31-01-2011, 09:16 PM
Ed Jewett Wrote:Thanks, CD. I look forward...
I finished this book some time ago. Along with a general lack of time, I must pause before I do a thorough review, wondering what it is that I could say that would do it justice. I am re-reading it to review the parts I highlighted and annotated. I will, perhaps, have more to say in the future. The author is rightly not liberal in his attitudes about quoting from it, perhaps because the tale is braided, not told; to share an early piece of it could be dangerously misleading.
But I can and will say the following:
It is a massive work that runs over 700 pages. It is additionally loaded with appendices, footnotes, and an index. It covers events extending over six decades. It is a tour de force. It will gave any American citizen (as well as those from other countries) both an in-depth look at the mindset inside our security apparatus, the degrees to which it will go, and the degree to which it will go to cover up where it went.
It is a reference book for researchers in addition to a vastly important read.
It belongs on the bookshelf of any serious deep political researcher.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"