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Released: May 21, 2013
"Exemplary journalism that defines a sobering, even depressing matter. A foundational document in the literature of the end of America--the end, that is, for the moment."
New Yorker writer Packer (
Interesting Times: Writing from a Turbulent Decade, 2009, etc.) ranges across the country to chronicle the time when "the coil that held Americans together in its secure and sometimes stifling grip first gave way."
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A thoughtful reconsideration of China's actual place in the new world order, based on reality rather than fanciful speculation."
A Hong Kong–based executive suggests that the dreaded Chinese juggernaut has a few cracks in its armor.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A difficult, unsettling and ultimately disappointing critique of the American worldview."
"[E]xceptionalism is a national impediment America can no longer afford," declares journalist Smith (
Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post–Western World, 2010, etc.) in this challenge to Americans' view of themselves.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A dramatic study emphasizing some of the combined consequences of ideological obsessions and bureaucratic thoughtlessness."
How budget-cutting responses to recession produce increases in death rates and epidemiclike breakdowns in public health.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Current affairs books always run the risk of going rather quickly from the New Releases shelf to the remainder bin, but Feldman's book carries enough insight to warrant serious attention from anyone interested in what may well be the defining relationship in global affairs for decades to come."
NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Military buffs will give this high marks; general readers may find it hard to relate to the author's relentlessly macho ethos, but they will find it hard not to admire his fierce dedication."
Memoirs from members of Special Forces tend to mix combat fireworks with a leavening of modesty, but O'Neal, writing with veteran co-author Fisher (with Tom Coughlin:
Earn the Right to Win, 2013, etc.), dispenses with the modesty at no great cost.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2013
"A well-reasoned survey by a scholar who excels at long-term thinking."
Examination of North Korea's misery-producing dictatorship, why it cannot last and how to replace it.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A page-turner in which each of the stories is different but compelling."
Freelance journalist Richards chronicles how five single women attempted to take charge of their own fertility.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Intriguing reading for an academic audience."
An expert in sociology and organizational methods challenges the view that business has too much influence on government.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Remember that old saw about making sausages and making laws--that you don't want to know too much about either one? Kaiser disproves it with this lucid if sometimes numbing book."
A painstaking, richly detailed look at how the suite of financial reforms that followed the bank near-collapse of 2008 came to be--and nearly didn't come to be, even as they were defanged.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"It's a pleasure to find so even and logical a voice in these pages, which deserve broad airing."
At last, a conservative treatise that isn't too bilious to taste--and that is often entertaining even as it is provocative.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 2, 2013
American Prospect co-founder and -editor Kuttner (
A Presidency In Peril: The Inside Story of Obama's Promise, Wall Street's Power and the Struggle to Control Our Economic Future, 2010, etc.) critiques the Obama administration's embrace of debt-driven austerity policies and calls for the resumption of postponed financial reforms.
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