January 2012—
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Reviewed by Janet Mills for January 2012 1. Hemingway’s Boat—Everything He
Loved in Life, and Lost. 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson. After eight months abroad traveling in Africa and Europe, Ernest Hemingway and his second wife arrived in New York and took the train to Key West and home. He probably had brochures in his luggage from different boat builders. Among the brochures was one from the Wheeler firm located at the foot of Cropsey Avenue in New York City. Wheeler did custom work, and at 46 feet was considered a yacht but technically speaking Ernest never owned a yacht. The brochure a Wheeler “38”feet with a wide beam, a vee bottom form and wide flaring bow it provided more comfort, more room and better sea-going qualities and would run steadier and smoother than any other boat on the market. Hemingway named her Pilar. The story tells of the many friends that joined him in deep sea fishing in the Gulf Stream and the enormous fish that were caught, one a 420 blue marlin. One of his best friends was Warren Houk who married Hemingway’s secretary, Nita. Hemingway had three sons and there is quite a bit about Gigi, the youngest. Paul Hendrickson has written one of the beat biographies I have ever read. 2. Columbus—The Four Voyages by
Laurence Bergeen. Everyone knows that “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492” but not many know that he had three more voyages across the Atlantic within a decade. He was a masterful seaman and a brilliant captain. His first trip took five weeks, and he sailed into the Bahamas visiting many of the islands. He thought he had reached islands off the coast of India. He returned to Spain in a little over seven months. Ferdinand and Isabella appointed Columbus viceroy without realizing that they were creating a monarch potentially more powerful than any in Europe. On his second voyage he had vast resources and royal prestige at his disposal beginning with 17 ships at his command in 1493 he traveled to Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Cuba. The third voyage took him to Trinidad, and he did hit the coast of South America on the edge of Venezuela. He discovered pearl fishers
and pearls. On his fourth voyage he sailed to Hispaniola and Cuba, then sailed south to Honduras, touching the coast of South America and following the coast all the way to the Isthmus of Panama. Columbus fretted and hallucinated about his shattered career in 1504 as some of the crew planned a mutiny. At the end of the story is a listing of diseases, animals, and plants that came from the old world to new world and from the new world to the old world. 3. Scorpions For Breakfast—My
Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos To Secure America’s Border by Jan Brewer, Governor of Arizona.
If you read the
local newspaper you will find that a good portion of this book you already know. Brewer’s decision to fight for what she thought was right for our state was the death of Bob Krentz who was killed on his own property when he drove to help an illegal alien. She decided that she could not sit by while Arizona citizens were terrorized,
robbed and murdered.
The Federal Government was supposed to protect the border but did little or nothing. This was the beginning of HB 1070 that has caused such an uproar. 4. Back To Work—Why We Need
Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton. Clinton explains how we got into the current economic crisis and offers specific recommendations on how we can get people back to work, increase bank lending and corporate investment, double our exports, restore our manufacturing base, and create new business. Clinton also stresses that we need a strong private sector and a smart government working together to restore prosperity and progress, demonstrating that whenever we’ve given in to the temptation to blame government for all our problems, we’ve lost our ability to produce sustained economic growth and shared prosperity. It may be good politics but bad policies, with not enough good jobs, growing income equality and poverty, and a decline in our competitive position in the real world. There are even several other countries with an even higher debt load than ours, but the troubling thing is not what they say about where we are but what they reveal about where we are going.
Paul Frederic Kacer
Each year binds me more tightly in a garment stitched from years before And I am launched upon a wave that sings as it unravels along the shore With this elixir inside me I now enjoy the happiness each day holds Until at last I become as smoke a retiring guest slipping unnoticed out the door
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