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We Can All Do Better

2012réf. 70098New York NY: Vanguard Press 2012. First edition. First printing stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xiii 1 191 3 p. Notes. Suggested Reading. Index. Signed by author. Inscribed on t-p. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "William Warren "Bill" Bradley born July 28 1943 is an American Hall of Fame basketball player Rhodes scholar and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He was offered 75 college scholarships but declined them all to attend Princeton University. He earned a gold medal as a member of the 1964 Olympic basketball team and was the NCAA Player of the Year in 1965. He spent his entire ten-year professional basketball career playing for the Knicks winning two championship titles. Retiring in 1977 he ran for a seat in the United States Senate the following year from his adopted home state of New Jersey. He was re-elected in 1984 and 1990 left the Senate in 1997 and was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination. Bradley is the author of seven non-fiction books most recently We Can All Do Better and hosts a weekly radio show." Derived from a Kirkus review: The three-term Democratic senator shares his political perspective and concerns for the United States. Bradley is concerned about the contempt for Congress and the increasing tendency for the concept of public service to be replaced by a sense of entitlement and the perpetuation of elites. The author focuses on the economy discussing what has gone wrong and offering his own views on possible solutions-not only through investment in infrastructure but also through imaginative reforms of the tax code. He engages in a broad-ranging discussion of how recent transformations in domestic and foreign policy have begun to weaken the American way of life which has been based on upward mobility. Bradley is clear that government is not the problem and that there can be no prosperity without government. He affirms the bipartisan political tradition of promotion of the general welfare and highlights what he calls "horse-trading for a noble purpose." The author does not support the automatic recourse to military force to solve international problems and he believes the challenge from China will depend more on economic competition than military conflict. An important contribution to the national discussion. Vanguard Press hardcover

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Water Music: Making Music in the Spas of Europe and North America

réf. A9780195327342Hardback. New. Many of the most famous composers in classical music spent considerable periods in spa towns whether taking in the waters or searching for patrons among the rich and influential clientele who frequented these pioneer resorts or soaking up the relaxing and decadent ambience of these enchanted and magical places. At Baden bei Wein Mozart wrote his Ave Verum Corpus and Beethoven sketched out his Ninth Symphony. Johannes Brahms spent 17 summers in Baden-Baden where he stayed in his own specially-built composing cavern and consorted with Clara Schumann. Berlioz came to conduct in Baden-Baden for nine seasons writing his last major work Beatrice and Benedict for the town's casino manager. Chopin Liszt and Dvorak were each regular visitors to Carlsbad and Marienbad. And it was in Carlsbad that Beethoven met Goethe. Concerts recitals and resident orchestras have themselves played a major role in the therapeutic regimes and the social and cultural life of European and North American watering places since the late eighteenth century. To this day these spa towns continue to host major music festivals of the highest caliber drawing musicians and loyal audiences on both local and international levels. This book explores the music making that went on in the spas and watering places in Europe and the United States during their heyday between the early- eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. Music was a hugely important part of the experience of taking a spa cure. Bands played during the early morning and late afternoon while people took the waters and bathed. Spa orchestras and ensembles entertained those gathering socially or resting in assembly rooms pump rooms and in gardens and parks. In the evenings spa guests enjoyed concerts visits to the theatre balls dances and gambling sessions at the casino at all of which music played a major role. Expert author Ian Bradley draws on original archival material and the diaries and letters of composers. His book ranges chronologically and geographically beginning with Bath and Baden near Vienna which both flourished in the eighteenth century continuing through Baden-Baden the Bohemian spas and Bad Ischl in the nineteenth century and on to Buxton and Saratoga Springs which saw their glory days in the early twentieth century. A concluding chapter brings the subject up to date with a review of the musical activities taking place in spa towns today and of the music that accompanies treatments in modern spas now so ubiquitous and so important and growing a feature in the booming world of leisure tourism health and well-being. hardcover

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