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...book is part ripoff, part a paean to the potential of positive thinking. Karbo advises readers to see themselves as winners, and enter the mail-order business. He is less than specific about what one reader should sell, counseling readers to determine what they are best at, then figure out a product or service that can capitalize on that talent...
Indeed, Hall seems to have forsaken the mysterious side of espionage, at least partly, in favor of technological high jinks. In the course of the novel, the careful reader will learn about the physical properties of telescopic rifles, soaring, nighttime airborne dead reckoning with a computer assist, and highspeed driving. Hall is also expansive on the techniques of clandestine radio communication...
Hall's characters are forgettable, but as a stylist the author seems to be working toward a new kind of thriller rhetoric. His best trick is the no-transition paragraph that picks up not where the action left off but two paragraphs of conventional narration later. The reader has to guess what happened in between, and the overall effect makes him feel that he is the one out there in the desert with the vultures...
...democracy gone astray and the defiling of the ideal has the ring of truth to it. He is always persuasive in his demonstration of these failings. His ability to show the historical roots of America's present uninspired attitude toward democracy is worthy of the highest praise. But the reader has a right to expect more from the historian than an explanation which holds that what happened happened because physical circumstance did not allow otherwise...
...their pamphlet manifests some of the most insidious tactics of demogoguery: they use the Shockley position as a jumping off place for uneducated polemic on IQ tests, presenting ethnic groups as victims of IQ test discrimination. This is a blatantly politick ruse to gain the sympathy of the reader through his ethnic loyalties...