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  <title><![CDATA[The Way of the World]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Suskind]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You should read it, but there's a &quot;but.&quot;<br/><br/>In this otherwise very sensible and superbly written call for restoring America's moral authority in the world, the only annoying flaw is Suskind's boy-crush/blindspot for Blackwater and other &quot;can-do&quot; mercenary groups. Yes, gov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50068840">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ron Suskind's book explores the concern of the nuclear threat to American, but this is not your mom and dads fear of the Soviet Union's missiles, but renegade Soviet Union uranium.  Suskind's book is very humanistic, and that side of the novel turned out to be the highlight for me.  More startling a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48365699">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 01 14:32:50 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many think it's not a matter of &quot;if&quot; but really a matter of &quot;when.&quot; When will there be a radioactive explosion in a US city? According to the experts Suskind knows, the attack could either be a so-called dirty bomb or a nuclear weapon cobbled together by gathering highly enriched...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45068318">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off this book is not exactly what one may expect. <br/><br/>It is not the same forom as Suskind's earlier One Percent Doctrine or Bob Woodward's Bush trilogy.  Suskind does offer in depth examination of the high level discussion/tactics regarding the WMD intel during the run-up to OIF.  But ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67561249">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I've read in almost a year. (Shame on me!)<br/>Suskind is an excellent writer and storyteller, so whether you agree with him or not, it is a good read. He explores the United States' place in the world since 9-11 by following different people affected, from an Afghani exchang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42662863">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent bit of journalism by Ron Suskind. I really love the way he tells a story -- with each &quot;character&quot; a part of a larger story of the problems with America's war on terrorism. We see the story through the eyes of a wide range of people, from a young Pakastani in America and a Afgh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40837456">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38667694">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is an expose of the tragic fall of America's moral authority.  The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist author does not seem to have an ax to grind but rather details a string of tragic realities based on substantial research.  I suppose some will suggest his facts are skewed but I found them ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38667694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about American-Muslim relations and discussions of what the US should do to prevent nuclear terrorism.  The discussion of nuclear terrorism was OK, but the part on American-Muslim relationships was fantastic.  The author followed half-a-dozen people who had significant experiences in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66908491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know how sometimes you don't absolutely relish a book or always  look forward to reading it, but in a subtle way you're enjoying it and feel that it's taught you something and parts have resonated with you, so you feel a bit, well, enriched from having read it? I'd put this book in that category...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61413107">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Suskind weaves an impressively broad collection of personal stories and interviews into a sweeping panarama of the geopolitical landscape of the 21st century, focusing on the fault line between the Muslim world and western democracies. His focal point is the threat of nuclear terrorism and the effor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64371141">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me a while to get through this book, because I kept turning aside into the world of fiction.  This is a heavy, heavy book,exploring the internal world of the Bush coterie as they manipulated information and public opinion to justify the invasion of Iraq. Lots of background information includ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46086610">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well-written book that shows clearly how much damage the last eight years have done to this country, but, at the same time, makes it clear that there is both hope and a way to regain the moral compass that we still really have as a nation - there is definitely hope.  The stories of real people ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46485476">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best, hopeful, current event type books I've read.  The over-riding message is that personal contact with people from other cultures is the real way to create a more peaceful, cooperative world.  This is a non-fiction book that reads like fiction because Suskind is such a good storyteller...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70804543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book should be required reading for people interested in current events simply because the evidence itself MUST BE READ DIRECTLY TO BE BELIEVED.  I'd read all the brief synopses of what Susskind had to say in the news, etc., but getting his full narrative, though in terms of pages it's relativel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38381999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so, to quote another reader<br/><br/>grief, shame, anger, fear, embarassment, sadness, helplessness. The Way of the World ultimately is a story of greed and incompetence in and around the White House and betrayal and cowardice by the people who work for the man who lives there. <br/><br/>that te...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35995488">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Pulitzer Prize winning author and reporter Ron Suskind writes from a multi-perspective view of the world in the twenty-first century.  If there were one focus or heart of the story, it might be the Armageddon Test, the desire by some in the Department of Energy who wanted to send secret operati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32819129">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As one reviewer noted, this journalistic exploration of how America lost its moral bearing in Bush/Cheney's <br/>War on Terror, Suskind's book reads like a 19th century realistic novel. It takes the issue of the war's failure from the failure to deal effectively with the threat of smuggling small n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32508248">more...</a>]]></body>
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