Splendid Blond Beast

I'm glad this book remains in print, but disappointed by the price. I think I paid less than the current price when it first came out in hardbound (Grove Press??). Never heard of Common Courage Press and I know we should be grateful they've picked it up. I did a lot of yellow highlighting when I first read this, because there were so many cogent phrases and paragraphs, something I normally don't do with a book.

i have to agree with one of the other reviewers, simpson's title seems to offer much more than the book delivers. frankly, if he had fully covered money, law, and genocide in the 20th century, the book would have been an extra 20 thousand pages. it consists of 20 chapters that are representative of topics within the title. the chapters are well written and adequate referencing is provided. i also agree that a chapter discussing the relationships between sociopathy and genocide would have filled out the text. in quite a few chapters, i found that, while it discussed what it discussed quite well, there were many topics that were not even mentioned. overall, i think that this is a very good book. it is well worth the price, used, for those studying genocide. you know, another topic that merits attention, somewhat addressed in the book "unholy trinity" is the complicity of those in positions of moral or religious authority and the resolution. again, overall, very good, used.

covers in depth the links between international law and business, military intelligence, and mass murder. anyone uncritical of NAFTA, GATT, multinational corporations unbound by morals (yet defined and protected as "individuals" in international law..), will, I hope, be disturbed by the "proud history" of many of our favorite corporate overlords. Explores the ultimate victory of methods and men responsible for the most heinous atrocities committed this century as they escape justice, mostly with the help of our government.

this book is as indispensable as simpsons "blowback", blum's "killing Hope",and Loftus' "secret war against the Jews", in wading through the cesspool that is American Foreign Policy. what is common to all of these works, is that the Big Business/OSS/CIA connection begins here, with the people, events and institutions indicted herein. this book SHOULD go far in clearing up the lenses in the American Public Eye fogged over by utter crap like the "Hitler Channel", where the OSS/CIA nazi recruitment campaign is rationalized as a necessary evil, and the Dulles' (May their names be Blotted out), as simply "men of their times". but this essential book will probably never again see the light of day, and will, like "Blowback", only be a footnote in the more popular and whitewashed "expose" books of others.