The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Cliff Lerner 5 Star Combines Lessons with Reading Recommendations I’m starting to think about how to spend $200M to create an alternative to #GoogleGestapo that connects the President to 200 million eligible voters, and this book jumped to the top of the pile. It is a fast pleasant read and it delivers both the expected …
Jason Matthews 6-Star Deeply Authentic Book About Nuances of Spying After I read and then reviewed the first book, Red Sparrow, I was so deeply impressed that I immediately ordered the other two, this one and The Kremlin’s Candidate, intending to read them on airplanes. That did not last. This book went to my night-table, …
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Jason Matthews 6 Stars Best New Espionage Everything I have reviewed over 300 books on intelligence, almost all of them non-fiction. Apart from the George Smiley series by John Le Carre the only other fiction book I can think of that garnered my respect was Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry. This book, by a …
Nassim Nicholas Taleb 6 Star – Skin in the Game = Ethics = Sustainable By the author Black Swan and Anti-Fragility, among many other works, this book is a simplified overview — a capstone work — and the easiest to read. Skin in the Game is defined by the author as symmetry of risk and …
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb 7 Star Transformative — As Important as Governing the Commons — LOCALIZE For those who do not know this, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action earned Elinor Ostrom a Nobel Peace Prize in Economics. This book, by the author of Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable …
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George Gilder 3 Stars Fad Book Limited Value I gave up on this book after 100 pages (it is 320 pages long). I normally do not waste time writing negative reviews but in this instance think it appropriate to mention that I found it wanting. The first third, on Google, is so far-fetched in its …
Michael Lewis 6 Stars Presidential Transitions Matter and President Trump Blew It — With Follow-on Consequences Although I am a huge fan of President Trump — I wrote the first article on how he could win (“Counter-Coup: How Trump Can Win,” CounterPunch, 14 August 2018) and went on to write the 30 piece Trump Revolution …
