During World War I; before women had the right to vote in America; a young Josephine Lehman Thomas answered the patriotic call from Washington; D.C. and became one of the pioneering ''government girls;'' leaving her home in Michigan for adventure in the nation's capital. Through explored diaries and letters; her daughter; Margaret Thomas Buchholz; gives us an amazing chronicle of a trailblazing woman. Josephine worked for legendary journalist Lowell Thomas and traveled the world until the Great Depression dropped her and her new family; struggling to get by; on an island off the coast of New Jersey. This fascinating personal history reveals the optimism of the early 20th Century; the emerging professional woman; the thrill of adventure travel and a sense of success; followed by the crash of the economy; losing everything; and ultimately happiness in a simple life by the sea.
#1069362 in Books Bear n Company 2006-06-27 2006-06-27Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 1.00 x 6.00l; 1.05 #File Name: 1591430593336 pages
Review
90 of 92 people found the following review helpful. I was hoping for more about NeanderthalsBy Noah K Mullette-GillmanI loved the book; finished it in a day and a half. I think his basic theory about neanderthals having been the source of much of the knowledge of ancient civilization has a lot of merit.HOWEVER; so much of the book seems to have little or nothing to do with any of this. He goes on for a long time about Christianity and the Merovingians and I can't tell you what any of that has to do with Neanderthals or Atlantis. It seemed; at times; more like a collection of recent writings than a concerted work.He spent a lot of time summarizing other books (Which I have already read and are not all of relevance to the point) and not enough giving us anything new.If he couldn't come up with anything more to say that was new. I would have at least enjoyed it if he had spent some time giving us more; even basic; information on Neanderthals; where they have been found; theories on why they died out (Did they die out?); maybe spend some time comparing and contrasting them physically with humans; discussing how we are related to them and what we may know about when we split off. Perhaps hints in mythology that back up his thesis? The section actually on them (While extraordinarily interesting) was almost unforgivably brief compared to the length of the whole work.I wanted more neanderthals!!!Beyond that; he spoke a lot about intuitive knowledge and I thought that this was all very interesting; but had to wonder if it worked against his main thesis. That is to say; he provided us with another explanation for the source of ancient knowledge that didn't require resorting to neanderthals.I am; however; giving the book 4 stars. The thesis is extremely interresting and revolutionary. It is an enjoyable read. I just wish...well...I would have liked him to talk more about neanderthals and less about Christ and other topics that didn't belong organically in this book.17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Had hoped for real info got more bloodline crap.By John J. WrightUsually out of the alternate history author's Colin Wilson is one of the more level headed and documented authors. Which is why I was disapointed with this book. I had really hoped for info regarding neanderthals there customs and burials and such which some scholors have started to investigate. Instead I got more prior of sion garbage and Jesus blood line's and Flood stories. I am so tired of this weak link of the prior of sion being added into all the alternate history book's. It is doing nothing for the movement of alternate history but destroying its credibility all on the fake documents of a con man in France. Stay away from this one unless you are a Dan Brown type of fan.21 of 23 people found the following review helpful. Hugely Disappointing - EmbarrassingBy Laura Knight-JadczykThis book would not have been so disappointing if not for the fact that I had come to expect work of the highest standards from Colin Wilson. It's difficult for me to try to assess a really bad book written by someone I admire so much. What went wrong?The book starts out with a rambling bit of name dropping and irrelevant commentary on the work of some of the "alternative history researchers" popular at the present time. It almost reads like something written by a guy whose gone senile and I was actually wondering if that was the problem. At one point; Wilson remarks that Graham Hancock became a millionaire from his alternative history works; so maybe that is acting on Wilson and he wants to get on the bandwagon. Problem is; he just isn't constitutionally capable of it.The end result is a rehash of every silly alternative history theory that's been written about in the past 20 years or so; moving from one to the other with no really thread of connectivity. It's almost as though somebody hired Wilson to give his "stamp of approval" to some of that nonsense. Now; let me be clear; I'm not saying that mainstream history is acceptable either - most often; I would favor "alternative" views; the problem I have with most of it is the same problem I have with mainstream history: assumptions and agendas prevail and all the evidence is not treated equally.It then gets even more bizarre: not only does he accept uncritically some of the stranger alternative theories; he then does the same thing with the materialist mainstream view of it all!How does he do this?By proposing that all those alternative histories were true. BUT; since the only people that mainstream science says were around during those very ancient times of the civilizations claimed to have existed by the alternative researchers; were Neanderthals; then obviously; it was all the work of Neanderthals!And how did the Neanderthals create this great civilizations? In their minds! They had psychic powers and it was all an alternative reality creation. Not only that; the Neanderthals didn't really know they were doing this because they were... Autistic!Wilson accepts as reasonable so many really nutty things throughout this book that I guess it should not be a surprise that the only possible choice is Autistic Neanderthal.Unfortunately; he just didn't do the research on Neanderthals that he should have done. Thing is; I KNOW he's done some good research and writing on ancient civilizations; so why he came up with this silly idea I'll never know. (Yes; he got it from Stan Gooch; a medium turned psychologist; but you get the point?)All in all; a hugely disappointing book; it was actually embarrassing - like watching Wilson make a fool of himself in public because that is; essentially; what this book has done.I'm sorry; Mr. Wilson - I've admired your work for years; but this is just bottom of the barrel.
