Vincent Foster was murdered. That day on July 20, 1993, two men got out of a vehicle. There were a few other men there also. What did those men want so bad that day? That man kept on insisting that he didn't have it. Have what? What was so important that those men had to kill a man? To this day, I still would like to know what they were looking for. I think about it almost daily, wondering what the reason. That man that got shot that day, did not have a chance. It was obvious, he was set-up.

'Patrick (Knowlton) did nothing to deserve the outrageous treatment he received at the hands of the OIC (Office of Independent Counsel) and its FBI agents. He did nothing to deserve being yanked into this FBI debacle, having his life turned upside down, and having to endure this fight for his reputation. Patrick's only 'crime' was reporting to the authorities what he had seen at Fort Marcy Park, consistent with his understanding of his duties as a good citizen.' (From the preface of 'Failure of the Public Trust, FBI Cover-up.com')

What Knowlton saw at about 4:30 pm, July 20, 1993, were all the cars that were in Fort Marcy's parking lot at the time, and none of them matched the photographs of White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster's car that were shown to him later by FBI agents. Meanwhile, Foster was lying dead in the back of the park. That simple fact is the genesis of this remarkable legal document, now available to the public as a book.

You will not learn in these 511 pages who murdered Vincent Foster or why, nor will you find a trace of any partisan swipes at the Clintons. You WILL see revealed in painstaking detail how the cover-up was carried out by the police, the FBI, and by our other major organs of power, not the least of which have been the news media. The greatest achievement of this book is the complete reconstruction of the evening of July 20, using in a very transparent fashion every available public document. Their method may be contrasted, as the authors point out, with Kenneth Starr, three-quarters of whose references are to supporting work by associates, work that is still kept secret. Following the drawings, the cast of characters, and the time line, as you read the book you can imagine yourself at Fort Marcy Park watching people come and go. You will get to see how, as the evening progressed, dried blood around a neck wound turned into wet blood from a mouth and head wound and how all the photographs taken of the original scene disappeared. You will also learn how utterly absurd is the story of the investigating officers that they visited the morgue before two White House officials got there and miraculously found two sets of keys in Foster's pants pocket, keys that they had somehow missed when they went through his pockets in the park. Apart from the patent absurdity of the story on its face, it cannot be reconciled with the time of connected events. And you will see solid evidence for the authors' claim that this is, above all, an FBI cover-up. They show that, contrary to the assertions of some leading White House critics, the FBI was heavily involved in the sham investigation from the beginning. Furthermore, the same FBI agents were key 'investigators' for both Robert Fiske and Kenneth Starr, thus making a farce of these prosecutors' putative 'independence.'

With this prodigious work John Clarke, Patrick Knowlton, and Hugh Turley have moved to the head of the line of those exposing corruption in America's major institutions. Every concerned citizen ought to read it.

Why shoudn't we read the original books on the subject, the uncertainty ? If we are managers under pressure and without sufficient time, a similar collection is really useful. Of course, some auctors should be considered in total(Hamel & Prahalad), but this book offers a good insight on the matter. And some explications about companies strategies (competition based on the innovation rythm, for instance, in the last article)

Unfortunatly, I was really anticipating some clever mind tricks. The kind that really makes you think..."Wow!!!" As it turns out, many of these illusions are tricks that I remember encountering when I was in grade school. For example, staring at a black silouhette for several seconds burns a "ghosted" image in your eyes. So if you then stare at a white wall directly after, you'll see the same image. Tricks such as that were great when I was younger. And, true, it was nice to see these forgotten illusions resurface. I suppose I was just looking for something a little more novel. Some of the other illusions include finding hidden pictures within a picture. Or an image that becomes another image when flipped upside down (see the cover). All of these were fun...but at the most I gave each "gag" only 15-30 seconds of my time. There was one redemptive illusion that merited this set a rating of 3 stars - the ones that require holding an image up to light. That was very entertaining!!!

I bought this for a friend of mine for his birthday and couldn't help but thumb through it myself before wrapping it. Found it full price at a Shambhala bookstore in Chicago and felt it was worth the price. It's a bargain here. Lots of clever word play in the booklet- a number of palindromes that I'd never heard before. Great illusions and clever postcards. Some brilliant effects are achieved through light and playing with human perception. Each piece could stand alone as a piece of art, and there are a lot of pieces in this little box.

While it is not "technically" a book, I recommend it strongly as a gift for that friend that reads and thinks a lot but you don't know what book to pick for him or her. It's relatively obscure right now, and makes a truly unique gift. Don't buy it for yourself, but be sure to check it out before you wrap it. Remember to wash your hands first.