by: George Soros
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 973.931
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Label: PublicAffairs
Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 259
Publication Date: May 30, 2006
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Sales Rank: 59516
Studio: PublicAffairs
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After reflecting on his support of a losing Democrat for president, George Soros steps back to revisit his views on why George Bush's policies around the world fall short in the arenas most important to Soros: democracy, human rights and open society. As a survivor of the Holocaust and a life-long proponent of free expression, Soros understands the meaning of freedom. And yet his differences with George Bush, another proponent of freedom, are profound.
In this powerful essay Soros spells out his views and how they differ from the president's. He reflects on why the Democrats may have lost the high ground on these values issues and how they might reclaim it. As he has in his recent books, On Globalization and The Bubble of American Supremacy, Soros uses facts, anecdotes, personal experience and philosophy to illuminate a major topic in a way that both enlightens and inspires.
In this powerful essay Soros spells out his views and how they differ from the president's. He reflects on why the Democrats may have lost the high ground on these values issues and how they might reclaim it. As he has in his recent books, On Globalization and The Bubble of American Supremacy, Soros uses facts, anecdotes, personal experience and philosophy to illuminate a major topic in a way that both enlightens and inspires.
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- Why America's world status is in doubtSelf-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 ... Read More
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- Thought Provoking for the Open-MindedFirst 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. ... Read More
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- A good start and a stale finishThe 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 ... Read More
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- Summer ReadingThis 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 ... Read More
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- Good book but with too widespread and not concise lineThe books is based on three pilars:
1) Representing the falsification theory of Popper, which becomes to some extend boring, since every George Soros book repeats this philosophical fundament. The extension of this theory by incorporating the human nature is indeed a very good idea.
2) Very brief references to experiences gathered within his free society foundation acting in new established democracies. It could be 5 stars rated book, if major part of this book was dedicated to this hot topic ... Read More
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