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I won't spend this time to describe myself, but to rather admonish many reviewers. I think that book reviews tend to be weighted toward the high end, due to the fact, that when people realise they are reading a 1,2 or 3 star book, they simply give up half way through and therefore never rate them. Readers, in general, are always ready to rave about a book they love, and therefore rate it highly. R… Read moreI won't spend this time to describe myself, but to rather admonish many reviewers. I think that book reviews tend to be weighted toward the high end, due to the fact, that when people realise they are reading a 1,2 or 3 star book, they simply give up half way through and therefore never rate them. Readers, in general, are always ready to rave about a book they love, and therefore rate it highly. Reviewers also like to receive those helpful votes which pile up fastest on books you rave about rather than ones you, rightly or wrongly, deride, though you would think people would be more grateful to be warned of a bad book than to unknowingly be decieved by trumped up praise for mediocre one. You may find more books rated more harshly in my portfolio than in some other reviewer's portfolios but I hope you realise it's my honest opinion and I try to make all my criticism thoughtful and constructive. Thank you and good reading!
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Very well written, it lends itself to being read in a few days. It portrays Ike as a very complex and multifaceted man, much more than I had expected before reading it. I remember, not being able to wait until Ike goes to war in Europe. But actually the African Campaign is the most tedious reading in the book. The most entertaining part of the book, was the political intrigue of the presidency, which I enjoyed immensly. Still, I wish that there had been more about Ike's relationship with Nixon and more explanation of his mysterious final address, in which he spoke of the growing power of the military-industrial complex.
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This is truly an autobiography, and one in which the author spends the time and the courage to face down many of his inner demons and past wrongs. There is no other book which I have read which better relates why the left as it existed in the 60's and 70's was truly evil. No matter how prejudiced you may considered yourself in either direction of the political spectrum the story will certainly make you reconsider what you thought you knew. Betrayal would be the overarching theme to the work, personal and political and often the two are intertwined such that they are not distinguishable from each other. The reason I rate this 4 instead of 5, is that I think that often times the author… Read more
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The first 80 odd pages of the book, where Postman establishes his proposition that the mode of communication shapes what is communicated, how, to whom and the entire perception of the world, is nothing short of brilliant, his expose on the written word, compared to oral, and then the introduction of the telegraph, all ring true and I would consider irrefutable. And then the second half of the book, is where he begins to attack TV, on the grounds that the medium is corrupted, corrupted at the core from its very nature and therefore all communication through it is warped, and since we're all couch spuds, where all warped, the world is gonna blow up and crash into the sun. Now, that leap of… Read more
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