The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

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by George Soros
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• Why America's world status is in doubt
  Self-made billionaire George Soros offers a dense, philosophical and theoretical book about the state of the United States and the world. Whether you like Soros' politics or not, he speaks as a caring, major figure in investments, politics and philanthropy, where his strategies are well conceived and academically founded. This book covers the theoretical foundations of his political philosophy, and his concerns about democracy and open societies. He describes his vision for a better world, and talks about... more info

• Thought Provoking for the Open-Minded
  First of all, it must be said right off that this is not a book about trading. Soros is most famous in the financial markets for his managing of the Quantum Fund and making a billion shorting the Pound in the 90s when the currency broke from the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) which was in place then as a precursor to the eventual Euro introduction. Anyone coming in with the author's trading/investing history in mind thinking he might talk about that type of thing in this book is going to be disappointed.... more info

• A good start and a stale finish
  The book has basically three parts: a) Introduction, b) Conceptual Framework, and c) The Present Moment in History.
  The Introduction and Conceptual Framework are fantastic. Although Geoge Soros states right of the bet that he has not exhausted his passions and is not ready for an auto biography nor death, he makes a little concession and offers the reader briefs vignettes of his life, enough for the interested reader, who only knew about him via the commentary in newspapers and cable TV, to develop a... more info

• Summer Reading
  This book has two pieces. The first half is a mix of philosophy and analysis, centered on the theme of open society. Societies can be divided between those that accept uncertainty and its consequences (open) and those that reject and deny (closed). Soros sees America as an open society in peril of closing due to a population tempted by the false certainty of closed society. The movement towards a closed society was most clearly evidenced by the presidential election of 2004, where Americans embraced the... more info

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