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Why yes, Hollywood is as bad as you thought.

Revisado: 01-02-24

Mr Mamet has a serious character flaw that is going to make some of his readers disappointed. Namely, he has integrity. Precisely , he has too much integrity to name names and slander people with salacious gossip, something he surely could do if he chose to with all of his decades in Hollywood.

Still his spot on betrayal of all the Corruptions and dishonesty that have to be endured for people to make a movie are well worth the Layman's time. His skewering of the fatuous political opinions of celebrities is worth the price of the book alone. He does make a comparison with what the Masters back in the day might reacted and how their art might have been ruined if they had producers over their shoulder micromanaging them. It does have to be mentioned that painters only had to come up with the funds for a brush and canvas and some paint. When you're asking people to put up millions if not tens of millions of dollars, you can rest assured that their constant badgering and interruption is a certainty.

I listened to the book while on a road trip and found myself at least a half a dozen times laughing so hard that my head fell backwards, and in these sometimes dark and depressingly humorless times, that's worth a few bucks.

I recommend it.

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A timely and important book.

Revisado: 12-30-23

Although scholarly and sometimes dense, this book is extremely important for anyone interested in modern economics, as we all should be. One thing that struck me throughout is a curiosity if someone like Freidman could even find a place at a major university today. His detractors seem petty with their personal attacks, something he refrained from doing, as he was only interested in debating ideas. although no one in positions of authority ever embraced his ideas completely, they are well interwoven in the modern policies of almost every Fed Chairman and policymaker of any merit. The 21st century clearly needs another Milton Friedman, it's difficult to see one on the horizon. A fantastic book.

As a humorous aside, recently the New York Times published an article by part of the woke Mafia that controls our media warning parents what to watch out for to make sure their children weren't being radicalized. One of the items on the list was to make sure your children weren't watching videos of Milton Friedman speaking. That would be the Nobel Prize winning Economist Milton friedman. This is a great indicator of how far the termites have spread into our body politics, because no matter what you think of his ideas debating them is mandatory in the modern world.

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First rate.

Revisado: 11-04-23

I became thoroughly enthralled with Sir Richard Burton after reading the biography of him many many years ago. This book does a fantastic job of encapsulating the entire English exploration in search of the source of the Nile. I don't think a better book about the subject could be written.

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Must read American history.

Revisado: 11-04-23

What an important piece of the American puzzle the Scots Irish histor is. I would wager you that a majority of Americans are completely unaware of that history and this book goes a long way towards plugging that hole. Everyone interested in history should read this book.

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She deserved her Pulitzer.

Revisado: 11-04-23

First rate history by someone with the experience and knowledge to know the subject.

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Riveting history.

Revisado: 11-04-23

I can't come up with a negative word to say about this book. I enjoyed it all the way through. and learned about an extremely interesting important incident in the larger history of exploration to the americas. Highly recommended.

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Best book available on the subject.

Revisado: 11-04-23

On a subject this fraught, there's always going to be accusations of bias. I didn't really see it. This is an extremely thorough, extremely well researched book. This was a horrible conflict with terrible atrocities on both sides, that has been long overshadowed by the much more horrible world war that immediately followed it. But had nothing else happened, this would be a great War for the ages. Tragic loss of life, tragic story, and a very good book on the subject.

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Excellent

Revisado: 11-04-23

A great history encompassing America's move towards the west. Very educational about parts of History not as well known to many, especially the history that played out in the then territory of New Mexico. Highly recommended.

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Good memoir from someone who was in the arena.

Revisado: 11-04-23

Marty Peretz was a 60s radical whose politics evolved to say the least, and owned The New Republic during one of its most vital and readable periods.

A good read for anyone interested in that period of American politics.

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First rate history.

Revisado: 11-04-23

Probably the best book you can read on the earliest English settlers to North America.

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