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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NONFICTION
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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NONFICTION
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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NONFICTION
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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