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A well written account of, frankly, a self-serving jerk. The story was fascinating, especially to one as naïve as me about the drug trade. George Jung was amazingly adept at the cocaine business, was a shrewd businessman, and was not so much of a megalomaniac as to bring about quite the downfall that befell Carlos Lehder (his onetime mentor, then partner, then deserter). However, Jung abandoned his family, spiraled into paranoia and drug addiction, and ended up [allegedly] broke. The book does not have a preachy tone, if you can look past Jung's quotes, and I think Porter did an excellent job of writing a candid, interesting, and objective account. Additionally, the book serves as a good primer into the drug trade in general, beyond Jung's experience.

Being a small-town gal from Mid-Mo, I had no IDEA about anything about the drug trade. This book will open your eyes and get you inside the head of the most successful cocaine smuggler in US history.
Here is my review of the book as it appeared in my high school newspaper:
If people were ever interested in smuggling cocaine into the United States in the 1970's and 80's, they only had to come to one person - a man named George Jung.
The novel "Blow" recounts Jung's rise and desperate fall in the Medellin cocaine cartel, an association of high price manufacturers of the illegal product, where he played a key role alongside the infamous Pablo Escobar.
Writing in chronological order of Jung's adventures and the exotic locales he visits, author Bruce Porter uses his exclusive eyewitness sources to tell the fascinating life story of a successful drug smuggler.
The book's success lies in the exceptional amount of detail present. The intricately woven web of facts mesmerizes the reader as the story unfolds. Porter leaves nothing of this amazing story untold, which makes the story complete; the reader does not feel cheated out of information.
"Blow" is also successful regarding the intimate interviews given by Jung; his wife, Mirtha; and his may associates in his million dollar drug operation. Porter chooses the right times to let the people involved tell the story. Tucked in with the rest of the story are quotes and anecdotes from Jung's closest friends and businessman. Kudos to Porter for getting the interviewees to reveal so much about their lives.
The only downside present is that with so many characters involved, the reader might forget who some people are and what thier part in the novel is.
Although changed and dramatized for effect, the movie is an accurate representation of the novel.
"Blow" is an enjoyable and intriguing true crime classic.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is a true story of the rise & fall of George Jung. George became involved with smuggling pot in from Mexico in the 1960's & went on to become one of the founding members of the Colombian Cocaine Cartel led by Pablo Escobar. Geogre intially was Pablo's MAJOR U.S. cocaine distributor, was the one link Pablo had to the U.S. cocaine distribution network. Another Colombian, Carlos Ledher, stole George's U.S. connections, & cut him out of the business. George then basically married into a Colombian family, and started moving smaller cocaine contract loads through a relative by marriage-Humberto. Humberto was connected to Pablo Escobar.
This book is well written, and also tells a bit about drugs, their cultivation, the human physiology of drug interactions, and how basic smuggling operations are established. It is also just a plain good story. I thought the ending was a bit sad though.
To clear up the question of: "Is George free, or in Prison". George was free, and delivering seafood to restaurants in Massachusetts. He subsequently got busted smuggling pot from Mexico, and received a 22 year jail sentence in 1993-1994, and is currtely in prison at Otisville, New York.

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i feel this book is great in that it gives actaul real life pics of the topics being talked about.. as in my emt class the book had 98%cartoon pics not real life pics which this book has and gives the better feel for the topics.. i know using this book i will still be able to know what is being said without the help of the instructor to really explain the stuff.

ACE is a good look at the world of WWII night pilots. It brings with it the Marine punch that delivers the grit and form to keep a reader enthralled.

As a youth in South Florida, I recall the Miami riots of 1980 as a time of excitement and menace. Although far removed from the violence, I remember the concerned voices on the radio and the firey images on television. Marvin Dunn, a sociologist and community leader, places the riot in historical perspective. He profiles the black communities of Overtown and Liberty City, the culture of the Miami Police Department and the incident that touched off the rioting. Dunn convincingly explains that the rioters came from a cross section of the black community, from middle-class professionals to the inner-city poor, and that the violence was not goal-driven, like the urban uprisings of the 1960s. The riots represented pure rage springing from a host of long-held grievences. In many ways, the Miami riot of 1980 foreshadowed the LA Riots. Dunn and Porter also fault the Miami Police for their handling of the riots and describe several scenarios by which they could have put a stop to the violence. I recommend this book to any and all who are interested in race relations and/or the relationship between urban law enforcement and the black community.

The Martyrs' Torch, written by Bruce Porter, Rachel Scott's Mother's Pastor has some good insights. His intervies with Rachel's brother on the night of the shootings is chilling. There is so much pain and raw emotion displayed. Even the content of his speecha t the memorial service inspiring people to lift the martyr's torch that the title refers to is very compelling. Whree the book starts to drag and lose its bite is when Porter starts to get preachy and give advice. This needlessly enlongates the book and takes away from both the heartfelt stories of Columbine tragedy and the over all quality of writing in the book as a whole. I recommend Rachel's Tears for a life changing book about Columbine and the tragedy of April 20, 1999.

What happened at Columbine High School last April was devastating to our country and to our belief that our schools are a place of safety for our children. All of the hurt, pain, frustration, confusion and tears have been well documented in The Martyr's Torch. If you are a mother or a father and really want to feel what those days felt like in our community I can highly recommend reading this book. Bruce Porter has written a very powerful message for the army of God and the youth organization that has sprung from the Columbine nightmare called "Torchgrab". It is a wonderful feeling that our young people are being saved and their lives are being changed for the better as a result of the Columbine murders. We cannot forget these innocent victims. In the end, it's really all about Jesus and where you want to spend eternity and hopefully Mr. Porter's book will help many young and old people alike make a decision for Jesus. I thoroughly enjoyed this well written book on a very difficult subject.

This is an excellent companion to the other books about the Columbine tragedy. It is also a stirring testimony to how real Christian persecution can be ignored, mocked and even trivialized.

The simple unavoidable fact is that tapes made BY the killers before the shootings clearly show who they hated the most. Had there been any other religious group (non- Christian) involved, I really doubt there would be such a quick denial of who was "targeted" during the shootings. The fact that there is such denial speaks volumes about what really happened. It also shows how nervous some people get when confronted by the name of Jesus.

Pastor Porter is to be commended on this book. It is more than just the story about Columbine. It is a hard look at our society and the depths to which it has sunk. He hits pretty close to the mark in the sermon he gave at Rachel Scott's funeral and a lot of people have heard the call. We ALL need to pick up the torch!

This book is rather schematic and develops a number of rules that it then tries to use to explain the development of nation states. Generally the feel of the book is that it is a rave based on secondary sources. The absurdity of the book can be seen in its discussion of totalitarianism. It suggests that the way totalitarianism comes about is through five steps. These are:

1 An all out industrial war which enlarges the size and authority of the administrative apparatus of the state.( This happened in Germany but it didn't in Imperial Russia. Russia had been an autocracy prior to the war. If anything the mechanisms it had set up to control the state weakened and collapsed. This led to the revolution of 1917. ) 2 Military defeat causes the collapse of the traditional regime.( You would have to agree with that.) 3 The disintegrative effects of way destroy or substantially weaken civil society.( Russia never had "civil society". It was a large rural country with a small elite living in cities. Germany was a more complex society. However it emerged from the war a democracy. It took 15 years for that to collapse. One would think that the depression and the fear of communism might be relevant to the support of Nazism rather than the collapse of civil society.) 4 In the resulting power vacuum mass movements capture the enlarged bureaucratic center and form a new regime using an organizational structure and approach to politics modeled on an army at war.( In Russia the communist had to create the Red Army the Checka and other means of repression. In Germany the instruments of repression were initially the SA and the SS. This is thus wrong) 5 After capturing the state, the new regime centralizes power and atomizes all opposition society for war.(Yes in Russia no in Germany.)

Anyone who is familiar with the history of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany will be aware that both countries had a very different character and history and neither will fit into this model.

The Soviet Union initially tried to run a command economy but faced with the collapse of the country introduced the New Economic Policy in the 20's. This meant in practice private ownership of land but the state ownership of industrial enterprise. The state at this time could if anything be described as reasonably fragmented. It was not dissimilar to the old Czarist regime, which as an autocracy had controlled the development of secondary industry to provide armaments. In the late 20's the Soviet Union did a complete U-turn on this policy and decided to Nationalize all land and to set up collective farms. The reason for this policy was so that the state could export the agricultural surplus and use the income to industrialize. This policy meant a huge decrease in the standard of living of farm workers. Such a policy was met with fierce resistance. The resistance led to repression and the deaths of millions of farm workers especially in the Ukraine. It was at this point that the Soviet Union became a strong centralized authoritarian state. Prior to that it had been an authoritarian state but not a strong and centralized one. In addition to building up a strong base of secondary industry the state also built up a large modern army.

The development of central structures meant that during the Second World War, even despite the loss of huge amounts of territory the Soviet Union was able to out produce the Axis countries in war production.

Germany unlike the Soviet Union was a wealthy country with a large industrial sector. After the First World War its constitution was that of a Federal Republic. Following the passing of power to the Nazi Party something which was accepted by the traditional elite's of the country there was little marked change to the country. An authoritarian political structure was set up and dissidents imprisoned but power was decentralized into a number of Gauls. Nothing at all happened to the industrial structure of the country. Prior to the war the only real economic policy was some government spending on roads which led to the achievement of full employment. In the late 30's the country engaged on a limited armaments program which was similar to that of Great Britain.

One of the problems faced by Nazi Germany was its inability to harness its own economy and also that of its allies to the war effort. Thus in 1941 German industry was only working 9 to 5. Private motor vehicles and Refrigerators were still being produced. The output of aircraft was so low that Germany's total of 3,000 aircraft in service was never exceeded despite the fact that both the United States and the Soviet Union had by 1944 20,000 aircraft available for service in Europe. In Germany, there were simply no strong central organs except those of state repression.

The book is highly artificial in the way that it tries to fit complex reality into simple schema. Give it a miss.

Porter provides a nice correlation between warfare and the rise of the nation state. However many of the ideas that he presents do not really come together well. He provides plenty of evidence but does a poor job of pulling it all into a coherent theme. It definitely gets you thinking about the role war played in increasing the power of the state. It does leave many questions. Its worth a shot for the politically astute.

The book, War and the Rise of the State, is very informative and should be a best seller.

I am certified on Exchange Server 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5 and have had experience supporting Fortune 100 companies in rolling out Exchange. I reviewed this book looking for a good study guide I could recommend for our clients and staff.

Simply put...look elsewhere for a study guide, as this one doesn't cut it. It seems very confusing, and I'm not exactly sure why they make everything seem so much more difficult in Exchange than it really is.

Admittedly, Exchange has a confusing interface, but it's actually quite easy to set up, troubleshoot and get running in real-life. Even in an Enterprise environment with cc:Mail, Notes, IMC connectors, and such...normally the worst thing you need to worry about is migration issues.

This book makes EVERYTHING in Exchange seem difficult, and skips very important issues that are not only on the test, but are some of the biggest issues encountered in real-life.

Avoid this book. We need less ill-trained Exchange support people in the world as it is.

This book will not prepare you for the exam! I found that the book was horribly put together. It is very hard if not impossible to locate and study for all of the objectives covered on the test. I would suggest the Sybex book on the same subject. I read this book and did not feel at all prepared to take the test and found the Sybex four days before the test and had to speed read it. I have found the Sybex book to be a better resource for real life also.

This book does a good job at explaining the basics. Being an MCSE but having limited experience with Exchange, I read the book front to back and took the practice exams. Do not try to pass the exam on this book alone. This book used in conjunction with Transender will help you succeed.