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What Everyone Needs To Know: What Everyone Needs To Know (2000)

by James L. Gelvin(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0190222751 (ISBN13: 9780190222758)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

review 1: It's short, it's packed with information, it's in a question & answer format... there's very little not to love. You will learn, whether you want to or not; and this should be required reading for journalists and editorialists. Okay, there are two things not to like: first, it's like reading 160 pages of wikileaks cables, albeit with only the important stuff left in. Second, he insists on calling middle eastern capitalists 'crony capitalists.' It's not clear to me how they're any different from our capitalists, other than being new arrivals to the system in which they get rich and millions of others do not. Different from perfect capitalism, yes; from actually existing capitalists, no. Is that important in the context of this book? Not at all. Highly recomme... morended.
review 2: I was required to read this book for a course I'm taking before we attend our first class. It was easy and informative. I read it in 3 days, as well as took notes and highlighted to refer back to later.I'm not a fan of the question & answer format in any book, and this was no exception. It seemed to me that in some of the questions, it was almost impossible to find what the answer was. I had to re-read those sections multiple times in order to find what the whole point was for my notes.Overall, it wasn't bad and for required "summer" reading, I didn't mind it at all. less

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