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 enlarge | Authors: Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 43119
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 864
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0684837714
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780684837710
ASIN: 0684837714
Publication Date: June 4, 1997
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 another reader March 17, 2006
20 out of 26 found this review helpful
A very interesting book, but you have to be able to read between
the lines. Isaacson paints a picture of six powerful men who did
everything they could for US and mankind in general.
Another reviewer used the words fawning and uncritical to
describe the book. Well, there is a good reason for that.
Walter Isaacson, head of Aspen Institute, is himself a member
of the same "Insider Establishment" as the six men in
the book.
For kissing up, he has also been made a member of the
powerful Council on Foreign Relations.
This book should be combined with other more critical or
even negative writings on the subject to help build a more
realistic view.
For example I recommend books by the late Anthony Sutton.
Averell Harriman was a particularly unsavoury character, a
notorious Bilderberger, whose nefarious machinations are
becoming more and more known to the public, even
though still much is suppressed by the media.
Some people I have talked to think that the book should be called "the Wise Guys" instead of "the Wise Men" , but personally I wouldn't go that far.
The world isn't just black and white after all. These guys
looked after their own like everybody else on the planet and maybe, just maybe, in the meantime something good came out of it.
 Exhaustive (exhausting), and fascinating July 30, 1999
31 out of 39 found this review helpful
This book is fantastically interesting. The detail and the descriptions of personalities involved make the subject matter more than palatable, even to the less scholarly among us. The book is, however, very, very long and would have perhaps been better broken up into several volumes. I would characterize it as very well written, exhaustively researched, slightly fawning and uncritical at times, and, in general, well worth lugging around.
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