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While Rubenstein writes adroitly, his style causes some minor problems. Because he writes thematically (and chronologically within each theme) he cites quotations two or three times in several cases. He also assumes that the reader already has specific knowledge of the subject, for he never clarifies what losing membership in the Communist Party or Writer's Union implies. Often, the introduction of new dissidents throughout scatters the chronology and one loses track of years. One also gets no real feeling of just how widespread the movement really...
...intended to support a position, not weigh a question. Reading it is something like reading Erik von Daniken on the visits of spacemen to Earth during the Stone Age--enjoyable and enlightening if you already believe, irritating if you don't, amusing and not particularly illuminating to the neutral reader. It is impossible to deny the sense in much of what Strenio says; it is equally impossible, though, to miss the shallowness, oversimplification and inconsistency that often flaws his logic...
...view. Similar "arguments" characterize his treatment of the complex question of cultural bias. He presents examples galore of confusing questions; yet one of them, closer inspection reveals, Strenio wrote himself as an illustration, and for several others he neglected to find out the test's accepted answers. The reader can not but wonder how complete the author's understanding can be of tests that he never even saw corrected...
...Reader's Digest refused to answer 15 questions from the FEC, claiming protection under the First Amendment and pointing out that news stories were exempted from campaign contribution restrictions. The magazine asked a New York federal district court for a preliminary injunction against the FEC investigation. Argued the Digest: "The fact of being investigated by the United States Government for alleged violation of a statute carrying criminal penalties has a chilling effect all by itself." Such investigations, it added, "can be a very effective form of censorship...
Paper Money is clear, succinct and consistently engaging about the evolution of this embarrassing and potentially bank-breaking situation. The book is quite simply the best exposition of the subject available to the general reader. This is not surprising since Goodman, a former magazine journalist, financial editor and investment manager, writes about economics as a lively art, not as a dismal science. Here he is pondering the Big Bang theory of real estate: "Why should bricks and mortar, wood and paint, increase in price even faster than inflation? It is because not only is the currency diminishing in its worth...