Government Books & Reviews

Weighing Anchors

Barrie Dunsmore | Dec 01, 1997
Walter Cronkite, A Reporter's Life (New York: Alfred A.

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.

A Book for the Times, Review of Norman Davies' Europe: A History

Anthony Hartley | Sep 01, 1997
Davies has written a work worthy of the remarkable continent with which he deals; a continent that is now struggling to redefine and reunify itself, and whose cultures have been released once again to meet and mingle.

Another Country, Review of David Horowitz's Radical Son: A Journey Through Our Times

Guenter Lewy | Sep 01, 1997
While both Rosenblatt and Horowitz have had second thoughts about the 1960s, their assessments of this fateful decade are strikingly different.

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.

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 Company Man

Mark Falcoff | Dec 01, 1996
Richard Bissell, Jr.

Through the Garbage Can, Darkly, Review of David Williams's Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science

Eric Jones | Sep 01, 1996
This is a work of criticism ranging over the more fashionable social sciences and humanities, assessing and mostly rejecting them as unsuitable for elucidating the Japanese political system and berating their exponents for ignoring that system in

Road Hogs, Review of Joshua Muravchik's The Imperative of American Leadership

Adam Garfinkle | Jun 01, 1996
Two of the books reviewed here describe how Joshua Muravchik and the late Eric Nordlinger read the post-Soviet map and would have us travel upon it. Both recommend sharp turns at high speeds. The third contains the counsel of Peter Rodman, a man l

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

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