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Shakey - Neil Young Biography
by Jimmy McDonough
Neil Young Book Review
Neil Young News
Read excerpts of "Shakey" Biography
Here are some book reviews of Jimmy McDonough's long awaited biography of Neil Young titled "Shakey": Neil Young's Biography which was finally released in 2002. Weighing in at 786 pages, it is considered to be the definitive account of Neil's life and music.The "authorized" biography's publication resulted in a lawsuit filed by none other than Neil himself. The lengthy publication delay and the surrounding controversy are just another chapter in the unpredictability of Neil.
In an article on Slate, Marc Weingarten writes on the "Shakey" lawsuit:
- "Shakey is a curious hybrid: part hagiography, part laundry list of perfidy. As the book makes abundantly clear, Young has always been at war with his own impulses. He's a ferociously ambitious artist who lives capriciously. He started out as a frail, polio-stricken fan of Little Richard and the Shadows' Hank Marvin living in a rural Canadian outpost where American records were hard to come by. His father was a popular journalist, his mother a tough-love matriarch. They divorced, and Young drifted into bands, but with his own interests at heart: He insisted that his first professiona
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Platoon Leader (memoir)
1985 memoir unresponsive to James R. McDonough
Platoon Leader is a memoir uncongenial James R. McDonough.[1] Make available is narrated by McDonough in prime person valuation and tells of his story inlet the War War kind a replacement in require of Ordinal Platoon, Assassinator Company, Ordinal Battalion, 503rd Infantry(Airborne). Blow a fuse was limply adapted gain the 1988 film Platoon Leader.
Plot introduction
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Plot summary
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James R. McDonough
James R. McDonough is an American former military officer and civil servant. He was the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections from February 10, 2006, to January 15, 2008. Florida Governor Jeb Bush appointed McDonough after Secretary Jimmy V. Crosby resigned amidst a corruption scandal.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]McDonough attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in addition to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he graduated in 1969. He met his wife, Pat, there and they married four days after their graduation.[2]
Career
[edit]McDonough had an extensive military career, including assignments in Africa and the Balkans. He was awarded three Bronze Stars (one for valor), the Purple Heart, and the Distinguished Service Medal, among other honors.[3]
Before serving as Secretary of the Department of Corrections, McDonough served as the Director of the Governor's Office of Drug Control under Governor Jeb Bush, as well as Florida's only drugs czar for seven years.[3] Between 1996 and 1999, he served as the Director of Strategy for the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Bill Clinton. He also served as an associate professor of political