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The Three Stooges Run The Cold War
3.75 rating, rounded up to 4.0
The next time you watch a movie like the Bourne Identity series and you question the portrayal of leaders of Intelligence/Undercover operations/departments as unrealistically over the top ... don't. This book reveals that the almost any absurd film caricature was actually a part of someone who existed in real life.
Reading this is like descending levels in Dante's Inferno. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more perverse, a new chapter beckons. These brothers go from defending Nazi Germany as not that bad, to blatantly racist (not to mention illegal) assassination plots against South American and African leaders.
The book opens with background on the brothers' family, upbringing, and education. It all seems good enough and appropriate to set them up for their future careers. However, the two end up not only being evil (and I'm not using that term loosely) but also inept to the point of farce. Their facility for fear mongering, depravity, bigotry/misogyny, immorality and manipulation is somewhere between that of Joe McCarthy and Hitler.
One was a Bible-thumping crusading zealot, and the other was a drunken skirt-chaser who was emotionally cruel to his wife and ignored his children. Neither was given to deep thought. Neither seemingly ever considered anyone's benefit but their own. Neither ever imagined they were wrong ... about anything.
They were correct about as often as a broken clock, but portrayed themselves as infallible.
Remarkable reading.
3.75 rating, rounded up to 4.0
The next time you watch a movie like the Bourne Identity series and you question the portrayal of leaders of Intelligence/Undercover operations/departments as unrealistically over the top ... don't. This book reveals that the almost any absurd film caricature was actually a part of someone who existed in real life.
Reading this is like descending levels in Dante's Inferno. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more perverse, a new chapter beckons. These brothers go from defending Nazi Germany as not that bad, to blatantly racist (not to mention illegal) assassination plots against South American and African leaders.
The book opens with background on the brothers' family, upbringing, and education. It all seems good enough and appropriate to set them up for their future careers. However, the two end up not only being evil (and I'm not using that term loosely) but also inept to the point of farce. Their facility for fear mongering, depravity, bigotry/misogyny, immorality and manipulation is somewhere between that of Joe McCarthy and Hitler.
One was a Bible-thumping crusading zealot, and the other was a drunken skirt-chaser who was emotionally cruel to his wife and ignored his children. Neither was given to deep thought. Neither seemingly ever considered anyone's benefit but their own. Neither ever imagined they were wrong ... about anything.
They were correct about as often as a broken clock, but portrayed themselves as infallible.
Remarkable reading.