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For at least two hundred years, Freemasonry has been subjected to witch-hunts. Conspiracy theories abound in which Freemasons manipulate whole governments, incite revolution, control the world banking system, and will engage in any activity, even murder, to advance their aims. Even today, Freemasonry is still seen a legitimate group to attack on the grounds of politics, religion and conspiracy theories. The Red Triangle uncovers the reality of this persecution of Freemasons from its first manifestation soon after people became aware of their existence in the seventeenth century. Attacks and persecution took place in many countries as Freemasonry spread around the world—there was even an anti-Masonic political party in nineteenth-century America that stood against Masonic politicians. In complete contrast, Freemasonry and the American Civil War provides a fascinating inside view of the ethos of Freemasons in extreme, life-threatening, situations when Freemasons offered assistance to their fellow Freemasons on opposite sides during the war.

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• Published on: 2011-04-18
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
History of attacks on Masonry from the Nazis onwards
By Marshall Lord
Most people know that when Nazi Germany began the campaign of persecution against the Jews which was to culminate in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, they started by forcing them to wear an identifying badge. Rather fewer people know that Hitler's regime also required the other groups they were trying to make scapegoats for Germany's problems, such as gays and masons, to wear similar distinguishing badges.

The Red Triangle was the badge which the nazis ordered freemasons to wear. (Jews had to wear a yellow triangle, gays a pink one).

That's the sort of detail you will pick up in this book, written by the Curator of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

The author was clearly provoked into writing this book by the campaign of vilification of Freemasonry by the British and particularly Scottish press which followed the Dunblane massacre. (For those who have not heard of this sickening tragedy, a lone gunman walked into a school and shot dead a teacher and most of a class of small children.) This book is to some extent a response to that those attacks.

The author is manifestly (and justifiably) furious about the fact that within a few days of the Dunblane tragedy it was (wrongly) suggested in a newspaper that the murderer had been a freemason, that within days of that suggestion half the British media were repeating this suggesion as if it had been a fact and putting forward a narrative that the murderer had been protected by fellow-masons in the local police, and that this was used as pretext for an orgy of verbal mason-bashing.

This narrative contained not one shred of truth: the offical inquiry confirmed that the murderer, Thomas Hamilton was not and had never been a freemason - in fact the masons were one of the (many) groups against whom he had an axe to grind.

(The killer did have a relative by the same name who had been a mason, and it is not quite impossible that some of those who put forward the allegation that the murderer had been protected because he was a mason had confused the two men).

Mr Cooper's sense of anger and injustice at the barrage of criticisms which were launched against Freemasonry as a result of this misapprehension comes through very strongly in the book. It might have been slightly more effective, particularly from the perspective of non-masons, if in one or two places the author had taken a step back, thought about how an unbiased but not necessarily well-informed outsider might see things, and taken a little more time to calmly explain precisely why some of the allegations made by the modern press are unfair. I write this as a mason myself, and one who agrees with most of what he writes. But I suspect a completely neutral and fair-minded observer would find it difficult to argue with Mr Cooper's contention that some critics of masonry had judged the organisation guilty before making any attempt to assess the evidence, or to give fair opportunity for a reply.

This book neither is not claims to be a comprehensive account of prejudice against masons, but it does include the best account I have read of the aspects of the Nazi holocaust which were directed against European masonry.

The fact that Hitler murdered six million Jews, and a similar number of gypsies, in his insane attempt to eradicate two entire races has naturally and rightly attracted a huge amount of attention.

There were other campaigns of mass murder which were part of the same process, and which entailed an amount of death and suffering which would normally cause them to be remembered in their own right among the worst crimes in history, but because the number of victims was one or two orders of magnitude smaller than the numbers of Jews and Gypsies who died in the "Final Solution," these further crimes have tended to be overlooked or subsumed in the overall tragedy.

One such campaign was the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate Freemasonry, an organisation which they condemned because it brings men of all races and different religions together, and this was offensive to Nazi racial and nationalist views. The nazis also associated Masonry with the mythical worldwide "Jewish conspiracy".

It is impossible to be certain how many masons were murdered by the Nazi regime and those of their fascist allies such as Franco and Mussolini, but it was certainly in the tens of thousands, and the estimate of 80,000 quoted in this book is probably as close to accurate as anyone can hope to get.

Each time the nazi regime conquered another country, one of the first things they did was move against all those citizens of that countries who they considered their enemies, including Jews, trade unionists, Communists, and freemasons. All too many of their victims in all those categories ended up dead. Plans for the occupation of Britain drawn up by Hitler's regime in 1940 and found by the allies after the war prove that if the nazis had won the Battle of Britain the same would have happened in the United Kingdom. Masons figured prominently on the lists of British people who the Nazis had marked down as hostile elements to be arrested in the event of a successful German invasion.

I learned from this book that the administrator of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, began his career in the Nazi Security service (SD) by collecting intelligence on Freemasons, and later employed some of the experience he gained by monitoring masons when he moved to the department which monitored Jewish people and ultimately organised their mass murder.

In this context it is hardly surprising that from the time of the Second World War until memories of the Nazi persecution began to fade about 50 years later, masonry in many European countries including Britain went through a period of being rather more secretive than had hitherto, or has subsequently, been the case.

In Britain this secrecy was deliberately abandoned in the mid 1990's. Freemasonry today cannot be described by any reasonable and informed person as a "secret society" - which unfortunately does not stop that allegation from being made.

If anyone reading this has a problem with the statement that Freemasonry is not a secret society, ask yourself this.

How many secret societies have a headquarters which is openly described on any decent map of London or Edinburgh, which they rent out to bodies like the Royal Opera House for public events, and of which they offer the general public daily tours? Or for that matter a huge memorial building in the American capital which is one of the most prominent buildings on the skyline of Washington D.C. and which is also open to the public? (I refer to the George Washinton masonic memorial building, which includes a tower which gives arguably the best view of the capital city.)

How many secret societies have a website which anyone can access? What sort of secret society publishes yearbooks with lists of their officers, and a directory of lodges and chapters which anyone can buy online, listing all branches and where and when they meet? How many secret societies are listed in the phone directory?

All these things are true either of the United Grand Lodge of England, the Grand Lodge of Scotland, and mostly both. My impression is that very much the same applies to Masonry in the United States.

This book is written partly from a British perspective and partly from a Scottish one. It begins with the Dunblane murders, and the suggestion in the press that the killer, Thomas Hamilton, might have been a mason. It continues with a fairly detailed account of the torrent of press and political attacks on masonry which followed.

As mentioned, "The red triangle" does not claim to be a comprehensive survey: it concentrates mostly on the holocaust and on political and press opposition to masonry in Europe and Britain. If you want to read a book which complements this, you may be interested in "A Pilgrim's Path: Freemasonry and the Religious Right" by the late US historian John Robinson which concentrates on religious opposition to masonry, particularly but by no means exclusively in America.

Overall "The Red Triangle" is a reasonably well written study which should be of interest both to anyone who wants to learn about a little-known aspect of the Holocaust, or is making a study of how groups can become the target of a media "feeding frenzy." It isn't really an answer to anti-masonic books like "The Brotherhood" but it will give the reader an idea of how books like that appear to people on the receiving end.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
The Red Triangle is an important contribution toward setting the record straight.
By Mitchell Ozog
Robert L.D. Cooper, The Red Triangle: A History of Anti-Masonry (Lewis Masonic 2011, $ 29.95 USD)

The Red Triangle is an important contribution toward setting the record straight.

Rev. Jonathon Baker was recently appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as Bishop of Ebbsfleet. Baker had been a 20 year member of Apollo University Lodge at Oxford, where he joined while being a student. However, what might have been a cause for celebration, Dr. Williams' previous position having been hostile to promoting Masons within the Anglican clergy, took a decidedly different turn when members of the Church of England's General Synod objected, leading to Bro. Baker's resignation form the Fraternity. Such action is particularly deplorable has the European Union's Civil Rights court has found that: a) Freemasonry is NOT a religion; b) it is NOT a malicious "secret society"; c) discrimination against Masons as Masons is a violation of human rights.
Sadly, Freemasons have been all too well aware of anti-Masonry and its relentless campaign of misinformation and even violence against the Fraternity. Robert Cooper's new book, The Red Triangle (which takes its name from the patch Masonic prisoners in German concentration camps were forced to wear), documents this history in sometimes painful and infuriating detail. Roger Cooper is the Curator of the Grand Lodge of Scotland's library and museum. He begins the book recounting a recent instance of `masonophobia' which touched him, and the Grand Lodge of Scotland, directly. In 1996, a gunman opened fire at a school in Scotland, killing 16 children and a teacher and wounding a further 14 children and 3 teachers. As the event was being reported, unfounded speculation arose that the gunman was a Mason, leading to a frenzy of anti-Masonry in the media and calls for government investigation of the Masons. Cooper, who focuses primarily on Scottish material, ties these attacks to a tradition of unfounded and malicious attacks against the Fraternity stretching back to the late 17th century.
Cooper demonstrates that their has been a recurrent pattern in anti-Masonry's attacks, seeking to call it a `religion,' and thus subject it to clerical condemnation or as a `secret society' with nefarious, self-promoting motives and, in the case of the Protocols of Zion forgery and Nazi persecution, elements of anti-Semitism. Indeed, Cooper notes that the failure to acknowledge that Freemasons were the targets of Nazi persecution as Freemasons is indicative of the inherent bias and discrimination academia and the general public has had against the Fraternity. The connections between Nazism and anti-Semitism, of course, are well known and documented; but Freemasonry was Nazism first target:
That Nazis made a distinction between Jews as a racial enemy of the German people and Freemasons as ideological (political) enemies is extremely important... Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch (1883 - ?) was Eichmann's first superior. He was a White Russian and anti-Semite and a self-proclaimed expert on Freemasonry, Jews, and Bolshevism. He was in charge of the largest department within the SD [Sicherheitsdienst (`Security Service')] which included the museum, library and an archive (including the card index on which Eichmann was assisting in compiling). The card index of German Freemasons eventually totaled 200,000 entries.
Schwartz-Bostunitch perceived, the Masonic effect to be of paramount importance in the work of the SD. After working on the card index system, Eichmann was transferred to the museum where he catalogued Masonic artefacts. He also prepared a Masonophobic exhibition in order to educate members of the SS as to the seriousness of the threat posed by Freemasonry... Eichmann's office was within the museum which was named the `St. John's Room' the significance of which will not escape Freemasons.
As the Nazis solidified their power and spread beyond Germany's borders, Masonic lodges were forced to close, Masonic leaders were seized, and its property confiscated. Yet this sad chapter of the Nazi terror has been generally neglected or omitted from histories of the Holocaust.
Cooper devotes much of The Red Triangle to identifying and deconstructing masonophobic articles and attacks in the Scottish press. Indeed, he notes that one of his intended purposes in writing this book is to document such material so that it will not be lost or forgotten. Frankly, it makes painful and infuriating reading. In light of Bro. Baker's resignation, however, it is particularly timely. Grand lodges and Masons been increasingly open to public view; nevertheless, willful ignorance and bigotry remain a persistent problem and concern. It is sad that Bro. Baker chose to drop his membership in the Fraternity rather than use his new position as an opportunity to further public understanding of Freemasonry. Instead, detractors are already pointing to his resignation as `proof' that Freemasonry is "inconsistent" with Christianity and thus suspicious in character. It is unlikely any amount of information and openness will satisfy those who want to hate and fear Freemasonry. But for those who still have open minds, The Red Triangle is an important contribution toward setting the record straight.

Mitchell Ozog, Editor-In-Chief
Robert Blackburn, Book Review Editor
Bonisteel Masonic Library/Rising Point

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Clarifying, Informative, Illuminating Light
By Traveling Man
My curiousity about anti-Masonry was piqued after I read "Morgan, The Scandal That Shook Freemasonry" so I picked up "The Red Triangle". I was not disappointed! It is a highly informative book on Anti-Masonry- especially when coupled with "Morgan"- that sheds a lot of light on the Anti-Masonry movement that is still alive and well. This book focuses on Europe, but the reader quickly recognizes the fact the same issues and arguments also circulate today in the United States. Two prominent issues in particular jumped out at me- the constant argument over whether Masonry is a relgion and whether brethren abuse their membership in the fraternity through favors and cover ups.

This book provides good depth and discussion on the argument over whether Masonry is a religion and explains some of the reasons anti-masons are able to so easily level the accusation and convince the uninformed.

"Red Triangle" provides a lengthy study of the perceptions that Masons abuse their membership by giving preferential treatment- particularly in jobs and hiring- to brothers and the perception that Masons in the legal system will cover up wrong-doing by Masons or flat-out protect brothers from prosecution for wrong-doing; a definite carry over from the issue front and center in "Morgan".

What I like about the book is what it doesn't say. It does not say "Masonry is (or isn't) a religion and here's why" or that "Masons will always protect their brothers from the law or other civil punishment and here's proof". Rather, the book presents the arguments as they are normally leveled, and then discusses how anti-masons are able to bolster their arguments. The author gives good examples of Masonic "behaviors" that can lend themselves to- apparently- proving or supporting the ideas.

All-in-all a good book that sheds light on why Anti-Masonry is still alive and well and is a good read for the Mason conducting research. This book, coupled with "Morgan: The Scandal That Shook Freemasonry" gives the Mason an informative look at why certain perceptions persist so easily in today's world.

I recommend this book as a companion book to "Morgan: The Scandal That Shook Freemasonry" to all Master Masons.

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“Masterfully written . . . powerful storytelling.”—New York Post

“One of the most riveting and heartfelt books to appear in some time . . . The book achieves a level of clarity and eloquence reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s classic Invisible Man. . . . The perspective [Coates] brings to American life is one that no responsible citizen or serious scholar can safely ignore.”—Foreign Affairs

“Urgent, lyrical, and devastating in its precision, Coates has penned a new classic of our time.”—Vogue

“Powerful.”—The Economist

“A work of rare beauty and revelatory honesty . . . Between the World and Me is a love letter written in a moral emergency, one that Coates exposes with the precision of an autopsy and the force of an exorcism. . . . Coates is frequently lauded as one of America’s most important writers on the subject of race today, but this in fact undersells him: Coates is one of America’s most important writers on the subject of America today. . . . [He’s] a polymath whose breadth of knowledge on matters ranging from literature to pop culture to French philosophy to the Civil War bleeds through every page of his book, distilled into profound moments of discovery, immensely erudite but never showy.”—Slate

“The most important book I’ve read in years . . . an�illuminating, edifying, educational, inspiring experience.”—Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

“It’s an indescribably enlightening, enraging, important document about being black in America today. Coates is perhaps the best we have, and this book is perhaps the best he’s ever been.”—Deadspin

“Vital reading at this moment in America.”—U.S. News & World Report

“[Coates] has crafted a highly provocative, thoughtfully presented, and beautifully written narrative. . . . Much of what Coates writes may be difficult for a majority of Americans to process, but that’s the incisive wisdom of it. Read it, think about it, take a deep breath and read it again. The spirit of James Baldwin lives within its pages.”—The Christian Science Monitor

“Part memoir, part diary, and wholly necessary, it is precisely the document this country needs right now.”—New Republic

“A moving testament to what it means to be black and an American in our troubled age . . . Between the World and Me feels of-the-moment, but like James Baldwin’s celebrated 1963 treatise The Fire Next Time, it stands to become a classic on the subject of race in America.”—The Seattle Times

“Riveting . . . Coates delivers a fiery soliloquy dissecting the tradition of the erasure of African-Americans beginning with the deeply personal.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“[Between the World and Me] is not a Pollyanna, coming-of-age memoir about how idyllic life was growing up in America. It is raw. It is searing. . . . [It’s] a book that should be read and shared by everyone, as it is a story that painfully and honestly explores the age-old question of what it means to grow up black and male in America.”—The Baltimore Sun

“A searing indictment of America’s legacy of violence, institutional and otherwise, against blacks.”—Chicago Tribune

“I know that this book is addressed to the author’s son, and by obvious analogy to all boys and young men of color as they pass, inexorably, into harm’s way. I hope that I will be forgiven, then, for feeling that Ta-Nehisi Coates was speaking to me, too, one father to another, teaching me that real courage is the courage to be vulnerable, to admit having fallen short of the mark, to stay open-hearted and curious in the face of hate and lies, to remain skeptical when there is so much comfort in easy belief, to acknowledge the limits of our power to protect our children from harm and, hardest of all, to see how the burden of our need to protect becomes a burden on them, one that we must, sooner or later, have the wisdom and the awful courage to surrender.”—Michael Chabon

“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the James Baldwin of our era, and this is his cri de coeur. A brilliant thinker at the top of his powers, he has distilled four hundred years of history and his own anguish and wisdom into a prayer for his beloved son and an invocation to the conscience of his country. Between the World and Me is an instant classic and a gift to us all.”—Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns

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2156 of 2240 people found the following review helpful.
An Offering of Understanding
By Clifton
Like many of the one- and two- star reviewers of this book, I bristled at certain passages in Between the World and Me. I felt attacked and blamed at times, because I, in Ta-Nehisi Coates' words, "believe that I am white." So I understand the scorn directed at this book by many who dismiss it as divisive and simplistic in its assessment of the black experience in America.

But here's the thing: this book isn't about me. It's not trying to tell me what I should do to be a better person or make me feel guilty about things I don't even understand, much less control. It's not trying to fix anything. And if you're reading it that way, I think you're missing a profound experience.

I've never been shown and made to understood the experience of a life so unlike my own as I have with this book. I felt the frustration and fear that Mr. Coates felt growing up black in America. I felt the anger he feels at people who believe that they are white dismissing that experience as so many sour grapes. I felt the hypocrisy of being told not to wear hoodies or play loud music for fear of someone breaking your body.

That's why this book matters. It's not a solution to our race problems or an accurate assessment of the progress of America as a nation. It is not a book about white people and how we should change. It is simply a powerful testament of one man's experience, and an offering of understanding.

I grew up rich, white and privileged in suburban Virginia. I never had to think about my safety, my future or my pride through the lens of my race. I couldn't even begin to conceive of that experience. Ta-Nehisi Coates is the first person to break through that reality of my upbringing and allow me to step into another experience for a little while.

It was life-changing and important.

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Beautiful, Infuriating, Important. Please Read This Book.
By NDP_NYC
It's hard to know what to say about a book about which so much has already been said. If you're familiar with Coates' writing from The Atlantic Magazine or elsewhere you already know that, in terms of style, he is a gifted writer who is always a pleasure to read, regardless of the subject matter he writes about.

The subject matter here, however, is what is most important about "Between the World and Me." Coates' uses the experience of young African Americans and his own experiences growing up to create a poetic and impassioned letter to his son and, indeed to the world, about what it means to be a person of color in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. My personal belief is that the issue of race and institutionalized racism is the most important issue we as a country face right now. The events of the past two years have focused a bright light on issues that many of us were only dimly aware of. Or, more accurately, that we knew about but didn't want to face. For those who realize that they MUST be faced, no matter how painful we find them, Coates provides a remarkable first step with this compelling, poetic, and sometimes heartbreaking expressionistic book.

The inability to see what causes pain, even though it is right in front of us, is a very human defense mechanism. But it is a defense mechanism that does not serve any of us or our country well. Empathy and a desire to understand that which we haven't personally experienced but that we know are pernicious facts of modern Anerican life are key to the changes we must make. As an upper-middle class white woman, I've lived through very few of the events and feelings Coates describes in "Between the World and Me." Which is all the more reason for me to read it and recommend it.

This is undoubtedly one of the most important books of the last 50 years. If I could gift a copy to every single American, I would.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Ta-Nehisi Coates, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
By Sage Mahosadha
Between the World and Me, as many likely already know by now, takes the epistolary form—specifically, that of a series of letters from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son regarding what the elder Coates believes his son needs to know as a black, male, teenager who will hopefully make it to being a black, male, adult without being too sufficiently wounded emotionally, psychologically, socially, nor culturally, in the process.

I read this book through the many inner and outer understandings and experiences of both myself and the world into which many generations of my ancestors lived; into which I was born, have lived, and continue to live. I read it through multiple and varied intelligences and perspectives. I read it through the eyes and heart of the fifty-five year old black man that I am—a man who can deeply identify with the voices of pain, angst, and grief through which Ta-Nehisi Coates principally speaks with throughout the book. I read it through the eyes and heart of the spiritual teacher that I also am—a teacher who teaches the deep, and I believe fundamental and necessary importance of understanding ones experience of this world through taking calculated ownership over ones very life—always and relentlessly looking within to understand the deepest essences of ones existence through that said life. I read it through the eyes and heart of being both a contemplative and a sacred activist who cogently understands injustice, greed, hatred, corruption, violence, sexual exploitation, and all manner of global depravity, and yet also as one who understands the often deeply mysterious powers of love, forgiveness, and redemption, etc.

For me, in general, the narrative of the book teeters largely between bleakness and hopelessness with Coates’ recounting of his time at Howard University (The Mecca) being among the rare and also most prominent respites he takes from this.

However, before I am accused of being haplessly addicted to hope or of not understanding the limitations of being eternally, blissfully hopeful, I want to quickly acknowledge that I have been a student of the teachings of Buddhist master, The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, for more than two and a half decades now. Among the voluminous teachings that have been birthed into the world by this prolific writer and well-respected Buddhist monk are his teachings around the concept he simply refers to as, “hope as an obstacle.”

And so both Thich Nhat Hanh and I as well, are incredibly aware of the fact that for many of us hope can very easily become that which erroneously and often foolishly separates us from the inconvenient and difficult brutality of not only what has occurred in the past, it can also blind us to what may be happening in the world around us right now, this very moment, keeping us from being truly intimate with the present moment, if that present moment is providing us with experiences we don’t like or that we find uncomfortable or deeply distressing. I also understand that all of that precious hope out there may be twisted into something that provides us with an excuse for escaping into a believed “hopeful” future and simultaneously into a place that is not even real, because the future never is, due to the fact that we cannot control what horrible, twisted, or “unfair” horrors our hope-filled and dreamlike future existence may naturally and effortlessly morph itself into.

Between the World and Me gives us a lot of truths to ponder—real, visceral, sometimes agonizing, sometimes very difficult to read, and quite often very inconvenient yet nonetheless provable truths. It does not however, always give us the whole truth and nothing but the truth in many of those same instances.

One somewhat annoying and standout example of this for me is the Malcolm X Ta-Nehisi Coates presents us with. Coates references and praises Malcolm X several times in the book. At one point he declares his love for Malcolm X which is presented very much like the expressions of love a devoted mentee might have for a beloved mentor. It is also not unlike some presentations of the love a student has for his or her beloved guru or spiritual guide, in various Eastern traditions. Coates’ complete disappearance however, of Malcolm X’s involvement with the Nation of Islam, the impact on Malcolm X of both the real, flawed human as well as the projected divine personage of Elijah Muhammad and his teachings, the importance of Brother Malcolm’s trip to Mecca late in his life, and most importantly, how each of these formed the foundation of his initial and subsequent political, religious, and cultural rebirths—was a little much for me to simply, blindly accept.

If one were to read Between the World and Me and have no prior knowledge of Malcolm X, one would walk away from the reading having no idea that Malcolm X was even a Muslim, much less a devoted disciple of Elijah Muhammad for an important portion of his life. Ta-Nehisi Coates seems to have remade Malcolm X in the image of Ta-Nehisi Coates, which is to say he seems to have given us Malcolm X the staunch and essentialist atheist. Here is a quote that seems to reflect this, that particularly struck me, “I loved Malcolm because Malcolm never lied, unlike the schools and their fa�ade of morality, unlike the streets and their bravado, unlike the world of dreamers. I loved him because he made it plain, never mystical or esoteric, because his science was not rooted in the actions of spooks and mystery gods but in the work of the physical world.” Huh?

Coates’ deep and telling truths though not of the whole truth and nothing but the truth appeared to be something of a theme of the book, for me. Here is another quote from Coates that comes near the end of a prolonged narrative approximately twenty pages from the end of the book. The narrative consists of two and a half pages in which he recounts the partial stories of and circumstances around several very familiar names, some less unfamiliar, all black men murdered at the hands of law enforcement officers in the USA: “As slaves we were this country’s first windfall, the down payment on its freedom. After the ruin and liberation of the Civil War came Redemption for the unrepentant South and Reunion, and our bodies became this country’s second mortgage.” When I initially read that I had the exact same reaction I just had as I typed those words, which is to say, I wonder what many of this country’s First Nations people, whose stolen land, broken treaties, and attempted ethnic cleansing this country is at least partially built upon, might have to say about that. In some ways it might seem nit picking to mention something like this. However, there are numerous moments like this in the book. At some point, for me, they collectively began to add up in ways I found negatively impacted my enjoyment of the book and more importantly, my trusting of Coates and his motives for some of what he says.

Here, in this next quote, Coates is describing how no one in America would be considered racist if we left it to the racists themselves or the defenders of racists, to define that word: “In 1957, the white residents of Levittown, Pennsylvania, argued for their right to keep their town segregated. "As moral, religious and law-abiding citizens,” the group wrote, “we feel that we are unprejudiced and undiscriminating in our wish to keep our community a closed community.” This was an attempt to commit a shameful act while escaping all sanction, and I raise it to show you that there was no golden era when evildoers did their business and loudly proclaimed it as such.” Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth. What he fails to tell us however, is that social science research tells us very clearly that virtually no one, regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, place of residence, or virtually anything else, wants to believe that any dastardly thing we/they do, is evil. We all have some way, some form of twisting all our dastardly deeds in some fashion as to somehow justify them. This is not a black nor white trait. All the current evidence points to this being a human trait. This is the whole truth here or at least it’s more of the truth than Coates gives us. To his credit Coates immediately follows that above quote up with a quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—a quote that very strongly agrees with what social science tells us about this topic—that doing evil and pretending one is in reality doing something good or justifiable is a human trait, a human flaw. However, Coates then immediately follows that Solzhenitsyn quote up with retreating back towards presenting this as a uniquely white trait. He just can’t get out of his own way, it seems. It’s as if he wouldn’t know who he was if he allowed himself to just get out of his own way.

I noted more than a half dozen other examples of Coates telling us what I considered to be clear, poignant truths yet him also simultaneously not telling us the wider, broader, more fully contextualized, nuanced, or plain whole truth. I noted all of them in the copious notes I took while reading the book for the second time. I don’t feel the need to list all of them here. Doing such would nearly become the entire book review if I did so. As I’ve said, collectively, they began to add up for me, negatively impacting my trusting of Coates’ and his motives.

Here is my slight tweaking of a well-known Shakespearean quote from Hamlet that for me, more or less summarizes my experience of Coates’ tendency of telling half-truths throughout the body of the book: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Ta-Nehisi Coates, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

Otherwise, beyond what I have stated so far, I mostly enjoyed the book, see the book as having merit, and I will continue to view Ta-Nehisi Coates as a skillful, insightful, and necessary voice in today’s world. I believe that voice is an important one and I hope he has more things to say and easily accessible formats in which to say them in. I still do not agree with Toni Morrison’s much commented on praise for this book complete with its, to me, hyperbolic allusions to James Baldwin and such. I essentially agree with Cornell West and what he has publicly stated about this. She, of course, is entitled to her opinion. She’s also an alum of Howard University, the same school Coates attended though did not graduate from. And she is also mentioned and acknowledged, very briefly, at least twice in Between the World and Me. So there’s also that.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is now quite wealthy I imagine, propelled into this economic state of existence through royalty checks from this very book as well as the monetary perks from several of the awards he has more often than not, in my opinion, rightfully deserved—the 2015 nonfiction American Book Award being an exception to that, in my view. He is also several months into a yearlong residency in France. I am sincerely happy for him regarding all of this. However, I cannot help but wonder whether or not these rather significant developments in his life and perhaps others along the same lines that I do not know of, have impacted, even a little bit, that rarefied space in any significant way, that exists, between the world and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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no discussion of Swift
By W Boudville
Well, it would certainly help to already be using Xcode and Objective C for iOS. The text rapidly starts letting you see visible changes on your cellphone simulated screen, in chapter 2. It assumes that you are acquainted with object oriented programming, in any other OO language. So and just as an example, the first code snippet has a narrative that mentions the use of factory methods. To anyone in OO, you have heard the term before.

Ditto for the concept of attaching listeners for various types of events. Game programming, and not just for the iPhone, invariably uses listeners as a mechanism for getting user input.

The Sparrow classes are quite extensive if you follow the book's discussion. The snippet examples turn out to be rather involved, and end up bringing in many ways you are likely to need and use to code your own game. Also handy are the many comments about usability. A crucial topic given the small screen size of a phone compared to a PC or laptop screen and keyboard. You are advised to always keep in mind how straightforward it will be for a user to play your game.

Unavoidably, the book talks about Objective C and gives snippets in this, but does not mention the latest Apple recommendation that it is shifting to Swift as the default programming language. Interesting to see how Apple is going to finesse this transition. But it is still worthwhile for you to learn Sparrow, given the short development time for mobile games, since the migration to Swift will likely play out over several years.

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Jim Bainbridge is also a member of the Real Estate Educators Association (REEA) and has received recognition as a Certified Distance Education Instructor by IDECC, which is a function of the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials.

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It's time you had a smooth, fluid swing like PGA Tour pros

Golf tips and swing advice can only take you so far. In order to truly correct a flawed swing, the causes of the problems must be treated, not the symptoms. A bad swing doesn't always mean that you're doing things wrong---it's just that your body isn't letting you do things right. By understanding and changing your body you'll be able to correct your mechanics naturally so you can take your game to the next level.

With the exact workouts used by some of the Tour's best golfers, as well as input and advice straight from the players themselves, this revolutionary golf-fitness book incorporates the latest in biomechanics research to fix swing flaws while strengthening the body's core and improving strength and balance to help golfers of all levels swing more like the pros.

Beginning with assessments that determine where a golfer's body is too tight, not strong enough or out of balance, Fix Your Body, Fix Your Swing then provides specific, easy-to-follow exercises that correct whatever problems or limitations were revealed in the assessments. Just three twenty-minute workout sessions a week (only one hour a week!) will help anyone become a better golfer with a healthier, stronger body.

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“I've witnessed first-hand the way Joey works with his players. His workouts are practical, relevant, simple, and entirely golf-specific. This book perfectly captures his passion for---and knowledge of---golf fitness.” ―Zach Johnson, 2007 Masters Champion

“Golf fitness has had a huge impact on professional golf over the past ten years. This book will let you in on our plan to play better and have a longer career. Get to work.” ―Davis Love III, 1997 PGA Champion and one of the all-time money leaders on the PGA Tour

“The science of golf has evolved so much. Joey's twenty-first century approach to the sport will allow any player---at any level---to improve his or her game.” ―Jim Nantz

“Joey keeps his players fresh in mind and in body---and the fitter you are, the better you'll feel, and the lower your scores will be.” ―Ian Poulter, 2004 and 2008 European Ryder Cup Member

About the Author

Joey Diovisalvi is the head strength, conditioning, and biomechanics coach at the PGA Tour Academy at TPC Sawgrass. He has been on the PGA Tour for over ten years and has worked with dozens of pro players, including Vijay Singh, Ryuji Imada, Pat Perez, and Chris DiMarco. He worked with Vijay Singh for seven years, helping him to become the number one golfer in the world. He lives in Jupiter, Florida.

Steve Steinberg is a fitness writer and a contributing editor at Men's Journal magazine. His work has appeared in GQ, Best Life, and Smart Business magazines. He's also a certified personal trainer and the owner of Black Belt Fitness Personal Training in Waltham, Massachusetts. Fix Your Body, Fix Your Swing is his second book.

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1 Who Is Joey D.?

or... Why Are You Reading This Book?

Joey D.,“ Vijay Singh said with a giant smile on his face. “You sounded taller over the phone.”

The first time I met Vijay Singh, he insulted me. I instantly liked him.

This was back in 2001. He’d heard some good things about me and thought maybe something about this unorthodox golf coach with some unorthodox training methods could help him take his game to the next level. Vijay and I worked together for a few months, and in March 2002 he notched his first tour victory in almost two years by winning the Shell Houston Open by a comfortable six strokes.

He invited me to fly back to Ponte Vedra, Florida, with him on his plane.

“What would it take to get you to work with me exclusively?” he asked me. Before I could even start to consider the offer, he added, “I know I can be the best player in the world.”

In 2002, everyone just assumed that Tiger Woods was invincible and would be number one in the world for as long as the sport of golf interested him. Vijay Singh was a PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 1993, but had managed just a single tour win since 2000. Here he was, though, telling me that he thought he could be number one. Most people would have laughed at his prediction, but I knew how hard a worker he was. In the time I had been with him, he’d just about kill himself whenever we worked out. I respected his work ethic immensely, but I also knew that trying to overtake Tiger would be going up against some stiff odds. I knew something about facing insurmountable odds, though.

I sold my training facility in south Florida and moved north to Ponte Vedra.

In September 2004, Vijay outshot Tiger Woods and Adam Scott by three strokes to win the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, Massachusetts. As a result, he leapfrogged over Tiger and into the number one spot in the world. Thanks to hard work and a team of dedicated and knowledgeable professionals, Vijay had made good on his prediction. In April 2005, when he was elected into the World Golf Hall of Fame, Vijay thanked several people in his acceptance speech. I was one of them. I sometimes wonder what it was that made me uproot my life to go work with him, and I always come back to what he said to me on that flight from Texas: “I know I can be the best player in the world.”

Something about his confidence and determination reminded me of someone.

NEW JERSEY

As a kid, I would never accept anything but 100 percent of myself. I played football in junior leagues and developmental leagues, and I recognized early on that I was stronger and faster than the other kids. Physically, I was pretty lucky in my genetics. But mentally, I just approached the game differently from my friends. The way I thought about things was completely different from anybody else’s. I’d see things that no one else saw. I recognized I was a leader because I had no fear of anything at all. That could have been a good thing or a bad thing, but it made me relentless in just about anything I did.

I never wanted anyone to drive me to football practice, for example. I wanted to ride my bike to practice because, I used to think, if I rode my bike, I would already be ahead of the curve when I got there. And if we didn’t win a game, I would come completely unglued. Everybody would leave to do whatever they did after a game, and I would just stay there doing drills and running for hours. I grew up in Manalapan, New Jersey—a typical suburb in Monmouth County. In the late summer, I knew that football season was right around the corner, and I would run up and down the hills. It’d be light out when I started, and eventually the sun would go down and it would be dark and I’d still be running. It’d be nine at night and I’d still be out there. I used to tell myself, “I need to be faster. I need to be in better shape than anybody else when I get to the first day of practice.”

When the season started, I was always in the best shape I could possibly be in. Couple this with my natural skills, and I was a monster on the field. They’d put me on the bench after the first half because I was destroying people. Opposing coaches constantly questioned my age, saying I had to have been much older than I said I was.

I’m not sure where this extreme work ethic came from. I come from an average middle-class family. Everybody worked and everyone had this dream and vision to better himself. You were taught from the beginning that hard work was the key to success—on the field, in the classroom, everywhere. My dad was demanding about grades. If I wasn’t on the honor roll, I couldn’t play any sports. It drove me to understand the importance of education. And since I was so driven about getting in the best shape I could be in, it was natural for me to start learning as much as I could about how the body worked.

From a young age, I started studying what I could do to make myself a better athlete. I knew it was more than just pure strength—more than just how much I could bench-press or how much I could squat. Being an athlete was about knowing how to use that strength in motion. The strongest guy on the field is just the strongest guy on the field unless he knows how to use that strength in the particular sport that he’s playing. By then, I had branched out from just playing football. I had started wrestling and began studying martial arts. I was continually amazed at how these lighter-weight-class wrestlers and my martial arts instructors—at maybe 130 pounds—could do these incredible things with their bodies. They generated the same amount of strength and power and explosiveness as much bigger guys. I started to become obsessed with figuring out where this ability came from. How could these small individuals have this power and transfer it through movement and have such amazing results? In my head, I began to think about how these movements and movement patterns could be applied to other sports with similar results. That’s when I started to really understand movement strength.

Unfortunately, both my research and my football career were about to be put on hold.

SETBACKS

Two months before my eighteenth birthday, I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. A biopsy later revealed that the cancer had spread and had developed into lymphatic cancer. Despite all the work I had put into my training and into my body, I had a terminal disease. I saw a ton of doctors and surgeons, and at the end of most of these visits, someone in a white coat with a serious expression on his or her face would ask me what I’d like to do with the next—and final—ten months of my life. All of a sudden, at eighteen years old, everything I had ever dreamed about was gone. It was surreal. All of these specialists were telling me that I was going to die, but I still felt great. I felt as if I could run through walls.

I approached my sickness the way I’d approached just about everything else up to that point in my life. Because of who I was, I wasn’t simply going to lie down. I couldn’t. It just wasn’t part of my makeup. Eventually, I found a doctor who was willing to take a chance on surgery. He told me about an invasive and difficult procedure. He said he was willing to try it because he was convinced I was strong enough to handle it. I thought back to the long and painful hours I’d spent in the gym and running those hills. All that time I thought I had been training for football.

Then the real game began. I went into the hospital and they did all of these extensive tests and scheduled me for major surgery. They told me that the procedure would take a certain number of hours, but when they went in, they found a lot more problems than they expected. I was fighting for my life. I made it through the surgery, but no one was sure if they got all of the cancer or if it had spread somewhere else.

Chemotherapy treatments started and the months started to go by. At the time, chemo wasn’t outpatient for most people. I had to be in the hospital seven or ten days at a time. Over a year and a half, I went from a ferocious 218-pound teenager that was going to take the football world apart to an emaciated 140-pound kid. On top of the weight loss, the chemo affected all of my senses. I lost all of my senses. I had no sense of taste. I had no sense of feeling. I had no strength. I was sick constantly. It was a nightmare. But I survived.

Call it destiny, the work of God, what ever. I don’t want to get caught up in all of that. My personal belief is that it wasn’t really my time to go. With a clean bill of health, I now had to rebuild what was left of my body. I spent the next eighteen months strengthening and reteaching my muscles how to do the things that they used to do so effortlessly and naturally. My body bounced back. (If you’re a collector of old muscle magazines, which would immediately make me very suspect of you, check out the August 1991 issue of Robert Kennedy’s Muscle Mag International. It has a feature on me and my illness, recovery, and subsequent success as a trainer.) At age twenty-two, I had fought back and conquered a terminal illness. My dream of playing college or pro football, though, was gone.

SOUTH FLORIDA

In the mideighties, I moved down to West Palm Beach. I figured that if I had built—and then rebuilt—my body using principles I’d developed, it was time to see how these theories worked on other people. I’d helped out people in the gym all of my life, but Florida would give me access to a different breed of client—the pro athlete. A lot of NBA and NFL guys spend their off-seasons down there, and with around half of the Major League Baseball teams doing their spring training in the surrounding areas, it just seemed like the place to be. The challenge was getting the first few athletes to understand and believe in what I was doing. Once they saw how th...

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Finally, a reasonable approach to exercise
By Doc John
I am a physician who has acquired and read a number of exercise books, several of which are reputedly golf specific. They all have exercises that will work. The collectively biggest drawback to all of them is that when one looks for golf-specific exercises, one gets a list of basically every exercise in the book. No one who works for a living would have time to do the exercises regularly, and still play golf.

Joey D has taken a significant step forward by designing a series of workouts which, if done regularly, will cycle someone throught the entire series of exercises. Moreover, each daily exercise set can be completed within about a 20 minute period of time. Joey does not throw out every exercise known to mankind and then leave it up to the reader to design a program, he develops and provides the program for the reader.

Though I passed most of the simple fitness tests, I opted to do the entire program. It was an easy step to add three weekly workouts to my daily morning treadmill routine, the materials needed are few, inexpensive and readily obtainable, and my body tells me the next day that the exercises are effective.

I don't mind the pictures, I think they are functional and can be understood if assessed in combination with the text. Anyone who would go to this book looking for detailed biomechanical assessments needs to rethink the target audience for the book.

I would make several suggestions for improvement: [1] make it available on Kindle; [2] make it available in video format. Aside from that, it is a book that does what it is intended to do; it provides a series of exercises that are helpful for strength and flexibility, and it provides a process that any working person can fit into an otherwise busy schedule.

Thanks to Joey D

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Everything you need to succeed
By R. Perry
Forget the new 400.00 drivers, new putters and latest swing gadgets. If you REALLY want to improve your golf game you need to prepare your body to handle a golf swing. You don't have to devote your life to working out or spend hours in the gym. If you can set aside 30 to 45 minutes, 3 days a week, AT HOME, this book will get you there. After only 3 weeks, still on the beginning program, I have seen dramatic results in my ball striking, movement and stamina on the course (and I am a 10 handicap already).

This is one "golf" book I think that is worth every penny. But DO NOT BUY THIS if you are not willing to Putin the minimal work required. You will not improve by simply reading this book and looking at the pictures.

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ahh ok
By Fawn Halko
i am a personal trainer, and have just taken up golf this summer...this book is basically a 6 -pt evaluation and has several exercises listed to fix each..really about 2 minutes of reading for someone with a reasonable knowledge of exercise..i was hoping that it would have some insightful biomechnic info, but it doesnt..eval was BASIC to say least.. good quick read maybe useful for someone w/ minimal exercise experience..not a fan of authors writing style humor..sorry.. it gave me a few idea

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