Road to Scottsdale

By Albert J. Lieber

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967302005
• ISBN13: 9780967302003
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: A.J. Lieber
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Interesting Book -- Excellent!

I'm not good at writing reviews. All I have to say is that I really recommend this book to everyone. And, if you don't like reading that much, buy it just for the pictures. They are really fascinating.

When Is ?An Insult? Really a Tribute?

I guess if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, insults to minorities can be in the mind of the reader. The reviewer asks how an intelligent man could say Native-Americans were too unintelligent to understand his mother's kitchen appliances. He didn't. His mom is still remembered as somewhat of a mechanical klutz who couldn't even close a cupboard door let alone keep her car on the road. Her explanations on how her new kitchen toys worked were often confusing, if not boring. She would never have wasted her time demonstrating them to her many minority friends, whose friendship she treasured, if she thought them stupid. Likewise, the author's dad may have hit it big on his first invention, but as the book portrays, it was hilariously downhill after that. This book is a terrific compliment to Scottsdale minorities, free thinking pioneers and their mutual contributions to our early Scottsdale society. Somehow we all managed to help one another through tough times and became stronger for it. This book fairly describes Scottsdale in the late thirties and early forties. It is ironic that during this very same period other good books were being branded and burned on the other side of the world. I urge the reviewer to reconsider. He has done a real disservice to the minorities of early Scottsdale.

An historical account

A reviewer complains the author maligns Native-Americans as unintelligent and ignorant because they were in awe of new electronic gadgets. The year was 1937, not 1950 as the reviewer contends. Nowhere in the book can I find such an assertion implied or otherwise. He tells of his mother giving guided tours to "her Indian and Mexican friends" showing off items that were not yet in their kitchens or anyone else's in town for that matter. That "they displayed great patience... and pretended to understand her demonstrations" could well be due to his mother's lack of mechanical skills, which he speaks of elsewhere, not their lack of intelligence. On the contrary, regarding Native-Americans, the book starts with a lament that an elegant Native-American chief was reduced to selling firewood, criticizes "Indian Schools," provides many color photos of beautiful Native-American art, and finally praises the author's Navajo scientist office-mate at Los Alamos Laboratory for his striking free thought abilities like his father's. It is hardly a book about unintelligent people, but rather is about very racially diverse, creative folks working together. Clearly the reviewer needs to read the work more critically and avoid the knee-jerk reactions that are sadly becoming all too prevalent in our now dangerously polarized society.

Great book! Great pictures!

I found this book very interesting. The pictures are amazing and the stories are both intriguing and interesting. I enjoyed reading the book, and I enjoyed the style in which it was written.Contrary to the reader who found it insulting to Native Americans, I found it to contain a fair representation of life back then. I didn't think Native Americans were portrayed as unintelligent -- merely that they didn't partake in modern conveniences, be it by their choice or socio-economic reality. I appreciate historical accounts that are fair and accurate, rather than those that conform to today's overly-PC society. This book provides that.

Road to Excellence.

This is an awesome, electrifying book. Once I started reading the bood, I couldn't stop until I was finished. Even then, I went back and looked and the great pictures. I really recommend this book.