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Garde manger refers to the restaurant kitchen area where cold dishes, including soups, salads, sandwiches, sauces, cheeses, sausages, and pâtés, as well as hors d'oeuvres and the condiments used to garnish them, are prepared. The book Garde Manger is a teaching text for food professionals, updated from a 1973 edition by a team of chefs from the Culinary Institute of America. Home cooks, as well as students and professional cooks, will enjoy the chapters on preparing dressings, cold soups, salads, and sandwiches in this clearly, concisely written book, which is illustrated with hundreds of color photos. More serious home cooks will also appreciate the chapters that delve into making sausages, smoked foods, terrines, and other charcuterie. Here you'll learn to prepare and smoke old-fashioned, lusty French Garlic Sausage or a Pheasant Galantine enriched with pork fat and Madeira.
Intermediate cooks comfortable with terms such as chiffonade (leafy vegetables cut into very thin strips) will appreciate composed salads like simple Italian Shaved Fennel with Parmesan and heat-spiked Buffalo Chicken Salad, in addition to such soups as Cold Carrot Bisque sparked with ginger, tangy orange juice, and yogurt.
Noncooks interested in food will find Garde Manger fascinating too. How better to appreciate the Roasted Vegetable Terrine, layered with eggplant, squash, mushrooms, and goat cheese and served at your favorite restaurant, than by understanding how it is made? Home cooks who entertain will appreciate Garde Manger's recipes, as they produce quarts of sauce, gallons of soup, and canapés by the dozen. For the rest, when you can't modify the recipe, there is always the freezer. --Dana Jacobi
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With nearly 500 inspiring recipes, Garde Manger is the most comprehensive reference book available on the subject. Bringing the kitchen-tested wisdom of The Culinary Institute of America's chefs and teachers to the reader, the comprehensive book covers a range of topics, from salads and sandwiches to hors d'oeuvres and appetizers--all the hot and cold food preparation knowledge the skilled garde manger needs. All-new photographs by award-winning photographer Ben Fink show finished dishes and important techniques to help the reader visualize key concepts, from curing salmon and bacon to making and decanting flavored oils.
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Great Book!!!.......2007-10-08
Great book with great insights and recipes. Of course I had to buy it for school but still I enjoyed the book a lot!!!
The hows and whys on soups, salad and sandwiches.......2007-09-03
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This is another great TEXT from the CIA. As with all good textbooks, the focus is on the how and why rather than on the what. The recipes are to illustrate lesson points rather than be the focus of the book.
If you want to improve you cold kitchen skills, buy this book.
Excellent base book.......2007-01-18
This publication provides a broad range of basic and advanced techniques for the cold kitchen. We used this book in the culinary arts program at the college I attend and I have made many of the recipe's successfully. I withheld one star because I found that universally the recipe's lack proper seasoning. It's a great book for anyone needing real working recipe's and techniques for salads, dressings, hors d hovres, canapes, taurine, sausage making, smoking, and other detail cold kitchen work.
Had to Have It.......2007-01-09
While I attended The Illinois Institute of Culinary Arts, this book was required for our Garde Manger class.
During the time I attended school, I was unable to purchase the book, and had to reserve it from my local library.
I was most delighted when I found it on Amazon.com, and I highly recommend it for schools, personal use etc.
The book was in excellent condition and arrived much faster than I had anticipated.
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Vatania
Garde Manger.......2007-01-06
I recently completed my 4th Quarter as a Culinary Student at the Art Institute. Using the book "Garde Manger, The Art and Craft of the Cold Kitchen" was great text used in our course of Garde Manger. The recipes easy to understand and the outcome of each dish had great results. This book is a great addition to my library as i will refer back to it frequently.
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A master spy's memoir of playing the game in the most strategically influential country in 1960s Africa.
Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost empty ferry boat, all he could see were lines of people trying to travel the other way--out of the Congo. Within his first two weeks he found himself on the wrong end of a revolver as militiamen played Russian-roulette, Congo style, with him.
During his first year, the charismatic and reckless political leader, Patrice Lumumba, was murdered and Devlin was widely thought to have been entrusted with (he was) and to have carried out (he didn't) the assassination. Then he saved the life of Joseph Desire Mobutu, who carried out the military coup that presaged his own rise to political power. Devlin found himself at the heart of Africa, fighting for the future of perhaps the most strategically influential country on the continent, its borders shared with eight other nations. He met every significant political figure, from presidents to mercenaries, as he took the Cold War to one of the world's hottest zones. This is a classic political memoir from a master spy who lived in wildly dramatic times.
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CoS Congo.......2007-08-09
An excellent biography, discusses what happened during the Cold War in the Congo from his point of view. I found it an enjoyable read.
Exciting times.......2007-07-05
A good book giving an overall flavor of the Congo in the early 60's. It would be nice if Devlin had filled in more details however perhaps this is proscribed in his publishing agreement (I presume that he had to run this through the CIA before publishing it). You do get an idea of just what a CIA COS does to try to guide events to follow US policy. He's rather blase about the physical risks of operating in an unstable environment although maybe this is because he survived to tell the tale. I don't think that I would have my family at my side in such an environment.
Charts his many encounters and is a top pick.......2007-06-17
Author Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country declared its independence, the army mutinied, and the government had collapsed: as he entered the country, streams of residents were fleeing. During his first year he was accused of murdering a charismatic political leader, saved the life of the man who carried out the military coup, and found himself confronting unheard-of challenges in Africa. CHIEF OF STATION, CONGO charts his many encounters and is a top pick especially recommended for college-level and military holdings strong in African culture and history.
Diane C. Donovan
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A little too general, very maddening that he left out so many details. But a necessary read for those interested in the Congo in the 60's
History Lessons.......2007-06-07
This book rewards its readers with good deal of information on a variety of subjects. It undoubtedly provides a very accurate account of the struggle of the former Belgium Congo to become a variable nation state. In the course of doing this, its author provides a plausible description of the chaotic condition of an imploding nation state and its leading political players of the period, including the controversial Patrice Lumumba and the man who turned out to be his chief rival Sese Seko Mobutu. Finally the book opens a window on how the U.S -Soviet Union Clod War rivalry played out in an newly independent African state like the Congo.
On a rather different level, Larry Devlin provides a good explanation of what a pro-active CIA Station Chief (COS) of 1960 did to earn his keep. One can carry away a good deal of information about good `tradecraft', the use of non-official cover (NOC) agents, and the vital need for a close relationship between the COS and the U.S. Ambassador. For a long period Devlin was not only COS Kinshasa (Leopoldville), but also the only CIA representative in the Congo. As a result, he discloses quite a bit about the art and craft of recruiting and maintaining `agents' in the field. Although virtually all memoirs written by former intelligence folks tend to be somewhat self-serving, from this book it is clear that Devlin really was good at his job and did his best to protect the national security interests of U.S. and equally important to help the Congolese build a viable and independent nation state. That in the end the Congo continues to be a near failed state was due to factors well beyond Devlin's control.
The problem then as now of course is that a really good CIA operative like Devlin and a really poor operatives are treated pretty much the same way by CIA. The system is really designed to homogenize everyone into the same bland blend. Also it is clear that CIA of 2007 would never allow a COS the kind of freedom of action that Devlin had in 1960.
Anyone with an interest in Africa or the CIA or both ought to find this well written and informative book fascinating.
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Gates, director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1991 to 1993, began in an entry level position and rose to the top. His insider's account of the Cold War, CIA operations and the unraveling of the Soviet Union is sprinkled with revelations including the fact that 1983 was the most dangerous year in U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations and that both the CIA and KGB sponsored countless "black operations" designed to embarrass and discredit the other side. Gates also reveals that he secretly met with KGB foreign operations chief Vladimir Kryuchkov on two separate occasions and how the CIA often acted in contempt of Congress. While none of this may come as a huge surprise, it never fails to shock when it's laid out in black and white by someone who was on the inside.
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"From the Shadows" by Robert M. Gates.......2007-10-01
Absolutely fascinating! Mr. Gates is an excellent writer and is able to make complicated information easy to follow. And what an insight he gave to the Presidents he worked for; he didn't have an axe to grind with any of them, even though they represented both political parties.
This is a book I enjoyed so completely that I hated to reach the end of it. It will be on my personal "re-read" list. No wonder Mr. Gates was selected to become Secretary of Defense in our nation's hour of need.
Engages the eyes and mind.......2006-11-17
Rarely do you run across a historical book that is so chocked full of names, dates and acronyms that engages your mind as you push to reader faster. Gates delivers great insight wrapped in words that are illustrative of the push and pull of power players - within and between government bodies - domestic and global. If you are curious about the claims of one party or the other concerning the end of the Cold War, then this book will prove to be enlightening. All contributed to the demise, but perhaps none more than the Soviets themselves. Great read. Engaging. Insightful. Illuminating. Perhaps now more than ever before this a read that helps look at the challenges we, as a global community, face today. Buy it. Read it. Gain perspective.
View from the inside.......2006-10-01
The CIA is probably the one institution that the US President controls the most; or so this book argues. Robert M. Gates spent over two decades working at the CIA, and is one of the few career officials who came in near the bottom and rose all the way to the top. This book is his memoir, and recollection of how the CIA served 5 consecutive presidents in the Cold War. Starting with Richard Nixon, and ending with the first George Bush, Gates shows how each president used, and sometimes abused, the CIA to further their policies with regard to the USSR and communist parties around the world.
The major points one gets from this book are as follows. First, Carter was no wimp with regard to the USSR. Second, the most dangerous years of the Cold War did not end with Vietnam; they included some years in the 1980's. Third, the CIA consistently disregards the laws of the US. Fourth, the CIA often gets suckered into doing thing at the whim of the president that it later regrets. Last, the first George Bush was probably one of the best diplomats the US has seen in recent times. Over all, this was a very good book and I am glad I read it.
Intense Reading - great enjoyment.......2002-09-18
Excellent account of what really goes on from the inside of the govt. They say that truth is better than fiction. This is true in a big way in this book. You will recall many of the events in not too distant history. They come alive in this book and history makes more sense. Intense reading - be sure to underline the names to keep track of the huge cast of characters. A big Aggie thumb's up for this one!
Informative but dry.......2002-07-23
Gates had access to some of the most fascinating characters in the history of the Cold War. His observations are incisive and revealing about many of these personalities; however, his book often reads like one might imagine a CIA memo reads, rather dry. The book provides feedback on several important historical instances but it does not go into much depth on any. I do not recommend it as a book used to learn the history of that era. Instead I would read it to gain a further understanding of what went on behind the scenes.
In general, I find Gates to be an interesting character himself. He has some hilarious anecdotes about life in the CIA. Such as when he is walking up the steps of Air Force One and turns to flip off several of the top officials (I think it was) in Romania after they botch his passport. In addition to a often dry sense of humor he also seems to have a great deal of character and integrity.
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When Spenser's closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting bookie Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul. Hawk, always proud, has never been dependent on anyone. Now he is forced to make connections: to accept the medical technology that will ensure his physical recovery, and to reinforce the tenuous emotional ties he has to those around him.
Spenser quickly learns that the Ukrainian mob is responsible for the hit, but finding a way into their tightly knit circle is not nearly so simple. Their total control of the town of Marshport, from the bodegas to the police force to the mayor's office, isn't just a sign of rampant corruption-it's a form of arrogance that only serves to ignite Hawk's desire to get even. As the body count rises, Spenser is forced to employ some questionable techniques and even more questionable hired guns while redefining his friendship with Hawk in the name of vengeance.
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When Spenser's closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting bookie Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul. Hawk, always proud, has never been dependent on anyone. Now he is forced to make connections: to accept the medical technology that will ensure his physical recovery, and to reinforce the tenuous emotional ties he has to those around him. Spenser quickly learns that the Ukrainian mob is responsible for the hit, but finding a way into their tightly knit circle is not nearly so simple. Their total control of the town of Marshport, from the bodegas to the police force to the mayor's office, isn't just a sign of rampant corruption-it's a form of arrogance that only serves to ignite Hawk's desire to get even. As the body count rises, Spenser is forced to employ some questionable techniques and even more questionable hired guns while redefining his friendship with Hawk in the name of vengeance.
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Into the mind of Hawk.......2007-08-20
We learn a bit more about Hawk in this terrific episode in the Spenser series. When Hawk is shot in the back by Ukrainian mobsters while providing bodyguard services to a bookie, he vows revenge once he is healed. He also wants to provide for the remaining child of the family who was killed. Things turn complicated when it becomes obvious that there is more at play here than just the Ukrainians trying to move into town - there seems to be connections to both Tony Marcus and Boots Podolak, who is the mayer and essentially owner of Marshport. Hawk vows to take down the entire Marshport operation and to help, he has Spenser bring in the Gray Man - last seen almost succeeding in killing Spenser.
I truly enjoyed learning a bit more about Hawk and seeing his more vulnerable side. I was disappointed - as was probably about everyone - in Cecile; at the same time, I am interested in how things will go with the Gillespie boy - hopefully we will hear about him from time to time.
This is definitely not a book to be missed by Spenser fan!
One of his best.......2007-07-12
Can't go wrong on this one. Even for Parker, who writes really well at all times, this is one of his best Spenser novels. The action never stops, and the dialogue will keep you turning those pages. Highly recommended by a Spenser, and Parker, fan.
Rough diamonds gleam dark in the private eye night. Ebony's Eternal Evolution. .......2007-06-26
For me, the most intriguing part of COLD SERVICE, # 32 Spenser was Hawk's ongoing concern that he not just believe, but that he know who shot him, prior to his executing his retribution ramble. That concern remained at the back of my mind, as the forefront culprits seemed too obvious, too conveniently in the bulls-eye, while other characters who seemed to be on Hawk's side may not have been. I continued feeling that this plot would employ a super twist of a surprise, that I should watch for undercurrents in swamps and sewers of the Ukranian mob games.
Hawk's prominence here, working off his vendetta with Spenser's assistance, altered the mood of this offering beyond previous shifts in the baseline norm. Hawk came out of himself somewhat, yet he was even smoother and subtler, "looser" and quieter when slipping into the style-of-the-moment's speak or slink. Concerning Hawk leading the investigation and rap in this one, I might wonder if Spenser, Parker, or I enjoyed that spotlight on ebony more.
As may have been Parker's intent, I've not been able to like any of the female characters temporarily linked up with Hawk. Unable to see his uniqueness, they came off as whining sour. Needing to have Hawk explained by Spenser and/or Susan, these women still didn't (from my perspective) seem to get it, though they paid lip service. None of them comprehended Spenser, either. I have difficulty believing Hawk would like anyone who didn't "get him" on a first glimpse, like Susan did. However, I exited this story hoping an ebony female cameo here might step into full black-gardenia-bloom in a future book. So, yeah, I had a hard time warming to the female surgeon, Cecile, though her role provided intrigue and effect. The resulting explanations Spenser gave about "getting Hawk" were enlightening, especially the expressed differences between Hawk's and Spenser's early years' set ups.
Switching from set ups to scenes, I'll note that many shorts stepped out here with priceless panache, in which Spencer and Hawk ... Hawk and Spenser ... pursued the next and the next leads, to locations of people to interview for obtaining clues. In one, Hawk hung a man out a window high enough off the ground to surge terror into the dangling dude. In another, they stood in the rain on the door-stoop of Tony Marcus' wife, and clipped an amazing amount of information from her in a flowing dialogue, until she abruptly slammed the door in their faces. In the next chapter, the investigating team stepped out of the rain and through the door, then ignited a communication-gap powder-keg in the living room of Tony's daughter and her live-in dud. They left with a curse spewed at them, between those spewed between the couple who had been fueled into communication chaos.
As the tension built with each following-clue-visit (and build it did), I grew increasingly curious about how this one would do the rap and wrap. Der, Da team done gone beyond guut.
Chillingly beautiful and artistically exquisite describes the denouement scenes here. This subtle and sensitive story featuring Hawk held my favorite ending in the series. Chapter 60 read like a prayer for a vigil, in which the flame keepers, Spenser and Vinnie, wanted to step in so badly, the scent of that need was caught on each wisp of outgoing air. The chapter title could have been, "Attending The Thin Veil of Life's Breath." (In a few uncanny connections dramatizing dying eras and deteriorating areas, the concluding scenes' time-litany and mood mirrored another story, a nonfiction account in an Amazon Short, Dark Diamond Twilight: A True Story).
Alternate styles contrasted a pair of endings in COLD SERVICE, male and female, finely featuring a relationship angst subplot. In the female warp and wrap, Hawk, Spenser, Cecile, and Susan dined over a collection of quotable lines on styles of ownership in romantic realms. In the male done deal, the vigil attendance concluded a chilling service of unexpected design.
My favorite Spenser ending went here.
Linda Shelnutt
Parker at his endgame?.......2007-06-08
In my opinion, Cold Service is a mere shadow of the kind of writing Robert B. Parker did at some earlier points in his career. That said, looking back, I have to admit that I now believe Parker has always been overrated by many readers, including me.
In this novel, Spenser and Hawk are reduced to little more than their usual macho bravado and banter. There's just not much substance here, and more unfortunate, not much entertainment value either. Has Parker gotten lax in success? or has he just burned out or run out of ideas? As much as I've enjoyed a few of his earlier works, he really wasn't that great to begin with.
Hawk is the problem.......2007-05-07
Time was when African Americans were portrayed is innocent children, as in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Then they became leering, over-sexed attackers, as in the works of Thomas Dixon. Then goggle eyed fools who were afraid of ghosts and said "Yazzah" a lot. Recently they have become supermen with polished morals, as is the case with Hawk in this novel.
Hawk talks like Steppin Fetchit but is really smart, highly moral, quick on the trigger, in a word, undefeated and undefeatable. I didn't buy his character for a second. Hawk sets out to avenge having been shot by the Ukranian mobsters, and Spenser sort of tags along as Hawk's sword bearer. In fact, Spenser doesn't have much to do at all with moving the plot along.
Needless to say I found this book unrealistic and distasteful in its portrayal of people. I do not object to an African American as a central character, lest someone assumes that I am racist. I'd just like to be able to believe that the events described might have happened and that there are real people who vaguely resemble those in the story.
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William K. Harvey was the CIA’s most daring and successful field operator during the tense, early days of the Cold War. Extremely intelligent, a dedicated martini drinker, coarse in manner and appearance, both loved and hated, he was larger than life. But just as Harvey reached his zenith, fate and personal flaws caused his swift, dramatic downfall. Bayard Stockton provides a rich portrait of the man, including accounts from Harvey’s family, friends, and former CIA colleagues who have never spoken publicly before.
Harvey’s intelligence career began at the FBI, where he hunted Nazi spies. After running afoul of J. Edgar Hoover, Harvey went to the fledgling CIA in 1947. Harvey’s CIA successes included the unmasking of Soviet spy Kim Philby and masterminding the famous Berlin Tunnel that tapped Russian communications. The pinnacle of Harvey’s career came as chief of both ZR/RIFLE, the agency’s political assassination operation, and Task Force W, the group targeted on Cuba. But Harvey was in constant conflict with Bobby Kennedy, who micromanaged operations against Fidel Castro. Harvey profanely insulted the president’s brother during a tense meeting, which led to Harvey’s reassignment to Rome. His alcoholism worsened in Italian exile, and he was forced to retire. He became a nonperson.
However, Harvey resurfaced during Senate hearings in the 1970s. When his supervision of the plots to assassinate Castro was revealed, many labeled Harvey the epitome of CIA excess. Harvey’s continuing friendship with Johnny Rosselli, a Mafia figure who had helped the CIA with Cuban operations, opened further questions as some—most notably Robert Blakey, former chief counsel to the House Subcommittee on Assassinations—linked Rosselli to JFK’s assassination.
Flawed Patriot cuts through the rumors and inaccuracies surrounding Harvey to show a brilliant but flawed man who was undoubtedly one of the most talented and imaginative officers in the agency’s storied history.
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A tough read.......2007-05-07
There's a lot of great info in this book, but unless you're REALLY into FBI/CIA/Bill Harvey, it's very dry reading. It jumps around a bit, but if you persevere, you'll find some interesting tidbits here and there.
A Brilliant Title.......2007-02-02
This book has a brilliant title. Bill Harvey was indeed a Patriot. And he certainly had flaws. His drinking was a problem from early in his life and combined with smoking was at least partly responsible for the heart attacks that killed him at the relatively early age of 61.
He was also not exactly what you would call a team player. He was fired by J. Edgar Hoover for breaking regulations. His relationship with Robert Kennedy might best be called hatred. While he did some brilliant work, like identifying Kim Philby as a KGB agent and the famous tunnel into East Berlin, his relationship with the Mafia and rumors about being involved in the JFK assassination are not the sort of things that help get promotions within an organization like the CIA.
This is both an interesting biography of a full fledged master spy, and a history of the early days of the CIA and the Cold War. The author worked for Harvey in Berlin for two years before becomming a journalist and now a biographer.
The CIA Legend part is correct.......2007-01-23
Flawed Patriot has a great topic in Bill Harvey. The author's direct knowledge seems to be based on Harvey's career in Germany . The research of the late Mr. Stockton of much of the career of Bill Harvey appeares flawed. The drama of Bill and CG's adoption of a daughter in Germany is in line with what they told my wife and me in Rome,Italy in the mid 1960s. The events surronding Bill's return to Washington from Rome are not fair and complete and appear to be based on interviews that lack some of the facts.
Based on my personal knowledge and my research as an intelligence scholar and professor, Flawed Patroit does no justice to the pioneering work of Bill Harvey in clandestine collection, covert action and technical intelligence operations. In my opinion, Bill Harvey ranks amond the Top Ten Clandestine Service Officers in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.
A true American patriot deserves better than this........2007-01-16
Bill Harvey was a larger-than-life secret agent who bull-dogged his way through the corridors of power in WW-11 FBI (where his sin of not being instantly available to take Herbert Hoover's telephone call cost him Napoleon's blessings), the OSS and eventually the CIA.
The apotheosis of Harvey's career was conceiving of and managing the digging of the Berlin Tunnel in 1953--an audacious wire-tap of 172 telephone cables just over the border in East Berlin. Before the author gets to telling us this story, he foreshadows it many times as if he's already told it. When he does tell it, the tale is vague and incomplete. Little of the extreme tension is conveyed that this major espionage coup created among the band of agents who carried it out, and none of the exultation.
Harvey was an anomaly in the rising intelligence community. Just like those other genius mavericks--General Billy Mitchell, General George Patton, Col. Charlie Beckwith--he bucked his superiors to get things done, and like them, he was undone by the iron law of all bureaucracies-- that fealty is much more important than results. His resentment at Bobbie Kennedy's ultra micro-managing of the Bay of Pigs fiasco certainly contributed to its failure. It certainly scuttle Harvey's career. Yet what politician has ever learned the harsh lesson that others' are better at their jobs than they are--so let them do their jobs?
A serious 3-martini luncheon schmoozer, Harvey was adroit in finding and attracting talented cohorts. He built up highly loyal groups in spite of the usual internecine infighting that is the hallmark of all operational organizations. In the end his drinking got the better of him, and he was cast off like all such "failures."
This author (deceased) needed a rigorous editor to get his house in order. The work is a mish-mash of anecdotes and commentary, all presented in no particular order, as if a massive re-ordering of chapters had been undertaken at the last minute. Names appear out of nowhere as if we had already been introduced. Too bad. Bill Harvey was a true American patriot; he deserves better than this.
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Interesting story about the CIA's first CI chief........1999-01-01
I read this book several years ago, and found it to be very interesting and worthwhile. James Jesus Angleton was one of the early members of the CIA - a graduate of Yale which, at one time, was one of the primary recruiting grounds for the CIA. Angleton, according to the author, cut a very shadowy figure in an already shadowy world. Some of Mangold's text seems biased against Angleton, such as references to "The Trust" - an early counter intelligence operation created by Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Cheka. Angleton placed great emphasis on understanding this old operation. Mangold seems to deride this practice of Angelton's, which I felt was unfairly judgemental. Mangold, however, also describes an operation headed up my Angleton which caused the ruin of some productive CIA officers. All in all, though, the book is very interesting, and manages to submerge the reader into the world of counter intelligence during the cold war era. Counter Intelligence has been described by those who have practiced it as a "Wilderness of mirrors". After reading this book the reader will gain an appreciation, even if only superficial, of how nerve-racking the job could be - not knowing whom you can trust.
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You've seen The Hunt for Red October and wondered if it was real. Now you'll know. Rig Ship for Ultra Quiet - a book about submarines, written by a submariner. Spend two months in a nuclear fast attack submarine off the coast of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War with Andrew Karam, a decorated veteran of the US submarine force.
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Correction to Homer Stiltskin.......2006-08-13
Actually, until the mid-1960's, Naval Reactors did perform the ORSE. During that time, the Fleet Commanders convinced Naval Reactors (probably with little prodding since the FBM fleet with two crews each was growing so rapidly) to delegate the inspection to them. I was in one of the first Atlantic Fleet boats to have a non-Naval Reactors ORSE and it was savage to say the least. I remember particularly that the boat was taken to task for simultaneously having gear in the engineering spaces not stowed in lockers and for having added storage lockers that were not on BuShips approved plans.
Very Accurate Day to Day Accounts of Submariner's Life.......2006-07-18
I gave this book as a gift to my husband who works as a submariner and reads a great deal while they are underway. He says that Karam's book is a very accurate account of day to day life of a submariner and that it would be a wonderful read for anyone interested in submarines and attack boats. For someone wishing to learn more about what their husband, brother, father, boyfriend, or friend goes through on a sub, this would be an excellent place to begin. As a current submariner, he felt that "Rig Ship For Ultra Quiet" did not hold his attention. Rather there was a "been-there, done-that" reaction to the first-hand accounts described in the book - nothing new for someone who is currently participating in the same life. It may, however, be a good trip down memory lane for those who have already retired from submarine service and wish to take a moment to reflect on days gone by.
Very accurate.......2006-05-12
As a fellow submariner, I read this book to see if it was as true to the lifestyle as I remembered. The good news is that it is very indicative of the submarine life, a life of mostly just punching holes in the ocean. The only down side is that the author spoke a bit to much about reactor chemistry. Even though that was his job, it is a bit more info than was necessary. That said, the book was true to the submarine reality.
Best book on the subject.......2006-02-13
Guaranteed to fascinate and hold your interest, this book recounts the boredom, terror, daily grind, and claustrophia of working on a nuclear submarine (USS Plunger) during the Cold War from the perspective of an enlisted man. The author, clearly very intelligent, went on to get his doctorate in radiation safety following his naval service. It's a fascinating account. Highly recommended.
When ships were made of iron and men were made of wood........2004-03-12
A jolly good book. I give it 5 fish. One correction to something mentioned in an earlier review. Operational Reactor Safeguards Exams are not administered by the Mad Scientists of the Bureau of Naval Reactors. That would be like G-O-D himself coming to your Bah Mitzvah (and by G-O-D I mean, of course, R-I-C-K-O-V-E-R.) Besides, the Mad Scentists just push too many buttons. They inevitably have to be taped up and that becomes a sticky situation. In the author's day, ORSE's were graded in the Atlantic by the ORSE Board, which is comprised of staff weenies..er..I mean hot runners on the staff of CINCLANT. In the Pacific, they were graded by Ed McMahon and the crew of Star Search. Further, ORSE's are actually run by the crews themselves. That is done to give the crew ample opportunity to cheat. The ORSE board just show up, poke around, observe, eat the newly arrived fresh vegetables, drink the good coffee, watch movies, take Hollydood Showers, fill the toilets, sleep and finally pronounce judgement. Not bad work if you can get it.
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“An indispensable and riveting account” of the CIA’s development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
In this revelatory account of the CIA’s fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy locates the deep roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in a long-standing, covert program of interrogation. A Question of Torture investigates the CIA’s practice of “sensory deprivation” and “self-inflicted pain,” in which techniques including isolation, hooding, hours of standing, and manipulation of time assault the victim’s senses and destroy the basis of personal identity. McCoy traces the spread of these practices across the globe, from Vietnam to Iran to Central America, and argues that after 9/11, psychological torture became the weapon of choice in the CIA’s global prisons, reinforced by “rendition” of detainees to “torture-friendly” countries. Finally, McCoy shows that information extracted by coercion is worthless, making a strong case for the FBI’s legal methods of interrogation.
Scrupulously documented and grippingly told, A Question of Torture is a devastating indictment of inhumane practices that have damaged America’s laws, military, and international standing.
Customer Reviews:
Principled but profoundly naive.......2007-08-10
I read this book on the recommendation of a liberal friend whose views I respect, and with whom I've had many civil arguments about the subject of interrogation of known terrorists who neither have the rights of U.S. citizens nor those of genuine POWs (i.e., they weren't captured in uniform, they don't take direction from a centralized authority that recognizes the rules of warfare, etc.). So it's fair to say that I started off as a skeptic.
But this book utterly failed to persuade me of much of anything I hadn't already either accepted or known. Mr. McCoy is hopelessly naive and lacking in a sense of genuine moral, political, or social proportionality.
For instance, he writes in the introduction: "Compared to weighty matters of state raised by Abu Ghraib, Watergate, narrowly construed, seems little more than the failure of one man's character; Iran-Contra an isolated albeit intriguing incident at the sunset of the Cold War; and above all, l'affaire Monica Lewinsky sad, sordid, and forgettably partisan." If you are the sort of person who can swallow that sort of ridiculous hyperbole -- i.e., someone who thinks anything that happened to in one foreign prison can genuinely compare to what was quite literally (not just metaphorically) the threatened destruction of representative democracy and the Rule of Law (if Nixon had continued to defy the judicial and congressional branches) -- you'll enjoy this book.
Mr. McCoy also relies extensively on value judgments on extremely subjective matters from "experts" whose expertise is nonexistent. For example:
"Although seemingly less brutal than physical methods, no-touch torture leaves deep psychological scars on both victims and interrogators. One British journalist who observed this method's use in Northern Ireland called sensory deprivation 'the worst form of torture' because it 'provokes more anxiety among the interrogatees than more traditional tortures, leaves no visible scars and, therefore, is harder to prove, and produces longer lasting effects.'"
One wonders whether this "expert," this "British journalist," had the opportunity to observe Iraqi parents as their children were fed through chipper-shredders like tree limbs by Saddam's secret police. That's a "no-touch torture" that I, albeit as ANOTHER non-expert, would consider to be quite a bit worse than any sensory deprivation imaginable.
I do not doubt Mr. McCoy's patriotism, but rather his wisdom. I do not doubt his sincerity, but rather his judgment. There is a certain type of idealist who believes in absolutes, who judges everything and everyone who falls short of perfection to be utterly ruined, and who will follow the internal logic of his positions into ridiculous extremes. I'm afraid Mr. McCoy proves himself to be such an idealist through this book.
It's well and good -- indeed, it's critical -- for us to continually remind ourselves of the need to adhere, as a society, to the strictures of civilization that distinguish us from the barbaric enemies who would ritually rape and mutilate our daughters before beheading them for wearing eye shadow or a two-piece bathing suit. But I do not believe that Mr. McCoy grasps that there are GENUINELY, indisputably EVIL men who, by their conduct and their dogma, have knowingly and deliberately done everything possible to forfeit their rights to be considered part of humanity. For my daughters' sakes, and for Mr. McCoy's (if he has any), I'm perfectly happy to forfeit Mr. McCoy's regard: He can call me a barbarian if it makes him feel smugly superior, but by and large, I support the official policies that the Bush-43 administration has promulgated.
I can and do draw practical, moral, and legal distinctions between, say, crushing a testacle on the one hand, and playing loud rap music while humiliating someone with fake menstrual blood on the other hand. I weep NO tears at all for someone "tortured" in the latter ways -- none. And this book gives me no reason why I should.
This quote is variously attributed to Churchill, Orwell, and others, but it's true: "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." I am grateful for them; Mr. McCoy, I think, would have us put THEM in prison, and have the rest of us surrendered over to those who would gladly slit our throats precisely BECAUSE of our "civilized [Western] attitudes." I'm glad he's not in charge.
Misrepresentation of the Legacy of Donald O. Hebb.......2007-06-15
I am a retired neurosurgeon and quite familiar with the life and works of Donald O. Hebb.
I have just read Chapter 2 of the recently published book by Alfred McCoy, "A Question of Torture."
The chapter makes very interesting reading, but I am chagrined by the number of factual errors contained in this work regarding Dr. Hebb's alleged role in the development of methods of "psychological torture."
Dr. McCoy's most egregious error, in referring to the sensory deprivation experiments conducted at McGill by Dr. Hebb and his colleagues, is the assertion that, "In silent, sadly eloguent testimony to the corrupting influence of this research, it is ironic that Hebb .........should be best remembered today for the work that made him, perhaps unwittingly, the progenitor of psychological torture". It is regrettable that McCoy published this silly statement for public consumption. Clearly, Dr. Hebb is not best remembered for that reason.
At the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in London, Ontario (into which Dr. Hebb was inducted several years ago) there is an exhibit which cogently displays his major contribution to the field of psychology, that is, the publication of "The Organization of Behavior" which has been compared in its biological significance to Darwin's, "Origin of Species". Dr. Hebb proposed in this book, for the first time, that psychological functions such as memory and learning may be explained on the basis of neural activity. Any knowledgeable psychologist would remember him primarily for this achievement.
Further, Dr. Hebb was nominated for the Nobel prize, became the President of the American Psychological Association and achieved a "distinctive place in the history of twentieth-century psychology", not because of the sensory deprivation experiments but because of his distinguished career launched by his seminal theories proposed in "The Organization of Behavior".
Finally, to refer to Dr. Hebb as a colleague of Dr. Cameron is a real stretch. There was absolutely no collaboration between the two. In fact it is well known that Dr.Hebb had nothing but contempt for Dr. Cameron's work.
It is clear from the report of George Cooper to the Canadian Ministry of Justice that the purpose of the sensory deprivation experiments was to try to understand the methods the communist forces were using to "brain wash" UN solders during the Korean War. Hebb's experiments provided that understanding. Dr Hebb had nothing to do with subsequent decisions by others to incorporate some of the general conclusions of these experiments into interrogation techniques.
It is unfortunate that Dr. McCoy has so distorted the significance of the contributions of this distinguished scientist in order to dramatize his incorrect conclusions that Dr. Hebb was the father of "psychological torture". Dr. Hebb can no more be considered the father of psychological torture than the discoverers of the germ theory of disease can be considered the fathers of biological warfare.
The gross inaccuracies in this chapter of the book must raise questions regarding the bias and accuracy of the research incorporated into the remainder of the book.
Why do we allow such barbarism in our name?.......2007-02-14
Halfway thru this book, I found myself asking --- how is it possible that W., Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft are not, right now, serving life sentences in jail? There is something HORRIBLY wrong, bordering on psychotic, with an America where such sick, evil, barbaric acts - from people WE voted into office - people who claim to be deeply religious - can go unpunished.
Human beings were beaten over the course of several days, hooded, until dead while in US custody. This went on for years. The only crime of one of those murdered in our custody was that he went to the Americans to find out the status of his son who we also had in custody.
Dr. King, you sacrificed so much for us. But, we have so quickly gone back to our old ways. Instead of lynching negroes in the south, we now murder muslims in the east - but only after torturing them for days, weeks, sometimes even years.
We hide behind our leaders, who order such horrible acts of beastiality, and we pretend we do now know. Just protect us - we tell them. Protect us -- but don't let us know how you do it. Just do it.
We are no better than the monsters who took down the twin towers.
The abuses described in this book are too well detailed and footnoted to pretend the author is lying or confused. He did his research well and provides ample references for anyone wishing to fact check him.
Why do we allow this? Why do you allow it? Why do I allow it?
We are a lost nation. An empire already beaten by its own excesses.
Emergence of the Totalitarian State within our Republic.......2006-12-30
Alfred McCoy's A QUESTION OF TORTURE documents in chilling and sickening detail the history of CIA policy regrarding torture, from the Phoenix program in Vietnam to the War on Terror. He demonstrates that the Agency, which has long constituted a state within a state, has been extensively involved in the use of torture to undermine democratic governments and prop up totalitarian ones all over the world. To be sure, the CIA has used torture with "finesse". It has eschewed crude techniques in favor of ones which use the insights of psychology to design tortures which exploit ethnic and personal phobias to "break" subjects. Physical pain of the sort which leaves no scars but the emotional (after all, the last thing the CIA wants is to have one of its victims appear, obviously maimed, in a news bulletin) is combined with humiliation, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, and manipulation of daily routines in order to cause the dissolution of personality and regression to an infantile dependency upon the torturer. As McCoy says, these techniques have "metastasized like an undetected cancer inside the U.S. intelligence community over the past century." And never more so than since 9/11. As McCoy points out, in the multiple investigations and congressional inquiries sparked by the revelations coming out of Abu Ghraib and other prisons, the CIA has always been exempted, as it is from the provisions of the McCain Anti-Torture Amendment to the 2006 Defense Appropriations Act, making that Amendment meaningless.
The edition of McCoy's book which I purchased from Amazon pre-dates the passage of the Military Commissions Act (MCA) signed into law by President Bush on October 17 of this year. Thus McCoy was unable to comment upon the most horrible development of all: AMERICAN CITIZENS CAN NOW BE DETAINED, CLASSIFIED AS UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANTS AT THE WHIM OF THE ADMINISTRATION, AND TORTURED WITHOUT ANY RECOURSE TO THE COURTS, WHETHER TO OBTAIN A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS OR REDRESS FOR THEIR TREATMENT. This is nothing less than the emergence of the totalitarian state within a state which has been growing in this country since World War II. The enactment of the MCA only serves to underline the relevance of McCoy's revelations, as the democracy that is being undermined is now our own, and the totalitarian state that is emerging will affect every American in catastrophic ways.
There is only one problem with McCoy's analysis. Toward the end of it, he conducts a detailed inquiry in order to answer the question: is torture effective in obtaining information? Reaching the conclusion that it is not, he asks, why then do our leaders choose to use it? His answer is that it "salves their fears with the psychic balm of empowerment." (p. 207). This is naive. The American government does not need any psychic balm, as it is the most powerful government ever to exist on this earth. And there is no need to ask if torture is effective in obtaining information, for our government has no need of information, since it is itself "running the show". In fact, torture is very effective in obtaining the thing that it really wants: CONFESSIONS, which will convince the American public that there is an enemy out there so dangerous that the struggle against him justifies the surrender of their most fundamental liberties. It was just such a confession which got us into Iraq, when Shiekh Mohammed Ibn Al-Libi "admitted" under torture that Iraq was supplying terrorists with weapons of mass destruction, an "admission" which later turned out to be false.
When one considers the fact that, according to the best informed sources, some 90% of the people detained in the War on Terror are absolutely innocent, torture becomes not only effective but necessary, for how else can one build a picture of looming threat from a bunch of poor souls picked up by mistake or handed over to the U.S. for bounties? The ultimate message is that the worst terrorists in the world operate out of Washington, D.C., and that we have far more to fear from them than from small-time operators and novices like Al Quaeda.
Fair Expose and Openning for Dialog.......2006-12-18
I am reminded of Dr. King's "how long" speach in which he reminded those who would listen that they would not have to suffer long, "for no lie can live forever." Exposing the lie is the first step to openning the difficult topic to the light of public discussion. America is a great country as some reviewers have pointed out. It is not, however, perfect. And the use of torture as it has been exposed by the book and others is a sad mark on a great country's record. We should have learned something from the civil rights struggles we have fought but instead we seem to have all too quickly forgotten the importance of protecting the least of these. "How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
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In Nineteen fifty-five a Shadow Government was established by Executive Orders, and operated covertly with success for twenty years during the very warm Cold War. Then under pressure from Congress in Nineteen Seventy-five, new Executive Orders were issued to make the Shadow Government, with its Black Chamber operations, vanish. This secret operation remained nonexistent history until exposed in Two thousand and three. This is a story about sixteen naïve young people. Upon graduating from high school on one Memorial Day, they enlisted and became highly trained and qualified Master Assassins by the following Memorial Day. They were recruited to be deadly tools of the trade for a “One Nation under God” Shadow Government. The young people were displacement specialists for dispatching humanities hemorrhoids from the “nasty now and now” into the “sweet bye and bye.” They helped balance out the political “World Order” of things, and the valuable economic benefits of the U. S. of A. around the world.
Customer Reviews:
Real food for thought.......2007-06-05
Beyond the first few chapters this was an exciting and spellbinding book that I couldn't put down. There are lots of intriquing twists & turns about events that happened in my lifetime...very interesting....is this fact or fiction or some of both?
Shadows Skulls Spooks -- two books.......2007-05-23
Shadows, Skulls, and Spooks is a two-book fascinating tale of 16 talented young men recruited into a secret Shadow Government operation -- the Pooka Brigade -- trained to be efficient killers and then assigned to kill to protect our Country's regional, political, and economic interests. Half of the first Brigade survived and the best of them went on to assemble another Pooka Brigade (covered in Book II).
Established and, 20 years later, terminated by Executive Orders, their Black Chamber units functioned in extreme secrecy. You will feel the tension and intrigue as they carry out their unbelievable assignments.
Sigurd D. Medhus
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The Professional Garde Manger
Garde mangerâthe art of preparing, presenting, and decorating cold food for buffets and banquetsâis one of the most demanding, artistic, and exciting specialties in the culinary arena. Luscious cold soups, amazing hors d'oeuvres, sumptuous salads, tantalizing timbales, and savory pastries are only a few of the garde manger's creations, which also include dazzling centerpieces, interesting table arrangements, and a host of other details that turn an ordinary meal into an extraordinary event.
Drawing on more than two decades of experience, David Paul Larousse has put together a fascinating and practical guide to this imaginative culinary craft. His collection of 600 spectacular recipes spans the globe, gleaning the tastiest and most visually tempting treats from all over the world. Larousse provides historical background to many of his garde manger selections, which range from classic delicacies found only on exclusive buffets, to the latest cuisine moderne innovations.
Creative artistry is essential to great garde manger work, with food and table ornamentation as important as the food itself. The chapter on centerpieces provides detailed instructions for creating exquisite ice sculptures, captivating still-life arrangements, alluring tallow and salt dough pièce montées, and many more decorative masterpieces. Thirty-two full-page color photographs set the standard for elegance in finished presentation.
Innovative and experienced garde manger chefs are in growing demand as buffets and banquets become increasingly popular. The garde manger deparment, which also reapplies food items prepared for other dishes, reduces waste while maintaining a level of culinary excellence.
The Professional Garde Manger is a uniquely comprehensive book that explores this fascinating, inventive, and important aspect of the culinary world. It provides cooking professionals with the background needed to build their repertoire, develop their style, and keep this exciting culinary craft alive and well.
A comprehensive collection of techniques and recipes for one of the most creative culinary craftsâbuffet preparation and cold food presentation
Preparing, constructing, and presenting elegant buffets and banquet tables require an expansive recipe repertoire, a flair for culinary artistry, and a large dollop of creativity. In this comprehensive guide to the world of the garde manger chef, David Paul Larousse shares his experience in producing dazzling and palate-pleasing arrays of food. Among the delectable collection of 600 recipes is a wealth of classical garde manger dishes as well as the latest in cuisine moderne, from Pâté de Foie Gras en Brioche and Consommé Madrilène to California Apples and Chilled Cream of Lettuce Soup. International recipes bring a wide variety of tastes into the mixing bowl, creating innumerable possibilities for sumptuous spreads.
Food and table decoration is as much a part of garde manger work as are the recipes. Larousse provides numerous ideas for perfect canapés, breathtaking salads, magnificent ice sculptures, exquisite still-life arrangements, stunning tallow and salt dough pièce montées, and much more. Full-page color photographs showcase ways of combining foods to delight and surprise even the most jaded guests.
This unique collection and guide, a must-have addition to any culinary library, will expand the repertoires of even seasoned chefs and spark the imaginations of professional cooks, caterers, and culinary students.
Customer Reviews:
where does he get this stuff?.......2005-01-17
the information imparted in the text is questionable, and the directives are sloppy. it is neither a guide for housewives nor resource for professionals. a disappointment.
very informative book for an advanced cook.......1999-08-29
we found this book to be very instructive towards developing a buffet for a large amount of people. It is a book geared towards professional chefs. a majority of the recipes are the basics required to create a standard buffet. the more advanced chef will use these as a guide for more inventive dishes.
At least its a start.......1997-09-06
Finally a book that tries to educate American cooks about the fabulous art of french garde manger cooking. Alas, it is best used by those who have advanced cooking skills as it presents ideas, more than formal instruction. Many of these dishes are difficult, and there are no directions, illustrations or tips on how to give these dishes the finished look they deserve
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