Felix Leiter Books & Reviews

Indochina Without Americans

Peter W. Rodman | Sep 01, 1999
Finally, a much-needed study of the other Vietnam War.

Strong State, Weaker Theory

Robert L. Beisner | Sep 01, 1998
A group of five Americans gathered in Paris a century ago to negotiate an end to the Spanish-American War.

Being Blunt

Midge Decter | Dec 01, 1997
The book is a novel, one of several by Mr. Banville, and yet as Knopf's classification suggests (and as it seems, in keeping with the literary rage these days), it is not to be taken as a novel only.

All One's Eggs in One Basket Case; Review of John Laughland's The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea

EUGEN WEBER | Jun 01, 1997
A specter is haunting Europe and John Laughland: the specter of Europe united, of nations abolished, of the administration of things replacing the government of people. He has written a book about it that is intriguing...

Suddenly and Peacefully, Review of Michael Dobbs' Down With Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Anders Aslund | Mar 01, 1997
Gone is Churchill's "enigma wrapped in a mystery." Russia's media and many of its archives, along with its borders, have opened.

Nothing Funny About Germany, Review of Jane Kramer's The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany

Anne Applebaum | Mar 01, 1997
Review of Jane Kramer's The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany (New York: Random House, 1994).

A Machiavelli for Our Times

Wang Gungwu | Dec 01, 1996
Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations might not only be about the future. It actually might help shape it.

The Bureaucrat Spy, Review of Robert M. Gates' From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

Russell Jack Smith | Jun 01, 1996
Robert M. Gates entered CIA toward the end of its best years, and the history he recounts of the ensuing twenty-odd years is strewn with untidy crises and a mix of CIA successes and disasters, brilliant insights, and woeful miscalls. Gates describ

Ortega and the Myth of the Mass

Neil McInnes | Jun 01, 1996
Many are inclined to give José Ortega y Gasset credit for prescience that he does not deserve.

The Limits of Trust

Charles Wolf, Jr. | Sep 01, 1995
Although the syllogism conveys the essence of Fukuyama's argument, it does so at the cost of neglecting the book's broad sweep, sharp insights, and wide-ranging scholarship.

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