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Title: We Sell Drugs

Subtitle: The Alchemy of the U.S. Empire

Author: Suzanna Reiss

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: History, 21st Century

Publisher's Summary:

This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied in the growing economic clout of its pharmaceutical industry.

We Sell Drugs is a study grounded in the transnational geography and political economy of the coca-leaf and coca-derived commodities market stretching from Peru and Bolivia into the United States. More than a narrow biography of one famous plant and its equally famous derivative products - Coca-Cola and cocaine - this audiobook situates these commodities within the larger landscape of drug production and consumption. Examining efforts to control the circuits through which coca traveled, Suzanna Reiss provides a geographic and legal basis for considering the historical construction of designations of legality and illegality.

The book also argues that the legal status of any given drug is largely premised on who grew, manufactured, distributed, and consumed it and not on the qualities of the drug itself. Drug control is a powerful tool for ordering international trade, national economies, and society's habits and daily lives. In a historical landscape animated by struggles over political economy, national autonomy, hegemony, and racial equality, We Sell Drugs insists on the socio-historical underpinnings of designations of legality to explore how drug control became a major weapon in asserting control of domestic and international affairs.

Members Reviews:

Exactly what we need to know

Would you try another book from Suzanna Reiss and/or Karen White?

This is an excellent history of the US failed and dishonest war on drugs. A must read.

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Title: Section 60

Subtitle: Arlington National Cemetery: Where War Comes Home

Author: Robert M. Poole

Narrator: Richard Davidson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: History, 21st Century

Publisher's Summary:

From the acclaimed author of On Hallowed Ground, the heartfelt and revealing story of Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery today, the final resting place for many casualties of our most recent wars.

While On Hallowed Ground chronicled the history of the cemetery, Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery is the powerful contemporary biography of a five-acre plot where many of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been laid to rest alongside service members from earlier wars. Gifted writer and reporter Robert Poole opens the story with preparations for Memorial Day, Arlington's biggest event, when thousands of families come to visit those buried in the 624-acre cemetery, legions of Rolling Thunder motorcyclists patrol the streets with fluttering POW flags, and service members place miniature flags before each of Arlington's graves. What emerges is a portrait of our national cemetery as a living, breathing community, and a narrative about how improvised explosive devices, suicide bombs, and enemies who blend in with local populations have changed the nature and aftermath of conflict. Several of the newest recruits for Section 60 have been brought there by suicide or post-traumatic stress disorder, a war injury newly described but dating to ancient times.

Using Section 60 as a window into the latest wars, Poole recounts stories of courage and sacrifice by fallen heroes, and explores the ways in which soldiers' comrades, friends, and families honor and remember those lost to war-carrying on with life in the aftermath of wartime tragedy. Section 60 is a moving tribute to those who have fought and died for our country, and to those who love them.

Members Reviews:

very good. It brings Arlington home by the very beginning ...

Being retired military I so can associate myself with this book. I have the other book by Mr. Poole, On Hallowed Ground, and it was very, very good. It brings Arlington home by the very beginning of its existance. Although I am a Vietnam vet, that makes no difference because of all the wars or conflicts that we have been in. I have gone to Arlington several times, while on vacation in Virginia with my kids, but each time I feel a very close comfort there. It is peaceful and so so beautiful. Looking at all the rows of markers, it seems to go on and on and I know that there are my brothers and sisters buried there. There will be a day when all of those graves will be open, what a day that will be.

A must-read for military fanatics and civilians alike

"One does not truly die until his name ceases to be said." Robert Poole's book on the stories behind some of the gravestones in Section 60 at Arlington are riveting, compassionate and thoroughly researched. The Soldiers profiled in this book will never be forgotten and will forever be more than just names on marble slabs. Mr. Poole has created a fascinating story of service members who were killed in action and those who died of other causes. He chronicles both gritty combat stories along with edgy portrayals of those who killed themselves after battles with PTS and depression.

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Title: Embattled Rebel

Subtitle: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief

Author: James M. McPherson

Narrator: Robert Fass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-14

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 65 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

From the dean of Civil War historians and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy

History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. If that cause had succeeded, it would have torn the United States in two and preserved the institution of slavery. Many Americans in Davis's own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, if not a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson. In Embattled Rebel, McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history, but it is too easy to diminish him because of his cause's failure. In order to understand the Civil War and its outcome, it is essential to give Davis his due as a military leader and as the president of an aspiring Confederate nation.

Davis did not make it easy on himself. His subordinates and enemies alike considered him difficult, egotistical, and cold. He was gravely ill throughout much of the war, often working from home and even from his sickbed. Nonetheless, McPherson argues, Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force: the quest for independent nationhood. Although he had not been a fire-breathing secessionist, once he committed himself to a Confederate nation he never deviated from this goal. In a sense, Davis was the last Confederate left standing in 1865.

As president of the Confederacy, Davis devoted most of his waking hours to military strategy and operations, along with Commander Robert E. Lee, and delegated the economic and diplomatic functions of strategy to his subordinates. Davis was present on several battlefields with Lee and even took part in some tactical planning; indeed, their close relationship stands as one of the great military-civilian partnerships in history.

Members Reviews:

Interesting

Civil War scholar and Pulitzer winning (Battle Cry of Freedom 1988) author James M McPherson has taken a fresh look at a subject with whom he is eminently familiar: the life and times of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. With open minds in short supply these days the author takes a big risk in challenging past postulations. Many still consider Davis a traitor.

McPherson has methodically, without emotions written this short book. It is obvious he has conducted an enormous amount of research in preparation to write this story of Davis. This is not a biography in the traditional since as details of Daviss life before Secession and his fate during Reconstruction are not covered.

McPherson claims Davis was not an inept leader as many historians have claimed. Davis was a graduate of West Point and had served in the Mexican War. The author states that the south also had problems with its Generals. He compared the tentative George B. McClellan to the backpedaling Joseph E. Johnston. While he documents that Davis made his share of mistakes and was an impolitic politician, McPherson concludes that Davis devised a credible strategy for fight the war. The Souths material and manpower handicaps are well known, but McPherson list other obstacles such as the Southerners were anything but united. The States Rights mantra often inhibited coordinated military tactics.

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Title: Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

Author: Alfred W. McCoy

Narrator: David Halliburton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-14

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government.

During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject's resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America's moral authority as a world leader.

The book is published by University of Wisconsin Press.

Critic Reviews:

"A fascinating and disturbing book, providing the most authoritative account of torture yet available and conforming to the best traditions of scholarship." (Richard Falk, Princeton University)

"This book gives the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, about the use of torture by the United States intelligence service." (Jennifer Harbury, author of

Truth, Torture, and the American Way)

Members Reviews:

Terribly depressing

As a starting point, this book is absolutely one-sided. I would have loved to have heard some counter-points and arguments as it progresses. That said, if 1% of the allegations set forth in the book are true then American policy is pointing us to be no better than another totalitarian state.

I thought the specific examples were very good, if chilling. I also thought the mostly chronological telling lent itself well.

It is a very depressing book and, while I did enjoy it and it was informative, I'm glad it's over. I withheld 5 stars overall because there was no counter-point to the arguments of the author and because the narrator seemed to have an unusual number of mis-pronunciations.

Brilliantly narrated and very interesting

Found this book very interesting, as I have read a lot of the authors reference material. Have also learnt a lot from the book, as was quite shocked when I got to the torture practices of the Philippines about how the tortured victim was displayed. For those who have read up on the history of torture Project X, Project Phoenix and Project Artichoke as well as Cold War practises are discussed in detail. The narrator was very easy to listen to and read the book very well, although unfortunately but only one when rendition was mentioned the term 'extraordinary rendition' was used, that is a term given by the press not the CIA or Military

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Title: Inside the Hotel Rwanda

Subtitle: The Surprising True Storyand Why It Matters Today

Author: Edouard Kayihura, Kerry Zukus

Narrator: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: History, 21st Century

Publisher's Summary:

In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwandas genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotels refugees do not endorse Rusesabaginas version of the events.

In the wake of Hotel Rwandas international success, Rusesabagina is one of the most well-known Rwandans and now the smiling face of the very Hutu Power groups who drove the genocide. He is accused by the Rwandan prosecutor general of being a genocide negationist and funding the terrorist group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

For the first time, learn what really happened inside the walls of Hotel des Mille Collines.

In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura writes of a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter.

The book exposes the Hollywood hero of the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, as a profiteering and politically ambitious Hutu Power sympathizer who extorted money from those who sought refuge, threatening to send those who did not pay to the génocidaires, despite pleas from the hotels corporate ownership to stop.

Inside the Hotel Rwanda is at once a memoir, a critical deconstruction of a heralded Hollywood movie alleged to be factual, and a political analysis aimed at exposing a falsely created hero using his fame to be a political force, spouting the same ethnic apartheid that caused the genocide two decades ago.

Kayihuras Inside the Hotel Rwanda offers an honest and unflinching first-hand account of the reality of life inside the hotel, exposing the man who exploited refugees and shedding much-needed light on the plight of his victims.

Members Reviews:

#GetWoke #TakeAction

If you've ever seen the movie Hotel Rwanda, you must read this book! While I was guilty of thinking of it as a true story, or even based on a true story, the movie has given power to an illegitimate human! This book not only opened my eyes to the long-standing discriminative practices against Tutis leading up to the genocide but also the continuing conflicts in surrounding countries with the Hutu Power, who Paul Rusesabagina vocally supports!

Possibly true details become a rant

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The genocide in Rwanda is still almost incomprehensible as an act of pure evil and the resilience of those left behind in the aftermath has allowed the country to rebuild to an amazing extent. This particular book seems to be a continual rant about how Paul Rusesabagina has profited or been given credit for things that he should not have been credit for.

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Title: The Disneyland Story

Subtitle: The Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of Walt Disney's Dream

Author: Sam Gennawey

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 232 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The Disneyland Story: The Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of Walt Disney's Dream is the story of how Walt Disney's greatest creation was conceived, nurtured, and how it grew into a source of joy and inspiration for generations of visitors. Despite his successors' battles with the whims of history and their own doubts and egos, Walt's vision maintained momentum, thrived, and taught future generations how to do it Walt Disney's way.

Members Reviews:

The narration is killing me.

2 1/2 hours in but doubt I can finish with this narration. I have over 800 downloads this is in the bottom 5 narrations for me.

If you want a great book on Disney go with "Walt Disney the Triumph of the American Imagination" great book, great narration that gives you much more than Disneyland and intimately brings Walt's story to you. I listened to the unabridged version. 33 hrs. and actually listened twice with many books marks on things we can learn from one most extraordinary people there has ever been.

I Was There

Any additional comments?

My parents moved to pre-freeway and pre-Disney Anaheim when I was two-years old. As I approached six years old I remember sleeping with my window open, smelling orange blossoms and hearing the Mark Twain whistle from a few miles away.

In short, I enjoyed this book very much. In fact, I listened to it twice, back-to-back. However, I believe my enthusiasm was because this was a page from my life.

I remember going to Disneyland many times, meeting Walt sitting at the end of main street, no crowds and enjoying all the park as it evolved.

Even my Grad Night (Anaheim High School) was held at this venue. I'm not sure if non-Disney fans will enjoy the book as much as I did. However, I can attest to the fact that it is an excellent narrative on the evolution of the Magic Kingdom.

Great content, poor reader

I loved the content of this book and would consider it a must read for any Disneyland junkie like myself. While the narrator did a good job overall I was taken aback by the repeated mispronunciations of several Disney legend imagineers. As I didn't read the book the mistakes may have been made by the author, and if that is the case I apologize to the narrator. However, given the extensive research that must have gone into this book I highly doubt it was the author's error. Overall though fantastic book and I would highly recommend it to anyone!

Frustrating Errors in Narration

The book is great, but I wish the narrator would have been subjected to more scrutiny during recording. He mispronounces so many names (and other words) throughout.

Don't they have editors for the narration?

What did you like best about The Disneyland Story? What did you like least?

For the Disneyland aficionado--casual or manic--this is a wonderful book. Provides just enough of Walt's background to help the park make sense, explains what makes it unique, and helps us understand the story behind each ride, with just enough ride description to allow the Disneyland fan to close the eyes and get dreamy.

What other book might you compare The Disneyland Story to and why?

It is journalistic in style--just the facts. The narrative voice is clear and relatively unemotional. It is history with very little commentary.

How could the performance have been better?

The performance almost ruins the book.

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Title: Redeeming the Dream

Subtitle: The Case for Marriage Equality

Author: David Boies, Theodore B. Olson

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-17-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: History, 21st Century

Publisher's Summary:

The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 - by the two lawyers who argued the case.

On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United Statesissued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's discriminatory Proposition 8, thereby reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California.

Redeeming the Dream is the story of how David Boies and Theodore B. Olson - who argued against each other all the way to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore - joined forces after that titanic battle to forge the unique legal argument that would carry the day. As allies, they tell the fascinating story of the five-year struggle to win the right for gays to marry,from Proposition 8's adoption by voters, in 2008, to its defeat before the highest court in the land in Hollingsworth v. Perry, in 2013.

Boies and Olson guide listeners through the legal framing of the case, making crystal clear the constitutional principles of due process and equal protection in support of marriage equality while explaining, with intricacy, the basic human truths they set out to prove when the duo put state-sanctioned discrimination on trial.

Redeeming the Dream offers listeners an authoritative, dramatic, and up-close account of the most important civil-rights issue - fought and won - since Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia.

Members Reviews:

More than it appears . . .

What did you love best about Redeeming the Dream?

Not only does it tell the back story of the California Prop 8 case but it provides insight by world class supreme court attorneys on the foundational strategy necessary to target propulsion to the U.S. Supreme Court. Seems to me as a recent law school graduate that this book is a must read for aspiring attorneys.

Wonderfully engrossing and often emotional book

What did you love best about Redeeming the Dream?

How everyone in the book was treated with respect by the authors. The activists on both sides, the opposing lawyers, the LGBT community as a whole, and even those who backed Prop 8 were given a fair deal. Some didn't come across very well, but it was on their own merits, not by being run down by the authors.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Redeeming the Dream?

The build up to the Supreme Court case and the actual proceedings inside the Supreme Court. It was unbelievable the amount of work that goes into preparing for the Supreme Court and then how very fast the actual appeal goes in the Courtroom. The fact that each lawyer has a prepared argument, but rarely gets past the first line or so before being interrupted by one of the justices.

What about Mike Chamberlains performance did you like?

His ability to make what could have become dry legal mumbo jumbo and bring it to life.

Living History, Loving History

When you live through history, the big picture - if you think of it at all - is elusive. There are parts of the illustrated history you can imagine but can't see because you're painted in another perspective. NPR, FoxNews, Slate, evangelical Christians, liberal pundits and conservative wonks add pieces to a puzzle scattered across a vast nation.

I was part of the 48% in California who voted 'no' on Prop 8 - which means I supported marriage equality.

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Title: Useful Enemies

Subtitle: John Demjanjuk and America's Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals

Author: Richard Rashke

Narrator: Ken Kliban

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: History, 21st Century

Publisher's Summary:

John Iwan Demjanjuk was at the center of one of historys most complex war crimes trials. But why did it take almost sixty years for the United States to bring him to justice as a Nazi collaborator?

The answer lies in the annals of the Cold War, when fear and paranoia drove American politicians and the U.S. military to recruit useful Nazi war criminals to work for the United States in Europe as spies and saboteurs, and to slip them into America through loopholes in U.S. immigration policy. During and after the war, that same immigration policy was used to prevent thousands of Jewish refugees from reaching the shores of America.

The long and twisted saga of John Demjanjuk, a postwar immigrant and auto mechanic living a quiet life in Cleveland until 1977, is the final piece in the puzzle of American government deceit. The White House, the Departments of War and State, the FBI, and the CIA supported policies that harbored Nazi war criminals and actively worked to hide and shelter them from those who dared to investigate and deport them.

The heroes in this story are men and women such as Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman and Justice Department prosecutor Eli Rosenbaum, who worked for decades to hold hearings, find and investigate alleged Nazi war criminals, and successfully prosecute them for visa fraud. But it was not until the conviction of John Demjanjuk in Munich in 2011 as an SS camp guard serving at the Sobibor death camp that this story of deceit can be told for what it is: a shameful chapter in American history.

Riveting and deeply researched, Useful Enemies is the account of one mans criminal past and its devastating consequences, and the story of how America sacrificed its moral authority in the wake of historys darkest moment.

Members Reviews:

Interesting Book - HORRIBLE Narration

What disappointed you about Useful Enemies?

This narrator sounds like he's reading a news article in a monotonous drone with little inflection to make that material sound interesting. He has a staccato cadence with weird exaggerated pauses within sentences, but then his pauses are too short between sentences. It's excruciating to listen to and I have to wonder why anyone would choose him to narrate a book.

Any additional comments?

I find the book's subject quite interesting, albeit disturbing, but I had to READ the Kindle version instead of listening to the Audible version because I just couldn't stand the narrator.

Don't Buy This Hideous Narriation

By all means read this fascinating, thorough history. But under NO circumstance punish your self or risk your sanity listening to this travesty. The narrator butchers the pronunciation of Russian, German, AND English language words. Worse still, bless him, this poor fellow has no noticeable comprehension of what he is reading. He is ignorant of inflection. And babbles word groupings without regard for function or common sense.

Webs and more webs woven

The story told is beyond shocking on the one hand and hardly surprising on the other.

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Title: NY Chess Since 1972

Subtitle: A Guide Book of Places to Go and People You Will See Around NY Chess (Volume 1)

Author: Peter Julius Aravena Sloan

Narrator: Chris Brinkley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-14

Publisher: Sloan's Book Press Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, 21st Century

Publisher's Summary:

Bobby Fischer won the world chess championship in 1972 and the chess boom started. The Village Chess Shop opened on Thompson Street, Washington Square Park chess tables turned into a regular venue, Times Square 42nd Street opened chess tables not only at Bryant Park but also on Broadway and several indoors clubs. Chess was every where. This book covers 40 years of history of the NY Chess scene. Great reading for tourists and locals alike.

Members Reviews:

The One Real Book About Chess In New York City

I always thought someone should write a book about chess in New York City. I was considering doing myself, but Peter obviously has much more knowledge about the subject than me. The earlier books just didn't cover the subject adequately. For example there is the old red coffee table book, which is kind of bland. Its as if the author is looking over his shoulder every second for fear someone might not like something he's saying. So as a result he doesn't say anything. There is GM William Lombardy's excellent recent book, but it is mainly about the game itself, and manyt of the stories are about international chess. You won't find that book on Amazon. Don't even bother!

Chess in New York has never been just about the Marshall and the Manhattan. Its about the Flea House, the Chess House, Chess City, Chess Forum, Rossolimo's, the Parks, the Street. Its only in the inner sanctums of the Marshall Chess Divan that the ongoing love affairs between chess, backgammon, and poker are kept secret.

Did Charlie Manson play chess? What do Poe and Leif have in common besides being male chess players? Who is Norman Weinstein, and how could you meet him? How did Boris Feldman lose his fingers? Who was Vincent Livermore? This is the only no-nonsense book about chess in New York City to date.

Great Book!

Great Book! Thank you for writing and sharing your information. Looking forward to visiting all of the spots. Thank you again!

A Major Disappointment

I have never reviewed anything anywhere. But my disappointment with this book is so great, that I've decided to make an exception. The book has numerous factual errors and major omissions, e.g. the pay for play chess clubs that existed on Broadway in the low 70's(can't remember the name) and on 72nd Street between Broadway and Amsterdam. There are no pictures. It is even shorter than its 72 pages since some pages only have text on half the page. Worst of all, the writing is on the level of a 9th grader.The author has difficulty even composing a coherent sentence.

Interesting but very poorly edited

This work will be of interest to chess enthusiasts, they will have to wade through a host of bad editing, misspellings,and mangled syntax in order to read it. Sloan writes about the places and people of the New York City chess scene. He must have done it with spell check and grammar check turned off. Good source for place names of chess clubs.

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Title: A Dangerous Delusion

Subtitle: Why the West Is Wrong About Nuclear Iran

Author: Peter Oborne, David Morrison

Narrator: John Sackville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, 21st Century

Publisher's Summary:

In 2014 it is possible that Israel, backed by the United States, will launch an attack on Iran. This would be a catastrophic event, risking war, bloodshed, and global economic collapse.

In this passionate, but rationally argued essay, the author's attempt to avert a potential global catastrophe by showing that the grounds for war do not exist, that there are no Iranian nuclear weapons, and that Iran would happily come to a table and strike a deal. They argue that the military threats aimed by the West against Iran contravene international law, and argue that Iran is a civilised country and legitimate power across the Middle East.

For years Peter Oborne and David Morrison have, in their respective fields, examined the actions of our political classes and found them wanting. Now they have joined forces to make a powerful case against military action. In the wake of the Iraq war, will the politicians listen?

Peter Oborne is the chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph, and a reporter for Channel 4's Dispatches and Unreported World. He has written a number of books and pamphlets that try to identify the power structures which lurk behind political discourse, including The Triumph of the Political Class. He is a regular on BBC programmes Any Questions and Question Time and often presents Week in Westminster. David Morrison has written many articles and two highly regarded pamphlets - Iraq: Lies, Half-Truths & Omissions and Iraq: How Regime Change Was Dressed Up as Disarmament - on the deception perpetrated by the British government to induce the British public to support military action against Iraq.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a brave book that will be attacked. One hopes, though, that it will open up a more intelligent debate about Iran. We need that urgently if we are to avoid another catastrophe in the Middle East." (Norman Lamont, New Statesman)

"This is a small book, but written with Peter Oborne's characteristic brutal clarity, it roars like the proverbial mouse. Co-written with David Morrison, it sets about destroying a series of myths and distortions that have enabled Western and other policymakers to depict Iran as a major nuclear threat, suggests that any military action against Iran would be unjustified, and argues that the current sanctions that are crippling Iran are illegitimate." (Michael Axworthy, Daily Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

Accurate, concise and definitive debunking of the claims of Iranian nuclear danger--an important book

Peter Oborne and David Morrison have provided an invaluable public service in this book. The book is factual from beginning to end, and has the virtue of brevity. Anyone reading it will be well informed about the current standoff between the European great powers plus the United States and Iran on the Iranian nuclear issue. Oborne and Morrison correctly identify the concern over Iran's nuclear program as essentially propagandistic and without merit.