Customer Review: This is an outstanding book detailing the US involvement with Afghanistan. Read in combination with Ahmed Rahsid's "Descent into Chaos" (See review) , it forms a powerful duo. The main strengths of Coll's book is its thoroughness from the American point of view. He has researched well the... more info
Customer Review: Around 5 years after 9/11, I started to become interested in the factors that led to that infamous day, easily the defining world event of my life and a turning point in the escalating clash between Eastern and Western Civilization. In the first few years after the attack, researchers focused on two... more info
Customer Review: Steve Coll's book "On the Grand Trunk Road" reads like a Robert Ludlum novel interlaced with intrigue, deception and brute force. His investigative reporting and personal interviews with military generals, politicians and clerics, amid the violence, corruption and backstabbing were vividly... more info
Customer Review: This book provides an insightful look into one aspect of the life of the "Peter Pan of Chicago", Dr. Gregg Jarrell of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business. Quotes such as "Its easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission" should be a part of any financier's repertiore
Customer Review: This book reads like a John Grisham novel, except that all of it really happened. Coll is able to take the largest anti-trust litigation in history, against the largest corporation in the world, and make the subject not only interesting but edge-of-your-seat thrilling. I first read this 13... more info
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