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Another somewhat decent history book ruined by an author’s Trump Derangement Syndrome

Revisado: 06-23-24

It’s becoming increasingly hard to find recent historical accounts that are not politicized by authors” bias. This is another one of them. Historians will look upon the 2010s as a lost generation of silly politicization by ideological authors such as this one.

Don’t wast your time, There are several first accounts by secret service agents that are waaaay better. Sorry.

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Cartoonishly Marxist narrated with dripping snark

Revisado: 05-20-24

I picked up this book after seeing a positive review in the Charlotte Observer. What a mistake.

If you are looking for a thoughtful history of Palo Alto/Silicon Valley you’ve got the wrong book.

Disingenuous subtitle - it is a revisionist Marxist commentary about the labor movement writ large, not an actual history of the South Bay.

I got about half way through the book before thinking to look up the author. I assumed Malcom Harris was a bitter old burned out Berkeley professor still fighting the good fight for his leftist cause. Turns out the author is instead a bitter 30 something hipster who in his 20s was an Occupy Wall Street activist. Joke’s on me!

Very disappointing for this reader who grew up and made their living in the technology industry and was hoping for an honest and illuminating history of Silicon Valley - not debunked Marxist magical thinking claptrap.

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This book should be on every Fox New hosts’ deck

Revisado: 10-26-23

By far, the best analysis of the identity trap I have read or listened to.

I have to wonder though, will the progressively “tolerant” cancel Professor Mounk?

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Outliers meets Why do Men Have Nipples

Revisado: 08-11-23

Not nearly as interesting as Outliers. Not nearly as inane as Why Do Men Have Nipples

Multiple narrators was distracting. One of the narrators was particularly cloying in their style. Both did way too much virtue signaling. Most of us do not have the high and mighty opinion of doctors that the authors do.

I only read this because Pater Attia referenced these guys in Outlive. Do yourself a favor and skip this one for Outlive.

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It will make your blood boil

Revisado: 10-09-21

Regardless of your political leanings, if you can tolerate the leftist Obama era claptrap in the first three chapters, this is an excellent book about how capitalism in America has been corrupted by political policy paid for and abetted by corporate lobbyists. It will make your blood boil.

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Loved the book, worried about our future, waiting for the fall out.

Revisado: 12-15-20

But, it will trashed by “progressives” and the non-binary, just two of groups investigated. I’m 60 years old and a professor in a division 1 university. I guess the boomers are to blame for so many of these steps backward. I also of course find issue with non-STEM professors feeding our kids utter garbage and leaving them with nothing but debt, ignorance of history, and even a bigger chip on their shoulders. God help them.


On the other hand, while those who somehow saw through the smoke of these idiotic moments and earned their highly in demand degrees will further the divide between the haves and have-nots (both black and white), (which by the way has NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE after grading students work for many years - it is not uncommon for blacks and other POC students to handily score higher than the privileged white kids names “Trip” and “Trent”, etc. in my advanced computer science classes.



These 23 y-o kids are starting at $90k per annum with some cyber security majors starting In the $200k range. It’s only a matter of time Hispanics will start enrolling college in higher numbers, using their incredible work effort to pass up those relying on protest and politics to get ahead. Good luck with that.



So what is to happen to the activists, their worthless degrees from crappy schools, idiotic and grammatically incorrect signs, their riots, their maskless protests? At about 40 years of age, the lightbulb will come on and it will dawn on them that they made some really, really stupid decisions, when they were younger, leading to all kinds of problems in regard to a living wage, relationships, and as they age many will become embittered, angry, poor, and lonely people. Read Charles Murray’s book about those whites struggling in today’s world. It is even more sad than this book.



BLM activists - this is a greenfield recruiting class (Hispanics) you could embrace, unless race still trumps everything. I wish the subjects of this book the best of luck, I’d start digging out of that hole that the vast majority of YOU created on your very own (not homophobia, not racism, not the cops but just your pure brainwashed stupidity). You are not worthy of America’s pity.

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Great book, anti-climatic ending

Revisado: 09-02-20

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, especially the performance by Nicole Lewis. Great dialogue, funny episodes, but was just a bit disappointed in the ending.

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Too much of the author’s personal animus undermines objectivity

Revisado: 07-02-20

The writer seems to take a lot of trumps actions quite personally. One could say that he is just a patriot and doesn’t want to see the country go to hell. But, by not occasionally comparing and contrasting the behaviors of previous presidents, it’s hard to put into perspective 1) Trump’s behaviors compared to some of the other amoral folks who have also sat in the Oval Office and 2) the author’s overwhelming personal animus towards the President.

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Formulaic, but I like the formula!

Revisado: 05-06-20

Much like some of his prior books, who would have ever thought that through simple mining of college social psychology textbooks and then bringing to life its case studies in a dramatic and occasionally salacious way could yield such an astonishingly body of work.

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The author either suffers from food insecurity or may be a little high on the BMI index

Revisado: 05-30-18

I read all three of the trilogy. By far, the best spy series I have read.

By sheer chance, I listen to it at x0.75, which really made the reading sound way more sinister if you can believe that. You ought to give it a try

I hope the other two books make it to the movie theater. I’d like to say more but I don’t want to give anything away, especially with so many twists and turns.

Net: This was brilliant work

I never did get the recipe part though. 😳

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