This book warranted not only a review, but a chapter by chapter review, substantial analysis, ridicule, and countertheory. I bought my copy at Harvard Book Store. It sat on my bookshelf for a week as I finished reading Uberpower by Josef Joffe. Incidentally, Josef Joffe juxtaposes hard and soft power in a credible way, whereas Peter Gelderloos makes a mockery of hard power by posing as a hard power himself and arguing stridently for unbridled violence in the activist community.
Read the review here:
 http://www.contextflexed.com/revgelderloos.html
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"The review is assinine [sic] and misleading, and constantly misrepresents the arguments of the book. Hopefully anyone who comes across this review who has not seen the book can gather from the tone and the many leaps in logic that the review lacks merit and honesty. The author constantly makes false claims about what is written in the book."
Although I have a different printing of this book than the one flipside "reviewed", it is obvious that this "review" is nothing but a trolling rant against anarchists and anti-authoritarians.
The second paragraph of the "review" (which you see when you click the link) starts, "As you can see on the cover, he is a douche,..."