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If you're thinking that this book is a comprehensive popular overview of the history of telecommunications, forget it. It really is about Morton Bahr's career with the Communications Workers of America. After reading Tom Standage's outstanding "Victorian Internet" book, my view of the Web as the modern-day telegraph was enhanced. But, the title of this book is so unfairly mis-leading, that it's a shame. Don't look to this book as a popular history of the Internet! In fact, I intend to return it and get another book.

(...)This book IS a history of the telecommunication movement through the eyes of the most competent labor leader of our time! This book details the struggle that our country has gone through in order to achieve the technological advances and human rights that we enjoy today. We are lucky to have a labor leader like President Bahr heading the fight for everyday people. We are even luckier that he has shared his stories and viewpoints with us in this informative, entertaining, and poignant book.

If you're thinking that this book is a comprehensive popular overview of the history of telecommunications, forget it. It really is about Morton Bahr's career with the Communications Workers of America. After reading Tom Standage's outstanding "Victorian Internet" book, my view of the Web as the modern-day telegraph was enhanced. But, the title of this book is so unfairly mis-leading, that it's a shame. Don't look to this book as a popular history of the Internet!

This book IS a very thorough history of the telecommunication movement through the eyes of the most competent labor leader of our time! This book details the struggle that our country has gone through in order to achieve the technological advances and human rights that we enjoy today. We are lucky to have a labor leader like President Bahr heading the fight for everyday people. We are even luckier that he has shared his stories and viewpoints with us in this informative, entertaining, and poignant book.

(...) This book IS a history of the telecommunication movement through the eyes of the most competent labor leader of our time! This book details the struggle that our country has gone through in order to achieve the technological advances and human rights that we enjoy today. We are lucky to have a labor leader like President Bahr heading the fight for everyday people. We are even luckier that he has shared his stories and viewpoints with us in this informative, entertaining, and poignant book.

(. . .) This book is a thorough history of telecommunications through the eyes of the most competent labor leader of our time! Mr. Bahr very accurately shows the transition our country has made and what fights we have won in order to be where we are technologically today. We are lucky to have such a strong leader fighting for the rights of everyday people. And, we are even luckier that he has shared this fight with us in this informative and entertaining book.