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Recent Foreign Affairs articles:

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The New Israel and the Old
Walter Russell Mead
July/August 2008
Summary: The real key to Washington's pro-Israel policy is long-lasting and broad-based support for the Jewish state among the American public at large.
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God's Country?
Walter Russell Mead
September/October 2006
Summary: Religion has always been a major force in U.S. politics, but the recent surge in the number and the power of evangelicals is recasting the country's political scene -- with dramatic implications for foreign policy. This should not be cause for panic: evangelicals are passionately devoted to justice and improving the world, and eager to reach out across sectarian lines.
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The American Foreign Policy Legacy
Walter Russell Mead
January/February 2002
Summary: Conventional wisdom has long been dismissive of and uninterested in the American foreign policy tradition. This neglect is a mistake. Not only has the United States been extraordinarily successful in its international relations, but its past foreign policy debates are very much alive today.
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In The Long Run: Keynes and the Legacy of British Liberalism
Walter Russell Mead
January/February 2002
Summary: Was John Maynard Keynes a Keynesian? The third volume of Robert Skidelsky's magisterial biography answers this question by arguing that the economist's legacy is the promotion of, not opposition to, classical British liberalism.
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Recent books reviewed in Foreign Affairs:

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Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq.

Michael Scheuer.

Free Press, 2008.

May/June 2008

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Ike: An American Hero.

Michael Korda.

Harper, 2008.

May/June 2008

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Washington Irving: An American Original.

Brian Jay Jones.

Arcade, 2008.

May/June 2008

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FDR.

Jean Edward Smith.

Random House, 2007.

May/June 2008

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Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s: "The Shores of Light," "Axel's Castle," Uncollected Reviews.

Edmund Wilson Edited by Lewis Dabney.

Library of America, 2007.

May/June 2008

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Forge of Empires, 1861-1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made.

Michael Knox Beran.

Free Press, 2007.

March/April 2008

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The American Mission and the "Evil Empire": The Crusade for a Free Russia Since 1881.

David Foglesong.

Cambridge University Press, 2007.

March/April 2008

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George H. W. Bush.

Timothy Naftali.

Times Books, 2007.

March/April 2008

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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.

Daniel Walker Howe.

Oxford University Press, 2007.

March/April 2008

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American Transcendentalism: A History.

Philip F. Gura.

Hill and Wang, 2007.

March/April 2008

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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World.

Walter Russell Mead.

Knopf, 2007.

January/February 2008

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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World.

Walter Russell Mead.

Knopf, 2007.

January/February 2008

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A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States.

Stephen Mihm.

Harvard University Press, 2007.

January/February 2008

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The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism.

George McKenna.

Yale University Press, 2007.

January/February 2008

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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.

Alan Greenspan.

Penguin Press, 2007.

January/February 2008

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America's Three Regimes: A New Political History.

Morton Keller.

Oxford University Press, 2007.

January/February 2008

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George Kennan: A Study of Character.

John Lukacs.

Yale University Press, 2007.

November/December 2007

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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800.

Jay Winik.

Harper Collins, 2007.

November/December 2007

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Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919.

Ann Hagedorn.

Simon and Schuster, 2007.

November/December 2007

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Edith Wharton.

Hermione Lee.

Knopf, 2007.

November/December 2007

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The Israel Lobby.

John J. Mearsheimer, Stephan M. Walt.

Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2007.

November/December 2007

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The Reagan Diaries.

Douglas Brinkley (ed).

HarperCollins, 2007.

September/October 2007

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Dr. Livingston, I Presume? Missionaires, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire.

Clare Pettitt.

Harvard University Press, 2007.

September/October 2007

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The Assault on Reason.

Al Gore.

Penguin Press, 2007.

September/October 2007

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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War.

Nicholas Lemann.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006.

September/October 2007

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900.

Andrew Roberts.

HarperCollins, 2007.

September/October 2007

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That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British From the Sun King to the Present. .

Robert Tombs and Isabelle Tombs.

Knopf, 2007.

July/August 2007

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Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower.

Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Basic Books, 2007.

May/June 2007

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Milton Friedman: A Biography.

Lanny Ebenstein.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

May/June 2007

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Gerald R. Ford.

Douglas Brinkley.

Times Books, 2007.

May/June 2007

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The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life.

Michael Lind.

Oxford University Press, 2006.

March/April 2007

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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America.

Chris Hedges.

Free Press, 2007.

March/April 2007

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Losing Hearts and Minds? Public Diplomacy and Strategic Influence in the Age of Terror.

Carnes Lord.

Praeger Security, 2006.

January/February 2007

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Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman.

Barbara Leaming.

Norton, 2006.

January/February 2007

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A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan.

Michael Kazin.

Knopf, 2006.

January/February 2007

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The Plan: Big Ideas for America.

Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed.

PublicAffairs, 2006.

January/February 2007

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The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror.

George Soros.

PublicAffairs, 2006.

November/December 2006

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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different.

Gordon S. Wood.

Penguin Press, 2006.

November/December 2006

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Mellon: An American Life.

David Cannadine.

Knopf, 2006.

November/December 2006

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Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America.

Eric Rauchway.

Hill and Wang, 2006.

November/December 2006

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Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics.

Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga.

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006.

September/October 2006

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Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House.

Godfrey Hodgson.

Yale University Press, 2006.

September/October 2006

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The House: The History of the House of Representatives.

Robert V. Remini.

HarperCollins, 2006.

September/October 2006

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America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked.

Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes.

Times Books, 2006.

May/June 2006

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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68.

Taylor Branch.

Simon & Schuster, 2006.

May/June 2006

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Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir.

Jesse Helms.

Random House, 2005.

May/June 2006

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.

Ray Kurzweil.

Viking, 2005.

May/June 2006

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The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement.

Douglas A. Sweeney.

Baker Academic, 2005.

May/June 2006

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American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. .

Bernard-Henri Lévy. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. .

Random House, 2006.

May/June 2006

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Überpower: The Imperial Temptation of America. .

JOSEF JOFFE.

Norton, 2006.

May/June 2006

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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy.

Francis Fukuyama.

Yale University Press, 2006.

March/April 2006

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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln.

Sean Wilentz.

Norton, 2005.

March/April 2006

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Andrew Jackson.

Sean Wilentz.

Times Books, 2005.

March/April 2006

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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times.

H.W. Brands.

Doubleday, 2005.

March/April 2006

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Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem -- and What We Should Do About It.

Noah Feldman.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.

January/February 2006

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2006 Almanac of American Politics.

Michael Barone with Richard E. Cohen.

National Journal Group, 2005.

January/February 2006

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Henry Adams and the Making of America.

Garry Wills.

Houghton Miffin, 2005.

January/February 2006

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Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition.

Robert W. Merry.

Simon & Schuster, 2005.

November/December 2005

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Debating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Foreign Policies, 1933-1945.

Justus D. Doenecke and Mark A. Stoler.

Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

November/December 2005

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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.

Richard Lyman Bushman.

Knopf, 2005.

November/December 2005

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DisneyWar.

James B. Stewart.

Simon & Schuster, 2005.

November/December 2005

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The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War.

Andrew J. Bacevich.

Oxford University Press, 2005.

September/October 2005

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The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64.

Carol Bundy.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.

September/October 2005

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A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868.

Anne Sarah Rubin.

University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

September/October 2005

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Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond.

Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson.

PublicAffairs, 2005.

September/October 2005

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The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000.

Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton.

Viking, 2005.

May/June 2005

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The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan.

John Ehrman.

Yale University Press, 2005.

May/June 2005

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Martin Van Buren.

Ted Widmer.

Times Books, 2005.

May/June 2005

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The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World.

Franklin Lambert.

Hill and Wang, 2005.

May/June 2005

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Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights.

Allen D. Hertzke.

Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

March/April 2005

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America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism.

Anatol Lieven.

Oxford University Press, 2004.

March/April 2005

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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation.

Peter L. Bernstein.

Norton, 2005.

March/April 2005

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An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power.

John Steele Gordon.

New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

January/February 2005

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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments.

Gertrude Himmelfarb.

New York: Knopf, 2004.

January/February 2005

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Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero.

Michael Korda.

New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

January/February 2005

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Washington's Crossing.

David Hackett Fischer.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

January/February 2005

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History Lessons: How Textbooks Around the World Portray American History.

Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward.

New York: New Press, 2004.

January/February 2005

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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828.

Walter A. McDougall.

New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

November/December 2004

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Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the U.S. Information Agency.

Wilson P. Dizard, Jr..

Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004.

November/December 2004

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Jesus and Muhammad: Profound Differences and Surprising Similarities.

Mark A. Gabriel.

Lake Mary: Strang Communications, 2004.

November/December 2004

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The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad.

Hal Lindsey.

Murrieta: Oracle House, 2004.

November/December 2004

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Beyond Iraq: The Next Move: Ancient Prophecy and Modern Day Conspiracy Collide.

Michael D. Evans.

Lakeland: White Stone Books, 2003.

November/December 2004

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What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.

Thomas Frank.

New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004.

November/December 2004

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Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk.

Walter Russell Mead.

New York: Knopf, 2004.

November/December 2004

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Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism..

Edited by Ellen Schrecker.

New York: New Press, 2004.

September/October 2004

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1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs-The Election That Changed the Country.

James Chace.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

September/October 2004

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The Most Fearful Ordeal: Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and Reporters of the New York Times.

Edited by James M. Mcpherson.

New York: St. Martin's, 2004.

September/October 2004

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James Buchanan.

Jean H. Baker.

New York: Times Books, 2004.

September/October 2004

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Alexander Hamilton.

Ron Chernow.

New York: Penguin Press, 2004.

July/August 2004

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Surprise, Security, and the American Experience.

John Lewis Gaddis.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

May/June 2004

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James K. Polk.

John Seigenthaler.

New York: Times Books, 2003.

May/June 2004

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We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends.

David Herbert Donald.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

May/June 2004

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Party of the People: A History of the Democrats.

Jules Witcover.

New York: Random House, 2003.

May/June 2004

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Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans.

Lewis L. Gould.

New York: Random House, 2003.

May/June 2004

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The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership.

Zbigniew Brzezinski.

New York: Basic Books, 2004.

March/April 2004

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Warren G. Harding.

John W. Dean.

New York: Times Books, 2004.

March/April 2004

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Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882.

Roger Daniels.

New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.

March/April 2004

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America's Inadvertent Empire.

William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

March/April 2004

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Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.

Rich Lowry.

Washington: Regnery, 2003.

January/February 2004

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Madame Secretary: A Memoir.

Madeleine Albright.

New York: Miramax Books, 2003.

January/February 2004

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.

Walter Isaacson.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

January/February 2004

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Roy Jenkins.

New York: Times Books, 2003.

January/February 2004

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A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America.

Peter Steinfels.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

January/February 2004

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The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War.

Elisabeth Sifton.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

January/February 2004

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William McKinley.

Kevin Phillips.

New York: Times Books, 2003.

November/December 2003

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At War With Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World.

Michael Hirsh.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

November/December 2003

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A Grand Strategy for America.

Robert J. Art.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

November/December 2003

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The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I.

Thomas Fleming.

New York: Basic Books, 2003.

November/December 2003

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Terror and Liberalism.

Paul Berman.

New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.

November/December 2003

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Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages.

Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

Carol Stream: Tyndale House, 2003.

September/October 2003

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The Louisiana Purchase.

John Wiley.

New York: John Wiley, 2003.

September/October2003

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Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003.

Douglas Brinkley.

New York: Viking, 2003.

September/October 2003

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Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam.

Thomas Alan Schwartz.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

September/October 2003

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Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions.

Clyde Prestowitz.

New York: Basic Books, 2003.

September/October 2003

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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.

Lizabeth Cohen.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

May/June 2003

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The Passions of Andrew Jackson.

Andrew Brustein.

New York: Knopf, 2003.

May/June 2003

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Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics.

Michael Lind.

New York: Basic Books, 2002.

May/June 2003

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Woodrow Wilson.

H. W. Brands.

New York: Times Books, 2003.

May/June 2003

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Alexander Hamilton: A Life.

Willard Sterne Randall.

New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

May/June 2003

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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1941-1945.

Michael Beschloss.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

March/April 2003

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The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture.

Amy Kaplan.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

March/April 2003

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Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World.

Jedediah Purdy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

March/April 2003

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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders.

Bernard Bailyn.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

March/April 2003

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The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917.

Robert E. Hannigan.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

March/April 2003

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L'obsession anti-americaine: Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconsequences.

Jean-Francois Revel.

Paris: Plon, 2002.

March/April 2003

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L'ennemi americain: Genealogie de l'antiamericanisme francais.

Philippe Roger.

Paris: Seuil, 2002.

March/April 2003

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Benjamin Franklin.

Edmund S. Morgan.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

January/February 2003

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Memoirs.

David Rockefeller.

New York: Random House, 2002.

January/February 2003

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The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World.

Mark Hertsgaard.

New York: Farrar, 2002.

January/February 2003

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Rutherford B. Hayes.

Hans L. Trefousse.

New York: Times Books, 2002.

January/February 2003

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American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy.

Andrew J. Bacevich.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

November/December 2002

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Ciao, America! An Italian Discovers the U.S.

Beppe Severgnini.

New York: Broadway Books, 2002.

November/December 2002

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The Emerging Democratic Majority.

John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira.

New York: Scribner's, 2002.

November/December 2002

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James Madison.

Garry Wills.

New York: Henry Holt, 2002.

November/December 2002

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Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism.

Peter Schweizer.

New York: Doubleday, 2002.

November/December 2002

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The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century.

Michael Mandelbaum.

New York: PublicAffairs, 2002.

September/October 2002

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Granta 77: What We Think of America.

Edited by Ian Jack.

London: Granta Books, 2002.

September/October 2002

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9-11.

Noam Chomsky.

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002.

September/October 2002

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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated.

Gore Vidal.

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002.

September/October 2002

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America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918.

Richard Brookhiser.

New York: Free Press, 2002.

September/October 2002

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The Liberal Lion by Walter Russell Mead.
(Foreign Affairs, May/June 2002

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Churchill: A Biography.

Roy Jenkins.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.

May/June 2002

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John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946..

Robert Skidelsky.

New York: Viking, 2001.

January/February 2002

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Special Providence: The Secret Strengths of American Foreign Policy.

Walter Russell Mead.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

November/December 2001

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Thunder From the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia.

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

November/December 2000

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One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic Of Global Capitalism.

William Greider.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

January/ February 1997

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Mortal Splendor: The American Empire In Transition.

Walter Russell Mead.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Summer 1988

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