Reviews for Active Investing Wealth Management for High Net Worth Individuals

The average rating for Active Investing Wealth Management for High Net Worth Individuals based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-23 00:00:00 David Umbenhower The perfect book to take on a long train ride. Bobbitt's strength is in his ability to paint the Big Picture, specifically the evolution of the state, and how we're now passing into the era of the market state. He supports his thesis with a staggering mass of detail which I found somewhat problematical the farther back he went (Castlereagh the great visionary? Really? What about Kosciusko? Or for that matter, Talleyrand and Metternich, and how a great deal of the face of modern Europe was envisioned by the first before Napoleon crowned himself Emperor, and the latter ten years later at Vienna?) The problem with Big Picture thinking is that the conclusions can seem too neat, and history has a way of demonstrating how very messy it is. Given that, the last half of the book is terrific, as he examines the alteration of paradigm over the twentieth century conflicts--the first half of which he calls the Long War. It ends with a coda supplied after the events of 9/11, striking a warning note.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-09 00:00:00 Mary Gore Pulled out 'The Shield' recently and re-read some sections - Bobbitt is an interesting character, a constitutional lawyer and historian. I heard him speak at the Stanford Law and Ethics Forum a few weeks ago on 'Terror and Consent' which is also the title of his new book. The 'Shield' is of door-stop dimensions, but it had (for me) great value. He traces the dynamic, evolutionary relationship between the internal, constitutional order of states and the external challenges of strategy and war, beginning in the 15th century He argues that the effectiveness of internal mechanisms of order is proven (or not) in the Darwinian arena of foreign affairs. For example the so called 'long war'- all the conflicts between 1914 and the Peace of Paris in 1990 were (in his terms) an epochal war between the constitutional orders of fascism,communism and democracy. We are now, according to Bobbitt, in the beginning phases of a new epochal war, the war on terror, the first in which it will not require a state to destroy a state and which will force constitutional changes to survive the challenge. Gotta love a big picture guy. But he could use a brevity focused editor. Recommended- but be prepared to skim!