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Like other "totemic firms" of recent years, Microsoft attained astounding power and profitability in stunningly short order--along with a slew of rivals who desperately wanted it broken into less threatening pieces. Few really believed it would happen when the U.S. Department of Justice first began looking into its operations, however, which made the eventual judgment against the company even more significant. "The humbling of Microsoft is the last great business story of the 20th century and the first great riddle of the 21st," writes John Heilemann in Pride Before the Fall, his insightful examination of the epic antitrust battle that began as a Wired magazine cover story. "There are fancier ways of putting it," he adds, "but the riddle is: how did it happen?" In the pages that follow, Heilemann examines the behind-the-scenes machinations that drove United States v. Microsoft, based largely on exclusive interviews he conducted with Bill Gates and his top lieutenants, Justice Department prosecutor Joel Klein, special trial counsel (and lead Democratic Florida recount litigator) David Boies, Intel chief Andy Grove, Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy, and various "unknown soldiers" who arguably played the biggest role of all. With Microsoft's future still uncertain, Pride helps reset the tone in a case that will shape our high-tech future. --Howard Rothman
Book Description
John Heilemann's Pride Before the Fall uncovers the secret history of the antitrust trial that shook an economy: United States v. Microsoft. Drawing on years of reporting -- including extensive interviews with Gates and other top Microsoft executives, Justice Department trustbuster Joel Klein, superlitigator David Boies, Intel chief Andy Grove, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, and scores of lesser-known but pivotal players -- Heilemann lays bare the chaotic confluence of forces that shattered Microsoft's aura of invincibility and the climate of fear that held an industry in thrall.
Based on an acclaimed Wired magazine cover story, Pride Before the Fall is packed with rich personalities, dramatic scenes, and explosive revelations. It tells the stories of the largely unknown men and women who turned their opposition to Gates's company into a crusade, laboring for years to persuade the government to indict Microsoft for its monopolistic practices. Pride Before the Fall explains in compelling detail how the high-tech kingpins whose businesses Gates had tried to destroy or strong-arm (Netscape, Apple, Sun, and even Intel) worked in secret to help the Justice Department bring down Microsoft. It explores the lasting damage the trial has inflicted on the first great empire of the Information Age. And Heilemann offers a vivid and sometimes shocking portrait of Gates himself -- describing a man who in 1993 told his friends, "I have as much power as the president," only to be thrown into rage and depression a few years later, when he discovered just how wrong he'd been.
Like a figure from Greek tragedy, Heilemann writes, Gates sowed the seeds of his own undoing. From lengthy visits to Redmond before, during, and after the trial, Heilemarnn paints a picture of a culture that can only be described as the Cult of Bill, a culture that had few limits when it came to eviscerating the competition, a culture that grew out of Gates's fiercely single-minded determination to keep Microsoft from meeting the fate of a company that he had studied, admired, rivaled, and then surpassed: IBM. But when that culture came under scrutiny on Capitol Hill, in the halls of the Justice Department, and in the courtroom of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, it provoked a verdict far harsher than anyone could have predicted -- and guaranteed for Microsoft the very fate that Gates had struggled so desperately to avoid.
With Pride Before the Fall, John Heilemann confirms his reputation as one of Silicon Valley's most talented and respected journalists. Years of inside access to the Valley's boardrooms have given him a unique understanding of the technology industry, just as his years as a reporter in Washington have informed his grasp of the political currents that swept the U.S. government into a battle it never wanted to fight. But what sets Pride Before the Fall apart isn't simply Heilemann's mastery of the dynamics of business, public policy, and the law. This superbly gifted writer has also given us a revelatory tale of human ambition and human frailty -- a timely saga of arrogance, ruthlessness, and revenge.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book on Microsoft anti-trust trial.......2007-05-21
This book puts out a lot of factual information while keeping the read interesting. I've used this in a college ethics class, and most students liked it. I know of an attorney's office that used it to familiarize their staff with the case.
The book is biased against Microsoft, but shows enough of their side that it doesn't come across as a shallow review. Lot's of interviews keep the book interesting.
An excellent analysis of the case.......2001-08-26
Heilemann has done a fabulous job with this book. The Wired article was really gripping and the full length book is just as difficult to put down! It really makes you wonder what they're thinking in Redmond - at the end of the book I couldn't help feeling that Gates (as Heilemann presents him) seems a lot like Mr. Burns in the Simpsons episode where Lisa teaches him about recycling and he ends 'recycling' all the fish in the sea for livestock feed. He couldn't figure out why he was wrong and Gates seems to have the same difficulty.
whiny.......2001-06-09
This book is more of a whine session than an informative look into the microsoft case. Poor writing and questionable facts make this book impossible to read. Save your money!
Save Your Money.......2001-05-15
This book was more than "based on" the Wired article, it was the Wired article. I read both the article and the book, and in my opinion there was very little added to the book. I would suggest buying the Wired Magazine that had this article, ... .
Excluding that, the book was well written and entertaining, but somewhat disappointing. The amount of access the author had provided great visibility into the trial, but I felt the author squandered that information. There was very little analysis, and often the author missed humorous/interesting snippets that other books/articles had picked up (e.g. in "The New New Thing" and Upside's news coverage of the trial).
This book felt more like a synapse or a chronology, and it left me wanting more...
Wow, What a Thoroughly Great Book.......2001-05-11
No superlative is adequate to describe the high quality of this incisive reporting. How did this author ever stitch all of this story together? Incredible sources, great insights, and to think Gates almost pulled off the monopolistic crime of the century! Thank you U.S. government for protecting us from this abuse. Thank you John for taking time out of your busy schedule to clue the rest of us in to how this proud giant was humbled, for his own good.
Book Description
Refuting the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War cleared the way for an era of peace and prosperity led solely by the United States, Charles A. Kupchan contends that the next challenge to America’s might is fast emerging. It comes not from the Islamic world or an ascendant China, but from an integrating Europe that is rising as a counterweight to the United States. Decades of strategic partnership across the Atlantic are giving way to renewed geopolitical competition. The waning of U.S. primacy will be expedited by America’s own ambivalence about remaining the globe’s guardian and by the impact of the digital age on the country’s politics and its role in the world.
By deftly mining the lessons of history to cast light on the present and future, Kupchan explains how America and the world should prepare for the more complex, more unstable road ahead.
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Great International Relations Book.......2005-09-04
This is a mandatory reading in order to design the grand strategy of, not only the United States, but any nation that considers itself serious.
Europe ascending? America's walk in the sun is about to ...........2005-06-14
Kupchan was about 2 years ahead of his time in publishing this book. When I say this I don't mean he was right in his predictions, but more that he beat the competition in writing a "Europe is next..." book. With so many text now bearing such titles as "United States of Europe" etc., it is easy to dismiss Kupchan as needless reading.
Although this may be so, his book gains more of its worth in his criticisms of past theorist of "grand strategy" then it is for his dubious prediction of the "next" superpower (the EU). I picked this book up around Christmas/New Years 2002. I was away from school and I had nothing to do, so I thought some light reading was in order.
Kupchan first discusses the "grand strategies" of past years, covering over all the favorites, from Nye, Fukuuyama, and Huntington. Of course, all these visions have something wrong with them and Kupchan points out some token things durring his first chapter. The United State will not have the ability to behave in a 'hegemonic' manner forever, thus, why not shape the world in a manner we would like it to be run when we're old feeble men (and women).
This is essentially Kupchan's theme throughout the entire text. It may very well be a wise course, however, I fail to see how Kupchan can determine accurately, in which manner the US is to lead its declining hegemonic power. It seems a bit absurd to criticize past grand strategies and then toute one yourself.
The grand strategy is really one thing, that is state planning. However, whereas we know state planning of the economy is a bad thing, it seems state planning of politics is not. Many times Kupchan discusses the "confusion" of the Clinton adminstration and then the even greater confusion of the Bush 2nd adminstration. This is all well and good, but confusion presumes that these administrations were behaving in some sort of grand strategic manner.
It would seem more likelly that these administrations behaved on a case by case basis. Kupchan points out how Bush 2nd at one point demanded Israeli withdrawl from the West bank, only to then state some time later that Ariel Sharon was a man of peace (p. 17).
Well, although what precise event Dr. Kupchan is referring to I am unsure, it seems that Bush's second response was prompted by some lack of resolve on the Palestinians side to prevent suicide bombing. This pattern is familiar to anyone who observes middle east politics.
Getting back to the main critique, one should observe that no wonderfully pre-planned grand strategy united the US, USSR, China, UK, and France. Certanily, if one were to ask a political "scientist" of the 1920s or 30s, I doubt he would have envisioned that such a grand alliance of nations would have ever formed.
The same goes for NATO, these institutions were reactions to events (many cases unforseen) and were not engineered institutions. If we look at history of certain planned institutions/agreements, we see that such entities rarely work properly and ultimitly fail. A good example is the Gold Standard/Bretton Woods peg systems. The Gold standard cease to work almost immediatly after it was implemented...,and the Bretton Woods system did not even last 30 years.
It seems that men rarely possess the facaulty to forsee all the possible changes that may occur in 10 year, much less 30 - 40 years. Thus, these grand strategies almost become inconsequential after several years their published.
Anyways, although Kupchan falls into this trap, one should not ignore some of the keen observations he makes in this book. He was one of the first that predicted the tran-atlantic rift would become more or less permenant. He was stating this at a time when Neo-cons were stating the "europeans will fall in line if we push hard enough."
Also, Kupchan's historical deconstruction and analysis is very intresting. Kupchan seems to believe we can use past events in history and sort of "graft" them onto contemporary politics. Although I doubt this is true, it makes for great reading. A wonderful analogy Dr. Kupchan makes is comparing the trans-atlantic rift to the split between Rome and Constantinople. I thought that his historical analogy was at the very least insightful as a paradigm if not in policy use.
Ultimitly, I don't agree with Kupchan's views on Europe (recent events with regards to the EU constitution lays credence to the skeptics), yet I can't say taht the book is horrible, thus, I give it 3/5. Its most certainly better then reading some of the ideological garbage comming out of some authors these days.
Europe`s point of view..........2004-05-19
Prof. Kupchan has a very agreeable style. Most - not all - of his ideas are right. He claims the internet is bad for Democracy in the US. I claim the internet is good for Democracy on a global scale. The internet is positive for transatlantic relations. If this is the end of the American Era just as WW II was the end of the European Era could this be the beginning of the Global Era?! He owes me an answer...
It could be a very ugly world.......2004-01-16
We all know the first, most basic lesson from history - civilizations rise and fall. There are several parameters that will ensure that a powerful nation secures its supremacy for a prolonged period of time - but the key is enlightened leadership. How is it that one of our leading accounting firms whose founder worked to the highest ethical standards fell during the Enron era? How is that just one American President could turn the world's biggest creditor nation into the world's biggest debtor nation in just eight short years. How is it that Japan lost its supremacy in a decade? Surely the answer lies in having enlightened leadership and a system that ensures that a steady succession of enlightened leaders take the helm and are ready in the wings whenever the call arises. Our present system of electing the leader who can blow his own trumpet the loudest has the seeds of self-destruction. My hero in this respect is Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, the Roman General who tilled the land in retirement until the empire was threatened and he was twice called to the dictatorship of Rome in 458 and 439 BC. In 458 BC he defeated the Aequians in a single day, and after entering Rome in triumph and with large spoils returned to his farm. No blowing his own trumpet and holding onto power by this general!
A wise nation does a simple SWOT analysis - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats - and formulates a strategy to ensure that it holds on to power. Kupchan reminds us of Churchill's policy in response to the German threat prior to the First World War when, over much opposition, he brought the British fleet back to defend the homeland. But the British leadership was not so enlightened prior to the Second World War; fortunately Churchill was there waiting in the wings. "The End of the American Era" is primarily about the lessons from history applied to present day America and as you might imagine from the title the author gives a thumbs down on the degree of enlightenment of the American leadership today. The author points out that there are already signs that American preponderance and the stability it breeds are slipping away. American internationalism was at its high-water mark during the last decade but is now on the wane despite that fact that today's problems require a multilateral approach and reliance on international institutions. Terrorism poses a collective threat and requires a collective response. The tragic events of September 2001 served as a wake up call to America, alerting the country that the homeland is no longer inviolable and that the US would be wise to take greater interest in crucial foreign policy issues. The central challenge of the future will be the same as the past - managing relations between contending centers of power. Other concerns will pale in comparison to the dangers that will emerge if America believes that its primacy is here to stay. The US has unparalleled potential to shape what comes next but lacks a grand strategy; America is a great power adrift. Unfortunately, the intellectual initiative and institutional creativity of 1815, 1919 and 1945 are missing in Washington today. In addition, we do not have a clearly identified enemy but a much more elusive enemy in terrorism - an enemy schooled in guerrilla tactics where patience and tact are more useful weapons than military power.
Think tanks turn out work with a short shelf life while universities generate scholarship of little relevance to policy. What should America's new map look like? Is Fukuyama in The End of History right in that liberal democracy is taking the world by storm? Is Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order right that a struggle among Judeo-Christian, Islamic and Confucian civilizations is in the offing? Is Thomas Friedman in The Lexus and the Olive Tree right that globalization has changed the rules for good? In Kupchan's opinion each vision has its merits but all are wrong. The defining element of the global system is the distribution of power, not democracy, culture, globalization, or anything else. As the US withdraws from multilateral institutions in favor of unilateralism the vacuum will be filled by a new era of geopolitical rivalry. If history is a guide, the end of US primacy will bring with it a more unpredictable and unpleasant world.
It is impossible to predict your opponent's next move in chess, let alone predict moves and counter moves on the international scene. However, Kupchan has presented a convincing argument of how the future might unfold. Homeland security must not stand in the way of efforts to address the more dangerous challenge of the return to rivalry between the world's power centers. All this comes together in the final chapter with the closing sentence "It is now the task of those convinced by the warnings to get on with the difficult, but essential, duty of preparing for the end of the American era." This book has as its prime audience policy makers and decision-makers. Personally, I think every American voter should read this book and understand that voting for the person who blows his trumpet loudest is not going to put the most enlightened leader in the White House and without enlightened leadership we will most certainly see the end of the American era soon. Then it is likely to be a very ugly world.
Possibly one of the silliest things I have ever read.......2003-10-17
Between the book and several reviews here, I'm just astounded. I'll try to take on several matters here:
1) America will never 'fade from the world stage'. She may eventually no longer be the _sole_ superpower, but she will always - always - be _a_ superpower. She will never be 'overshadowed' by another superpower, as no one will be a full-spectrum power in all measures as is America. The European Union does not have the desire to rival America militarily, which is fortunate for it because it does not have the money; those who think even a fully integrated EU could simply 'build a military' to match America in 10 years - or even more - are completely naive as to the actual balance of power. Europe _will_ have a comparable economy in terms of overall GDP once full integrated (beyond even the 2004 expansion), and it _will_ have the ability to project credible military power regionally. On the other hand, it is simply not possible for the EU to build a matching military without a) scrapping most of its social programs and b) spending all that money and more every year for two decades in a massive military buildupng and c) fundamentally reshaping a large portion of its industrial and overall economic capacity to absorb these changes.
2) America has an economy worth nearly 11 trillion dollars. This is not old Britain where a small native population spent a majority of its overall economy maintaining a military deployed around the globe, nor a Spain or other past empire in a time when the global economy was a static pie and the rush was to grab the biggest slice. As America gets richer, others get richer (this is why the current account and trade deficits aren't simply a liability or even necessarily a negative). As others get richer, America gets richer. No other economy comes close to the size of America's. Should China continue growing as it has been, it will not be of a comparable size until 2050. Integrated the entire European continent would be required to 'overshadow' America's economy, and even then you would simply have to gargantuan economies towering over all others.
3) America's military power ridiculously overmatches all others. The EU could integrate its military capabilities and modernize for a decade and not be anywhere near a 'match', though they would then be a military superpower. America's military capacity is not going to fade. It may stop growing the gap between itself and others, but it is not going to fade or fall behind.
4) America's population will continue to balloon. 3 years ago estimates for 2050 were around 400 million. A year ago estimates for 2050 were 500 million. Today, 500 million is increasingly being considered as a possible low-range, with a possible 1 billion Americans by 2100. By sometime after 2050 America will likely surpass even the expanded EU in population. Even at 300 million, America is too massive to 'fade from the world stage'.
In short, America's economy is so massive that it cannot fail to be an economic superpower. The arrival of a basket economy of comparable size in the form of the EU does not change the fact that now instead of one 10+ trillion dollar economy there are two 10+ trillion dollar economies, both of which massively eclipse all others. Budget deficits? Current account deficits? Been there and done that. Even accepting some sort of wrenching economic free-fall to correct both of these, America's economy would still be absolutely massive and roughly comparable to that of the European Union. It could be wrenching for unemployment, and could cause us to see stagnation for several years in terms of GDP growth, but then if that happened we might end up looking like Europe with very slow growth rates and high unemploymeny - yet no one seems to be discounting Europe for already being in such a position.
America's military capability is so overweening that it cannot fail to be a military superpower. The arrival of other credible militaries with the capability to project power regionally and to an extend globally does not mean America is no longer a superpower; the Soviet Union's military capability outstripped the dreams of the EU or the Chinese, yet when it existed there was not a 'sole' military superpower but two.
America's population is already more than large enough to ensure that with its wealth it is a superpower, and that population will continue to balloon as the population in Europe shrinks (the EU population will grow via adding more nations, but that only goes so far).
These simple facts cast a dubious light on any book such as this. No one will 'replace' America as the sole superpower. Other superpowers may rise, but none will 'replace' her or push her aside, she will simply become the largest of a likely handful of such powers. These same simple, basic facts dictate that the EU will become a sort of superpower alongside the U.S. in economic and political terms and to a much lesser degree military terms, and that China will eventually follow suit.
Yet regardless of any of that, America remains. She remains on the world stage, she remains with the largest single economy and one so massive that it's as large as the combined EU economy, she remains with the greatest military power and the greatest ease of paying for that power, she remains with the third largest nation-state population and one which will grow to eclipse that of the combined EU population through the century.
It's very simple, it's very obvious, and the only way to arrive at any other conclusion is by the physical destruction of the United States itself ..
And this is where Kupchan eventually tries to take us in a desperate attempt to avoid the basic realities I've listed above. It's also the same place Kupchan has been trying to take us for three entire decades. Perhaps in another 10 years he can modify his theory a bit for the times and re-publish it again to explain how just annny old time now we're going to 'decline'.
Book Description
When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. But when these efforts failed, he sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and for all. Drawing upon numerous ship logs, journals, love letters, and government documents, Frederick C. Leiner paints a vivid picture of the world of naval officers and diplomats in the early nineteenth century, as he recreates a remarkable and little known episode from the early American republic. Leiner first describes Madison's initial efforts at diplomacy, sending Mordecai Noah to negotiate, reasoning that the Jewish Noah would fare better with the Islamic leader. But when the ruler refused to ransom the Americans--"not for two millions of dollars"--Madison declared war and sent a fleet to North Africa. Decatur's squadron dealt quick blows to the Barbary navy, dramatically fighting and capturing two ships. Decatur then sailed to Algiers. He refused to go ashore to negotiate--indeed, he refused to negotiate on any essential point. The ruler of Algiers signed the treaty--in Decatur's words, "dictated at the mouths of our cannon"--in twenty-four hours. The United States would never pay tribute to the Barbary world again, and the captive Americans were set free--although in a sad, ironic twist, they never arrived home, their ship being lost at sea in heavy weather. Here then is a real-life naval adventure that will thrill fans of Patrick O'Brian, a story of Islamic terrorism, white slavery, poison gas, diplomatic intrigue, and battles with pirates on the high seas.
Customer Reviews:
A real-life pirate story.......2007-03-23
While many might believe that the American entanglement with the Islamic world began with the first Iraq War, or at the earliest, the founding of Israel, we have actually been fighting with this area of the world much longer, even as far back as the first years of the United States. Of course, there are many differences between this early conflict and our current ones, so historical comparisons should not be too easily made between our current war and the one against the Barbary Terror, as chronicled by Frederic Leiner.
One significant difference is location: instead of the Middle East, the Barbary pirates operated in North Africa, particularly in the Barbary states of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli (the last with the famous shores of Tripoli). These pirates (or corsairs) actually worked for the local states, making them more akin to privateers. The goal was simple: steal the goods on merchant ships and enslave the crewmen, with the intention of ransoming them. There was an alternative, however: paying an annual tribute to each state, or what may now be thought of as protection money.
The Barbary states did rather well with this system, terrorizing the ships of the Mediterranean. Few seemed willing to do anything about the corsairs. This changed at the conclusion of the War of 1812, when James Madison authorized a war against the largest (and most duplicitous) state, Algiers. Led by naval war hero Stephen Decatur, a fleet would soon force Algiers into capitulation; what was worse for the Barbary states was their façade of strength was broken, and soon the world power England would turn its wrath towards these countries (which were technically part of the Ottoman Empire).
Another big difference with our current conflicts is the softening effect of time. With two centuries having gone by, the Barbary states seem more exotic than evil. Although generally a nasty lot, nowadays corsairs tend to be romanticized like all pirates (as the success of Pirates of the Caribbean attests). There has even been a casino called the Barbary Coast; I think it will be quite a few years till we are able to look nostalgically back at Sadaam Hussein and start naming hotels after his regime.
Leiner does a nice job of writing, as his title states, of the End of the Barbary Terror. This is, in a way, an adventure story that we already know the end of. It is also, despite the fact that it is almost forgotten nowadays, an important chapter in American history, and represents our first real military rout of an opponent. Leiner tells a good story and puts it in the proper historical context; if you enjoy reading about American or naval history, this is a book to read.
Appeasement never works.......2006-11-10
A good object lesson to people who think that you can appease or negotiate with bullies. The USA was a little country that had just gone through three years of war with Great Britain, a mighty sea and financial power. Most European coutries simply paid annual extortion fees to the pirates to protect their shipping and hopefully send the pirates against their competitors' ships. The USA sent ships and solved the problem. This caused real consternation among the European population when they saw that the USA could send ships all the way across the Atlantic and fix the problem while their governments could only send taxpayer money year after year. Not only did the USA not pay any extortion money but they also returned many of the enslaved mariners to their home countries. Clearly Europeans didn't learn anything from this as we saw in the 20th century.
I give this a four due to several editing errors. It's not a long book so proofreading it should not have been a big burden.
A interesting look at a rather unkown naval war.......2006-09-11
A rich and detailed look at an obscure event in U.S. naval history. "The End of Barbary Terror" describes a rather dashing adventure by a young U.S. Navy fresh off the Battle of 1812 with the British. Despite these challenges a band of brash and confident officers deployed the bulk of the U.S. fleet to the Med to destroy the Algerian Fleet and force the return of U.S. hostages and the end of payments to Algeria.
The book proves that the U.S. has been combating Islamic forces since its earlier days. While this was a very different war, certain similar ties between then and now can be seen
The author spends considerable team telling not only the operational naval portions of the battle, which were not exactly very exciting, but he focuses on the complicated political battles between naval leadership and national politicians. The author's naval knowledge seemed solid, but the description focus mainly on the officers, little is known or discussed about the rest of the crew. The same can be said of the Algerians. The great majority of sources were American, so what was going through the minds of Algerian leadership and naval officers could only be guessed.
The British Attack on Algiers was well done, and more riveting then the rather limited engagements between the U.S. and Algeria described earlier in the book. I recommend this book to any serious reader of naval history, who enjoys diving into the deep details of the U.S. Navy circa 1815.
Extremely well-written, informative, and insightful.......2006-06-17
If you like American historical nonfiction than this is a must read about a period in our history that has a lot of relevance to today. Fred Leiner brilliantly leads the reader through a time when a young America, after the War of 1812, looks to expand its trade but falls prey to the pirates of North Africa. Following unsuccessful diplomatic efforts, America feeling bold after the war, sets out to put an end to this state-sponsored Barbary terrorism at the hands of the Muslims of North Africa.
As the story unfolds, the reader finds that they are caught up in a complex political and military drama hampered by slow communications, egos, prejudices, and traditions. Mr. Leiner does an excellent job methodically and carefully unfolding the story, while at the same time thoroughly develops the participants and the dynamics among them. In several areas, he also challenges and explores past notions about events and decisions, venturing to offer his own opinions based upon his research and insight. From the beginning of the book, to the epilogue, Mr. Leiner has done a masterful job of giving us a thorough look at a very exciting and important brief period in American history that had a major impact on our developing nation.
I highly recommend this book, particularly to people perplexed by modern day terrorism. History certainly does have a way of repeating itself.
Book Description
Gianni Vattimo reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Exploring the links between concepts of nihilism and destiny in nineteenth-century humanism, Vattimo follows these trends in aesthetic and scientific theory from Benjamin to Bloch, Ricoeur, and Kuhn.
Customer Reviews:
Vattimo's hard to accept tesis about a weak thinking........1998-10-14
This book is important to understand postmodernism. However, i don't image american readers accepting Vattimo's tesis about weak subjet right to have a place in world. Why modern civilization has impossed to us the obligation of being strong and the first in every action as the only way to be allowed as a member of this society?
Book Description
The new fifth edition of the leading text in twentieth-century European history offers a thorough revision that is up-to-date in its coverage and its scholarship. The new final chapter provides a clear, thorough analysis of the transformations that swept Europe in the 1990s—the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet empire and the regime itself, the disintegration of Yugoslavia. The chapter also traces the efforts at European integration through the European Union and the enlargement of NATO. Throughout the new edition David Large has introduced discussions of women's history and strengthened the coverage of social history in general. He has also pared detail to ensure that the text remains accessible to students.
Customer Reviews:
History.......2005-10-03
It's a lot of reading because there is so much info. At least every other sentence is worth noting.
Book Description
Excessive burning of oil, gas, and coal is raising our planet's thermostat to unacceptable levels-a problem which as already resulted in increased natural catastrophes: storms, floods, droughts, and fire. Yet big oil companies have repeatedly hijacked efforts to slow global carbon emissions.
The Carbon War is a major call-to-arms for the safety of our planet. Throughout the last decade, Jeremy Leggett, a distinguished scientist at Oxford University and former director for Green peace, has worked doggedly to alert human kind to the threat of ecological catastrophe, He contents that the main enemies-Arab countries, the United States government, oil companies, and automobile manufacturers-have used junk science, an army of lobbyists, and outright lies to ensure that their profits stayed safer than the planet's future.
With the grace of a novelist and the precision of a scientist, Leggett recount his maddening interactions with scientific councils, international governmental meetings, and business leaders. Still, despite the government's backpedaling on eco-promises, the media's laziness, and fossil fuel company rhetoric, the transition to solar energy is coming, he argues. Called the "best book yet about the politics of global worming" by John Gribbin the London Sunday Times, The Carbon War is a riveting read and a critical contribution to the fight for sustainable energy.
Customer Reviews:
The Carbon Policy Wars.......2007-01-16
For a geologist Jeremy Leggett is a suprisingly good writer. As described in the previous reviews he details some of the history leading up to the Kyoto accords and provides insight from the participants perception. The meetings, the debates, the radio and TV interviews are all here. You will also read about all the tension and conflict that this global problem with its immense economic immplications brings to a head.
This book is mainly about the politics of the world climate change policies and does not have very much content regarding the science of climate change. I would have liked to see more of the science and perhaps a bit less of the details of meetings after more meetings. If you want to learn more about the science I would recommend Spencer Weart's The Discovery of Global Warming and John Houghton's Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. If you want to read about the war between Exxon,big Coal,corporate media, and environmentalists, scientists, and the countries that are first in line to suffer from the consequences of global warming this is your book.
Required reading for the informed citizen.......2005-08-17
Many authors, in meticulous science journalism style, write good environmental science and policy books that are worth reading.
Jeremy Leggett's "Carbon War" is an outstanding contribution from the front lines. A journal from a key player in the carbon war, with insights on other key players on all sides.
Leggett puts you at the international summits, to witness the best and worst elements at work. There are many books that will inform you on global climate change issues (and some that will intentionally disinform you). But few, if any, let you peer into the international efforts (and counterefforts) to deal with climate change like the "Carbon War."
Climate Change and Politics.......2005-02-04
Jeremy Leggett's "The Carbon War" is the story of how the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 came about, and how companies in the business of thermal fuel (coal, oil, gas) - Leggett calls them the "Carbon Club" - tried to derail the process of setting enforceable goals for lowering greenhouse gas emissions. It is also the story of how self-interest, not surprisingly, overrides the general interest; how the United States, home to some of the largest oil and gas multinationals and the world's premier carbon dioxide emitting nation, sided with the Carbon Club; how Australia, the world's largest coal exporter, joined forces with the United States.
The Kyoto Protocol will come into force on 16 February 2005. It has been ratified by more than 55 of its signatory countries. The United States, led by George W. Bush, however, walked out on the agreement in March 2001.
The fact of global warming is hardly disputable. The five hottest years recorded since 1880 were 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2001, with 1998 having been the hottest. Whether the warming effect is man-made is still subject to discussion. But a full three quarters of scientists working in the field of climate change make the burning of fossil fuels responsible for the recorded increase in temperature.
The emission of carbon dioxide could be easily reduced if power could be economically generated by photovoltaic solar energy (PV). However, Adam Smith's invisible hand won't do the job in this particular case. It is a Catch-22 situation because PV will only be economically viable if the PV cells are mass-produced, but they are not mass-produced because people can't afford today's expensive PV products. This is a situation where government would have a proper role to fulfill - to jump-start a process that would help the common good where the mechanics of the market do not work. But unfortunately most governments do not care to do that.
Already in 1997, Leggett notes, "every country had its companies lost in skepticism about climate change. But in the USA the scale of the collective denial was unique." (264) Eight years later it is not much different. This denial comes at a cost, though. Not only the cost of becoming more and more isolated from global trends and losing the moral authority the USA enjoyed after Roosevelt and Truman established the country as a world power, but also an economic cost. State of the art ecological cars that really sell are not made by GM or Ford these days, but by Japan's Toyota. World-class oil companies with a comprehensive environmental policy are not ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco of the US, but BP and Shell of Europe.
Jeremy Leggett, by the way, founded his own company to promote and sell PV technology after he realized, with a certain bitterness, that his lobbying efforts to get emission limits agreed were not getting anywhere.
Front row seat.......2004-12-11
The author participated as an NGO spokesperson at many international meetings about CO2's contribution to climate change. His chronological treatment imposes order on the confusing, repeated climate prep meetings and negotiations of the 1990s. It was very helpful to read an unapologetic, informed account of these negotiations, replete with the hope & despair many felt about the participation of U.S. negotiators 1992-2000.
I bought it for my husband for his birthday, then proceeded to read it night after night until it was done. Leggett's first person accounts engaged and entertained me, and I admired his ability to switch between his memories of his own involvement and his descriptions of the state of science and policy at a given time. The sketches of the opposition always were worth reading, and I kept wondering whether he'd ever get really mean.
As a coda to reading the book, one could visit the website of OPEC to read their short policy statement on global climate change; see their FAQs number 20, an interesting read.
One of the Most Important Books of our Era.......2003-02-15
I have just finished reading Leggett's book about the war for the protection of our atmosphere. It is a riveting account of the strident efforts experienced and well-intentioned scientists from all over the world have made to try to bring humanity to a reasonable acceptance of the extreme dangers that ignoring the risks of global warming will bring upon our planet. It is shocking that so far they have clearly lost the war; oil, coal, and automobile interests have successfully undermined international conventions and treaties which were designed to protect the Earth. If fossil fuel, energy and automobile interests continue to "win" (although as pointed out in the book, it really amounts to a huge loss), we will all be affected, rich or poor, South or North, nobody stands to gain. As Leggett's book makes obvious, humanity has never before had its hands on so much information about its own substantive elements, its past and its future; and yet,seemed to be willing to throw its own intelligence into the wind, scrapping its safety catches, all for the sake of some weird sense of 'material progress' spoon-fed to us by commercial-driven media. This books points directly to the moments in time when human progress could have advanced into a more sane, and probably more interesting variety of developmental possibilities. Read it and relish its not-at-all hidden wisdom--it will be one of the unforgetable learning moments of your reading life.
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The Classical Era: From the 1740's to the End of the 18th Century (Man & Music)
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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ASIN: 0131369385 |
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Blurb plus table of contents.......1999-01-21
The Classical Era embraces what is commonly thought of as the centre of the Western musical tradition, the music of Haydn and Mozart, the creators of the symphony and the string quartet and the first great operatic classics. Each chapter focuses on the musical activities of a particular city, the music is explained in terms of the prevailing social, economic and political climate.
Contents: Illustration Acknowledgments - Abbreviations - Preface - Music and Society in the Classical Era; N.Zaslaw - Italy: Two Opera Centres; D.Libby - Paris: the End of the Ancien R gime; J.Mongr dien - Maria Theresa's Vienna; B.A.Brown - Vienna under Joseph II and Leopold II; J.A.Rice - Salzburg under Church Rule; C.Eisen - The Bohemian Lands; C.Hogwood & J.Smaczny - The Mannheim Court; E.K.Wolf - Courts and Municipalities in North Germany; T.Bauman - Haydn at the Esterh zy Court; L.Somfai - London: a City of Unrivalled Riches; W.Weber - Stockholm in the Gustavian Era; A.Johnson - Spain in the Enlightenment; C.H.Russell - Philadelphia: a City in the New World; N.E.Tawa - Chronology - Index
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Engines of Innovation: U.S. Industrial Research at the End of an Era
Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press
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ASIN: 0875846750 |
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Traditionally, industrial laboratories like AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were wellsprings of powerful new technologies. Yet in the competitive environment of the 1980s and 1990s research activities have been downsized, redirected, and restructured within most of the firms that once were major sponsors of industrial research. In this book, top technical managers of Alcoa, IBM, Intel, and Xerox along with leading scholars of the history and economics of technological change discuss the consequences of this trend. They explore new ideas for linking research with commercial markets and identify the evolving roles for industry, government, and universities in shaping a new era in industrial research.
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- A Great Pan-African
- author, a shrewd intellectual in defence of liberation icons
- Great book about a great leader
- comprehensive work on Nyerere
- Phenomenon!
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Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era
Godfrey Mwakikagile
Manufacturer: New Africa Press
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ASIN: 0980253411 |
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This is the third edition of "Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era." It is also the largest and includes new material not found in previous editions. The work is a comprehensive study of the political career of President Julius Nyerere spanning half a century. The author takes a critical look at Nyerere's policies and influence in the domestic and international arenas for an objective evaluation of the life and times of one of the most influential leaders in the twentieth century. The major role he played in the liberation of southern Africa is just one of the subjects addressed by the author. He also provides insights into Nyerere's personality from some of the people who knew him best. Included in the book are interviews with some of the people who knew Nyerere since his childhood. Some of them were his teachers. And they outlived him. Others were his schoolmates and colleagues in government and when he was a teacher. And some of them were his students. Also included are interviews with some of his family members. This is an essential study of post-colonial Africa. It is also a study in political leadership and Cold War politics in the African context, among many other subjects addressed in the book which should serve as a reference text for scholars and laymen alike interested in Africa and the Third World in general.
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A Great Pan-African.......2006-04-20
This book is about one of Afica's greatest statesman. Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born in 1922. He was President of Tanzania, from the country's independence in 1964. He retired in 1985 and died in 1999.
Nyerere has an enduring political legacy on the continent. His pan-African credentials are impeccable as he played a critical role in the hosting of the liberation movements fighting against colonialism in Southerrn Africa. He led Tanzania as an oasis of peace in a troubled region. He was affectionately known as Mwalimu (Swahili for teacher) and he taught Africa that power does not necessarily corrupt. He is one of those rare African leaders that are untainted by corruption but is rather well known for his humility and love of his people. He lived a simple life and was admired throughout the African continent.
Nyerere implemented a socialist economic programme (announced in the Arusha Declaration), and introduced a policy of collectivization in the country's agricultural system, known as Ujamaa or "familyhood". He had tremendous faith in rural African people and their traditional values and ways of life. He believed that life should be structured around the ujamaa, or extended family found in traditional Africa. He believed that Africans were naturally socialists, and that all they needed to do was return to their traditional mode of life and they would recapture it. This ujamaa system failed to boost agricultural output and by 1976, the end of the forced collectivization programme, Tanzania went from being one of the largest exporter of agricultural products in Africa to one of the largest importer of agricultural products on the continent.
Nyerere's disastrous socialist economic policies which kept Tanzania as one of the poorest countries in the world were his major flaw. However, by bowing graciously out pf power in 1985 and facilitating a smooth tsansfer of power, his legacy as a wise African leader endures.
This book is recommended reading for those who want to learn about Tanzania's recent history.
author, a shrewd intellectual in defence of liberation icons.......2006-02-22
This book is loaded with details about Nyerere and his policies, domestic and foreign, including a detailed analysis by the author.
But the analysis is somewhat flawed from an intellectual standpoint because the author, Godfrey Mwakikagile, seems to be biased towards Nyerere.
In fact we learn from the book that he knows President Nyerere's eldest son Andrew and went to school with him in Tanzania. They have known each other for years since they were teenagers. He was also in touch with him when he was writing the book. Some of the correspondence between the two is included in this work. That alone raises serious questions as to whether or not the author has written an objective account about President Nyerere. I strongly suspect that he is a friend of the Nyerere family although he doesn't say so in the book.
Godfrey does, however, admit that the last president of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, knows him well and even helped him to go to school in the United States. And as is well-known, Mkapa himself was very close to Nyerere and was virtually handpicked, or highly recommended, by Mwalimu Nyerere to be the next president of Tanzania.
From reading the book, one comes to the conclusion that Godfrey Mwakikagile is one of those shrewd African intellectuals who gloss over mistakes made by the continent's liberation icons such as Nyerere and Nkrumah; in fact, he defends both in his book. The advantage they have, obviously because of their high intellectual calibre, is that they use very clever arguments to defend these leaders and it's not easy to refute them. Godfrey is no exception.
I must admit that he's a strong Pan-Africanist. But I dont think that he has been honest enough about Nyerere in his book.
But what else would you expect from Pan-Africanists like him when they write about legendary African leaders like Nyerere and Nkrumah? Tarnish their reputation? Of course not! But as intellectual authors, they should tell the whole truth instead of being selective in their presentation of facts in pursuit of their Pan-Africanist agenda.
When Godfrey Mwakikagile was interviewed by an American journalist, he said he intended to write another book about Nyerere and Nkrumah. The interview is included in his book about Nyerere. Well, if he does, I hope that he will have something critical to say about both leaders.
I understand what he's trying to do for the sake of Pan-African solidarity. But, please, don't sacrifice truth for that. One of the reasons Africa is in such a mess is because of the policies pursued by leaders such as Nyerere and Nkrumah, domestic and foreign, because they influenced others. For example Mugabe, who has destroyed Zimbabwe, makes no secret that Nkrumah and Nyerere inspired him a lot, although it is also true that these two leaders cannot be blamed for what he has done to his country. As Nyerere, quoted by the BBC, once told Mugabe: "You have inherited the jewel of Africa. Keep it that way." Well, as the saying goes, the rest is history.
But there is no question that both Nyerere and Nkrumah had enormous influence across the continent and still do. Even when they were wrong, other African leaders followed in their foot-steps. They were probably the most influential leaders in post-colonial Africa and in this century together with Nelson Mandela (Madiba) who was also a very close personal friend of Nyerere.
Their names are engraved in gold. They have left an indelible mark on the minds of millions of Africans and others and will always remain a source of inspiration to them; and even to me, sometimes!
But also be honest enough to write books about their mistakes. That is your role as intellectuals. I hope Godfrey Mwakikagile is going to heed that advice if he does indeed write another book about African heroes such as Nyerere and Nkrumah, and even about Madiba!
Great book about a great leader.......2005-06-07
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was one of the greatest leaders in the history of our continent. He was also one of the greatest world leaders. Without Nyerere and Tanganyika, later Tanzania, under his leadership problems in my country, neighbouring Congo (DRC), would have been much worse. In fact, in the sixties, my own home province of South Kasai almost seceded and could have become like Katanga Province.
Nyerere played a great role in supporting Lumumba and his followers to help keep my country united and free from foreign domination. Tanzania has also always played a major role as a sanctuary for refugees from Congo and other neighbouring countries. Without Nyerere's and Tanzania's hospitality, the fate of my people and others in the Great Lakes region would have been much, much worse. They would suffered immeasurably through the decades.
This book is a masterpiece on Nyerere's political career and brilliant leadership. But it is more than that.
One of its strongest points is its comprehensive nature covering Nyerere's entire life since his childhood. It is also an excellent analysis of his policies and leadership domestically and internationally. The author, Godfrey Mwakikagile, has also provided us with an excellent analytical history of Africa since independence. His knowledge of the African liberation struggle and movements in southern Africa is equally impressive, and it is one of the subjects he has addressed in a comprehensive way in this large volume.
Anyone interested in African studies, especially since independence, and in the life and career of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, The Great Teacher, should read this book written by a leading African scholar and political scientist from neighbouring Tanzania. As a Congolese myself just across the border from Kigoma, a town and port on Lake Tanganyika where the author was born in what was then Tanganyika as he states in his book, and as a fellow African, I am really proud of him.
Asante sana (Thank you very much) Ndugu (Brother) Mwakikagile.
comprehensive work on Nyerere.......2005-03-25
I have done scholarly research on African politics for more than 40 years and this is one of the best books and reference texts I have ever read. And it is probably the best one, so far, on the late Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere.
World-nenowned African scholar, Professor Ali Mazrui from Kenya who is also chancellor of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (appointed by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki) once said that among all African leaders, Julius Nyerere was the most original thinker in Anglophone Africa, and Leopold Sedar Senghor in Francophone Africa. It was an objective evaluation. But I wish to go further than that.
Julius Nyerere was probably the most original thinker among all African leaders. In terms of high intellect, he was second to none. And in terms of philosophical thinking and ideological originality and clarity, he was also second to none. President Senghor may have been his intellectual equal, but Senghor's contribution was limited to a few areas, especially on Negritude (which was not even his original concept but Aime Cesaire' from Martinique) and speculative poetry.
In this expanded edition, Tanzanian writer and scholar Godfrey Mwakikagile has provided us with an in-depth study and a wide range of knowledge about Nyerere and his policies, domestic and foreign, as well as an interesting background on the early days of one of the most influential world leaders in the twentieth century who had humble origins in a simple African village of Butiama in northern Tanganyika, what is Tanzania today, near the shores of Lake Victoria. And in spite of his towering stature on the international scene and in academic circles where he was greatly admired and respected as an intellectual president, he remained humble and extremely close to the grassroots, venerated by the masses until his last days.
Reading this book is virtually standing in front of Nyerere, listening to what he is saying, what he is teaching, and what he is thinking on domestic and international issues. Probably his greatest contribution on a continental scale was the unsurpassed role he played in spearheading the liberation struggle in southern Africa. No other African leader came even close to him in that regard besides Kwame Nkrumah who, unfortunately, was overthrown with the help of the CIA in February 1966 before his full impact on the freedom struggle in southern Africa could be felt.
Nyerere's death was indeed the end of an era of which some of us were an integral part. But to appreciate the scope and full extent of all this, you have to read this book which should be on the shelves of public and university libraries everywhere, but especially in Africa to whose well-being Mwalimu dedicated his entire life.
Farewell Mwalimu. We miss you.
Phenomenon!.......2003-10-31
An eye opener for those who think nothing positive ever emerged from Africa! A well researched piece of work! It is a manual for all of us who aspire to see the genuine and authentic people-centered leadership in Africa. Mwalimu, as correctly exhibited by Godfrey was an icon not only for Africa but for the entire world.
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- From a diehard E-Type enthusiast...
- Author clearly displays a passion for the marque.
- History of the E for afficianados
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E Type: End of an Era (Classic Car)
Chris Harvey
Manufacturer: Haynes Publications
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From a diehard E-Type enthusiast..........2000-07-13
I purchased this book just prior to buying my first E-Type in 1982. Although the writing style reflects the author's background as a newpaper editor, his knowledge of these terrific cars enabled me to make an educated decision when buying my car. Since the book was published in 1976, much of the information regarding parts availability and suppliers has changed (thankfully for the better), and many of the photos have dated themselves. Still, I would advise anyone who has considered allowing a Jaguar E-Type to move in with them to first buy two books: this one, and a good shop manual. Armed with this knowledge, your E-Type experience should be a positive one. I enjoyed my 1965 coupe for almost sixteen years and never once called for a tow truck
Author clearly displays a passion for the marque........1999-11-21
I first bought this book back in '87 when I purchased my first Jag. The title of this book says it all. To even HAVE the word ERA associated with a particular model of car is very unique. When the Toyota Tercel is finally discontinued, will a book be written about it at all? And who would call it "the end of an era"? Chris Harvey respectfully tells the history of the heart and soul that was given the E-TYPE, and he understands the wave of emotion the car imparts to the casual observers as well as the patent enthusiast. Chris' perspective gives the reader real insight into the hows and whys of the XKE, how it evolved over the years, the forces that affected this evolution, and finally, why it had to end. He explains well the balance of art & engineering that went into the car, and at the same time makes this a practical read for the E-Type owner, restorer or auto historian. A must have for the E-TYPE library.
History of the E for afficianados.......1996-11-17
Handy, matter of fact history. Some interesting observations on purchase and ownership. Some technical drawings which Ihaven't seen elsewhere
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