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Nov 3, 2009
Al Gore admits it won't be easy.
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Oct 29, 2009
A collection of astute articles penned as longtime New Yorker writer Her...
Oct 29, 2009
Old-school newspapering comes alive in this scintillating memoir. Anglo-...
Oct 29, 2009
One of the great editors of our era chronicles his life in news reportin...
Oct 29, 2009
Harold Evans edited the Sunday Times between 1967 and 1981, when it was ...
Oct 28, 2009
Two Googles emerge in this savvy profile of the Internet search octopus....
Oct 28, 2009
The New Yorker's "Annals of Communication" columnist Auletta (Media Man:...
Oct 28, 2009
If Google were a sitcom, it would open every week with co-founder Sergey...
Oct 28, 2009
You think the 2008 American presidential election was a doozy? Imagine i...
Oct 28, 2009
“If you could have covered any presidential campaign in American history...
Oct 27, 2009
The future of faith, Cox argues, is spiritual rather than credal or dogm...
Oct 27, 2009
What shape will the Christian faith take in the 21st century? In the mid...
Oct 2, 2009
The impressive sequel to America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, H...
Oct 1, 2009
When in 2003 famine pushed 14 million Ethiopians to the brink of starvat...
Oct 1, 2009
Every minute, 17 people die of hunger, 10 of them children. For years th...
Oct 1, 2009
David Owen, a staff writer for The New Yorker whose interests include gl...
Oct 1, 2009
The future of our planet may be uncertain, but one thing is clear: David...
Oct 1, 2009
The deservedly respected journalist David Owen spent a lot of time in re...
Sep 30, 2009
In today's age of plenty, more than 1bn people are still hungry, most of...
Sep 30, 2009
Philipp Meyer’s affecting first novel, American Rust, takes place in a s...
Sep 30, 2009
Philipp Meyer's debut novel, set in Buell, Pennsylvania, the heart of Am...
Sep 30, 2009
Philipp Meyer's powerful first novel, American Rust, scrapes beneath tod...
Sep 29, 2009
The Kennedy legacy has long rested on the shoulders of its two most glow...
Sep 29, 2009
Like The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Ted Kennedy's True Compass was ...
Sep 29, 2009
At the end of his deeply affecting memoir, the late Senator Edward M. Ke...
Aug 28, 2009
Jacobsen (Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming A...
Aug 28, 2009
It is no small achievement to take a quest for a rare, relatively unknow...
Aug 28, 2009
Bringing It to the Table is a treasure-house of Wendell Berry's work, an...
Aug 28, 2009
Malaise is a disease of the spirit, a crippling affliction often marked ...
Aug 28, 2009
Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech—one in which the word malaise does not, ...
Aug 28, 2009
Ronald Reagan wished us a good morning in America, while Papa Bush fores...
Aug 28, 2009
The story of Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre is hardly mired in ...
Aug 28, 2009
Much has been written about the famous literary couple de Beauvoir and S...
Aug 28, 2009
Publisher, memoirist, fiction writer and journalist Dave Eggers follows ...
Aug 28, 2009
For better or worse, Dave Eggers will always be known as the author of t...
Aug 28, 2009
Imagine Charles Dickens, his sentimentality in check but his journalisti...
Aug 27, 2009
While they were young students at the Sorbonne, Sartre proposed marriage...
Jul 29, 2009
With apologies to Nike, if the United States were a for-profit venture, ...
Jul 29, 2009
Every era has at least a few serious voices who openly question the new ...
Jul 29, 2009
A superior piece of political reportage and interpretation by Washington...
Jul 29, 2009
God has mellowed. The God that most Americans worship occasionally gets ...
Jul 28, 2009
The 21st century has not been kind to religion. It began with the mass m...
Jul 28, 2009
Count on Robert Wright to place whatever he examines under the microscop...
Jul 23, 2009
My mother still owns, and uses, the same vacuum cleaner she bought early...
Jul 23, 2009
It starts out innocently.
There's a party. You need an outfit. It's sum...
Jul 23, 2009
Ellen Ruppel Shell has been studying the price, the value and the cost o...
Jul 23, 2009
What do we know about China, the enormous nation that will most likely d...
Jul 23, 2009
It’s absolutely astonishing to realize how much junk people in North Ame...
Jul 23, 2009
British travel writer Bennett informs and endears in his quixotic quest ...
Jun 29, 2009
After 35 years in the House of Representatives, Waxman, the mustached co...
Jun 29, 2009
How does Congress work? With utmost difficulty, reveals longtime House m...
Jun 29, 2009
This richly detailed analysis of the recent (and ignominious) history of...
Jun 29, 2009
I wish I had known Alyssa Katz back in 2006, because she has been invest...
Jun 29, 2009
Neiwert (Strawberry Days), founder of the political blog Orcinus, links ...
Jun 29, 2009
David Neiwert's The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the Ameri...
Jun 29, 2009
Last week, a virulent anti-Semite allegedly walked into the U.S. Holocau...
Jun 28, 2009
In 1959, I was a 22-year-old night rewrite man at Dorothy Schiff's scruf...
Jun 28, 2009
Slate columnist Kaplan takes a contrarian view to the common wisdom that...
Jun 28, 2009
If a man could fall in love with a year, court it, tease out all its dar...
Jun 28, 2009
Books grounded in history sometimes offer an eerie resonance for contemp...
Jun 28, 2009
As a child, I was frightened of A.T.M.s. Specifically, I was frightened ...
Jun 28, 2009
Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance is supposed to be a history book about...
Jun 28, 2009
Elina Hirvonen is the first novelist of Finland's uber-cool, Nokia-in-th...
Jun 28, 2009
“Life. London. This moment in June. This moment in April . . . How sad i...
Jun 28, 2009
Certain events belong not just to the country in which they occur but to...
Jun 28, 2009
When the world's financial sector fell last year, politicians and pundit...
May 29, 2009
Alain de Botton is the Swiss-born heir to a massive fortune; his father,...
May 29, 2009
Alain de Botton is a British essayist, novelist and, if one uses the ter...
May 28, 2009
From How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997) and The Consolations of Phil...
May 28, 2009
De Botton is the author of eight previous books, mostly philosophical es...
May 28, 2009
This exploration of how and why we labor arrives at a poignant time, as ...
May 28, 2009
Novelist/essayist de Botton (The Architecture of Happiness, 2006, etc.) ...
May 28, 2009
The acclaimed Uruguayan writer Galeano offers another striking but hard ...
May 28, 2009
Does history repeat itself, or would it be better described as a tape lo...
May 28, 2009
In his poetic nonfiction, Galeano performs the sort of extraordinary fea...
May 28, 2009
There are very few cases of writers who maintain total indifference towa...
May 28, 2009
An octogenarian feminist channels her youth in this deft mystery.
Thi...
May 28, 2009
The arrival of an envelope, mailed anonymously, forces Professor Anka Pa...
May 28, 2009
Back in HASTAC's distant past, when I was its most prolific blogger, I r...
May 28, 2009
Joseph Priestley was an awkward, provocative man who so angered a royali...
May 27, 2009
The Age of Categories is dead. Strangely, it never went by that name, or...
May 27, 2009
Steven Johnson is that rarest of commodities among 21st century public i...
May 27, 2009
Have you ever wondered about Mother Nature’s counterpart, Father Nature?...
May 26, 2009
Ecologist Apfelbaum wanted to put into practice what he learned about re...
May 26, 2009
In 1981, a few years out of graduate school, Steven I. Apfelbaum went sh...
May 19, 2009
Award-winning journalist Boehlert (Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over fo...
May 19, 2009
Eric Boehlert has just released a truly superb, illuminating and enterta...
May 19, 2009
If you're interested in the political blogosphere and the netroots in ge...
Apr 30, 2009
The German sociologist Max Weber once wrote that centuries of industrial...
Apr 30, 2009
Since the industrial era, our connection with the environment has been o...
Apr 30, 2009
Gibson (Sociology/California State Univ., Long Beach; Warrior Dreams: Pa...
Apr 30, 2009
William H. Goetzmann believes America at its best embodies what he calls...
Apr 30, 2009
E pluribus unum. The phrase has long defined our nation's political sens...
Apr 30, 2009
During the past half-century, American scholars have tended to place mor...
Apr 30, 2009
Rinku Sen's new book The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenshi...
Apr 30, 2009
After Sept. 11, 2001, the immigration debate raging on in Washington too...
Apr 29, 2009
Keenly intelligent war memoir whose central question is, "What is a man?...
Apr 29, 2009
It is hardly surprising that after seven years of war, a number of super...
Apr 29, 2009
The Unforgiving Minute is former United States Army Capt. Craig M. Mulla...
Apr 29, 2009
Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead's latest—and most welcome—work returns us t...
Apr 29, 2009
Colson Whitehead's new novel, Sag Harbor, details the summer adventures ...
Apr 29, 2009
There are action-packed summer books—in which, say, a shark attacks on t...
Apr 29, 2009
Looking beyond the usual roster of right-wing Christians, anticommunist ...
Apr 29, 2009
Although many books have been written about American conservatism, most ...
Apr 29, 2009
It may not be hanging around the house blasting rock music or slamming d...
Apr 29, 2009
The Nation’s national affairs correspondent diagnoses America’s perilous...
Apr 29, 2009
For decades, William Greider acknowledges, he has played the role of Cas...
Apr 28, 2009
The American conservative movement has been, in part, a prolonged reacti...
Bill McKibben Apr 7, 2009
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progres...
Mar 21, 2009
The free market guru Milton Friedman understood what so many progressive...
Mar 21, 2009
When it comes to Washington's dealings with the so-called Muslim world, ...
Mar 21, 2009
Widow of the assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, Jehan Sadat (A...
Mar 21, 2009
I first heard Dave Korten speak at the Open Center in SoHo in New York C...
Mar 21, 2009
One of the most talked about but least successful undertakings by Wester...
Mar 20, 2009
Engaging the Muslim World exposes the fallacies of recent myths constitu...
Mar 20, 2009
The 2008 election proved that John McCain's two signature domestic polic...
Mar 20, 2009
"Earmarks" and "pork" have become rallying cries against the failures of...
Mar 20, 2009
Robert G. Kaiser's new book could not be timelier. President Obama wants...
Mar 20, 2009
Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist, author of How to Cook Everything...
Mar 20, 2009
Mark Bittman, food columnist for The New York Times, has joined the Gree...
Mar 20, 2009
Mark Bittman is the anti-foodies' foodie, one of the few culinary writer...
Mar 10, 2009
Reviewed by Katha PollittShowalter has done for America what she did for...
Feb 28, 2009
The Gist:
Much has been made in recent weeks of the shared birthday of ...
Feb 28, 2009
Small books don't necessarily have small ambitions. When I saw the unass...
Feb 28, 2009
It is an exploration more than a settlement. Adam Gopnik calls his thoug...
Feb 28, 2009
Reading thrillers for a living is a great job: I’d do it for nothing (do...
Feb 28, 2009
A Swedish industrialist named Henrik Vanger, on his 82nd birthday, recei...
Feb 27, 2009
Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman m...
Feb 27, 2009
The title of this, the "first literary history of American women writers...
Feb 27, 2009
Every few years, someone counts up the titles covered in the New York Ti...
Feb 27, 2009
Many of the writers and editors at The Nation, America's oldest weekly m...
Feb 27, 2009
What an exciting book: a history, modeled somewhat after the methodology...
Feb 27, 2009
No term in American political discourse elicits such uncomplicated rever...
Feb 27, 2009
In this panoramic view of two millennia of Christian history, Butler Bas...
Feb 27, 2009
John F. Kennedy's narrow victory over Richard M. Nixon in 1960 provoked ...
Feb 27, 2009
Rick Perlstein has added a provocative subtitle to his fascinating new b...
Feb 27, 2009
For the 43 million Americans who voted against Barry Goldwater in 1964, ...
Feb 20, 2009
To those who ask whether any country has ever taxed and spent its way to...
Feb 20, 2009
Jeff Madrick's The Case for Big Government arrives when one might imagin...
Feb 19, 2009
It is hard to think of anyone better placed to write the first comprehen...
Feb 18, 2009
[Alan Wolfe's] welcome and readable essay lays out what he thinks libera...
Feb 18, 2009
Reviewed by Anthony K. AppiahWolfe's strategy is to explore the history ...
Feb 9, 2009
Philadelphia Daily News senior writer Bunch (Jukebox America: Down Back ...
Feb 9, 2009
In an attempt to challenge the legend that has sprung up around Ronald
...
Feb 1, 2009
Khalidi (Resurrecting Empire) provides a compelling history of modern co...
Feb 1, 2009
Signer, senior policy adviser at the Center for American Progress,
deli...
Jan 31, 2009
Chatterjee (Iraq Inc.) delves into the nebulous world of the Houston-bas...
Jan 31, 2009
With one eye toward the Enlightenment and another toward contemporary po...
Jan 31, 2009
Reviewed by Bob MoserFor all the fountains of ink and miles of bandwidth...
Jan 30, 2009
Reviewed by Brian MacArthur
Almost 50 years ago the world awaited the...
Jan 30, 2009
Reviewed by Gary J. Bass
Last Sept. 2, Barack Obama went into the F....
Dec 31, 2008
How Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln came to an understanding
by ...
Dec 31, 2008
Cosmetics, computers, cell phones—these are the accoutrements of modern ...
Dec 31, 2008
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
by Tim McGee
It is...
Dec 31, 2008
"Exposed": The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life and What's at Stake for ...
Dec 31, 2008
Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Beautiful Struggle
by Justin Moyer
“Stately, p...
Dec 31, 2008
Beyong the nerd herd
by D. Scot Miller
Amid impoverished rural segre...
Dec 31, 2008
Review by Alonzo L. Hamby
"The only thing we have to fear is fear its...
Dec 30, 2008
It's hard to imagine these days, but during the first months of 1933, wh...
Dec 30, 2008
Review by Ted WidmerLately Franklin D. Roosevelt has seemed strangely vu...
Dec 30, 2008
Stauffer, a professor of American civilization at Harvard University, be...
Dec 30, 2008
There's a nifty red pamphlet available from Sasquatch Books (sasquatchbo...
Dec 30, 2008
In the weeks since the presidential election, Abraham Lincoln and Freder...
Dec 30, 2008
In his lyrical debut, former Time writer Coates tells the story of his W...
Dec 1, 2008
Weiland (deputy editor, Paris Review) and Wilsey, who coedited The Think...
Dec 1, 2008
Self-consciously modeled after state guides sponsored by the Federal Wri...
Dec 1, 2008
Without leaving home or spending a cent on gas, readers of this book can...
Dec 1, 2008
MacArthur genius Hemon in his third book (after Nowhere Man) intelligent...
Dec 1, 2008
Some writers turn despair into humor as a way of making the world bearab...
Nov 25, 2008
Kuttner is willing to give Obama a break. He's willing to say that
mayb...
Nov 25, 2008
Kuttner credits Obama with the vision and skill to transform Americans' ...
Nov 25, 2008
The stories of the transformational presidents are startling, both in th...
Nov 12, 2008
The Shadow Factory...describes what he sees as the agency’s failures in ...
Nov 12, 2008
…important and disturbing …By detailing the failures of the NSA and
CIA...
Oct 31, 2008
Since 1971, when the Nixon administration abandoned the dollar's link to...
Oct 31, 2008
Pearce, the senior environment writer for The New Scientist, explores th...
Oct 31, 2008
Tracing his trousers back to their source, Pearce discovers that they we...
Oct 31, 2008
Edelman (founder, Children's Defense Fund; The Measure of Our Success),
...
Oct 31, 2008
[Give Me Liberty] is prima facie evidence of how far we have strayed as ...
Oct 31, 2008
On August 21, 1939, the Kern County (CA) Board of Supervisors voted to b...
Oct 31, 2008
Steinbeck's now-classic populist epic did not please everyone in 1939. I...
Oct 31, 2008
During May of 1939, as the Nazis were burning books throughout Germany, ...
Oct 31, 2008
The German occupation of the Channel Islands, recalled in letters betwee...
Oct 31, 2008
Though it deals with a dark period in history, this first novel is an es...
Oct 31, 2008
Shaffer's debut novel, written with her niece Barrow, is an original acc...
Oct 28, 2008
A baker's dozen of titles that have altered the course of history. The 1...
Oct 28, 2008
Poet, novelist, critic, and biographer Parini (Benjamin's Crossing; Why ...
Oct 28, 2008
Poet, novelist and literary critic Parini (The Last Station) examines th...
Oct 14, 2008
An amiable, literate tour of America's byways, in the company of the poe...
Oct 14, 2008
It was almost a decade ago that Least Heat-Moon (Blue Highways) followed...
Oct 14, 2008
In important ways the book recalls David Halberstam's iconic The Best an...
Oct 14, 2008
Certainly, Woodward's conclusions about President Bush's certitude, into...
Oct 14, 2008
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba is at once a colorful family saga an...
Oct 14, 2008
There's a shelf of histories [on Cuba] to consult. But it's hard to imag...
Oct 14, 2008
A refreshing history of the folks who brought the world the Cuba libre, ...
Oct 14, 2008
The commonplace view of Cuba's prerevolutionary business establishment a...
Oct 14, 2008
A retired U.S. Army colonel makes the case for a more modest American po...
Oct 14, 2008
In this caustic critique of the growing American "penchant for empire" a...
Oct 14, 2008
This compact, meaty volume ought to be on the reading list of every cand...
Bill McKibben Oct 9, 2008
Van Jones is, beyond any doubt, one of the rising stars of the American ...
Oct 1, 2008
"Van Jones’s authentic and passionate arguments trump the status quo. In...
Oct 1, 2008
"Big Oil has turned our democracy into a farce," claims liberal activist...
Oct 1, 2008
First of all, of course "Learning to Drive" is self-indulgent. Memoir is...
Oct 1, 2008
Turning the pages of this book, though, I could only admire its energy, ...
Sep 29, 2008
"In graphic, devastating, and sometimes hilarious detail, Win McCormack ...
Sep 29, 2008
"Juhasz identifies and articulates an extraordinary problem, provides th...
Sep 22, 2008
Editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine, McCormack catalogues over 100 cas...
Sep 3, 2008
“Dexter Filkins is the preeminent war correspondent of my generation, fe...
Aug 31, 2008
My parents kind of get what I do. They have a sense of what blogs are an...
Aug 31, 2008
In this primer for activists in the digital age, Zúniga, founder of the ...
Aug 31, 2008
Cooper, a New York Times diplomatic correspondent, writes of her life as...
Aug 31, 2008
Journalist Cooper has a compelling story to tell: born into a wealthy, p...
Aug 31, 2008
“Hail Tom Tomorrow!”—Michael Moore “Nothing Remotely Funny.”—Ann Coulter...
Aug 31, 2008
Mike's Election Guide 2008, courtesy of Michael Moore, is a liberal, no-...
Aug 14, 2008
“This cogent book is a blueprint for a progressive conspiracy to help sa...
Aug 14, 2008
“A scrappy counter-counter-establishment, a civil society for America’s ...
Aug 8, 2008
...[a] startling debut collection…[Akpan] fuses a knowledge of African p...
Aug 8, 2008
Redemption is in short supply in these five stories by a Nigerian priest...
Aug 8, 2008
Nigerian-born Jesuit priest Akpan transports the reader into gritty scen...
Aug 6, 2008
Thurston Clarke has written about the Kennedys before (a good study of J...
Aug 6, 2008
A few days before the 1968 California Democratic primary, Washington Pos...
Aug 6, 2008
When Michael Pollan writes about food scientists, he makes them sound li...
Aug 6, 2008
Not all scientific study of Mars is about extraterrestrial exploration. ...
Aug 6, 2008
The motif of the Affluent Society was that the US was rich in private re...
Aug 6, 2008
The product of seven years' research, The Art of Political Murder develo...
Aug 5, 2008
As a novelist, Francisco Goldman has mined Guatemalan misery and magic, ...
Aug 5, 2008
Like all high-minded visions, the lofty ideals on which the US was found...
Aug 5, 2008
It's refreshing -- and almost quaint -- to see someone try to write a Gr...
Aug 5, 2008
In his excellent new book The Big Con, Jonathan Chait methodically track...
Aug 5, 2008
Chait, a senior editor at The New Republic who writes the magazine’s TRB...
Aug 5, 2008
“John Podesta was indispensable to the work we did during my administrat...
Aug 5, 2008
Listen carefully. Over the din of Fox News commentary, AM radio shock ta...
Aug 5, 2008
The secret source of humor, Mark Twain famously observed, is not joy,
b...
Aug 1, 2008
The Boys on the Bus (1973), by Timothy Crouse, didn't enjoy quite as muc...
Aug 1, 2008
“All the secrets . . . the definitive story.”—The Washington Post“Provok...
Jul 31, 2008
I don’t know whether Joseph O’Neill jumped out of his bath in Manhattan ...
Jul 31, 2008
There have been good novels about living in the post-9/11 world (Ian McE...
Jul 29, 2008
David Sirota, a 32-year-old progressive activist and journalist, spent a...
Jul 29, 2008
Sirota (Hostile Takeover) chronicles how ordinary citizens on the right ...
Jul 29, 2008
Seldom have an administration's failings been set to such a lulling cade...
Jul 28, 2008
How did you feel on 9/12?So stunned you couldn't figure out a next move?...
Jul 28, 2008
How much do you value your life? The lives of your kids? Your love...
Jul 28, 2008
The Omnivore’s Dilemma may have been the most disturbing and challenging...
Jul 28, 2008
Because we are all financially sophisticated here, we know that the time...
Jul 28, 2008
Just as Barbara Kingsolver and her family were leaving their beloved Ari...
Jul 28, 2008
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doub...
Jul 28, 2008
It is very hard to write well about ethics, and especially so in a way
...
Jul 28, 2008
All men live in the shadow of their fathers -- the more distant the
fat...
Jul 28, 2008
Elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was
...
Jul 28, 2008
Paul Roberts’s prophetic and well-received 2004 book, “The End of Oil: O...
Jul 18, 2008
Elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was
...
Jul 18, 2008
Obama reads his own words with the conviction and strength that listener...
Jul 18, 2008
What's most impressive about Obama, 45, is an intelligence that his new ...
Jul 18, 2008
In a very short time, Barack Obama has made himself into a figure of nat...
Jul 1, 2008
This global food system is wasteful at its core: "By one estimate, it ta...
Jul 1, 2008
Paul Roberts is the second author in the past couple of years to publish...
Jul 1, 2008
Now in his 80th
year, Ted Sorensen -- whom John F. Kennedy once referre...
Jul 1, 2008
Sorensen, much more
than a speechwriter, grew so close that some came t...
Jun 28, 2008
What Perlstein has managed to do in this excellent book is the same magi...
Jun 28, 2008
Lakoff (Don't Think of an Elephant) harnesses cognitive science to rally...
Jun 27, 2008
This surprisingly gripping travelogue is filled with tales from the "cof...
Jun 27, 2008
What should the president do if a "dirty" radioactive bomb were exploded...
Jun 27, 2008
Pohlen's unique and impelling guide serves as a minicourse in American P...
Jun 27, 2008
The perfect pick-me up and resource book for progressives: 778 pages of ...
Jun 27, 2008
During this heated campaign for the Democratic nomination, I fell in lov...
Jun 27, 2008
Things don’t look easy for Grace, especially when the other kids start
...
Jun 27, 2008
“No girl president? Ever?” Grace asks her teacher incredulously, while h...
Jun 27, 2008
Although No Child Left Behind rules are changing education, the changes ...
Jun 27, 2008
For Ms. Neiman, the road back to the philosophical high ground leads thr...
Jun 27, 2008
In clear and vigorous prose, Neiman defends the Enlightenment values of ...
Jun 27, 2008
If you're a philosopher, the easiest way to introduce yourself is not by...
Jun 25, 2008
Lakoff (Don't Think of an Elephant)
harnesses cognitive science to rall...
Jun 25, 2008
Blue Grit is a clarion call to progressive voters looking for a new
dir...
Jun 25, 2008
Starred Review. Who are the members of today's Democratic party,
and ho...
Jun 20, 2008
[A]n important and infuriating book. [...] It's important and infuriatin...
Jun 17, 2008
Tim Weiner’s engrossing, comprehensive Legacy of Ashes is a litany of fa...
Jun 17, 2008
[I]t's clear that Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA i...
Jun 17, 2008
Weiner's study is based on a prodigious amount of research into thousand...
Jun 15, 2008
Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse's u...
Jun 15, 2008
“Ending the conservative era requires organizing, yes, but also hard thi...
Jun 15, 2008
Jordan's beautiful debut (winner of the 2006 Bellwether Prize for litera...
Jun 15, 2008
"Challenging the prevailing wisdom that the goal of economies should be ...
Jun 15, 2008
It would be unwise to dismiss McKibben’s ideas as pipe dreams or Luddism...
Jun 15, 2008
"Of all the debates in the scientific arena… there is none in which the ...
Jun 14, 2008
It is easy to bemoan the lack of civility in public discourse today, but...
Jun 14, 2008
Here is a view of America's postrevolutionary era so subversive it makes...
Jun 14, 2008
In this highly disturbing and impassioned memoir, Afghan American law sc...
Jun 14, 2008
Based on what she learned as a translator at the notorious detention cen...
Jun 14, 2008
In his brief but brilliant book, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Mone...
Jun 14, 2008
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R. Morris deserves a spot on any...
Jun 14, 2008
The story has no single villain, but Alan Greenspan comes close. Under h...
Jun 12, 2008
Starred Review. In his Pulitzer Prize–winning bestseller Guns, Germs, an...
Jun 11, 2008
In learned and congenial prose (I understand now how a book called “The ...
Jun 11, 2008
With his usual eloquence, patience and humor, Wilson, our modern-day Tho...
Jun 11, 2008
As a former city-dweller and self-described "lesbian, Elvis-loving sheph...
Jun 11, 2008
Perlstein's narrative is much bleaker, however. Deploying the fine fly-o...
Jun 7, 2008
This book, by the authors of "Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly," is gre...
Jun 7, 2008
This book is remarkable on two levels. Its remarkable because of the per...
Jun 7, 2008
“If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor...
Jun 7, 2008
Finan (Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior), president of the American Bo...
Jun 7, 2008
In October 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act, empowering the federal...
Jun 7, 2008
Of all the unlikely things people achieve today, from mapping the human ...
Jun 7, 2008
In the good times of 1998, with the clock on welfare benefits running ou...
Jun 7, 2008
Nemesis, as Chalmers Johnson reminds us, is the Greek goddess "of divine...
Jun 7, 2008
Is there anything historically unprecedented about the Bush Administrati...
Jun 7, 2008
Telling the political story of the creeping unitary executive has been a...
Jun 7, 2008
Conason's book, as a coherent narrative addressing the rise of authorita...
Jun 7, 2008
Cass R. Sunstein's new Radicals in Robes opens with a series of spooky g...
Jun 6, 2008
Our essential reliance on civil discourse—and the big trouble that await...
Jun 6, 2008
The corporate media for years now has allowed a whole team of right
win...
Jun 6, 2008
"Outright Barbarous" makes a great read, more accessible but no less ins...
Jun 5, 2008
A truth-telling, Bush-bashing accidental liberal hero. ... (Read the fu...
Jun 5, 2008
In just two years, MSNBC host Olbermann (The Worst Person in the World)
...
Jun 5, 2008
Several recent books—e.g., Arnold Relman's A Second Opinion and Laurenc...
Jun 5, 2008
The American health-care system is in crisis, and workable solutions hav...
Jun 5, 2008
For the Books That Changed the World series of brief "biographies" of mo...
Jun 5, 2008
Of all the “Books That Changed the World”—the recently launched series ...
Jun 5, 2008
In Giving, readers and voters in effect get a preview of what a Bill Cl...
Jun 5, 2008
In
this ambitious book about technology's impact on politics, the auth...
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Garrett M. Graff — the founding
editor of the blog FishbowlDC.com and...
Jun 5, 2008
Garrett M. Graff — the founding
editor of the blog FishbowlDC.com and ...
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This is a must read for every CEO of
every company, big or small, who...
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Having already risen from poverty to become an ordained minister,
a te...
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In this
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[Du
Bois] stressed the idea of service by the "tenth" to the black und...
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... As this collection proves, his intelligent insights, brilliant inves...
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Jun 4, 2008
Rick Perlstein’s sprawling, rollicking book arrives hard on the heels of...
Jun 4, 2008
Perlstein, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Before the Storm...
Jun 4, 2008
...Perlstein’s passion is seeing and understanding this development clea...
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...Nixonland reads marvelously. Perlstein has the rare gift of being abl...
Jun 4, 2008
...Nixonland reads marvelously. Perlstein has the rare gift of being abl...
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Jun 4, 2008
The nature of our progressive “youth movement” is that it’s really not m...
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Lisagor and Hansen are well-traveled freelance journalists who write eng...
Jun 3, 2008
The entries are not all somber; destinations are introduced with descrip...
Jun 3, 2008
The expression "tourist hot spot" takes on new meaning in this fact-pack...
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Galbraith...has for more than 50 years stood high at the intersection of...
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The book is a collection of crucial chapters from [Galbraith's] best wor...
Jun 3, 2008
The Essential Galbraith offers 21 essays and excerpts, all but two of wh...
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There is no shortage of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but Sm...
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Smith's FDR is a model presidential biography. Roosevelt's previous biog...
Jun 3, 2008
"Water. It's the essence of life, the main component of our bodies and o...
Jun 3, 2008
Like her previous book, "Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash," th...
Jun 3, 2008
Appearing on Fox News this past Sunday, Sen. John McCain attempted...
Jun 3, 2008
While he's not the
first to dress up autobiography for a younger audien...
Jun 3, 2008
Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Reservation in tiny Wellpinit, Was...
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This unforgettable novel weaves four lives together with that of the bes...
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Although The Cellist of Sarajevo deals with large themes -- war and the ...
Jun 3, 2008
Although many people know Martin Luther King Jr. died in Memphis, few kn...
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Finan (Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior), president of the American Bo...
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Dean delivers the presumably final book in his “impromptu trilogy” on th...
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...[T]he words published in I. F. Stone's Weekly, a unique newsletter ab...
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Stone is unfailingly sure-footed in editor Karl Weber's collection “The ...
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In 37 essays, travel journalists Lisagor and Hansen vividly document pla...
Jun 3, 2008
Bill McKibben's subject is the end of nature itself, which he claims hum...
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Mr. McKibben makes an eloquent contribution to our understanding of an e...
Jun 3, 2008
His Minnesota boyhood and the putative values of his state allow novelis...
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Companies don't have to prove that their products are safe. We have to p...
Jun 3, 2008
Freelance investigative journalist Tim Shorrock has successfully tackled...
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Shorrock gives us as clear a picture of the business ties of the Intelli...
Jun 3, 2008
Jim Webb, the junior senator from Virginia, who defeated the incumbent R...
Jun 3, 2008
In his new
book, Virginia Sen. James Webb quotes T.S Eliot and Rudyard ...
Jun 3, 2008
Jim Webb is
a complex man. The book is also complex, operating
...
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Ever since Tocqueville, historians have tried to explain the growth of A...
Jun 3, 2008
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Greenhouse has covered the labor beat for the New York Times for more th...
Jun 3, 2008
The environment confronting American workers has grown nastier in the la...
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Somewhere between the
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Jun 1, 2008
...Yet Louv remains optimistic that the trend toward the "de-naturing of...
Jun 1, 2008
Louv gently chides environmental organizations for neglecting this crisi...
Jun 1, 2008
Los Angeles-based animal-rights activist Dawn's opinion pieces have been...
Jun 1, 2008
Animal rights activist Dawn is familiar to readers of her memorable opin...
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"Starr, a distinguished political sociologist, offers an eloquent restat...
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Starr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist, a co-founder of The Ameri...
May 31, 2008
The disaster in Iraq gives further credence to John Mueller's argument i...
May 31, 2008
In this important book, John Mueller dares to raise this issue with rega...
May 31, 2008
Soros says it well. "But underlying the political debate there must be s...
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For many years his global network of foundations has helped people in ma...
May 31, 2008
In this incisive and timely essay compilation, Blumenthal, a former advi...
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"A successful work of popular history...an enjoyable, timely narrative."...
May 30, 2008
Mr. Raymond, whose great-grandfather founded the Underwood Typewriter Co...
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Like a master archaeologist who can see through the shards and stones of...
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Of the growing library of books on what has gone wrong since Georg...
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Daniel Schorr is a genuine journalistic icon, who made his bones with CB...
May 30, 2008
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May 22, 2008
A black man stands on a street corner in Manhattan and waves for a taxi,...
May 14, 2008
Blog impresario Arianna Huffington says the Republican Party has been ta...
May 14, 2008
There's a Jeremiah among us and his name is Bill Moyers.
He is a produc...
May 13, 2008
... The record is clear: Sean Wilentz is no Peggy Noonan. But now,
summ...
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... Carr says, after years of study, that "the phenomenon of terrorism i...
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... Carr provides a guided tour of the past century of terrorism, starti...
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... "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," builds upon the achievement of
"Ka...
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... Chabon is a spectacular writer. He does a witty turn reinventing
Yi...
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... Reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union is like watching a gifted
ath...
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... Terkel has spent most of his life...investigating the
lives of the ...
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The tragic conflagration at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in March
19...
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... [von Drehle] at his elegiac best in describing what these young wome...
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...
Kaye reminds us...that there is much to draw us to Paine again in
...
May 4, 2008
Kaye's core argument, however, goes far beyond the claim that Paine was
...
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... Can this dysfunctional system be fixed? Kuttner openly worries that
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May 4, 2008
... "This volume is unapologetically and proudly progressive. Still, it
...
May 4, 2008
....In “The Squandering of America,” Robert Kuttner says financial elite...
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Once again, we are graced with a delightfully reflective volume by renow...
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As minister of Harvard University’s Memorial Church, Gomes was a
popula...
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... Brook's got guts. Because frankly, his topic - the fate of the best
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... Brook's analysis is strongest -- and most shocking -- when he compar...
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... According to a convincing analysis by journalist Daniel Brook, the "...
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... Unforgivable Blackness is a significant achievement. Geoffrey
Ward ...
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Johnson (1878-1946), boxing's first black heavyweight champion, was a
l...
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For 25 years, beginning in the mid-1970s, an extraordinary wave of
demo...
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... The Spirit of Democracy asks whether democracy is something that
ca...
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There are very few books that really help us understand the present.
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There are no accidents in the world as seen by Naomi Klein. The
destruc...
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... Over the course of 500 pages, Klein documents the moments of chaos a...
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Despite the dark nature of Holton's analysis of the antidemocratic
orig...
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... In Holton's view, traditional interpretations of the origins of the ...
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Woody Holton is not out to trash the Constitution. Its success, he
says...
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The policy positions advocated by the Democratic Party (in this
book a ...
May 2, 2008
Attack Poodles is irresistible political entertainment from and
for the...
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It takes a special breed of Democrat to survive in Texas, one that’s
sa...
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... Mr. Dionne urges Democrats to give at least two cheers
for capitali...
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n the last few years we've seen the birth of a new book genre: the
Reli...
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May 2, 2008
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May 2, 2008
It's conventional wisdom that American racism is an inexhaustible well t...
May 2, 2008
... In The Race Card Richard Thompson Ford, a professor at Stanford Law
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May 2, 2008
The ''Gay Metropolis'' of Charles Kaiser's title is less a place than a
...
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Few changes in American mores over the past 50
years have been as drama...
Gary Kamiya May 2, 2008
Comparing the present historical epoch to a past one is an excellent int...
May 2, 2008
The only sure thing that can be said about the past is that
anyone wh...
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SusanG, Daily Kos ...The world of politics, with its dueling delusi...
Apr 30, 2008
It is our misfortune that Anthony Lewis stopped writing his column for T...
Apr 30, 2008
... Lewis is the author of three previous books on law and politics,
in...
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... In the 21st century, the heroic First Amendment tradition may seem l...
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...The authors document the details with a delightful droll voice. More ...
Apr 29, 2008
... Castaneda...argues persuasively that the "pull" factor luring
illeg...
Apr 29, 2008
Mexican President Vicente Fox's first foreign minister, the brilliant
P...
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Apr 29, 2008
... "The vision of mind," writes Westen, "that has captured the imaginat...
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Westen's central insight is both obvious and simple: Democrats, he
writ...
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... Throughout The Political Brain, Westen offers alternative narratives...
Apr 29, 2008
... The real value of Mooney's book rests with his behind-the-scenes
ex...
Apr 29, 2008
... Mooney’s book delivers a damning indictment precisely because it sho...
Apr 29, 2008
... "The Republican War on Science" is nothing short of a landmark in
c...
Apr 29, 2008
If your image of an environmentalist is an organic fiber-wearing vegan w...
Apr 29, 2008
... There are many shades of green, and this variegation is on balance a...
Apr 29, 2008
... This is an absolutely delightful book for anyone interested i...
Apr 29, 2008
... Cathcart and Klein are a charming duo. They're razor-s...
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... The everyday life on the farm is intermingled with Barbara's
intens...
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There are many ways for a writer to tell you to eat your vegetables:
ea...
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The f-word crops up in the most respectable quarters these days. Yet if
...
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According to this classic of revisionist American history, narratives
o...
Apr 29, 2008
Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the
lead...
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In this inspiring book, Zeiler challenges teens to make
a difference by...
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For those more interested in giving than receiving, A Kid's Guide to
Gi...
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Hip. With-it. Relevant. If you believe prominent labor leader Andy Stern...
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... You were raised a Baptist, but you now prefer to call yourself an ev...
Apr 27, 2008
... “The Party Faithful,” by the respected political journalist and
pro...
Apr 27, 2008
... Raised in the richly emotional world of a Baptist church in
Michiga...
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... Chasing the Flame is an impressively researched book. Power's notes ...
Apr 27, 2008
The strength of the book lies in Power's use of Vieira de Mello's life (...
Apr 27, 2008
“Chasing the Flame” argues, as Vieira de Mello himself once did, that th...
Apr 27, 2008
Globalization is often criticized because of the
economic disruptions ...
Apr 27, 2008
... In "Monkey Girl," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes ...
Apr 27, 2008
"The scientific community sees the creationist critics of evolution as y...
Apr 27, 2008
On its face, the final night of business for a threadbare chain restaura...
Apr 27, 2008
An engineer in his prewriting life, O'Nan is often praised for his
wel...
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Stewart O’Nan’s turf is the large swath of the
country that l...
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The best moments in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film
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The Looming Tower" is a book of
synthesis, of re-emphasis, of explaini...
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Though the broad outlines of his story have been recounted many, many ti...
Emily Bazelon Apr 27, 2008
...Breyer would like his approach to change the
direction the c...
Apr 27, 2008
...Active Liberty...explains Justice Breyer's approach and applie...
Apr 25, 2008
<p>In July 1942 a writer named Irène Némirovsky, a
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... In the fictional world of Suite Française, everything is in flux. So...
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... Némirovsky lost her life in what she foresaw
as "Captivity." The im...
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Founding Faith takes up two central questions about religion
in early...
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to us, 2...
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The Looming Tower is not just a detailed,
heart-stopping account of the...
Apr 25, 2008
Twenty years ago this week, when Norman Mailer published
"Th...
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Apr 25, 2008
The fair-minded, balanced and dispassionate ton...
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... Sachs stands in the great tradition of campaigning intellectuals and...
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Apr 24, 2008
In Imperial Life in the Emerald City [Chandrasekaran] draws a vividly de...
Apr 24, 2008
Regardless of how the war ends, Iraq is not Vietnam. This is true not ju...
Apr 24, 2008
Reich notes that consumers and investors have profited handsomely from t...
Apr 24, 2008
Reich has a nice eye for the instructive example. The wealth gap in the ...
Apr 24, 2008
“Supercapitalism” may have more impact than Reich’s earlier, more conven...
Apr 23, 2008
Ever since the Puritans landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have felt...
Apr 23, 2008
This call to arms for Democratic investors from the ...
Apr 21, 2008
Keith Olbermann won BuzzFlash's reader-nominated "Wings of Justic...
Apr 21, 2008
In his new book, Creating a World without Poverty Yunus outlines ...
Apr 21, 2008
[Robert B. Reich]: There is considerable irony in Tony Judt's use of my ...
Apr 21, 2008
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Apr 21, 2008
Unforgivable Blackness, Geoffrey C. Ward's companion volume to a ...
Apr 21, 2008
“The Nine” is engaging, erudite, candid and accessible, often har...
Apr 21, 2008
Jeffrey Toobin's new book, The Nine, is ostensibly about the secr...
Apr 21, 2008
... the touchstones of the years 1992 to 2005 on the Supreme Cour...
Apr 21, 2008
Last July, Chief Justice John Roberts -- one of four votes on the...
Apr 21, 2008
Stiglitz walks the reader through a series of issues, from trade ...
Apr 21, 2008
If a compromise may be found between the business supporters of t...
Apr 21, 2008
"Making Globalization Work" is much like his first book in that i...
Apr 21, 2008
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who died this past February, would hav...
Apr 21, 2008
The first volume of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s memoirs, A Life i...
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Throughout "Journals" -- a deeply revelatory and no-holds-barred ...
Apr 21, 2008
[A] delightful romp through [Scheer’s] interviews with presidents...
Apr 21, 2008
Blackwater is quickly becoming one of the most powerful private a...
Apr 21, 2008
In his illuminating and biting new book, Boston Globe reporter Ch...
Apr 21, 2008
A masterful work of investigative journalism, Savage's book deser...
Apr 21, 2008
Many aspects of this subject have been examined in newspaper and ...
Apr 21, 2008
"Takeover" is a meticulously reported and lucidly recorded accoun...
Apr 21, 2008
The author combines a lively history of the rise and fall of Amer...
Apr 21, 2008
Several years ago, as workers were preparing to cart away the 5,2...
Apr 21, 2008
Prothero’s corrective proceeds in two parts. First, he offers a d...
Apr 21, 2008
In Toni Morrison's new novel, ''Beloved,'' a runaway slave, her c...
Apr 21, 2008
Paul Rogat Loeb has once again brought out a book that speaks to the hop...
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One of the brilliant concepts in his popular new book "The Left H...
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I first met Michael Lerner in Jerusalem fifteen years ago. It was during...
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On a cold Sunday a few weeks after the presidential election, I was sitt...
Apr 21, 2008
I'm not one to recommend books lightly. In fact, I don't think I've ever...
Apr 21, 2008
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Naomi Klein has issued a bracing call to arms. Her immediate target is c...
Apr 21, 2008
[Klein's] thesis...is that global corporations are often victims of thei...
Apr 21, 2008
Laura Miller, SalonThe Age of American Unreason veers unevenly between w...
Apr 21, 2008
Never mind the latest Matrix or Star Wars cinematic extravaganza. In thi...
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Jones examines the world of free blacks who owned black slaves in Virgin...
Apr 21, 2008
Among the many triumphs of ''The Known World,'' not the least is Jones's...
Apr 21, 2008
One of the few foreign policy achievements of the Bush administration ha...
Apr 21, 2008
Is there anything historically unprecedented about the Bush Administrati...
Apr 21, 2008
Hochschild’s history of British abolitionism notes that ending slavery
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Apr 21, 2008
The subject of this interesting and valuable book is the tiny cad...
Apr 21, 2008
While the radical GOP extremists have been diverting the attentio...
Apr 21, 2008
This is a practical guide, clearly written and of particul...
Apr 21, 2008
In Empire’s Workshop: Latin America and the Roots of U.S. Imperia...
Apr 21, 2008
With the U.S. occupation grinding into a quagmire in 2004, Vice P...
Apr 21, 2008
I give The Assault on Reason high marks as a spot-on, truth-telling crit...
Apr 21, 2008
In “The Assault on Reason” Al Gore excoriates George W. Bush, asserting ...
Apr 21, 2008
Earth in the Balance is a superbly researched, comprehensive and ...
Apr 21, 2008
Senator Gore presents even familiar materials in fresh and compelling fa...
Apr 21, 2008
Feldman makes his case well, although like the framing he exposes...
Apr 21, 2008
Jeffrey Feldman has written a wonderful book, Framing the Debate,...
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Susan Faludi explains the historical underpinnings of the [Jessica]Lynch...
Apr 21, 2008
Reporting from the site of the World Trade Center on the morning after i...
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Whatever else happens on January 20, 2009, the date on which, barring im...
Apr 21, 2008
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In “Sick,” Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at The New Repub...
Apr 21, 2008
My Life is two books, really: Arkansas and the presidency. It is no secr...
Apr 21, 2008
William Jefferson Clinton's "My Life" is, by a generous measure, the ric...
Apr 21, 2008
Former Presidents have a difficult, even awkward, role. They cope in dif...
Apr 21, 2008
This excellent little book’s eighty-four pages offer 100 tips for saving...
Apr 21, 2008
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Apr 21, 2008
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Apr 21, 2008
One of the landmark books of the 20th century, Silent Spring's me...
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What Blades has begun is nothing less than a full-frontal exposure of wh...
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Armstrong and Moulitsas are self-conscious outsider...
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First they ignore you,” opens Jerome Armstrong and ...
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