You know how I'm reading this. Clinton has an ego and can't help but express it. Obama on the other hand well he may have more of a bruised ego than Clinton. If you follow the right wing, they may say the current President has an outsized ego of his own. IF they both have egos then it may explain the friction between the 42nd & 44th President.
BTW, yes Clinton had a better economy when he left office although I wouldn't necessarily attribute that to any act of "genious" on his part. Obama has health care reform which had eluded Clinton even if it isn't showing itself as a crowning achievement.
Come to think of it, how many people misses the time when Clinton was President? How many people will miss the time Obama was President? Time will only tell.
I only miss Clinton's presidency because I was still in high school when he was in office.
Isiah 1:17- Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow.
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Monday, June 23, 2014
Friday, August 15, 2008
I found an interesting book I found today at Border's
If you're looking for a Chicago themed book how about a book by a former Chicago Police officer, Jerry Ardolino. Entitled Extreme Cop: Chicago PD: The True Story of the Wildest, Most Violent Cop in the History of the Chicago Police it almost reads like it should be an action film. Well at least if you believe the introduction.
In fact I wouldn't be surprised if an action movie was in the works. Although in some respects it could be more realistic than anything Hollywood could devise. In any event I just read the intro to the book by the author I didn't buy it, but if I had to make a purchase for this book I would have. Perhaps you should as well.
Here's an official website.
In fact I wouldn't be surprised if an action movie was in the works. Although in some respects it could be more realistic than anything Hollywood could devise. In any event I just read the intro to the book by the author I didn't buy it, but if I had to make a purchase for this book I would have. Perhaps you should as well.
Here's an official website.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Remembering Negro League Baseball
InstaPundit links to another blog that writes about a book about the iconic and defunct baseball league.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
A new book I checked out of the library...
I was doing some research on the internet on Chicago neighborhoods at the Encyclopedia of Chicago, and I was reading an article on the far south side neighborhood of Calumet Heights. In this article they mentioned a book by a former resident Louis Rosen. The title is The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood.
This the story of racial change and turnover. How a community fell apart in the face of unfounded fears and how the community actually looks after the racial turnover. Racial turnover occured all over Chicago's south side.
This area is bounded from about the Chicago Skyway running diagonally on the east, to Stony Island on the west, and then the Illinois Central Railroad on the south. The racial transformation that began west of Stony Island started to seep east of Stony Island. East of Stony Island was the Jewish community which fell apart by 1970-71.
No doubt a white person who have though that blacks were poor, dirty, theives, violent, etc. would be surprised at how the old neighborhood looks if they visited today. Most of the blacks that moved into this neighborhood were middle class. The message could have been this didn't have to happen the Jews and the blacks could have been neighbors but it wasn't meant to be.
Of course this community wasn't entirely Jewish. There were whites of other ethnicities there too but this story revolves around the originally indigenous Jewish community and the migrating blacks who were moving in. These groups seem to have a similar history which hopefully could translate into friendship. They've both experienced horrible treatment of some kind, but that came for naught during a brief period in the 60s and early 70s.
This neighborhood east of Stony Island is still middle class today and mostly black. Also this area contains a neighborhood known as Pill Hill so named because that was where health care professionals had once lived. It is also home to Cook County Board President John Stroger. The people who left this place years ago would see that it hasn't changed much. Their synagogue and community center is now property of the Chicago Public Schools, but the houses are taken care of and the lawns are well groomed. The black residents have taken care of what the original inhabitants have left them.
I highly recommend this book. :)
This the story of racial change and turnover. How a community fell apart in the face of unfounded fears and how the community actually looks after the racial turnover. Racial turnover occured all over Chicago's south side.
This area is bounded from about the Chicago Skyway running diagonally on the east, to Stony Island on the west, and then the Illinois Central Railroad on the south. The racial transformation that began west of Stony Island started to seep east of Stony Island. East of Stony Island was the Jewish community which fell apart by 1970-71.
No doubt a white person who have though that blacks were poor, dirty, theives, violent, etc. would be surprised at how the old neighborhood looks if they visited today. Most of the blacks that moved into this neighborhood were middle class. The message could have been this didn't have to happen the Jews and the blacks could have been neighbors but it wasn't meant to be.
Of course this community wasn't entirely Jewish. There were whites of other ethnicities there too but this story revolves around the originally indigenous Jewish community and the migrating blacks who were moving in. These groups seem to have a similar history which hopefully could translate into friendship. They've both experienced horrible treatment of some kind, but that came for naught during a brief period in the 60s and early 70s.
This neighborhood east of Stony Island is still middle class today and mostly black. Also this area contains a neighborhood known as Pill Hill so named because that was where health care professionals had once lived. It is also home to Cook County Board President John Stroger. The people who left this place years ago would see that it hasn't changed much. Their synagogue and community center is now property of the Chicago Public Schools, but the houses are taken care of and the lawns are well groomed. The black residents have taken care of what the original inhabitants have left them.
I highly recommend this book. :)
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