NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 5, 2010
"A timely analysis of the forces that will collide as President Obama ponders the way forward in Afghanistan."
Wide-ranging examination of the nexus between domestic politics and foreign policy during the past 60 years.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 24, 2010
"A timely, sure-to-be controversial take on a problem that has no easy resolution."
A Hudson Institute scholar examines the enduring tension between the government's need to preserve certain secrets and the role of a free press.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
"An unrelenting, incisive, masterly comparative study."
Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning historian Dower (
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, 1999, etc.) draws astute ironies between Pearl Harbor and 9/11 in terms of the overweening arrogance of military superpowers.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
"Entertaining and enlightening, with lots of fresh reporting for politics buffs."
Award-winning journalist Feldstein (Media and Public Affairs/George Washington Univ.) scrutinizes the clash between Richard Nixon and eagle-eyed, muckraking newspaper columnist Jack Anderson.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 14, 2010
"Speaking out without talking down, Breyer renders a signal service to his fellow citizens."
For the general reader, a sitting Justice explains how the Supreme Court won the public trust and what it must do to keep it.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 24, 2010
"Witty, insightful, scathing, appalling and inspiring--a must-read book on the Iraq war."
