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It was the most contested election in the history of Texas. On August 28, 1948, Lyndon B. Johnson, a ruthless young Texas congressman, squared off against former Governor Coke Stevenson in a brutally competitive runoff for the U.S. Senate. In the chaotic days following the election, Stevenson appeared to be victorious. STEVENSON'S MARGIN FIRM, blared The Dallas Morning News five days after the polls closed.
But election officials received an amended return from Jim Wells County, a backward region in south Texas, which showed two hundred additional votes for Johnson. Those votes put Johnson ahead of Stevenson, and eventually guaranteed his victory by eighty-seven votes. Pundits would later refer to "the eighty-seven votes that changed history"—votes that came from Precinct 13 in Alice, Texas. The election judge for Precinct 13 was a burly, belligerent pistolero named Luis Salas, a top lieutenant to the "boss of bosses" in Jim Wells County and a political ally of Lyndon Johnson. Salas stole the votes.
In 1986, Robert Caro, hard at work on volume two of his projected four-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, ventured to southern Texas in search of Luis Salas. The elderly men in the streets of Alice told him that Salas was deceased, but eventually someone exclaimed: "No, Luis is alive." After several weeks of scouring telephone books, Caro found Salas in the Houston suburbs, where he was living in a mobile home in the backyard of his daughter's house. The author knocked on the door. Caro recalls: "It was just like he was expecting me."
Caro was greeted by an eighty-four-year-old man, frail and withered, who bore no resemblance to the thug he had read about in old newspaper clippings. "Mr. Salas, my name is Robert Caro. I'm doing a book on Lyndon Johnson." "Oh," Salas replied, "then you want to know about Box 13." They sat on a couch in the trailer. Salas's ailing wife languished in an adjacent room, and Caro has never forgotten the old man's tenderness toward her. With regard to the 1948 election, Salas announced: "I have written it all down," at which point he produced a battered, typed and handwritten manuscript that revealed, in striking detail, the machinations surrounding Box 13. The two men went to a stationery store and made a Xerox copy. Caro thanked him. "Everyone is dead except me, Robert," Salas remarked. "And I'm not going to live long. But Box 13 is history. No one can erase that."
By obtaining the firsthand recollections of the man who actually stole the crucial votes in the 1948 Texas Senate race—and thereby set Lyndon Johnson on the road to the presidency—Caro achieved a stunning journalistic feat. For years, Johnson's partisans had worked to create an obfuscatory haze around LBJ's chicanery in that election; but the Salas manuscript is the closest thing we have to a smoking gun.
It was vintage Caro. Beginning at Newsday in the 1960s, Caro has forged a reputation as an indefatigable muckraker, a man whose tenacious research and in-depth reporting have enabled him to produce books that are acclaimed by his peers and celebrated by his readers, books that leap to the top of the best-seller lists. His first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and continues to sell briskly a quarter century after its publication. Since then, Caro has dedicated himself to a massive biographical project on LBJ, a project dubbed The Years of Lyndon Johnson. The first book in the series, The Path to Power (1982), covered LBJ's life until 1941. Means of Ascent (1990) tracked Johnson from 1941 to 1948. The third volume, Master of the Senate, has just been published, at nearly twelve hundred pages.
In some influential journalistic quarters, Caro's infallibility is simply assumed. In a recent New York Times article concerning the plagiarism controversy swirling around the historians Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin, the publishing columnist Martin Arnold wrote: "As for today's popular historians, no one would waste a moment checking Robert A. Caro, who invests years in researching and writing each of his books."
Yet the praise for Caro is not unanimous; his work is controversial and contested. The sides are clearly drawn. Firmly in Caro's corner are two of the most powerful institutions in American literary life: Alfred A. Knopf, his publisher, which is promoting Master of the Senate as "the most celebrated political biography of our era," and The New Yorker, which recently ran two long excerpts from Master of the Senate.
But a formidable array of critics have challenged Caro's portrait of LBJ. Means of Ascent, which deals almost entirely with the 1948 election, was engulfed by criticism when it was published in 1990. "By tilting the tables to make crystal-clear the personal abhorrence he has come to feel for his subject," David Broder wrote, "[Caro] strains credulity." "Though Caro likes to present himself as a simple fact collector on a giant scale," Garry Wills thundered, "he is actually a mythmaker, and what he gives us in this book is a nightmarishly inverted fairy tale."
Now Caro faces a dual challenge: to please both his critics and his publisher, Knopf, which is printing 200,000 copies of a book about Lyndon Johnson's twelve-year tenure in the U.S. Senate.
"You're really happy to be done," Caro remarks with a chuckle one recent afternoon. His desk is nearly empty, except for some white legal pads, the galleys for Master of the Senate, and a Smith Corona Electra 210, the model on which he composed The Power Broker. (He bought seventeen Electra 210s when the company quit making them decades ago.) The typewriter looks small and vulnerable on his massive desk. Caro's relief is reflected in his attire. Normally he arrives at his Fifty-Seventh Street office dressed in a jacket and tie, but today, his book finished, he is wearing a dark blue sweater, a light blue shirt, and gray trousers. With his preppy appearance and tortoise-shell glasses, he looks like the Princeton man that he is. The phone hums. The caller is Walter Isaacson, chairman and CEO of CNN News Group, expressing his enthusiasm for The New Yorker's second excerpt from Master of the Senate, which just hit the streets.
"I've never been interested in writing a book just to show the life of a famous man," Caro explains. "Each book is about something else. It's the life of Lyndon Johnson that's holding it together, but the books are really about political power." Master of the Senate took some nine years to write. Caro has been working on Johnson for a quarter-century, and he still hasn't arrived at Johnson's presidency: the new book ends in 1961.
To immerse himself in the Senate, Caro moved to Washington, where he sat in the Senate Gallery (for which he received a special pass); he haunted the cloakrooms; and he kibitzed with Senate staff. Caro also conducted a thousand interviews, perused (along with his wife) nearly three hundred oral history transcripts, and ran his eyes over many hundreds of thousands of documents. It was a herculean effort, and Senate staffers were impressed by it. "I don't think anybody has tried to grapple with the institution, as much as Caro has, in half a century," says Donald Ritchie of the Senate Historical Office.
Capturing other worlds is an endeavor to which Caro has dedicated his life. He spends much of his time on the road, plundering archives and conducting interviews all over the country, but much of his work, and all of the writing, is done here—on the twelfth floor of the Fisk Building in Manhattan. The building itself, a warren of suites filled with dentists, literary agents, and small-business people, imparts a shabby elegance. Caro's immaculate office is twenty-two feet by twenty-two feet. One wall is filled with bookshelves and crammed file cabinets; another wall contains a massive cork board, which he plasters with detailed outlines of his chapters. There is a couch, on which he sometimes naps.
This is the office of a man who takes himself, and his work, seriously. It's a monastic, claustrophobic space. There are no sources of music, no pieces of art. There are no photographs, except for a single image of the U.S. Senate chamber, emptied of its occupants, which hangs on the bulletin board. Only the big window provides relief. The austerity of the room is deliberate: "It's too hard to write," Caro says wearily. "It's too easy not to write. If you could do anything else, you'd be doing it." But write he does. Caro keeps track of his daily word count on a calendar. "Hemingway wrote the word count every day," Caro avers. "So do I." He also keeps a note attached to his desk lamp, a stark reminder of his priorities: "When you're at this desk," the note reads, "the only thing that matters is what is on the page."
In 1958, Caro was a restless young reporter for the New Brunswick Daily Home News in New Jersey, the first byproduct of his tenure as managing editor of the Daily Princetonian. In an effort to escape New Brunswick, he sent his resume to a variety of newspapers. Only one answered his call. Newsday, in the early 1960s, was not the first-class paper we know today; it was a smallish daily in Garden City, Long Island. But the paper had a civic-minded, idealistic publisher, Alicia Patterson, who fostered investigative reporting.
Not everyone there was encouraged by Caro's hiring. In his authorized history of Newsday, Robert Keeler noted that managing editor Alan Hathway "preferred street-wise reporters to eager college boys, and he responded to the hiring of Caro with a grumble."
Shortly after Caro began, an editor dispatched him to a railroad crossing, just east of the office, to report on a near-accident. "He was so raw," Keeler wrote, "that he drove to the west instead, and didn't realize it until he reached Queens." But Caro would soon demonstrate a gift for both roads and archives. One day he was sent to examine some Federal Aviation Administration documents at what is now the John F. Kennedy airport.
Shortly thereafter, Caro was summoned to Hathway's office, where he expected to be discharged. In Keeler's account, the crusty old editor proclaimed: "I didn't know someone from Princeton could do digging like this. From now on, you do investigative work."
While at Newsday, Caro developed an interest in New York State Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who was both ubiquitous and elusive in the public mind. During a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard in 1966, Caro decided to undertake a full-length biography of Moses—even though Moses's p.r. man told him at the start that he would have no access to Moses, or to his colleagues and friends. Caro resigned from Newsday, and went ahead and did the research anyway on a paltry advance from his publisher. Still, the Newsday years were crucial to Caro's development as a writer. "His time as a journalist has helped make him a better historian," says Pete Hamill, "because he knows how to make the writing vivid, while simultaneously telling a story." Adds Hamill: "Caro doesn't bother with the academic babble; it's as if in his head there's some old guy from the copy desk looking down at him, and saying: `Uh, Bob, what does this bullshit mean?'"
In May 1967, Moses, impressed by Caro's tenacity, agreed at last to see him. Caro drove to Moses's home on the south shore of Long Island, and found him sitting in front of a huge picture window that framed one of many bridges he himself had built. "So," Moses said with a wide grin, "you're the young fellow who thinks he's going to write a book about me."
Published in 1974, The Power Broker traced Moses's journey from idealistic reformer to rapacious autocrat. In fifty chapters that totaled more than twelve hundred pages, Caro showed his readers the many achievements of Robert Moses, but also the dark side of his record. In building his expressways, for instance, Moses evicted 250,000 people, a process that, in Caro's vivid description, destroyed entire neighborhoods and left deep scars on those who were uprooted. Some of the finest pages in The Power Broker contain the firsthand reminiscences of ordinary people crushed by Moses's ambition. The Power Broker contained sprightly vignettes of numerous individuals, but Caro managed to achieve something even more difficult: he took matters like bond issues, municipal legislation, machine politics, and highway construction, and brought them vividly to life.
For a work that was published in 1974, The Power Broker is very much alive. It has been used in hundreds of colleges, and Caro's younger colleagues speak of it with awe. Michael Tomasky, political columnist for New York magazine, considers it "a huge journalistic landmark and model." "Each chapter was like a short story," recalls Wayne Barrett, a reporter and editor for The Village Voice. With The Power Broker, which has sold 200,000 copies, Caro did the hardest thing a writer can do: he produced a book that endures, a book that stands in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell.
A striking feature of The Power Broker, which resulted from 522 interviews, was the staggering amount of research that went into it, a fact that is true for all of Caro's books, including Master of the Senate. If the books are remarkable in that respect, it is largely because Caro has a secret weapon—his wife, Ina Caro, who works as his full-time researcher. All of his books are dedicated to her, and the inscription for The Path to Power contained an additional line from Shakespeare's Macbeth: "More is thy due than more than all can pay."
"Bob is really quite incredible," Ina Caro said one recent afternoon in their spacious, immaculate apartment overlooking Central Park. A handsome woman in her sixties, with short dark hair, she is witty and imperious, and more articulate than her husband. Reflecting on the way in which Caro has fused scholarship and investigative reporting in his books, she affirms: "He combines them both beautifully, which is really the reason it takes so long." How long would it take without her? "It would take an awful lot longer," she replies, a trace of satisfaction in her voice.
From the start, she was his anchor. Caro's advance for The Power Broker was minuscule, so while he worked on the book, she got a job as a substitute teacher to support the family. (They have a grown son, who graduated from Princeton and is now a lawyer.) A historian in her own right—she has a graduate degree in medieval history—she performed thousands of hours of research on The Power Broker, and then typed the two-thousand-page manuscript—twice. But the full range of her talents would not become fully apparent until she and Caro moved to the Texas Hill country in the late 1970s to research the boyhood of Lyndon Johnson; they stayed for three years.
As a young congressman in the 1930s, Johnson harnessed the machinery of the New Deal to bring electrification to his district in central Texas, one of the poorest, most backward regions in the state; it was LBJ's greatest achievement as a congressman. Caro wanted to know what electricity really meant to the impoverished residents of the Hill Country—especially the beleaguered women—so he sent his wife to interview them. "The women there didn't want to talk to Bob," recalls Ina Caro. "He's a New York male. They were uncomfortable with him. They were more comfortable with me." The fruit of her labor resulted in The Path to Power's finest chapter, "The Sad Irons." In powerful detail, the chapter brought to life the crushing regimen faced by Hill Country women in the years before electrification—washing, ironing, canning, baking—a regimen that left them stooped and crippled and broken in their thirties, a regimen that called to mind the Middle Ages, or the lives of peasants in Brazil. A writer for Texas Monthly once said "The Sad Irons" may be the "most brilliant single passage of prose ever written about Texas."
Decades of collaboration have resulted in an ironclad routine for the Caros. She rises early and works on her own books from 5:00 A.M. to 9:00 A.M. She is the author of The Road from the Past: Traveling through History in France—published in 1996 and still in print—and is currently working on another historical travelogue about France. Beginning at 9:00, she works a full day for her husband. Ina Caro dislikes doing interviews, but is completely enamored of libraries and archives. For Master of the Senate, she spent protracted amounts of time, by herself, in presidential libraries and archives in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Georgia. Then she typed the gargantuan first draft of Master of the Senate, since her husband refuses to write on a computer. (Ina Caro says she has always enjoyed the typing, and that running his words through her own typewriter taught her how to write books herself.)
What explains her dedication? First and foremost is her love of research, but there are other reasons, too. "What really fascinated me historically was how democracy came into being," she says. "The fragility of democracy fascinates me. " Her husband's work touches directly on that theme.
"I felt that what Bob was doing was very important. He makes you understand how democracy works—really works—not how a political scientist says it's supposed to." And she is obviously enmeshed in her husband's idealism: "Bob became a reporter because he felt very strongly that the press was the fourth branch of government," she says. "He felt journalism was a crusade to protect democracy. That sounds corny today, but I think it was deeply felt."
The Caros live well. They have a house in East Hampton, their own table at the tony Café des Artistes, and they spend each summer in France, where he assists her, in ways large and small, with her own books. Still, over the years, she has endured feminist abuse—not from her friend Betty Friedan, who has always been supportive of her arrangement with her husband, but from Susan Brownmiller, who once instructed Mrs. Caro to "do something socially useful." Those words stung her. "I've always been a feminist," Ina Caro explains, "so it really is very difficult, in some respects, to say that I'm working for my husband." Did she mean to say working with her husband? "No," she replies, a bit stiffly. "I'm working for…"
The Caros used their time in Texas productively. The Path to Power, published in 1982, provided a microscopic account of Johnson's youth in the barren Hill Country, one that began with a detailed reconstruction of his family's history in the region. Caro interviewed hundreds of people who knew the Johnson family, and the result was an affecting portrait of a young man who grew up in squalor ("It was a dirty house," one neighbor insisted), with idealistic parents ill-equipped to handle the brutal realities of life in the Hill Country. Caro's detailed account of Johnson's early adulthood—the hard labor he performed on a road gang, his pathetic courtships, his devious maneuvering as a student politician at a tiny state college—surpassed that of other Johnson biographers.
The Path to Power and Means of Ascent (1990) provided a startlingly intimate portrait of Johnson. In 1931, Johnson went to Washington as the secretary to a do-nothing congressman, and he soon hired two assistants, L.E. Jones and Gene Latimer, whom, according to Caro, he quickly enslaved:
The toilet in the office suite was set in a short corridor between its two rooms. Johnson would sit down on it, and, Latimer says, "there would come a call: 'L.E.!' L.E. would say, 'Oh, God,' because he hated this." He would take his pad, and go to the bathroom. At first, he attempted to stand away from the door, but Johnson insisted he come right into the doorway, so he would be standing over him, and "L.E. would stand with his head and nose averted, and take dictation."
The pleasure of Path to Power and Means of Ascent does not, by and large, come from the craftsmanship of the writing. As a prose stylist, Caro is not in the same class as Garry Wills, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Robert Hughes, or Marshall Frady. Instead, the enjoyment, and the instruction, come from learning about the inner workings of Texas and Washington politics, and in the narrative energy Caro brings to his story—especially in Means of Ascent, which culminates in a thrilling account of Johnson's theft of the 1948 election. Indeed, with his sprawling canvas, his laborious and frequently sentimental prose, his sympathy for the underdog, and his insatiable curiosity about the way things work, Caro closely resembles another ambitious newspaperman turned book writer—Theodore Dreiser, whose gritty, early twentieth century masterpieces, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, have lost none of their power or relevance.
In making the transition from newspaper reporter to biographer, Caro, to a certain extent, left his sense of balance behind. Caro's Johnson is a man full of "viciousness and cruelty," a man who enjoys "breaking backs and keeping them broken," a man with an urge "not just to defeat but to destroy." In Johnson, Caro gives us a chilling portrait of an amoral politician, a man, in Caro's words, devoid of "any consistent ideology or principle, in fact of any moral foundation whatsoever." Caro would pay a price for this attitude, since reviewers were quick to pick up on his personal dislike of Johnson. Writing in The New York Times Book Review in 1982, the Harvard historian David Herbert Donald called The Path to Power "fascinating, immensely long and highly readable," but also found it "repetitive and fiercely polemical."
The most perceptive review of The Path to Power appeared in The New York Review of Books, by a newspaperman who spent decades observing Lyndon Johnson—the late Murray Kempton. Kempton was untroubled by the book's polemical zeal, since, in his view, Johnson "devoted his life to violating every civic ideal of our politics." What bothered Kempton was not Caro's lack of balance but his lack of subtlety and ambiguity: "Justice [Oliver Wendell] Holmes said once that Justice [John] Harlan had a mind like one of the larger vises; it was incapable of holding small objects. Caro seems to have a mind of the opposite variety: it is a vise acutely calculated for the particular and not quite large enough for the general." Kempton's prevailing sentiment—that Caro's Lyndon Johnson was too one-dimensional—would be echoed by other reviewers.
Published in 1990, Means of Ascent triggered an acrimonious debate. At the heart of it was Caro's portrait of LBJ's opponent in the 1948 Senate race—former Governor Coke Stevenson. The architecture of Means of Ascent rests on the assumption that Stevenson was a "legend," one of the "most beloved figures in the state's history;" while Johnson was something close to a miscreant—a contrast starkly revealed in the book's index, where, as Sidney Blumenthal pointed out in The New Republic, the entries for Stevenson's "character" ("dignity," "fairness," "frugality," "honesty and integrity") stand in contrast to the entries for LBJ's ("bragging and exaggeration," "cruelty," "cynicism," "determination to win"). It's pretty clear that Caro fell in love with Coke Stevenson. (In Path to Power, Caro presented an idealized portrait of House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn. "Obviously, I fell in love with Sam Rayburn," he told The Washington Post in 1982.) And in Master of the Senate, Caro falls in love, to a certain extent, with Richard Russell, the powerful segregationist Senator from Georgia.
In a review in The Washington Post, Broder affirmed that Caro made "a persuasive case" that LBJ "stole the victory in the 1948 Senate race." "That would be enough," Broder continued, "to satisfy most investigative reporters or exposé-minded authors. But Caro wants to write a morality tale, an epic of democracy betrayed." Broder ridiculed Caro's assertion that Coke Stevenson was "perhaps the most respected public official in the history of Texas." "Really?" questioned Broder. "Texans to whom I have quoted that line are inclined to hoot."
Blumenthal's blistering cover story in The New Republic emphasized Stevenson's racial views. In his book, Caro mostly ignores Stevenson's views on race except to say, in passing, that "Stevenson accepted all the southern stereotypes about [the black] race." But Blumenthal went back and reexamined the chilling details of a case in which a black man was accused of raping a white woman and dragged out of his hospital bed and lynched, and noted that US. Attorney General Francis Biddle urged Stevenson to bring the murderers to trial. Stevenson's written reply? "Certain members of the Negro race from time to time furnish the setting for mob violence by the outrageous crimes which they commit."
The avalanche of criticism continued. "Caro reserves information where it would partly exonerate," Garry Wills wrote in The New York Review of Books, "and produces it only when it further incriminates." And he lamented Caro's "unremittingly humorless" pages. "To write of Lyndon Johnson without a sense of humor," Wills averred, "is like setting a tone-deaf man to write about Mozart."
Caro responded to this critical onslaught with a disjointed, rambling essay in The New York Times Book Review, which Knopf, in an unusual move for a publisher, modified and inserted in the notes to the paperback edition of Means of Ascent. Caro admitted that Stevenson was a segregationist, but insisted that "civil rights was not an important issue in the campaign." "To have given significant emphasis to race in this book," Caro declared, "would have been to wrench the campaign out of its historical context, to have looked at a 1948 event through a lens ground in 1990."
That was a highly dubious assertion. In The Power Broker, Caro wrote at length about Moses's racist views toward blacks—not because Moses's racism was an issue in a political campaign (it wasn't) but because those views were essential to Moses's life and work. Caro was right to include Moses's racist views, and wrong to exclude Stevenson's. In the furious war of words that enveloped Means of Ascent, Caro's detractors were correct on almost every point, which in no way diminishes the value of the book. Means of Ascent, flawed though it is, is a work every journalist should read, for it is a riveting, hour-by-hour account of how an election was stolen. The book has acquired new relevance since the Florida quagmire. Says Caro, dryly, "There's a lot more interest in the second volume since the Bush/Gore election."
Lyndon Johnson arrived in the Senate in 1949, became its majority leader in 1955, and left it in 1961. During that time, he took absolute control of the institution, and quickly showed himself to be a virtuoso parliamentarian and strategist. Caro, in the course of his research, became obsessed by the nature of senatorial power; by the concept of "legislative genius"; by the byzantine rules that prevail in the chamber; and by the way in which Johnson bent the institution to his will. None of this, Caro came to feel, had been properly analyzed by other writers and scholars, so he endeavored to nail down every aspect of LBJ's presence in the Senate, to the smallest detail. Caro expended much effort, for instance, in attempting to ascertain what precisely LBJ did with a tiny passageway (four square feet in size) between his office and the Senate cafeteria; in the end, after much investigation, the true purpose of the passageway eluded Caro. To verify that LBJ "towered" over his associates, Caro asked Senator Bill Bradley, who is just over six feet four, to stand at the majority leader's desk, so Caro could observe, with his own eyes, "precisely to what degree Johnson had in fact 'towered' as he stood there."
But Caro's obsession with the Senate, his endless quest for details and minutiae, may have led him into a biographical cul-de-sac. Perhaps, in the end, the institution defeated him, for Master of the Senate is Caro's least successful effort. His three previous books were fired by a powerful narrative engine. But the new book moves slowly, very slowly. In attempting to write the definitive work on LBJ in the Senate, Caro has written a massive account on the Senate itself, a book that often loses sight, amid the thicket of legislative maneuvering, of Johnson himself. (Caro begins with a hundred-page history of the Senate, and Johnson doesn't make a full appearance until page 105.) To be sure, LBJ's Senate years are difficult to render: much of what he did there took place in private offices and restricted cloakrooms, and behind-the-scenes legislative wrangling is difficult to recreate on the page—facts that suggest the need for a much shorter book.
Johnson's tenure in the Senate, however, was not without drama. In 1949, he presided over the reconfirmation hearing for Leland Olds, head of the Federal Power Commission. Olds had been a red-hot radical in his youth in the 1920s, but had risen to become a respected, dutiful bureaucrat—a fact that didn't stop Johnson from destroying him with red-baiting tactics. Caro takes seventy pages of Master of the Senate to tell the story of Leland Olds, and while his account is the most comprehensive and detailed one to date, his very thoroughness drains the story of its suspense. Robert Sherrill's short book on Johnson, The Accidental President (1967), covers the Leland Olds episode in a crisp eleven pages, and with more drama and verve than Caro manages.
In considerable detail, Master of the Senate chronicles LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell, which laid the groundwork for his own rise in the Senate; his brazen affair with the glamorous liberal Helen Gahagan Douglas; his deteriorating health and 1955 heart attack; and his dismal performance at the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago, where his presidential hopes were temporarily dashed. In the new book, race is a paramount concern of Caro's, and Master of the Senate concludes with a protracted 180-page account of the political maneuvering that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first legislation of its kind since Reconstruction.
Caro makes much of LBJ's political wizardry in getting the 1957 legislation passed, arguing that it was an important first step on civil rights. But it is here, with the 1957 Act—which was so weak that some civil rights leaders opposed it— that Caro may face critical ire. Two most outstanding books on the civil rights movement—David Garrow's Bearing the Cross (1986) and Taylor Branch's Parting The Waters (1988)—each contains less than four pages on the 1957 legislation, and critics are sure to question Caro's relentless focus on it. Thirty-five years ago, Sherrill himself, in The Accidental President, anticipated the argument Caro would make in 2002: "The legend persists," Sherrill wrote, "that Johnson worked a 'miracle' in 1957 in passing a civil rights act; it will doubtless persist for many years."
Indeed, Master of the Senate offers a glimpse into how Caro will approach the subject of LBJ and civil rights in his next—and final—volume. Caro seems acutely sensitive to the charge that he is too zealously critical of LBJ, so Master of the Senate tries half-heartedly to emphasize Johnson's "compassion." But what really comes through, after twelve hundred pages, is Johnson's deceit and cold-blooded pragmatism; we will have to wait until the next volume for a more complete portrait of LBJ's transformation into a civil rights hero. What's clear, in any case, is that Caro's expertise in political machines, highway construction, and Texas politics does not automatically carry over to civil rights.
In Means of Ascent, Caro proclaimed that "it was Lyndon Johnson who led [black Americans] into voting booths, closed democracy's sacred curtain behind them … [and] … made them… a true part of American political life." That same sentiment—that LBJ "led" blacks into the voting booth—suffuses Master of the Senate. Caro's critics will certainly note that it was actually the other way around—that decades of civil rights agitation forced the political class to yield on black enfranchisement. Shrewd observers understood this at the time. In the mid-1960s, after LBJ delivered a major speech on civil rights, Murray Kempton recalled, in the New York Post, the heroic efforts of various civil rights activists, and noted, in a passage not cited by Caro: "We have had a few presidents who bent down to be kind to these people. But last night for the first time we had a president who looked up and saluted them. May God reward them for what they have done to make him what he was last night and us what we may be tomorrow."
Robert Caro has now composed twenty-six hundred pages on Lyndon Johnson, which makes it possible to draw certain conclusions about the colossal project to which he has dedicated twenty-five years of his life. In many respects the books are remarkable, and where they are best is on the concrete, material reality of Johnson's life: the terrain he sprang from; the friends he betrayed; the furious political campaigns he ran; the dams and electricity lines he helped to get built; the elections he stole; the political machine he forged; the combat service he evaded; the fortune he accumulated in office; the powerful older men he cultivated; the Senate rules he mastered. These are not small achievements for a biographer, and they culminate in Caro's damning account, in all three books, of LBJ's close association with Texas-based oil, gas, and construction interests—which provided, from day one, the money on which his political career was built and sustained. "One of the concerns of my work," Caro once wrote, "is the use of economic power to create political power." Few have documented it better than Caro has.
Yet, in spite of all this, something is missing from Caro's portrait of Lyndon Johnson. In a brilliant review of Means of Ascent in The New York Times Book Review, Ronald Steel, author of the prize-winning Walter Lippmann and the American Century (1980), noted that Caro's emphasis on how power is used—to build dams, win elections—is "masterly," not least because it "contributes to the moral energy of his books." But Steel described the limits of Caro's brand of muckraking—it "washes away lines and shadows. There is not much complexity in this Johnson," Steel determined, "no moments of self doubt or remorse, only scheming, lying, and a 'cynicism that had no discernible limits.'"
A comparison with other recent biographies, like Marshall Frady's extraordinary Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (1996), helps to illuminate Caro's shortcomings. The comparison between Jesse Jackson and Lyndon Johnson is not academic or gratuitous; people who knew both men, like the journalist Roger Wilkins, were struck by how similar they were, both in background and temperament. Frady spent years with Jackson, and he provides a dizzying, Faulknerian portrait of his subject—his fears, his cruelty, his self-doubt, his vanity, his courage.
Frady—who has worked at Newsweek and ABC News, and written biographies of George Wallace, Billy Graham, and, most recently, Martin Luther King Jr.—insisted that there is something unknowable about Jackson's inner core. "One is presented," Frady wrote, "with a personality of such deeply contrary properties that he might almost best be described in terms of quantum physics." In the end, after observing Jackson tour a ramshackle housing project in Watts, where he received an ecstatic reception, Frady concluded that Jackson "operates in the interior regions of the heart." The biographer, too, must navigate those interior regions; but Caro prefers the archives. What's clear is that Frady's novelistic sense of character enables him to see more—and delve deeper—into his subject. Jesse Jackson comes alive in Frady's pages in a way that Lyndon Johnson does not in Caro's.
No one would doubt that Caro has written the biography of Robert Moses, but not everyone agrees that he is writing the definitive work on LBJ. Some reviewers have expressed a preference for Robert Dallek's two-volume history, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant. "Caro seeks understanding through simplification," the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy wrote in The Atlantic in 1991, "with the result that his account, especially in Means of Ascent is in the end as one-dimensional as the lone and level Texas llano. Dallek renders his subject with much more chiaroscuro." Caro met Dallek once, at the Johnson Library in Austin, where, according to The New York Times, Caro remarked to him: "Who are you?" ("He knew exactly who I was," Dallek told the Times.) In any case, Caro has contempt for Dallek. A few weeks ago, over lunch at the Café des Artistes, Caro remarked, with steel in his voice: "Look at how many interviews Dallek did. In fact, I'd like to ask you to do that." (Dallek, a Boston University historian, relied mostly on oral histories instead of personal interviews. "I'm not a journalist," he explained recently.)
For the next and final volume, Caro and his wife plan to move to Vietnam; he wants to know precisely what it felt like, in the 1960s, for a Vietnamese peasant to be bombed by an American B-52. Ina Caro, for her part, is rather ambivalent about going to Vietnam, but she says she will use the time to write a travel book about that country. Yet The Years of Lyndon Johnson is not the only project Caro is working on. For thirty years he's been writing a novel, tentatively titled "Powers of the Press"; Knopf purchased the book in the 1970s, but it remains on Caro's desk. All he will say is that it's "basically about a young reporter."
It's unlikely that Caro will finish his novel in the near future. His commitment to LBJ towers over everything else. Still, when asked why he chose Johnson in the first place—as opposed to Eisenhower or Kennedy or Nixon—Caro is surprisingly vague, and one can't escape the sense, in pondering his energetic pursuit of four-foot passageways, that his interest in the minutiae of LBJ's career has led him astray. In any case, Caro's challenge for the next volume is clear: to refocus his energy, and produce a book that, in recreating LBJ's most crucial years—the years of civil rights and the Vietnam war—has the drama and panache of The Power Broker and Means of Ascent, and a portrait of Johnson in his full complexity, lines and shadows intact. It's a challenge, one suspects, that this industrious and immensely gifted writer will relish. In his heart of hearts, Caro knows that in the end, the expeditions to France don't matter; the meals at Café des Artistes don't matter; the prizes don't matter. The only thing that matters, for him, is what is on the page.


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Practising regular yoga during pregnancy helps you to prepare for normal delivery by strengthening pelvic and abdominal muscles, improving blood circulation, reducing associated discomforts and providing flexibility to your changing body.
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From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
Angelion (formerly known as Anth Ronso or Anthronso; born August 6, 1984) is a furry artist who lives in South Africa. His fursona is an Angelic Lion.[1] He runs the RONSO International fansite consisting mostly of Kimahri Ronso fan work as well as other Final Fantasy related creatures.
- ↑ Angelion's Artist Information on Fur Affinity. Retrieved November 11, 2008
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So, I decided to leave the wacky world of underwiring for now (no doubt I will return there later) and concentrate on making something (relatively) quick and wearable. I had some nice quality black lycra in my stash (bought for my retro swim suit but there was plenty left) and bought more new elastic. The lycra actually matched my old H&M hipster bikini bottom, so if all else failed, I'd be fine if I just made one OK top.
I planned on making a very simple longline bandeau top (a.k.a. a boob tube) to match the old hipster, and a high-waisted bikini bottom with a gathered bandeau top. The longer top and the bottom were drafted based on my lingerie slopers and for the last piece, I used this tutorial from pattern school. I really recommend that site: lots and lots of information about 'close-fit stretch-wear patterns' i.e. swim, dance and exercise wear. Just no real sewing instructions, so only easy to use if you sort of know what you're doing. My bikini top was drafted completely according to the instructions for the gathered bandeau, just with a smaller hole at center front and with the strap knotted at the top of the bandeau.
I'm very happy to report that this time, it all worked out.
I even had the audacity to try that blind finish again on the high waisted briefs and the gathered top. This time, I found a better lining, calculated the turn of the cloth better and it worked like a charm.
Here you can see the top edges of the longline bandeau, with a conventional finish.
And here are the top edges of the gathered bandeau, smooth on the outside and with the seam and a zigzag on the inside.
You may notice some waving in the elastic (especially in the top picture). Although with the tops flat on the table, this may look like a problem, it is a solution. This stuff, Gold-Zack 1 cm wide transparant elastic, was the only thing remotely like swimwear elastic I could find. It looks the part but I found out in my attempts with the grey bikini just how sturdy this stuff is... So I decided to stretch it slightly less than the lycra to prevent uncomfortable and unsightly cutting.
By now, you may wonder what these bikini's actually look like... Well, here we go:
RTW bottoms, longer top.
High waisted bottoms, gathered top (by the way, this thing is surprisingly supportive)


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Casino Revenue Drops Slightly
BERLIN — It was good news, bad news this week when the February revenue figures were released for the Casino at Ocean Downs.
The Casino at Ocean Downs grossed just over $3.4 million in February, up from the $2.9 million recorded in January, which was the lowest one-month total in the history of the facility on Route 589 just south of Ocean Pines. The Casino at Ocean Downs' February 2013 total came in at around $59,000 lower than the same month last year, continuing a trend of decline over 2012.
A look at the per-machine, per-day totals for the Casino at Ocean Downs in February tell a similar story. The casino's 800 video lottery terminals generated an average of $154.82 per day in February, which came in considerably higher than the $118.10 recorded in January.
Overall, the state's three operating casinos grossed around $47 million in February with the Maryland Live facility in Anne Arundel County continuing to be the driving force. Maryland Live generated over $38 million in February and its 3,991 video lottery terminals generated an average of $302.28 per machine, per day.
Maryland Live's success continues to take its toll on the state's first casino to open, the Hollywood Casino in Cecil County, which saw its downward spiral continue in February. The Perryville casino grossed $5.9 million in February, which represents a decline of around $5.5 million over February 2012, or a total of over 48 percent. Perryville's 1,148 machines took in an average of $185,59 per machine, per day in February.
Help might be on the way, however, for the Hollywood Casino, which this week became the first casino in the state to offer real table games with live dealers. Hollywood Casino debuted its 20 table games, such as craps, blackjack, roulette and various forms of poker, on Tuesday for Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission officials and the media and was expected to open the table games for the public on Thursday. Maryland Live is expected to debut its 122 table games as soon as April 11 and will remove 400 slot machines to accommodate them.
Meanwhile, Ocean Downs is eligible to add table games at any time, but appears to be in no rush to implement a program, which would likely require an expansion or reconfiguration of the space. Casino at Ocean Downs spokesman Doug Eppler of Tipton Communications said this week the casino is not yet prepared to make any statements about those plans.


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RECORD: [Darwin, C. R.] 1847. [Review of] A natural history of the Mammalia. [vol. 1, Marsupialia] By G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., of the British Museum. Illustrated with engravings on wood and coloured plates. London, H. Baillière. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19 (January): 53-56.
REVISION HISTORY: Scanned, text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe 2002-8. textual corrections by Sue Asscher 12.2006. RN5
NOTE: See record in the Freeman Bibliographical Database, enter its Identifier here. The authorship of this unsigned review was attributed to Darwin in Life and letters vol. 3, p. 367. Darwin's copy of Waterhouse 1846-8 is in the Darwin Library in CUL, in the originally issued parts, the earliest numbers are dated 1845.
A Natural History of the Mammalia. By G. R. WATERHOUSE, Esq., of the British Museum.1 Illustrated with engravings on wood and coloured plates. London, H. Baillière.
THE first volume of this excellent work, in which every species in the class Mammalia will be described in detail, is now completed. The author is already favourably known to the public by various monographs, and by papers in this Journal, on the Rodentia, Marsupiata and other animals. His former connexion with the Zoological Society and his present position in the British Museum (where he is
1 Waterhouse 1846. The second volume (on Rodentia, or gnawing animals) appeared in 1848. George Robert Waterhouse (1810-1888), mammalogist and entomologist. Keeper of Mineralogy and Geology at the British Museum (Natural History). A friend of Darwin's and often at Down House. Waterhouse wrote Mammalia 1838-1839. See Darwin to Annals and Magazine of Natural History [December 1846] Correspondence vol. 3, p. 374.
at present chiefly employed on fossil Mammalia),—his extensive acquaintance with the works of foreign naturalists, as shown by the numerous references in this publication,—together with several visits undertaken solely from his love of science to the museums on the continent, eminently fit him for the great work here commenced. We use this expression advisedly, for it must not be supposed that we have here merely a compilation; original descriptions, and measurements generally taken from more than one specimen, are in the majority of cases given. The dental and osteological details are described with particular care, and are illustrated by distinct and careful plates: in the precision of these details, we imagine we see the effects of Mr. Waterhouse's long and ardent attachment to entomology. Although the work is not a compilation, the author has not neglected any source of information; and in this first volume, which is confined to the Marsupiata, he is much indebted to Mr. Gould's admirable labours in Australia. Mr. Waterhouse however often differs from Mr. Gould with respect to specific characters, and we rejoice to see no signs of that rage to create new species, so prevalent amongst zoologists.
A distinguishing feature in this work is the notice of all fossil species, interpolated in their proper places; hence, when the whole is completed, we shall have a comprehensive view of the entire class of Mammalia, as far as known; and the accident of extinction will not remove from the series, as is too often the case in systematic works, allied or intermediate forms. Many curious and original remarks are interspersed on the affinities of the various genera and families; but we find no trace of those fanciful speculations on analogies—such as between a mouse's nose and a snipe's beak, or between oxen and poultry—which we fear must have lowered us in the estimation of continental naturalists. In reference to affinities, we must express our regret that the Marsupiata were not ranked, in conformity with Prof. Owen's1 views, as a sub-class distinct from the placental mammifers. Whether we view classification as a mere contrivance to convey much information by a single word, or as something more than a memoria technica, and as connected with the laws of creation, we cannot doubt that where such important differences in the generative and cerebral systems, as distinguish the Marsupiata from the Placentata, run through two series of animals, they ought to be arranged under heads of equal value. We are not convinced by the ingenious remarks on this subject given at p. 17; we cannot admit that numerical differences in the number of the species in two groups, or their geographical distribution, or a somewhat hypothetical statement that the amount of difference is greatest amongst the lower forms in each class, ought to be taken into account in a system of classification; we believe that our best botanists, who may well serve as guides on this subject, eschew such considerations, and confine themselves to the strict rule of difference in structure. Should this rule be disregarded, some naturalists would admit habits (useful as they undoubtedly are)—some would admit analogies, or, as well expressed by Lamarck,2 adaptations in widely different
1 Richard Owen (1804-1892), zoologist, Conservator and Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1836-1856.
2 Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), French naturalist and transmutationist.
beings to similar external conditions,—some would admit the supposed order of the appearance of organic beings (as has been suggested) on the surface of the earth, as aids or bases of classification;—the result would be, that no two naturalists would agree in the same conclusion, and our system, instead of becoming a solid and simple edifice, would be a labyrinth of blind passages.
An admirable feature in Mr. Waterhouse's work is the great attention paid to Geographical distribution, that noble subject of which we as yet but dimly see the full bearing. The following remarks (p. 537) give us an excellent summary on the distribution of the Mammalia on the Australian continent:—
"Australia may be conveniently divided into five principal divisions or districts, of which the east, west, north and south portions of the main land will each form one province, and Van Diemen's Land1 the fifth. Of these provinces, the northern one has the greatest number of species peculiar to it, since out of ten species discovered in that part of Australia, eight are not found elsewhere. The Marsupiata of the eastern district are for the most part distinct from those of the opposite side of the continent, there being but eight species, out of upwards of sixty inhabiting the two provinces, which are found in both. But if the three districts mentioned are characterized by the few species which they have in common, South Australia must be characterized by an opposite quality, that of having a comparatively large proportion of species identical with those of other districts; indeed I know of but four species which are peculiar to this district: it possesses sixteen species in common with Western Australia, and fifteen in common with Eastern Australia. Western Australia possesses one genus (Tarsipes)2 which is peculiar to it, and one sub-genus (Macrotis);3 none of the other districts of continental Australia possess any genera which are not found elsewhere. About half of the species found in Van Diemen's Land are peculiar to that island—in fact, nine out of twenty: of the remainder, the greater portion are found on the eastern part of the main land. This island, moreover, possesses one genus (Thylacinus)4 and one sub-genus (Sarcophilus)5 which are now peculiar to it. Examples of both these sections have, however, been found in a fossil state on the main land."
Speaking strictly we have here four divisions, for South Australia does not appear from these remarks, zoologically considered, to deserve to be ranked as a subdivision. New Guinea, however, and the adjacent islands form a well-marked fifth subdivision, and an interesting table is given (at p. 3) of the ranges of the quadrupeds inhabiting them. The fact of South Australia possessing only few peculiar species, it having apparently been colonized from the eastern and western coasts, is very interesting; for we believe that Mr. Robert Brown6 has shown that nearly the same remark is applicable to the plants; and Mr. Gould finds that most of the birds from these opposite shores, though closely allied, are distinct. Considering these facts, together with the presence in South Australia of upraised modern tertiary deposits and of extinct volcanos, it seems
1 Tasmania.
2 Mouselike Australian marsupial, the honey possum.
3 A marsupial genus of rabbit-eared bandicoots or bilbies.
4 Tasmanian wolf.
5 Tasmanian devil.
6 Robert Brown (1773-1858), botanist. First Keeper of Botany at British Museum.
probable that the eastern and western shores once formed two islands, separated from each other by a shallow sea, with their inhabitants generically though not specifically related, exactly as are those of New Guinea and Northern Australia, and that within a geologically recent period a series of upheavals converted the intermediate sea into those desert plains which are now known to stretch from the southern coast far northward, and which then became colonized from the regions to the east and west. We will only further point out an interesting table (p. 536) showing that in South America, Brazil is the metropolis of the Didelphidæ,1 a family which, as Mr. Waterhouse remarks, curiously replaces in that continent the Insectivora2 of the Old World.
Most of the genera are illustrated by elegant and spirited copperplates; there are also many woodcuts; some few however of these latter are rather unfortunate works of art. The plates are printed on excellent paper, and the whole work is got up in a style creditable to the publisher. The Marsupiata, though highly interesting in their structure and affinities, yet are less so in their habits than the higher mammalia; but from some scattered notices we clearly see that this amusing part of the subject will not be neglected. To the professed naturalist we believe that this work will be almost indispensable; but we also strongly recommend it to those who do not come under this class, but yet are interested in the wide field of nature. We do not doubt that Mr. Waterhouse is conferring by this publication a real service on natural science; we therefore trust to his continued perseverance, and we heartily wish him all success.
1 American opossums.
2 Hedgehogs, shrews, moles and so forth.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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Journey to the center of the Earth, moon or on a martian expedition with the Clockwork Digger. This four man craft sports tank like treads on its surfaces, with a mighty and powerful digging/drilling engine. Inside, find a fuel storage room, then into the main passenger bay with steampunk readouts, access to the clockwork engine, and four seats.
Includes: Digger, complete cabin
Clockwork Volume 1 is a series based on a steampunk version of history - an 1888 where Queen Victoria's Empire stretches secretly to the moon, and her scientists plumb the depths of the earth, the heavens and beyond, all using steam power and mysterious radiations and formulas.
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North Carolina Genealogy
This guide contains a sample of The Newberry's resources on this topic. To locate additional resources, please check our catalog or consult a reference librarian.
Guide to research materials in the North Carolina State Archives. Section B: county records. 9th revised edition. Raleigh, N.C.: N.C. Division of Archives and History, c1979. Call No. CD3424.N67 (2nd floor open shelf).
Leary, Helen F.M. North Carolina research: genealogy and local history. 2nd ed. Raleigh, N.C.: N.C. Genealogical Society, 1996. Call No. F253.N67 (2nd floor open shelf).
Source Materials and Local Histories
An Index to marriage bonds filed in North Carolina State Archives. Call No. Microfiche 296. Covers years 1741-1868.
Mitchell, Thornton W. North Carolina wills: a testator index, 1665-1900. Corrected and revised edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. Call No. Local History Ref F253.M575 (2nd floor open shelf). In most cases one can proceed from a citation in this work to a request for photocopies of the original records in the North Carolina State Archives. In many instances, the Newberry will hold published abstracts for such records as well.
Roster of soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution. Durham, N.C.: N.C. Daughters of the American Revolution, 1932. Call No. Local History Ref E263.N8D17 (2nd floor open shelf).
Muster rolls of the soldiers of the War of 1812 detached from the militia of North Carolina. Originally published 1851. (Reprint) Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976. Call No. Local History Ref E359.5.N7N7 (2nd floor open shelf).
Clark, Walter, editor. Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-'65. (Reprint) Wendell, N.C.: Broadfoot, 1982. Call No. E573.4.C59 1982. No rosters. Regimental histories and officers only.
Manarin, Louis H. and Jordan, Weymouth T. (Jr.). North Carolina troops 1861-1865: a roster. Raleigh, N.C.: Dept. of Archives and History, 1966-. Call No. Local History Ref E573.3.M3 (2nd floor open shelf). Multi-volume series. Indexing in each volume.
Microfilm census holdings complete 1790-1850 and for 1870. 1860 slave schedules complete, though holdings for general population schedules are minimal. Printed indexes for 1790-1850 and 1870. CD-ROM index for 1860. No holdings past 1870.
North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal. 1975 (Vol.1) to date. Call No. Local History Ref F251.N67 (2nd floor open shelf).
Special Topic: Quaker Research
Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker genealogy. Ann Arbor, 1936. Call No. Local History Ref E184.F89E5 (2nd floor open shelf). Volume 1 contains record abstracts for 24 N.C. monthly meetings.
Special Topic: African American Research
Reaves. Bill. North Carolina Freedman's Savings & Trust Company records. Raleigh: North Carolina Genealogical Society, 1992. Call No. Local History Ref F253.N64 (2nd floor open shelf). Transcriptions of signature registers for New Bern, Raleigh, Wilmington.
White, Barnetta McGhee. Somebody knows my name: Marriages of freed people in North Carolina. Athens, Ga.: Iberian, 1995. Call No. E185.96 .W53.


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For Immediate Release
January 5, 2010
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the selection of Megan Oakleaf, assistant professor in the iSchool at Syracuse University, as lead researcher for its value of academic libraries project. A recognized expert in outcomes-based assessment and decision making, Oakleaf will develop and deliver a comprehensive review of the quantitative and qualitative literature, methodologies and best practices currently in place for demonstrating the value of academic libraries.
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The current economic climate and the increased emphasis on assessment and outcomes have compelled academic departments' higher education administrators to make tough decisions regarding the funding of programs and units at their institutions. The primary objective of the comprehensive review is to provide academic librarians with a clearer understanding of what research about the performance of academic libraries already exists, where gaps in this research occur, and to identify the most promising best practices and measures correlated to performance. Additionally, this review will provide ACRL members with tools and strategies to demonstrate the value of academic libraries to their institutional leadership.
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I've read about the trout pond once located on the old Schmitz estate (formally named Sans Souci), but have never been able to pinpoint exactly where it sat. A cool sketch of San Souci's grounds as depicted by the great niece of the West Seattle pioneers Emma and Ferdinand shows a number of landmarks but no specific mention of the "trout pond"
Note a "small pond" drawn in on the right. The trout pond?
It was time to leash up the dog and sniff this thing out. The Blue Spruce tree was the first landmark we found…
Love the early century concrete work!
Then it was off to find where the waterfall was located. Figured that the trout pond could be somewhere down slope from it.
Appears to be original stone-work for the water feature.
My guess is that the well stocked pond was located further down the hill near Beach Drive itself. The Parks Department just cleared out some diseased trees and brush (in effort to help the recent restoration project ) and may have uncovered the location.
On a hot August day, you can almost smell the fish!
There's even a concrete pad that once was a site for a bench of some sorts.
The bench site looks somewhat new but the Schmitz estate didn't come down 'til the late 60's.
This aerial photo from 1968 clearly shows where the 1907 circa 17 room mansion was excavated as well as the extensive gardens. But no sign of the famous trout pond.
All the gardens were said to be watered naturally from "Spring Hill"
Here's an archived pic named Sans Souci that shows standing water near whats looks to be the shoreline. Is it the pond?
Alan Schmitz, grandson of Emma and Ferdinand, holding a photo of the historic mansion that once occupied the hillside of what is now Mee-Kwa-Mooks park.
Again, no clue as to the whereabouts of the trout pond.
So that's the end of my quest to find the ghost fishing hole of Mee-Kwa-Mooks. If anyone out there actually knows where it existed, please share!
Scupper Sr. for Beach Drive Blog


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The Church is at a breaking point over the child sex abuse scandals says Dublin's outspoken Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on Sunday's "60 Minutes", the most popular news show on television.
Martin tells CBS reporter Bob Simon that it is entirely due to the child sex abuse scandal. "Now is not the time to forget," he says.
"There's a real danger today of people saying, 'The child abuse scandal is over. Let's bury it. Let's move on,'" he tells Simon.
"It isn't over. Child protection and the protection of children is something that will go on…for the rest of our lives and into the future. Because the problems are there," says the archbishop.
Bob Simon's report looks at how the sexual abuse scandal in Ireland has transformed the way of life.
He shows how the child sex abuse crisis and cover-up in the Catholic Church in Ireland has taken a devastating toll on one of the most Catholic countries in the world. Some parishes that once saw 90 percent Sunday Mass attendance are down to two percent.
A country that once produced so many priests that they were considered an important export now doesn't have enough for its own churches the report finds.
Despite the publication of the Murphy Commission's report, a scathing analysis of the abuse and cover-up, the scandal is not over, says Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, one of the highest ranking church officials to openly criticize the Catholic Church.
Read more:
What Ireland can teach the U.S. about trying to separate church and state
What's going on in Ireland in March - St Patrick's Day events, music, festivals, and more
When Martin became archbishop, he provided the Murphy Commission investigating child abuse with 65,000 files his predecessor had refused to turn over. In his sermons, he confronted the Church head-on for the behavior that caused the scandal.
Martin takes Simon on a tour of his old seminary in Dublin. "When I entered this building…there were 120 of us, and they were building a new extension. At the moment, I have 10 seminarians."
In the Southwest of Ireland, Simon talks to the people of Allihies, Cork, who remember when the parish priest had more power than the mayor or the police chief. It was a special status that set the stage for the abuse and the cover-up.
Says Monica Polly, a parish council member in the town, "They cover it up because the priests were supposed to be perfect. They had an image of what they should be and they kept to that image rather than the reality." She has grown pessimistic. "To be honest, I don't think we've seen it all yet."
Simon also talks to a priest, the Rev. Shane Crombie, who is optimistic about the future of the Church. Crombie uses the analogy of fire to describe the Church's troubles. He keeps a charred cross on the altar of his church, a remnant of the original building rebuilt after burning down 25 years ago. It's a reminder that the Catholic Church, too, can emerge from the flames that have engulfed it.
"I think the fire that's burning in the church at the moment is…the fire of disappointment, the fire of absolute rejection…of cover-up," he tells Simon. "It is the people, it was the people that rallied together to rebuild this church. It will be the people who will rebuild the church that is on fire," says Crombie.
The archbishop speaks to Bob Simon for a 60 MINUTES report about the effects of the scandal on Ireland to be broadcast Sunday, March 4 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
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Parker scores 24, Spurs beat slumping Lakers
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Not even a hard-fought loss against a longtime rival did little to brighten the mood of one of the more tumultuous seasons in the storied history of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Tony Parker scored 24 points and the San Antonio Spurs handed the slumping Lakers their fifth straight loss with a 108-105 victory Wednesday night.
Manu Ginobili added 19 points and Tiago Splitter and Stephen Jackson had 14 each for San Antonio (28-10), which has won 11 straight at home. Splitter also had a career-high 14 rebounds.
Kobe Bryant had 27 points, Metta World Peace added 23 and Earl Clark 22 for Los Angeles (15-20). Bryant was 10 for 24 from the field, missing a 3-pointer on his final attempt that would have tied the game. Clark missed a follow-up 3 off a long rebound.
What can the Lakers take from such a battle?
"We lost five in a row," Bryant said. "It's pretty self-explanatory."
Coming off a 125-112 loss at Houston on Tuesday, the Lakers fought until the final buzzer.
Bryant's 3-pointer pulled Los Angeles to 105-99 with 3:32 remaining. The 3 led to dueling cries of support between a large contingent of Lakers fans seated near the Los Angeles bench and Spurs fans.
Did the effort give Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni reason to smile?
"No, not really," he said. "I'm proud of their effort. They fought. They fought last night against Houston. You can see the team getting some traction, but we're a long ways away from a smile."
Antawn Jamison's layup pulled the Lakers to 105-102 following a timeout, but Artest missed a layup and 3-pointer on consecutive possessions.
Ginobili hit a 3-pointer that gave the Spurs a six-point lead, but Clark responded with his own 3 to close to 108-105, setting up Bryant's final attempt.
The Spurs missed five shots and had four turnovers in the final 5 minutes, turning a 10-point lead into a nail-biting finish for the sell-out crowd.
"We kind of stopped," Ginobili said. "We need rhythm this year. We are getting used to playing faster and we just didn't do it. We were playing one-on-one instead of doing what we do best and that's to penetrate, kick and pass the ball."
Even with Lakers big men Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and Jordan Hill out with injuries, the Spurs managed only a 48-40 rebounding advantage. Los Angeles forced 19 turnovers to keep the game close throughout.
Parker's 17-foot jumper gave the Spurs their largest lead at 83-66, but the Lakers quickly pared the 17-point deficit. Artest hit a 3, Bryant made a pair of jumpers and Clark had a 21-foot jumper to pull the Lakers to 83-75 with 49.3 seconds left in the third.
"The closer it gets, the easier it is to focus and be ready," Ginobili said. "Of course, you worry because we were up by 16 and we just messed up the whole game. Like I said before, it was disappointing to see the team play like that, but at least we got the win."
Bryant had a sluggish start offensively and the Lakers fell behind 54-45 at the half.
His first basket came with less than a minute remaining in the first quarter and he closed the half 2 for 6 from the field. Bryant credited his poor shooting to Spurs second-year player Kawhi Leonard.
"It was Kawhi's defense," Bryant said. "He did a good job."
Leonard finished with 11 points, three rebounds, two assists, two steals and one blocked shot in 33 minutes while primarily guarding Bryant and World Peace.
"Kawhi Leonard was the start of the show as far as I'm concerned," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "He had a great night and is getting better and better defensively and starting to find his way offensively. I thought that was great."
NOTES: Lakers G Steve Blake (abdominal surgery) missed his 28th game of the season. Howard (shoulder), Gasol (concussion) and Hill (hip) also sat out the game. The Spurs had every player on their current roster active. ... The Lakers haven't lost five in a row since April 3-10, 2011. ... The Lakers are 1-12 when trailing after the first quarter this season. ... The Spurs evened their overall record against the Lakers at 74-all. San Antonio has a 46-29 advantage at home. ... Bryant holds the Spurs opponent record for most field goal attempts -- 41 on Feb. 14, 2004.


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'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Season 1 DVD and Blu-ray Hitting Shelves on September 9
It might get kind of lonely for 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier,' as his DVD and Blu-ray sits on store shelves on September 9, so Marvel will also be releasing 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' season 1 on DVD and Blu-ray the very same day -- this way you can take home all kinds of Marvel universe awesomeness at the same time, and get ready for one epic binge-watching marathon.
Marvel has revealed that they'll be releasing 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' season 1 on DVD and Blu-ray on September 9, featuring all 22 episodes of the first thrilling season of the new ABC series, and granting viewers exclusive "Level 7 Access" to classified bonus feature materials. We bet the interactive menus on this thing are going to be pretty sleek.
You can relive (or experience for the first time!) the first season of the series with Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson, Chloe Bennett's Skye, Ming-Na Wen's Melinda May and all the rest with the boxed set and bonus features that include:
Journey Into S.D.C.C. – Hop on the bus and share the thrill of a lifetime as the series makes its first ever appearance at San Diego Comic-Con, where the cast is welcomed with open arms by a sea of enthusiastic fans
Marvel Studios: Assembling A Universe TV Special
5 Behind-The-Scenes Field Reports – Get exclusive access to the show's classified sets for the making of some of your favorite episodes
• "The Malibu Jump"
• "The Bridge"
• "Asgardian Bar Fight"
• "Classified"
• "Cello Duet"
VFX Breakdowns – Explore the layers of effects in sequences with split-frame comparisons to the final version
Audio Commentaries with Filmmakers & Cast
Gag Reel
Deleted Scenes
And, of course, there's the 22 episodes of the hit new series to devour before season 2 premieres this fall.


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My June 16th class sold out. I'd like to thank all my students-see you soon in Salò.
If you missed the chance to book for the Sunday Class, I'll be teaching another class on June 15th: Hong Kong Orchid (demoed at the Cake Design Italian Festival) and Frangipani (seen on "Le Torte di Toni – Masterclass").


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Michelle Turner Roberts
… is a member of the export controls and sanctions practice at Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe. She counsels clients on economic sanctions, export controls, and related regulatory matters before the Departments of Treasury, Commerce, and State. She has experience assisting with licensing issues, voluntary self-disclosures, development of compliance procedures and internal controls, and has helped clients obtain favorable determinations on commodity jurisdiction and classification requests. Ms. Roberts also has extensive experience in conducting internal investigations and compliance audits, including serving as part of a team of auditors for an external monitorship required under a Commerce Department settlement agreement.
Ms. Roberts has worked with clients in a range of industries, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, telecommunications, defense, actuation and instrumentation, as well as for small startups and individuals.
Ms. Roberts received her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School in 2003, where she was a Managing Editor of the George Washington International Law Review. She received her B.A. from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1999. She is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland (inactive) bars.
Michelle Turner-Roberts PDF Biography


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