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Summary: The Good Citizen's Handbook: A Guide to Proper Behavior
Review: I liked this book! It is one of those that you just keep going back to and find something new each time. Some will enjoy it for the nostalgia, but it can be enjoyed by all readers, and the message of "Good Citizenship" seems very timely these days, and especially applicable to government. I intend to buy several for gifts. It's the kind of book you will want to keep out and handy to pick up and read or show to friends.
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Summary: Holy Wow Gee....
Review: I picked this book up at the local Cracker Barrel restaurant in their "Proud to Be an American" section of afghans and bumper stickers and other patriotic-themed nostaligia curiosities. Some of this material may seem out of date...heck, most of it will go right over the head of anyone born after these textbooks were retired from schoolrooms and educational films. As a kid who grew up on Centron films and citizenship assemblies this book brought back not only memories of a more innocent and simple time, but of a pure and patriotic sensibility. I have grown up to be a cynical, dark and suspicious person in a world where pillbox hats, pressed wool suits and imposed proper attitudes have changed. Diversity has its price in our daily rituals, but it doesn't dispel the strange, weird, and wonderful importance of these civic reminders. Wow. Get this book for your grandfather who wonders what happened to common decency. Get this book for the grandson who never knew it. Get it for the patriot who needs a quick reminder of what America is at its core. Get it as a reminder fo your civic duties, responsibilities and rights.
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Summary: Holy Wow Gee....
Review: I picked this book up at the local Cracker Barrel restaurant in their "Proud to Be an American" section of afghans and bumper stickers and other patriotic-themed nostaligia curiosities. Some of this material may seem out of date...heck, most of it will go right over the head of anyone born after these textbooks were retired from schoolrooms and educational films. As a kid who grew up on Centron films and citizenship assemblies this book brought back not only memories of a more innocent and simple time, but of a pure and patriotic sensibility. I have grown up to be a cynical, dark and suspicious person in a world where pillbox hats, pressed wool suits and imposed proper attitudes have changed. Diversity has its price in our daily rituals, but it doesn't dispel the strange, weird, and wonderful importance of these civic reminders. Wow. Get this book for your grandfather who wonders what happened to common decency. Get this book for the grandson who never knew it. Get it for the patriot who needs a quick reminder of what America is at its core. Get it as a reminder fo your civic duties, responsibilities and rights.
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Summary: Dorky Fun.
Review: I think the previous reviewer missed the boat - and that's a good thing. In today's jaded world, it's fun to look back and see just how dorky our forefathers were. The purpose of the book is to point out and make fun of the odd and at times inaccurate and overstated advice that was forced down the throats of many children in the 20s and 30s. The fact that the previous reviewer found this book to be not farcical but helpful is sweet and endearing. Now I feel bad for laughing (almost).
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Summary: Unbelievable!
Review: I was appalled when a friend showed this book and I realized it was published in 2001. It is racist (there are only white faces
in the book until we get to foreign countries), sexist (only women are shown doing house), critical of vegetarians (EAT MEAT to be a good citizen !!!) and for some reason printed in Hong Kong!!
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Summary: Unbelievable!
Review: I was appalled when a friend showed this book and I realized it was published in 2001. It is racist (there are only white faces
in the book until we get to foreign countries), sexist (only women are shown doing house), critical of vegetarians (EAT MEAT to be a good citizen !!!) and for some reason printed in Hong Kong!!
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Summary: Unbelievable!
Review: It is truly unbelievable that a book such as this is published in 2001 - racist in that all people have white faces until the author talks about foreign countries, sexist as only women are portrayed doing house work, and discriminating to vegetarians. (...)
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Summary: The Children's Guide to being a good citizen
Review: Liberals will find this book outdated, old fashioned, even humorous, but do good manners ever really go out of fashion? Yes, this is a bit dated and may portray the nuclear family of the 50's, but the content of this little book is timeless. The handbook promotes a wide variety of civic lessons ranging from penmanship, gun safety, respect for authority, cleanliness and grooming, proper diet and much more.
These make great little gifts. Adults will appreciate the nostalgia, while children will learn valuable lessons for life.
This book will remind you of the values we once had in America, and will set goals of the vlaues we must return to. This book is honest and pure, in every way. Get this book for your grandfather who wonders what happened to common decency. Get this book for the grandson who never knew it. Get it for the patriot who needs a quick reminder of what America is at its core. Get it as a reminder fo your civic duties, responsibilities and rights.
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Summary: The Children's Guide to being a good citizen
Review: Liberals will find this book outdated, old fashioned, even humorous, but do good manners ever really go out of fashion? Yes, this is a bit dated and may portray the nuclear family of the 50's, but the content of this little book are timeless. The handbook promotes a wide variety of civic lessons ranging from penmanship, gun safety, respect for authority, cleanliness and grooming, proper diet and much more.
These make great little gifts. Adults will appreciate the nostalgia, while children will learn valuable lessons for life.
This book will remind you of the values we once had in America, and will set goals of the vlaues we must return to. This book is honest and pure, in every way. Get this book for your grandfather who wonders what happened to common decency. Get this book for the grandson who never knew it. Get it for the patriot who needs a quick reminder of what America is at its core. Get it as a reminder fo your civic duties, responsibilities and rights.
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Summary: Really Good Laugh
Review: This book has to be one of the best I've ever read! I found it in a Cracker Barrel gift shop while on vacation, and it provided me with laugh after laugh after laugh. However, anyone who doesn't take this as satire is naive to the point where it makes me sad. While a few of the values are still relevant, most are of the nuclear-family-type: racist, sexist, and a whole bunch of -ists I can't even name. It's hard to believe that in this day and age some people could actually take the book seriously. As a teen, I and my friends like it because it points out just what . . . propaganda our government has tried to throw at our parents and grandparents, and some of them believed it!
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