Bill Crawford

Bill Crawford thought his modern-day Republican Party would lift Mississippi off the bottom, a notion born of Gil Carmichael’s vision for good government conservatism. A Republican’s Lament tells of Crawford’s dedicated efforts to implement Carmichael’s vision, his keen observations of Mississippi’s struggles, and his critical commentaries over the past half century.For more than fifty years, few people have had a better view or a wider variety of roles in the ups and downs of Mississippi and its communities than Crawford. The Canton native has been a daily newspaper reporter, a crusading small-town weekly editor, a Republican Party leader, a reform-minded Republican state representative, an influential Institutions of Higher Learning Board trustee, a successful banker, a community college administrator, a state economic development official, a community development leader and nonprofit founder, a mentor of developing community leaders, and a syndicated political columnist. From Gil Carmichael's vision for good government and Haley Barbour’s pragmatic conservatism to starve the beast and truth management politics, poverty and the Cycle of Prosperity, Faulkner’s curse and other behavioral shadows, the Ayers case, and more, Crawford weaves a unique and eventful story about his home state’s enduring dilemmas and a clarion call for its better possibilities.

"Life From The Top Of The Mind" combines mindfulness, neuropsychology, and cognitive psychology into a comprehensive system for accessing one's clarity, confidence, and creativity by accessing a specific part of the brain, and avoiding the stress and frustration that get in the way of our success by avoiding a specific part of the brain. Dr. Crawford's system then demonstrates how to deal with difficult people by getting them to shift from their resistant brain to their receptive brain, so that they actually hear and understand what you are wanting the to know."Life From the Top of the Mind is one of those rare books that can change your life In it, Dr. Crawford boils profound principles into practical steps for addressing daily challenges and living a life of purpose. This book isolates the science behind our 'failures' and 'successes, ' and helps us reprogram ourselves and our organizations for happiness and effectiveness."Joe Frodsham, Author and Former Director of Leadership Development for Whirlpool.In addition to holding a master's degree and doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Houston, Dr. Bill Crawford is a psychologist, author of seven books, and organizational consultant. Over the last 30 years, he has created over 3500 presentations for such organizations as Sprint, Shell, The American Medical Association, PBS, and many other organizations, both nationally and internationally. In fact, his two PBS specials have been seen by over fifteen million people, and he has been quoted as an expert in such diverse publications as The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Investor's Business Daily, Working Mother, and The Chicago Tribune, just to name a few.

A chilling catalogue of the men and women who have paid the ultimate price . . . Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977, the Lone Star State has put nearly 400 prisoners to death - far more than any other. Texas Death Row is a remarkable compendium of these condemned men and women, which starkly reveals details of their crimes, sentencing, last meals and last words.Macabre, unsettling and alarmingly compelling, Texas Death Row offers a disturbing glimpse behind the prison walls and into the grim realities of the execution chamber.

Texas politicians are a lively, sometimes controversial, always entertaining breed, and the ways they have chosen to put themselves and their messages before the public are equally as interesting. Anything and everything that can be printed with a candidate's name, image, and slogan-from buttons and bumper stickers to chewing gum, pocket knives, and plastic pickles-is likely to turn up in a Texas political campaign. Though many consider these items ephemeral, collectors value political memorabilia as a fascinating "sound bite" record of the candidates and issues that engaged the voting public over decades. Texas Political Memorabilia presents just such a pictorial history of Texas politics, the first ever compiled.Drawn from the vast personal collection of Chuck Bailey and augmented with items from other private and public collections, this book presents the most exceptional, most memorable, and most informative examples of Texas political memorabilia. The featured items cover everything from the presidential campaigns of Lyndon Johnson and both George Bushes, to U.S. House and Senate elections, to statewide races for governor and the Texas House and Senate, to county and city elections. All the major figures of twentieth-century Texas politics-as well as Sam Houston and Davy Crockett-are represented in the book. To set the images in context, Chuck Bailey and Bill Crawford provide background on the candidates, races, and issues that inspired many of the pieces pictured in the book.From LBJ's Stetson-shaped ashtrays to Jake Pickle's plastic squeaker pickles to George W. Bush's "W" buttons, Texas Political Memorabilia is a treasure trove of the nuts and bolts and buttons of Texas politics.

Before the Internet brought the world together, there was border radio. These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, beamed programming across the United States and as far away as South America, Japan, and Western Europe. This book traces the eventful history of border radio from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s. Along the way, it shows how border broadcasters pioneered direct sales advertising, helped prove the power of electronic media as a political tool, aided in spreading the popularity of country music, rhythm and blues, and rock, and laid the foundations for today's electronic church. The authors have revised the text to include even more first-hand information and a larger selection of photographs.

Chronicles the bizarre statements, lifestyles, and misguided actions of many of the world's most admired movie stars, including Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Judy Garland, and Clint Eastwood

Aerosmith. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Nine Inch Nails. Ozzy Osbourne. U2. What do all of these artists have in common? They're rich and rowdy rock 'n' roll renegades whose wild stunts, dumb quotes, and out-of-control lifestyles are featured in Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things. --Where else will you find an explanation (goodness knows, we need one) of the Spice Girls' fourteen and one-half minutes of fame straight from the mouths of babes--Baby Spice, that is? "We're like a religious cult."--Or where will you learn Izzy Stradlin's (of Guns N' Roses) deep thoughts on the virtues of vomiting out of a bus going sixty-five miles an hour?--And how live octopuses end up in a bathtub with Led Zepplin's female playmates? Whether you're a Metallica or Madonna fan, you'll get plenty of jaw-dropping facts and anecdotes, along with biographical and career highlights of over eighty-eight raunchy rock 'n' rollers. From current starts like Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love, to classic rockers like the Rolling Stones and the Eagles, Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things is proof that rock music is still crazy after all these years.