Romeo and Juliet is the best of Shakespeares work ever. Everyone knows the story, but once you read it, it brings the meaning and connection to a different level. The language is beautiful. The words passed betweem Romeo and his love are so moving, you read them over and over. Even if you don't understand what they are saying, you'll still get the general idea and fall in love with this forbidden romance. Even though its a sad ending. The tragedy just adds more to the play. A magnificent book...you have to read it.

Romeo and Juliet has been performed so often that it has become almost tedious. But it might be a thoroughly enjoyable play if it were seen with fresh eyes. The story and its main characters are exaggerated, and at times Romeo appears to be a parody of the young, ardent lover. The play contains more rhymed lines than most of Shakespeare's others, and this can have the tendency to make the play appear less realistic. But it also makes the lines very pleasing to the ear. The pure endurance of Romeo and Juliet's story line attests to its greatness. My favorite character is Mercutio, whose energy and witticism make the play worth reading. I also appreciated the friar, who serves as a foil to Romeo's excessiveness and offers tempering words of wisdom. The play is quite bawdy at times and the double meanings are numerous.

This is one of the best books I've ever read! I think anyone with tast for drama should read this book! Maybe not anyone under seven, but even so, maybe even they could read it!!!And it's also pretty easy to understand! If you do choose this book, I think you will love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a huge collection of how-to, business/career, self-help, motivational books. Honestly, I give up reading a book after few chapters because the material is too good to be true (or too difficult to follow in a practical manner). Many of these books talk about how to walk on the water that (now) I know is impossible. While this book talks about real practical stuff (too bad to be true)! It talks about what not to do in the workplace! I am really impressed. After reading, "Dangerous Company" cover-to-cover (out of my huge collection of books), I am going to read this book from top to bottom probably a few times. It is a great resource. Authors should publish a workbook that one can follow. I really like this book. I wish I had this book when I started my career in the USA ten years ago!

Himanshu Pandit

Many of us, including myself, spend a huge amount of time and energy trying to "get the job done" not realizing that some of the behavior patterns are making our work lives more stressful, less effective and in some cases making you---or your employee---a difficult person to work with.

I picked this up after searching online for a career transition book. The authors, two guys from Harvard, have written a really fantastic guide to managing your career. If you know anyone who has had negative performance review, has problems being a "team player" or if you are a manager that has an employee that everyone in the office perceives as "difficult", do yourself a favor and pick-up a copy of this book.

These guys have practical exercises and explanations for some of the bad behaviors we have at work---procrastinating, falling behind, constant feelings of stress or anxiety. Far from the "touchy feely" approach of many of the self-help schmaltz out there, these guys are from the business world and offer real steps and real solutions to modify the negative behaviors. (eg. you may be a natural worrier and never be worry-free, but you can cultivate new ways to process the worry so that it doesn't interfere with your "getting the job done.")

In my opinion, a must read!

I thought that there was a lot of really good content in Waldroop and Butler's "Maximum Sucess", in addition to a very logical organization and a cystal clear style of writing littered with concrete examples to make the points come to life. The book is divided into TWO PARTS, the first dealing with 12 behavior patterns that are destructive to one's career and the second dealing with the four underlying psychological dynamics that are the root causes of these behaviors. I find this organization to be very satisfactory from a writing perspective as well as from the standpoint of human psychology, that the roots of our behaviors are in our minds, in what we are mentally. I read the authors "Discover Your Career in Business" (1997) in October 1999 and it really helped me to understand my own interests and the kinds of positions in business which were a good fit for a person with those interests. The authors combine a deep knowledge of human psychology with an understanding of how business works, a rare combination. Ultimately, this is a book about knowing oneself, mastering one's character flaws, and becoming the kind of person one is capable of becoming; it is about self actualization and fulfilling one's potential, specifically in a business career. After reading their first two books, I can't wait for their next production! ---- Greg Feirman (Gfire77@yahoo.com)

Too much flying! Too little plot. This book just fills in some details missing from other books in the series. Fill. That's it. It was an enjoyable read, but only because I had read (and enjoyed, more or less) the other books in the series.

The Intruders follows Jake Grafton shortly after the end of Flight of the Intruder, to 1973 on a cruise on the U.S.S. Columbia flying A-6E Intruders. In this book Grafton flies with a Marine captain Bombadier/Navigator (BN) named "Flap" Le Beau, who is ex-Marine Recon, and has some very interesting jungle/guerilla warfare skills, as well as an assortment of custom-made slashing and thrownig knives ("What are you, a walking cutlery store?" Jake asks at one point). There is not too much action for the first while, just mainly a series of carrier accidents and mishaps, but there IS some action and plotting toward the last 80 or so pages where Le Beau is truly in his element, along with Grafton. A must-read for all fans of Stephen Coonts and carrier aviation

In this book Coonts concentrates on action on an aircraft carrier with plenty of naval aviation action. Naval Air being the long arm of American Foreign Policy is depicted here in action. Jake Grafton the main character is interesting and at times reflects upon himself to see whether or not to get out of the navy of not, marriage with his sweetheart Callie is on his mind. Flap Le beau his Bombardier/Nav. puts a bit of fun and flare into the story. Although I'm not a pilot but an enthusiast, Coonts puts a lot of emphasis on what the pilots are thinking of while in the cockpit, no matter at night or during the day, as a reader you get to feel what the pilot and his Navigator are really feeling at the time.

THIS STORY WOULD MAKE A GREAT MOVIE about the life for an aviator living on an aircraft carrier, we have enough movies about the grunts on the ground,here is a chance to make a movie about aviators on aircraft carriers as they are America's long arm of Foreign Policy.

I've only worked through to Chapter 4 so far, but everything is steady as she goes. The main reason I bought the book was because of the writing style (easy-going and with the odd anecdote thrown in) and the fact that the entire book is based on developing one specific character (called Callisto). Too many times I see books that show you how to do anything and everything with the software, but fail to link it all together under a common theme. This book seems to avoid that by getting into the nitty-gritty of creating Callisto from the initial concept drawings to the final texturing.

The other bonus I personally am thankful for is the fact the instructions are still applicable with 3D Studio MAX 3. I know release 4 is out but I can't afford to purchase a $4K piece of software at the moment...

Finally, since I'm a newbie at 3D Studio Max, some of the discussion is a little over my head at times, but as the author warns, this book is written as a companion to the instruction manuals.

I purchased this book due to the overwhelming number of posative reviews it recieved... and boy, I wasn't disappointed. Quite frankly, it's *best* book I've encountered on the subject of modeling low-mid poly figures for use in Games. The technique lessons therein are invaluable to someone new to the software... and veterans will pick up a few nifty things too.

I find the best books to be those that will take the reader by the hand, and explicitly lead him/her through the entire life cycle of a 3D project... Paul Steed did a WONDERFUL job with this book!

In reference to one of the negative reviews above: This book was not designed specifically to cater to only 3D Studio Max 3.0... I'm not exactly sure how he arrived at that conclusion. It sounds more like either his units are calibrated differently, or he made a misstep through the project. I encountered no such difficulties.

I want to tell people who want to buy this book to go ahead and do it! I am making a 3D shooter with some friends and I want to learn how to model in 3DS MAX 4. Well, when I got the package i opened it and started to read. The book inspired me and in the beggining Paul is telling you ways of inproving your method of drawing and gives you ideas of how things work. On your way through the book, Paul gives you very helpful tips on using certain tools. I can't stress enough how good this book is for new users, the tutorial is very, very, very step by step. Paul guides you through every single move throughout the book.

Some people have reviewed this book as a bad book to by. They have said that this is not the true way of modelling characters. Well in this book Paul does a good job,it is a great starting point, and then you can move onto whatever technique you want. You learn how to use the tools and many different ways of going about making a character in 3DS MAX 3 and 4.

I hope this review has inspired you into buying this book.

If you do buy it and are glad that you bought, I'm glad and i hope that you creat many creative creatures and characters!

Fun, easy to learn, with lots of good advice. Role-playing Anime turns a lot of usual role-playing conventions on their head; for instance, a good anime character is probably two-dimensional with an outrageous name, and doesn't act any more consistently than the flimsy plot demands. This is a great game along the Teenagers From Outer Space, Ghostbusters, or Tunnels and Trolls line of thinking. Roll up a character, add some tags to give them form, and start acting up.

I do have a couple of criticisms. First, the combat system is surprisingly deadly for a game based on Anime; it's very hard to portray the slapstick martials arts of Ranma 1/2 with a rules system that doesn't allow for knocking out opponents. Psionic combat is unnecessarily complex. In the character creation department, some of the mechanics are a little vague; a few pronouns and articles would vastly improve the Special Attack and Special Defense rules.

The artwork is cute and entertaining. The in-betweener demi-comics are good illustrations of the genre. The book itself is durable, owing partially to its small size.

Not the best game ever made, but...

1) There isn't another game I've seen that genuinely competes in this genre. 2) It is a fun read. 3) For the price, it's really hard to say you can go too wrong.

I say: buy it.

love, kitten

I happened to find Big Eyes Small Mouth (original edition) at a used book store, and found it to be rather interesting. I had previously bought The Sailor Moon Role-playing Game and Resource Book by the same publisher (The Guardians of Order). so BESM's Tri-Stat system and general rules were quick and easy to learn, with the added benefit of being adaptable to almost any anime genre or character.

While the second edition of BESM is far more inclusive and detailed (and nearly three times larger than the original edition), the original edition is still a good match for those just beginning with role-playing games. Especially for the novice GM (GameMaster), BESM second edition contains so many rules and details that knowing how to sort through all the information presented and determine which are truly needed for a campaign and which can be set aside can be difficult. Novice GMs and younger gamers can especially benefit from the simplicity of presentation and the significantly fewer rules and details while still maintaining the creative flexibility necessary to present and participate in an original role-playing campaign. Those beginning their anime RPG experience with the original BESM sourcebook will have an easier time adapting to the second-edition sourcebook later on.

You want an easy to learn RPG where you can create your character in minutes (or however long *you* want to take in creating your character), and be playing at whatever pace you want, this is the one! The author's advice for Game Masters and players alike, "Watch lots of anime." is sound. I mean, how ELSE are you going to learn about anime characterization? And the artwork is supreme, featuring everything from standard anime/manga to the cutsy Super Deformed artwork. This book is a MUST for anime and role-playing fans alike. Go get it!

Paul Theroux has long been noted for his alleged crankiness, his opinionated and occasionally slightly sour observations, both in his travel literature and his fiction. I disagree, and here's why: he repeatedly tells the reader the premises upon which he bases his writing, being that he is not interested in merely explaining the hill or river ahead, but the millionaire next to him who is busy displaying his ignorance to anyone who will listen, or the comments of the oarsman who guides Theroux to the next isle in the South Pacific. These people are far more memorable, and speak with true universality to the human condition thru Theroux's wonderful, trained ear for language. Therefore, reading Theroux is like being introduced to unique individuals on a global scale without leaving your room. Am I likely to get to Guam in this lifetime? No. Do I have a richer feel for the people and the environs of the South Pacific having read Fresh Air Fiend, and the Friendly Isles, you betcha! And you will also!

The title of "Fresh Air Fiend" is a little misleading, as this is a collection of more than just Theroux's travel writings. There are a number of essays on other topics, including some reviews of other writers; I especially enjoyed his enthusiatic review of McPhee's "Looking For a Ship", itself a personal favorite of mine. For so prolific an author Theroux's writing is always of the highest caliber; there are no wasted words in a Theroux novel or travelogue, and yet no important detail goes unrecorded or described. Given this you can see where his enthusiasm for McPhee comes from; his admiration is obvious and freely given.

The discussions of Theroux's own novels, and how he came to write them, are also particularly enjoyable and illuminating. The story of "Mosquito Coast" covers not only the writing of the book, but the production of the movie as well, and Theroux's description of how it brought out the "Allie" in all involved- Producer, director, actors- is both witty and revealing. The story behind "Milroy the Magician" will prove interesting to anyone who has read "The Happy Isles of Oceania".

The travel stories, which do make up the bulk of the book, will be familiar in scope and tone to anyone who has read Theroux. Here he is, driving through remote Africa, wandering about in Singapore or kayaking alone around Christmas Island amid the wildlife.

Reviews of Theroux's travel writing often center on what a misanthrope he must be, or on the accuracy of details and minutia contained in the books. But Theroux himself points out in an essay on his late friend Bruce Chatwin that his books are not meant to be a guide to a country, a people or even a city; they are about the trip itself- his trip, not yours or anyone else's trip. In that sense, even his worst critics must admit that he succeeds marvelously well.

If anyone requires an introduction to Theroux's work, this book is it, combining the best elements from his works of fiction and non-fiction. Theroux is perhaps one of the few writers in the US who offers something that is interesting to his readers, as opposed to oftentimes mundane or pedestrian observations that most of us have arrived at already or would under similar circumstances.
For one thing Theroux is particularly good at stripping away the pretentions of the English lower-middle class. (He does this with many classes, but this one seems to be the victim more often than others) Take , for example, his note on on life in the inner suburbs of London: 'the secrets,the hurts, the whispers, the stifled lust...the savagery of the workplace; the eternally twitching curtains.' If anybody has spent time in this area, or have been inflicted by the presence of those with similar roots, I suspect he/she will find more than enough satisfaction in knowing that others are on the same page, as it were.
Almost all of the chapters in this collection are worth reading, and some several times over. Try "Parasites I Have Known," and his views on other writers, from Chatwin to Simpson.
All and all, a good read, and Fresh Air Fiend should be a nice introduction to other Theroux pieces.

This text book should form the core for your analog design library. It has been the main text for two graduate level courses I have taken in analog I.C. design. Treats BJT circuits a little more thoroughly than CMOS; but goes in-depth for both. Excellent reference and textbook; but definitely not a self-study guide (and this is the main reason I did not give it 5 stars).

This book goes into a lot of depth in the analysis and design of modern devices in Analog IC's. It does not assume anything and gives the reader insight on how all the models are derived (SPICE, HYBRID-PI etc). It goes into excellent detail for dealing with hand calculations which will give you a first order analysis of the circuit in question (with reasonable accuracy).

I got my original recommendation from other Amazon reviews (5-Star rating) and I whole-heartedly agree with them. If you are serious about Analog IC design, then this book is a MUST for you. It will not remain on your shelf, I promise!

I used this book in Grad school almost 20 years ago and still use it. This is the bible for analog design and is the one most widely used for its content and deservedly so. What the book really deserves credit for is teaching the manner of approaching circuit design by back of the envelope calculation. They teach you how to approximate via hand calculation, a very useful skill. They teach you how to become intuitive with circuits, this is the key. Before this book I had been asked to calculate the output impedance of a cascode mirror as an undergrad, it took about 5 pages and resulted in an expression of about 10 terms. Grey and Meyer shows you how to pop this out of a simple expression that contains only 3-4 terms and how to easily recognise the largest term. That is the beauty of this book, it teaches you how to become intuitive in transistor circuit analysis. The coverage is very good wrt the topics covered, most of the major issues are covered, but it is not encyclopedic. The problems are good and not terribly difficult, they are geared towards nailing down the material. The senior authors are both world renowned analog designers and both Fellows of the IEEE. The junior authors are also well known in this field. The writing is clear and to the point and the book has very few typos. There are other good analog IC books coming out now those by Lee, Allen, Razavi, and Johns have made it onto my shelf, but This is the Bible!

The idea that robots could supplant humanity has been around at least since the 1920's, when Karel Capek anglicized the Czech word "robota" and introduced it into the English language through his play "Rossum's Universal Robots." Lately the idea has taken on new life because of a possibly misplaced emphasis on Moore's Law and the growing power of computer networks. But a couple years ago I read where a real-world robotics engineer joked that if the robots are going to take over, they'd better act quickly because the batteries we give them only last for about a half-hour or so.

Nonetheless, this book covers ground that should be familiar to people who have already been exposed to similar scenarios popularized in books by Hans Moravec, Ray Kurzweil, Kevin Warwick, Damien Broderick and others. It's pretty much plain-vanilla Transhumanist wishful thinking, though livened up by a discussion of the faults of traditional religious belief systems.

My main problem with it is that Paul and Cox's scenario requires about as many critical assumptions as the Drake Equation to turn out just so. Social acceptance of new technologies isn't as straightforward as the authors assume. Why, for example, don't we have technologically doable videophones (a science-fictional cliché about life in the 21st Century), while we do have those obnoxious and unreliable cellphones everywhere these days? Apart from the technical considerations, the lack of demand for the former suggests that we probably don't value having to confront and interpret one another's body language as much as you would have predicted from the characterization of our species as social primates. For similar reasons, the authors' assumption that most people will readily upload into cyber-bodies can't be substantiated until something like that really becomes available. Although we should have learned by now that there are usually unintended consequences to what we do, I haven't seen evidence for emergent and unforeseen AI-like behavior coming from software written by humans for human purposes. There is nothing analogous to Moore's Law for the evolution of software. And even if there are powerful economic incentives to create software with such behavior, it doesn't necessarily have to happen on a short time scale if it turns out to be really hard.

Paul and Cox are more on target in their discussion of the perverse backwardness of traditional religious worldviews in response to current and foreseeable progress. Christians should realize that something is wrong with their story when virgins can now routinely give birth via modern reproductive medicine, and soon without even genetic contributions from men. When Rush Limbaugh went deaf, he didn't pray to some deity to restore his hearing -- he got a cochlear implant, which seems to be working well enough to save his radio career. Advocates of the creationist "Intelligent Design" theory have a problem they don't even realize yet: Humans are intelligently designing and producing things of ever greater complexity, especially computers, yet they are totally unlike things found in nature. No theist ever thought of attributing to his deity the ability to create a computer, which suggests that humans are able to do things that the postulated deity can't! (That's why bio-engineering is denounced as "playing god," while computer engineering isn't.) As the authors say on page 410, "As much as they may hate to admit it, the religious and the mystical know that science and technology do not just make promises that never quite seem to come to pass, or claim miracles that cannot be separated from illusion. They deliver the goods. They make pretend magic real." When "SciTech" gets to the point where it can reverse human aging and resuscitate "dead" people from cryonic suspension, the whole rationale for religion will be thrown into question. Paul and Cox are a little too hard on Buddhism, however, for Buddhists were way ahead of the curve when they developed the insight centuries ago, now substantiated by modern cognitive neuroscience, that the perception of selfhood is illusory. (However I find it ironic that certain Transhumanists want to deny selfhood to people while attributing it to "spiritual machines"!)

Paul and Cox finally go astray by putting too much of the burden of conquering aging and death on their predicted cyber "future minds." While they emphasize the importance of funding scientific education and research now, so that the breakthrough they are predicting will come sooner and save more human lives, they don't seem to realize that there are plenty of things we can be doing with current human intelligence to improve our survival chances. For one thing, there are some as yet unreported breakthroughs in the cryopreservation of the human brain that could enable people dying now a chance to be resuscitated by future medicine. For another, the genetic mechanisms of aging are quickly being discovered, allowing scientists to design drugs that could give us the anti-aging effects of calorie restriction without some of the drawbacks.

On the whole this book gives an overdetermined version of Transhumanist thinking. Better to read it in conjunction with several others, along with related Web texts, to get a better sense of what Transhumanism is all about.

Read this book if you what to understand where our society is headed in the near future. Gregory S. Paul and Earl D. Cox have put together some extremely well thought out theories of where the computer revolution is taking us. They base these theories on a wealth of facts from the past and present.

The biggest revelation for me was realizing that the advancement in knowledge and computing power is a result of the driving force of information exchange. There are many underlying similarities to thermodynamics, and this book hints at this. Evolution, Thermodynamics, Biology, Material Science, and Information Technology are all discussed in the book. If this book is right, the next fifty years will be illuminating.

This book will grab you from the first page and take you on a vision of the future where people will never die and where our descendents will be robots that will eventually populate the entire universe. The authors paint a very convincing story of a future which they think is inevitable.
"... these machines will see and feel, care and wonder, not just as well as we do, but far better than we can ever hope to. There will be a world of seemingly magical power in which the collective of super-minds will perform (or will conduct) super-science millions of times faster the we humans." (pg. 8)
"When the winds of change deposit us in the future of our dreams, you can be sure we won't be in Kansas anymore. Humanity, as we know it, will be facing a rapid extinction, not from natural causes...but from a situation of our own making. We will find our niche on Earth crowded out by a better and more competitive organism. Yet this is not the end of humanity, only its physical existence as a biological life form. Mankind will join our newly invented partners. We will download our minds into vessels created by our machine children and, with them, explore the universe." (pg.8)
It is the exponential growth of technology that will make this vision possible as the authors write, "the power of calculation has grown an astounding trillion times in less than 100 years! Over the last 50 years, computer speed has expanded some ten millionfold.." (pg. 201)
"There were few cars in 1920 and millions of them in 1930; there wer few home computers in 1975 and millions of them in 1995, and there will be millions of robots among us in a few decades." (pg. 241). (Robots) "will need humans less and less, and fewer and fewer folks will be able to find work. Imagine a world where humans are competing with hundreds of millions of mobile robots, most of them becoming smarter all the time." (pg. 251)
There is a section on the death of religion towards the end of the book which may disturb some people and probably would have been better off not included. There is also a general belief by the authors that we are probably the only intelligent life forms in the universe which they argue unconvincingly. But these two faults are minor in a book of this length.
Close to 500 pages in length I have read it cover to cover 4 times now and always find something new everytime. You do not have to be a scientific expert in this field to appreciate this masterpeice because the writing style reminds me of watching a good sci fi movie. The only difference is that this is NOT fiction!
If you have children or grandchildren you should definately read this book because it is very possible that they may never die!

Paul Berman is a gift to those liberals like me who are opposed to the war in Iraq, yet know that it has to potential to be a great event and blessing for the people of Iraq and the Middle East.

Throughout the book Mr. Berman, a liberal who does not like George W. Bush at all, details the history of caring, good, intelligent men and women, who, in their desire to oppose war have actually allowed evil dictators and countries to gain power and spread their evil to other countries.

-Those on the left who supported Stalin until he finally turned on them.
-The Socialists in France who tried to ignore Hitler and the evil growing in Germany
- Those who now oppose war in Iraq

Berman does not say that opposing war in Iraq is a bad thing. Instead, he feels that the energy used to opposed the war should instead be used to support the people of Iraq and helping them spread liberal democracy across the Middle East.

I am no fan of the Bush administration, and I think its attempt at diplomacy was embarrassing and will have negative repercussions in the future. Removing Saddam Hussein will benefit the entire World, but through shear incompetence and inability to articualte a coherent message, Bush managed to turn almost everyone against the idea. A sad time in history.

Highly Recommended!

Phenomenal book!! Berman explores the failure of the left to recognize totalitarianism throughout the twentieth century and believes that the failure continues to the present day. Once again, the European left and the American left refuse to recognize the existence and threat of totalitarianism (the Arab version) in both its Islamic and Baathist forms.

Berman notes that Bush has failed to articulate a case for war in Iraq (because he is fundamentally inarticulate), but insists that liberalism itself requires that we defeat totalitarian mass murderers including Sadaam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, because of our commitment to freedom and tolerance for all people, not simply for ourselves.

Today the totalitarian danger has not yet lost its sting, and there is no wisdom in claiming otherwise. Thus opens the first sentence of the last paragraph in Paul Berman's Terror and Liberalism. It is his thesis, and he defends it well. I've stated in another review that Islam is a form of conservative thinking. Berman doesn't quite put it this way, arguing instead that the danger from Islamism today is that it has adopted the totalitarian ideologies of the early twentieth century and thrived by it.

This is a book written by a liberal for liberals. It is intellectual, so conservatives need not bother with it. For the rest of us, Berman makes an impassioned and well-stated argument as to why liberalism must be defended from totalitarian Islam. Even more important is the case that it is liberalism more than anything that the bin Ladens of the world are angry at. After reviewing the rise of death cultology in the nineteenth century, and witnessing its spread into the fascist and communist ideologies, Berman shows at considerable length just how and to some extent why it has taken hold and thrived in Islam, allowing so many Muslim to rage against the United States. A hint: it's not because we're hypocritical about our values, it's because of our values. And then comes the kicker.

Why is it, he asks, that so many intelligent and well meaning people (liberals) who look at Nazi death factories and Stalinist rampages with horror and condemnation can look at the prevalence of atrocities in the Islamic world and shrug, seeing nothing wrong? He offers numbers and statistics. He gives analogies from history. He asks good questions, like why opponents of capital punishment don't occasionally turn their rage to places where the victims are buried with bulldozers? Or why the more suicide bombs go off in Israel, the more otherwise decent thinking individuals condemn Israel? He really digs in here, picking apart Noam Chomsky's binary theory of human history. The basic idea is that decent thinking people are naturally enough driven to try to understand the world. If things are going wrong there must be a reason. If things are going very wrong, there must be a big reason. We should try to figure it out. Fine enough, but only to a point. The search for reasons should not endanger our very lives. He offers the example of Leon Blum, the French pre-war socialist prime minister who advocated a tough stance against Nazi Germany. His anti-war socialist opponents condemned him. He went to Dachau but survived and returned to politics unvarnished. They became collaborators. Enough said?

Actually, no. It's not enough, but for more you'll have to read the book. My review is simple, but the text is involved. If you're like me, a liberal hawk (for lack of a better term), this will be a much-needed relief. It turns out that there are other people out there who not only believe in the liberal society that we have, but understand that to keep it, we have to recognize its enemies and then defend it.

P.S. An index would be nice, perhaps in the second edition? (hint, hint)