Reviews for Mosby's USMLE step 1 reviews--anatomy

The average rating for Mosby's USMLE step 1 reviews--anatomy based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-02 00:00:00 Gabriel Ramirez Fact: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was my earliest "gonzo" literary experience -- an elaborate, Biblical, rambling book with a world-historical anchor and a truth to tell us about poverty and faith. I was practically a kid when I devoured it between three jobs and over coffee -- age 22 or so -- but my impression was of an inspired tongue-of-fire collaborating with a no-nonsense genius photographer, Walker Evans. A professional collaboration, paid for by Fortune magazine no less. So imagine my surprise, reading the man's bio many years later, to find Jim Agee weeping uncontrollably at the foot of the bed as he watched Walker having sex with his pregnant wife Alma. Of course Agee arranged this kink scenario because he believed in universal love and whatnot, but the event scarred him and probably embarrassed all three parties... But that's nothing, Jim's ex-wife was also riding Walker's man-dangle just a couple years earlier. I still can't say I have a grip on Agee, even after reading this propulsive bio. On the one hand he slogged about like a poverty-stricken sot (he "would work a suit into fitting him perfectly by the simple method of not taking it off much" says Evans), yet he was a Harvard grad who never held a regular manual-labor job in his life. He made some babies but never paid much attention to them, while adoring the many simultaneous women he was boning in some abstruse proto-hippie poly lifestyle. He became fast friends with Whittaker Chambers, Charlie Chaplin, Dwight MacDonald, John Huston, the mighty Helen Levitt, and Clement Greenberg (who said this about Jim: "He had the ability to be sincere without being honest"). His film reviews are a frontier of wit and insight; and he wrote the screenplays for The African Queen and Night of the Hunter. His ability to score chicks magically increased as he got doughier and more dissipated, with bad teeth and booze on his breath day and night. Indeed, one could say that round about 1949 (pace Jim Croce) you do mess around with Jim. As he entered his forties he had heart attacks constantly, and at 45 he died in the back of a cab on the way to a regular doctor appointment. "He wanted to destroy with his own hands everything in the world, including himself, that was shoddy, false, and despicable," so went one eulogy from T.S. Matthews. Something like that -- he really did have a sense of principle, and his talent did magically ascend even as he trotted about at the bottom of a whiskey bottle. And of course his afterlife was much better -- hippies and beats and one future President resurrecting 'Famous Men', and cineastes exalting his reviews and scripts. This bio puts all that in front of you in a very gossipy and insightful narrative -- it's obvious Bergreen has a love/hate relationship with his subject too. Highly recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-10-09 00:00:00 Colleen Gaffke This is how a biography should be written. So easy to read, and endlessly fascinating. I knew little to nothing of James Agee before reading this bio, and now I'm dying to get copies of Agee's books. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes biographies or has an interest in writers.