Druid

John Press points out that it was, perhaps, the common soldiers who first apprehended the horror and suffering of the war in its full intensity, and the officers saw the conflict in a more heroic light than the other ranks (1969, 135). Life in the trenches was miserable for Rosenberg, not only because he was a private, but he was a Jew and an intellectual who did not have anyone to talk to about art or literature. What also makes him different from the other poets is the fact that he was a…

the moon. This is the Sun." He drew out a golden knife with a crescent shaped blade. Quickly the old man cut the berries from the tree and wrapped them in a piece of cloth, handing them to the Jester. "Be careful with them, they are sacred to the Druid. And you wouldn't want to offend me, would you?" With another cackle the old man stretched his crackling bones and began to walk…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…