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36 reviews
Brad Thor

Pocket, 2005

Fantasic Thriller!
Brad Thor's character, Scot Harvath, is a great hero. The book is a great, fast-paced read. I enjoy that Brad Thor does a lot of research on his books. It is a great thriller!

The Revolution: A Manifesto

657 reviews
Ron Paul

Grand Central Publishing, 2008

A Clear Argument for Liberty -- and a Solution to What Ails Us
Ron Paul's _The Revolution: A Manifesto_ is NOT an anti-government tirade. It is a clarion call for a return to the kind of government the American Revolutionaries fought for. So, for example, in foreign policy, Congressman Paul calls for a return to the posture toward the world that was favored by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: peace, commerce, and friendship with all nations, ...

The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.)

283 reviews
Michael Chabon

Harper Perennial, 2008

Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon has written a masterpiece of a mystery with The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Imagine Fargo in Alaska, with an imaginary Jewish community. In his book, Chabon has rewritten history - making the area around Sitka, Alaska a temporary homeland for the Jewish nation after (in the book) the nation of Israel has failed. In two months, this temporary oasis will revert to its former status ...

The True Story of the Bilderberg Group

47 reviews
Daniel Estulin

Trine Day, 2007

'The Open Society and its Enemies' revisited
Sir K. Popper has always stressed that general conspiracy- and complot theories were pure imaginations of bogus historians and paralyzed politicians. He also stated that the only justification for taking up arms was to defend democracy. Well, in this book Daniel Estulin unveils without any doubt the existence of an extremely serious secret cabal, for whom the democratic political process must be ...

Child 44

130 reviews
Tom Rob Smith

Grand Central Publishing, 2008

Gripping Dystopian Murder Mystery
Tom Rob Smith writes Stalinist Russia so well, I kept checking the jacket picture to make sure he wasn't an 80 year old man. Incredible tension keeps you turning pages from start to finish. Compelling central character who actually learns and grows, as do the supporting characters. Somehow, this book qualifies as both "high" literature and genre fiction--the best combination. This book just may ...

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

42 reviews
Howard Blum

Crown, 2008

Who Knew?
In this nonfiction narrative we follow William J. Burns, a former Secret Service agent into the "crime of the century". When the LA times offices blow apart in 1910, a plot to bomb 100 American cities comes to light. As a true crime reader, I found American Lightning everything I want in a book and more: engaging detective, conflicted defense attorney, celebrities, and a richly told tale of ...

The Brothers Karamazov

109 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind
At the beginning of my freshman year at college, a girl told me to read this book, it would 'change my life'. She wouldn't elaborate further. Now that I've read it, maybe I shouldn't either. Read it. Odd, its one of the most painful books I have ever read, it left me a wreck when I finished it. But its...comforting. Not in the story, in my own life. That won't make any sense till you ...

City of Thieves: A Novel

48 reviews
David Benioff

Viking Adult, 2008

Perfection
Set aside some time for this book; you'll want to read it straight through to the end. A fast-moving adventure story with believable characters, it includes all of the elements that I love in a book: a backdrop of an actual time in history, excitement, danger, true friendship, love, a quest. It's a perfect book.

Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia

14 reviews
Thomas Graboys, Zh Peter

Union Square Press, 2008

anyone with parkinsons should read it.
my husband has parkinsons with dementia and i have been reading it to him. he has related to most of the things the Dr. has told of his experienced. i feel it has made him feel better about himself. i must say i feel the same because i am his caretaker and i see this everyday. anyone with parkinsons or anyone that has someone with parkinsons should pick up this book and read it. sincerly. ...

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

22 reviews
Michael Dobbs

Knopf, 2008

No One's in Charge
Wow. Even though everybody knows how the Cuban Missile Crisis ended, this book had me sweating it out. The new info that Michael Dobbs turned up made me realize that no one really knew what was going to happen. The politicians, from Kennedy and Khrushchev on down, were kind of making it up as they went along. I had learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis in school, but this book brought it to life ...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

11 reviews
Nikolai Gogol

Vintage, 1999

Sheer Genius (and a good translation)
This is the kind of writing that makes me questions why movies even exist. The style, the sentences, the humor, the feel is all something unique, unpredictable, and unmistakable. These plots are bizarre, intriguing and it is nearly impossible to guess the endings. All this coming from a translated work is a success for the writer and the translators. The Overcoat, Diary of a Madman, & the Nose ...

The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

27 reviews
Parag Khanna

Random House, 2008

A Five Star Fraud
Since it appears that only four and five star reviews get prominent placement at Amazon, I have decided to recast my review of this miserable book as a five-star review. The Second World Parag Khanna, a Washington based foreign policy analyst, has written a book titled The Second World, part geo-political tome and part travelogue. Robert Kaplan describes it as "a savvy, streetwise primer ...

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service

10 reviews
Andrew Meier

W. W. Norton, 2008

THE LOST SPY
"The Lost Spy" by Andrew Meier is above all, a masterpiece of research, and story telling. The author takes the reader into a dark but fascinating labyrinth of idealism, espionage, and...murder. Jaded by labor disputes, union battles with striking workers, social unrest, anti-Semitism, and college politics mixed with America's entry into World War I, an intelligent young man named "Cy" ...

Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia

7 reviews
Marshall I. Goldman

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Excellent Background!
"Petrostate" provides good insights into Russia's comeback after its late 1990s nadir, as well as an understanding of its economic-political strategies. Russia regained its place as the world's largest oil producer in 2007; energy generates about 30% of Russia's GDP and 60% of its exports. Russia is a major energy provider to Europe and the U.S. The U.S. buys $10 billion of Russian ...

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within

217 reviews
Bruce Bawer

Broadway, 2007

The Multi-cult Mess in Western Europe
Bawer is a homosexual who found out that gay rights and freedoms are being threatened by the Islamic minority in Western Europe. He also writes about how Islamicists are threatening other values of liberal democracy. Without really knowing Islamic culture very well, Western European leaders brought in Muslims who despise liberal democracy As they grow larger in numbers, they seek to take Europe ...

The Master and Margarita

341 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov

Vintage, 1996

A extraordinary novel
There is little I can add to the many excellent reviews of this unique novel; it repays re-reading and study. Professor Kevin Moss at Middlebury College maintains an excellent site dedicated to this novel. There are illustrations from various editions, maps of places and a guide to the characters. Professor Moss describes the site: "These Master & Margarita pages are intended as a ...

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

4 reviews
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

The best book I have read in years! A real eye-opener.
For any who have any nostalgia for the Soviet Union, this book should put it to rest. This book is hard to categorize; it is more than one man's opinion, but less than an objective history. It is, as Solzhenitsyn puts it, "an experiment in literary investigation": a combination memoir and dissertation on the evils of Communism and its inevitable product, the forced labor camp. Some have ...

The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West

13 reviews
Edward Lucas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Is Russia assembling a new Axis of Evil?
Russia is heading in an ominous direction that poses a threat to its own citizens, neighboring states and the world as a whole. This book with its disturbing message takes a hard look at the Russian ruling elite which emerged almost entirely from the ranks of the old KGB. Harboring resentment and malice against the West, this elite's attitude is crude and unsophisticated compared to the hostility ...

The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia

14 reviews
Tim Tzouliadis

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Disturbing stuff
I saw a review of this book in the Economist a few weeks ago, and it reminded me of a brief newspaper article I read in about 1996. It talked of thousands of US POWs who had disappeared after WW2, apparently kidnapped by the Russians. At the time I thought that was pretty big news given the uproar over the relatively small number of MIAs in Vietnam. It was just a cursory article, and when I ...

The Russian Revolution

8 reviews
Sheila Fitzpatrick

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

The Russian Revolution did not end in 1920.
Fitzpatrick's short book about the Russian Revolution is so concise one has to wonder if she skimped on the facts. This is not the case. Anybody reading the book can only remark that thickness is not indicative of weight. All one needs to know about the Russian Revolution is in this slim volume. Fitzpatrick's main contention is that the Russian Revolution did not end in 1920, but rather in the ...

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