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From an award-winning 60 Minutes reporter comes the extraordinary story of the largest and most successful CIA operation in history-the arming of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, pressure mounted for the Americans to support the Afghan resistance. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from East Texas who sat on the powerful House Defense Appropriations Committee, persuaded his colleagues to allocate $10 million to fund the CIA's effort to arm the Mujahideen. Charlie Wilson's War tells the story of what became the largest covert operation in history; funding eventually grew to over $1 billion a year. The book includes an incredible cast of characters: Charlie, the charismatic, hard-partying congressman who raised eyebrows when traveling to Pakistan with unusual companions -- one his personal belly dancer, another an ex-beauty queen -- but was passionate about supporting the Afghans and brilliant at getting deals done. Gust Avrakotos, a working-class Greek among Ivy Leaguers at the CIA who set up the team that ran the largest operation in the history of the CIA. President Zia of Pakistan, who became great friends with Charlie and used his leverage to get huge aid dollars as well as keep the West looking away as he built the first Muslim bomb. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers conventions, to the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilson's War is brilliantly reported -- one of the most detailed and compulsively readable accounts of the inside workings of the CIA ever written, with a cast of characters and a plot out of Le Carre or Clancy. This book is a remarkable account of the last battle of the Cold War, a battle that helped weaken the Soviet Union and led to its collapse and, of course, paved the way to the rise of the Taliban, with consequences that we are dealing with today.
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Hopefully, the movie doesn't screw up this story.......2007-10-05
There will be three main kinds of people who won't read this book. The first are those who see no reason for military intervention anywhere, ever. The second are those who are hypersensitive to any speaking of ethnicity, race, gender, etc., within a kilometer of earshot. The third are those who don't like long books, and "Charlie Wilson's War" is certainly longer than most. All this would be too bad, because the book is a wealth of little known and critical current history, as well as a real rip-snorting adventure. The most intriguing icing on the cake is that Charlie Wilson, one of the boldest and effective national-interest congressmen of the last century, was a Democrat. He was a Democrat who pushed Republicans forward for a decade, mostly to do the right things. How many right things, of course, remains to be seen in coming decades.
Much of the book is written in colloquial style, as the author reproduces many discussions among a very wide variety of people. This sometimes comes out sounding a little coarse, but the reader should see this quickly as a writer trying to be accurate. Charlie Wilson, the man himself, also might turn many readers off. He abused his body with food and drink, mostly drink; he was a maverick to the point of almost being a loose canon; wild, he certainly was. No one, though, can deny that he was one of those rarest of politicians. Here was a man who did not stop with saying what he wanted to do, he found ways to do what needed to be done. Then he kept at it, and at it. Here was a man of his word.
This interesting story suffers only a small weakness as a narrative, and only if the reader minds. The action chapter by chapter, even section by section, does not always tell us what was happening at the same time with other people, and at other places. Rather, the author likes to keep a thread of a theme or thought and follow it to the end. This can be irritating and a little confusing if you are trying to keep things straight for any particular group of years at a time. If this does not make a problem for reader, then so much the better. A last suggestion: this book goes down especially well by audio CD, and the voice narrator does well with dialogs and accents.
A great true story.......2007-10-04
This is a truly amazing tale. Never told until now and soon a movie. Buy this book and read the true story about how a "wild" congressman and a rogue CIA agent changed history. Better by far than all those fictional adventures!
four and 1/2 stars........2007-10-01
steve coll's excellent book "ghost wars" whet my reading appetite for more on the soviet war in afghanistan. since that military action, with the unanticipated consequences it spawned for the united states, was such a catalyst for the 9/11 attacks, it seems essential for an american to get a grip on what took place there. "charlie wilson's war" is a thrilling account of that international drama. though much of the book deals with funding america's covert involvement through congressional appropriation subcommittees, and with CIA office politics, the narrative is interesting page for page throughout this long work. not once did i find it a chore to continue, or feel an urge to skip past anything. george crile brings the colorful personalities of those involved to vivid life through his clear prose. he actually makes appropriation subcommitees, and their methods of work, interesting. and his portraits of afghanistan and pakistan, and their respective political environments and key political players, is brilliantly executed. the story is told completely from the american perspective, true. you will have to seek elsewhere for a more balanced view (by this i mean one that takes into account the soviet soldiers side of things). but this book being what it is, is a fascinating read, and one you can learn much from.
Great.......2007-09-08
One of the most intriguing stories of American foreign policy making. This book was recommended to me by a staffer for a military oriented Congressional committee. He was quite emphatic in stressing that this book, better than any other, offers a great perspective on the influence Congress can have on foreign and war policy. I don't know how representative it is of the day to day activities of members of Congress, but it certainly shows how a dedicated member of Congress CAN get seriously involved in an issue.
Charlie Wilson is one of the most interesting politicians to have walked on the stage in the past 50 years. Part JFK, Nixon, LBJ, and Clinton - both good and bad parts - Wilson was a smart and dedicated defender of CIA efforts to support the mujaheden in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. More than any supposed hardline conservative, including President Reagan, Wilson, a socially liberal Democrat from Texas, was the most agressive elected official to back the CIA in its anti-Soviet effort in Afghanistan. Wilson was also wildly able to get in the worst kinds of trouble: womanizing, drunk driving, and questionable uses of public money. I guess it goes to show that people are incredibly complex and contain a much more dynamic mix of good and bad within them. Kind of like the Incredible Hulk, but with less green.
Hard to read.......2007-08-29
Content was OK, I'm sure acurate, but about 210 pages into this 500+ page book I had to give in - I just couldn't make myself want to read it. I am only 31, so I do not know of Charlie Wilson, or the political temperature in the 80s, but this book was recommended to me so I tried, but couldn't make myself do it.
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Charlie Wilsons War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agencys history, procuring hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen.
Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to arms-dealers conventions, to the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilsons War is a detailed and brilliantly reported account of the inside workings of the CIA.
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
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Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency's history.
In the early 1980s, after a Houston socialite turned Wilson's attention to the ragged Afghan freedom fighters who continued to fight the Soviet invaders despite overwhelming odds, the congressman became passionate about their cause and procured hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen.
Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers conventions, to the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilson's War is a detailed and brilliantly reported account of the inside workings of the CIA.
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
George Crile
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Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency's history.
In the early 1980s, after a Houston socialite turned Wilson's attention to the ragged Afghan freedom fighters who continued to fight the Soviet invaders despite overwhelming odds, the congressman became passionate about their cause and procured hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen.
Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers conventions, to the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilson's War is a detailed and brilliantly reported account of the inside workings of the CIA.
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A "lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis" (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II —and its tragic demise. More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. Largely through the efforts of its working class and the dynamic labor movement it built, New York City became the envied model of liberal America and the scourge of conservatives everywhere: cheap and easy-to-use mass transit, work in small businesses and factories that had good wages and benefits, affordable public housing, and healthcare for all. Working-Class New York is an "engrossing" (Dissent) account of the birth of that ideal and the way it came crashing down. In what Publishers Weekly calls "absorbing and beautifully detailed history," historian Joshua Freeman shows how the anticommunist purges of the 1950s decimated the ranks of the labor movement and demoralized its idealists, and how the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s dealt another crushing blow to liberal ideals as the city's wealthy elite made a frenzied grab for power. A grand work of cultural and social history, Working-Class New York is a moving chronicle of a dream that died but may yet rise again. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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engaging, but union centered and progressively more biased.......2003-06-22
Well written and engaging, but union-centric, incomplete and progressively more biased.
Working-Class New York is a book with a lot of strengths, especially several of its earlier chapters. The chapters in Part I, about NYC's industrial and political exceptionality, help one understand how much blue collar work New York once had, and how exceptional that blue collar work was. Freeman also has good material about the uniqueness of NYC unions themselves. For instance, in no other American city did unions take it upon themselves to building housing for their members as NYC unions did.
Freeman's chapter on the loss of NYC's manufacturing jobs "A Useful and Remunerative Job" is also very well done. Several unions, like the ILGWU, adapted to deindustrialization by gradually giving back the benefits and salaries they had worked so hard for over the years. Other unions attempted ultimately futile mass action techniques reminiscent of the Great Depression, like when the United Electrical Workers staged a sit down strike at American Safety Razor, planning to leave NYC for Virginia.
Despite its strengths describing the stories of unions, I felt Working-Class New York was missing a lot in the areas of culture, politics, and ethnicity. Those subjects are not ignored, but if you want to learn about what working New Yorkers did when they weren't on the job (or on strike), this book will not satisfy you. There is little about non-work socializing, the white backlash, and egregiously little on ethnicity. Freeman has stuff about working-class New York on tv, like the Goldbergs and All in the Family, but nothing about what working class New Yorkers themselves were watching.
For ethnicity, I believe Working Class New York is the first book I have ever read about the working class in an urban center that does not use the term "white ethnic." This neglect is especially annoying when Freedman attempts to answer the question of why New York developed into America's one experiment with social democracy. I've always thought that New York's being so Jewish had a lot to do with that. Freeman's one chapter that deals with culture, New York and the Nation, is well done, one wishes there was more like it.
As the book goes on, Freeman's bias becomes more and more prominent. Freeman isn't a radical, and from time to time attempts to be balanced, but it is clear where his feelings are.
An example of Freeman's bias. Freeman says of open admissions at City College "thought not without faults, open admissions represented a significant advance toward equal opportunity and the ideal of liberal education for all. It was one of the great triumphs of working-class New York."
First of all, open admissions at CCNY was not a creation of the working-class. When Freeman himself tells the story of it coming to be, it is clear that open admissions was a creation of Puerto Rican and Black activists and their upper middle class white liberal allies. Also, open admissions had nothing to do with equal opportunity. An effort at equality at opportunity would have dealt with fixing the crappy grammar and high schools most Puerto Ricans and Blacks found themselves in. Open admissions at CCNY merely attempted to ignore the differences in results.
Whether or not you see open admissions as a triumph depends on your point of view. CCNY used to be one of the nation's best public colleges, on the same level as Berkeley and UVA. Even today, after 30 years of CCNY mediocrity, no other public school has produced nearly as many Nobel laureates as CCNY. CCNY, formerly the "Harvard of the proletariat" for 30 years became an institution of remedial education.
If you think everyone is entitled to a free college education, fine, but nothing is really free. New York City had to pay for those hundreds of thousands of extra students, and surely policies like CCNY's open admission were a factor in the fiscal crisis.
I agree with Mr. Moten that Freeman's chapter on the fiscal crisis itself is superficial and one-sided. Freeman claims the fiscal crisis was caused by banks refusing to lend to New York. Isn't that like saying "the Civil War was caused by South Carolinians trying to take over Fort Sumter"? The banks' refusal to lend only began the fiscal crisis. The fiscal crisis was caused by a drastic gap between revenue and spending. That gap was caused in part by exorbitant union salaries and generous social services. The banks themselves cannot really be blamed for not lending either, since NYC's deficit and debt were so enormous that a loan might very well have become a gift.
Freeman has a right to be on the side of the unions, but he never describes the costs of their power, i.e. the highest local taxes in the country. In the 1970s, cities poorer than NYC had fiscal stress, not crisis. Also, unions themselves brought now NYC's social democracy. John Lindsay was as dedicated to the dream of New York as a social democracy as anyone else, but if you read or remember Lindsay's administration, it will become apparent taht the resistance to the dream came not from the bankers or real estate lobby, but from unions themselves. That New York City become "ungovernable" came from the very people Freeman idolizes.
Well researched but simplistic and tendentious.......2002-01-14
This book is balanced and strongest in its discussion of the 1940s through the 1960s. After that period, however, the author tends to see the politics of the city as a battle between the good guys in white hats versus the bad guys in black hats.
Freeman's shallow, tendentious treatment of New York's fiscal crisis of the 1970s, for example (perhaps the most important event in the second half of the twentieth century for New York), allows him to portray it as a mere excuse for mean spirited, right-wing attacks on labor's gains. According to Freeman, the good guys (labor and its allies) sought to defend their eminently reasonable and necessary social-democratic policies, while the bad guys (lawyers, investment bankers, etc.) used the purported budgetary problems as an excuse to roll back social welfare policies. Even those unfamiliar with New York, however, will realize that generous social welfare programs, combined with strong municipal unions and pervasive political patronage is, at the very least, expensive. If you want to go that policy route, you have to be willing to pay for it-you can't just borrow money forever. But even that limited degree of complexity is more than Freeman presents.
For Freeman, recent New York politics is as simple as "social democracy" for the people versus right-wing "ideologues." For that reason, to take but one example, the treatment of recent immigration is egregiously shortchanged.
Why New York Is the Still the Heartbeat of Labor.......2000-05-16
Labor leaders and activists who share the desire to see the U.S. labor movement regain its power should read "Working Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II" by Queens College associate professor of history Joshua Freeman, Unlike many labor history books, which often leave the reader with little insight into how to help shape the present, Freeman's new book succeeds in laying the groundwork for strategic thinking about the future of the labor movement. Providing more than a just a narrative of past events, Freeman constructs a useful framework for analyzing labor's present situation, exposing both the role of broad structural forces-changes in the economy, politics, and culture-and the role of decisions made by the labor leadership in defining labor's trajectory.
For those with a fear of starting and not finishing a 400-page "history" book, fear no more. This book is an engaging and fast read; and it reveals facts that most labor leaders and activists are probably unaware of. (For example, one of the first actions of the post-WWII strike wave occurred in New York City with the September 1945 strike of 15,000 building service workers, the predecessors of today's SEIU 32B-J.)
"Working Class New York" is one of the best labor history books published in the last two decades for the simple reason that its vantage point is not as narrow (one industry or one union in a particular period) or as wide (the US labor movement as a whole) as others. By focusing on the history of the organized working class in one particular city, Freeman avoids a problem that has often plagued labor historians: i.e. the "fitting" of labor history into preconceived notions, stereotypes, or ideological biases. Instead, Freeman's book examines the full range of forces that propelled both the New York City labor movement's expansion and decline in the twentieth century.
Today, the task for labor leaders and activists is to absorb the lessons of the past and use them to chart labor's future of growth. "Working Class New York" provides a valuable resource for anyone interested in helping to steer that course.
Greg Tarpinian is Executive Director of the Labor Research Association ().
smart and thoughtful book.......2000-04-22
This insightful, intelligent book not only writes from the usual historian's view of events but also describes the cultural and personal context of New York in the post war period. Highly recommended for New York City buffs and for people interested in labor history or the history of real people.
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Quality Restaurant Service Guaranteed: A Training Outline
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How to match quality service with increased profitability—a systematic and detailed guide for hotel and restaurant owners, operators, managers, and trainers.
Are you looking for a way to make your food and beverage operation really stand out? One sure way is to improve your service program so that it not only satisfies your customers but increases your operation's profits. This book provides a detailed guide that foodservice professionals can easily follow to discover the hidden potential in every service program.
Foodservice owners and managers will learn how to chart an effective path to high-quality service and what steps they need to take to get there. This approach is one that has been used in dozens of hotels and restaurants nationwide with continued success. With these detailed blueprints in hand, the reader will be well equipped to develop quality service for operations ranging from quick-food establishments to full-service restaurants.
The author thoroughly covers the basic level of service for each type of foodservice operation and then highlights areas where specific techniques can boost overall quality. One important area—identifying and meeting customer needs and expectations—is made less confusing with the help of marketing exercises. Applying this knowledge to real-world situations is seamless with the aid of the worksheets provided. Dozens of photographs throughout vividly illustrate quality foodservice in action in hotels and restaurants throughout the country.
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Disappointed.......2000-05-27
Disappointed buying this book as 2/3 of this book is with tables, basic bor5ing pictures of for example place a coffee cup on a table. As a "training Outline" as described in the title it was too basic every school book will give a hospitality student better and more information and guideline. As a professional in the hospitality industry I thought of purchasing a tool for me to use.... So for experienced hospitality personal it is not the right book rather for someone who has no idea of the business and would like to get some information and help.
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A Redneck Christmas Carol
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A Redneck Christmas Carol
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A Redneck Christmas Carol: Dickens Does Dixie
John Sibley Yow ,
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A reason to laugh during the Christmas melee.......2000-11-26
How many ways can Dickens' classic story be retold? What with Muppets, comedies, musicals, and dozens of dramatic renditions, one might think that there is no fresh take on this tale.
If one thought that, though, one would be wrong.
For anyone who enjoys Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be a Redneck" style of humor, this book is a must. David Boyd's illustrations will look very familiar because he also illustrates Foxworthy's books. The text is clever, fast paced, and awfully funny to those of us who live in the South. (Hey, I just got a dead car out of my yard, so I can't be too quick to point the finger at rednecks!)
A great gift for your favorite redneck or recneck wannabe.
lots o' fun.......1997-12-05
Laugh at all the rednecks you know and love with this dead-on parody of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. Helton and Yow's jokes and gags are perfectly illustrated by David Boyd.
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