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Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good. 5.5 x 0.85 x 8.2 inches. Paperback. 1975. 176 pages. <br>A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceive d as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information th at he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It con tains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange picker s, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be th e last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in th e halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too?with elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in th e modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand. Editorial Reviews Amazon Review Whil e many readers are familiar with John McPhee's masterful pieces o n a large scale (the geological history of North America, or the nature of Alaska), McPhee is equally remarkable when he considers the seemingly inconsequential. Oranges was conceived as a short magazine piece, but thanks to his unparalleled investigative skil ls, became a slim, fact-filled book. As McPhee chronicles orange farmers struggling with frost and horticulturists' new breeds of citrus, oranges come to seem a microcosm of man's relationship wi th nature. Like Flemish miniaturists who reveal the essence of humankind within the confines of a tiny frame, McPhee once again demonstrates that the smallest topic is replete with history, sig nificance, and consequence. Review Fascinating. A sterling exa mple of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of hum or and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent inter est in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juic e. ?Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal It is a delicious boo k, in a word, and more absorbing than many a novel. ?Roderick Coo k, Harper's About the Author John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambrid ge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first boo k, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including Orang es (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and S ilk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and Th e Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World . He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Review Fascinating. A ster ling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sens e of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inhere nt interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning ora nge juice. ?Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal It is a delic ious book, in a word, and more absorbing than many a novel. ?Rode rick Cook, Harper's About the Author John McPhee was born in Pr inceton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his f irst book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giro ux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, includi ng Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007 ), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972 ) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for Natio nal Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the A ward in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Form er World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. About the Author Jo hn McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has writte n over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Countr y (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of scienc e. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Ar ts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Priz e for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jers ey. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Or anges By John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Copyright © 1975 John McPhee All right reserved. ISBN: 9780374512972 Oranges ONEO RANGES THE custom of drinking orange juice with breakfast is no t very widespread, taking the world as a whole, and it is thought by many peoples to be a distinctly American habit. But many Dane s drink it regularly with breakfast, and so do Hondurans, Filipin os, Jamaicans, and the wealthier citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. The day is started with orange juice in the Colombian Andes, and , to some extent, in Kuwait. Bolivians don't touch it at breakfas t time, but they drink it steadily for the rest of the day. The p lay lunch, or morning tea, that Australian children carry with th em to school is usually an orange, peeled spirally halfway down, with the peel replaced around the fruit. The child unwinds the pe el and holds the orange as if it were an ice-cream cone. People i n Nepal almost never peel oranges, preferring to eat them in cut quarters, the way American athletes do. The sour oranges of Afgha nistan customarily appearas seasoning agents on Afghan dinner tab les. Squeezed over Afghan food, they cut the grease. The Shamouti Orange, of Israel, is seedless and sweet, has a thick skin, and grows in Hadera, Gaza, Tiberias, Jericho, the Jordan Valley, and Jaffa; it is exported from Jaffa, and for that reason is known un iversally beyond Israel as the Jaffa Orange. The Jaffa Orange is the variety that British people consider superior to all others, possibly because Richard the Lionhearted spent the winter of 1191 -92 in the citrus groves of Jaffa. Citrus trees are spread across the North African coast from Alexandria to Tangier, the city who se name was given to tangerines. Oranges tend to become less tart the closer they are grown to the equator, and in Brazil there is one kind of orange that has virtually no acid in it at all. In t he principal towns of Trinidad and Tobago, oranges are sold on st reet corners. The vender cuts them in half and sprinkles salt on them. In Jamaica, people halve oranges, get down on their hands a nd knees, and clean floors with one half in each hand. Jamaican m echanics use oranges to clear away grease and oil. The blood oran ge of Spain, its flesh streaked with red, is prized throughout Eu rope. Blood oranges grow well in Florida, but they frighten Ameri can women. Spain has about thirty-five million orange trees, grow s six billion oranges a year, and exports more oranges than any o ther country, including the United States. In the Campania region of Italy, land is scarce; on a typical small patch, set on a ste ep slope, orange trees are interspersed witholive and walnut tree s, grapes are trained to cover trellises overhead, and as many as five different vegetables are grown on the ground below. The ove r-all effect is that a greengrocer's shop is springing out of the hillside. Italy produces more than four billion oranges a year, but most of its citrus industry is scattered in gardens of one or two acres. A Frenchman sits at the dinner table, and, as the fin ishing flourish of the meal, slowly and gently disrobes an orange . In France, peeling the fruit is not yet considered an inconveni ence. French preferences run to the blood oranges and the Thomson Navels of Spain, and to the thick-skinned, bland Maltaises, whic h the French import not from Malta but from Tunisia. France itsel f only grows about four hundred thousand oranges each year, almos t wholly in the Department of the Alpes Maritimes. Sometimes, Eur opeans eat oranges with knives and forks. On occasion, they serve a dessert orange that has previously been peeled with such extra ordinary care that strips of the peel arc outward like the petals of a flower from the separated and reassembled segments in the c enter. The Swiss sometimes serve oranges under a smothering of su gar and whipped cream; on a hot day in a Swiss garden, orange jui ce with ice is a luxurious drink. Norwegian children like to remo ve the top of an orange, make a little hole, push a lump of sugar into it, and then suck out the juice. English children make oran ge-peel teeth and wedge them over their gums on Halloween. Irish children take oranges to the movies, where they eat them while th ey watch the show, tossing thepeels at each other and at the peop le on the screen. In Reykjavik, Iceland, in greenhouses that are heated by volcanic springs, orange trees yearly bear fruit. In th e New York Botanical Garden, six mature orange trees are growing in the soil of the Bronx. Their trunks are six inches in diameter , and they bear well every year. The oranges are for viewing and are not supposed to be picked. When people walk past them, howeve r, they sometimes find them irresistible. The first known refer ence to oranges occurs in the second book of the Five Classics, w hich appeared in China around 500 B.C. and is generally regarded as having been edited by Confucius. The main course of the migrat ion of the fruit--from its origins near the South China Sea, down into the Malay Archipelago, then on four thousand miles of ocean current to the east coast of Africa, across the desert by carava n and into the Mediterranean basin, then over the Atlantic to the American continents--closely and sometimes exactly kept pace wit h the major journeys of civilization. There were no oranges in th e Western Hemisphere before Columbus himself introduced them. It was Pizarro who took them to Peru. The seeds the Spaniards carrie d came from trees that had entered Spain as a result of the rise of Islam. The development of orange botany owes something to Vasc o da Gama and even more to Alexander the Great; oranges had symbo lic importance in the paintings ofRenaissance masters; in other t imes, at least two overwhelming invasions of the Italian peninsul a were inspired by the visions of paradise that oranges engendere d in northern minds. Oranges were once the fruit of the gods, to whom they were the golden apples of the Hesperides, which were st olen by Hercules. Then, in successive declensions, oranges became the fruit of emperors and kings, of the upper prelacy, of the ar istocracy, and, by the eighteenth century, of the rich bourgeoisi e. Another hundred years went by before they came within reach of the middle classes, and not until early in this century did they at last become a fruit of the community.Just after the Second Wo rld War, three scientists working in central Florida surprised th emselves with a simple idea that resulted in the development of c ommercial orange-juice concentrate. A couple of dozen enormous fa ctories sprang out of the hammocks, and Florida, which can be cou nted on in most seasons to produce about a quarter of all the ora nges grown in the world, was soon putting most of them through th e process that results in small, trim cans, about two inches in d iameter and four inches high, containing orange juice that has be en boiled to high viscosity in a vacuum, separated into several c omponent parts, reassembled, flavored, and then frozen solid. Peo ple in the United States used to consume more fresh oranges than all other fresh fruits combined, but in less than twenty years th e per-capita consumption has gone down seventy-five per cent, as appearances of actual oranges in most of the UnitedStates have be come steadily less frequent. Fresh, whole, round, orange oranges are hardly extinct, of course, but they have seen better days sin ce they left the garden of the Hesperides.Fresh oranges have beco me, in a way, old-fashioned. The frozen product made from them is pure and sweet, with a laboratory-controlled balance between its acids and its sugars; its color and its flavor components are as uniform as science can make them, and a consumer opening the six -ounce can is confident that the drink he is about to reconstitut e will taste almost exactly like the juice that he took out of th e last can he bought. Fresh orange juice, on the other hand, is p robably less consistent in flavor than any other natural or ferme nted drink, with the possible exception of wine.The taste and aro ma of oranges differ by type, season, county, state, and country, and even as a result of the position of the individual orange in the framework of the tree on which it grew. Ground fruit--the or ange that one can reach and pick from the ground--is not as sweet as fruit that grows high on the tree. Outside fruit is sweeter t han inside fruit. Oranges grown on the south side of a tree are s weeter than oranges grown on the east or west sides, and oranges grown on the north side are the least sweet of the lot. The quant ity of juice in an orange, and even the amount of Vitamin C it co ntains, will follow the same pattern of variation. Beyond this, t here are differentiations of quality inside a single orange. Indi vidual segments vary from one another in their contentof acid and sugar. But that is cutting it pretty fine. Orange men, the ones who actually work in the groves, don't discriminate to that exten t. When they eat an orange, they snap out the long, thin blades o f their fruit knives and peel it down, halfway, from the blossom end, which is always sweeter and juicier than th, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975, 3, About More Artists of the RightIt is a perennial embarrassment to the Left that some of the greatest creative minds of the 19th and 20th centuries were men of the Right, and not just conservatives, but men of the far Right, such as fascists and National Socialistsor their precursors and fellow travelers.K. R. Bolton's More Artists of the Right offers political profiles of seven immensely accomplished artists and critics who made significant contributions to Right-wing political thought: Richard Wagner, Aleister Crowley, T. S. Eliot, P. R. Stephensen, A. R. D. Fairburn, Count Potocki of Montalk, and Yukio Mishima.ContentsForeword by Greg Johnson1. Richard Wagner2. Aleister Crowley3. T. S. Eliot4. P. R. Stephensen5. A. R. D. Fairburn6. Count Potocki of Montalk7. Yukio MishimaIndex (print editions only)About the AuthorPraise for the first Artists of the Right volume"Kerry Bolton's book Artists of the Right blows away the notion of right-wing philistinism and, instead, leads to a radically different assessment of the arts during the first half of the 20th century. For it now appears that almost every significant artist of the period rejected both materialism and the egalitarian solutions of the Left. Bolton's analysis is brash, opinionated, peppery, honest, and trail-blazing. In the biographies of his major figures he tends to include the material which is habitually left out or skirted over."Jonathan Bowden"Kerry Bolton is a maverick among scholars. In Artists of the Right he distills for us the political, social, and religious thinking of some of the most outstanding artists of the 20th century in infinitely readable prose. This is a book that belongs on the shelf of every free-thinking patriot and defender of European man."Leo Yankevich"K. R. Bolton's Artists of the Right is something that we have needed for a long time: a clear and unapologetic study of those literary and artistic figures of the last century who explicitly and forthrightly rejected leftism and left-liberalism. Marxist and socialist ideologies are too easily assumed to be the natural badges of modern artists. Bolton shows that was certainly not the case for a great many major figures of the 20th century. His straightforward exposition of the lives and work of these men shows two things: first, that many important poets, novelists, and thinkers of the 20th century were profoundly rightist in their political views; and second, that they by no means presented a seamless front of solidarity in their opinions. Their independence of mind saved them from leftist groupthink, but it also guaranteed that even among themselves they would be strongly divided on many issues. Bolton's approach is sympathetic and appreciative, and that in itself is a welcome departure from the condemnatory or patronizing tone that a typical liberal academic would have brought to this task."Dr. Joseph S. Salemi, Hunter College, C.U.N.Y."Kerry Bolton is the Noam Chomsky of the New Right. His double doctorates in theology and encyclopedic knowledge of 20th century history qualify him as a guru, and as such I recommend his writings on geopolitics, culture, and spirituality to anyone with more than a passing interest in these subjects. Every day since VE Day has been a Marxist holiday for the culture makers of the West. Artists on the Right is a declaration of the manifest bankruptcy of this legacy."Charles Krafft"Eye-opening, exhilarating, and inspiring, Bolton examines figures both familiar and almost unknown, constructing a counter-canon to show that, no matter what your teachers told you, the great minds of the 20th century were culturally, politically and spiritually of the Right."James J. O'MearaAbout the AuthorK. R. Bolton holds Doctorates in Theology and a Ph.D. h.c. He is a contributing writer for Foreign Policy Journal and a Fellow of the Academy of Social and Political Research in Greece. His books include Revolution from Above (London: Arktos Media, 2011), Artists of the Right (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2012), Stalin: The Enduring Legacy (London: Black House Publishing, 2012), The Parihaka Cult (London: Black House Publishing, 2012), The Psychotic Left (London: Black House Publishing, 2013), The Banking Swindle: Money Creation and the State (London: Black House Publishing, 2013), Babel Inc.: Multicultralism, Globalisation, and the New World Order(London: Black House Publishing, 2014), Perón and Perónism (London: Black House Publishing, 2014), and Zionism, Islam, and the West (London: Black House Publishing, 2015)., Counter-Currents Publishing, 2017, 6, About More Artists of the RightIt is a perennial embarrassment to the Left that some of the greatest creative minds of the 19th and 20th centuries were men of the Right, and not just conservatives, but men of the far Right, such as fascists and National Socialistsor their precursors and fellow travelers.K. R. Bolton's More Artists of the Right offers political profiles of seven immensely accomplished artists and critics who made significant contributions to Right-wing political thought: Richard Wagner, Aleister Crowley, T. S. Eliot, P. R. Stephensen, A. R. D. Fairburn, Count Potocki of Montalk, and Yukio Mishima.ContentsForeword by Greg Johnson1. Richard Wagner2. Aleister Crowley3. T. S. Eliot4. P. R. Stephensen5. A. R. D. Fairburn6. Count Potocki of Montalk7. Yukio MishimaIndex (print editions only)About the AuthorPraise for the first Artists of the Right volume"Kerry Bolton's book Artists of the Right blows away the notion of right-wing philistinism and, instead, leads to a radically different assessment of the arts during the first half of the 20th century. For it now appears that almost every significant artist of the period rejected both materialism and the egalitarian solutions of the Left. Bolton's analysis is brash, opinionated, peppery, honest, and trail-blazing. In the biographies of his major figures he tends to include the material which is habitually left out or skirted over."Jonathan Bowden"Kerry Bolton is a maverick among scholars. In Artists of the Right he distills for us the political, social, and religious thinking of some of the most outstanding artists of the 20th century in infinitely readable prose. This is a book that belongs on the shelf of every free-thinking patriot and defender of European man."Leo Yankevich"K. R. Bolton's Artists of the Right is something that we have needed for a long time: a clear and unapologetic study of those literary and artistic figures of the last century who explicitly and forthrightly rejected leftism and left-liberalism. Marxist and socialist ideologies are too easily assumed to be the natural badges of modern artists. Bolton shows that was certainly not the case for a great many major figures of the 20th century. His straightforward exposition of the lives and work of these men shows two things: first, that many important poets, novelists, and thinkers of the 20th century were profoundly rightist in their political views; and second, that they by no means presented a seamless front of solidarity in their opinions. Their independence of mind saved them from leftist groupthink, but it also guaranteed that even among themselves they would be strongly divided on many issues. Bolton's approach is sympathetic and appreciative, and that in itself is a welcome departure from the condemnatory or patronizing tone that a typical liberal academic would have brought to this task."Dr. Joseph S. Salemi, Hunter College, C.U.N.Y."Kerry Bolton is the Noam Chomsky of the New Right. His double doctorates in theology and encyclopedic knowledge of 20th century history qualify him as a guru, and as such I recommend his writings on geopolitics, culture, and spirituality to anyone with more than a passing interest in these subjects. Every day since VE Day has been a Marxist holiday for the culture makers of the West. Artists on the Right is a declaration of the manifest bankruptcy of this legacy."Charles Krafft"Eye-opening, exhilarating, and inspiring, Bolton examines figures both familiar and almost unknown, constructing a counter-canon to show that, no matter what your teachers told you, the great minds of the 20th century were culturally, politically and spiritually of the Right."James J. O'MearaAbout the AuthorK. R. Bolton holds Doctorates in Theology and a Ph.D. h.c. He is a contributing writer for Foreign Policy Journal and a Fellow of the Academy of Social and Political Research in Greece. His books include Revolution from Above (London: Arktos Media, 2011), Artists of the Right (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2012), Stalin: The Enduring Legacy (London: Black House Publishing, 2012), The Parihaka Cult (London: Black House Publishing, 2012), The Psychotic Left (London: Black House Publishing, 2013), The Banking Swindle: Money Creation and the State (London: Black House Publishing, 2013), Babel Inc.: Multicultralism, Globalisation, and the New World Order(London: Black House Publishing, 2014), Perón and Perónism (London: Black House Publishing, 2014), and Zionism, Islam, and the West (London: Black House Publishing, 2015)., Counter-Currents Publishing, 2017, 6, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, June 2000. First U.S. Edition (stated). First printing [stated]/. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, [2], 355, [3] pages. Ink name of former owner written in ink on the top corner of the front free endpaper. Includes Notes, Select Bibliography, and Index. Baqer Moin is a BBC journalist and author. He has been described as "a specialist on Iran and Islam and is head of the BBC's Persian Service" (in 1999) and as "BBC's Central Asia specialist" (2001). Moin studied in the religious seminaries of Mashhad in Eastern Iran before becoming a journalist. As of August 27, 2000 he was head of the BBC's Persian service, a broadcast service so influential in Iran that "even Ayatollah Khomeini listened to it". He is the author of the book Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah. which the NY Times called "the first serious and accessible examination of the ayatollah's life." Amazon describes him as having written extensively on Islam, Iran and Afghanistan." The previous owner's name is Jacob Singer-Beilin, believed to be the Rabbi Jake Singer-Beilin who joined Temple Chai as the Director of Education after being ordained from the Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles in 2011. In addition to his rabbinic ordination, Rabbi Jake received his Master of Arts in Jewish Education while at HUC. During this time, he served congregations in Great Falls, MT, Tarzana, CA, and Pacific Palisades, CA. He grew up in Ventura, CA, and received his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of California, Davis in 2005. During high school and college, Rabbi Jake became very involved in NFTY and URJ Camp Newman, both as a participant and staff member. He also served on staff at Gindling Hilltop Camp in Malibu, CA.Rabbi Jake is passionate about prayer and spirituality, rabbinic literature, and providing Jewish education for all ages and learners. Iran's revolution swept away secular rule and the laws of men, replacing them with clerical rule and the laws of God. The Ayatollah Khomeini was alone responsible for this tremendous coup. The author of this book, Baqer Moin (who ran the BBC's Persian Service), had the insight and the knowledge to explain how Khomeini pulled it off. His journalistic work in Iran and with the BBC Persian Service gave him unique access both to ordinary men and women and to leading players on the political and cultural scene. The Ayatollah Khomeini was the most radical Muslim leader of this age. In transforming himself from a traditional Muslim theologian into the charismatic Iranian ruler who took on the world, Khomeini launched an Islamic revival movement that, with the collapse of communism, quickly evolved for some as the centre-piece in the pantheon of western demonology, and for others as the inspiration for spiritual and political rebirth. Whether viewed as a hero by his supporters or as a villain by his enemies, Khomeini was undoubtedly one of the seminal figures of the twentieth century, whose influence will extend some way into the new millennium. Baqer Moin here explores how and why this frail octogenarian, dressed in the traditional robes of a Muslim cleric, overthrew the secular Shah of Iran and became the spiritual leader of a new and militant Islamic regime. Still an enigma in the West, Khomeini transformed the Middle East and the world. But where did the man come from? What was his childhood and family background? What lay behind his implacable opposition to the Shah? What role did the turbulent events in Iran during his youth play in shaping Khomeini's political perceptions? What changed him from an obscure traditional theologian with mystical and poetic inclinations into a combative and highly vengeful radical? How will his vision of an international community of Muslims, a kind of Islamic Internationale, affect the Middle East? Drawing on many exclusive personal interviews with Khomeini's associates, on unpublished new materials and on the author's firsthand experience in Islamic seminaries, this biography provides a fascinating, well-documented and highly accessible analysis of the life and thought of one of the most controversial leaders of the late twentieth century., St. Martin's Press, 3<

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New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, June 2000. First U.S. Edition (stated). First printing [stated]/. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, [2], 355, [3] pages. Ink name of former owner written in ink on the top corner of the front free endpaper. Includes Notes, Select Bibliography, and Index. Baqer Moin is a BBC journalist and author. He has been described as "a specialist on Iran and Islam and is head of the BBC's Persian Service" (in 1999) and as "BBC's Central Asia specialist" (2001). Moin studied in the religious seminaries of Mashhad in Eastern Iran before becoming a journalist. As of August 27, 2000 he was head of the BBC's Persian service, a broadcast service so influential in Iran that "even Ayatollah Khomeini listened to it". He is the author of the book Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah. which the NY Times called "the first serious and accessible examination of the ayatollah's life." Amazon describes him as having written extensively on Islam, Iran and Afghanistan." The previous owner's name is Jacob Singer-Beilin, believed to be the Rabbi Jake Singer-Beilin who joined Temple Chai as the Director of Education after being ordained from the Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles in 2011. In addition to his rabbinic ordination, Rabbi Jake received his Master of Arts in Jewish Education while at HUC. During this time, he served congregations in Great Falls, MT, Tarzana, CA, and Pacific Palisades, CA. He grew up in Ventura, CA, and received his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of California, Davis in 2005. During high school and college, Rabbi Jake became very involved in NFTY and URJ Camp Newman, both as a participant and staff member. He also served on staff at Gindling Hilltop Camp in Malibu, CA.Rabbi Jake is passionate about prayer and spirituality, rabbinic literature, and providing Jewish education for all ages and learners. Iran's revolution swept away secular rule and the laws of men, replacing them with clerical rule and the laws of God. The Ayatollah Khomeini was alone responsible for this tremendous coup. The author of this book, Baqer Moin (who ran the BBC's Persian Service), had the insight and the knowledge to explain how Khomeini pulled it off. His journalistic work in Iran and with the BBC Persian Service gave him unique access both to ordinary men and women and to leading players on the political and cultural scene. The Ayatollah Khomeini was the most radical Muslim leader of this age. In transforming himself from a traditional Muslim theologian into the charismatic Iranian ruler who took on the world, Khomeini launched an Islamic revival movement that, with the collapse of communism, quickly evolved for some as the centre-piece in the pantheon of western demonology, and for others as the inspiration for spiritual and political rebirth. Whether viewed as a hero by his supporters or as a villain by his enemies, Khomeini was undoubtedly one of the seminal figures of the twentieth century, whose influence will extend some way into the new millennium. Baqer Moin here explores how and why this frail octogenarian, dressed in the traditional robes of a Muslim cleric, overthrew the secular Shah of Iran and became the spiritual leader of a new and militant Islamic regime. Still an enigma in the West, Khomeini transformed the Middle East and the world. But where did the man come from? What was his childhood and family background? What lay behind his implacable opposition to the Shah? What role did the turbulent events in Iran during his youth play in shaping Khomeini's political perceptions? What changed him from an obscure traditional theologian with mystical and poetic inclinations into a combative and highly vengeful radical? How will his vision of an international community of Muslims, a kind of Islamic Internationale, affect the Middle East? Drawing on many exclusive personal interviews with Khomeini's associates, on unpublished new materials and on the author's firsthand experience in Islamic seminaries, this biography provides a fascinating, well-documented and highly accessible analysis of the life and thought of one of the most controversial leaders of the late twentieth century., St. Martin's Press, 3<

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