Re: [asa] ICR for August

[1] On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 - John Burgeson wrote: .."recent book
reviews are now on www.burgy.50megs.com/recent.htm

[2] On Tues, 8 Aug 2006 - John Burgeson wrote:

>Added August 3, 2006 to my web site are: Review of AMERICAN
>THEOCRACY, The Peril and [ guess the word ] of Radical Religion, Oil
>and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips
>
>"... It is somber reading; the claims of impending bad times are
>hard to argue with. ...This book is not partisan... Radicalized
>religion is Phillip's second focus, and in Part II he discusses this
>major problem. ..America is becoming "Southernized," Phillips
>argues, and by that he does not mean good things. ...a theocratic
>country is one of the many possibilities looming on the
>horizon. ....Part III, however, 120 pages, is the most
>frightening. ...Phillips sees ...only doom and gloom in the future
>-- the near future. ... There is no happy ending. ..Quote on page
>315: Randall Isaac, former vice president ... at IBM Technology,
>said, "You can't do effective R&D if you don't have the
>manufacturing to insure that the R&D is actually relevant. If the
>United States loses its manufacturing lead, it will lose everything
>else with it." ... I do not recommend this book for light reading.
>Only for serious study." ~ John W. Burgeson

@ I noticed that you referred us twice to your latest book
reviews. Since you were so insistent, I thought you were giving me
a hint to check to see your review(s) of the titles you had asked me
to recommend. I was disappointed not to find your reviews on any of
them, so I read your review of the first book you had on your list,
and highlighted excerpts in red above that I thought best portrayed
how the book made you feel.

After reading your personal conclusions about the book, I then
decided to see what others thought about Kevin and his latest
scare-mongering tome. Most reviews I saw were from people who came
to the opposite conclusions that you did.

The item linked here is typical of what I
found: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1607699/posts?page=83#83

~ Janice

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Received on Wed Aug 9 11:45:01 2006