Retired at last!

Too many unanswered questions. Too few logical conclusions.

Revisado: 02-09-25

The author leaves an amazing, gaping hole in her tale of a worldwide conflagration. . . .by hardly mentioning China (or most of Asia, save for Korea) at all. While this is only one “scenario” of a possible nuclear war, and while China need not be the aggressor or one of the direct and immediate victims, they still share the same planet. The reader would never know it from this otherwise well researched tome. Why is that, Ms. Jacobsen?

In addition, far more time and explanation should have been devoted to an explanation of the bewildering decision of the Russian leadership to launch because the American President didn’t personally call. By that point, Washington D.C. had been destroyed and as many as three high level US officials HAD called the Russians. It wouldn’t occur to the Russian leadership that perhaps the US President had been killed or incapacitated? They wouldn’t even take the calls? Seriously?

I will never get those hours back. Three stars is generous, but this work really is well researched.

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Not worth the 83 minutes

Revisado: 03-01-21

I’m certainly happy that this was available without charge. The narrative goes nowhere... literally. The reader is left at sea. And yes, without a paddle or any conception what could have possessed the author to write such an incomplete tale. I suggest you avoid this maritime debacle.

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Frank, revealing, reflective and honest.

Revisado: 09-03-18

This couldn’t have been an easy exercise for the author, coming as it did so close to the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton comes across as a stable, reasonable voice looking at perhaps the most painful chapter in her life. She also makes clear why the events she describes may likely prove to be the opening chapter of the most painful story in American history. This book concentrates on the facts of the 2016 election and its immediate aftermath. It is not for the faint of heart, nor will it be appreciated by the weak-minded who easily accept the constant lies of her opponent.

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Why we all lost when the Tea Party came to town

Revisado: 03-15-16

Robert Draper has given us the unvarnished (and often ugly) truth about the rise of the phenomenon known as the Tea Party. This unpalatable group of extreme right wing Republican politicians represent the worst America has to offer, a fact ably demonstrated by Draper. They are suspect not the only in their actions and motivations, but even down to their core "principles", and Draper documents the results of the Tea Party's duplicitous presence in American government: gridlock, near shutdown and waste. Don't miss this book!

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