For the serious historians:
The Pol Pot Journals
were written by a ghost writer during this former leader's final year.This is great for a historian interested in Indochina in the 1970sIn this novel, in the 1970s the turbulence of the Vietnam War and protests by students and youth who where un-willing to fight for a cause that seemed unwinable and useless. When President Richard Nixon spread the Vietnam War to Kampuchea, (called Cambodia today) he not only caused outrage and protest at home, including the Kent State Ohio massacres, but he also threw Kampuchea into a state of civil war. His inept handling of the situation brought about one of the strangest social experiment of the 20th Century. Pol Pot ruled through a committee known for the first year only as the Ankar (organization). His name was not even spoken to the Kampuchean people for two years. His Communist Party of Kampuchea had amassed a powerful movement of disenfranchised peasants, who were loyal to him and his regime. The Residence of Phnom Penh, the city's capital, were not so lucky. They were treated with suspicion. And punishment for those deemed "un-redeemable" was harsh.
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Can You Pass the Acid Test?Sex sells and the subject is brought up several times. But this book is more of a documented history of the US drug and porn culture. This is more of a resource book and will come in handy for those who want to argue about America's drug laws. It is heavily researched and has some amazing information in it. It is political and I think many readers will want to get a copy. For one thing it exposes the racism of drug laws. It also shows how the narcotics population has remained nearly unchanged since the early 1900s. Some great arguments against our "war on drugs" can be found in this book.This book should be in most stores and available on such outlets as Barns and Noble.
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