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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 24, 2010
Kirkus Star MY NUCLEAR FAMILY: A COMING-OF-AGE IN AMERICA’S TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MILITARY
by Christopher Brownfield
"Witty, insightful, scathing, appalling and inspiring--a must-read book on the Iraq war."
A former Naval officer examines his time as a member of an energy task force in Baghdad. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 14, 2010
BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY: THE ELECTION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR AMERICAN WOMEN
by Rebecca Traister
"A nuanced look at how the recent election shaped--and was shaped by--gender."
Salon staff writer Traister makes the compelling argument that the 2008 election campaign changed the role of women in national politics. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
Kirkus Star 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 >
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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 >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 2, 2010
Kirkus Star A JOURNEY: MY POLITICAL LIFE
by Tony Blair
"A vividly rendered account of life in office, with plenty of beneficial pointers to aspiring politicos on either side of the Atlantic."
Long-awaited, uncommonly candid memoir by the former British prime minister. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 24, 2010
Kirkus Star 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 >