Andy

The part about the CIA is fantastic.Skip the rest

Revisado: 05-12-21

This book is to books. There is the 1st part about the CIA that is extremely interesting. It gives a lot of back storyAbout an operative

Then there's the next part about the hero who is awesome at everything but nobody sees it and is awesome iShe is strong and powerful but is a victim of all kinds of people who don't like her. Not even women like her because they are all bad people.. Why can't they see that she's awesome and skilled and the best thing ever at everything. Memorises baps with ease. Suits with the skill of a sniper. Interrogates with the skill of the KGB and the cold war. There's never been anybody like her. None of these mean people can see it

Stop at the part where she's done at the CIA and this is a fantastic book..

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Revisado: 07-29-15

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SLOW

Revisado: 12-23-10

The book starts off interesting, and quickly turns into your senile grandfather complaining about his grudges from 1960, until everyone starts giving reasons to leave the room.

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Great Ideas

Revisado: 12-23-10

I think the best compliment I can give is that I finished the book 4 days ago, and have been using many of the methods and thoughts the authors give. I have also been telling friends about them, and they have helped with their own changes.

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Great Information

Revisado: 12-23-10

Having read, "Influence", my expectations were high, and I was not disappointed. Tons of useful information, very well written, and a great book.

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Revisado: 12-23-10

I hoped this book would be good on the level of Invisible Gorilla. It was not. I as a conservative, also did not appreciate the chapter on how liberals are free thinking, brave people be nature, whereas conservatives are insecure, order hungry buffoons, who hold on to beliefs that have been debunked for decades, according to the author.

I came to this book as suggestions from reading such book as "Invisible Gorilla", "The Upside of Irrationality", "Yes", and "Switch". All of these books are great. They give information that is really interesting and useful. This one tends toward, "people like are better than people like you.

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Mis-Titled

Revisado: 07-01-09

Well, at least Mr. Dyson devotes a third of the book to Dr. King, which is why I bought it. The title should have been, "A bit about Martin Luther King, and mostly how racist the USA is, and why Dr. King would now support everything I believe".

Mr. Dyson does give a good history, and delves into the history of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. He then goes on to pontificate about his own thoughts for most of the book.

At the end of the book, he has a fake "interview" with King, and talks about how Dr. King would support EVERYTHING the Democratic party now says. In this "interview", King says how awful it is that "Christians use the gospel to distort reality against GLBT brothers and sisters". I think it is equally appalling for Mr. Dyson to hijack a prominent leader who is dead and cannot answer, to tell people he would agree with political positions which Kings' beliefs would not support.

Bait and switch. It's 1/3 about Dr. King, and 2/3 a redone lecture that I've already hear dozens of times.

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Very infomative, and also refreshingly honest

Revisado: 02-19-09

I have read this book 3 times. I say this as a staunch conservative who has become very wary of liberal writers, such as Mr. Krugman, Gore, and Alterman. This book took a very insightful look into FDR's life and what made him an amazing man. It also took a very honest look at his shortcomings, and did not gloss over some of his less noble episodes i.e. the court packing plan. Mr. Alter doesn't claim that FDR was the great leader who boldly led us out of depression. He claims that without him, there may have been something worse. I disagree with some of his premises, but this book is more factual, and not ideological. Agree or disagree, Mr. Alter has written a great book.

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