office and which justice took which one where, O'Connor provides absolutely no consideration of (let alone any insight) into how the justices reach decisions either in general or the infamous opinions such as Bush v. Gore and Bowers v. Hardwick in which O'Connor was in the bare majorities. She says her aim in writing the book was to "share" information about what happens among Supreme Court justices not "between bangs of the gavel," yet the only discussion of how that body functions in doing its job is a bit on the presentation of oral arguments in the cases (now about 90 a year) that the court hears. Justices of yore sat through lengthy orations by Daniel Webster and other less gifted advocates, but now listen hardly at all, interrupting at will the half hour advocates for each side have to clarify the arguments made in written briefs of no more than 15,000 words. (Briefs for appeals to the court are limited to 9000 words.)

Readers can learn about what grunge duties the most junior member of the court by tradition undertakes, and that each new justice gets to sit in Chief Justice Marshall's chair, and that retired justices (like O'Connor) sometimes sit on lower court cases, but will learn nothing about how law clerks are selected, cases chosen and decided. In being as decorous as it is superficial, the book is misleadingly titled "out of order." The organization of the book is a bit disorderly, but the particularly chapters proceed chronologically (another sense of "in order").

In short, what is interesting about O'Connor as a member of the Supreme Court is nowhere to be found in this book. A better place to find some considerations of that is court journalist Joan Biskypic's 2006 book Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice.

95 of 121 people found the following review helpful.
Superficial but disappointing
By David Wineberg
Out of Order is far from it. It is a highly structured, superficial and trivial summary of the history of the Supreme Court. It continually returns to the era of George Washington, first to list all the Supreme Court justices named by every president, in order, and then back again to list all the buildings the Supreme Court has ever occupied, from George Washington's administration to the present building, inaugurated during the Depression. Then it's back for a tour of all the variations of the oath of office through the centuries. Later - how justices retire through the ages.

For a major public discourse of the first woman Supreme Court justice, this is a letdown. I was hoping for some sort of insight into the all-male enclave. Instead, we get a history that pretty much anybody with Wikipedia could have written. A high school textbook lovesong to the Supreme Court.

The section on humor is particularly embarrassing. But then, Justice O'Connor owns up to her rating of seventh out of nine in sense of humor. She should not have written that chapter.

This is a badly misnamed book.

The one thing Justice O'Connor could have offered us was the insider's view of the goings on at the Supreme Court Building. Unfortunately, the deepest we get is her revelation that (junior) Justice Kagan has used her position as manager of the cafeteria to introduce yogurt and pretzels to the Supreme Court.

Finally, the book suddenly ends at page 131. That's it. That's all there is, except for a reprinting of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which is probably not why you bought this book. In fact, there is no reason to buy this book, as anyone with access to wikipedia could put together the same string of trivia. The great, outlandish characters like Holmes and Douglas get anecdotal treatment well beneath their stature. You can get that from their biographies - but not here.

The Supreme Court deserves better, especially from someone who mentions repeatedly that she was the first woman to serve, and that she served for 25 years. But those two facts do not figure in the book at any point. The result is less than insightful.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Basic Information and Trivia from the History of the Supreme Court
By E. Smiley
The blurb makes this book sound fascinating, at least, if you have any interest in the Supreme Court. "With unparalleled insight and her unique perspective as a history-making figure, Justice O'Connor takes us on a personal exploration.... We get a rare glimpse into the Supreme Court's inner workings: how cases are chosen for hearing; the personal relationships that exist among the Justices; and the customs and traditions, both public and private, that bind one generation of jurists to the next...." Unfortunately, that's just the publishers' wishful thinking; barely a word of what I just quoted is true. Well, except for the public traditions: the book spends a good 11 pages on oath-taking. But "candid" it is decidedly not.

Essentially, Out of Order is a brief (165 pages of text, followed by the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and references) and basic introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court. Its chapters cover topics such as famous clashes between the Court and the presidents; the various buildings in which the Court has been housed; the early tradition of circuit-riding; and biographical sketches of a few famous justices.

Justice O'Connor handily avoids the opportunity to include personal insights, stories or opinions. For instance, the chapter on judicial appointments simply lists presidents, their appointees, and what the people in question are best-known for, without a hint of an opinion on the appointment process or discussion of the author's own confirmation hearings. And rather than providing insight into how the Court chooses which cases to hear, O'Connor simply quotes the relevant Supreme Court Rule. The deepest this book gets into the inner workings of the Court is the description of the Justices' lunches: everyone sits in the chair occupied by their predecessor, and talk about work is not allowed. What they actually do discuss, or how justices with strongly opposed views relate to each other personally, the book doesn't say. But even the lunchtime "insight" is rare; 99% of this book could as easily have been written by someone with no personal knowledge of the Court.

In fairness, I came to this book knowing a lot about the topic already, and while it's clearly mismarketed, it may not be a bad choice for high school civics classes, or for those who just want to gain some basic knowledge about American public institutions. I certainly learned some new trivia, and some of the anecdotes are enjoyable and piqued my interest in lesser-known historical figures: particularly Justice Field (the story of his judging in the Wild West begins with his pointing a gun at a juror, and gets crazier from there) and Belva Lockwood (who successfully lobbied to have women admitted to practice before the Court.... in 1879).

But even for those with little prior knowledge of the Supreme Court, this book would have benefited from either more personal insight, or a greater depth to its treatment of history; as it is, the book focuses on basic information and trivia, provides little explanation or analysis, and fails to elaborate on potentially fascinating stories. While a quick read, it consists mostly of the sort of information available on Wikipedia, and for that reason, sadly, I can't recommend it.

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"We all watched in shock and disbelief when Challenger was lost. Probably no one felt more disappointment and regret than Allan McDonald, who had warned us not to launch that day. His story tells of loss, grief, and the eventual rebuilding and recovery."--Robert "Hoot" Gibson, former Space Shuttle pilot and commander

"A major contribution to a difficult episode in the history of human spaceflight."--Roger D. Launius, Division of Space History, Smithsonian Institution

"McDonald tells the heartbreaking tale of how he saw his words of warning ignored, and the fateful consequences of that decision."--Donald C. Elder III, Eastern New Mexico University

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation’s collective memory.

In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.  As he fought to draw attention to the real reasons behind the disaster, he was the only one targeted for retribution by both NASA and his employer, Morton Thiokol, Inc., makers of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters. In this whistle-blowing yet rigorous and fair-minded book, McDonald, with the assistance of internationally distinguished aerospace historian James R. Hansen, addresses all of the factors that led to the accident, some of which were never included in NASA's Failure Team report submitted to the Presidential Commission.

Truth, Lies, and O-Rings is the first look at the Challenger tragedy and its aftermath from someone who was on the inside, recognized the potential disaster, and tried to prevent it. It also addresses the early warnings of very severe debris issues from the first two post-Challenger flights, which ultimately resulted in the loss of Columbia some fifteen years later.

• Sales Rank: #272902 in Books
• Published on: 2012-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 6.25" w x 1.25" l, 1.95 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 648 pages

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We all watched in shock and disbelief when Challenger was lost. Probably no one felt more disappointment and regret than Allan McDonald, who had warned us not to launch that day. His story tells of loss, grief, and the eventual rebuilding and recovery.""--Robert ""Hoot"" Gibson, former Space Shuttle pilot and commander ""A major contribution to a difficult episode in the history of human spaceflight.""--Roger D. Launius, Division of Space History, Smithsonian Institution ""McDonald tells the heartbreaking tale of how he saw his words of warning ignored, and the fateful consequences of that decision.""--Donald C. Elder III, Eastern New Mexico University

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A Popular Mechanics Best Book

Winner of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award

Finalist for the American Astronautical Society’s Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award

“We all watched in shock and disbelief when Challenger was lost. Probably no one felt more disappointment and regret than Allan McDonald, who had warned us not to launch that day. His story tells of loss, grief, and the eventual rebuilding and recovery.”—Robert “Hoot” Gibson, former Space Shuttle pilot and commander

 

 “A major contribution to a difficult episode in the history of human spaceflight.”—Roger D. Launius, Division of Space History, Smithsonian Institution

 

“There have been many accounts of the circumstances surrounding the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986, but few, if any, give as much of an insider’s view as this book.”—Quest

 

“McDonald argues convincingly that the Challenger accident need not have happened, had his warnings been heeded; therein lies the tragedy.”—Space Policy

 

“A major contribution to the literature of the management of technology as well as to the history of the space program.”—Choice

 

“Whistle-blowing yet rigorous and fair-minded book.”—Spaceflight

 

“An even-handed take on an American aerospace tragedy.”—Book News

 

“Recounts the decision to launch Challenger, the investigation of the accident, and the return of the shuttle to space flight. McDonald’s book is, like the shuttle itself, a massive, complex, and fascinating work.”—Florida Historical Quarterly

 

Allan J. McDonald retired as vice president and technical director for advanced technology programs at ATK Thiokol Propulsion in 2001. He was the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project at the time of the Challenger accident and, later, vice president of engineering for space operations during the redesign and requalification of the solid rocket motors. James R. Hansen, professor of history and director of the Honors College at Auburn University, is the author of First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong. 

 

About the Author
Allan J. McDonald retired as vice president and technical director for advanced technology programs at ATK Thiokol Propulsion in 2001. He was the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project at the time of the Challenger accident and, later, vice president of engineering for space operations during the redesign and requalification of the solid rocket motors. James R. Hansen, professor of history and director of the Honors College at Auburn University, is the author of First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong. 

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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
IMHO, Best book written about Challenger to date!
By Jay M. Chladek
I first heard about this book a few months ago at [...]. Indeed, the title seemed somewhat tabloid I would say as it was about as blunt as an anvil falling on Willie Coyote's head in a Road Runner cartoon. I had some reservations picking it up until I learned that one of the authors was James Hansen, a former NASA historian who is currently a history professor at Auburn University (and of course, writer of "First Man" about Neil Armstrong). McDonald was a bit of a wildcard as although I recalled his name from the Challenger investigation, this was his first book and I wasn't exactly sure how it would be written. But, I knew if Hansen was involved after reading First Man and its even handed portrayal of Neil, then the book had to be in good hands. James takes his responsibilities very seriously and he doesn't stick his name with a project unless he knows it can provide a proper insight into the historical perspective of people and events.

Allan McDonald was both and engineer and manager working for Morton Thiokol on the space shuttle solid rocket booster program. He wasn't one of the individuals involved with the original design of the motor, but he was heavily involved during the ramp up of production after the shuttle's first test flights. Ironically it was his participation in the accident investigation of an explosion at one of the SRB propellant casting facilities that brought him into the shuttle SRB program. He became a program manager for the Filament Wound Casing SRBs being tested and built for shuttle launches from Vandenberg AFB (that program was cancelled after Challenger). He also became the chairman of the Senior Materials Review Board for the Solid Rocket Motors. This board was tasked with tracking all the discrepancies found in the SRB hardware both before, during and after use and Allan had to sign off on the recommendations to accept or reject hardware for use.

Fast forward to January 27, 1986 with the very unusual meeting/teleconference between NASA SRB program managers and Morton Thiokol concerning the topic of launching in cold temperatures and how the cold might affect performance of the O-rings in the Solid Rocket Booster field joints. McDonald was there and gave his input (and rather vocally expressed both his concerns and doubts). He was a ground floor witness to what happened on both that night and the next day.

Allan's book tells the story from before Challenger to after flights resumed with the redesigned SRB field joints. It documents very well the events that lead up to the destruction of the shuttle and both the investigations that took place as well as the Rogers Commission hearings (both in front of and behind the scenes). It was Allan's testimony that focused attention on the field joints as well as the January 27 teleconference.

In this book you get it all from his perspective. Indeed he took very thorough notes at the time of Challenger as he wanted to make sure he got his story straight. It was revealed in the brief mini-biography of McDonald at the end (written by James Hansen) that he studied pre-law at Eastern Montana College before pursuing engineering instead. His brother John went on to become a law professor. As such, I have a feeling that those classes prepared him somewhat for how he handled himself during those long months of investigation and testimony.

He certainly pulls no punches as he has things to say about both the NASA managers at the Marshall Spaceflight Center and his own bosses at Morton Thiokol (and a couple members of Congress who tried to grandstand a bit for their own political gain). The entire Challenger affair got Allan labeled a "whistleblower" and it affected his career somewhat. But, he did stick around and was very instrumental in the re-design of the solid rocket motor field joints. Those redesigned joints continue to be used today in the shuttle program and elements are intended for use in the Solid rocket motors designed for the Ares program.

Some might wonder if Allan really is the truth telling champion he comes off as in the book. But many of his co-workers and colleagues from that time say he is indeed that way. Looking at the advance praise quotations on the back of the book should give you a glimpse into that as two come from the a pair of the most highly regarded astronauts in the space program (Hoot Gibson and John Young). John Young very rarely associates his name with ANYTHING unless it is a quality product. It also gets back to why James Hansen got involved as well.

What I took away from this title was a few things. First, people talk about trying to fool Mother Nature, but the laws of physics can be even more cruel if you try to play Russian Roulette with them. "CYA" can't overcome what engineering data is saying and if lives are on the line, what the data is saying becomes far more critical then a person, company or agency's reputation. I also took from this title that there are indeed still honest people out there, ones willing to put their reputations on the line to speak out if they don't think something is right. Honesty and integrity are two values we don't hear about much these days as it seems some very shallow people tend to command the news headlines. Allan also has a very healthy sense of humor too. Read "The Green Ball Theory" and you'll get the idea. If this theory can make a Nobel Prize winning physicist laugh, it must be good.

I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the space and shuttle programs, or complex engineering projects. Studying the failures and accidents in the space program are just as important as studying the successes, otherwise we could be doomed to repeat them or have similar failures. I feel this book should also be required reading for engineering students. Granted not all engineers will end up working on something as critical as hardware for the space program. But there are lessons to be learned here as well.

For those that don't have a formal education in engineering, the book can drag a little at the beginning. But I urge you to keep reading as what is written in those early chapters has direct bearing on what comes later. In my own case, although I have researched the shuttle program extensively, this book explained to me clearly how the solid rocket motor field joints operated. In fact when I picked up the book, I couldn't put it down as I spent most of a weekend reading it from cover to cover. This is why I give the title five stars.

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I was waiting for this book not only because I read only one Challenger disaster related document before - it was the Presidential Commission Report - but the author is Allan McDonald (together with Neil Armstrong's biographer James Hansen), the very Allan McDonald who not only helped to reveal the circumstances leading to the 51-L launch that cold January 1986 morning, but also participated in the redesign of the SRBs after the tragedy and contributed heavily to the successful Return to Flight two years later.
Allan McDonald - several decades Morton Thiokol employee in varios positions, mainly SRB related - became notoriously known during the hearings of the Rogers' commission when he was brave enough to stand up and point out that the original Thiokol decision was "not to launch", which decision was later changed based on NASA pressure on Thiokol management, which decided to ignore the own engineers warnings and changed their mind to "go for launch". Both NASA and Thiokol management were not ready to confess this information to the commission trying to protect themselves.
The commission members were completely shocked to hear this information which at the end helped to identify all the technical and management problems leading to the failed launch. McDonald became very unpopular with his own management and certain people from NASA, however, he stayed with the company and lead the redesign process of the faulty SRB joints culminating in the successful Return to Flight STS-26 mission.
There is a lot of technical stuff which requires some knowledge of the SRB design and terminology, but in the book like this it is inevitable and the reader will soon become familiar with both.
The book is very well written - result of taking the second author skilled in "readable" writing - and it is a very detailed account of the Challenger disaster and reasons behind the ill-fated launch given by the person not only directly involved in the activities leading to the launch itself, but being one of the key persons in the investigation process and leading the Return to Flight activities at Thiokol.
The honesty and personal courage of Allan McDonald to do what he did shall be an example and inspiration for others. I can only agree with Dr.Sally Ride, who came to Allan McDonald after his shocking testimony and told him : "God, that took a lot of guts".

Laurenc Svitok
Bratislava, Slovakia

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The explosion of NASA's Space Shuttle "Challenger" on January 28, 1986, with the loss of seven astronauts, is like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. No one who saw the tragic event on live television will ever forget where he or she was at the time. A government-industry team soon determined that unusually cold temperatures at the Cape the night before liftoff prevented O-rings in the aft field joint of the Morton Thiokol Inc. (MTI) right-hand Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) from properly sealing. Hot gases blew past the faulty seals, eroded a hole in the motor case and doomed the Shuttle and its unsuspecting crew.

In the 20-plus years since the disaster, many books on the subject have appeared, written by reporters, scholars and even a former NASA employee, with varying levels of detail and technical accuracy. "Truth, Lies and O-Rings" is different. Author Allan J. McDonald, who at the time was MTI's Director of the Shuttle SRM Project, was at the Cape when the Shuttle lifted off, and he watched in horror as it disintegrated 50,000 feet over the Atlantic in the clear Florida sky 73 seconds later. Mr. McDonald knew for certain that the O-rings in the field joint would seal more slowly--or perhaps would not seal at all--when they were cold. He was one of only two people who had spoken out against launching, to his own managers and to NASA managers, during a meeting the night before. His book relates, in great detail and with many new, revealing insights, his personal story of how the "Challenger" disaster happened and how it changed his life. In particular, it sheds light on one of the biggest issues surrounding the flawed decision to launch on that cold winter day--why did MTI first recommend against launching, then change to a "GO" recommendation?

Using transcripts from testimonies at the Presidential Commission that investigated the disaster, and drawing on thousands of pages of his own handwritten notes from the investigation, Mr. McDonald spares no detail in telling how and why "Challenger" failed. Quoting from the Commission hearing records, he shows how NASA and MTI managers first tried to cover up their irresponsible actions, then tried to discredit him. These verbatim testimonies add a sense of immediacy to what might otherwise be a dry technical narrative. Exceptionally well-written, "Truth, Lies and O-Rings" draws the reader along inexorably as the story progresses.

If you're interested in learning the excruciating details of what really happened to "Challenger," and why, and how the problems were corrected, then read this book. It is certainly the definitive treatment available today, and will likely remain so for a long time. By the way, an exceptionally valuable bonus is a 25-page Bibliographic Essay in which co-author James Hansen reviews and critiques virtually all of the other books available on the subject. Own them all if you can, but if you only own one, make it "Truth, Lies and O-Rings."

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Civil War on Race Street, so named because Race Street was the road that divided blacks and whites in Cambridge, Maryland, is a detailed examination of one of the most vibrant locally based struggles for racial equality during the 1960s. Beginning with an overview of Cambridge, particularly its history of racial and class relations, Peter Levy traces the emergence of the modern civil rights movement in this city on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Catalyzed by the arrival of freedom in 1962, the movement in Cambridge expanded in 1963 and 1964 under the leadership of Gloria Richardson, one of the most prominent (and one of the few female) civil rights leaders in the nation. In the years after her departure from Cambridge, the movement went into decline until 1967, when it underwent a brief revival that culminated with a riot allegedly incited by black power spokesman H. Rap Brown. In the wake of the riot, blacks and whites in Cambridge sought to rebuild their city and return to a politics of moderation. However, Spiro Agnew, then governor of Maryland, used the riot to advance his political career and the fortunes of the New Right, thereby garnering the attention of the public (as well as Richard Nixon) and achieving the vice-presidency in 1968. At the same time, H. Rap Brown saw his influence and that of the civil rights movement decline.

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"An important contribution to the historiography of the modern African-American freedom struggle. By focusing on a campaign located outside the Deep South (led principally by an African-American woman) that attracted an unprecedented level of federal investigation, Levy joins those scholars who are profitably extending our understanding of what the freedom struggle was, how it was organized, and even when and where it was to be found."

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PETER B. LEVY is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at York College of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Encyclopedia of the Reagan-Bush Years (Greenwood Press, 1996), America in the Sixties--Right, Left, and Center: A Documentary History (1998), The Civil Rights Movement (1998), 100 Key Documents in American Democracy (1999), and Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Civil Rights Movement (Greenwood Press, 1992).

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I was there.
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I was 18 at the time and had wondered often over the past 5 decades why such a small town was such a hot bed and what happened after I left. I was there for a sit in in the summer of 63. This book has solved some mysteries for me. I am so thankful to have purchased it, read it, given it to cousin who took me there, and to be purchasing another copy to read again! Thank you Peter Levy!

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Especially If You Live On The Shore....Take the time to read this. You'll like it.
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I'm a 26-year Easton, MD resident, just 15 miles up the road from Cambridge. I was also a young man during the height of the civil rights movement years, and remember the news stories about the Cambridge "riots" well. I also have had friends that are native to the area, and I heard various tales from them. A couple months ago, I sat down with a stranger in a nook at Panera Bread one morning. He turned out to be an "almost native" and a retired, long-time history teacher in Dorchester County schools and highly involved in the local historical society. He answered a lot of my questions about local history and lore, and recommended the book. Glad he did.

Levy takes time to explain the early history of life on The Shore south of the Choptank with the rise of its social and economic caste systems...and their ultimate collapse. Levy sees the collapse of the economic foundation of the region with attendant changes to, and vacuums left in the established economic and ruling elite as the basic causes of the unrest that lead to the violence.

This, Levy states, is very different from the dynamics of the deep south and various northern cities which also suffered violence. I won't go into all the details. Combined with what I already knew and had heard....He's very convincing. Plus, it satisfied to know about and understand my home of 26 years now.

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A well written piece on the civil rights process in Cambridge Maryland. Many famous people on both sides of the issue were at Cambridge at one time or another during the civil rights years. The author gives a historical background and the back ground of the make up of the Cambridge area.
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From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories

Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote’s extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy.
 
Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite. The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany’s shares not only the author’s philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. For Holly, the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany’s; nothing bad could happen, she believes, amid “that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets.”
 
Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father—who is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his eccentric family and finds a kindred spirit in a defiant little girl. Despite its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence, this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel revels in small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.

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Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Among his celebrated works are Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Tree of Night, The Grass Harp, Summer Crossing, A Christmas Memory, and In Cold Blood, widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. He died August 25, 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.

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Chapter 1
 
I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. For instance, there is a brownstone in the East Seventies where, during the early years of the war, I had my first New York apartment. It was one room crowded with attic furniture, a sofa and fat chairs upholstered in that itchy, particular red velvet that one associates with hot days on a train. The walls were stucco, and a color rather like tobacco-spit. Everywhere, in the bathroom too, there were prints of Roman ruins freckled brown with age. The single window looked out on a fire escape. Even so, my spirits heightened whenever I felt in my pocket the key to this apartment; with all its gloom, it still was a place of my own, the first, and my books were there, and jars of pencils to sharpen, everything I needed, so I felt, to become the writer I wanted to be.
It never occurred to me in those days to write about Holly Golightly, and probably it would not now except for a conversation I had with Joe Bell that set the whole memory of her in motion again.
Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone; she’d occupied the apartment below mine. As for Joe Bell, he ran a bar around the corner on Lexington Avenue; he still does.
Both Holly and I used to go there six, seven times a day, not for a drink, not always, but to make telephone calls: during the war a private telephone was hard to come by. Moreover, Joe Bell was good about taking messages, which in Holly’s case was no small favor, for she had a tremendous many.
Of course this was a long time ago, and until last week I hadn’t seen Joe Bell in several years. Off and on we’d kept in touch, and occasionally I’d stopped by his bar when passing through the neighborhood; but actually we’d never been strong friends except in as much as we were both friends of Holly Golightly. Joe Bell hasn’t an easy nature, he admits it himself, he says it’s because he’s a bachelor and has a sour stomach. Anyone who knows him will tell you he’s a hard man to talk to. Impossible if you don’t share his fixations, of which Holly is one. Some others are: ice hockey, Weimaraner dogs, Our Gal Sunday (a soap serial he has listened to for fifteen years), and Gilbert and Sullivan—he claims to be related to one or the other, I can’t remember which.
And so when, late last Tuesday afternoon, the telephone rang and I heard “Joe Bell here,” I knew it must be about Holly. He didn’t say so, just: “Can you rattle right over here? It’s -important,” and there was a croak of excitement in his froggy voice.
I took a taxi in a downpour of October rain, and on my way I even thought she might be there, that I would see Holly again.
But there was no one on the premises except the proprietor. Joe Bell’s is a quiet place compared to most Lexington Avenue bars. It boasts neither neon nor television. Two old mirrors reflect the weather from the streets; and behind the bar, in a niche surrounded by photographs of ice-hockey stars, there is always a large bowl of fresh flowers that Joe Bell himself arranges with matronly care. That is what he was doing when I came in.
“Naturally,” he said, rooting a gladiola deep into the bowl, “naturally I wouldn’t have got you over here if it wasn’t I wanted your opinion. It’s peculiar. A very peculiar thing has happened.”
“You heard from Holly?”
He fingered a leaf, as though uncertain of how to answer. A small man with a fine head of coarse white hair, he has a bony, sloping face better suited to someone far taller; his complexion seems permanently sunburned: now it grew even redder. “I can’t say exactly heard from her. I mean, I don’t know. That’s why I want your opinion. Let me build you a drink. Something new. They call it a White Angel,” he said, mixing one-half vodka, one-half gin, no vermouth. While I drank the result, Joe Bell stood sucking on a Tums and turning over in his mind what he had to tell me. Then: “You recall a certain Mr. I. Y. Yunioshi? A gentleman from Japan.”
“From California,” I said, recalling Mr. Yunioshi perfectly. He’s a photographer on one of the picture magazines, and when I knew him he lived in the studio apartment on the top floor of the brownstone.
“Don’t go mixing me up. All I’m asking, you know who I mean? Okay. So last night who comes waltzing in here but this selfsame Mr. I. Y. Yunioshi. I haven’t seen him, I guess it’s over two years. And where do you think he’s been those two years?”
“Africa.”
Joe Bell stopped crunching on his Tums, his eyes narrowed. “So how did you know?”
“Read it in Winchell.” Which I had, as a matter of fact.
He rang open his cash register, and produced a manila envelope. “Well, see did you read this in Winchell.”
In the envelope were three photographs, more or less the same, though taken from different angles: a tall delicate Negro man wearing a calico skirt and with a shy, yet vain smile, displaying in his hands an odd wood sculpture, an elongated carving of a head, a girl’s, her hair sleek and short as a young man’s, her smooth wood eyes too large and tilted in the tapering face, her mouth wide, overdrawn, not unlike clown-lips. On a glance it resembled most primitive carving; and then it didn’t, for here was the spit-image of Holly Golightly, at least as much of a likeness as a dark still thing could be.
“Now what do you make of that?” said Joe Bell, satisfied with my puzzlement.
“It looks like her.”
“Listen, boy,” and he slapped his hand on the bar, “it is her. Sure as I’m a man fit to wear britches. The little Jap knew it was her the minute he saw her.”
“He saw her? In Africa?”
“Well. Just the statue there. But it comes to the same thing. Read the facts for yourself,” he said, turning over one of the photographs. On the reverse was written: Wood Carving,
S Tribe, Tococul, East Anglia, Christmas Day, 1956.
He said, “Here’s what the Jap says,” and the story was this: On Christmas day Mr. Yunioshi had passed with his camera through Tococul, a village in the tangles of nowhere and of no interest, merely a congregation of mud huts with monkeys in the yards and buzzards on the roofs. He’d decided to move on when he saw suddenly a Negro squatting in a doorway carving monkeys on a walking stick. Mr. Yunioshi was impressed and asked to see more of his work. Whereupon he was shown the carving of the girl’s head: and felt, so he told Joe Bell, as if he were falling in a dream. But when he offered to buy it the Negro cupped his private parts in his hand (apparently a tender gesture, comparable to tapping one’s heart) and said no. A pound of salt and ten dollars, a wristwatch and two pounds of salt and twenty dollars, nothing swayed him. Mr. Yunioshi was in all events determined to learn how the carving came to be made. It cost him his salt and his watch, and the incident was conveyed in African and pig-English and finger-talk. But it would seem that in the spring of that year a party of three white persons had appeared out of the brush riding horseback. A young woman and two men. The men, both red-eyed with fever, were forced for several weeks to stay shut and shivering in an isolated hut, while the young woman, having presently taken a fancy to the woodcarver, shared the woodcarver’s mat.
“I don’t credit that part,” Joe Bell said squeamishly. “I know she had her ways, but I don’t think she’d be up to anything as much as that.”
“And then?”
“Then nothing,” he shrugged. “By and by she went like she come, rode away on a horse.”
“Alone, or with the two men?”
Joe Bell blinked. “With the two men, I guess. Now the Jap, he asked about her up and down the country. But nobody else had ever seen her.” Then it was as if he could feel my own sense of letdown transmitting itself to him, and he wanted no part of it. “One thing you got to admit, it’s the only definite news in I don’t know how many”— he counted on his fingers: there weren’t enough— “years. All I hope, I hope she’s rich. She must be rich. You got to be rich to go mucking around in Africa.”
“She’s probably never set foot in Africa,” I said, believing it; yet I could see her there, it was somewhere she would have gone. And the carved head: I looked at the photographs again.
“You know so much, where is she?”
“Dead. Or in a crazy house. Or married. I think she’s married and quieted down and maybe right in this very city.”
He considered a moment. “No,” he said, and shook his head. “I’ll tell you why. If she was in this city I’d have seen her. You take a man that likes to walk, a man like me, a man’s been walking in the streets going on ten or twelve years, and all those years he’s got his eye out for one person, and nobody’s ever her, don’t it stand to reason she’s not there? I see pieces of her all the time, a flat little bottom, any skinny girl that walks fast and straight—” He paused, as though too aware of how intently I was looking at him. “You think I’m round the bend?”
“It’s just that I didn’t know you’d been in love with her. Not like that.”
I was sorry I’d said it; it disconcerted him. He scooped up the photographs and put them back in their envelope. I looked at my watch. I hadn’t any place to go, but I thought it was better to leave.
“Hold on,” he said, gripping my wrist. “Sure I loved her. But it wasn’t that I wanted to touch her.” And he added, without smiling: “Not that I don’t think about that side of things. Even at my age, and I’ll be sixty-seven January ten. It’s a peculiar fact—but, the older I grow, that side of things seems to be on my mind more and more. I don’t remember thinking about it so much even when I was a youngster and it’s every other minute. Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden. Whenever I read in the paper about an old man disgracing himself, I know it’s because of this burden. But”—he poured himself a jigger of whiskey and swallowed it neat— “I’ll never disgrace myself. And I swear, it never crossed my mind about Holly. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend.”
Two men came into the bar, and it seemed the moment to leave. Joe Bell followed me to the door. He caught my wrist again. “Do you believe it?”
“That you didn’t want to touch her?”
“I mean about Africa.”
At that moment I couldn’t seem to remember the story,
only the image of her riding away on a horse. “Anyway, she’s gone.”
“Yeah,” he said, opening the door. “Just gone.”
Outside, the rain had stopped, there was only a mist of it in the air, so I turned the corner and walked along the street where the brownstone stands. It is a street with trees that in the summer make cool patterns on the pavement; but now the leaves were yellowed and mostly down, and the rain had made them slippery, they skidded underfoot. The brownstone is midway in the block, next to a church where a blue tower-clock tolls the hours. It has been sleeked up since my day; a smart black door has replaced the old frosted glass, and gray elegant shutters frame the windows. No one I remember still lives there except Madame Sapphia Spanella, a husky coloratura who every afternoon went roller-skating in Central Park. I know she’s still there because I went up the steps and looked at the mailboxes. It was one of these mailboxes that had first made me aware of Holly Golightly. 

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OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS was Truman Capote's first novel (1948), and it set the publishing world on its ear. On the one hand it is an allegory, as 13-year-old Joel is forced to leave city life to live with his deep-South relations, departs from "Noon City" into an American-style 'Heart of Darkness' and encounters characters with names like "Jesus Fever." It has also been called a "Southern Gothic," a "coming-of-age novel," even a "coming-out novel" although there is no explicit sex. (Today, in fact, it is considered a gay American classic.) It is also marvelously wrought: steadily paced, with vivid characters and a style for which the word "evocative" would have to be invented if it didn't exist already. A great introduction to Capote's work.

All the better for the fact that OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS comes in this volume with BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, the 1958 novella that went on to inspire the 1961 film with Audrey Hepburn. First-time readers will notice some key differences between novella and movie; fans of the SEINFELD TV show will recall that substituting a video viewing for actually reading the book got George Constanza in trouble. Most notably, the movie added the George Peppard character to "heterosexualize" the plot line and provide a believable love interest for Holly Golightly. In novella as in movie, Holly is very much her own invention, but in the novella a little more obviously a high-class call girl, though a kind one who, just as in the movie, sets her sights on a Brazilian aristocrat. Most readers will overlook Holly's occasional naïve racism and enjoy her high spirits and the story's atmospheric setting during World War Two.

If, after reading OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS and BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, the reader who wants to witness the next big leap in Capote's artistic development would do well to read IN COLD BLOOD, the literary blockbuster of 1966. There are a number of biographies that discuss Capote's eventful and frequently tragic life; my personal favorite is CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY by Gerald Clarke.

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One excellent, the other not my cup of whatever . . .
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I loved Breakfast at Tiffany's. Great story, characters; well written.
Other Voices, Other Rooms is another story (pun intended) altogether. Time after time, when I was almost bored, he would begin writing so well it would make me remember why I love books. But something happened while reading that has never happened to me before . . . I couldn't finish the last 6 pages. I gave up. Only 6 pages left . . . Reading the last 20 pages of the book was like reading something that somebody had written in a drugged out stupor about a disturbing dream he had.
As it is, so many books, so little time to finish this one . . . even 6 pages.

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 From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin to Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, theater, and literature as political weapons to broaden the struggle and legitimize its appeal. Joe Street places these cultural forms at the center of the civil rights struggle, arguing that the time has come to recognize the extent to which African American history and culture were vital elements of the movement, calculated to broaden the movement's appeal within the larger black community. He places considerable emphasis on Amiri Baraka's interpretation of the importance of music and art to the development of black nationalist thought in the 1960s, especially as expressed in his jazz criticism and plays. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, from the Free Southern Theater to freedom songs, from the Cuban radio broadcasts of Robert F. Williams to the art of the Black Panther Party, Street encourages us to consider the breadth of forces brought to bear as weapons in the struggle for civil rights. Doing so also allows us to reconsider the roots of Black Power, recognizing that it emerged both from within and as a critique of the southern integrationist movement.

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"Eloquently reaffirms the notion that an informed understanding of Black America's multifaceted culture is foundational to fathoming the complexities of the black freedom movement."

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Joe Street is a lecturer in modern American history at the University of Kent, Canterbury. 

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Spectacular discoveries at the Etowah site in Georgia changed the American perspective of the artistic achievements of prehistoric Native Americans. These papers, originally published in 1932, offer an understanding of American archaeology and the cultural heritage of prehistoric Native America.

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Spectacular discoveries at Mound C at the Etowah site in Georgia, the result of excavations from 1925 to 1928, changed the American perspective on the artistic achievements of prehistoric Native Americans in the eastern United States. These discoveries, in a mound that had supposedly already been excavated under the sponsorship of the Smithsonian Institution in 1883, made up the final major field expedition of Warren King Moorehead, a legendary figure in American archaeology.

The papers, written in the first person and originally published in 1932, at the end of what is considered the humanistic "golden age" of American anthropology, today offer a fresh understanding of the history of American archaeology and of the cultural heritage of prehistoric Native America.

The Etowah site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.

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Curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and professor of anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Florida, Jerald T. Milanich has written over twenty books and has received a number of awards, including the James Mooney Book Award, the Rembert Patrick Book Prize (twice), and the American Association for State and Local History Book Award.

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A reprint of the "Etowah Papers" which offer details regarding excavations along Georgia's Etowah River during the 1920s ...
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First published in 1932 by Yale University Press, this current, attractively designed, softcover edition is published by the University Press of Florida as part of its "Southeastern Classics in Archaeology, Anthropology and History." Intended to keep scholarly works originally published in paperback on non-acid free paper -- now rare and hard-to-impossible to find -- available to current students and scholars, this particular volume of the series reproduces what was originally published as the "Etowah Papers."

Along with the Cahokia Site near Saint Louis, Illinois, the Etowah site -- about three miles southwest of Cartersville, Ga. -- is one of the most famous archaeological sites of the Eastern United States. As noted by Jerald T. Milanich, the Series Editor, objects and artifacts found around the ceremonial complex at Etowah are considered to be among the most important found anywhere. Frank T. Schell, Jr. Curator of the Columbus (Ga.) Museum, provides readers with a good Introduction with details regarding the original writers/contributors of the Etowah Papers and the excavations and challenges they faced during their mid-to-late 1920s excavations.

Located near the northern border of Georgia, along the Etowah River, this site is considered to be one of the greatest social, economic and political centers of prehistoric North America. The illustrations of "large repousse copper plates...[with] motif-warriors in bird costumes," among other discoveries from the site, "firmly place [the] Etowah [site] as one of the foremost wellsprings of late prehistoric artistic achievement in North America." Chapters by Moorehead and Nuttall connecting the sites to early Spanish explorers' descriptions of mound complexes and their efforts to connect the Etowah designs and lifestyles with those of Mesoamerica will be of particular interest to current readers.

Contents include, the 56-page section titled: "Notes on the History and Symbolism of the Muskhogeans and the People of Etowah," by Charles C. Willoughby (profusely illustrated with artifact drawings); the 37-page "Description of Excavations," by Warren King Moorehead (includes an extensive variety of maps, drawings and photographs); the 29-page "Study of the Ceramic Art of the Etowans," by Margaret E. Ashley (includes an extensive variety of photographs); a 9-page, illustrated study titled "Some Comparisons Between Etowan, Mexican and Mayan Designs," by Zella Nuttall; and an essay on the "Molluscan Shells from Etowah Mounds," by Frank Collins Baker.

The narrative section is concluded with a section titled "General Observations and Conclusions," and a six-page small-print index.

The accounts of fieldwork and artifact descriptions make this reprint an essential purchase for those interested in Etowah art and iconography. As Schell points out in his Introduction, "This interdisciplinary report on excavations at the Etowah site in the 1920s is truly significant and of great value today. But for the existence of the Etowha Papers, American archaeology would be much the poorer."

Highly recommended for academic and public libraries with an interest in Mesoamerican and Native American Studies.

R. Neil Scott
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