Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD15 reviews Lou Cannon Basic Books, 1999 Balanced and In-depth + Very good insight into the LAPD, Riots and Rodney King + The only book you need on this subject! + CNN Headline News + Film Every Five Minutes = Injustice             The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years12 reviews Haynes Johnson Harcourt, 2001 Readable and interesting + Hard to put down Had to read this for a History class-- it was totally interesting, highly readable. I hadn't closely followed the OJ trial, nor the Monica Lewinsky scandal, so this was fairly refreshing for me, to find out what those were all about. There was more to the book, though-- it was an interesting ...             We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda215 reviews Philip Gourevitch Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 Never Again - Again and Again + "The Idea is the Crime" + One of the best books I have read in a long time + The best, most educational and most gripping account of the genocide             The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky ...110 reviews Washington Post, Kenneth W. Starr PublicAffairs, 1998 This is an outstanding report + Bizarre! Entertaining! Educational! I was brought back to the Starr Report after reading and reviewing the 9/11 Commission Report. I found the 9/11 Report to be lacking as a legitimate investigative report: it was incomplete, imprecise, and full of statements which were arrived at through compromises between Republican members and ...             Black Hawk Down4 reviews Mark Bowden Corgi Books, 2002 Great + Ooh-Ahh!! For the Hoo-ah. Gung-ho best takes on the Somalis. + Book Summary and Review + taut action thriller...             Quentin Tarantino: Man and His Movies, The4 reviews Jami Bernard Harper Perennial, 1995 The single best book about Tarantino + Well researched, well written + A great scoop on Tarantino's beginnings + Excellent, well written book, with a lot of information.             The Collapse of Yugoslavia 1991-1999 (Essential Histories) Alastair Finlan Osprey Publishing, 2004 In 1991, an ethnically diverse region that had enjoyed decades of peaceful coexistence descended into bitter hatred and chaos, almost overnight. Communities fractured along lines of ethnic and religious affiliation and the ensuing fighting was deeply personal, resulting in brutality, rape and torture, and ultimately the deaths of thousands of people. This book examines the internal upheavals of ...             Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War30 reviews Rick Atkinson Mariner Books, 1994 Exciting And Well Written + A Better Look.... + If you want toknow what really happen in DS + Not a Definitive History, but Compelling             The hunting of the President : the ten-year campaign to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton / Joe Conason and ...1 review Joe Conason New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2000 A must read book! Who would have thought that the "vast right-wing conspiracy" was true after all? This is a well written book for the non-political junkie. I read it a few years ago and it's the one book I keep reflecting on about the Clinton years and the disaster that's in the Whithouse now. If only Clinton had ...             Microsoft Rising: ...and other tales of Silicon Valley1 review Ted G. Lewis Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr, 2000 Tales of Silicon Valley If you are looking for a real history of Microsoft or the rising of Silicon Valley (this was my case), then this is not the book you are looking for. Instead, this book contains some articles of Ted Lewis (written between 1993-1998) that shows the evolution of the hi-tech industry. Each article ...             Grunge Kyle Anderson Aurum Press Ltd, 2007             The Enduring Revolution: How the Contract with America Continues to Shape the Nation6 reviews Crown Forum, 2005 The "Contract" still lives, and so do we + An insight into policymaking, with gusto + Contract ON America ? + The Winning Ticket             Quest for the Presidency 19923 reviews Thomas M. Defrank, Mark Miller Texas A&M University Press, 1994 Interesting and Informative + The 1992 and the Presidency at hand. + Compelling and comprehesive telling of '92 race I found this book to be extremely interesting and full of insight about the candidates and their campaigns. It also effectively represents the overall mood of the campaign and the issues facing the US at the time. Fascinating for anyone who is interested in presidential elections, and politics ...             Crazy Like a Fox: The Inside Story of How Fox News Beat CNN17 reviews Scott Collins, 2004 The rise of a news station + CNN just doesn't get it;...nor do they even care! + Dishonost Name, But An Interesting Read The spectacular rise of CNN has been put off by a newer story of Fox News. The Fox news phenomena are discussed here and their rise from taking Greta Van Sustran to Neil Cavuto is explained. While I think they downplay the significance of the second gulf war in really capturing ratings the author ...             One Soldier's War10 reviews Arkady Babchenko Grove Press, 2008 Cry of the soldier It is just a coincidence that I finished reading this sad and terrifying book while at the same day news tell us: "MOSCOW -- Missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry rolled through Moscow's Red Square in the annual Victory Day parade Friday. President Dmitry Medvedev said "the true purpose of ...             Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat43 reviews Wesley K. Clark, 2002 Insider account of the Balkans crisis + Clark's Got it. + Something to upset everyone This book is formally an autobiography, but pays scant attention to the first 50 years or so of the author's life. Instead, Clark has written a strong account of his involvement in the two Yugoslav wars that took place in the 90s; first the Bosnia war, where he worked as a military adviser to ...             The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)286 reviews Lawrence Wright Vintage, 2007 A plot cooked up by cavemen with computers + Good intro to the topic + An Excellent Primer on Al-Qaeda's Birth and Growth + The Looming Tower + Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to Insanity             American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing65 reviews Lou Michel, Dan Herbeck Harper, 2001 Book by Lou Michel: American Terrorist + This is the best book written on McVeigh/Oklahoma City + A Highly Disturbing Book. + fascinating read + Patriotism vs. Terrorism             Tony Blair: Prime Minister4 reviews John Rentoul Little, Brown Book Group, 2001 Tony Blair - A Reverent Prime Minister and Politician + Rentoul's Blair + TONY BLAIR Prime Minister by John Rentoul On 4-th of july 1964,Tony was woken by his mother in the morning and as soon as he heard the first words coming out from his mother - he knew that something wasn't right and he was right about that. Tony's father had a stroke and it wasn't sure whether he's gonna make it or not. This day was the ...             Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)3 reviews Eithne Quinn Columbia University Press, 2004 An interesting interdisciplinary study + Unintentionally Proves The Point The author explores the genesis and maturation of Los Angeles-based gangsta music and culture during the post-Civil Rights era. She ties the genesis of gangsta to the time when the U.S. manufacturing economy shifted to a service based economy, urban areas were neglected and the neoconservative ...