No comments about Hugo Chavez: Leader of Venezuela (World Leaders).

No comments about Presenting the Presidents: Their personalities, their profiles and their portraits.

No comments about De Gaulle (Life&Times).

4 comments about The Hitler Fact Book.

1. I don't think you could come up with any question about Hitler -- no matter how silly, serious or obscure -- which isn't answered in this book. You can try, but you probably won't succeed. My young nephew was assigned this book in a college level history course. When I was in college, none of the history books we were forced to read were anywhere near as entertaining (if I can use that word about Hitler) and down-right fascinating as this one. It is carefully researched and documented, scholarly, without ever being the least pedantic. Even if you think you already know enough about Hitler, I highly recommend you read this book.



2. There were a number of favoriable reader reviews here at one time. What happened to them? Why were they dumped?



3. This book is masterful mix of facts and sins: sins of
   omission and sins of comission.

   If you wanted just the facts about this man don't waste you time
   with the "fact" book. It's loaded with severely slanted
   commentary, Psychlogical theories and more nonsense from an
   author who is incapable of presenting unbiased history. It has
   been said that Hitler is the most lied about man of the 20th
   century and author Fuchs is one of the rowd: Repeating the same untruths from our so called "experts".

   Where are the alternative views? Where is the german view? Where
   is the White view? History is always written by the winners of
   war and the losers view is always supressed. Might is right in
   this world. The truth will always be victim to the barrel of a gun.




4. This is without a doubt the most useless book written on the subject of Adolph Hitler I have ever read.first of all,this book takes the all time winner prize for objectivity with quotes like,"To some degree,he(Hitler)has already become a legendary creature,rather like Dracula or Frankenstien's Monster,the stuff of horror movies or comedies."There is a small chaptercalled Hitler ln combat that starts of with,"What a tantilizing vision-Hitler killed in the first world war.Unfortunately,he not only survived the fighting,he thrived on it."with questionable information because of subjective,and lack of usefullness,this book will never be taken seriously by even an ametuer historian,as it is more a joke book for entertainment.Don't waist your money.

No comments about The Last Lion Part A: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874-1932.

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1 comments about Thaksin: The Business Of Politics In Thailand.

1. Pasuk is one of the most renowned economist in Thailand. Her books are mostly in English (in collarboratin with her husband, himself also a renowned thinker, Chris Baker). Now they take on a subject of Thaksin Shinawatra, arguably the most famous prime minister cum businessman in Thailand.
   Most of Thaksin's biographies in Thai are, I dare say, bias. They always portray him as a white knight, a self-made billionaire, and a man with a perfect happy family, intentionally overlooking his early failure as businessman and his well-connected background. While this book has admitted that it has not been written with 100% objectivity, it turns out to be the most objective book about the subject. It sheds the up and down of his business and political life, as well as the good and bad of his policy.
   One of the most revealing aspect in this book is the discussion of "Thaksinomics" and "dual track" policies, both of which make him a rising star in internatioal politics. Anyone who is interested in such subject should not miss this book at all.
   However, there are flaws in this book. Foremost is that most of the inputs come from newspaper, and writers add few inputs from their thoughts. Secondly, this book wrote about in 2004, and it would miss the most landslide victory in Thai history by his party. Also, it did miss his fall because of waves of corruption scandal.
   I hope that they would write a revised version, once everything is settled.