Having had the opportunity to check out this remarkable band during several stages of it's unending metamorphosis, I am well aware of what a Nazareth show sounds like. I am equally aware of what a Nazareth show feels like. This outstanding collection has somehow managed to capture both ! The sound quality is in a word ... impeccable ! The interaction between band and crowd is as it should be. The reason for my rating being four stars out of five is.. This live disc is so utterly fantastic, that it should have been a double or triple disc release. I've left one star open for "Snaz 2".

Poor, artless phrasing, combined with pointless detail and endless repetition make this a durge of a read. Even Ronald Reagan, who I've always admired comes off as a boorish clown in this one. Only Peggy lets herself shine. God, what an ego.

...and indeed I am certainly NOT one by any stretch of the imagination. Noonan has written one great book about the presidency, life in the White House, speech writing, and the political process and how it interacts with the media. The portions of the book on how she wrote speeches for Reagan and Bush and how they got edited in the staffing process are particularly well-written, insightful, and at times downright funny. Noonan remains loyal to Reagan but she is not so blindered that she fails to note some of the short comings of his hands-off style. Her policy views are sometimes simplistic (you're left wondering if she thinks the world can be governed from what you learn in a Capra movie) but this is after all a memoir and she does a very good job of taking you on her trip. Well worth reading.

NEVER RECEIVED THE BOOK!! MERCHANT WAS RESPONSIVE TO MY INQUIRIES ABOUT SHIPMENT, BUT NOTHING EVER ARRIVED.

For teenagers who know nothing of the Reagan years, this is a good introductory account from a second-tier Republican. For those of us who lived through them, it is a banal rehash on the level of the prose one finds in _Newsweek_ or _Time_. The insights are few, too. This reader's view is that the area in which Miss Noonan was involved, the drafting of speeches for the president, is at once trivial and overrated in importance, so I lament that this book will be many people's introduction to Reaganite (as distinguished from Reagoon or Reaganinnie) political thinking and activity; still, it's better than nothing.

...other than that, this book is absolute drivel. From the moment we are assured that our part in the Vietnam War was 'basically good' right through to the end, Noonan seems to prefer disregarding history or any serious examination of the left. This book is a good portrait of how a conservative's mind works (if you're interested in such a thing, which you probably shouldn't be)