Bantam Books Research Articles

Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Practical Guide to EnlightenmentBuddha's Nature: Evolution as a Practical Guide to Enlightenment by Wes Nisker Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1998, 208 pp. $23.95, ISBN: 0-553-10601-5

Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Practical Guide to EnlightenmentBuddha's Nature: Evolution as a Practical Guide to Enlightenment by Wes Nisker Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1998, 208 pp. $23.95, ISBN: 0-553-10601-5

Machinic Heterogenesis and Evolution

Machinic Heterogenesis and Evolution

Book Review The Death of Innocents: A true story of murder, medicine, and high-stakes science By Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan. 632 pp. New York, Bantam Books, 1997. $24.95. 0-553-10013-0

Book Review The Death of Innocents: A true story of murder, medicine, and high-stakes science By Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan. 632 pp. New York, Bantam Books, 1997. $24.95. 0-553-10013-0

Preparing a Holocaust Unit for High School Students

Summary This article focuses on how teachers in the Social Studies Department at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, MA constructed, in 1972, a six-week curriculum on the Nazi Holocaust. The unit is considered to be the first formal curriculum on that subject for secondary students. The author of the article, who was a member of the department at that time, explains how she and her colleagues chose the material to be included, which resources were particularly useful and how two of the teachers updated the anthology of readings that had become the basis of the curriculum. The anthology was published initially by Bantam Books in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith as a trade book in soft cover and was entitled The Holocaust Years: Society on Trial (Chartock and Spencer, eds., 1978). After being out of print for nearly ten years, it was republished in hardcover in 1995, with a new title, Can It Happen Again? Chronicles of the Holocaust(Black Dog and Leventhal) with nineteen additional entries. Since the 1970s the anthology has served as a springboard for other educators interested in developing their own interdisciplinary curriculum on the Holocaust.

Entropy : Into The Greenhouse World

Review: Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World By Jeremy Rifkin Reviewed by Alfred Steffens, Jr. Rockwell International Rifkin, Jeremy. ENTROPY: INTO THE GREENHOUSE WORLD, Revised Ed., New York: Bantam Books, 1989. 354 pp. US$9.95 paper ISBN: 0-533- ENTROPY: INTO THE GREENHOUSE WORLD is a readable, well- documented book about pollution and the Greenhouse Effect. The author, Jeremy Rifkin, disusses the scientific concept of entropy as it relates to energy consumption and pollution. The underlying themes of his discussion are how overpopulation contributes to the rise of technology, and how the increase of energy consumption leads to an increase in world pollution. Rifkin's thesis is that human populations always consume the most easily available energy first. They are then forced to develop more sophisticated technologies to consume energy that is more difficult to obtain. In pre-industrial Europe, as people outgrew supplies of renewable energy such as timber and animal fuels, they developed technology for mining and burning coal. This is what precipitated the Industrial Revolution. Rifkin contends that each successive step up the ladder of energy consumption means more expensive technological development and consequently, more pollution. He also argues that physics explains how the resulting pollution is built- in to the increased energy consumption; that is to say, whenever energy is converted from one form to another, as in energy consumption, only a part of that energy can be used, while the other part takes the form of entropy, or disorder. Rifkin's example is coal, which actually contains less energy per pound than timber when the cost of technology and the increase in pollution levels are taken into account. Rifkin's conclusion contradicts the theory that growth in technology will combat our pollution and population problems, as well as the coming energy crisis. Although the book does discuss energy and the Greenhouse Effect, its real message is the crisis posed by the world population explosion. As long as our energy sources cannot be renewed

Alternative and complementary cancer therapies

Alternative and complementary cancer therapies

Turecki, S. & Wernick, S. (1994). The emotional problems of normal children: How parents can understand and help. New York: Bantam Books

Turecki, S. & Wernick, S. (1994). The emotional problems of normal children: How parents can understand and help. New York: Bantam Books

Jimi Hendrix Deep Within the Blues and Alive Onstage at Woodstock--25 Years after Death

Since my bio on Jimi Hendrix was published 15 years ago, I would suppose by now that there is no danger in my becoming a critic, a designation I could never figure out, especially for an African-American writer. My bio, originally titled Jimi Hendrix . . . Voodoo Child . . . in hardcover and revised, abridged, and retitled by me to 'Scuse Me While I Kiss Sky in the early '80s for the Bantam Books mass-market paperback edition, is still very much in print and very much available having sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. It was - at least, I like to believe - the first book to proclaim Hendrix the total genius that he is and to say why, and, most importantly, to show how he was coming from an African-American perspective. I wrote the book as the result of a promise I made to Hendrix at a nightclub in Manhattan in 1969. I had seen him go head to head with Sly Stone, who was then at his height, at the Fillmore East. They both blew me away so bad that I immediately revised my thinking about black music. While Amiri Baraka had gone from Blues People to Black Music, dealing with blues and jazz as art forms, I felt he had not really dealt with all that black expression in between. Not too many black writers were writing about the popular black music at that time. While Sly Stone's music was eminently danceable, Hendrix's was not, although he himself had no trouble dancing to it. And also singing and playing and doing feats with his guitar - all at the same time. Hendrix was then playing a highly refined art music under the aegis of rock. If you listened beyond the standard drums and bass routines, there emerged an amazing virtuoso artist on guitar. Many heard it then, many hear it now. People have not stopped listening to Hendrix, because his shit is the real deal. Recent events have shown that Hendrix's spirit is still very much involved in this world. day in April of 1993 when a touring art show that featured representations of Hendrix's image, entitled The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition, opened at a gallery in New York City's Soho district, Al Hendrix, his father, launched a lawsuit against the organizers of the show, who control the Hendrix Estate and who are also therefore the legal owners of Jimi Hendrix - all he had produced, including his image. Those anonymous entities purchased Jimi Hendrix some years ago. If this is not posthumous slavery, pop zombie-ism, then I don't know what is. word out at this show was that they were not interested in anything about the strange circumstances of Hendrix's death. They were celebrating his life. While those anonymous owners of Hendrix's oeuvre were avoiding talk or images of his death, a former girl friend, Kathy Etchingham, sought to have the original racist inquest reopened in England, where Hendrix was pronounced dead under mysterious circumstances in September of 1970. inquest allowed an open verdict that meant they could not really say how he died, but many people who testified told conflicting stories before and after their testimonies. And the ambulance drivers, who apparently were not listened to at the time, recently stated that, when the ambulance got to the Samarkand Hotel, the flat was empty except for Hendrix's dead body, a wine-soaked towel around his neck. Of course, the inquest was not allowed to be re-opened, but Etchingham may continue to defy those who would not enjoy such access to the rewards of Hendrix's genius if it were discovered that he was actually murdered. A girlfriend who was near him at the end stated soon afterwards on a radio program that the Mafia had killed him. Hendrix once said that rock 'n' roll was simply blues. Perhaps if he had waxed more extendedly on that subject black musicians might have heard it. It took the Black Rock Coalition behind Vernon Reid's band, Living Colors, to pound that point home way later. But no matter how you designate the music, what matters in the end is how well it is played, be it for the dancers on a postage-sized dance floor or for a venue the size of Woodstock, a rolling expanse of earth as far as the eye can see. …

Health quackery: Our role as professionals

Health quackery: Our role as professionals

Rape in War: Challenging the Tradition of Impunity

RAPEINWAR: CHALLENGING. THE TRADITION OF IMPUNITY Dorothy Q Thomas and Regan E. Ralph rveports of rape in die former Yugoslavia have brought much deserved and long overdue international attention to the issue ofrape in war. This attention has highlighted die abusive character ofwartime rape, but it also has revealed die persistent misunderstandings regarding rape's prevalence, function and motivation in war. Moreover, efforts to ensure diat rape is prosecuted effectively by die International Tribunal established to try war crimes committed in die fomier Yugoslavia have underscored die difficulties in applying international human rights and humanitarian law to rape.1 In order to overcome diese difficulties and to end die appalling history of impunity for this abuse, rape in conflict must be understood as an abuse that targets women for political and strategic reasons. The Prevalence of Rape Violence against women in conflict situations assumes many forms; rape is often only one of die ways in which women are targeted. But while odiet abuses, such as murder and odier forms oftorture have long been denounced as war crimes, rape has been downplayed as an unfortunate but inevitable side effect ofsending men to war. Itdius is ignored as a human rights abuse. Then when rape is reported and condemned, as it has been in Bosnia-Hercegovina, die abuses are called unprecedented and unique in dieit scale. In fart, wartime rape has never been limited to a certain era or to a particular part ofdie world. 1 The tribunal's fomial title is the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia Since 1991 . Dorothy Q. Thomas is the director ofthe Women's Rights Project of Human Rights Watch, and Regan E. Ralph is the Project's staff attorney. 81 82 SAIS Review WINTER-SPRING 1994 During World War II, for example, Moroccan mercenary troops fought with Free French forces in Italy on terms diat "included license to rape and plunder in enemy territory."2 Nazis raped Jewish women despite soldiers' concerns widi "race defilement" and raped coundess women in their padi as diey invaded die Soviet Union.3 The Soviets dien exacted dieir revenge upon German women as die troops batded dieir way to Berlin.4 More recent history provides further evidence ofwartime rape. Pakistani soldiers fighting to suppress Bangladesh's independence, which was declared in 1971, terrorized die Bengali people widi night raids during which women were raped in dieir villages or carted off to soldiers' barracks.5 Similarly, Turkish troops participating in die 1974 invasion and occupation of Cyprus were notorious for die widespread rape ofwomen and girls. In one instance, twentyfive girls who reported their rapes by Turkish soldiers to Turkish officers were dien raped again by those officers.6 In Bosnia, coundess women have been attacked and brutally raped. J., a diirty-nine-year-old Croatian woman, was detained in Omarska, a detention camp where Serbian forces tortured and summarily executed scores of Muslims and Croats. She recounted her rape by a reserve captain of the self-proclaimed "Serbian Republic." "He direw me on die floor, and someone else came into the room. . . . Both Grabovac and diis odier man started to beat me. They said I was an Ustasa and diat I needed to give birth to a Serb—diat 1 would dien be different."7 In Pern, rape of women by security forces is common practice in the ongoing armed conflict between die Communist Party of Pern-Shining Padi and government counterinsurgency forces. In 1992, Human Rights Watch 2 Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977), 133. ' Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (New York: Bantam Books, 1975X46-51. 4 Ibid., 64-65. 5 In Mardi of 1971, the Bengal state—at that time officially East Pakistan—declared its independence as Bangladesh. West Pakistan imported troops to put down the rebellion. Until India's armed intervention in December 1971 , Pakistani troops waged war against the Bengalis. Estimates place the death toll at 3 million, the refugees into India at 10 million, the number of women raped at over...

Book Reviews

Journal Article Book Reviews: The Aspirin Handbook: A User’s Guide to the Breakthrough Drug of the ș90s Get access The Aspirin Handbook: A User's Guide to the Breakthrough Drug of the '90s By Joe Graedon and Tom Ferguson. Published by Bantam BOOks, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 110036, 1993, xii + 243 p. Price $4,99. Genevieve Gilroy, FASHP Genevieve Gilroy, FASHP Pharmacy Department Medical Center Hospital of Vermont. 111 Colehester Avenue Rurlington. T05401 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, Volume 51, Issue 4, 15 February 1994, Page 569, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/51.4.569 Published: 15 February 1994

Lickona, T. (1992): Educating for Character - How our Schools can teach Respect and Responsibility. New York: Bantam Books (478 Seiten) [Rezension

Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie 43 (1994) 7, S. 276-277 Padagogische Teildisziplin: Schulpadagogik; Padagogische Psychologie; als elektronischer Volltext verfugbar

Learning from the Japanese vision: A British consultant's personal perspective

Kumon, S, (1992) From wealth to wisdom: a change in the soelal paradigm. In Mantel M. and Baeeker, R. (eds) Proceedings of the conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Toronto Canada, ACM Press. Kuutti, K. and Arvonen, T. (1992) Identifying potential CSCW applications by means of activity theory concepts: a case example. In Mantel, M. and Baecker, R. (eds) Proceedings of the conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Toronto Canada, ACM Press. Malone, T.W., Grant, K.R., Lal, K-Y., Rao, R. and Rosenblitt, D. 0987) Semi-structured messages are surprisingly useful for computer supported coordination. ACM TOOLS. S (2), 115-131. Malone, T.W. and Crowston, K. (1990) What is coordination theory and how can it help design cooperative work system7 In Bikson, T.K. (ed) Proceedings of the conference on computer supported cooperative work. Los Angeles, ACM Press. Malone, T.W. and Rockart, J.F. (1991) Computers, networks and the corporation, Scientific American. 265 (3), 84-91. Martin, M, and Oswald, G. (1993) Modelling the case studies. In Power, RJ.D. (ed) Cooperation among organizations: the potential of Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. Opper, S. (1988) A groupware toolbox. BYTE. December, 275-282. Philip, G. and Young, E.S. (1987) Man-machine interaction by voice: developments in speech technology; Part I: the state of the art. Journal of information science. 13 3-14. Sathi, A., Morton, T.E. and Roth S.F. (1986) Callisto: an intelligent project management system. A/ magazine. Winter, 34--52. Sproull, L. and Kiesler, S. (t991a) Computers, networks and work. Scientific American 265 (3), 84-91. Sproull, L. and Kiesler, S. (1991b) Connections: New ways ofworking in the networked organisation. MIT Press Cambridge, Mass. "loftier, A, (1971) Future Shock. Bantam Books: New York. Toffler, A. (1990) Powershifl: Knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century. Bantam books: New York. Watabe, K., Sakata, S., MaChO, K., Fukuoka, H. and Ohnaori, T. (1990) Distributed multi-party desktop confereneing: MERMAID. In Bikson, T.K. (ed) Proceedings of the conference on computer supported cooperative work. Los Angeles. Winograd, T. and Flores, F. (1986) Understanding computers and cognition: a new foundation for design. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex. Winograd, T. (1988) A language/action perspective on the design of cooperative work. Human Computer Interaction. 3 3-30.

Book Reviews

Abstract Abstract Essay Review: Teaching for Democracy in the Social Studies Classroom: Goodman, Jesse (with assistance from Jeff Kuzmic and Xiaoyang Wu). (1992). Elementary schooling for critical democracy. Albany: State University of New York Press. 211 pages, $12.95, paper. ISBN 0-7914-0860-4. Reviewed by H. John Kornfeld Essay Review: Through the Looking Glass: Politics and the Social Studies Curriculum: Schlesinger, Arthur. Jr. (1991). The disuniting of America: Reflections on a multicultural society. New York: Norton (Whittle Direct Books). 91 pages, $11.95, hardcover. ISBN 1-879736-00-4. Reviewed by Gloria Ladson-Billings Book Notes: Teaching Respect and Responsibility: Lickona, Thomas. (1991). Educating for character: How our schools can teach respect and responsibility. New York: Bantam Books, 478 pages, $19.95, hardcover, ISBN 0-553-07570-5. Reviewed by William I. Mitchell

Eating an Apple

2.John Wesley in "A Good Man Is Hard To Find." 3.New York: Bantam Books, 1979. 4.It should be noted that among the three Alaska Native groups— Aleuts, Eskimos, and Indians—very strong ties ofkinship exist, and there is a sense of place in bush communities similar to that described by many Appalachians. 5 . Sidney Saylor Farr, More Than Moonshine: Appalachian Recipes and Recollections (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983), p. 7. Eating an Apple He selected it Not from the tree, But from the orchard grass Where it had fallen that morning When the dew came to roll down the frothy blades. On sandstone rock nearby Made a cold seat While he removed his Case pocketknife From the right pocket of his BIG MAC Overalls And cut the bad spots away. Then he'd take the apple apart— Piece by piece. Grasping the slice between the knife blade And calloused thumb, Carving And thinking Until all that remained Was a square core To be left on the rock For the groundhogs to roll in their paws. —James B. Goode 47 ...

Book reviews

The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Early. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. 383 pp. Tort Law and the Public Interest: Competition, Innovation, and Consumer Welfare, edited by Peter H. Schuck, W.W. Norton & Company New York, NY, 1991, 320 pp. Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld by Teresa Carpenter New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992, 288 pages, $21 hardcover, ISBN: 0–671–68345–4. HILARY'S TRIAL – The Elizabeth Morgan Case: A Child's Ordeal in the American Legal System by Jonathan Groner American Lawyer Books (Simon & Schuster), 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, Mew York, 10020, 1991, 290 pp. $21.95.

Integrating the New Psycho-Social Research About Rescuers of Jews into the Teaching of Holocaust Courses

Volume 10, No.2 Winter 1992 FOCUS ON PROGRAMS AND TEACHING 97 We welcome responses, dialogue, and discussions of experiences in this regular column. Teaching the Holocaust The following discussions were presented at the Third Annual Conference of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association in Madison, Wisconsin, October 13, 1991. Integrating the New Psycho-Social Research About Rescuers of Jews into the Teaching of Holocaust Courses Lawrence Baron Director, the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies San Diego State University Psycho-social interpretations of the behavior of the perpetrators and the victims of the Holocaust have long been central to the study and teaching of the Shoah. In reference to SS conduct, Holocaust courses usually refer to the Milgram or similar clinical experiments to provide one possible explanation for why seemingly normal Germans obeyed their murderous orders. When discussing survival in the concentratiOn camps, Bettelheim's or Frankl's analyses of the coping mechanisms employed by camp inmates have been contrasted to the theories advanced by Des Pres or Langer.1 Until recently, there was no body of psycho-social literature on the motivations of Gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Thus, the rescue of Jews was taught from a comparative national perspective which usually focused on Denmark as the atypical case of collective solidarity with the persecuted Jews.2 Coverage of "righteous gentiles" in class lectures and readings 1For example, see Margot Stern Strom and William S. Parsons, Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior (Watertown, MA: International Educations , 1982), pp. 137-157,228-229. 2Strom and Parsons, Facing History, pp. 285-290; Yehuda Bauer,A History ofthe Holocaust (New York: Franklin Watts, 1982), pp. 289-295; Richard L. Rubenstein and John K. Roth,Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy (Atlanta: John 98 SHOFAR tended to be limited to narratives about their good deeds, but failed to probe further into their backgrounds, beliefs, and personalities.3 Students learned something about rescue activities, but almost nothing about the traits and values of the people engaged in such efforts.4 Philip Hallie's Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed stands out as one early notable exception to this rule precisely because it delves deeply into the prior lives and moral convictions of its protagonists.5 Perry London's 1970 pilot study of "Christians who saved Jews" heralded the beginning of serious sytematic inquiry into the psychological and sociological origins of ethical courage under life-threatening conditions.6 The past decade has witnessed the publication of a spate of significant articles and books that have examined which qualities and experiences distinguished the rescuers from the vast majority of their neighbors who abandoned the Jews to their genocidal fate in Nazi-occupied Europe. The bestknown scholars involved in this research are Eva Fleischner, Eva Fogelman, Knox Press, 1987), pp. 216-223. Much more extensive coverage of comparative national rescue experiences can be found in Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate ofEuropean Jewry, 1932-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 573-652. 3Strom and Parsons, Facing History, pp. 290-292; Bauer, History, pp. 286-289, 324--325; Rubenstein and Roth, Approaches, pp. 223-228. Two popular books which exemplify the narrative approaches to rescuers are Philip Friedman, Their Brothers' Keepers (New York: Holocaust Library, 1978), and Peter Hellman, Avenue of the Righteous (New York: Bantam Books, 1981). 4For an earlier review article on this problem, see Lawrence Baron, "The Holocaust and Human Decency: A Review of Research on the Rescue of Jews in Nazi Occupied Europe," Humboldt Journal ofSocial Relations, Vol. 13, No. 1/2 (1986), pp.237-251. 5phillip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There (New York: Harper and Row, 1979). 6perry London, "The Rescuers: Motivational Hypotheses About Christians Who Saved Jews from the Nazis," in Altruism and Helping Behavior, ed. J. Macaulay and L. Berkowitz (New York: Academic Press, 1970), pp. 241-250. For the first study of rescuers based on survey data, see Manfred Wolfson, "Zum Widerstand gegen Hitler: Umriss eines Gruppenportrats deutscher Retter von Juden," Tradition und Neubeginn (Munich, 1975), pp. 391-407. Volume 10, No.2 Winter 1992 99 Douglas Huneke, Mordecai Paldiel, Pearl and Sam...

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility. By Thomas Lickona. New York: Bantam Books, 1991

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility. By Thomas Lickona. New York: Bantam Books, 1991

BOOK REVIEW: The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (Bantam Books, New York, 1991)

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The Border Men (review)

study of 1962. Though he mentions the role of the West Virginia primary of May 1960—"the primary that made the President"—he says notMng of the sentiment of the country at large that produced Michael Harrington's The Other America. Bradshaw, in short, has confined his view pretty much to government agencies . His bibliography reflects this. He is most complete in documents of die various government agencies, but does not include titles by James Branscome, the Mountain Eaßle, Wilma Dykeman, Howard Odum, Rupert Vance, or Willis D. Weatlierford. His failure to consult books by Odum, Vance, and James Shelton Reed seems most strange for a student of American regions. —Richard B. Drake Cameron Judd. The Border Men. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. 453 pages. $4.99. Cameron Judd from Greene County, Tennessee, continues his saga of the Tennessee frontier with this novel, The Border Men, which is the sequel to his 1991 novel The Overmountain Men. Together, the two books span nearly thirty years of Tennessee frontier history, 1757-1783. On the paperback shelf, they are apt to be overlooked as examples of Appalachian literature because they are mixed in with and surrounded by novels of the western frontier. Although Cameron Judd, the author of twelve other Bantam novels, is hailed as "a new voice of the Old West," in these two books he powerfully evokes the earlier, eastern, frontier. In an afterword to the first book, Judd says that he wrote "with two goals in mind. The first and most important is to present readers an entertaining story; the second is to provide an overview, through interweaving the story's fictional aspect with abundant history, of the thrust of Tennessee's frontier development during the period depicted." With both volumes, he succeeds admirably because of his credibly drawn main character, Joshua Colter. Although there is nothing especially extraordinary about the very likable Joshua, he does live through some extraordinary times. Though he may lack the charisma of a John Sevier or the mystical aura of a Daniel Boone, he is nevertheless the perfect hero for Judd's purposes. Readers who already know the history of the Appalachian frontier can enjoy seeing how Joshua Colter plays his part among dramatic events. Those who don't know much of the history can easily grasp the eighteenth century background for this enjoyable, often thrilling , tale of an honorable frontiersman and his family. Judd's narrative is rewarding for either type of reader. 67 At the heart of The Border Men is a description of the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. Being partial to Wilma Dykeman's account ofthat battle in her book With Fire and Sword (1978), I wished for less anecdote and more historical texture in Judd's account than I got. In his afterword, however, Judd admits that "this episode alone could easily be developed into a large novel; my treatment of it in this broader-scoped work is brief and somewhat simplified." True. But I felt a bit deprived, just as I remember feeling disappointed when Richard Waverley missed the entire Battle of Culloden in Scott's Waverley. That progenitor of historical fiction is certainly no War and Peace, and I suppose the dilemma for historical novelists faced with such a huge moment as a major battle has always been either omit it, simplify it, or devote a thousand pages to it. Cameron Judd, to his credit, does give his readers some of the high moments at King's Mountain, with historical accuracy. Best of all in this novel, as in the first, are the stories of Joshua's interaction with the Cherokee. Cameron Judd handles the sensitive issue of Cherokee/ Anglo relations very well, but the shadow of the coming Trail of Tears (1838) looms ahead. Dragging Canoe, Oconostota, Nancy Ward—all have their parts to play in Joshua's life. If Judd's hero lives to a grandfatherly eighty-eight years, he will see the events of his youth play out with tragic results. With his major characters off to Kentucky at the end of this book, there is opportunity for yet another volume; whether Judd would take it as far as 1838...