Book Review - period ended 4.15.2006

Book Review/Quaker History/War/WWII/Book outrages family of 'French Eichmann'/Australian/Sydney/Australia/Oceania/14-Apr-06//... them. She said her mother, Olive, had told her Myrtle saved a Quaker family who lived in the same Paris hotel as the Darquiers. ...

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Book Review/Quaker History/Madison, Dolley//She taught even Washingtonians to be civil/Christian Science Monitor/Boston/MA/USA/11-Apr-06//... national politics as leaders tried to shed the shadowy court intrigue of Europe; even the most royalty-averse were charmed by the Quaker-turned-socialite, with ...

Book Review/Palmer, Parker///Pope John XXIII Award winners named/LaCrosse Tribune/LaCrosse/WI/USA/6-Apr-06//... Parker Palmer, a nationally known writer, teacher and lecturer, is receiving the award for his work as a teacher and value-driven leader.

The three will receive the awards at a banquet and ceremony Thursday, May 4. The Pope John XXIII Award is Viterbo’s highest non-academic honor.

Palmer, a Quaker, has authored seven books. He said he’s one of the millions of non-Catholics touched by the life of Pope John XXIII.. ...

Book Review/Japan/Vining, Elizabeth Gray/Frank Gibney, 81; Authored Seminal Books on Japan/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/13-Apr-06//... His debut book, "Five Gentlemen of Japan" (1953), was among the first to depict humanely the wartime enemy through portraits of a journalist, a naval officer, a steelworker, a farmer and Emperor Hirohito.

Writing in the New York Times, reviewer Elizabeth Gray Vining, a Quaker schoolteacher who tutored Japan's Emperor Akihito, noted the lack of caricature in Mr. Gibney's book. This was so distinct from films and other propaganda of the era that painted the former wartime enemy as bucktoothed devils. ...

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Book Review/Education/O'Reilley, Mary Rose/Keeping the classroom contemplative/National Catholic Reporter/Kansas City/MO/USA/11-Apr-06//... through the day. Mary Rose O’Reilley is a Quaker who teaches English at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minn. She has ...

Book Review/Arts/Lightfoot, Hannah/Daughter's book chronicles Texas native's colorful life/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/13-Apr-06//... It's not often that family history reads like good fiction, but when your mother is a glamorous and popular commercial artist, and a family legend ties your grandfather to mad King George III and the young Quaker girl named Hannah Lightfoot, your family history is no ordinary collection of stories compiled primarily for the grandchildren. ...