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Oklahoma City's rich music history traces back to Deep Deuce, the heart of the African American community that became an important resource for national jazz and blues bands seeking talented musicians who were often classically trained. Two icons and many legends are among the famous sons and daughters who lived in this cultural Mecca. Oklahoma City's Music: Deep Deuce and Beyond details the birth and growth of music in Oklahoma City's African American community from the 1920s until the late 1990s. Musical influences of families and individuals, venues, dance, and fashion blend with new-era traditions such as parades, jam sessions, and street parties to create a culture that became well known. This book explores how the seeds of music so deeply planted in the early days continue to produce great musicians and how the influences of those icons will vibrate throughout future international generations. ... Read more

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Deep Deuce and Beyond
The old adage that great things come in small packages is certainly true with Anita Arnold's recent book, Oklahoma City Music, Deep Deuce and Beyond. It is with great pleasure that I write a review of this outstanding photo documentation of the music history of Deep Deuce Oklahoma by one of Oklahoma's Uncrowned Queens, Anita Golden Arnold.

My own interest in Oklahoma began two decades ago with the search of one of Oklahoma's earliest and most prominent African American families, the Dunjees, specifically concert pianist, educator, newspaper woman and community activist Drusilla Dunjee Houston.My interest in Drusilla grew to include her father, Rev. John William Dunjee and her brother Roscoe Dunjee, editor of the Black Dispatch.I was thrilled to see Anita Arnold include Roscoe Dunjee in this work and recognize him as the "voice of the Deep Deuce" and premier archivist of Deep Deuce musical history.

Before going further, I apologize for the length of this review in advance because I couldn't resist adding to Anita's recognition of Roscoe Dunjee by sharing some of Roscoe's earliest recollections of African American music and dance in the Deep Deuce.In a review of his writings, Roscoe recounted music and dance life in 1890s Oklahoma shortly after his family arrived.In describing "early day society" Roscoe cited the Valentino Club as a place of black music where bands practiced on Seventh Street.

He described early dancers like "Frank Rogan, who was the most famous cake walker of the period.The cake walk was a sort of prancing movement executed in fox trot time."Roscoe wrote that "when young folk wanted just a small affair, they called on Frank Fields, a fiddler, and W.T. Tucker a banjo artist, who was also the Undertaker.For big occasions, young folks sent for the Dunjee Orchestra.There was Fiddler Dunjee and Preacher Dunjee." Preacher Dunjee was John William Dunjee, Roscoe's father.

In a few words but many photographs, Arnold tells the story of the music history of Oklahoma's Deep Deuce.Arnold paints a brilliant description of persons such as "Preacher Smith, who had perfect pitch and could only play in one key; of a life carried on despite bitter segregation and denial of fundamental rights of Black people." The photographs in this book are most revealing and I was moved seeing photos of personages I had interviewed for my own work including Freddie Williams one of many "who danced the planks off the floor at Slaughter's Hall, "and Leona Mitchell, Metropolitan Opera Star and Uncrowned Queen.

The book is a researcher's heaven because it provides a number of avenues for research in the Deep Deuce tradition because the subject matter begs for further exploration by Masters and Doctoral students. Such areas include the history of newspaper men who told the stories of the Deep Deuce musical giants;musical families including the Dunjees;exciting "nick names" like Little Dog, Monk, Spooks, 5X5, and tracing Deep Deuce musicians in magazine history. And with the great Charlie Christian, researchers should be attracted by Christian's popularization of the Gibson ES-250, 250, L7 guitars and defining the electric guitar."

Arnold's depth and breadth of understanding of the music subject matter and its cultural roots in Oklahoma City is truly refreshing whether talking about "blues shouting," jump blues, popular music, gospel, swing, jazz, blues, Be Bop or single string solos.As well, the historical photographic tour of the musical "hotspots" of the Deep Deuce has to bring back memories to those who both witnessed and participated in this musical tradition.

Arnold's easy style of presentation and easy transition from one musical period to the other buttressed by face-to-face interview, primary source data, original photos, research of numerous historical data bases and plumbing the records of community historians,reflects a complete love of the Deep Deuce, its history and culture and contributes enormously to the value to this important work.

Unlike "Doughbelly" waiting for the Deep Deuce to rise again, readers can be assured that the rich legacy of the Deep Deuce has risen and continues to rise thanks to Arnold's love, passion, and fortitude to produce this legacy of music of all of Oklahoma's Deep Deuce musicians, especially the incomparable Charlie Christian. I feel privileged to have the opportunity to review this wonderful work.Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Dr. P.H., Ph.D., co-editor, Go, Tell Michelle, African American Women Write to the New First Lady; co-editor, Uncrowned Queens: African American Women in Oklahoma 1907-2007 and Editor, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empires, Vol. II, Origin of Civilization from the Cushites by Drusilla Dunjee Houston.Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire: Origin of the Civilization from the Cushites (Uncrowned Queens Institute)Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady (Excelsior Editions)Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the First Lady (Excelsior Editions)


Uncrowned Queens, Volume 4: African American Women Community Builders of Oklahoma (Uncrowned Queens Institute)

Mostly of interest to Oklahoma City folks - unless you are a big Charlie Christian fan
This is another of the fine volume in the Images of America series from Arcadia Press. They've done some nice photo-filled books on regional music. This one focuses on Oklahoma City. Actually its more about a few block area in the African American part of the city, nicknamed Deep Deuce, where jazz was really going in the 1920s and 30s. The book is "authored" by Anita G. Arnold, whom is the Executive Director of The Black Liberated Arts Center, from whose collection most of the photos were acquired. I say "authored" because - like most of this Arcadia books, there a a brief 2 ½ page introduction and then each photo as a caption of from one to maybe six sentences, providing background.

If, like me, you are not from - nor have ever visited - Oklahoma City, you might not realize that this was the home of the original jazz band, the Blue Devils. They later moved to Kansas City and that's where Count Basie joined them and eventually the Blue Devils became the Count Basie Band.. There were other OC natives such as Walter "Hot Lips" Page and blues singer Jimmy Rushing (who sang with the Basie band for years).

The most important musician to come from OC was jazz guitarist Charlie Christian (who later joined Benny Goodman and then died all too early in life.). This is one of the strongest parts of this book. There are more than 20 (of the total of 126) pages devoted to Christian with lots of rare photos from the archive of Leo Valdes, a Christian collector. You'll also see photos of Charlie's musical brother, Edward. (His other brother apparently was not in the music business).

The second half of the book features local rock band and church choirs whose name recognition stayed within the local OC community. I'm sure folks who grew up in the OC are will recognize them, and find this historic photos bringing back memories.

Jazz fans may want to pick this up for the Christian section alone.

Steve Ramm
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Nothing but personal stories.Informative.Moving.
This book is a compilation of eyewitness reports. From the moment of the blast to the demolition of the building, we hear from those who were there.What they saw, what they felt, what they experienced.Cops, firemen, office workers, FEMA experts, Red Cross volunteers, every aspect of the disaster except the hard details of the investigation are covered.(The book was created during the investigation and the pending criminal trial, so these details were not available for publishing.)

After reading this book, you will know at least a little about what it was like to be there at ground zero, about what the building was like inside (without many graphic details), about the willing sacrifice of all involved, about the effects of the terrorist's bomb.

Highly recommended. ... Read more

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The Virginia City Trail started near Fort Worth, Texas, and wound its way through the Great Plains into the heart of Montana. Nelson Story came to Fort Worth in 1866 to find a city devastated by war and hardship. And he was marked by an old enemy hard on his trail, looking for revenge. ... Read more

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40 days and 40 nights!
this is not one of Comptons best efforts!It must have rained for 40 days and40 nights.reminds me of the character in Lil' Abner that had a rain cloud following him around.Not much action and too much boring details about trail herding.The main character starts out with $40,000 dollars.If you read this book, keep a running total of the amount he spends.... even in 1866 prices. the acurracy of these coyboys using new unfamielier rifles at 1000 yds is unbelievable.Sorry Compton only two stars...don't worry I will buy other books by you. most hat I have read are very good.

To Much
A typical trail drive story. Lots of problems but what would you expect when you're driving thru a thousand miles of Indians, harsh land wet and dry, raining hard and hotter than the worst desserts. You may have survived the civil war but this is a different story.Another very intertaining trail drive except Mr. Compton had just to many rain storm disasters. ... Read more

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The Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest summarizes and describes the laws of a given jurisdiction. These jurisdictions include: the United States; U.S. States and Possessions; U.S. Codes (Copyright, Patent, Trademark); Canada; Canadian Provinces; the European Union; and other countries. Each digest is revised annually by a law firm or academic researcher which is, in most cases, based in that jurisdiction. Digest content follows a hierarchical classification plan of: categories; topics; sub headings; catch lines; and cross references. The digest makes extensive use of statutory citations and presents many legal forms in facsimile. ... Read more

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current events
Important book to keep around for reference in the ongoing saga of the Murray Bldg bombing. New revelations every day about more government people (ours) being involved. May we be spared from hearing another official "lone criminal" theory repeated every anniversary for the next 50 years.

Wow. Just Wow....
As an avid reader of anything about Tim McVeigh,I waited a long time for this book to come out.I was not disappointed. This book is amazing and it has such an emotional impact on me that I have to let months go by in between readings of it.This book gives you a vivid, real picture of the last two years of Tim's life. It reports a day to day account of the last 2 weeks of his life before he was sadly executed.While Tim haters would probably enjoy it,I was heartbroken as such a bright young man was put to death among the hatred of so many.
The best thing about this book is that it colorfully illustrates Tim as a person. A human being , not a monster. A good person in spite of his actions.This writing also painfully illustrates another side of the death penalty from a side most people don't see or care about-the condemned persons family and friends and makes an eloquent case for why their shouldn't be a death penalty in this country at all.

A completely different account of the bombing is reported here and it will blow your mind. I believe most of it to be the truth , but I still have a hard time fully grasping it all and it has not fully sunken in .If this is all true the implications are amazing, beyond the scope of what most of us can imagine and is NOTHING like the official story.
Supposedly all this came from McVeigh in a deal worked out with the authors that they would not publish it until after the "official" version of his life and death{American Terrorist} that he wanted out there hit the stands and therefore after he was executed.
I feel that we need to hear what the 2 authors of this book have to say.
I am guessing that not many people outside of folks who have a hard core interest in Tim/the bombing or victim's families will pay much attention to this book because it was written by 2 death row inmates and people have a prejudice against taking inmates seriously. But ask yourself-what really do 2 guys on death row have to gain from this other than getting out what they feel to be the truth? Guys on death rowkeep little if any money from something like this because of laws that stop them from doing so. And since the book hasn't gotten much attention that I've seen,fame wouldn't be the motivation either.
Finally, this book took almost 3 years to write and the authors claim hats because it took that long to verify Tim's claims from outside independent sources and they were able to substantiate 95% of the information Tim gave them.In closing if you ever wondered about the official story of the bombing or Tim as a real person, not the villainous caricature you saw on TV, then you owe it to yourself to read this book.

Definately worth reading.
One of the more interesting books dealing with Mcveigh. Gives a feel for what type of person Mcveigh really was while taking a look at the inner workings of federal death row. I only wish it had a better publisher because it was filled with spelling errors and bad editing which slightly butchered the work of these two authors. And the price is a little steep. But the information is worth the price... Another piece of the puzzle. ... Read more

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Al Truesdale employs the device of a fictional correspondence between a young women and her minister uncle to honestly probe the problem of evil in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. ... Read more

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Sometimes not having a ready-made answer is the best fit!
Only if you were on another planet could you have not been aware of the heinous and hideous act of terrorism and cowardice that struck the people of Oklahoma City (and the nation) in April, 1995.In this very real (but fictional account) of the quest for the all-loving and all-powerful God, Kara and Rachael (two friends in OKC), and Kara's uncle in Charleston, SC (a retired Episcopal priest) explore the issues of theodicy, the sovereignty of God, and why evil is in this world.In a historically accurate, and theologically astute manner, Doctor Truesdale (professor of philosophy and ethics at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO) explores these questions that have plagued honest-hearted believers for centuries."IF God is God, then why?" is such a profound masterpiece of heart-searching spirituality, that I had to read it three times.I will recommend it to anyone.I will certainly recommend it to my seminary professors.And I will re-read it, everytime I want to ask "If God is God, then why?"Truesdale has done a tremendous service to the Body of Christ in this deeply reflective book.Buy one for yourself, buy one for a friend, and search the scriptures, just as the author has encouraged the three main players to do in this magnanimous work. Thank you, Doctor Al Truesdale for pastoring so many of us in this great book! ... Read more

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Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. In Terrorism as Crime Mark S. Hamm presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods. Whether in Oklahoma City or London, Terrorism as Crime demonstrates that criminal activity is the lifeblood of terrorist groups and that there are simple common denominators at work that can remove the mystery surrounding many of these terrorist groups. Once understood the vulnerabilities of these organizations can be exposed.

This important volume focuses in on six case studies of crimes committed by jihad and domestic right wing groups, including biographies of more than two dozen terrorists along with descriptions of their organizations, strategies, and terrorist plots. Terrorism as Crime offers an original and significant framework for explaining international and domestic terrorism, as well as how future acts might be detected or exposed.

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Unsound Conclusions...BART did it.
Unsound Conclusions...BART did it.

The author bases his conclusions on extensive research including two primary sources, a 91 page, two-week FBI debriefing (called an FD-302) of Richard Lee Guthrie and Guthrie's 315 page handwritten story (manuscript) entitled "The Taunting Bandits," written between his arrest in January and his suicide in July 1996.

Neither of these documents support the author's conclusions...to the contrary...they refute them.

The author states, "In all, the ARA (Aryan Republican Army) robbed twenty-two banks, netting some $500,000. This money was used to support a series of terrorist attacks that included armored truck heists, sabotaging public utilities, derailing trains, attempted assassinations, and bombings." In addition, "While the ARA got away with twenty-two bank robberies, at least that many were prevented through routine activities." The author then segues into an academically convoluted "social learning theory." (Terrorism As Crime; Introduction, p.4)

Had the author seriously reviewed his research material he could not have come to these conclusions.

It wasn't $500,000 but half that amount and most of it was used to sustain their activities; vehicles, gas, rent, food, hotels, switch cars, etc. Traveling around the Midwest as they did to locate and case banks was time-consuming and expensive, and Guthrie repeatedly complained in his manuscript about their lack of funds ("At this point in time, the company's funds were rapidly decreasing," "However, there was one problem-money," "The amount plundered was chump change..." {Manuscript, p.168, p.19l, p.212 and numerous other references}). A limited amount of funds (around three thousand dollars) was provided to white supremacist Mark Thomas (who was convicted in the FBI's "Bombrob" case) along with those Thomas supplied to help support Guthrie and Langan.

The author makes a definitive statement that "this money was used to support a series of terrorists attacks."This is false and based on nothing factual that the author could produce. Guthrie and Peter Langan (coined in the media as the Midwest Bank Bandits) never committed any terrorist acts. They robbed banks, and the most they did was plan and conduct surveillances of armored trucks (November 1993 in Arkansas, February/March 1995 in Arizona, July 1995 in Ohio). They only talked and theorized about sabotaging public utilities and disrupting rail and transportation. Their "bombs" were hoax devices to thwart police response after a bank robbery. There was never any attempted assassination of any public figure. Guthrie did threaten then President Clinton, for which the U.S. Secret Service had issued a warrant. Had the author stated instead that ARA "contemplated" terrorist's attacks, he would have at least been much closer to the actual facts, and the truth.

For the author to state "While the ARA got away with twenty-two bank robberies, at least that many were prevented through routine activities," means that he either failed to understand or intentionally ignored the key element of Guthrie's bank robbery success.

(Actually, as the author should have learned, three of the robberies were done not as ARA, but by Guthrie alone because he was short on cash and his K-Mart scams were time consuming and not that profitable.)

Guthrie devoted an entire chapter and made dozens of references to his pet principle, BART, described by Guthrie himself as "Basic Armed Resistance Tactics. It's an SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for conducting Guerrilla operations against banks," and, "In essence, BART isn't an art, but moreover, it's a science of cunning methods used to acquire capital from banks" (Manuscript, p.35). Guthrie even created and used a checklist, a "BART flow chart" to rank whether prospective banks were viable targets. BART included considerations of the bank's appearance, its parking lot, number of employees, the drop (or switch) car purchased with cash and false identification, egress route, police frequency list, size of the metropolitan area, traffic flow, hoax device in the bank, need for hoax device in the drop car, and the drop zone location (where the switch car would be abandoned for their "Blitzenvagen," their van and mobile base of operations.)

(The author also ignored Guthrie's extensive description of "BRAT: Basic Resistance Armored Transport" techniques for planning armored car robberies.)

Guthrie and Langan did the planning and would sometimes spend weeks selecting and casing primary and secondary targets. They would cancel an "operation" with the slightest indication of potential problems. Guthrie chronicled all the bank robberies in his manuscript. The reasons they would abort a robbery had everything to do with happenstance and nothing regarding the author's flawed theory that "robberies were thwarted, averted, and otherwise prevented through the routine activities of public safeguards--bank security measures, police surveillance, and citizen involvement." According to Guthrie's own account, and his extensive debriefing by the FBI, if there was heavier than expected traffic in the area, more customers than they anticipated, unexpected activity at the bank, any unusual or nearby police activity heard on their police scanner (Guthrie was meticulous in selecting areas where he could monitor police frequencies...they would even listen to the scanner as they made their way out of the city as police responded with the bomb squad to deal with the hoax bomb devices they would always leave at the bank and in the getaway vehicle), or if Guthrie or Langan felt uncomfortable about virtually anything, they would abandon the robbery.

By claiming that "public safeguards" had anything to do with Guthrie's and Langan's bank robbery activity ignores the primary source material and at best only offers erroneous speculation.

The author's inaccurate characterization of Guthrie, Langan and ARA casts doubt on any other conclusions reached regarding his analysis of terrorists activities. If it was that easy for the author to misrepresent the basic facts of Guthrie's activities, then all his conclusions are suspect.

For more details regarding the author's questionable analysis and reporting concerning ARA, Guthrie and Langan, please see the Amazon.com, 1-Star book review of In Bad Company.

Left Wing Bias Abounds
The author gives the impression that the "right wing" has a monopoly on domestic terrorism.But what of ELF (eco-terrorists active today?What of the Symbionese Liberation Army (armed with machine guns, kidnapped Patty Hearst, robbed banks)? What of the Weather Underground who plotted to blow up the Pentagon...?

The other giveaway to his political bias is his sensationalistic (and inaccurate) description of the MAC-10."Once converted to a machine gun, the MAC-10 was one of the most gruesome weapons ever made." The MAC-10 was originally designed as a submachine gun intended as a sidearm for tank crews in the US Army.Its designer, George Ingram, hoped the weapon's compact size would make it a good replacement for the M-3 "grease gun" then in the US inventory. As it turned out, the DOD abandoned submachine guns in favor of the M16 assault rifle, except for special forces groups. The MAC-10 is no more deadly than a Thompson submachine gun "the Tommy gun", a British Sten, or an UZI, or a 12 gauge shotgun for that matter.The Thompson and the Sten have each killed far more people than the MAC-10.Thank Hollywood and the left for the MAC's dark reputation.

Useful
The author's declared goal of this book is to examine terrorist's involvement in certain kinds of crimes and describe law enforcement's opportunities to detect and prevent them. I found this expectation satisfied. After a very good introductory chapter (available on line)the author essentially presents a series of case histories of domestic and foreign terrorist groups and individuals. These do serve to illustrate the author's points and make the book a worthwhile addition to the current literature on terrorism.

In the introductory chapter the author emphasises the usefulness of "routine activity perspective" and "social learning theory" in analysing criminal activity. These criminolgical approaches were new to me, and I would have appreciated more discussion of them and more explicit connections between these approaches and the case studies. ... Read more

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An investigative journalist and editor of the "Boulder Weekly" presents an expose of today's growing antigovernment movement and the connection between the farm crisis of the 1980s and the massive buildup of militia groups in the United States. "Harvest of Rage" also exposes the underlying economic policies that helped trigger the current heartland revolt. ... Read more

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Freedom Fighters vs. Harvesters of Rage!
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R24VOHJZMHQ3XU This Video combines the following books:

Harvest of Rage,

My life changed forever. The Years I lost as a Target of organized Stalking.

Cause Stalking

Stopping a Stalker.A cop's guide of making the system works for you.

militia violence explained
This book presents a wealth of startling statistics about the Farm Crisis of the 1980's.Most moving to me were the number of suicides and the apparent orchestration by the federal government under Reagan's term of kicking farmers off their land.

While the author predicts that the militia violence (rooted in the festering of disenfranchised farmers) will only get worse, time has shown another picture -- a deadened silence across the land.Big business continues its domination of ag and the remaining farmers are hanging in there.

Time will tell how these problems get resolved, but Dyer's book is a great primer on the subject.

Explains Violence and Anger in Rural West
I have spent my life in government (30 years) and studying the causes of revolution and instability, and I would sum up the core insight as this: violent anger is spawned by unfairness and feelings of helplessness combined with a loss of faith in "authority" or existing mechanisms for conflict resolution.

This book joins a growing body of literature that I have been exploring that suggests that America is losing its mind as a nation, is fragmenting in multiple ways including states planning for secession, divides between rural and urban, increased ethnic violence especially among poor whites, and so on.There is also a growing literature on government ineptness if not actual mafeasance and betrayal of the public trust.

In terms of details, this book is persuasive in documenting either a federal cover-up or massive federal incompetence.The suspects not interviewed, the suspects blocked from testifying, it all adds up to the federal government having a story line that is not supported by the facts.

I just finished watching Gandhi for the 20th or so time as background to writing an article on Human Intelligence (HUMINT), and I fear for America.We have dumbed down the population and betrayed multiple demographic elements of the population is ways that will have consequences.The Obama Borg Administration being almost identical to the Bush-Cheney Borg Administration is certain to make the situation worse.

Other books I recommend:
Rage of the Random Actor: Disarming Catastrophic Acts And Restoring Lives
Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History
An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, New and Updated Edition
9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy)
Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids

C.F.
I am using this item for research and it has helped a lot.
I received it quickly and it was in excellent condition.
Well worth the money.

Can we save our hinterlands
This book opens up a lot of feeling for those who over the last two decades have lost everything and have attempted to find a reason, a cause and an enemy, sadly.

Anyone dealing with and wanting to understand the movement that has effected millions in our society must read this book.I recommend this to our state and national leaders.Dyer writes in such a balanced way and with tremendous care for those who have become caught up in the anger that exemplifies an occassionally growing portion of our society. ... Read more

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Breaking the Mold focuses on paintings from a pivotal time, one of transition from postwar abstract expressionism to new artistic developments. It includes works on paper, paintings, and sculpture by fifty artists including Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris, Louis, and Marcel Duchamp.

The Washington Gallery of Modern Art (WGMA) was founded in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1961, to increase the national and international attention given to contemporary art in the nation's capital, with an expressed purpose to exhibit and collect contemporary works of art. In 1968, the museum's collection was sold to the Oklahoma Art Center.

This historically important collection from the former Washington gallery played an important role in the collection and cultivation of contemporary American art movements from the 1950s and 1960s, including late abstract expressionism, color field painting, minimalism, and pop art. ... Read more

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With styles ranging from traditional to abstract, the works in this volume span late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century American art and include examples from both Europe and Latin America. The common thread is excellence. Many of the paintings play on the boundaries between reality and fantasy, contain elements of humor or satire, or are rendered in a highly colorful, expressive style which does not directly imitate the natural world. ... Read more

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Mansion Fare cookbook from Oklahoma
I have bought about eight copies of this wonderful cookbook to give to friends after buying one for myself.It contains beautiful photos of the Oklahoma governor's mansion and delectable food made from recipes served at the mansion.It makes a wonderful gift because as well as having recipes you'll use over and over, you also get an Oklahoma history review.It's delightful to look through even if you never use it as a cookbook. ... Read more