The Elements of Academic Success is the most powerful academic self-help book published in the United States in recent years. It was inspired by The Elements of Style, the legendary book by Professor William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, and it is formatted the same way, for speed and ease of use.   There are 351 numbered topic sections in 10 chapters that cover everything a student will face in college. All 351 are in an index in the back for fast viewing. The things a student needs will jump out at him/her.  "I am not Albert Einstein," writes author Gene Kizer, Jr. "but I consistently made 'A's at one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the country, the College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC. I was ON FIRE to graduate magna cum laude and I was going to succeed or die." Says Kizer:       I developed HIGHLY EFFECTIVE skills and techniques that helped me make "A"s in nearly everything, but my attitude was KEY.      Attitude is the only thing in life a person has total control over. Your attitude will bring you success and happiness, or bring you misery.      Readers of this book will absorb my proven techniques and aggressive NOT-GOING-TO-BE-DENIED attitude. That attitude will help them excel in college, and in life.

The Elements of Academic Success: How to Graduate Magna Cum Laude from College

Education & Teaching

Kizer Jr, Gene

Higher & Continuing Education

Charleston Athenaeum Press

Softcover print version of The Elements of Academic Success, How to Graduate Magna Cum Laude from College (or how to just graduate, PERIOD!). Outstanding academic guide inspired by the legendary book by Professor William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style. The Elements of Academic Success is 364 pages and features 351 numbered topic sections broken into 10 chapters. It covers everything a student needs to excel in college and in life, and it is written in a dynamic upbeat manner emphasizing the power of a NOT-GOING-TO-BE-DENIED attitude toward school. It is easy to read and use.

The Elements of Academic Success: How to Graduate Magna Cum Laude from College (or how to just graduate, PERIOD!)

Self-Help

Motivational

From the BACK COVER:"In all that pertained to the history of the Southern Confederacy, his scholarship was decisive."In MemoriamCharles William RamsdellUniversity of Texas. --- Charles W. Ramsdell was one of the finest historians our country has ever produced. He was a Texan who taught at the University of Texas at Austin most of his long career. His papers are at UT where a Biographical Note states: "Recognized as the dean of Southern historians, Dr. Ramsdell held the distinction of being the most distinguished scholar and teacher in the field of Southern history."Of the nine great treatises in this book, "Lincoln and Fort Sumter" is legendary and argues powerfully that Abraham Lincoln started the War Between the States by engineering events in Charleston Harbor to get that result. Several Northern newspapers agreed. Lincoln was in serious trouble in the spring of 1861, and the Northern economy, without its captive Southern manufacturing market and cotton to ship, faced economic annihilation. War was far more preferable.Ramsdell's book reviews (15 are in this book) are works of art. He reviewed many famous books such as R. E. Lee: A Biography, by Douglas Southhall Freeman (he loved it); Life and Labor in the Old South, by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (he liked it); and State Rights in the Confederacy, by Frank Lawrence Owsley (he wasn't impressed).Ramsdell and historians of his era are refreshing. You often discover important points of history long overlooked, or discounted by the politically correct frauds of today.This is the first of three books of Ramsdell's writings.

Charles W. Ramsdell, Dean of Southern Historians: Volume One: His Best Work

History

Americas

At the very end of the War Between the States, seventeen commanders delivered farewell addresses to the men they had led through four years of hell during which 750,000 died and over a million were maimed. The seventeen include Lee, Grant, Sherman, Forrest, Meade, Mosby, Trowbridge (U.S. Colored Troops), Johnston, Wheeler and Hoke. 
Those eight Confederate and nine Union addresses are important documents in American history because they show clearly what each side was fighting for. 
Historian Michael R. Bradley has given us exciting narrative history researched in minute detail on the seventeen commanders, their units, battles and last words to their men. If you love history, it does not get better than this. 
--------- from the Prologue by Gene Kizer, Jr. 
The Prologue alone is worth the cost of the book, as is the Introduction, in which Dr. Bradley conclusively punctures the Single Cause Myth. Confederate and Union commanders speak from their hearts after four years of bloody struggle. Bradley’s mini-biographies, of each commander, add a huge amount of depth to the work. The Last Words is worthy of a historian of the first rank, which Dr. Bradley clearly is. It should be on the bookshelf of every serious student of the Civil War. I give it my highest recommendation without qualification or reservation. 
--------- Dr. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., author of The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals: The Definitive Guide to the 426 Leaders of the South's War Effort, and over 40 other books including Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

The Last Words: The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States

Bradley, Michael R.

Reference

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

This book proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the North did not go to war to free the slaves or end slavery.The North went to war because it faced economic annihilation and a Southern competitor that controlled the most demanded commodity on earth: cotton. The North's economy was based mostly on manufacturing for the South and shipping Southern cotton around the world. Cotton alone was 60% of U.S. exports in 1860. When the South seceded, the Northern economy began a dramatic collapse, and by war time, there were hundreds of thousands of hungry, unemployed Northerners in the street --- and the "tocsin of war" sounded.Economically ignorant Northern leaders then passed the astronomical Morrill Tariff that threatened to destroy the Northern shipping industry by rerouting trade away from the high-tariff North and into the low-tariff South. The Morrill Tariff was like pumping gasoline into an already raging fire.Abraham Lincoln was the first sectional president in American history. He was president of the North, and the North was clamoring for war. He saw an opportunity to start it without appearing to be the aggressor, so he took it. Thus, he started a war that killed 800,000 men and wounded a million.The idea that the good North was so outraged over slavery that they marched armies into the South to free the slaves is an absurdity of biblical proportions and this book proves it.This is an exciting, fast-paced 360 page book using over 200 sources with everything cited in footnotes and a bibliography.Part I proves that the economic annihilation of the North was what drove Lincoln to start the war. Part II proves the right of secession, which Horace Greeley believed in until he realized that secession meant an economic catastrophe for the North. Part III is the famous treatise by Charles W. Ramsdell, "Lincoln and Fort Sumter," which proves conclusively that Abraham Lincoln started the War Between the States.Slavery was not the cause of the War Between the States, and this book makes the irrefutable argument.Here's what Dr. Clyde N. Wilson says about this book:Historians used to know - and it was not too long ago - that the War Between the States had more to do with economics than it did with slavery. The current obsession with slavery as the “cause” of the war rests not on evidence but on ideological considerations of the present day. Gene Kizer has provided us with the conclusive case that the invasion of the Southern States by Lincoln and his party (a minority of the American people) was due to an agenda of economic domination and not to some benevolent concern for slaves. This book is rich in evidence and telling quotations and ought to be on every Southern bookshelf.Clyde N. Wilson,Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History,University of South Carolina.

Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States: The Irrefutable Argument.

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The Elements of Academic Success: How to Graduate Magna Cum Laude from College

The Elements of Academic Success: How to Graduate Magna Cum Laude from College (or how to just graduate, PERIOD!)

Charles W. Ramsdell, Dean of Southern Historians: Volume One: His Best Work

The Last Words: The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States

The Last Words: The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States

Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States: The Irrefutable Argument.