Tom Newman

What a confusing mess was the French Revolution. This book does not help. It assumes you have a good understanding of the history. Without that, it is very difficult to follow.

Amazing read. Learned much I never knew about his life after participating in the American Revolution and his role in the political changes in France for the next 50 years.

A worthy reminder of how Grant was able to win the Civil War by becoming the leader of all the Union armies and bring them to fight together across all theaters. In this he was a better modern General than the tactical Lee.

While a good book, Grant's autobiography, Chernow's biography, and Shelby Footes Civil War Narrative are better.

The science in this Science Fiction doesn't age well, however there is a great line:

“To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.”

Fun book. One of my favorite science fiction books in high school.

Not one of Larry Niven's better books.

Good book, with interesting details about the technology and techniques used by the CIA. However many of the stories have been told before. The authors own book The Master of Disguse includes many of them. The book Billion Dollar Spy is a more detailed telling of the same assets and the agents who worked with them.

If you enjoyed The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, and the other Smiley stories, this is a must read. I'd recommend re-reading The Spy Who Came in From the Cold first.

Re-read this book and it seems more juvenile than I remember from when I first read it 30 years ago.

The 3 book series is an excellent history of the heros of Civil rights movement leading up to the March from Selma to Montgomery.

updated version of Ringworld, but not as good. Hopefully the second book is better.

“Houston, be advised: Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man”.

Reads more like a novel than history. Very good complement to Masterman's book “The Double Cross System”. It's also interesting to read some of the techniques used in the deceptions which show up in John le Carre's novels.

Fictionalized Biography = made up stories not written very well.

If you want to learn about golf from Hank Haney, read his book “Essentials of the Swing instead. This book is more like a bad soap opera with some insightful information about some of Tiger's greatest, and worst, performances. Tiger's a great golfer, but with the social skills of a sheltered child, Hank is upset because he isn't offered a popsicle & Steve Williams is mad because Tiger won't talk to him. I don't know if Tiger will catch Jack Nicklaus, and it will be a great drama to watch him try, but one thing is clear – Tiger will never out class him.

Not as funny as the first book in the series, but some good laughs.

Great new book about Known Space.

I met Mr. Polmar at Naval Postgraduate School in 1995, or 1996. I had an old dog-eared, duct taped (EB Green of course) copy and asked him to sign it for me. I apologized for the condition of the book, but he laughed and said he was happy to see that it had gotten a lot of use.

NRO Program Management Course / Offsite - 19 June 2000

Inspired ideas about managing nodes joining peer-to-peer networks and providing status about capabilities.

GMU Course Textbook - early cloud computing concepts

THE book that influenced me to join Argon.

Draft Copy provided a USC CSE Conference, Mar 2003

Artwork for cover was by Matt Battison. Received signed copy from Matt when he left Argon

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