I know Geogie Anne Geyer personally. We met first in Poland in the 1980's when she covered my country after the military coup in 1981. I have red her autobiography several times. I translated it to Polish in jail, when I was a political prisoner of the communists. This woman is a unique example of an investigative journalist. If she had fought in the wars, she would become a war hero. But she covers all the wars and revolutions that broke out during her mature life.What I like about Georgie Anne ("GeeGee") is her sharp mind and toughness. She always gets to the heart of the matter. But (a unique feature) she's also a lovely woman who never looses her charm. I recommend her book to everyone who is conscious of the World we live in. DAVID MARIUS DASTYCH (60),a veteran international journalist, Warsaw, Poland. E-Mail me at: starm@poczta.onet.pl Date: August 12, 2001 on Sunday

Ms. Geyer reveals her life and work as a wonderful adventure. As one of the first women foreign correspondents, she was where the action was. She provides us not only with brilliant insight into the geo-political events of Vietnam, Central America, and the USSR, but makes each of her tours an adventure. Ms. Geyer is truly a gifted writer. You have so much fun reading about her adventures, you may not realize you are learning a lot about foreign politics at the same time. This is a great book.

This is a first class book-interesting and personal-highly recommended reading.

The book "Islamic Fundamentalism" is an excellent addition to already published books on this subject. Mohaddessin's book originality comes from its more detailed examination of the role the Islamic regime in Tehran has played in propagating the ideology of "Islamic Fundamentalism" around the region in particular and around the globe in general. This book goes to the distressing fact that our government and we as a nation have closed our eyes to the patron of the global terrorism and Islamic Fundamentalism. It reminds us of the cold war era. That Soviets were the godfather of global communism movements. Other states such as East Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba and many others like them supported communist movements. Once the Soviets collapsed, the rest of them collapsed as quickly as their grand patron did. According to Mohaddessin's documentation in this book, Islamic Iran is playing the same role as the Soviets did during the cold war. Being the god father and grand patron of Islamic Fundamentalists movements in the region and globally. I strongly recommend reading of this book to understand the roots of our current crisis. I find this book as an eye opener to be added to the collection of other books that has been published on this subject in the recent years.

If you're looking for a thoroughly researched and documented account of the brutal zealots that have held Iran hostage for the past 23 years, look no further. Muhammed Mohadessin offers documents that clearly expose the terror that Iran's evil regime has exported and continues to export all throughout the muslim world (not to mention the West, but that's not the focus here). Highly notable is a rather detailed list of the numerous victims of the mullah's totalitarianism and violent oppressive tactics...the victims of the Iranian regime's favorite export are just as likely to be Iranians as anyone else.

Islamic Fundamentalism is the best book. It pictures the real stories with ducuoments, all whys, and hows of terrorism regime of Iran.
It opens the targets of terrorism, and some of the inhumen activities of the Iran's rulers in the past, present, and future (if the regime exist).
Khomeni and his heirs, abuse Islam and Koran. The regime use the name of Islam, but it is just the Mullahs nickname, and they actions are against Islam and Koran. The Mullahs in Iran are the Godfathers of the fundamentalism. The regime is like an encapsulated abscess within the tumor in our democratic world.
Mojahedin, the resistance of Iran, has prevented and minimized the regime's terrorist and inhuman activities. Mrs. Rajavi, the ellect president for future of Iran, a Muslem and high educated woman,is trying to overthrow the regime, and estabelish democracy and freedom. She dislike Mullahs, strongly believes freedom, human rights, and democracy.

I picked up this book on a whim at the airport discount bookstore for a song. When I started reading this book I was amazed how accurate Ms. Geyer had predicted the future (This book was written in 1996).

One of the most important points of the book is that the weakening and outright destruction of the idea citizenship is the crux of many of America's problems. Not race or religion as some of the other reviews claim (I wonder if they actually read the book).

I highly recommend reading this book for insights on possible ways we can avoid a balkanization of the USA. Bring back the strength of real Citizenship and strengthen this country for all of its citizens.

America needs to be a melting pot with a common thread of freedom and American ideals (read 'real' citizenship), not a collection of groups with loyalties that lie elsewhere that are constantly lobbying for their rights over the good of the individual citizen.

As someone who lived in southern California for a decade, I see the truth in this book. It may be too late already, but these issues should be seriously addressed. Left-wing hysterics will be sure to hate it, but they can't stop the argument by hurling epithets and making bogus comparisons to Nazi Germany and/or Stalinist Russia

Because I have always been a fan of science fiction, and slop shod writing by Martin Bormann and Heinrich Himmler wannabees, I absolutely loved this book. In Georgie Geyer's isolated and desolate household, where she has absolutely no contact with the outside world, she has concoted the theory that immigrants are the reasons for the cultural and intellectual poverty that permeates American society. But what seems to allude her mind is the fact that America has always been a decadent country, with a tradition of annihlating races and cultures on a scale that Adolf Hitler could only dream of.

Reminiscent of Hitler's idea of Aryans, Geyer believes that the United States was once a culturally rich, and considerate nation, well, I guess in her elitist community, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and 70's never happened. If America was always such a great country before immigration became uncontrollable, why is it that African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans had to fight for basic human rights, that should have been granted years ago with the publication of the declaration of independence and the bill of rights. I must commend Geyer for using an age-old Stalinist tactic of placing the blame for your own incompetence on the down trodden minorities. To clarify, Stalin, blamed the Kulak, and the Trotskyists for the failure of his vaunted 5-year plans, even though the Stalinist bureacracy was the real reason for failure. In the tradition of Uncle Joe Stalin, Geyer has placed blame for the failure of the American Dream(the equivalant of Stalin's ridiculous 5-year plans, both are virtually un-attainable), on immigrants, specifically hispanics, as opposed to the corrupt and inefficent US government.

The population projections for the year 2000 are: whites 71.5%, African Americans 12.2%, Hispanics 11.8%, Native Americans 0.7%, Asian Americans 3.8%. Which brings me to my next point. The idea that 72% of the United States population is exempt from the responsibility of their own mediocrity, seems to be a ridiculous idea. Immigrants are in fact(contrary to what Geyer believes), the backbone of the United States. Just ask people who are in the agriculture business. Because many of the immigrants are not citizens, the land owners(people in agriculture), can exploit immigrant labor, and pay them less than minimum wage. And once their growing season is over(fall & winter), they can turn the immigrants into INS(which likely equals deportation), and turn a nice profit by not paying their workers an annual salary. Or you can ask the managers of hotel chains, where their principle employees usually originate, it's a sure bet that it's not the United States. The jobs that immigrants "steal", from American citizens, are jobs that could never be filled by American citizens(due to laziness and prejudices). I could not in good conscience, recommend this "wonderful", and "delightful" work of scholarship, because it is likely not worth the lumber that it is printed on.

Amazon steered me to this book when I was looking for more on Cuban politics after reading "Against All Hope" by Armando Valladares (a maginificent, poetic book about the horrors of life in the Cuban gulag).

Geyer presents a sweeping biography of Castro, from childhood all the way up to September 11. She offers real insight on Castro's psychology and crisply recounts events leading up the revolution. It is primarily a political history.

To me the most fascinating aspect of Castro's story is how easily he comes to power after starting out with such pathetically meager resources. His "liberation" of Cuba begins with a tragi-comic marine landing by a handful of hungry and confused rebels. Incredibly, by virtue of his irresistible personality, brilliant, bold, and ruthless tactics, and a hopelessly incompetent Batista regime, Castro takes control of Cuba. The story is remarkably similar to that of Pizarro's conquest of the Incas.

Two problems with the book. First, I think Geyer's narrative becomes quite sketchy after Castro reaches power. There's a lot going on, and she needs more detail to tie together all the political, psychological, and social threads of her story. Second, the writing is uneven: her descriptions of characters and events are passionate and dramatic, but her analysis is sometimes vague and hard to follow.

All in all, Geyer paints a pretty good picture of the Castro phenomenon. If you have never delved into this subject, you might be astonished at what's been going on 90 miles from the United States. Clearly, Geyer knows her material, since she personally knows many, many of the key political figures in Cuba and the United States. I think she is a very reliable source of information on a subject where reliable reporting is hard to find.

This book is a very well written analysis of Castro's regime as well as his personal methods of operation. It does an excellent job of helping to understand what makes him tick. However, it is extremely slanted toward the anti-Castro Miami Cuban community, and virtually ignores the black Cubans. Highly recommended, but take the bias into account, because it is easy not to.

As one of the thousands of the Cuban non-political middle class who had to flee Cuba leaving everything behind including family, who not only experienced and suffered Castro's rise to power first hand, and whose family and himself personally knew quite a few of the persons which the book makes reference to; I, would not edit anything in this book. This is an accurate and well researched work as its large number of appendix sources testify. Geyer's only hope for her book has been to open the eyes of those who are still under Castro's spell for pre 60's revolutionary romanticism. Her book details Castro's rise to power accurately including his use of brutality and its resulting human suffering which are inherent to any totalitarian regime.

If you want a view of Central Asia from someone who knows nothing about it, then here's your book. Valuable only for its laughable idiocy. More exoticizing garbage.