There's fun stuff in this book written by a young writer about the Clinton Years.

Bret Meanor is self-revelatory as he records his reactions to the Reagan years and thereafter, writing in a personal prose that clips along and keeps you reading.

Who wouldn't want chapter after chapter of oftimes squirming-in-the-seat Republican responses to Clinton's bravura and awfulness?

Meanor's disappointment with Clinton is much more sincere than Kenneth Starr's, whose reaction to Clinton seemed closer to inverted lust.

But Starr - and George Bush and Robert Dole - are handled with loving kindness here, which that gives Clinton's flagrancy an especially mad edge as he and Hillary fly in the face of the decency and common sense of the author's expectations.

I came away refreshed by Meanor's full head of steam, building through the book as surely as Clinton's own apparent race to the bottom.

This peppy work proves we'll never have enough to read about the former President. Start with this one and you'll be well ahead of the pack.

Bret Meanor, a new author, yet straight to the point with strong words and clear visuals, describes the 43 president as a man who was unable to lead. His character and personality flaws led his agenda down the wrong path for America. Fortunately for us, crises did not ruin America. Clinton's leadership could not have withstood the potential problems we might have had while he was in term. His own personal agenda was more important than the country's needs. That made his rise to power awkward at best and downright tragic at its worst. Bret describes poignantly the character of Hillary Clinton in chapter 6 titled, "Hillary's Photo Album". Here she is seen as one who just wants to have power, unwilling to sacrifice and really fight for the cause she believed in. Bret writes, "It is very possible that she really wanted to have the personal authority to dictate health care policy in the United States for the next 30 years...She too loved the power of the office, but like her husband, never understood the boundaries." Bret writes with a personal style that makes you feel like you are having a fireside chat with the author, speaking clearly and with some strong words, but deals fairly with the president's two terms. Bret is not afraid to speak the thoughts many of us have been afraid to share openly, yet he does it without timidity. Bret's work is a strong effort and a good read, even if the subject matter is a painful walk down memory lane.

This book is very broad based and applicable to those delving into the arena of fasting. Foundationaly sound, this book pulls the most relavant scriptures for the legitimacy of fasting even in our "modern" times. Not only is this book convincing, it also gives practical advice for the hesitant follower. I thought it did a nice job of balancing the notion of fasting for the appropriate reasons yet not with the wrong motives. I'm not quite sure why he subtitles the book "10 secrets of spiritual strength" though, unless for marketing reasons. Overall, this is a good place to start if you're considering fasting.

As we enter the 21st century, society is experiencing shortcomings in its moral fabric which pose a threat to the overall advancement of society. And where is the Church? Ronnie Floyd's book shows how prayer and fasting can be effective on a personal and church and level and if embraced by people nationally, can stem the tide and bring national revival. I appreciate the book because he intersperses narratives which help illustrate the 10 points. The book helps give a proper intellectual, mental, and spiritual mindset to have as one enters into a time of prayer and fasting. These disciplines, prayer and fasting, must be practiced effectively if revival is to be experienced in our personal and corporate lives.

Having just read Bill Bright's book The Coming Revival, I thought, what could Ronnie Floyd's book teach me in addition about Fasting & Prayer? DO NOT HESITATE to buy this book. It is excellent. The story behind Jonathon Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is riveting. We are just leading our church into Fasting & Prayer now. I would recommend this book for anyone who is going to consider this incredibly powerful discipline. It took the gut-wrenching, illness of cancer in his wife, to bring him literally to his knees. It's those trials of life that strengthen us and teach us.

Sorry, but I disagree with all the "good" reviews here. I made the mistake of reading them, then ordering the book. It is not worth the money, nor the time it takes to look at it.

The pictures all look like they are from a 1940's high school shop manual. Pictures lack detail and are blurry.

Descriptions of accessories are lacking in detail and don't seem to note "how to make" any of them.

My suggestion is to look elsewhere for "table saw techniques" rather than buy this book.

Sorry I didn't do so.

I purchased this book and wish I had not. (Revised edition (c) 1997) It contains the most basic information which might be ok for a beginner but it is coupled with poor photographs and confusing (wrong?) information (i.e. The Taper Jig Text on pg 224 says "Measure back from hinge exactly 1-foot" yet the line illustration on Pg 222 clearly show's the 12inch measure from the Taper foot - the two directions are contradictory). The line drawings were helpful and pretty clear but as mentioned above I question their accuracy. I am not an expert and I did get a few bits of information from this book but nothing you could not find on the WWW.

I am just starting out in the world of being a hobbiest woodworker and I wanted books on the tablesaw to give information on proper setup, use, maintenance, and safety techniques (better to learn to keep your fingers right from the start). After reading the other (above) reviews of this book, I purchased it. It turns out to be a wonderful source of information for the beginner. I team this book with "Woodworking - The Right Technique" by Bob Moran as two volumes a beginner should have (and read thoroughly) before embarking on using your tablesaw. Everytime I re-read either of these volumes, I pick up something new that I didn't pay attention to the first time.

This book (along with the the Moran book) are highly recommended.

I closely followed the daily news stories during the Clinton Administration and wondered if Olson's book would be only a simple retelling of Clinton scandals already too familiar. It is not and that is what makes it an engrossing read well worth the time. For example, in these times after September 11, 2001 we are concerned to give no quarter to terrorists, yet exaqctly two years earlier fourteen of sixteen convicted and unrepentant violent Puerto Rican terrorists from the FALN accepted a clemency offer made by Bill Clinton, in spite of the strenuous counsel and objections of every law enforcement agency and of Puerto Rican authorities, themselves. Clinton's unprecendented offer coincided with Hillary's bid for election as New York's junior senator and an effort to gain support in the Hispanic community there. Olson describes in detail the normal criteria for presidential pardons, gives a history of government policy toward Puerto Rican radicals beginning with the Truman years, and describes the reaction of both prosecutors and victims of those released to live freely among us. These things are background material we did not often get in our newspapers and TV news programs.

In more than eight years of the two Clintons we became numb to the daily dribble of news bits about scandals. Olson's book gives a good concise reminder of what the Clinton's were and are so that those who read it might not become seduced by their kind again. The book is especially good as a reminder of Hillary's determined ambitions to be powerful coupled with the extent of her Marxist indoctrination. This book is recommended reading for anyone who might be faced with the choice of voting for Hillary or Bill for public office. Now I am eager to read Olson's book on Hillary "Hell to Pay."

This is not a simple Clinton bashing book. It is a timely, well-documented reminder of the principles on which our nation is based and how even ardent supporters of the Clintons finally decried the many ways the Clintons flushed those principles down the toilet for personal gain.

The late Barbara Olson chronicles in expert fashion and honest conservative journalistic style the many horrific and unspeakable travesties perpetrated by Bill and Hillary at the tumultous conclusion to their 8 year co-presidency. I read in horror and shock as the business partnership, not anything remotely resembling a couple, that is Bill and Hillary, or PLOTUS and FLOTUS as Barbara succintly refers to them as, time and time again committed heinous injustices.

"Not since the opening of the gates of the Bastille have so many criminals been liberated on a single day." On his infamous last day as Commander-in-Chief, Clinton granted 140 highly dubious pardons along with 36 commutations to bring to a deplorable record grand total of 450 for his tawdry tenure of depravity. Olson masterfully documents the infamous Marc Rich as Clinton pardons the #6 Most Wanted Fugitive by the Justice Department saying that the biggest tax defrauder in U.S. history, who by the way had renounced his U.S. citizenship and was conveniently "living abroad" and whose ex-wife channeled countless donations and gifts to the Prez, was "wrongly indicted".

Among the shady and unscrupulous criminals pardoned were Bill's cocaine-snorting and habitually law-breaking half-brother Roger Clinton, as well as ex-lover Susan McDougal, drug king pins(whom Clinton had pledged to put away only 8 years ago apparently in meanignless campaign rhetoric, notorious cop killers, convicted anti-American terrorists, and a slew of other so-called unfairly indicted miscreants. Olson tells of the ostensibly coincidental(as Hillary calls it) DNC, Senate, and Clinton Library contributions and gifts well in excess of a million dollars that were gratiously received by Bill and Hillary in exchange for the unethical and as if it matters to Bill - highly illegal as well -quid pro quo deals for immunity and pardons. From the Secret Service's codename for Roger(Headache) to the White House Lawn Marines' refusal to right face when the draft-dodging, military-gutting Clinton walked past(and how they miraculously reconvened the first day of George W. Bush's tenure) are just a couple of the insider tidbits that the articulate and dearly missed Barbara Olson conveys to the reader in this entertaining and informative short read. The benefits and knowledge of the real & unadulterated truth - the stuff the liberal media conveniently let slip through the cracks - proves worth the little time needed to read this compelling book.

Barbara Olson is a hero. She actually accomplished something in her life and her last act on this earth was trying to save the lives of those on her doomed plane. She, not the former First Lady had the qualifications to actually be a senator. She got to where she did by hard work and accomplishment. That ethic is brilliantly displayed in the book, "Final Days."
After reading both "Hell to Pay" and "Final Days" it is clear to me that the media has done little to let truth be known about the Clinton regime and its inevitable effects(of it)on the nation's future. The sleazy deals and power grabbing of the last eight years will come back to bite us all hard. This book is sure to shock even the most politically savvy reader.

Ms. Olson did not wake up one day and say, "I don't like the Clintons." She formed her opinions from facts she gathered during a federal investigation. The lies, slimy dealings, cover-ups and the ultimate abuse of power--the pardons--will leave any reader doubtless that William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton were not only co-presidents, but also co-conspirators in a myriad of slimy acts which will eventually stain the former President's legacy forever.

May Mrs. Olson rest in peace knowing that she was a hero, a true patriot and the absolute antithesis of her subject.

Bovard provides us with the big picture regarding the policies of the Clinton Administration, whereas the media has only looked at certain things in isolation. Coming in the wake of the Danforth Commission on Waco, which claims to absolve the government of any fault in the death of the Branch Davidians, Bovard devotes a chapter of his book to the incident. Like many people at the time of the conflagration, I was one of those Americans who thought, "Well, they were a bunch of religious fanatics, whattaya expect?" Therefore, it should be rather sobering to read in "feeling your pain" that BATF agents could have arrested Koresh at any time when he went into town prior to the raid, and that at one point Koresh even invited the ATF to come and inspect the compound, but they refused the invitation. Instead, they opted for a military raid to be covered by the media to bolster the agency's image in the minds of the American people. A lost tv cameraman inadvertently tipped the Davidians off, but knowing this, the ATF tried to storm the compound anyway. The rest, as we know, is history.

Civil libertarians should be troubled by the attempts of the administration to limit privacy over our internet commmunications and in banking. The book also gives a good summary of why the military intervention in Kosovo was such a blunder. Interestingly, I just read in the paper this morning that an American serviceman pleaded guilty to raping and murdering an ethnic Albanian girl in Kosovo. Is this what Clinton meant by a humanitarian intervention? Other areas covered include the War on Drugs, agricultural policy, HUD abuses and gun control efforts.

I had recently read Bovard's previous book, Freedom In Chains, which I gave 5 stars. One of the weaknesses of "feeling your pain" is that Bovard recycles some of the same material. There are even entire paragraphs that look like they were cut and pasted from "Freedom". But since some of the issues he looks at were the same, I suppose we cannot expect him to reword everything he said. This book also differs from Freedom In Chains thematically. Whereas "Freedom" examined the concepts of freedom and liberty and the conflict between liberty and statism in a philosophical framework, his current work looks at how the Clinton Administration's policies have curtailed or threatened to curtail our liberties in a number of policy areas.

While some of Bovard's detractors may dismiss "feeling your pain" as just another Clinton bashing book, Bovard acknowledges that the Republicans would not have had a much better track record on many of these issues if they controlled the White House. This book is a must for anyone who wants ammunition to argue with a die hard Clinton partisan.

This is an important "anthology" of the abuses of the Clinton-Gore administration. To regular Bovard readers, it does cover some of the material that his other works have detailed but is a disturbing litany of statist, unconstitutional, and power hungry moves by this administration. What this summary does is put in greater perspective the actions of the Clinton-Gore administration that range from seemingly unrelated domestic policy such as HUD and farm loans programs to foreign policy such as the WTO and the Serbian war.

The common thread is a executive branch gobbling ever increasingly amount of control over normal people's lives while dishing out intellectually contorted reasoning appealing to people's emotions and fears. Intentions are always more important than results, activity more desired than progress, the end always justifies the means, and the truth is simply a tool to be used, warped, or discarded to advance one's aims. When we are constantly told that "it's all old news" or "just about sex", the casual political observer can't help but sit back and wonder about the lies we don't know about. This is what the book is all about.

I recommend you read the one star review from the person from California ("Hatred, not analysis"). This is an ironic message that illustrates all that the Clinton administration wants you to swallow. The reviewer reminds you that any dissenting opinion is simply "right wing hatred". He/she -- knows -- that the author has his facts wrong but won't tell you how they know this nor site any examples of these errors ("just trust me..."). What the Clinton-Gore apologists want us to believe is that any administration discretion is just a rare, isolated brush fire that really isn't a big issue, has been dealt with and there's nothing to worry about except when one steps back and examines the forest they find that the entire landscape is in flames.

James Bovard's "Feeling Your Pain" covers much of the same territory and the same abuses as his other excellent book, "Lost Rights." Nevertheless, "Feeling Your Pain" still is a very good book, especially in the chapters covering the abuses under Americorps. Bovard basically accuses Americorps of being a liberal indoctrination program which provides little to the communities in which they serve. His chapters on the abuses of the ADA and farm subsidies are also very interesting and show the extent of government waste in America.

I personally feel that Bovard should also be commended for continually reminding his readers about the abuses of civil liberties and human rights which happened at Waco and Ruby Ridge. Bovard's chapters on these almost forgotten scandals parallel those in "Lost Rights," although the chapter on Waco is more in depth to the aftermath of Waco. Bovard also offers extensive documentation of his resources in case readers want to verify Bovard's conclusions.

Basically, the only reason I am giving this book only four stars is because it covers the same material as "Lost Rights." Nevertheless, it still an excellent book from one of America's best liberatarian writers.

Bill Berkeley begins with an interesting idea social scientists have mined deeply: that politics--most frequently of the exploitative tyrannical stripe--and "ethnic competition" provide a far more compelling explanation of ethnic violence than threadbare notions of "primordial conflict"--"that's just the way those people have always been"--which constitute the conventional wisdom underlying most accounts of of ethnic strife in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans. Berkeley expressly criticizes popular writers like Robert Kaplan for keeping the conventional--and easily controvertible--wisdom in circulation. In doing so, and in writing to correct the record, Berkeley deserves a pat on the back.

After these introductory passages, the book heads for mostly well worked territory in accounts of African ethnic conflicts Berkeley has, at some point, covered as a reporter (for Atlantic Monthly and other publications). He does this through the lens of six "types"--"the rebel," "the collaborator," "the assistant secretary"--each with its own chapter, some of which work better than others (such as the ones on Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African for the entire Reagan Administration and errant practioner of Kissingerian realpolitik, and Gatsho Buthelezi, the Zulu leader who collaborated with South Africa's White Apartheid regime against the Mandela's African National Congress). In other chapters, however, Berkeley is hard-pressed to maintain this focus, especially since he seems determined to cut or stretch his material to give roughly equal attention to each conflict. Still, Berkeley provides reliable, informed overviews, filled out by personal anecdotes, interview material, and occasional gleanings from other scholarly or popular writers.

Some things irritate: I found his use of "tribe" and "tribalism" to be inconsistent, at times diffuse, first criticizing these terms as Western categories imposed on subservient peoples, and later using them conventionally (and, I would add, insensitively), without any suggestion that such usage may be in any way objectionable (at a time when "tribe" has been widely abandoned among Africanists in favor of, say, "people" or "ethnic group"). From time to time the text repeats itself, and Berkeley often returns to home themes artlessly (a problem of structure: if each of your chapters has the same basic point, you'll tend to repeat your punchlines unless you factor them into a common front end or conclusion). And Berkeley is at times too much the "new journalist," gratingly front and center of his own narrative, wearing his progressive credentials and editorial opinions (he's now an editorial writer at the NY Times) on his sleeve, hatband, shoulderbag, and anywhere else he can hang them.

This is nevertheless a book that, apart from its other merits, gets its big concerns right, and for that reason alone I would recommend it as a corrective to a lot of the nonsense on ethnic strife now in circulation.

Although I share Berkeley's concern for the people of Africa, in my opinion he is way to eager to prove an initial thesis - that Africa's basic problem is "outside" influence. Like many young idealists who care passionately about their cause, Berkeley is highly selective about what is included in the book, although he does make an admirable effort to give targets of his criticism an opportunity to state their case (no small concession).

Over one-third of the book - nearly 100 pages - is devoted to Liberia, a tiny country with less than three-tenths of one percent of the continent's population. The reason for this is that it is simply not chic to criticize the West unless you can find some way of demonizing the U.S. in the process. This is hard to do in the case of Africa, since the U.S. was never a colonial power there, but Liberia is a country in which the U.S. has had a special interest over the years, which makes it a juicy target. It doesn't hurt that Liberia's worst problems began just as the Reagan administration was being installed, although connecting the dots becomes a bit of a stretch (Berkeley criticizes the U.S. both for supporting the Doe regime in 1986 and then failing to support the regime three years later).

This touches on the main problem with the book, namely that it is a long litany of skin-deep complaints without any exploration of alternatives. Certainly it is easy to criticize the U.S. for supporting the kleptocratic Zairian dictator Mobutu, but how would the country have been any better without Mobutu? Zaire would most certainly have fallen under Soviet influence (if not outright anarchy) and, as we see in places like Guinea and Ethiopia, this would not have been any better for the people or the economy. Failure to hold the line in the Third World would simply have prolonged the Cold War, and the Marxists were far less supportive of human and political rights than was the West.

Berkeley does not mention any Communist countries or African disputes that fail to fit the model, such as that between the Shona and Matabele. His foray into South Africa is an amazing piece of gerrymandering that manages to portray the ANC as a victim of Inkatha aggression. He accomplishes this by focusing only on the Natal area, an Inkatha stronghold in "Zululand." Tough questions are put to the Inkatha leadership on the violence in their district, yet there is no mention of what was happening in the rest of SA. ANC atrocities, such as the Shell House and St. James's church massacres, are neatly sanitized from Berkeley's version of events. One wonders if he ever heard of the Black Consciousness movement and why it no longer exists in SA.

Perhaps instead of trying to fit Africa into a politically correct cliché, Berkeley would have done better to challenge his own preconceptions and educate the reader in the process. There is no harm in providing the total picture, but a dedication to do otherwise, simply for the purpose of influencing the audience, insults those who feel that they can be trusted with the true details of a complex situation.

Bill Berkeley has taken an unpleasant subject and poured his life time's work into this examination of evil and distilled it into this well done book, The Graves are Not Yet Full (Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa). The author has earned the right to tell these stories and does well by them as a journalist. He concentrates on the Big Men, the tyrants whose personalities are behind the anarchy and slaughter in Africa, and shows how the situations are manipulated by these men (and this includes, pointedly, a representative of the United States in the chapter on the assistant secretary of state) to maintain their persoanal power at the expense of the people of whom they are responsible. It is frightening story and, despite the author's small ray of hope added at the end, seemingly impossible to change. This is a great book for those who want to see the situation in Africa beyond the meager news reports of victims and villians.

Well you should know that I've read all the November Man novels. I love this series (wish there were more). Granger's plots suck you in, as did this one. Read all of them if you can find them. It's worth a trip to the library for the ones out of print.

This had it all, a great story, good characters, wonderful action and a quick pace. This is an exciting book that at its heart is a conspiracy theory. Ok the story is almost not believable, but if you close one eye and get into it you will have fun. Not a bad little page-turner. I liked the story line; the whole aggressive and violent environmentalist group was believable given what is going on in the field today. The book presented this group very well. It did not present them as some whacked out bunch of crazies but as a very determined and dedicated bunch. The book sneaks up on you and really sucks you in. You find your self almost hurrying to the next page because the suspense builds through to the end of the book. Very good characters with competent development and well thought out roles within the story. I would have liked a bit more detail on the locations. The ending was also a good one - you are expecting something close, but the author has come up with something better. Overall, this was a great effort by the author.

Granger's November Man, Devereaux, is a worthy citizen of the world inhabited by Phillip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Harry Palmer, Travis McGee and George Smiley; men apart, men who live by their own strict code in a world without rules. In Henry McGee (hommage to John D. MacDonald?) he has found his Karla, his Blofeld, his Moriarty. Granger's writing is muscular, his plotting crisp and his eye for character and detail impressive. Read the whole series, if you can find it. You won't regret it

I'm in the education field and one of my reoccurring irritations is that when I go to conferences, I constantly hear about how corrupt, evil, racist, "fill-in-the-blank-with-evil-adjective" the government of the United States is. I am sometimes drawn into these conversations and what I find out the majority of the time is that the same people complaining have no idea how our government works or how to change it. These same people often feel that loudly complaining will solve their differences. Then I start asking these people questions about their knowledge of government like "Do you know who your congressman is?" or "Do you know how Congress works?" What I usually get back is dirty looks and incredulous attitudes. Then I explain how our democratic republic works and how they can put pressure on their appointed representatives. They're usually amazed and ask how I know such things.

I explain that a little education (what most people receive, but don't retain in their high school civics classes) about our government, country, and the history of our country can go a long way. Even something as simple as realizing what the three branches of our government are is a useful first step. Reading the Constitution can be a good second step. Books like this one explain some of the basic facts about how our government in the USA works and how to participate in it (other than just voting).

Perhaps the most important part of learning about the government and history of the USA is that it's OK to be patriotic. Too many radical liberals (and a few wacko conservatives!) think that it's shameful to be patriot. It's not. The USA is a great country and has much to be proud of. While the USA isn't perfect and has made some mistakes as a country, I always think of the final factor in this country's greatness is the large numbers of people who "vote with their feet" and immigrate here. Some people are so desperate to get here from countries that don't take care of or provide for them that they are willing to illegally immigrate here. That's, perhaps, one of the most powerful statements that can be made about the USA.

I highly recommend this book for those of you who feel that your vote isn't important or that you can't change your world. You can!

Review by: Maximillian Ben Hanan

The title and pictorial representation leads one to believe that the book would share some light on the past and present exploits of the Clinton's political arranegements. However the book is in fact a catalog of ramblings about unsubstantiated charges of corruption at all levels of government. Additionally an inordinate portion of the text is dedicated to the struggles the Clintons went through in their early lives. It also goes off on tangents that only remotely relate to the Clinton's felonious life style. To the interested student of power brokers this book is replete with redundancies that leads to a boring and sophomoric exercise.

This book detailes the corruption of not only the Clintons but Arkansas and Washington D.C. as well. The book paints a picture of the idealistic and somewhat tortured personal lives of two people who get caught up in the corruption of not only Arkansas, but Washington D.C. The book does get kind of bogged down in discussing tangents to the main theme of the book, the Clintons, but its meant to show what kind of Arkansas and Washington D.C. they came into politically. The book, although defintely not pro-Clintons, avoids purely polemical and emotional language and writing. It is a sad commentary on politics in general and our country when corrupt people can get into high places.

This is an excellent read! If you are unconvinced of the corruption we have had for the last eight years, then this book will cause you to reconsider. It also goes into detail as to how Bill Clinton got into this terrible state.

Anyone who dismisses this book as unsubstanstiated is obviously partisana and also hasn't been paying attention to the news for the last eight years. An objective and reasonable person will see the truth and the truth is what is written is true and well documented. Mind you this is a close friend of Bill Clinton who wrote the book! No agenda - just truth for those who can accept it.

This book highlights the pattern of deceit, drug use and corruption. Frankly, I'd rather not be in denial but admit the obvious about this man. Hopefull the American people will never allow someone of this low calibur ever become President again.

Apparently "Coach" takes his criticism a little too harsh. I have to agree with "reader" this book is wafer thin on pass protection and there is NOTHING new here. It is the same slant,hitches,fades and crossing combos that everybody uses. I guess if you've never stood on the sideline, read another football book, watched game tapes of your opponents and gone to a clinic you will find this insight "helpful". Not sure why Coach Powers thinks he has discovered something new here. I was also wondering where coach explains how some of the routes he says are in this book are adaptable to ANY formation?? Like reader I wish Coach Powers well and I don't doubt that he is a good coach but let us be honest with those who are making a decision on which books to fit into their tight time and financial limits. There isn't anything special or unique that makes this book a must have "pre-season" read.

I was hoping for something new. Maybe a little more detail on pass protection? Unfortunately the book does not go into that much detail on the emphasis of its title "Blitz Proof Pass Protection". Its basically the same standard protection that would be all familiar to those who have studied the game, nothing new or revolutionary, its just a different guy explaining the same b on b protection EVERYBODY uses. As for the pass routes again nothing new to those who have studied the game. Just your basic 3 step package. I wish Coach Powers luck and I hope the publisher (somewhat new to football coaching books) continues to put out more football material, however I would recommend Andrew Coverdale's and Dan Robinson Quick Passing book series for those seeking more detail on both pass protection and quick "blitz proof" passing. Coverdale and Robinson also include some cutting edge pass ideas that are simple and adaptable to any formation, Coach Powers on the other hand seems to limit his package to very few formations. Again nothing against Coach Powers its just this material is covered better and in more detail elsewhere.

If I wrote such a totally inaccurate review I wouldn't want anyone to know who I was (Reader) or where I lived (Football Town, USA) either. The pass protection scheme is adequately covered in the opening chapters of this book as noted by the editorial reviews. Once defenders are identified and the pass protection scheme is explained a few adjustments are discussed. We use very few of the adjustments but they are in our package. The basic scheme holds up versus most fronts and stunts reducing the need for a lot of adjustments which confuse players. We have a few adjustments that will take care of certain stunts we see but the basic calls are usually all we need. I have received several emails from coaches telling me how much they enjoyed learning this pass protection scheme and they think it will help them. I know it will! It turned us around from perennial losers to contenders. There is almost no three-step drop in this passing book while all of Coverdale and Robinson's drops are in the Quick Passing Game. I recommend their books to you. We use them to give us another dimension to our passing offense. Also, there are enough formation possibilities that a coach could use a different formation on nearly every down of a ten game schedule. That's enough for us. The versatility and effectiveness of the pass routes are expounded on in the chapters dealing with four-quick receivers, attacking cover two, attacking cover three, attacking man coverage, using play-action passes, and a goal line package with minimal (if any) similarity to Coverdale and Robinson's books. Even if your pass protection is sound the book is worth getting for its effective pass routes in chapters five through eleven.