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Released: Sept. 20, 2011
"Capably ranging from science to history to politics, Yergin serves up a highly readable, sometimes sobering view of what the near future will look like—and it may not be pretty."
CNBC global energy expert and Pulitzer winner Yergin (The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World, 1998, etc.) returns with an appropriately massive tome on an endlessly important subject: the world's energy future.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 15, 2011
A stern, carefully worded warning about why the United States should be more wary of China's meteoric rise.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2011
"A great reminder that fear and hate are not the only tools used to sell books these days--a substantial work that should be read by anyone with an interest in how politics works."
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Released: Sept. 2, 2010
"A vividly rendered account of life in office, with plenty of beneficial pointers to aspiring politicos on either side of the Atlantic."
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Released: Aug. 3, 2010
"Welcome rethinking by a former military man who has seen the light."
Retired Army colonel Council of Foreign Relations member Bacevich (History and International Relations/Boston Univ.;
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, 2008, etc.) discards long-held "habits of conformity," rethinking America's mission abroad.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 6, 2010
"Remnick's fluent writing makes this expansive, significant book move along swiftly. Readers will look forward to the sequel, eight years from now."
From
New Yorker editor Remnick (
Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker, 2006, etc.), a world-ranging, eye-opening, comprehensive life to date of the 44th President of the United States
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NONFICTION
Released: May 5, 2008
"A sharp, well-written work of political economy."
Pity the poor think-tanked neocons: Just a moment ago, the talk was of empire and the new world order, and now, it seems, America's day in the sun is about to grow cold.
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Released: April 21, 2008
"An educative, intelligent voice urges us to attend to history and the life of the mind."
Scholarly and polemical pieces, most with very sharp edges, published over the past dozen years, generally in the
New York Review of Books and the
New Republic.
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Released: April 30, 2002
"Magisterial, exhaustive, and highly literate, a Plutarch (or perhaps Suetonius) for our time: would that all political biographies were so good."
Volume III of Caro's ongoing life of LBJ, taking in the period from 1949 until Johnson's ascension to the vice presidency under John F. Kennedy in 1960.
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Released: Sept. 1, 2001
"Excellent, as is Halberstam's custom, and instructive for those seeking to understand geopolitical realities."
Another weighty tome from the noted journalist and historian, this one chronicling the sometimes confused, always complex junction of foreign policy and military might.
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