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Best Nonfiction of 2012: Current Affairs & Social Sciences (page 2)


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Cover art for NIGHTCAP AT DAWN
NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012

"A bracing cooperative effort taking readers as close to war as humanly possible."
Iraq war experiences from those who were there. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 3, 2012

"With humor and verve, Maddow lays a solid basis for that hoped-for interview with Cheney (fingers crossed)."
In her hard-hitting debut, popular MSNBC host Maddow examines how the country has lost control of its national-security policy. Read full book review >
Cover art for WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY
NONFICTION
Released: April 24, 2012

"An exquisitely reasoned, skillfully written treatise on big issues of everyday life."
Sandel (Government/Harvard Univ.; Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, 2010, etc.) sounds the alarm that the belief in a market economy diminishes moral thought. Read full book review >
Cover art for GOD'S HOTEL
NONFICTION
Released: April 26, 2012

"The author's compelling argument for Laguna Honda's philosophy of "slow medicine" will make readers contemplate if perhaps the body should be viewed more as a garden to be tended rather than a machine to be fixed."
A doctor's experiences in a unique corner of the medical world. Read full book review >
Cover art for PRIVATE EMPIRE
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012

"Leaks, reserves, PACs, hydrofracking, bloated corporate profits and more: all pertinent concerns nicely handled by Coll in this engaging, hard-hitting work."
A thorough, sobering study of the pernicious consolidation of Big Oil. Read full book review >
Cover art for PREDATOR NATION
NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2012

"A deeply argued call to action from a lucid, impassioned polemicist."
A concise, cogent assessment of the 2008 banking disaster and how the fallout has affected the country. Read full book review >