Helpful votes received on reviews:
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Location: United States of America
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BA: Gettysburg Collge 1983 MSW: Catholic University 1987 PhD: Georgetown University 1993 Professional social worker, but have also taught constitutional law, public policy, and a course on the Supreme Court on the college level. Winners of awards given by the National Society of Collegiate Journalists, Reserve Officers Association, Association of the US Army, US Army, Daughters of the American … Read moreBA: Gettysburg Collge 1983
MSW: Catholic University 1987
PhD: Georgetown University 1993
Professional social worker, but have also taught constitutional law, public policy, and a course on the Supreme Court on the college level.
Winners of awards given by the National Society of Collegiate Journalists, Reserve Officers Association, Association of the US Army, US Army, Daughters of the American Revolution.
Graduated valedictorian of my class at Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, VA 1979, one of the highest decorated cadets in the school's 100-year history.
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I read THE DAVINCI CODE before reading this; and while DAVINCI is a book I could not put down, this does not meet that same level of interest. The main flaw in ANGELS is that, while THE DAVINCI CODE seems wholly plausible and has all the appearance of being well-researched (Brown certainly knows his Opus Dei material), ANGELS can't even get the facts of how a papal conclave is run correct. Winston Churchill is said to be a devout Catholic (he was neither), and an easily researched Latin phrase is botched. All of this reduces the book's credibility. And it all could have been so easily avoided, if the author had done a little research, such as reading Peter Hebblethwaite or… Read more
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57 of 64 people found the following review helpful
I was a volunteer for the Missionaries of Charity at their "Gift of Peace" hospice in Washington, D.C. Christopher Hitchens's account of how places like this are run rings true with my own experience. For example, I was tending to an AIDS patient who had to go to the bathroom and I needed serious assistance. None was to be found because the sisters were at their prayers. It may strike some as strange that the nuns were attending to a god they cannot see while neglecting the poor man (who ended up leaving a quite visible souvenir of their neglect in his bed), but such are the lives of those who end up in such places. Hitchens does a great job of documenting in this thin book… Read more
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Having read Robert Dallek's two volume biography of LBJ, which, though comprehensive, pales in comparison with the stellar work in progress by Robert Caro, I approached this biography with enthusiasm, to be sure, but something less than highest expectations. I should not have worried. This is by far the best biogaphy of JFK that I have read; and I have read pretty much all of the ones worth reading (that leaves the Victor Laskys of the world out). Dallek is an academician by training: and his writing has sometimes suffered for this (this was my major problem with the LBJ volumes, which are otherwise excellent and which I highly recommend.) But he has captured, perfectly I think, the… Read more
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