Bush Books & Reviews

Endless Churchill

Churchill remains a figure of fascination, especially for Americans. Five new books should sate our appetites for awhile.

Contact: The Politics of Migration

Impressive historical scholarship on migration cannot save Professor Hoerder from the miasma of current academic fashions.

Money and Power: Pondering Economic Growth and Decline

A trio of books proposes intriguing reasons for economic growth--national pride, surplus labor and investment security--but none parses the novelty of the virtual state.

Wasserstein's Jerusalem

Discounting the Jewish claim to Jerusalem in the name of evenhandedness is no way to achieve a just settlement.

Meaning Well

Maximilian II managed to be both ahead of his time and behind it simultaneously. His life warns us against allowing ourselves to fall into a similar predicament.

Kissinger's Wisdom . . . and Advice

An eminent realist reacts to a pre-eminent's vision for 21st-century geopolitics.

Communist Crowd Control

The secretly constructed record of the Communist Party decision to crack down on Tiananmen protesters rings true to an old China hand.

A Slithy Tove

Twentieth-century atrocities receive an unrewarding spin for the television age.

The Guns of 17th Street

A dissection of the few pluses and many minuses of the crusading approach to American foreign policy.

The Real Synthesis

A "new history" of the Third Reich fails to understand the true nature of the regime.

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May 20, 2013