Byline: Tokyo
On my vacation I get to read some of the long serious books that I have put off reading. I finished the second long book, this one more impressive and more important that the last one I recommended. Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw is the history of the fall and rise of market driven commerce in the 20th Century.
If you consider yourself a lefty, an American style liberal, one of the reasons is that you may have missed key turning points of the historical era that we all lived through. It would be hard for me to hold on to the tenents of leftyism after reading this book. I just couldn't. It helps me, a demonstrator for Daniel Ortega and the Sandanistas, to see that I was holding on to sentimental values that have long been buried by history.
My more extensive review and critique is in my blog on this book under the section for my book Commerce.