If it weren't for this book, I wouldn't have 3 wonderfulchildren. I suffered from unexplained infertility for 8 years. Thespecialists tried everything. I even ended up in intensive care going into renal failure and almost died after one particular doctor's treatment from too much pergonal.My non-Christian neighbor was flipping through the radio, landed on a Christian station and heard about the book. She ordered it for the chapter that applied to her and thought of me for the chapter on infertility. It sounded so simple and I believed it could work, plus what did I have to lose? The first month I tried what it said and got pregnant! I didn't expect it to work so soon and went to the urgent care with a "flu bug". The doctor laughed and said I made his night...he had a patient with a broken arm, a car accident, and I was 8 weeks pregnant! Since it had taken so long to have my daughter, when she was almost 2 years old, I thought we should start trying again. Nothing happened. Then I remembered what the book had said, did it, and became pregnant the first month I took the prescribed vitamins again---and had twin boys! My doctor said I made medical history. Thanks to Maureen Kennedy Salaman for providing such valuable information. To this day, I have never seen any mention of these treatments in any infertility articles. Too bad alternative medicine isn't taken more seriously....I'm glad I used it!

From the happy mother of miracle babies---4 year old twin boys and a 7 year old daughter. :)

It has been over a decade since I read Scheer's ill-informed diatribe against defense in general and Reagan in particular. I don't normally pan books that I read, but I make an exception in this case because it is so awful -- deserving zero stars were such a measure available.

Having worked in the defense industry for years, being patronized by a liberal Clintonist flak does not increase my appreciation for the author's arrogant nonsense. His "facts" are uniformly wrong and his conclusions unfounded. But _Shovels_ does reveal a characteristic of liberal "journalists" that was refreshing -- the author includes his interview with Reagan in which he repeatedly interrupts the then-candidate for president. In particular I recall Sheer's moral equivalism between occidental republics and Marxist tyrannies and dismissal of the Soviet GULag. Since I have relatives who perished there, my sentiments to those who find socialist utopian fantasies enlightening is one of disgust.

Scheer shows how Reagan and Bush supported the small fringe of scientists who thought nuclear war winnable and actually bought into their theories. Let's be glad the Soviets started getting competent leaders like Gorby just as we were having a decline in our leadership talent. Scheer does a good job of utilizing information from the majority of the scientific community to show that nuclear war is just not "winnable" and thus should never be attempted. I guess following the ideas of an Einstein go against Reaganism.

I happened on this book in January 2003 when we were not sure "if" and "when" we were being lnto Iraq, the week PBS replayed the 1996 Gulf War video in which Colin Powell said nuclear power was an option there. Suddenly this book sounds very scary, especially as the author emphasizes that he had reason to think from preelection interviews with Bush when he was running for president against Reagan, that Bush believed nuclear war was winnable. I have not checked out all of the facts, and the other reviewer here who questions them may have a point, but if the younger Bush is in fact heavily influenced by his father now, then we may be in for some frightening days ahead, and I a not happy to see Bush the son with the hand on the nuclear trigger.The book is facinating, especially written as it was just barely into Reagan's two terms."Evil empire""Axix of evil"Similar, aren't they ?