Really what the book needed was an editor who would farm out some fact-checking. Too bad there is so little of this done nowadays. Still, all of these problems with the book are by now 'third-hand' on this list, so I'll refrain from commenting any further on the book til I've read it. Maybe by the time I get my copy, they'll have corrected some of the amounts for military spending. And if anyone asks about US military spending, instead of Moore's book, I'll recommend the largely unsatirical World Almanac, with the usual grain of salt (that the real figures are so sensitive to national security you don't really have the right to know them).
Charles Jannuzi