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Knights Without Armor: A Guide to the Inner Lives of Men
$16.95
I read this book in 1992 (?) and it gave me an entirely a new perspective on myself as a white male American. I was so taken that when I got to the end and saw that Aaron invited readers to contact him I did. Consequently I went to Santa Rosa to meet him and ended up not only attending a course he and his partner were giving at Sonoma State but got involved deeply in men's work. I included this and Aaron's other books on the reading list I used for a course I tought on men and women for 13 years. And it led to my writing an essay "Confessions of a Recovering Male" which has been published in several places, including an unauthorized translation into Slovak!

Aaron is real. He speaks from his heart and from a life that has been a challenge for him (as I suspect all men, including myself, find life.)

I am delighted to see that it has been re-issued. Just read it; if you are a woman trying to understand a man, or a man struggling to understand himself or a son/daughter trying to understand your father. The ultimate irony of all this is that I came upon this as Amazon Recommendation #500 something on a day in which I made email contact with Aaron for the first time in many years!

(Although the reviewer line above says I am from Claremont, CA, I emigrated to Tasmania 4 months ago and am now a resident of Hobart, TAS, Australia)

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Knight Without Armour ( Knight Without Armor ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
$20.99
Staring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat, KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR (1937).

This is a Korda production, so it pretty much goes without saying (at least to anyone that knows Korda Bros. movies) that this is top notch all the way, sets, costumes, everything.

Donat is a writer working in Russia just before WW1. Dietrich is an aristocrat with a father who is none to popular with angry Bolsheviks. Donat is recruited to be a spy for his country when WW1 breaks out and changes both their lives. Donat and Dietrich spend a lot of the movie on the run, getting burned by both bloodthirsty sides during the Russian Civil War.

This is more the suave Donat from COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO as opposed to the more "academic" Donat from things like MR CHIPS and THE CITIDEL. Like Mr. Chips, this movie is based on a book by James Hilton, whose novels RANDOM HARVEST and LOST HORIZON were also adapted into great movies.

Also of note in this movie is John Clements who is really great as a sympathetic "Red". Clements also did some fine work in movies such as THINGS TO COME(1936) and FOUR FEATHERS(1939). This is basically a showcase for Dietrich however. She glows in every shot she's in. There is some lovely cinematography in this by Harry Stradling, an academy award winning cinematographer for THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and MY FAIR LADY. He has many other fine film credits under his belt, including STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
There are so many lovely shots in this film. One scene with Marlene running in a flowing white nightgown outside across the grounds of her grand estate. A great opening shot at a race track that fills the screen with men in top hats. A lovely sillhouette shot of Donat and Dietrich in a carriage, black against white clouds.
Some really fine work here both technically, musically (it features a great Miklos Rozsa score, early in his career) and in the acting department.

Marlene was still considered box office poison at this point. Her popularity had plummeted shortly after her breakout role in THE BLUE ANGEL. KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR was also considered another Dietrich flop at the box office. It wouldn't be until DESTRY RIDES AGAIN that Dietrich would be back in favor with the studios.

Donat, still two years away from Mr. Chips, suffered from a major asthma attack during filming, something he suffered with until his death. It was so severe that Korda considered replacing him. However, Dietrich went to bat for Donat with Korda and was able to keep him on the project, even going so far as to help nurse him back to health.

Anyways...its a great dramatic action movie bordering on epic in its history based theme. Very exciting and fun movie.

Knight without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958
$39.95
Knight without Armor is the definitive biography of one of the most substantial yet unknown historians of the twentieth century. No historian of Hispanic descent has matched Castaeda's success, with eighteen books and nearly fifty articles published in three decades. He was also one of the most distinguished historians of his time, having earned accolades such as knighthood in the Vatican's Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and in Spain's Order of Isabel la Catlica for contributing to the study of Catholicism and the history of the Spanish borderlands in North America. In his rise to prominence, Castaeda had to overcome financial burdens and ethnic discrimination. Rising from humble origins in South Texas, he fought to improve school conditions in the barrios of San Antonio and Del Rio and served on Franklin D. Roosevelt's Committee on Fair Employment Practice during World War II. In 1939 he became a professor and historian at the University of Texas, where he taught Latin American and Catholic history. His seven-volume study, Our Catholic Heritage in Texas, 15191950, has been called the best work ever written on the Spanish colonial era in Texas. Until his death in 1958, Castaeda educated others on the history and culture of Hispanic Americans and courageously sought equality for his people. Author Flix Almarz has drawn on writings, interviews, and photographs from private collections as well as extensive data from state and national archives in this worthy tribute to an important historian.