Book Description
In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.
Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.
Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s vision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his children’s faces. He began to contemplate an astonishing new world: Would music still sound the same? Would sex be different? Would he recognize himself in the mirror? Would his marriage survive? Would he still be Mike May?
The procedure was filled with risks, some of them deadly, others beyond May’s wildest dreams. Even if the surgery worked, history was against him. Fewer than twenty cases were known worldwide in which a person gained vision after a lifetime of blindness. Each of those people suffered desperate consequences we can scarcely imagine.
There were countless reasons for May to pass on vision. He could think of only a single reason to go forward. Whatever his decision, he knew it would change his life.
Beautifully written and thrillingly told, Crashing Through is a journey of suspense, daring, romance, and insight into the mysteries of vision and the brain. Robert Kurson gives us a fascinating account of one man’s choice to explore what it means to see–and to truly live.
Customer Reviews:
Story 5 + Writing 3 = 4.......2007-09-30
This story was so great. It's absolutely amazing what Mike May went through and his drive to be a pioneer. The writing style really left much to be desired. The dialog was cheesy and forced. The way the author referred to the main character at May was distracting and weird. I did love the technical details of vision and sight and the author did a great job explaining git in a way that made it reader friendly.
What does it mean to "see"?.......2007-09-28
This is the true story of Mike May who becomes blind at the age of 3 in a chemical explosion. His mother never shields him from reality, and in fact she encourages him to be adventuresome and to find a way around his disability. When May is in his 40's, he is told that a rare surgical procedure might give him back his sight. With typical courage, May enters into this adventure, not anticipating some of the ramifications of his decision. He is a very rare patient, and doctors gain a lot of insight into what "seeing" is really all about by studying May. Author Kurson seems to get into the head and heart of May and his descriptions of May's experiences are vivid and compelling. Kurson includes just enough medical and research information to make the book even more interesting and informative. This book is highly recommended!
John Sutphen MD.......2007-09-21
fascinating piece of research within a fascinating candid biography describing the basics of true vision
The difference between style and content.......2007-09-09
There are few books that can claim more fascinating heroes than does Crashing Through. Blinded by a chemical explosion at age three, Mike May "crashes through" life (sometimes literally!) with breathtaking recklessness until a cutting-edge surgery restores his vision decades later. Blind, Mike lives life with more gusto and success than the majority of sighted people. He skis, invents, travels, loves, and learns with the best of them, in locales as exotic as Ghana as dangerous as a self-built radio tower, and as familiar as the laid-back university setting at UC Santa Cruz. This is a man who forcefully rejected the restrictions of blindness and became a Renaissance man to be reckoned with. So far, so good; we all love a good underdog story.
Disappointingly, however, the execution falters. The narrative is choppy and ham-handed at points, with repetitive exposition and stilted, fabricated dialogue. Kurson hero-worships Mike, and the constant emphasis on Mike's myriad risks and successes feels a little like sitting in a long church service. We should all be happy with what we have, Kurson seems to be saying. Just look at Mike. That's a valid reason to write a book, but it detracts from Mike's situation, which is what we're really interested in. Exactly what does he do to overcome all these challenges? Kurson does tell us, but buries it all among too many accolades.
The last few chapters of the book, arguably the best written, are devoted to the problems Mike has after his surgery. Kurson allows us a glimpse of the myriad tests that Mike underwent to determine the extent of the neurological deficiencies he suffers (a result of going blind at such an early age). Here, finally, there is science, a definite plot to follow, rather than just tracing out Mike's life in a strung-out series of anecdotes.
A minor quibble: Kurson insists on referring to Mike as "May" throughout the book. Every other character is referenced by a first name or a title; the discrepancy is curious as well as distracting.
On the whole, Crashing Through manages to convey the exuberance and eagerness with which Mike May tackled his life, both while blind and sighted. The story comes through, although perhaps a more skilled biographer would have produced a cleaner narrative. Probably not worth going out and buying new. With its optimistic message, simple language, and straightforward story, it's not a book to really sink your teeth into, but if you're looking for a quick mood booster, it's a good pick at your local used bookshop.
The Flight of The Phoenix.......2007-09-05
Robert Kurson has produced another winner in this inspirational account of a 46 year old accomplished athlete and businessman who was blinded at age 3 from a chemical accident that left him nearly dead. Not to be denied a productive life, Mike May accomplished more than most people since that accident. In 1999, he was married with two sons when he chose to participate in a risky surgical procedure to restore his eye sight. What followed was a series of unexpected results that required cutting edge science to explain.
Most readers will probably be surprised at the extent to which vision is dependent on early experiences. Depth and face perceptions are developed based on trial and error. Humans can recognize minute differences in facial structures of any two people, but telling apart various animals such as sheep is a daunting task because most humans do not grow up among sheep, and therefore, lack the visual sensitivity to the subtle facial differences of sheep. This and other intriguing information about the development of vision in humans were discussed in chapter 14, where the entertainment and educational value of the book took a giant leap.
Kurson laid the foundation of May's pre and post operation life, but wrote nonchalantly of some of May's peculiar behavior: Prior to his surgery, May never read up on the 20 cases of the terminally blind patients with restored vision who became deeply depressed from realizing how ugly the visual world was, and in one case how ugly a patient's wife had turned out. Despite a perfectly functioning eye, May was unable to distinguish between his two sons, males from females and fell victim to a host of other uncommon vision abnormalities related purely to perception. Six months after the operation, he still hadn't read about these cases while his frustration and despair mounted.
As the title of the book suggests, May crashed through this physically and psychologically risky procedure hoping to experience sight, but ended up facing seemingly insurmountable odds. With the help of his able eye doctor and a neuroscientist, he set out to restore normal vision that had eluded him for decades and avoid following in the footsteps of his predecessors.
While "Crashing Through" didn't carry the punch of Kurson's previous book, "Shadow Divers", it was a story begging to be told, and Kurson did a decent job of telling it. The jacket design left a lot to be desired.
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Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington, DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America.
This book lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges. The authors save their sharpest knives to go for the jugular in their critique of Republican ideologues who are now running—and ruining—our country.
Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America, the book hails the new movement—of the netroots, the grassroots, the unorthodox labor unions, the maverick big donors—that is the antidote to old-school politics as usual. Fueled by advances in technology and a hunger for a more authentic and populist democracy, this broad-based movement is changing the way political campaigns are waged and managed.
A must-read book for anyone with an interest in the future of American democracy.
Customer Reviews:
Enthusiastically recommended for anyone involved in grassroots politics........2007-03-06
Crashing The Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics is an unabashedly partisan examination of what needs to be done to transform the Democratic party into a viable opposition force to the Republican party, and therefore wrest the nation away from its currently disastrous neocon leadership. Chapters denounce the harm caused by the neocon Republican party, and describe what needs to be done to promote grass-roots opposition within the Democratic party; the authors are quite realistic about the limits of a two-party system, and offer means to reform the Democratic party as the swiftest and most practical way to improve American government. Topics covered include the importance of campaign finance reform, a trough that both Democrats and Republicans feed off of all too frequently; the unfortunate prevalence of unrealistic visions and "single-issue" obsessives within the Democratic party; the changing landscape of modern media; and much more. Enthusiastically recommended for anyone involved in grassroots politics.
Markos is a Hypocrite, Undermines Democratic Party .......2007-01-25
In all of Markos' book about "crashing the gates", he never addresses how the Democratic Party could maintain its relevance in the future if it allows itself to be guided by people like Markos who operate blogs that are only 2.5% Black and 30% female. If he can't even integrate his own website, then how will listening to Markos help the Party to maintain its base and its edge in national elections?
Unfortunately, the same web-based suggestions that helped Howard Dean in 2004 can be used by hypocrital elitists like Markos to create overwhemingly white blogsites (like DailyKos) that ignore the issues and concerns of the women and minorities who make up the majority of the Democratic Party. He should crash his own gates and figure out why there are so few minorities and women at his exclusive website.
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Fascinating, maddening read.......2007-01-11
This book covers much of the political situation for the last six years. It will madden, disgust the reader, but enlighten , too. I was only disappointed that the authors didn't seem to have any real suggestions to Crash the Gate.However since the book was published before the 2006 elections, it appears that much was successful in that task. It explains, too why the Democratic party in DC was unhappy about the final results of that election. But we are happy, though.
Nice counterpoint to professional blowhards.......2006-12-07
I am not the biggest fan of either of the author's websites. MyDD puts me to sleep and DailyKos is too screechy.
So I did not immediately run out to buy this book when it was released.
My mistake.
This is a great book for those who are frustrated with the status quo of American politics. I don't believe the netroots alone will save the Republic (and neither do they, I bet) but I believe that the philosophy outlined in this book -- a people-based philosophy -- is a step in the right direction.
This is a very quick read, so it's easily worth the purchase or loan.
Good book worth reading.......2006-09-16
I like the DailyKos, but frankly I was not optimistic that the crossover to political writing would be a good one. I was wrong... The book is well-written and well-reasoned with a lot of good ideas and commentary.
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The Go-Go Years "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place." -From the Foreword by Michael Lewis The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the "go-go" stocks surged and plunged. Included are the stories of such high-profile personalities as H. Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg's attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the fall of America's "Last Gatsby, " Eddie Gilbert. Praise for The Go-Go Years "Those for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sport will relish the book's verve, color, and memorable one-liners." -New York Review of Books "Please don't take The Go-Go Years too much for granted: as effortlessly as it seems to fly, it is nonetheless an unusually complex and thoughtful work of social history." -New York Times "Brooks's great contribution is his synthesis of all the elements that made the 1960s the most volatile in Wall Street history . and making so much material easily digestible for the uninitiated." -Publishers Weekly "Brooks . is about the only writer around who combines a thorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behind the dance of numbers 'high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes of possession, domination, and belonging.'" -Time
Customer Reviews:
Another Fine Book by Brooks.......2006-03-05
The Go-Go Years is the history of Wall Street during the tumultuous 1960s, which saw the DJIA only briefly above 1000. This book's players include H. Ross Perot (who, according to the author lost more than $650,000,000 when the market fell at the end of the decade), conglomateurs like Ling-Temco-Vogt's Jimmy Ling, Gulf + Western's Charles Bluhdorn, and IT&T's Harold Geneen, and Peter Lynch's predecessors at Fidelity, Ned Johnston and Gerry Tsai. One interesting fact: in the latter part of the decade, the NASD closed early on Wednesdays to give the back offices of the brokerage firms time to settle trades.
It Begins And Ends With A Texan.......2004-12-19
This book begins and ends with a rather peculiar hero from Texas, H. Ross Perot, who during the smashing sixties built up a phenomenal growth company, watched a phenomenal sum of equity wealth evaporate before his eyes in a single day, and later played the role of the white knight saving a rather fickle (and foolish) damsel in distress- Wall Street's Patrician securities industry. All in all, the book took a very high-brow snapshot of one brief but heady period of financial history orchestrated and overseen by very low-brow types masquerading as new wealth Gatsbys, high performance quants, hot-hand gunslingers, and (anything but) 'Proper' Bostonian businessmen. It is an odd mix relayed to us in the droll but refined and witty style of the late Mr. Brooks.
They say that history repeats itself, and this book is Exhibit A. All of the ills of today can be found within its pages chronicling yesterday- corporate hucksters and frauds, technology stock enthusiasts, drugs (hard and soft, legal and illegal) on The Street, hot-today-but-gone-tomorrow fund pros, and a whole host of other ills. Change the names, dates and places and one would think that one is reading today's news.
My favorite part of the book is the old refrain that all whistleblowers inevitably hear, and occurs on page 45 of the second chapter entitled 'Fair Exchange' (again, now as well as then, anything but). The regulator asks our erstwhile whistleblowing hero, "Now what do you know about what's going on upstairs?" Thoughts of Enron and MCI, Tyco and the FBI spring readily to mind...
While Peter Lynch lures the gullible investor with the notion that the novice has an advantage over the professional, Mr. Brooks, after recalling 355 pages of bawdy and rapacious greed and gambling during the 1960s Go-Go years, admonishes the reader with the following words of caution:
"Thus, in the nature of things, the amateur investor remains and probably will remain at a certain disadvantage in relation to the professional. Perhaps his best protection is knowledge of that fact itself."
Plus ca change, as the French say, or, the more things change the more they stay the same. There is really nothing new in the 'creative accounting' adopted, the wholesale manipulation of naive investors, stock price manipulation, and mind-boggling messes in both corporate boardrooms and so-called 'securities boutiques'. The financial dance always begins and ends in the same way, with the same old characters screaming for blood, the same old participants battered, bruised and bloodied, and the same tired old refrains for reform. And yet the dance begins anew, the past a dim and bittersweet after-taste.
Though somewhat difficult to read because of the author's high brow presentation style, it nonetheless deserves to be read for both enjoyment and enlightenment. All of the usual suspects and standard props of financial foolishness throughout the ages will be found here, but the characters who peppered this particular 'New Era' in US financial and economic history are beyond a doubt unique. Who would have thought that reading about yesterday could be so informative about today?
Caveat emptor, people. Buyer beware.
Colorful Tales of Wall Street Glory and Shame.......2003-12-20
"The Go-Go Years" is a largely a collection of New Yorker magazine articles (and some pieces written especially for the book) by John Brooks, who in it covers a crucial period in the history of Wall Street, the 1960s, which includes the rise of conglomerates, mutual funds, and hedge funds, i.e. players at the heart of our economic situation today. Reading this book is instructive for that alone.
But the book is far more than a prescient account of today's market forces. It's a vivid rogues gallery of people who rode the tides of fortune, had their days at the crest of their profession, and then fell back. Some, like stockpicker extraordinaire Gerald Tsai, the first Asian to rise to NYSE prominence, were undone by fortune and circumstance. Other less savory characters had only themselves to blame.
There's an early look at Ross Perot, described vividly at the book's outset as losing a half-billion in a single day (April 22, 1970) and more or less shrugging it off. Perot's priorities were solid and he knew what he was about. Not so Eddie Gilbert, "The Last Gatsby" as Brooks calls him, who parlays small victories into outrageous defeats, dragging along a coterie of privileged friends into more and more nefarious investment schemes. Brooks sees Gilbert's get-rich-quick attitude as too emblematic of Wall Street in the 1960s, and his narrative never tires of pointing these out.
Brooks' elegant prose has a way of leaping out at you without disrupting the narrative flow. About the trend for all investment strategy to come unglued: "The dumb money could take bitter comfort in the company it had among the smartest of the smart money - or former money." On Tsai: "...so swift and nimble in getting into and out of specific stocks that his relations with them, far from resembling a marriage or even a companionate marriage, were more often like that of a roué with a chorus line." On the numerous bailouts undertaken by the Street as the '60s went sour: "Save the broker in order to serve the customer: it was Wall Street's version of the trickle-down theory."
Brooks's writing feels timeless. His is a lapidary style of almost accidental eloquence, blending facts in a seamless way as he tells his tale. It's like Roger Angell's baseball writings for the same magazine - I kept thinking about Angell's great essays in "The Summer Game," which focuses on roughly the same period as "The Go-Go Years," albeit on a different sport.
While Brooks's disapproval with Wall Street in the 1960s is obvious, and his genteel liberal disdain for a status quo that allows the market to manage itself shows up now and again, he never loses his focus on the people, and allows them to breathe in his narrative. He doesn't quote from them much, but he obviously spoke to many of the principals at length and weaves their insights into the story. As much as the then-nascent trend toward conglomeratization bothers him, he allows himself to show some sympathy for one of its more outrageous practitioners, Saul Steinberg, who in one of the best chapters finds himself thwarted by the bluebloods while attempting to acquire Chemical Bank. "I always knew there was an Establishment - I just used to think I was a part of it," Steinberg says.
It's not a connect-the-dots style history of Wall Street in the 1960s. It's too episodic for that. But if you are studying the facts and figures of the Go-Go Years and want a deeper look, or simply enjoy the human drama all-too-often overlooked in American business journalism, "The Go-Go Years" is a book that has only appreciated in value over time.
Outstanding Review of the 1960's Boom and Bust.......2000-12-18
Wiley Investment Classics typically fall into two categories, fascinating troves of banking wisdom that are well-written and insightful, and painful diatribes that while full of good intention are best put on the shelf for display. "The Go-Go Years" is definitely the former - this is an incredibly well written book about what has really become one of the forgotten times in American financial history. While the booom of the 1920's and resulting crash, as well as the excess of the 1980's are frequent subjects of many financial authors, Brooks has picked a relatively infrequently discussed portion of our financial history, the booming 1960's and the resulting crash of the early 1970's.
There are many outstanding sections of the book; the introduction to Ross Perot in the first chapter, the history of Gerald Tsai and Fidelity, the rise and fall of the conglomerates, the description of the back-office and its staff, and finally the description of Wall Street that begins Chapter 5, which is without question the best description of the area ever written. These few pages (104 - 111) are simply an outstanding piece of prose.
There are just too many good things about this book to fit into a 1,000 word review. Too many of the lessons from only 40 years ago are maddeningly similar to the lessons many dot-com and IPO investors are learning now, and the structure and actions of many Wall Street establishments are all too easily explained with this simple peace of previously "missing" history. If you are up to date on the current view of the 1929 collapse, and the bull market of the 1980's, then this is the book that goes a long way towards filling out the major events that shaped the markets in the interim.
Go read this book.
Favorite Excerpts:
"Goaded by stock underwriters eager for commissions or a piece of the action owners of family businesses from coast to coast - laundry chains, soap-dish manfacturers, anything - would sell stock in their enterprises on the strength of little but bad news and big promises." - Brooks (page 28)
"Some accused him of being a habitual liar; they forgave him because he seemed geniunely to believe his lies, especially those about himself and his past." - Brooks (page 63)
"In the nineteen twenties, Wall Street's last great era before the present one, it was a kind of super university as well as a marketplace." - Brooks (page 105)
"'We were all sheep,' one of them would admit, sheepishly, years later." - Brooks (page 120)
"A smooth operator with a streak of the gambler; a company more interested in attracting investors than in making real profits; the resort to tricky accounting; the eager complicity of long-established, supposedly conservative investing institutions; the desperation plunge in a gambling casino at the last minute; the need for massive central-banking action to localize the disaster; and finally, reform measures instituted too late - we will see all of these elements reproduced with uncanny faithfulness in United States financial scandals and mishaps later in the nineteen sixties." (page 125 - 126)
"Economics have never been my strongpoint" - Salinger (page 273)
The Go-Go Years.......2000-07-19
This book has good insights into the Wall Street of the 1960's. This was the period of time most similar to the present (not identical) regarding the boom in tech stocks and new issues. Brooks has some interesting insights into the players in that period of time and what went wrong.
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Crashing the Party is Ralph Nader's raucous and righteously indignant account of his Green Party candidacy in the 2000 American presidential election. Nader weaves an anecdotal recounting--virtually speech-by-speech--of his exhausting, 50-state campaign with impassioned summaries of his political opinions. Primarily, Nader sees the current political structure as ominously flawed: a two-party system, he says, exists in a "drowsy equilibrium," and the parties--both in thrall to corporate interests--are concerned less with the people's needs than their own self-perpetuation. An equal-opportunity critic, he slings arrows not only at what he sees as a myopic, lazy media and Republicans (he calls former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman a "latter-day Marie Antoinette"), but organized labor, prominent Democrats, and certain fair-weather Hollywood friends as well.
Though overly strident at times, Crashing the Party is a noteworthy, thoughtful addition to the literature of muckraking. --H. O'Billovitch
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Ralph Nader is one of Americas most passionate and effective social critics, a man Time magazine called the U. S.s toughest customer. Naders work has gone a long way to improve the safety of the cars we drive, the food we eat, and the water we drink. In 2000, when he ran for President on the Green Party ticket, nearly three million people voted for him. In his scathing, honest account of the 2000 presidential race, Nader takes aim at those who have spoiled American democracy. Crashing the Party goes deep inside Naders campaign and reveals: What it takes to run against a two-party juggernaut How old liberal friends turned against him Why the Green Party looks better than ever to progressive Democrats Why Bush and Gore were afraid to let him in on their debates How public interest has been lost to corporate bankrolling.
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The inspiring and unrepentant memoir of Ralph Nader during the 2000 election.
Customer Reviews:
Crash the Rigged Two Party System.......2005-06-13
This is the ultimate book in understanding the importance of breaking free from the lesser of two-evil mentality. Journey with the Nader 2000 presidential campaign through all the obstacles the two-party duopoly inflicts on third party and independent candidates. It provides critical education about the rigged electoral system the Republicrats have cunningly crafted. This book shows that with courage and optimism one can stand up and fight with the corporate owned two-party system.
Great man of integrity and honesty !.......2005-05-27
Nader is brilliant, decent, and incorruptible.
Nader's high ethical standards and great ideas should be a guiding torch to our government.
Thanks to him, there is some accountability in Washington. His persistence to fight for the public stands strong in defiance of the black out by the media and the dirty smear campaigns by the politicians. If Nader was corrupt he would've been recruited by the elites and could've occupied the White House or other high positions in government and top corporations.
Nader is never for sale and will continue to stand for the little people as an icon of truth and integrity.
I would highly recommend his book for every citizen that has concerns for his country, and for every person that values ethics in business, government, and life in general....
Alternative Medicine For Corporate Aristocracy.......2005-02-03
This is an excellent book on the issues that face American politics today, the views of Ralph Nader and his story relating to the 2000 election year and his campaign trail.
The book raises awareness to the issues of corporate welfare practiced by both the Republican and Democratic parties, how the Democrats have morphed into a pseudo-Republican party, under the heavy influence of corporate lobbyists, ceasing to represent the working class and masses as Roosevelt and other great Democrats have done in the past.
And the results are ecological damages, social injustices which have removed equal opportunities, centralization of power, corporate owned business which has eliminated much of the community based revenues, a disrespect for diversity and citizen participation and the monetary interests of plutocrat - the corporate elites - removing personal and global responsibilities. Inflation has risen, workers make less, poverty has increased, minimum wage is lower today in relation to inflation. Americans work longer hours for the same pay. Farmers have been devastated by large corporate industry, public works and schools have been given less and less funding and are crumbling, corporate welfare programs that take our tax dollars amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars ever year continue to rise with government giveaways of taxpayer assets including public forests, minerals and new medicines. Affordable housing are at record low levels, while the large corporate banks show record profits. Consumer debt is at a al-time high. Personal bankruptcies are at a record level. Personal savings are dropping to record lows and personal assets are extremely low. Corporate welfare dominates while small inadequate budgets provide the publics health and safety issues. Environmental regulations are removed for corporate interests. Wealth inequality is greater than at any time since World War II. The top 1 percent of the wealthiest people have more financial wealth than the bottom 90 percent of Americans combined, the worst inequality among large Western nations. And with all this, the corporate lobbyists continue to receive more privileges and immunities for their wrongdoing, while the workers, the labor parties, the populists - farmers, the environmentalists, the feminists, those that work towards civil rights - all are diminishing in great degrees.
The argument against Nader is his pulling of votes away from the Democrats, resulting in Republican elections. Yet this argument is a lame duck when you put Socratic inquiry to the Democratic party and see the morphing there of into another Republican party. The two party duopoly has been called the DemRep party and the corporate control, the plutocrats, are buying the government which can result in an aristocracy and totalitarian system, this time base on radical privatization instead of state owned communism, however the end results are the same. The third party, the Greens, offer an alternative, a vote against big-money politics as usual. The duopoly offers a politics of fear - the lesser of two corrupt parties, while the third party offers a politics of home and democratic renewal And even if not the elected party, if offers itself as a constant watchdog of the Democratic party to make necessary changes.
I think Nader gives a good account of the media, the third party partisan bias in American politics, the problem with the corporate directed Commission on Presidential Debates - the CPD, his campaign trail, his opposition, party funders, party loyalists and etc.
On page 289 take from the New York Times: "The Green Party recognizes that every major social-justice movement in our history was made possible by a shift of more power to the people, away from the power that the few control. And it's way past time for a shift of power today from big business to the people. When slavery was abolished, shift of power from the plantations. Women's right to vote installed, that was a shift of power. Freedom to form trade unions by workers, shift of power form the industrialists to the workers. When the farmers started the progressive political movement, shift of power from the banks and the railroads to the farm areas and gave us political reforms for all Americans to enjoy to this day 100 years later. Power is the central contention of politics; that's what it's all about. If we don't have a more equitable destitution of power, there is no equitable distribution of wealth or income. And people who work hard will not get their just rewards. And the main way to shift power, if you had to have one reform is with public funding of public elections. Clean money, clean elections. Clean money and clean elections to stop the nullification of your votes by special interest money. Just thing about it; you go down to vote, you expect it to count, and the votes are cut off at the pass by fancy fund-raising dinners all over the country where fat cats pay off politicians for present and future favors and the politicians shake down the fat cats in a kind of combined symbiosis of legalized bribery and legalized extortion."
"Civilization as if people are first is not just about opportunities; it is about limits and boundaries around antisocial, criminogenic behavior whose limitless logic eventually would spell omnicide for this very limited home we call Mother Earth." page 315
the inside story.......2004-12-02
This is a good recount of the inside story of our nation and it's one party political machine. Nader talks about how hard it is for third party (or in my view second party since the first two are basically the same) candidates to make any progress in our political system. It is the democrats who lost 2000 by giving up the recount vote, not Nader. Too bad he decided to go off and do his own thing this time instead of working on forming the Gree Party. But the book is definately a must read for anyone interested in our political system.
Review on Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Govern.......2004-06-05
Yo pienso que este libro es interesante, pero no lo suficientemente interesante como para leerlo para la entretención de un lector. En lo personal yono le tomo mucha importancia a la política cometitiva porque todo lo que se habla es argumentos sin sentido y para obtenerpopularidad y no se ve la energía o el animo de querer ser el presidente de los Estados Unidos si no que solo obtener popularidad.
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- good yet unclear ideas
- Infostructure in geopardy?
- Are The Libraries Safe Anymore For Decent Folks?
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Understanding Digital Libraries, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
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From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debates over who gets to control information and technology has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want the virtual world to resemble the real world? But while we weren't looking, the opposite has happened: The real world has started imitating the virtual world--in some alarming ways. More and more of our social, political, and religious activities are modeling themselves after the World Wide Web, along the lines of either anarchy or oligarchy, total freedom vs. complete control. And battle lines are being drawn.
On one side, trying to maintain control of information, are corporations, judges, the military, and global institutions. On the other side, trying to liberate information, are educators, hackers, civil libertarians, artists, consumers, and political dissidents. The Anarchist in the Library, by the rising young academic star Siva Vaidhyanathan, is a radically original look at how this battle will define one of the major fault lines of twenty-first century civilization.
The recording industry has sued the music downloaders into submission, but as a model of communication, their effects still echo around the world. The proliferation of such peer-to-peer networks may appear to threaten many established institutions, and the backlash against them could be even worse than the problems they create. Their effects--good and bad--resonate far beyond markets for music. They are altering our sense of the possible, extending our cultural and political imaginations.
Unregulated networks of communication have existed as long as gossip has. But with the rise of electronic communication, they are exponentially more important. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century, from unauthorized fan edits of Star Wars to terrorist organizations' reliance on "leaderless resistance." The Anarchist in the Library is the first guide to one of the most important cultural and economic battlegrounds of the twenty-first century.
Customer Reviews:
good yet unclear ideas.......2007-09-02
The author brings up very interesting ideas, discussing how culture and technologies are inherently anarchistic, and how oligarchies are constantly trying to harness these for control & profit, which may end up damaging or destroying them in the process. The 'anything goes' trading of Napster wasn't good for artist and content produces, but the tied-down DRM world is even worse in the long run.
He definitely knows his material, but the writing just isn't that clear. He compares things to "Anarchistic Libertarianism" like I'm supposed to instantly know the ramifications of the term. I'd read a paragrah and realize I have no idea what he was trying to say.
There's a great argument to make here, I just don't think Siva Vaidhyanathan presents it very well.
Infostructure in geopardy?.......2006-03-01
This is a book is on, the most unexpected subjects: Information anarchy in utopia, Information anarchy in dystopia and Information utopia?
These insights are from an expert who visualizes the effects of hacking, cracking and whacking in the world in general. And how such a scenario creates chaos in libraries. See for instance, computer filters (p. 38), effect of total acces (121-122), and terrorism (118-120, 122).
Contextually, this books sounds as a sequel to the earlier title by the same author, i.e., "Copyrights and Copywrongs." In considering structurally as a sequel, I am not in anyways special. Because, The Chronicle of Higher Education, in 2004, said it precisely in the following article: "In the Copyright Wars, This Scholar Sides With the Anarchists." (see: http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i13/13a02901.htm)
Nevertheless, Anarchist in the Library adds value to the existing literature on safety, security, and emergency preparedness.
Interestingly, The Anarchist in the Library deals with clashes and the limits of freedom in a world that continues to converge - in electronic, media and digital domains.
The Anarchist in the Library is a good reading for policy makers to consider issues in public governance in a situation that is loaded with smart-internet, as well as, friendly-access environment.
Are The Libraries Safe Anymore For Decent Folks?.......2005-07-04
Anarchy is a governing system that eschews authority. Oligarchy governs from, through, and for authorities. These ideologies feed off each other dialectically; they are rapidly remaking our global information ecosystem: the increasing speed and amount of information and the basic paradox of the digital world onto the real world.
Libraries are never as placid as they appear. They are sources of controversy and conflict. After it was confirmed that some of the terrorists had used public computers in Virginia and Florida, the government decided they want access fo patron reading habits and Internet use. Thus, the USA Patriot Act came into existence.
The Patriot Act, signed by President Bush II, in October 2001, has turned into an intrusion in the privacy of library users and those who check out books. Anyone pretending to be FBI can check your account and no one will inform you.
The FBI is notorious for overstepping its bounds. This intrusion into patrons' privacy is against the Constitution. We are being denied our inalienable rights. The library is not just functionally important to communities all over the world, the doors should be open to everybody. Librarians are being forced to choose between their values, but they are supposed to support and protect the patrons. We are not to be intimidated by the choice of books we choose to read. I am using a diverse study among the nonfiction (simply because they are new), clearly not my choice of reading material, but folks on Amazon. com seem to prefer the newer books for their reviews.
As with Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, unclassified technical reports have disappeared from the Los Alamos National Lab web site. How is that possible? It never should have been put online in the first place.
Anarchy for thee, not for me........2005-04-05
While many academics do tend to "fog" their arguments I think this book by Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan of New York University is a fresh, provocative, and extremely readable discourse on the nature of freedom and control in a world awash with technology that is often over-hyped and under-analyzed. Prof. Vaidhyanathan is a fresh voice analyzing the extremely important issue of, in his words, the "availability and accessibility of the substance of expression and thus the possibility of public discussion and creativity" (185). As a veteran of the culture wars spawned by punk rock's initial social (and later in a watered-down form) commercial success, I have seen the reliance on empty sloganeering and naive calls for anarchy from punks who couldn't organize taking out the trash if they had all week. Prof. Vaidhyanathan rejects simplistic calls for decentralization and anarchy, and instead provides a rich and nuanced historical context for why we should return to what he calls "Civic Republicanism," a return to the idea of public trust and mutual dependency that many Americans have lost sight of in the rather simplistic way most debates have been framed in the battle over public control of information. One of the virtues of Prof. Vaidhyanathan's book is that he does not provide any easy answer or EFF manifestos, just a reliance on the basic responsibility of human beings to engage in meaningful dialogue about the Faustian bargains involved in new technologies. And in an age that promises unparalleled control and unparalleled, resistance, a call for a meaningful and participatory dialogue is a breath of fresh air.
Not very original.......2005-02-28
If you've been reading Slashdot, EFF's newsletter, or similar news sources, you have already read most of the valuable ideas that are in this book.
If you know very little about the political issues raised by recent changes in technology, the first three quarters of this book might be as good a place as any to introduce yourself to the discussions that have been floating around the net.
The last quarter of the book deals with broader political issues where the author has no more expertise than a typical reporter, and is at least as superficial as what you'd find in a typical newspaper article. For instance, he says "The World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which exercise wide-ranging influence over the lives of billions of people in developing nations, clearly work for the interests of the developed nations." I say that they work for a much narrower set of interests, and are probably somewhat harmful to developed nations as a whole.
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Sixteen-year-old Jay wants to throw a party to celebrate the start of the summer. He wants to spend time with his friends before they all drift apart. He wants to make himself known to Jo, the girl he's had a crush on for years. He wants to bring everyone together. But quickly things start going wrong. Friends turn on each other. The past comes back with a vengeance. And the party is crashed by some locals who want to drag Jay to a place he'd vowed he'd never go again.
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Updated to include the latest medical findings and advances, this Second Edition of
Crashing the Boards: A Friendly Study Guide for the USMLE Step 1 Exam, is a user-friendly guide to the most efficient study for the USMLE Step 1. Written as a collaborative effort by medical students who recently passed the Boards, the text focuses on the highest yield study material. Emphasis is placed on facts and concepts that carry the greatest weight in the exams; ones that students should focus their efforts on to earn the most points on the Boards. Important information is presented in easily digestible "nuggets," printed on a single-page spread to eliminate the distraction of page flipping.
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THE BEST.......2007-08-12
This book is the best! I began my summer studying the First Aid and I felt like it was an impossible task. I am not sure if this review applies to the USMLE Step 1 but I am writing to fellow podiatry students that will eventually take the national boards of podiatric medicine step 1. Most of my class spent their whole summer studying the First Aid and some of them did not pass. The First Aid really is just too much to read and remember. If one memorizes EVERYTHING in the Crashing the Boards book, then that is more than enough. It gives you the most important facts to know and will be tested on. Believe me...do yourself a favor and buy this book!
This Is The Only Book I needed!!!.......2001-07-17
I am a Podiatry Medical student in Cleveland and I just took part one of the boards last week. I passed. Hallelujah!! I didn't even need to do any extra testlets. I was pleasantly surprised, but nonetheless surprised because i only studied for 10 days and the only book i used was Crashing The Boards (and my own Lower Anatomy notes). All, and I mean all, of my other classmates used "USMLE First Aid". I began to worry that maybe i should have used First Aid also because it had a lot more pages and info than Crashing does...But, when all was said and done Crashing was more than adequate for the Boards. Crashing gives you the essential info needed in about 1/3 of the pages compared to First Aid, which translates to less time needed to study. Many reviews state that Crashing is just a good "supplemental" book to use, i would argue that Crashing is THE book to use.
Great small book to take along to study on the run!.......2001-06-15
You don't always want to take your whole library to your son's little league game! This is a compact book that packs a lot of information in it. I am really enjoying it for a review book.
Better than First Aid.......2001-05-29
One of my study partners bought this book and it was the most popular book to use among our group of four. We all had First Aid but fought to use this book. There is a lot of basic informaiton in the book that is well presented in a way to remember, but there is also a lot of information that will help with specific questions on the boards. I think this book was one of the reasons I did much better than just passing.
Better Books are available but this one is helpful.......2000-04-21
First Aid for USMLE Step 1 is better but this book was useful in combination with 1st Aid. I also liked the questions from Lazo...NMS Review for the USMLE Step 1.
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Horrible.......2003-07-15
The worst piece of work i have ever read. The author apparently wants to make money on the carnage he began. I went to his church and observed his arrogant ways and un christ like behavior. 100 percent hipocrite who will certainly burn, if not now then later.
This Book CRASHED!!!!!.......2002-04-07
It is unbeliveable at the lack of intellectual content- as far as I am concerned, this book crashed!!!!! If you are thinking of buying it, don't waste your money!!!!
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The game of basketball has gone global and is now the world's fastest-growing sport. Talented players from Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa are literally crashing the borders as the level of their game now often equals that of the American pros, who no longer are sure winners in international competition and who must compete with foreign players for coveted spots on NBA rosters. Yet that refreshing world outlook stands in stark contrast to the game's troubled image here at home. The concept of team play in the NBA has declined as, in the aftermath of the Michael Jordan phenomenon, the league's marketers and television promoters have placed a premium on hyping individual stars instead of teams, and the players have come to see that big-buck contracts and endorsements come to those who selfishly demand the spotlight for themselves.
Even worse, relations between players and fans are at a low ebb. Players are perceived to be overpaid, ill-behaved, and arrogant. Fans, paying hundreds of dollars for tickets, often act boorishly and tauntingly. This tension boiled over on the night of November 19, 2004, at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan, during a Detroit Pistons-Indiana Pacers game, when players brawled with fans as much as each other in what was, in fact, a racial skirmish. When the Pacer players entered the stands throwing punches, they had truly smashed an altogether different kind of border.
In the aftermath of that sorry spectacle, regular-season television ratings declined for NBA games. Playoff-game ratings plummeted. Sales in NBA-licensing products sagged by a reported 30 percent. For the millions of Americans who cherish basketball, the love affair has reached a state of crisis.
Few people care as deeply and know as much about basketball as Harvey Araton, the highly literate and well-traveled sports columnist for The New York Times. For many a season, Araton has observed "the ballers," as the players call themselves, at college tournaments, the NBA, and the Olympics. He has enjoyed a pressbox seat while watching the great 1980s rivalries of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, the transcendent career of Michael Jordan, and the slow unraveling of the game through the 1990s until the present season, as newly arrived players and league officials misunderstood and misapplied the mixed lessons of Jordan's legacy. Calling on his many years of watching games, of locker-room interviews, of world-hopping reportage, Araton takes us to scenes of vivid play on the court and to off-camera dramas as well.
In this taut, simmering book, the author points his finger at the greed and exploitation that has weakened the American game. And with uncommon journalistic courage, he opens a discussion on the volatile, undiscussed subject that lies at the heart of basketball's crisis: race. It begins, he argues, at the college level, where, too often, undereducated, inner-city talents are expected to perform for the benefit of affluent white crowds and to fill the coffers of their respective schools in what Araton calls a kind of "modern-day minstrel show." It continues at the pro level, where marketers have determined that "gangsta" imagery provides for a livelier entertainment package, never mind the effect it has on the quality of team play. And where, moreover, players themselves, often both street smart and immature, decide to live up to the thuggish stereotypes.
Harvey Araton knows the players well enough to see beyond the stereotypes. He knows that for every clownish Dennis Rodman there is also an admirable David Robinson. For every Ron Artest, there is a Tim Duncan. Combining passion and knowledge, he calls on the NBA to heal itself and, with a hopeful sense of the possible, he points the way to a better future.
Unflinching, timely, and authoritative, Crashing the Borders is the beginning of a much-needed conversation about sport and American culture. For those who care about both, this book will be the must-read work of the season.
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Fans will find this a hard-hitting account that pulls no punches.......2006-01-07
Basketball fans will find a vibrant and unusual story in Crashing The Borders: How Basketball Won The World And Lost Its Soul At Home: it tells how talented players from around the world are playing at a level which challenges American pros, and how the sport is simultaneously facing a troubled image on its own home turf. Relations between players and fans are at a low point, TV ratings for NBA games are on the decline, and basketball fan Harvey Araton, sports columnist for the New York Times, here traces the problem to the greed of those who would exploit the game and thus weaken it. Fans will find this a hard-hitting account that pulls no punches.
An enjoyable read that doesn't answer any questions.......2005-12-29
While I enjoyed this quick and easy effort from Araton, it left me with one question at the end - "What exactly was the author trying to prove in writing this?"
The title would indicate that we should expect a treatise covering several topics: the decline of basketball fundamentals in America, the fall of the U.S. as a basketball empire, the MTV-ization of the game, and a few others that would all contribute to proving what the title claims. Instead, this is a disjointed effort, part lecture, part memoir, and part history lesson.
Personally, I think that this would have worked better as a simple memoir of Araton's time spent covering the game. He could have told more of the interesting personal stories that he interjects here, especially considering how long he's been around the game. This is a book that becomes repititious, and that might have been avoided had he included more about his interactions with players, coaches, etc. He could have talked about how he believes the game has declined here, but it wouldn't have had to be the centerpiece of his book.
I believe that a great book about the decline of basketball here in the U.S. needs to be written, but I don't think this is it. This doesn't dig nearly deep enough into the underlying causes of the decline, and the format is so scattershot as to keep the reader guessing exactly what might be the point of certain parts of the book. Again, this is an enjoyable and fast read, but I was expecting something more.
Clang! Harvey Araton Throws Up Half a Brick.......2005-12-26
Harvey Araton, long-time sports columnist for the New York Times, explores the history of "pure basketball's" decline in his latest book, CRASHING THE BORDERS. As someone who grew up watching and playing pure basketball in its American capital, Indiana, I could hardly agree more with Araton's basic contention: that basketball has lost its balletic soul, that the ultimate in spontaneous team games has become a game of power and force too often centered around individuals whose attention-seeking egos match their outsized Nike sneaker endorsements. Worse, too many players lack the fundamental skills that were formerly the hallmark of NBA play.
Araton traces the decline to the rise of Michael Jordan as a one-player product bigger than the NBA itself. Jordan became a role model for the next generation of "look at me" American players whose inarguable athleticism catapulted them into the spotlight before their psyches or their fundamental basketball skills had had time to mature and develop for a team game. In Araton's view, Jordan begat Vince Carter begat Kobe Bryant begat Alan Iverson begat Lebron James ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Yet half those begatted stars fell flat on their public relations faces, tarnishing the NBA and upping its hip-hop image while inciting racist sentiments in the stands that culminated in the Pacers/Pistons/fans rumble at The Palace of Auburn Hills (Detroit) on November 19, 2004.
At the same time, NBA Dream Teams had their proverbial hats handed to them in the 2002 World Championships and the 2004 Athens Olympics. Those defeats signaled deep problems in the quality of the NBA's underlying team game and accelerated the infusion into the NBA of foreign players with better basketball fundamentals than the 18-year-olds from urban America's playgrounds (hence the weakly-punned title, as in "crashing the boards"). Araton blames Nike and Adidas, the scouts and summer camps who hype 12-year-olds as the next incarnation of Michael, fawning college coaches, and David Stern for this marketing-over-substance approach. He argues that Jordan himself shoulders some of the blame for his unwillingness to act for any purpose other than his own financial self-interest.
While Araton's thesis seems largely on target, his book's execution is somewhat disappointing. It reads like an extended version of his newspaper column, full of personal stories and anecdotes but lacking in depth of analysis. We learn quite unnecessarily, for example, how the author chose family over work and missed taking an airplane flight that crashed. We visit Tbilisi, Soviet Georgia, to learn about two workmanlike but relatively undistinguished players from Soviet Georgia, Nikoloz Tskitishvili and Manuchar Markoishvili, but we never visit the inner city playgrounds of Chicago, Philadephia, L.A., or New York. We see far too much of David Stern and far too little of the great team players like Magic and Bird and Jason Kidd or the great coaches like Bob Knight, Coach K, Larry Brown, and Pete Carrill.
More important, Araton opines endlessly about the decline of the NBA game, using nothing but a few references to team scoring per game as his wholly inadequate gauge. What about shooting percentages, turnover to assist or assists to goals scored ratios, team scoring or shots taken distributions, or other player performance measures? A February 13, 2005 article by Michael Sokolove in the New York Times Sunday Magazine provided in just one statistic a better measure of the situation than Araton's entire 200-page run-on. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, the U.S. woman's team outshot their NBA men's team counterparts from the free throw line, 76% to 67%. What better evidence could there be of the decline in fundamentals than ability to hit an 15-foot shot - unguarded?
In point of fact, Sokolove's article, entitled, "Clang!" and sub-headed, "Pro basketball doesn't have a drug problem or a thug problem. It has a basketball problem," makes virtually the same case in four pages as Harvey Araton makes in 200 pages. And Sokolove at least has the courage of his convictions to argue for the elimination of both the slam dunk and the three-point shot (sadly, neither can happen as long as the NBA is more about marketing than it is about the sport). Read CRASHING THE BORDERS if you've missed the last ten years of the NBA or want to read Araton's version of "famous people I have touched." Otherwise, check out Sokolove's more insightful article from the Times archives, watch the games for yourselves, and stick with your daily sports pages. Araton's book is interesting, but it's simply too lacking in insight and analysis - and far too timid - to justify its $25 price tag.
Araton At His Best.......2005-11-28
Those who are regular readers of Harvey Araton's columns in the New York Times will recognize the quality and intelligence of the writing in this must-read dissection of the basketball world at large.
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