Review:This book sits in an uncomfortable position. It is largely anecdote driven, which makes it hard to justify the lengthy page count. It is largely an explanation of how things work in Scandinavia with relatively superficial suggestions of how to transplant them to the US. To a certain extent that is okay: just having a better explanation of how other countries do things can open the eyes of Americans who, like all people everywhere, assume that their policies, choices, and way of live is universal... Read more

Review:Exaustively researched, & excellently written! This book should be mandatory reading. It clearly lays out the real basis of America's Middle East policy; unswerving support for the state of Isreal; &, insistance in "Isreal's right to exist", i.e.: a Crusade to bring about the "second coming of Christ"! Read more

Review:A must-read for any English major! Other than that. . . sections of Hobbes' argument have been greatly helpful in writing articles for my blog; you'd be surprised at how much video games and certain works of literature cross over. Read more

Review:Zeihan is a great geopolitical thinker and this book distills his work in a very concise, readable and entertaining way. More then that, the last 12 months have really showed the relevancy of his predictions, coming on even faster then he had anticipated (more on that in The Absent Superpower, another must read).

If you are interested in the larger view about what is happening in the world, where we are going and why someone like Trump was going to be the next president regardless of the ... Read more

Review:Nearly everyone has general knowledge of Watergate and of the efforts by reporters Woodward & Bernstein to unravel the cover-up of the Watergate burglary (and their subsequent efforts to uncover and expose a massive White House effort to derail the campaigns of the democratic presidential candidates).

This books is for those who want to go beyond general knowledge. The book also shows what a challenge it was for Woodward & Bernstein to root out information and to separate truth f... Read more

Review:Really an excellent book. Holland brings to life the last days of the Republic in a way that for me certainly created a page turner of a story. It has all the excitement and intrigue of a well written novel. Read more

Review:This is definitely worth reading. I think many companies are beginning to realize the value of their employees and treat them as assets rather than slaves. I remember working for a large pharmaceutical company and we were "told" to increase our frequency of calls to the medical providers from once every 3 weeks to once every 2 weeks and that they were hiring another rep to be in the opposite rotation such that the providers would be called on every week. It TOTALLY BACKFIRED. We reps tried t... Read more

Review:I trust enough has been written about this book's premise by others. I found it well written and compelling if a bit long and repetitive. I would have liked to see this much more condensed, though I understand why the authors would want to add every stick of evidence they could to make their cyclical view of history as convincing as possible. As for its prophecy that the Fourth Turning is coming around soon, the 2016 Presidential election certainly adds strength to the argument. We will know soo... Read more

Review:this book covered some of same time periods as savage continent which focused on europe but i thought this book was a much better read & it did cover all of the globe after wwII, i recomend to anyone interested in that time period & what happened as soon as the war ended Read more

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