December 2003    Each month a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Walter Russell Mead gives his picks for the best books on the United States.

Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002
Read January/February 2003 review

Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World
Jedidiah Purdy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
Read March/April 2003 review

To Begin the World Anew: the Genuis and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Bernard Bailyn
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
Read March/April 2003 review

The Passions of Andrew Jackson
Andrew Brustein
New York: Knopf, 2003
Read May/June 2003 review

Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003
Douglas Brinkley
New York: Viking, 2003
Read September/October 2003 review

William McKinley
Kevin Phillips
New York: Times Books, 2003
Read November/December 2003 review

A Grand Strategy for America
Robert J. Art
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003
Read November/December 2003 review

The Year in Books Index

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