Bøger af Lewis Baker

As parents, we all want our children to succeed-and in today's world, getting into the right college is critical to that success.Unfortunately, the college application process is a complex one, and this holds back far too many students. From the huge variety of paperwork to the fees, requirements, and deadlines, students have a lot of work ahead of them if they want to make the most of their college applications.However, more than any of these logistical hurdles, the one thing that confounds students and their parents the most is a simple question: What's the secret to getting into college?This is a hard question to answer for anyone outside of college admissions. On the one hand, many people preach the importance of perfect grades and high SAT scores, yet students get into top universities every year without these things. Some say colleges want to see students overcoming hardship, while others push for a greater focus on college essays-yet, once again, colleges admit many students without these things.At the end of the day, the reality of college admissions is far more complex than any of these one-sided perspectives. Students need all of these things-good grades, high test scores, compelling writing skills-to some degree, but they also don't need to be perfect. In fact, crafting a successful college application is more about teamwork, passion, and self-reflection than raw numbers.Of course, that doesn't mean you and your child don't have a lot of hard work ahead of you.To truly impress the best colleges in the US, you'll need to help your child not only understand themselves, but their hopes and dreams for the future as well. What are their passions, what drives them, and what story are they trying to tell? These aren't easy questions, and that's where we come in.This book will guide you through far more than just GPA and SAT scores- it will help you understand your role in your child's success and show you how to get them involved too. It will help you take their college applications to another level.In the end, this book will help you push past the myth that college applications are nothing but a numbers game-because they simply aren't. In reality, college is about passion and purpose, and we're here to help your child find both

Set in the twilight years of southern aristocracy, The Percys of Mississippi is a biography of a family in whose bloodline ran both a strong commitment to public service and an equally strong but more private dedication to literature. Following four generations of Percy family history, Lewis Baker chronicles the lives and public careers of Colonel William Alexander Percy, a planter and lawyer; his son LeRoy, a lawyer and United States Senator; LeRoy's son Will, a poet and lawyer; and Will's nephew and adopted son, the novelist Walker Percy. Known as the "gray eagle of the delta" for his piercing eyes and silver hair, Colonel Percy served as a Confederate officer in both the eastern and western campaigns of the Civil War. He returned home to practice law and manage the family's property, but he was soon drawn into the arena of state politics, where he fought vigorously to strengthen the Mississippi River levee system and to protect his district from the perils of Reconstruction. With Colonel Percy's death in 1888, LeRoy Percy inherited his father's law practice and his mantle of leadership in the community. LeRoy used his power as a United States Senator to continue his father's long quest for an adequate levee system; struggled to loosen the Ku Klux Klan's grip of fear on the delta; and campaigned tirelessly to discredit the divisive creed of the state's rising demagogue politicians. In the election of 1911, LeRoy Percy was defeated in his bid to be returned to the Senate, losing to the flamboyant demagogue James Kimble Vardaman, the "White Chief." It was a defeat echoed across the South throughout the dawning years of the twentieth century, as poorer whites rejected the moderate counsel of the planter class, their traditional leaders, and embraced the demagogues' fiery gospel of resentment. It was this troubling, altered South that LeRoy Percy bequeathed to his son William Alexander. Will Percy fought in World War I, taught for a time, and stood at his father's side throughout many of the battles to safeguard the delta from extremism. But Will's true calling was as a poet, and his lasting contribution to the delta would be in the form of a memorial to its past--his memoir Lanterns on the Levee. "During my day," he wrote Will Percy not long before his death, " I have witnessed the disintegration of that moral cohesion of the South which had given it its strength and its sons their singleness of purpose and simplicity." It would be left to Walker Percy to fully confont htis modern, disintegrated South; to seek in such works as The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, and The Second Coming the place of the Percy family's values in a world that has little use for aristocrats.

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.