The Best Political Books of 2010 (page 2)

NONFICTION

Released: Sept. 14, 2010

MAKING OUR DEMOCRACY WORK: A JUDGE'S VIEW

by Stephen Breyer

"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. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Sept. 7, 2010

CULTURES OF WAR: PEARL HARBOR / HIROSHIMA / 9-11 / IRAQ

by John W. Dower

"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. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Sept. 7, 2010

POISONING THE PRESS: RICHARD NIXON, JACK ANDERSON, AND THE RISE OF WASHINGTON’S SCANDAL CULTURE

by Mark Feldstein

"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. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: May 24, 2010

NECESSARY SECRETS: NATIONAL SECURITY, THE MEDIA, AND THE RULE OF LAW

by Gabriel Schoenfeld

"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. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Jan. 5, 2010

ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICS OF NATIONAL SECURITY--FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE WAR ON TERRORISM

by Julian E. Zelizer

"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. Read full book review >

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