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One of the greatest of American stories has found its great chronicler in Taylor Branch. Beginning with Parting the Waters in 1988, followed 10 years later by Pillar of Fire, and closing now with At Canaan's Edge, Branch has given the short life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the nonviolent revolution he led the epic treatment they deserve. The three books of Branch's America in the King Years trilogy are lyrical and dramatic, social history as much as biography, woven from the ever more complex strands of King's movement, with portraits of figures like Lyndon Johnson, Bob Moses, J. Edgar Hoover, and Diane Nash as compelling as that of his central character.
King's movement may have been nonviolent, but his times were not, and each of Branch's volumes ends with an assassination: JFK, then Malcolm X, and finally King's murder in Memphis. We know that's where At Canaan's Edge is headed, but it starts with King's last great national success, the marches for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Once again, the violent response to nonviolent protest brought national attention and support to King's cause, and within months his sometime ally Lyndon Johnson was able to push through the Voting Rights Act. But alongside those events, forces were gathering that would pull King's movement apart and threaten his national leadership. The day after Selma's "Bloody Sunday," the first U.S. combat troops arrived in South Vietnam, while five days after the signing of the Voting Rights Act, the Watts riots began in Los Angeles. As the escalating carnage in Vietnam and the frustrating pace of reform at home drove many in the movement, most notably Stokely Carmichael, away from nonviolence, King kept to his most cherished principle and followed where its logic took him: to war protests that broke his alliance with Johnson and to a widening battle against poverty in the North as well as the South that caused both critics and allies to declare his movement unfocused and irrelevant.
Branch knows that you can't tell King's story without following these many threads, and he spends nearly as much time in Johnson's war councils as he does in the equally fractious meetings of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Branch's knotty, allusive style can be challenging, but it vividly evokes the density of those days and the countless demands on King's manic stoicism. The whirlwind finally slows in the book's final pages for a bittersweet tour through King's last hours at the Lorraine Motel--King horsing around with his brother and friends and calling his mother (in between visits to his mistresses), Jesse Jackson rehearsing movement singers, an FBI agent watching through binoculars from across the street--that complete his work of humanizing a great man forever in danger of flattening into an icon. --Tom Nissley
Timeline of a Trilogy
Taylor Branch's America in the King Years series is both a biography of Martin Luther King and a history of his age. No timeline can do justice to its wide cast of characters and its intricate web of incident, but here are some of the highlights, which might be useful as a scorecard to the trilogy's nearly 3,000 pages.
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 | |
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May: At age 25, King gives his first sermon as pastor-designate of Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. |
1954 |
May: French surrender to Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu. Unanimous Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board outlaws segregated public education. |
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December: Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott, which King is drafted to lead. |
1955 |
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October: King spends his first night in jail, following his participation in an Atlanta sit-in. |
1960 |
February: Four students attempting to integrate a Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter spark a national sit-in movement.
April: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is founded.
November: Election of President John F. Kennedy |
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May: The Freedom Rides begin, drawing violent responses as they challenge segregation throughout the South. King supports the riders during an overnight siege in Montgomery. |
1961 |
July: SNCC worker Bob Moses arrives for his first summer of voter registration in rural Mississippi.
August: East German soldiers seal off West Berlin behind the Berlin Wall. |
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March: J. Edgar Hoover authorizes the bugging of Stanley Levinson, King's closest white advisor. |
1962 |
September: James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi under massive federal protection. |
April: King, imprisoned for demonstrating in Birmingham, writes the "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
May: Images of police violence against marching children in Birmingham rivet the country.
August: King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech before hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington.
September: The Ku Klux Klan bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church kills four young girls. |
1963 |
June: Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers assassinated.
November: President Kennedy assassinated. | |
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 | |
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November: Lyndon Johnson, in his first speech before Congress as president, promises to push through Kennedy's proposed civil rights bill. |
March: King meets Malcolm X for the only time during Senate filibuster of civil rights legislation.
June: King joins St. Augustine, Florida, movement after months of protests and Klan violence.
October: King awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and campaigns for Johnson's reelection.
November: Hoover calls King "the most notorious liar in the country" and the FBI sends King an anonymous "suicide package" containing scandalous surveillance tapes. |
1964 |
January: Johnson announces his "War on Poverty."
March: Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam following conflict with its leader, Elijah Muhammad.
June: Hundreds of volunteers arrive in the South for SNCC's Freedom Summer, three of whom are soon murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
July: Johnson signs Civil Rights Act outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
August: Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing military force in Vietnam. Democratic National Convention rebuffs the request by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to be seated in favor of all-white state delegation.
November: Johnson wins a landslide reelection. |
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January: King's first visit to Selma, Alabama, where mass meetings and demonstrations will build through the winter. |
1965 |
February: Malcolm X speaks in Selma in support of movement, three weeks before his assassination in New York by Nation of Islam members. | |
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 | |
March: Voting rights movement in Selma peaks with "Bloody Sunday" police attacks and, two weeks later, a successful march of thousands to Montgomery.
August: King rebuffed by Los Angeles officials when he attempts to advocate reforms after the Watts riots. |
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March: First U.S. combat troops arrive in South Vietnam. Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech makes his most direct embrace of the civil rights movement.
May: Vietnam "teach-in" protest in Berkeley attracts 30,000.
June: Influential federal Moynihan Report describes the "pathologies" of black family structure.
August: Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act. Five days later, the Watts riots begin in Los Angeles.
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January: King moves his family into a Chicago slum apartment to mark his first sustained movement in a Northern city.
June: King and Stokely Carmichael continue James Meredith's March Against Fear after Meredith is shot and wounded. Carmichael gives his first "black power" speech.
July: King's marches for fair housing in Chicago face bombs, bricks, and "white power" shouts. |
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February: Operation Rolling Thunder, massive U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, begins.
May: Stokely Carmichael wins the presidency of SNCC and quickly turns the organization away from nonviolence.
October: National Organization for Women founded, modeled after black civil rights groups. |
April: King's speech against the Vietnam War at New York's Riverside Church raises a storm of criticism
December: King announces plans for major campaign against poverty in Washington, D.C., for 1968. |
1967 |
May: Huey Newton leads Black Panthers in armed demonstration in California state assembly.
June: Johnson nominates former NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court.
July: Riots in Newark and Detroit.
October: Massive mobilization against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. |
March: King joins strike of Memphis sanitation workers.
April: King gives his "Mountaintop" speech in Memphis. A day later, he is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel. |
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January: In Tet Offensive, Communist guerillas stage a surprise coordinated attack across South Vietnam.
March: Johnson cites divisions in the country over the war for his decision not to seek reelection in 1968. | |
Book Description
At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King, Jr., earned a place next to James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of American history.
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Thank you, J. Edgar .......2007-05-27
This is the third book in Taylor Branch's masterful series on Martin Luther King and his times, but don't feel you have to read the first two before picking this one up. I read the second volume, Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 (America in the King Years) before the first, Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) and managed to survive. Each book stands on its own as a masterful work of historical scholarship and dramatic narrative.
One difference for me is that this third volume is the first in the series that records events I can actually remember. It is astonishing to think of how dramatically America has changed in my lifetime, and how much of that change is the result of Rev. King's courage. In a recent biography of Alexander Hamilton it was suggested that Hamilton may have been the most important American who had never become President, and he was more important than most Presidents. A similar case can be made for King.
Rev. King is obviously central to the book, but the book offers vivid portraits of his colleagues Andrew Young, Julian Bond and the ever ambitious Jesse Jackson; rivals such as Stokely Carmichael and partner/rival Lyndon Johnson as well as Bobby Kennedy.
During the time described in this book, the Vietnam war escalated to such a level that it overwhelmed the civil rights story as the central news story of the day. King grappled with the issue, and with taking on a President he regarded as the "best civil rights president in history". His conflict between his obligation as an advocate of non-violence to speak out against the war and his civil rights work at home make for some of the most compelling reading in the book and show how it tore the movement apart. Newspaper columnist Carl Rowan is seen blasting King for his criticism of the U.S. Army, which was (and perhaps still is) the most effectively integrated institution in the country.
It is impossible to read this book, especially the sections relating to Vietnam, and not reflect on the current circumstances in Iraq. The most startling difference is in the character of the central players in the White House. Johnson's grappling with the issues in Vietnam, struggling to find a solution to stop the killing before eventually realizing the only possible solution involves him standing down, is a startling contrast to our current smirking, self-centered, political hack of a commander-in-chief.
Another contrast with our times is to realize that in many ways, King's civil rights work in the South was a campaign against terrorism. We are so busy patting ourselves on the back with the idea that "it can't happen here" we forget that our history includes numerous homegrown terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. In general, the book recalls a time when people could look to the federal government to be a problem solver.
Finally, a word of thanks to J. Edgar Hoover, the paranoid cross dresser who seems to have tapped half the phone lines in America during his interminable time as director of the FBI. (Okay, so the book also recalls a time when the feds were an active part of the problem - it is a full, nuanced portrait of a complicated time.) The fact that Branch was able to rely on first hand conversations for so much of his material clearly added a lot to this remarkable book.
Death & Transfiguration .......2007-03-15
This third and final volume of Branch Taylor's trilogy is of all the three the most unambiguously tragic. At times, reading the previous two volumes, I was so heartbroken at the succession of tragic setbacks in the movement that I wondered when and where the great, decisive victories against segregation ended. And ACE is of all the three the one with the most devastating setbacks. It leaves one to ponder if the Civil Rights Movement eventually achieved its immediate goals so sweepingly precisely because the white power structure finally recognized --so to speak--that those goals were compatible with its continued flourishing.
For readers interesting in buying this book: bear in mind that this trilogy is to all intents and purposes a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is NOT a hagiography; Branch frequently mentions the roiling emotions and infidelities of MLK. When contemporary observers remark that a particular appearance or speech fell flat, Branch says so. Perhaps Branch knows this narrative technique is more effective at inspiring admiration than unalloyed praise would have been; perhaps not. But in truth, it's difficult to imagine any sensitive reader not being filled with wonder that such a moral giant like King could even exist.
Rather than duplicate the effort of the other reviewers (particularly the excellent review by G. Bestick, posted below on January 24, 2006), I want to comment on something that has not been addressed by the others. I believe the single most important theme in the trilogy was the exposition of King's doctrine of "nonviolence." I use quotes because "nonviolence" is such an inadequate word to describe the doctrine. Elsewhere, Branch alludes to King's opposition to "enemy-ism," in which King rejects lines of reasoning that culminate in demonization or vilification of one's adversaries. First, King's doctrine acknowledged the common humanity of all people; humans deviated in different paths of moral conduct depending on reasons that are compelling--perhaps irresistible--at the time. Perpetrators are also victims. Second, the resolution of injustice through violence was untenable; the oppressor in any relationship would always win any challenge that employed violence, if for no other reason than because the victorious liberator would become a new oppressor. Third, the practice of nonviolence required unusual discipline and courage, and King was able to transmit the latter through the force of his oratory.
In POF (please see my review for that, also), the rival doctrine was belligerent posturing as practiced by the Nation of Islam and by the segregationist authorities. The upheaval of the '64 elections tended to reflect the loss of face of an earlier generation of white elites, and their replacement by redneck "enforcers." While the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) remained true to the principles of nonviolence, a major ally, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) repudiated nonviolence in favor of Black Power. The new SNCC was utterly ineffectual and quickly vanished. The Black Panthers was doomed from the start with its scorn of all "white" ideologies and its lack of any coherent replacement. New converts to the ideology of self-defensive violence like Charles Evers could not even bring themselves to target known killers; Byron de la Beckwith, universally known to have murdered Ever's brother Medgar, was never threatened by the SNCC.
White supremacist violence now became endemic; before, there were exceptional cases such as the 9/15/63 bombing of a church in Birmingham; but cases of ambush and murder proliferated dramatically after 1965. The destabilization of white supremacist violence now challenged the very survival of American institutions and Southern police forces increasingly intervened against their former Klan allies.
Looming over everything was the Vietnam War, which for King was the most urgent injustice he faced. Johnson hated the war (Stanley Karnow's *Vietnam* confirms this) but was unable to accept defeat in it; King was unable to compromise with a known evil, and the most conservative 60% of white American public opinion dreaded facing up to an unbeatable foe. Frustration and ambient racism further stimulated conservative support for the war, while the fiscal woes inflicted by the war extinguished every remaining trace of Johnson's Great Society. The failure of progressive initiatives, when void of King's own nonviolent doctrines, was universal and inevitable. At the time of his death, King was not so much defeated or even overwhelmed, as he was offset in a floodtide of squalid reaction.
After King, the depressing deluge; and after that, his stunning achievements, like a field of tulip bulbs, bloomed amid the receding glacier. But the triumph of nonviolence was like the glimmers of lightning in a summer electric storm, flashing without warning in random corners of the sky.
Must read for students if the civil rights movement.......2007-03-03
If you are a student of the civil rights movement in particular or the 1960s in general you must read Taylor Branch's book on Martin Luther King. The book guides you momement by moment through King's hardfought but peaceful successes at Montomery & Selma and throughout the South and as the movement moved north with less than peaceful outcomes in Watts, Detroit, New Jersey, etc. Very interesting and insightful read.
must read for all americans.......2007-02-18
this is one of the best history books i've ever read. in fact, it transcends the history genre. canaan's edge is first and foremost about one of the most courageous men in american history -- martin luther king jr. of course, king didn't lead the 60's civil rights movement by himself -- branch's book shows the courage of many people known and unknown.
it also casts other historical figures in a new light. primary among these, for me, is lyndon johnson, who comes thru in these pages as a brave supporter of civil rights, whose civil rights record was eclipsed by his mistakes with the vietnam war. beautifully written, moving, filled with people and powerful vignettes, this is a must read for all americans.
Bringing Reality to History.......2006-12-06
For many who were young during the turbulent 60s, this era has a mythical feel to it. Great figures have been romanticized, whether it was Kennedy and Camelot or Martin Luther King, Jr. and "I Have a Dream." Taylor Branch has found a way to bring reality to those tales. He refuses to glamorize his subject; refuses to sanitize his main character. For an epic look at a story smack in the epicenter of American history, "At Canaan's Edge" is the place to stand.
Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction.
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These three volumes, all First Editions, First Printings, were originally published in 1988, 1997 and 2006.
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Title: Trouble and glory: in the last years before Memphis, Martin Luther King triumphed and stumbled, but he was the defining figure of his era.(At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68)(Book review)
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A must read book.......2002-07-11
I read this book when it first came out. It is a must read book for people of all ages.
His first was shows the struggles of a young American of Mexican decent making his way in life at an early age. When Roy Benavidez entered the Army he had no idea what was to become of him for the rest of his life.
Roy's second war covers his time in the military. His training is explained in this book. His tours of duty are also explained. His courage under fire is really covered very well. He wasn't suppose to be on board a chopper when it went to rescue some fellow soldiers but he jumped on at the last minute to help in any way he could. He soon found himself embroiled in a battle for life--his life.
He was one of a very few survivors that fateful day. His struggle to live makes this book. BUT his third war was that of fighting the US Government for recognition of what he had done--and yet it wasn't he who was doing the fighting--it was those others who survived who wanted him honored. It took more than a decade but he finally received the Medal of Honor.
As a footnote to this review--a ship was named for him and christened on 21 July 2001. The USNS Roy P Benavidez will no doubt see action in a war just like its namesake.
American Hero's Story.......2001-08-06
Excellently written book of the last medal of honor recipient (at that time) of the Viet Nam war. The award was presented by Ronald Reagan in 1982. Chilling account of the battle that earned Master Sgt. Roy P. Benavidez the Medal of Honor. Read about his boyhood life in Texas and his rise through the ranks to become a Green Beret, Special Forces soldier. Learn of his devotion to "duty, honor, country," the words he lived by. You will not believe his act of courage and bravery as he set out to save a trapped and doomed patrol of 12 men that had been inserted into the jungle, unbeknown to the command, amongst a battlion of over 300 Viet Cong soldiers. Although at a base camp in Loch Ninh, he disregarded his own safety and ordered the chopper to fly him into the fire fight. The book accurately describes the battle and Benavidez's heroism. His actions where one of the bravest in the annals of U.S. military history. Oscar Griffin is a great writer who does an excellent job of bringing the story to us. He utilizes his talent and skill in the use of the written word to not just bring us an historical account, but a story of great magnitude to life. The story keeps you riveted from beginning to end. It's more than a story of a soldier, it's a story of an American Hero.
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A sentimental favorite, The Cuckoo's Egg seems to have inspired a whole category of books exploring the quest to capture computer criminals. Still, even several years after its initial publication and after much imitation, the book remains a good read with an engaging story line and a critical outlook, as Clifford Stoll becomes, almost unwillingly, a one-man security force trying to track down faceless criminals who've invaded the university computer lab he stewards. What first appears as a 75-cent accounting error in a computer log is eventually revealed to be a ring of industrial espionage, primarily thanks to Stoll's persistence and intellectual tenacity.
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Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping" (Smithsonian).
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter" -- a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases -- a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.
Customer Reviews:
Outstanding Book.......2007-10-16
I first read this book as one of the texts that were reviewed during an undergraduate computer security course. I found the book to be entertaining and informative. You won't be a better equipped computer security professional by reading this book; however, I think you will be better for it and hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I still recommend this book to people I talk to that are interested in an introduction to computer security.
My wife also read the book. She knows nothing about computer networking or security, yet she found it to be a great story and was able to follow the storyline pretty easily.
75c doesn't seem much but..... .......2007-08-11
Although the event occured some 20 years ago the story is as relevant today as ever. Stoll relates his story well; how an afternoon spent tying up a 75c accounting error in the labs logging software leads him to suspect, and ultimately help catch, a hacker on the KGB payroll. The book is of particular interest to readers in the computing/info technology fields but any reader will find the story interesting. Stoll devotes much of his working day monitoring/logging the hacker's activities, putting aside his regular work. Following the hacker's trail reveals to Stoll how insecure the main US military computer networks are and how easy it is to access sensitive documents. The documents themselves might not be of a classified nature but when they information they contain is combined it provides a major insight in to the activities of the US military. On the way Stoll informs the various US agencies: CIA, NSA, FBI etc. about the hacker to hopefully gain their assistamce. Interesting insight is provided on the internal machinations of the agencies and their seeming reluctance to help. Stoll continues on regardless, tracking the hacker across the US to the European continent. Eventually the govt steps in as they get wind of espionage on a grand scale. The vast majority of the book focuses on Stoll's personal efforts with fairly scant coverage of the international efforts being carried out by the CIA etc. This is a result of Stoll only being able to extract a small amount of info from the CIA about the case. In a way it would have been interesting to have read more about the CIA/KGB end of things but that certainly doesn't detract from the appeal of Stoll's accounts. Well written and recommended.
A World of Acronyms .......2007-07-02
Not only a great story about tracking a Cracker. It is packed with the basics of computer science. If you are interested in computers at all or would like to know a little bit more about how my mind works, pick up this book. It will fullfill your needs for acronyms and problem solving. It will have you captivated to find out the answers to problems still plaqueing our computer systems. I will enjoy re-reading this book to see how my profession has evolved.
The dawn of computer espionage.......2007-06-03
When astronomer/computer administrator Clifford Stoll discovered a 75-cent discrepency in an accounting program, he decided not to overlook it. From this insignificant starting point, the trail led to a computer hacker in contact with the KGB and working out of Germany who was systematically targeting the computers of NASA and the US military. It also brought him into contact with the American intelligence community and led to a new emphasis on preventing computer espionage.
Stoll tells his story in a light, humorous style and explains the workings of computer networks with great clarity. In addition to the mystery of the hacker, I enjoyed a peek into the bohemian lifestyle of the Berkeley community as well as the evolution of Stoll's thinking on computer and national security and the way it put him at odds with many of his left-leaning friends and forced him to take a hard look at many of his own values.
Probably the First Internet Hacking HandBook.......2007-05-13
I read this for the first time in 1992 during my post-grad year. At the time, it was the first decent book about hacking that I could find in a bookshop. Also Bruce Sterling's book "The Hacker Crackdown" gives a different but equally informative perspective. Both books touch on issues that are still relevant today.
In Cuckoo's Egg, I initially expected more technical details, compared to Cliff Stoll's paper published by the ACM, but was still highly entertained and even more informed about the legal and law enforcement issues at the time.
While current Internet usage mainly involves mouse clicks, the average person will gain an understanding of the internet services that are still the building blocks for web surfing.
The hackers tools have evolved significantly, but the basic techniques are still relevant for monitoring, anonymity, routing packets through networks, search and access.
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Appropriately named.......2007-09-16
A cuckoo bird will lay its egg in another birds nest letting that bird raise the offspring as her own.
I saw the TV program on this story before reading the book. Coming from a UNIX background it was fun to see a system I recognized. It could have been titled "The story of Ping" oops that title has been taken. I remember being billed for time on the computer and could only gain access at 2 AM. Many of these skills are now lost to people that do not have a shell account. I especially like how they kept the intruder on the line ling enough to track. The hunt was intriguing and it makes you wonder what is happening today. While this book deals with such things as passwords, the many new avenues created on today's Internet may afford for a newer mystery. Until then this is the classic.
A student managing the computer at Berkley notices an unusual charge to his account. He finds that someone is hacking before it was fashionable. To track down the culprit(s) he must first learn the tracking skills. This process is in its infancy so he even has to invent a few of the skills himself. The use of timing and knowledge of the speed of light allows for a good guess at the distance. The only way to go through the old timing switching stations was to hold the intruder on line ling enough. This required the creation of a dummy database with intriguing information.
Who's is this mysterious intruder(s)?
Will they get caught?
What implications does it hold for us today?
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. (book reviews): An article from: Security Management
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Title: The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. (book reviews)
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So you think you know something about bird identification!.......2007-03-11
I recently came across this bird identification book and almost passed it by until I thumbed through it a bit. Just because it deals with birds from Britain and Europe ,don't let that sway you because many of the birds covered are also found in North America.
This is one of the most unusual " Bird Books" I have seen;and I own around 1000 of them.It is certainly not the book to get if you are just starting out in identifying birds; although anyone,regardless of their skill level,would find it interesting.
This book will bring a gleam to any Birder's eye;especially if he thinks of the times someone walks up and asks; "What bird is this feather from?" , "What bird made these tracks?"," What kind of bird's eggshell is this?,What kind of owl pellet is this?", What kind of bird made this nest?", "What kind of bird's skull is this?",and on and on. Usually the person asking,thinks that since you "know a lot" about birds;that he is asking a very simple question.When he receives a blank stare and a hunch of the shoulders,he is surprised.
The reason for this is that most Birders that you run across in the field,simply don't pay that much attention to this sort of stuff. The identification marks that Birders look for are those found in guides such a the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America ,and similar field guides. One of the main reasons for this is that Birders are looking for birds and listening for soundsd ;but when you come across the things covered in this book;the birds are usually long gone.
However,this book is still a very interesting source for studying detailed aspects of bird anatomy ,plumage ,evidence and habits.
The book would be fascinating to any Birder with a lot of experience and wants to do some detective work in finding the source of evidence he comes acroos in the field.
On the back of the book is a comment that it "is an essential companion for all birdwatchers" .This is a stretch, because most birdwatchers ,who have spent a lot of time becomming adept at field identification;do so with very little of the details in this book.
If you doubt what I'm saying ;think about this. You're out in the field ,the group leader or guru,is "on" a bird. He is trying to sort out an ID point. He turns to the group and asks;"Does anyone have a Bird Guide with them?" Reach into your knapsack and hand him this book;and watch his expression!
There you go;but it is still a very interesting book to add to your collectioon.
How to identify tracks by birds! Here's the solution!.......2000-06-13
A very good illustrated book, plenty of informations about all the signs you could find in a wood, a beach, a street.. Just open the book and you'll be able to find out which species of bird flown on your garden, which one eat your loved flowers... Very nice and veru useful!
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- Basket Gathering
- Becoming George's Brother
- Bless Me Father for I Have Sinned: Perspectives on Sexual Abuse Committed by Roman Catholic Priests
- Boosting the Adolescent Underachiever: How Busy Parents Can Unlock their Teenager's Potential
- Boys To Men: The Transforming Power of Virtue
- Bratton's Family Medicine Board Review (FAMILY PRACTICE BOARD REVIEW)
- Breast Cancer Survival Manual, Fourth Edition: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Woman With Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer
- Breast Health the Natural Way: The Women's Natural Health Series
- Bringing Home Baby (0 to 4 Months) (Parent-Tested Tips for New Moms and Dads)
- Children with Visual Impairments: Social Interaction, Language and Learning
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- The Non-Designer's Design Book
- Strange Dreams - Collected Stories & Drawings
- Paths Not Taken
- Tempest Rising: A Novel
- Schaum's Outline of Programming with C++
- River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion
- Secrets Of A Gay Marine Porn Star
- Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin
- Prehistoric Peoples: Discover the Long-ago World of the First Humans
- Amino Acids and their Derivatives in Higher Plants
Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 (America in the King Years)
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Pivotal Moments in American History)
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Team of Rivals
