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Superb Reporting

Revisado: 07-21-19

Beyond the great reporting, the vivid characters, fine details, and construction of story presents a compelling book.

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Rich in detail; compelling work

Revisado: 02-08-19

Our family listened to the radio for evening entertainment when I was a kid. Television hadn't come to our town yet.
Tonight, we skipped Netflix, turned up the mobile phone and listened to the finish of this compelling story.
What a great reporter the author is. A true reporter in the old sense of the word. Great reporting, great story- telling, and a vivid book.

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Needed to Be Told

Revisado: 10-21-17

The revelation of the overwhelming effort and power of misinformation in politics and the media is enlightening and detail-packed in this book.
It's refreshing to see a journalist still write with perspective, documented examples and personal insight.
However, listening to audio, it's sometimes difficult to keep track of so much detail from records, emails, financial filings etc. Listeners, expecting a smooth-flowing narrative may be disappointed. Listeners who want facts will be rewarded.
For those who haven't been faithful media consumers for the past couple decades and watched the enormous shift from journalism to agenda-driven newspaper and television reporting, this is an excellent overview, and sad what the country has come to.
If you've been a daily media consumer, you likely will recognize some of the players and practices, and applaud the fact that Sheryl Attkisson has put this together in a book.

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WWI in the Middle East region

Revisado: 10-01-15

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Good overview as well as details on how all the powers dealt with this part of the world during WWI.The Fall of the Ottomans was well told, but I wish the author had included one chapter on the rise of the Ottomans for those of us who hadn't read just how that came about.
But a very fine book.

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Don't give up listening

Revisado: 01-09-11

Unfortunately, the author must not have had an editor to help condense the first half of this book to one-third its length. But please, bear through the author's burden, as the second half of the book is what the story is all about. It is an American government outrage. Little was reported in the press about this aspect of Katrina, that the would-be rescuers spent time setting up and conducting a concentration camp rather than saving or helping storm victims.

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Innovation runs into government

Revisado: 09-25-10

The book is about one aircraft. But author Richard Whittle provides insight into how government (bureaucrats and officers, processes, budgeting) and private companies and their executives affect one product, a military aircarft. The books gets into the Pentagon, Bell and Boeing, but is driven by key civilian and military players in the development of new aviation technology. Importantly, Whittle shows how key decisions trickle down, and can mean life and death to the lives of our servicemen and women.

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Quickly turned off

Revisado: 07-12-08

If you enjoy hearing someone brag about himself for hours will you like this book.

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Powerful, perceptive, personal

Revisado: 08-08-07

I don't know who could better examine this subject than someone fascinated by, driven by, and drawn to, war. Chris Hedges has found ways to get himself into conflicts over the past 20 years, not as a detached, in-the-briefing-room journalist, but as someone at the scene, again and again and again. He describes the emotion of living in war, the emotion when war is over, why and how conflicts begin, the importance of words. He lives with and talks with participants, blending their words and his observations with the literature of war, ancient to modern. From history, philosophy, theater, he adds perspective with others' voices. We are fortunate for his experiences, drawn together with that of others in the conflicts to offer meaning to this subject. Those bound by slogans and preconceptions may have to loosen up to gain the book's intended value. But the book is personal in more than the living and writing, Hedges also does the narration. Very well done.

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How many listens

Revisado: 12-09-06

This is such an informative and entertaining book, it is so informative, I know I'll have to listen again and again. I can't say this for other books, but for this one, I can fast forward through some areas and still find plenty of enjoyment more than once.

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The stories behind the history

Revisado: 12-09-06

It's good to learn the details and stories behind what you thought you knew about this part of American history. The author shows what it took to survive, relationships with Indians and how that relationship changed over time. Beyond a bit too much personal detail at times, this book is an overall good read if you like history.

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