Jimmy buffett unauthorized biography of howard

Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Previous set of slides. Ryan White. Jimmy Buffett. Next set of slides. From Publishers Weekly In 27 years of recording his own songs, Jimmy Buffet has managed only one top hit: 's "Margaritaville. Backed by assiduous primary and secondary research though denied an audience with his subjectNashville-based music scholar Eng The Satisfied Mind: The Country Music of Porter Wagner chronicles Buffet's evolution as a musician, entrepreneur and political activist.

We hear from long-forgotten bandmates and dive-bar acquaintances, and from Buffet himself through Eng's prodigious unearthing of the musician's interviews with relatively obscure periodicals like Colorado Homes and Lifestyles. Unfortunately, Eng suffocates his narrative with wildly extraneous trivia, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and unfunny asides.

It's the rare fan who will care what the singer's alma mater served at a banquet held 50 years before Buffet's enrollment. The same applies to Eng's unsupported opinions on everything from the nature of creativity "Art largely comes from the subconscious" to modern political history the CIA created LSD, etc. Parrot Heads willing to peck through such material will find a densely detailed, largely sympathetic rendering of their hero, balanced by Eng's atypically harsh conclusion that Buffet's career ultimately "contributed to the tourist homogenization of Key West.

Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc. Buffett's career spans nearly 30 years, with 32 albums that defy musical categorization and a cultlike following akin to that of the Grateful Dead. The preface begins with a letter from Buffett to the author dissuading him from carrying out his project and dismissing him as a "self-promoting hack.

The book is well researched, with excerpts throughout from interviews and radio, newspaper, and magazine articles. The discography is one of the best, with separate sections for singles and albums, containing song listings for each. The only criticism is that the text is somewhat disjointed and difficult to follow in the beginning.

A welcome addition to most libraries, not solely for its merits alone but because it is the only biography on Buffett to date.? Regina L. Beach, Mississippi State Univ. From Booklist Eng profiles laid-back crooner and "Waspafarian" extraordinaire Buffett in a book so casual it should come with flip-flops and a faded Hawaiian shirt. He reports how this mellow son of Mobile, Alabama, achieved his comfortable if not exactly overwhelming status in the world of pop music with plenty of day-to-day detail and behind-the-scenes insight.

By way of a preface, Eng reproduces two letters, the first from Buffett, asking Eng to drop his plans for this unauthorized bio, for the singer is planning an autobio--when he's 86! Eng is true to his word, and gives us a man who has several creative interests movies, novels, and essays, besides music and some serious political involvements.

Cheerful, and delightfully including an exhaustive discography, this unauthorized bio well fills the bill until Buffett turns Parrot heads Buffett fans should flock. Mike Tribby. Eng, author of The Satisfied Mind: The Country Music of Porter Wagner includes a letter from Buffett near the beginning of the book urging the author not to finish the then-uncompleted work.

The letter's inclusion suggests that Eng has written a no-holds- barred biography--which might have worked even without the cooperation of its subject. Buffett's music is heavily influenced by sailing, the Caribbean, and its history. Eng includes much to connect Buffett to lore of the last two centuries. During his last term in Congress, the Korean War was rapidly undercutting what remained of right-wing anti-interventionism.

He was not impressed with the manner of US entry: "Truman entered that war by his own act," that is, entirely without constitutional authority. According to Murray Rothbard, Buffett always believed that if the secret Congressional testimony of Admiral Hillenkoeter were ever declassified, it would reveal that South Korea had begun the shooting war in Korea.

Jimmy buffett unauthorized biography of howard

In the years after his retirement from Congress, his disillusionment with the new school right-wing interventionists and with US foreign policy became total. But he never changed his fundamental outlook. Inhe wrote of the evils of conscription and the policies which demanded it: "In its abolition of freedom, peacetime conscription overshadows all other collectivism and regimentation.

When the American government conscripts a boy to go 10, miles to the jungles of Asia without a declaration of war by Congress. Surely, the profits of U. Here Buffett ties together the whole bundle. Imperial foreign policy is costly, reduces liberty, and risks war and militarism, which in turn reduce liberty while increasing costs. With syllogistic precision, Buffett zeroed in on the logical consequences of empire and the eternal conflict between power and liberty.

U nlike National Review magazine, Buffett really did stand athwart the path of "history" yelling Stop! The latter is principled and sound on precisely those issues with which concerned Buffett. Unhappily, fame does not always descend on those who might be thought to deserve it. Or you might come up with a younger Howard Buffett, who is an ecology-friendly photographer, among other things.

Floy Thompson… Nobody knew more about living at the end of the road than Floy, my dearly departed friend and patron. An impromptu visit to her house could result in anything from tea with Tennessee Williams to having to help the yard man clean her pool. Somewhere between here and there, I hope you will be listening. Phillip Burton — I have been blessed in recent years to look into the eyes of age and learn from the experience.

Instead, he found a new lease on life in the tropics which he gave back to those who were fortunate enough to make his acquaintance. Phillip was a teacher and my afternoons spent at his little frame house on Angela Street discussing plots and characters, tours and projects were times I will never forget. I remember when I was trying to develop my villain colonel Cairo for the Joe Merchant book and was having trouble and I asked Phillip for some advice.

I headed home that evening loaded down with more books and homework then I had ever done in 18 years of supposed schooling. Colonel Cairo became a true villain thanks to Phillip. I last saw him at a rest home in central Florida where we chatted in the sun and took pictures with his caretakers in a small grove or orange trees.