Authors: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny,David Maxfield,Ron McMillan,Al Switzler
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“Far and away one of the best business books of the year.” (Hamilton Spectator )
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AN INSTANT CLASSIC! Whether you’re leading change or changing your life, this book delivers.-Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People --This text refers to the audio CD edition.
Author : William Stevenson
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From The Washington Post
An intriguing story of secret actions against the backdrop of great events.
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"An adventure story of monumental proportions."--NBC News -- Review
A splendid book. Rich in information...profound in its implications. -- San Francisco Chronicle
An adventure story of monumental proportions. -- NBC News
As long as Americans value courage and freedom there will be a special place in our hearts, our minds, and our history books for the "Man Called Intrepid." -- Ronald Reagan
Britons love this kind of story. . . . Americans do too. The implications [of President Roosevelt’s involvement in espionage] are startling. -- John LeCarré, The New York Times Book Review
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"An adventure story of monumental proportions."--NBC News
Product Description
A true story of espionage. From the Back Coverhe incredible World War II narrative of the hero whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of history. (6 X 9, 512 pages, b&w photos)
About the Author
WILLIAM STEVENSON was a distinguished journalist and war correspondent.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars history explained, July 28, 2002
By A Customer
this is one of the most important books on world war II history i have ever seen. my father was a super bookworm, and a veteran of China-Burma-India Theatre in world war II. served as a pharmacist for a field hospital in india.he always was reading anything he could find on world war II. and i had a chance to read these books after he did. A Man Called Intrepid is one of the top 10 books on world war II as it explains so very many things that happened during the war that were mysteries. other histories can tell you what happened: this one tells you why it happened and how it happened. for instance, Rommel was the desert fox due to the Signal Intelligence outfit he had, until the allies pounced on it and eliminated it. after that, he could only react to the allies, not anticipate them. this book is a MUST READ for anyone interested in world war II and post war history, along with the books on cryptography and code breaking, which is mentioned in this book. it also explains a lot of the post world war II and beginning of the cold war. this is the only book that covers the intelligence effort so thoroughly. other intelligence type books cover very small segments of the intelligence effort:this one covers it in much more detail from a broader perspective. any effort to study the history of world war II will be totally incomplete unless you read this book. it explains so very much of the until now unexplainable.
Terrifyingly soon, Bill is mad, homeless, beaten, and experimented on by comically evil doctors. He recovers and reunites with his family, but inexorably, mysterious paralysis ensues. Doctors try to diagnose him. Coworkers offer empty condolences and plot to steal his fast-track job. His wife seeks consolation with a passionate virtual lover on the Internet, a professor she's never met in the flesh. His teenage son triumphantly hacks into AOL's Plato Online, and Bill's last days are counterpointed with the trial of Socrates and his troubled, rich inquisitor Anytus. Instead of the real story, we get a second shimmering Lightman fable. Anytus's strife with his rebel son, a Socrates supporter, parallels Bill's grief as his son is distanced from him by illness.
Though I felt glimmerings of understanding from time to time, I never did fully figure out exactly what the Socrates story and Bill's decline have to say about each other, nor what Bill's paralysis says about modern times. I implore a smarter reader to explain it to me in the customer comments below. But I can tell you that every character is resonant, and every sensory particular is exquisitely precise, as in Lightman's biggest hit, the Italo Calvino pastiche Einstein's Dreams. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
The author of Einstein's Dreams has made a darkly affecting book out of what seems at first to be unpromising material. Bill Chalmers is an executive at an "information company" in Boston who on his way to work one day forgets completely who he is, what he does or where he is supposed to be going. After a number of nightmarish experiences, in which he rapidly becomes a homeless bum, he awakens in a hospital, more or less his old selfDexcept that his body is beginning to turn numb. So far, this approximates a conventional "breakdown under the pressures of civilization" story (and Lightman is particularly good at evoking the impersonal horrors of contemporary urban life). But the progress of Chalmers's ordeal is much stranger, richer and more weirdly comic than that. He sees a doctor who can offer only infinite tests, a psychiatrist who seems equally at a loss. Wife Melissa, conducting a cyber affair with a professor (e-mails figure extensively in the book, the kind of typos we all commit rendered with malicious glee), begins to fall apart, taking to drink as Bill gets worse. Eventually confined to a wheelchair, Bill senses that his son, Alex, a computer geek, is growing apart from him. When he's fired by his employers, Bill sues them for unfair dismissal of a sick man. All this is conveyed in scenes that show a subtly calibrated mastery of comic timing, emphasizing contemporary heedlessness and a helpless anger. The ending, as Chalmers draws increasingly inward, seeing himself only as a brain stem in an utterly dysfunctional body, carries haunting echoes of a similar passage at the conclusion of James Joyce's The Dead. Lightman's masterly study of early 21st-century angst is marred only slightly by a series of episodes from the trial and hemlock poisoning of Socrates, first called up as an e-lesson by Alex, then read by him and Melissa to Bill as he sinks further into desuetude. Vivid as these scenes are, their link with the present is extremely tenuous. Is Lightman saying that things were just as bad 2,000 years before cell phones and traffic jams, or is he imparting some hidden Socratic instruction?
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
