South Ossetia war Books & Reviews

A People of Extraordinary Contradictions

A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.

The Pope's Divisions

The Peope who proved Stalin wrong.

The Cult of Secrecy

Senator Moynihan has expanded his appendix to the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy report into an elegant, quotable, scholarly, and timely book.

The Company Man

Richard Bissell, Jr.

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

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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May 26, 2012