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	12/25 Dr. Carl Ludwig Dorsch is currently reading: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback) by Carlo Ginzburg bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	04/25 Dr. Carl Ludwig Dorsch is currently reading: Devils, Drugs and Doctors: The Story of the Science of Healing from Medicineman to Doctor (Unknown) by Howard Wilcox Haggard bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	03/31 Dr. Carl Ludwig Dorsch gave to: De Docta Ignorantia (Broschiert) by Nicholas of Cusa bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
	Dr. Carl Ludwig Dorsch said: "Since my release from the Facility I have been at work on Nicholas of Cusa's 'De Docta Ignorantia,' both in the Latin of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften and in Felix Melner Verlag's Philosophische Bibliothek's fine Latin-German edition. ...more " 1 comment

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Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World: Man of Visions Now on This Earth (Hardcover)
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The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 (Hardcover)
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Dr. Carl Ludwig Dorsch said: "

From the Prologue of 'Paul Bunyan' (Benjamin Britten):

TRIO OF GEESE:

It isn't very often the Conservatives are wrong,
To-morrow normally is only yesterday again,
Society is right in saying nine times out of ten
Respectability's enough...more "

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Dr. Carl Ludwig Dorsch added:
The Sot-Weed Factor (Paperback)
by John Barth
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The Divine Comedy (Paperback)
by Dante Alighieri
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Lenin: A Biography (Paperback)
by David Shub
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read in January, 1970

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A standard American Lenin biography of its time.

This book went through many editions, apparently, from 1948 through 1976, some of them abridged. The edition I read seems to have been the New American Library/Mentor abridgement.

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The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life (Paperback)
by Richard Wilhelm
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recommended to Dr. Carl Ludwig Dorsch by: E. Graff
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The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention (Paperback)
by Robert Temple
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read in April, 2008

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Joseph Needham says in his Foreward, "It is, in its own way, a brilliant distillation of my Science and Civilization in China, published by the Cambridge University Press, a work which will be complete in some twenty-five volumes an...more "

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Geronimo: My Life (Dover Books on Native Americans)
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Dr. Carl Ludwig Dorsch said: "Excellent commentary on the occupation and cyclical violence thus engendered.

The entirety of the 1906 edition can be downloded at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/...

Fro...more Excellent commentary on the occupation and cyclical violence thus engendered.

The entirety of the 1906 edition can be downloded at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/...

From S. M. Barrett's Introduction:

On June 2d, 1906, I transmitted the complete manuscript to the War Department. The following quotation is from the letter of transmission:

“In accordance with endorsement number eight of the ‘Brief’ submitted to me by the commanding officer of Fort Sill, which endorsement constituted the instructions of the Department, I submit herewith manuscript of the Autobiography of Geronimo.

“The manuscript has been submitted to the President, and at his suggestion I have disclaimed any responsibility for the criticisms (made by Geronimo)of individuals mentioned.”

Six weeks after the manuscript was forwarded, Thomas C. Barry, Brigadier General, Assistant to the Chief of Staff, sent to the President the following:

“MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF WAR.

“Subject: Manuscript of the Autobiography of Geronimo. The paper herewith, which was referred to this office on July 6th, with instructions to report as to whether there is anything objectionable in it, is returned.

“The manuscript is an interesting autobiography of a notable Indian, made by himself. There are a number of passages which, from the departmental point of view, are decidedly objectionable. These are found on pages 73, 74, 90, 91, and 97, and are indicated by marginal lines in red. The entire manuscript appears in a way important as showing the Indian side of a prolonged controversy, but it is believed that the document, either in whole or in part, should not receive the approval of the War Department.”

The memorandum is published that the objections of the War Department may be made known to the public.

The objection is raised to the mention on pages seventy-three and seventy-four of the manuscript of an attack upon Indians in a tent at Apache Pass or Bowie, by U. S. soldiers. The statement of Geronimo is, however, substantially confirmed by L. C. Hughes, editor of The Star, Tucson, Arizona.

On pages ninety and ninety-one of the manuscript, Geronimo criticised General Crook. This criticism is simply Geronimo’s private opinion of General Crook. We deem it a personal matter and leave it without comment, as it in no way concerns the history of the Apaches.

On page ninety-seven of the manuscript Geronimo accuses General Miles of bad faith. Of course, General Miles made the treaty with the Apaches, but we know very well that he is not responsible for the way the Government subsequently treated the prisoners of war. However, Geronimo cannot understand this and fixes upon General Miles the blame for what he calls unjust treatment.

One could not expect the Department of War to approve adverse criticisms of its own acts, but it is especially gratifying that such a liberal view has been taken of these criticisms, and also that such a frank statement of the merits of the Autobiography is submitted in the memorandum. Of course neither the President nor the War Department is in any way responsible for what Geronimo says; he has simply been granted the opportunity to state his own case as he sees it.

The fact that Geronimo has told the story in his own way is doubtless the only excuse necessary to offer for the many unconventional features of this work.

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Dr. Carl Ludwig Dorsch read and liked erik's review of The Family of Man:

"This was in the family library for as long as I can remember, being an object of interest to me since before learning to read. Continuously in print since 1955, I have given away innumerable copies of it over the years.

Carl Sandburg, Steichen's ...more This was in the family library for as long as I can remember, being an object of interest to me since before learning to read. Continuously in print since 1955, I have given away innumerable copies of it over the years.

Carl Sandburg, Steichen's brother-in-law and author of its prologue, was a friend of the family, his wife maintaining a goat farm down the beach from my Dad's mother's place on Lake Michigan. Dad's father, Einar Senior, was a colleague of Sandburg's both in the Socialist Party of America and in the Chicago newspaper business during the thirties. When the depression hit, both of them lost their jobs and Carl moved up to his wife's farm where he wrote his biography of Lincoln. While living there he employed the services of our neighbor to the north, a pediatrician. I have some photographs somewhere which show him, grandfather and many others at the wedding of the doctor's daughter. Father relates that when he was little Carl would try out his children's stories on him and the other kids in what was then a Norwegian lakefront community.

Of course, I never met the famous man, just heard about him a lot, listened to an album of his reading some of those children's stories and saw his books on the shelves. When, under Kennedy, he appeared at the White House, the family watched. When, in 1967, he died, Dad bought out the papers with the headlines at the drugstore in nearby Stevensville, Michigan, visibly shaken. I was fifteen then, reading my first copy of The National Enquirer which, as I recall, featured an illustrated article of a boy eaten by a pig. I was looking at the photo of his reconstructed face, trying to figure out if it was fake, when Dad called my attention to the other, more credible and important death.

Like his father before him, Dad was, and remains, a socialist. He did a research project on Trotskyist cells when at Northwestern before the war, voted for Norman Thomas in '47, constantly criticized the Christians and the military-industrial complex. This book, doubtless, was a fixture in left-leaning households throughout the country, even during the depths of the cold war, because it does indeed impress upon the reader/viewer the archetypal commonalities which unite all persons at all times.

If one must have a coffee table book for general perusal, this is an excellent one....less "

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