distaste by many whom we would regard as otherwise leftwingeg HG Wells     From the viewpoint of serious astrologers today Chaney is a major figure who shifted the practice from quackery to a more rigorous method You mean to a more rigorous form of quackery     Removed   This section was removed  Place in literature  The Call of the Wild appears on many best lists including The Observers  greatest novels of all time ranking  and Radcliffe Colleges The  Best Novels of the th Century ranking   Is it really so hard to talk about the merits of a writer without reducing them to some number on a list And the lists are far from NPOV as the creators themselves say or noteworthy IMO  The Observer list takes pride in being Anglocentric and proclaims itself personal prejudiced etc The Radcliffe list is merely a rehash of the Modern Library choices  it says so under the header Please take some time to read and inform yourself on an issue before posting on it      Are there any such lists you would find acceptable  My impression is that the Radcliffe listing was an independent selection from the same set of  books and was specifically intended to correct perceived bias in the editors selection Is that correct or not      See TalkModernLibraryFurthercomments  Yes but it is still basically a rehash      Category suicides   On checking I see that the definition of the category is Suicides are people who committed suicide  In the case of Jack London the evidence has never been clear Clarice Stasz calls it a biographical myth It was cemented firmly into the cultural consciousness by one particular biography Irving Stones Sailor on Horseback which is widely acknowledged to be a good read but a sloppy mixture of fact surmise and rumor Theres little doubt that as Dale Walker wrote He died of kidney failure complicated by a toxic dose or doses of morphine most likely taken in the throes of pain resulting from kidney stones The question has always been whether he premeditated his deathknowingly killed himself Walker reaches no conclusion Russ Kingman  called it a controversy that probably will never be settled  Londons death certificate signed by four doctors states that his death was due to kidney failure One of them had ascribed it to accidental morphine overdose but changed his mind   Because of the stigma of suicide understandably those who opposed Londons political views have been quick to accept the notion of suicide Conversely those sympathetic to him have tended to question the idea   Jack London certainly belongs in the category of alleged suicides or even probable suicides but there is no way he can be put in the category of suicides assuming that means people whose death is generally acknowledged to have been suicide      Londons racialism and his reporting of JacksonJeffries  Note added later Oops my edit remark was misleading Nobody has suggested that Im trying to whitewash Jack London Im just stressing that thats not what Im trying to do     I snipped   Some of the writings of Jack London are disturbing While he was a reporter he coined the phrase the Great White Hope which was used to describe various white opponents of Jack Johnson the first black world heavyweight boxing champion in the s  for these reasons  Im about  sure that Jack London did not coin the expression the Great White Hope If he did it would actually be a notable contribution to the language and Im sure a biographer would have mentioned it Ive read a number of his press accounts Ill check later but I do not think he even uses that phrase If Im wrong by all means reinsert but provide a source citation  When he was a reporter is somewhat misleading He never really had a journalistic career as such He did try to become a war