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Kissinger War Criminal.......2005-03-01
if you want the evil truth about Dr K and how he undermined the 1968 peace talks, read "No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam" by Larry Berman.
This book explains how Nixon and Kissinger illegally colluded with SVN and Nguyen Van Thieu - he was told by Nixon via Anna Chenault to "hold on, we are going to win" and "you will get a better deal with us". So Thieu says he won't talk peace, Nixon wins, Kissinger openly changes sides after working with the Democrats, and together they crank up the war.
The point is: The War could have ended in 1968 if it were not for this man - Dr Death himself, Henry Adolf Kissinger!
"They sew the wind and reap the whirlwind. . .".......2001-04-10
This second volume of Henry Kissinger's memoirs begins with Nixon's sweeping victory in the 1972 presidential election over George McGovern. Nixon/Kissinger, now operating with an overwhelming national mandate initiated some of the most formidable foreign policy initiatives in history. Success seemed inevitable. However, there was a cancer growing on the Nixon presidency, one that would ultimately prove fatal; it was called, "Watergate."
The Nixon/Kissinger team did the seemingly impossible by negotiating an end to the war in Vietnam. Sadly, after Congress refused further support to South Vietnam, all they could do was watch as the Communists systematically violated every agreement solemnly sworn to in Paris. His description of the strange alliance between liberals and conservatives to hamstring the presidency is interesting. George Wallace said, "Politics makes strange bedfellows!" Never were, "bedfellows," so strange as here.
The crisis in the Mid-east made the author a legend in his own time. He describes the key leaders and analyzes their positions and motivations brilliantly. From these analyses, the famous, "shuttle diplomacy" that forged a peace agreement between the seemingly intractable parties was born. Students of international relations should read this section carefully.
Not all was well. The Year of Europe, the Arab oil-embargo, and the decline of détente were all seen during this period. Regrettably, all probably could have been accomplished except for Watergate.
Kissinger shows how Watergate steadily sapped the presidents' base of support, preventing him from operating effectively. Congress, the media, and even some members of his own cabinet eventually turned on him. Kissinger's explanation of how this was handled domestically and internationally is essential reading for political scientists and students of international relations.
The title of this review comes from the the book of Hosea, Chapter 8, Verse 7 of the Holy Bible. Despite good intentions and spectacular successes, Nixon had "sewn the wind" with his unnecessary misdeeds during the election. He then "reaped the whirlwind" of protest caused by moral outrage and national discontent stemming from a decade of war. Was this justified? You decide!
Years of Upheaval is essential reading for historians of the period, political scientists and students of international relations. I highly recommend it to anyone desiring insight into the events of this turbulent era.
Superb.......2001-01-20
What I most enjoyed about this book were (1) Kissinger's analyses of leaders and diplomats like Sadat, Meir, Dayan, Mao, and Chou (the last of whom he seems to admire the most), (2) his humor, as when he describes his dinner with King Faisal or how he missed the TV announcement about his appointment as Secretary of State, and (3) his candid portrayal of Nixon, who comes off as awkward and bizarre. Kissinger's own egomania is very much in evidence, but in a way that is entertaining rather than irritating, because you can tell that he is not trying very hard to conceal it.
Action under the most difficult of circumstances.......2001-01-10
In this continuing memoir, Henry Kissinger writes of his experiences of his transition from National Security Advisor to Secretary of State during a point in the Nixon Administration that represented the greatest constitutional crisis in America since the Civil War. Starting with the beginning of Richard Nixon's second term, Kissinger goes into stunning detail by describing the immense frustrations in trying to stop the war, not only with Vietnam, but also with Cambodia and Laos. He goes on to discuss "The Year of Europe", a soon to be defunct policy about American action in Europe in 1973. Naturally, the Year of Europe was mortally wounded by Watergate. The Watergate scandal politically forced Nixon to make Kissinger, one of the most Popular people in America, The New Secretary of State. In that role, Kissinger continued and extended his influence in such matters as SALT, and a hugely surprising war between Israel and an Egyptian-Syrian coalition. He discusses his gradual high respect for Anwar Sadat, and his mother-son like relationship with Golda Meir. Most importantly, he discusses his interactions with the soon to resign Richard Nixon. This book does its best work by teaching respect for foreign policy leaders who are in almost impossible positions and who must find a way to make their country safer in the world.
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a great read.......2007-07-30
Henry Kissinger gets slammed for self-promotion, but like the saying goes, 'it ain't bragging if you've done it,' and this volume is full of 'been there, done that' anecdotes. It should be read together with 'white house years.'
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Best-selling author, Larry Burkett, looks at Y2K and the growing world-wide economic instability and gives his evaluation. Will it be a boom or a bust economy? Either way, the seven basic principles he shares will provide God's wisdom to investors of all ages and incomes.
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Laughable predictions.......2002-01-03
I pick up this book in the local library. I am glad I did not waste money to but this book. Buckett claims that he is a Christian but he lacks Christian character in the introduction. "... a Christian finanial planner, who is not very successful in his own right, wrote a book in which he attacked my previous book..." He may disagee on what other people say about him, but calling names like "not very successful" is not a Christian act.
Some of the terms stated in the book is just wrong. e.g. "Treasury bills are fairly illiquid investments, because you need to hold them for a year or more." (p. 61) This is not true. T-bills are the most liquid investment you can find for SHORT term money. T-bill are short term investment with a 365 days maturity or less. I never heard of anybody who could not sell their T-bills and have to wait to maturity.
Most predictions (if not all) provided by Backett in chapter 4 about the economic fallout from Y2K are ridicous and wrong. As we know now those predictions never happened.
"Our immigrant population, rising medical costs, national defence, and particularly our nation's moral bankruptcy must all be reckoned as economic liabilities." (p. 95) Buckett tries to blame immigrants for the economic problems in the nation is just down right racist.
This is just another of his book to misuse the Bible for his fundamentist ideas. I just wondered, what would Jesus do with this book?
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"On or about December 1910," Virginia Woolf once wrote, "human character changed." In the great capitals of Europe and America, the gray veil of Victorian values lifted; modernism, once the province of a few artistic experimenters, took the fore; subjects hitherto not considered to be fit for polite society, from women's rights to free love, became the subjects of parlor discussion.
New York's Greenwich Village, writes Princeton University historian Christine Stansell in this engaging study, became the epicenter of this great social earthquake. Fueled by wealthy patrons and fed by refugees from Europe and the Midwest, New York's once isolated bohemian community generated social trends that would be widely copied, and in the process "made Greenwich Village into a beacon of American possibility in the new age." Among their number were the anarchist politician Emma Goldman, the radical journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant, and the writers Eugene O'Neill and Kenneth Burke, all of whom insisted on making an art form of one's life--and on rattling a few cages while doing so. The individual actors in this social revolution, Stansell observes, may be little remembered today, but elements of their belief--openness in social relationships, equality among men and women, and "a skepticism at once relentlessly questioning of America and entirely embroiled in its future"--are our common coin today. --Gregory McNamee
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A brilliant account of the legary American bohemians, hailed as "the best book ever written about this era, these people, and the ways they shook up our national culture for good" (Michael Kazin)In the early years of the twentieth century, an exuberant band of talented individualists living in a shabby neighborhood called Greenwich Village set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away sexual prudery, stodgy bourgeois art, and political conservatism as they clamorously declared the birth of the new.Christine Stansell offers the first comprehensive history of this legary period. She takes us deep into the downtown bohemia, which brought together creative dissenters from all walks of life: hoboes and Harvard men, society matrons and immigrant Jews, Wobblies and New Women, poets and anarchists. And she depicts their lyrical hopes for the century they felt they were sponsoring -- a radiant vision of modernity, both egalitarian and artful, that flourished briefly, poignantly, until America entered the First World War and patriotism trumped self-expression.
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A solid introduction.......2002-01-27
Although the 1910s are often thought of as the tail end of the Progressive Era, Stansell makes a strong case that that decade actually saw the genesis of a social progressivism that slammed the door on the Victorian era in America. She also argues - a bit less convincingly - that the 1910s marked the beginning of New York's Greenwich Village as we now know it. But whether you accept the latter thesis or not, there is no doubt that the legendary neighborhood played host to some of the most important social activism of the early twentieth century. Stansell provides an impressive overview of the events and the lives of the people behind them.
Given the sheer magnitude of her subject, Stansell is necessarily sketchy in places, and the book suffers on occasion from an overly wordy, academic style. But she does provide a succinct look at the era's most important activists: especially Emma Goldman and also Randolph Bourne, John Reed, Margaret Sanger, Mabel Dodge and many others. The book doesn't pretend to be a biography of any of them but does whet the reader's appetite for learning more about them all. The same is true of the events it describes, particularly the successes and failures of the labor movement and the evolution of the feminist movement beyond advocacy of women's suffrage. (A particularly fascinating part of Stansell's story is the tension between labor and feminism, a division that stymied the left back then much as it does now.) Stansell ends her narrative with a brief assessment of the Red Scare and the quick end it put to the radicalism she delineates earlier in the book. She doesn't really examine the social progress of the otherwise-conservative 1920s and beyond or demonstrate how the radicalism of the 1910s laid the groundwork for it; but the case for that is quite clear after reading this.
The book contains little contextual information regarding the societal conditions of the preceding decades and almost none for the following ones, so Stansell's argument is easier to appreciate if you already have some knowledge of those times. Still, it is a good overview of an underappreciated bridge between two well-documented eras, the people who got us across that bridge, and the environment they lived in. If you want to learn about America in the 1910s, this book may or may not tell you all you want to know. But if not, it will definitely lay the groundwork for understanding whatever event or person you're most interested in.
Dissenting from Bourgeois America.......2001-03-27
Princeton University historian Christine Stansell's City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 was splendid, and this book, which examines the creation of a "bohemian" sub-culture in New York City in the 1890s, also is superb. (The image of "bohemia" as the antithesis to middle-class values owes much to Puccini's opera "La Bohème," which was first produced in 1896.) According to Stansell, bohemian New York "was one manifestation of gathering revulsion against a society that seemed locked in a stranglehold of bourgeois resolve." That is an intriguing thesis, and Stansell provides wonderfully-evocative profiles of many of the New York pioneers of American modernism. Anyone interested in the origins and development of 20th-century American culture should read this extraordinary book.
Stansell succinctly defines bohemia as the "revolt against bourgeois convention," and she writes that New York's bohemia was widely believed to be peopled with "youthful libertines who despised bourgeois respectability and material success." One respect in which bohemia rejected middle-class certainties was to permit innovation in gender relations, and the appearance of the "New Women" in New York beginning in the 1890 is among the most important events Stansell describes.
What Stansell characterizes as the "dissent from bourgeois life" took many forms, and it is difficult to generalize without oversimplifying, but her chapter on political radical Emma Goldman begins with the important point that modernism tended to merge "disparate phenomena." According to Stansell, Goldman "championed modern dance and modern drama, free love, homosexuality, and martyrs of the labor movement," and she was a forceful advocate of "militant anticapitalism." I would recommend this book solely for Stansell's multi-part sketch of Goldman.
Stansell's discussion of changes in the publishing industry also is excellent. According to Stansell established publishes were increasingly criticized as "aging, smug, priggish, stodgy," attributes which probably could have been assigned to middle-class leaders of all facets of turn-of-the-century American society. In contrast, Stansell writes, independent publishers, "mostly well-off German Jews," marketed literature with a political nature, as well as "birth control information, pornography, and papers advocating free love." Stansell incisively observes that the frequent battles of this era concerning censorship laws were part of a broader "contest for cultural authority..., a battle over who was to determine the content of literature," and censorship opponents "were delighted to find themselves free-speech heroes."
Stansell's discussion of the political and cultural content of the revolt against middle-class America demonstrates the complex interplay of ideas, as does the section of her book entitled "The Human Sex." According to Stansell, the moderns rejected the "crippling convention of their parents' generation [that] had set the sexes against each other by segregating people into separate spheres." It probably is not surprising that, in addition to advocating sexual democracy, radicals of this era often supported women's suffrage. Furthermore, Stansell writes, "controversy over contraception often "turned into a free speech issue." Stansell's bohemians had liberated attitudes toward sexual activity, and she notes that "free love" also signified talking and writing about [sex], a lively discourse of sexual conversation and revelation."
I suspect that Stansell goes to far when she asserts that there was a "crisis of the bourgeoisie" beginning in the 1890s. Indeed, I would argue that there have been few periods in American history when middle-class values were more dominant. But Stansell is absolutely correct that the New York bohemians' resistance to bourgeois hegemony challenged numerous conventions of American society and culture, and many members of the American middle-class considered themselves to be under assault.
Most of the books I read concern military or political history, but Christine Stansell's American Moderns was fascinating, and I recommend it without qualification.
Disappointing.......2001-01-16
I was looking forward to this book, which I'd hoped would shed some light on the real meaning of "bohemian," a word that's been tossed around a lot and seems to mean different things to different people. I was disappointed. Stansell is maddeningly vague, forever raising many more questions than she answers. Since the author never defines her terms, the book flits from one idea or scene or character to another, without ever settling down into a proper narrative, or even a proper chain of ideas. None of it comes alive, and the insights are not surprising. If you have some basic knowledge of the early 20th century Greenwich Village "scene," you won't learn much new here.
Beautifull and Erudite.......2000-06-04
I was amazed by the erudition of this book. So much knowledge and so many chunky footnotes, yet the author never weighs you down with all she knows (and she really knows her stuff). You get an new and amazing understanding of not just New York but America in the early 20th c.
Fascinating, First-rate History of Greenwich Village.......2000-06-02
Did you ever wonder how this one tiny area of The City evolved into a sanctuary for artists, writers, the excluded and those otherwise constrained by the conventional? Wonder no more. Thanks to Christine Stansell, professor of history at Princeton University, we have the informatively compelling American Moderns, the first comprehensive portrait of that transformational, turn-of-the-century avant garde dedicated to free thought, free speech, free love, even free sex in the face of a persistently Victorian ethic. This seminal work represents an exhaustive exploration of a cultural phenomenon which irreversibly altered not only a band of bohemians, but the psyche of modern America itself. Sure, this country has somehow moved from the 19th Century's wicked repression and exploitation of children, women, minorities and the waves of immigrants who made their way to these shores. But how? In an alternately erudite and entertaining style, Ms. Stansell makes her case, as she breathes life into archival materials which include the papers and memoirs of Emma Goldman, Mabel Dodge, Georgia O'Keefe, painter John Sloan, Margaret Sanger and many other pioneers of the era.
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How did the universe come into being? What is the meaning of human life against the blackness of infinity? Religion and science have many answers to these and like questions, answers that sometimes meet but more often diverge.
In this book-length conversation, French Buddhist monk Ricard and Vietnamese-born astrophysicist Trinh explore how Buddhism and modern science address life's big questions. Among the matters they touch on, sometimes fleetingly and sometimes in depth, are the illusory nature of phenomena, the guiding intelligence of nature, and the search for the mechanisms that drive planets and humans alike. Both authors, each conversant in the other's medium, argue against reductionist views of nature. And both provide plenty of data that support Albert Einstein's declaration that "if there is any religion that could correspond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."
Hard-nosed skeptics will perhaps find Ricard and Trinh's reconciliation arguable. Still, the record of their conversation makes fascinating reading and provides a useful overview of scientific reasoning and spiritual inquiry. --Gregory McNamee
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Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize—winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he left his life in science to study with Tibetan teachers, and he is now a Buddhist monk and translator for the Dalai Lama, living in the Shechen monastery near Kathmandu in Nepal. Trinh Thuan was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam but became intrigued by the explosion of discoveries in astronomy during the 1960s. He made his way to the prestigious California Institute of Technology to study with some of the biggest names in the field and is now an acclaimed astrophysicist and specialist on how the galaxies formed.
When Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Thuan met at an academic conference in the summer of 1997, they began discussing the many remarkable connections between the teachings of Buddhism and the findings of recent science. That conversation grew into an astonishing correspondence exploring a series of fascinating questions. Did the universe have a beginning? Or is our universe one in a series of infinite universes with no end and no beginning? Is the concept of a beginning of time fundamentally flawed? Might our perception of time in fact be an illusion, a phenomenon created in our brains that has no ultimate reality? Is the stunning fine-tuning of the universe, which has produced just the right conditions for life to evolve, a sign that a “principle of creation” is at work in our world? If such a principle of creation undergirds the workings of the universe, what does that tell us about whether or not there is a divine Creator? How does the radical interpretation of reality offered by quantum physics conform to and yet differ from the Buddhist conception of reality? What is consciousness and how did it evolve? Can consciousness exist apart from a brain generating it?
The stimulating journey of discovery the authors traveled in their discussions is re-created beautifully in The Quantum and the Lotus, written in the style of a lively dialogue between friends. Both the fundamental teachings of Buddhism and the discoveries of contemporary science are introduced with great clarity, and the reader will be profoundly impressed by the many correspondences between the two streams of thought and revelation. Through the course of their dialogue, the authors reach a remarkable meeting of minds, ultimately offering a vital new understanding of the many ways in which science and Buddhism confirm and complement each other and of the ways in which, as Matthieu Ricard writes, “knowledge of our spirits and knowledge of the world are mutually enlightening and empowering.”
“The Quantum and the Lotus is a mind-expanding, eye-opening exploration of the exciting parallels between cutting-edge thinking in physics and Buddhism–a scintillating conversation any thinking person would delight in overhearing.” —Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
“The Quantum and the Lotus is the rich and inspiring result of a deeply interesting dialogue between Western science and Buddhist philosophy. This remarkable book will contribute greatly to a better understanding of the true nature of our world and the way we live our lives.” —His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Excellent book!.......2007-08-29
Fascinating book focusing on BIG questions about the nature of reality around us and, indeed, inside us!:) Everybody interested in frontiers of science and it's limitations or willing to explore mind-matter topics and much more will find this easy-to-follow presentation of the authors really refreshing.
An absolutely great dialogue on the nature of things.......2006-08-16
This book is a record of a meeting of two men. Each chose a different path on the same quest - understanding the nature of things. One is an astrophysicist, the other is a monk. They present methods, discoveries and beliefs of both paths - and find them closer than they thought. Their dialogue is enriching and informative.
I learned a lot from this book, both as a Buddhist and as someone interested in modern science. My copy has been already read by my father and my friends.
Highly recommended.
Trinh Xuan Thuan failed evil test.......2006-03-22
Prf. Trinh Xuan Thuan did not believe in Buddhism because it is THE truth. He knew the only cosmological model that fits Buddhist cosmology is the oscilatory model (Big Bang, Big Crunch, Big Bang, Big Crunch, ...) but this model is scientifically NOT proven.
Prf. Trinh believes Buddhism as the "cosmic religion" (he quoted Einstein) because he did not pass the EVIL (specially evil in religions; he quoted the crusades, the jihad, etc.) test: i.e. why evil, why God did not intefere, etc.....
To me, Trinh's Quantum failed Trinh's Lotus......
Enlightenment - Now in Paperback!.......2006-03-16
This dazzling spectacle of literary genius brought tears to my eyes. Its graceful picture of the universe transcends the pages so that the reader may feel the heartbeat of all creation become one with their own.
Contemporary Physics, Buddhism, and Metaphysics.......2005-06-22
I was a bit skeptical upon first seeing this book. I worried about another floofy book about New Age/Western Buddhism. Thankfully, my fears were unfounded. This book is a fairly dense "argument" between the present positions of astrophysics/quantum physics and the Buddhist metaphysics. I'm a philosopher by trade and I read a lot of popular science books (especially in physics) so I managed well with the text. However, I think it may frustrate some persons without any background. So, ultimately, unless you are somewhat familiar with contemporary physics, you might want, regrettably, to skip this one.
The Buddhist in the book is a very intelligent chap, more than capable of explaining/defending his position. And he successfully presents Buddhism in a very intellectual manner. I learned a lot about the Buddhist position with regard to cosmology - which is wonderful because that's what I hoped to get out of the book. I think this book should quiet some of the stereotypes of Buddhists... and it would be most enjoyed by persons who do not draw a hard absolute line between natural science and religious practice.
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