books by Steve Coll (technology touchstone september)

books by Steve Coll

books:

The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of At&T (Touchstone Books)

4 reviews
Steve Coll

Simon & Schuster, 1988

If you want to learn about telecom, this is the source.
As an MBA student interested in telecom, I found this book to be among the best sources of information about telecom regulation. It provides rich detail but is also very readable and only gets technical when necessary.

The Bin Ladens
Steve Coll

Penguin, 2008

Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Account of the Sec's Battle With Wall Street

1 review
David A. Vise, Steve Coll

Collier Books, 1992

Amazingly funny anecdotes of Dr. Gregg Jarrell's life
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

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September ...

136 reviews
Steve Coll

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004

Coll collects the pieces of the puzzle that helped create the picture of terrorism from 9/11
The subtitle of this book says it all. If you take nothing else away from this review recognize that. Anything I have to say after that is pretty meaningless by comparison. The Third World War goes on today. It's not a war in the traditional sense like WWI or II. During World War I and World War II our enemies were unable to cross the Atlantic or Pacific and strike mainland America. Like the ...

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

17 reviews
Steve Coll

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

What a journey!
Yes, this is a long book; worth every minute. The depth of research is mind-boggling, but it is written with a clear, quickly-moving presentation. It is long on detail, extensive and interesting, short on editorializing: Coll leaves that up to the reader. Given the opacity of the Saud and bin Laden families' entrepreneurship, one is certainly left wondering! My favourite line actually appears ...

On the Grand Trunk Road:: A Journey into South Asia

2 reviews
Steve Coll

Crown, 1993

A Grand Book
Steve Coll's "On the Grand Trunk Road" carries personal resonance with me. I'm a Sikh and a large portion of Coll's book deals with the Sikh-India conflict from 1984-1996. Coll renders a damning portrait of India's "super cop" K.P.S. Gill, himself a Sikh. Gill succeeded in breaking the Sikh independence movement by instituting a bounty system whereby Indian police and security forces ...