The Cold War: A New History
by John Lewis Gaddis
"In this beautifully written panoramic view of the Cold War, full of illuminations and shrewd judgments, the distinguished diplomatic historian Gaddis brings the half-century U.S.-Soviet struggle to life for a general audience." —G. John Ikenberry
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The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
by Pietra Rivoli
"The protagonist of this highly informative and entertaining book is a $6 T-shirt purchased in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Georgetown economist Rivoli uses her T-shirt as a vehicle for telling an analytic story about its life — from the cotton fields of Texas to either its proud purchase by a Tanzanian villager or its sale as mattress filler, depending on its condition when discarded by its American owner." —Richard N. Cooper
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Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
by Robert A. Doughty
"Doughty's masterly, starkly titled account, although not denying the victory, reinforces the sense that any gains were outweighed by monumental loss." —Lawrence D. Freedman
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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
by Francis Fukuyama
"In this important and clear-sighted book, Fukuyama offers one of the best available concise histories and explanations of the neoconservative movement and its chief ideas, places himself firmly within that movement, and then goes on to register his strong and passionate dissent from the interpretation of the neoconservative approach to foreign policy that characterized George W. Bush's first term." —Walter Russell Mead
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Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century
by Chris Patten
"Patten has put all of his narrative virtuosity, breadth of vision, common sense, and often hilarious verve into this magisterial volume — a cocktail of autobiography, political analysis of the state of the world, and policy prescriptions, peppered with priceless anecdotes and incisive portraits." —Stanley Hoffmann
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Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power
by Richard Stites
"In this magisterial account of music, theater, and art during the last century of serfdom, Stites transports the reader from the glittering private salons of the St. Petersburg and Moscow gentry, where Schumann conducted, Liszt played, and Glinka rehearsed, to the provincial town playhouses and country manor art collections." —Robert Legvold
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The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam From the Extremists
by Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
"A scholar trained in both Islamic and Western law, Abou El Fadl presents a brilliant brief for that humanistic Islamic tradition while getting in some well-placed blows against those puritans." —L. Carl Brown
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