Noam Chomsky manages to write things whould have gotten Dan Rather shot in such a coherent manner that it's hard to find logical fallacies. And in fact, logical fallacies are exactly what he hounds out in this book. He readly admits at least a half-dozen times that some of his statement-of-fact premises are mosrtly found only in hefty think tank reports, government dossiers or "marginalized dissident literature." Yet the path from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the impendong militarzation of space by the U.S. is an engrossing read. Like any good roller coaster, I kept wondering if I would fall off, finding a weak link in the chain of argument that forced me to retreat and reevaluate. Like any roller coaster, I manged to stay inside the car at all times. The looking glass may be tough for an American reader to face, but as my dad would say "it builds charater" Noam certaintly has that.