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Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft

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While it seems that you either hate or love this book, this "liberal with half a brain" or maybe more than half, found it interesting and well written. It added to my information about this fascinating period of change in the world. Well researched from two insiders points of view. When reading, you have to remember the background of the writers and not take everything as gospel. If you're interested in gathering information about how things work, this is a good book to read.

Condoleeza Rice and Philip Zelikow have put together a fascinating, highly readable reconstruction of world-changing events that signalled the end of the Cold War and ushered in a wholly new frame of reference in geopolitics. This is definitely a work that foreign-policy "junkies" will relish, but one that general audiences would enjoy, too.

Condi Rice and Philip Zelikow take you behind the scenes of this most historic event, and they do so in an intelligent and insightful way. One can see reading this book why Rice is now the National Security Adivsor to President George Bush following in the footsteps of such greats as Kissinger and Scowcroft. The best book on this subject out there, every college and university should have this GREAT book in their libraries! WONDERFUL READ! INSIGHTFUL! INTELLIGENT! THOUGHT PROVOKING! Only a liberal with half a brain wouldn't enjoy it...

Rice - National security Advisor on 9/11. The person, after the POTUS, most responsible for events of 9/11.

Philip Zelikow - The Executive Director of the 9/11 commission. The person most responsible for its direction and findings not withstanding the airhead commissioners.

Close friends, co-authors, business partners. How did they split the royalties? God forbid one might imagine a conspiracy!

If you'd really like something well-written on the subject, try The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe (Cornell UP, 1997). by Andrei S. Markovits [with Simon Reich; also available in German and Dutch translations].

Markovitz leaves Zelikow & Rice in the dust.

Two right wing low level bureacrats in the Bush administration have put together a dull, unreadable diatribe that reflects right wing ideology rather than any analysis or relieable information. The National Security Council is always populated by the worst type of people--Oliver NOrth--who are low level burearcrats who compile information that puts a spin on the infomation--one would not call it data--to support U.S. imperialism, intervention, war and terrorism. Rice and Zelikow are no exceptions;neither are neither proficient writers nor very bright.

Thomas Sutter