None of the Above
/Political scientist Ian Bremmer's new book looks at the changing nature of American power in the 21st century, but just how many false premises does the book employ?
Read MoreBook Review: Nixon's Nuclear Specter
/At the height of the Vietnam War, President Nixon engaged in an incredibly risky game of nuclear brinksmanship - a richly-researched new book tells the story
Read MoreBook Review: American Reckoning
/A harrowing new book looks at the many spaces the Vietnam Was has occupied in the American mental landscape
Read More“There Is No Enjoyment in This Life”
/Iraqi lawyer and former exile Zaid al-Ali writes a bleak, sobering account of the state of his homeland in the post-"Mission Accomplished" era - but is there any reason for hope?
Read MoreFailing Gracelessly
/The authors have invaluable sources in America's 'deep state' of surveillance and counter-terrorism, but how much secrecy does security justify? And what happened to moral accountability?
Read MoreWe Could Have Beaten Kennedy...
/Lyndon Johnson rained destruction on Vietnam and championed civil rights, amassed a secret fortune and fought for the needy. His paradoxical life continues in the fourth volume of Robert Caro's epic biography.
Read MoreLOL, SRSLY?
/MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has made a career of joking about easy political targets - so what happens when she tries to deliver a factual inquiry of a serious subject? Nothing funny, as Greg Waldmann discovers.
Read MoreThe Apparatchik
/For two terms, first as National Security Advisor and then as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice was the most - often the only - likeable face of the George W. Bush administration. But does this quintessential team player break ranks in her new memoir?
Read MoreDown and Out in Luanda and Lisbon
/Novelist António Lobo Antunes' books are searing and wildly original indictments of Portugal's needlessly protracted and bloody colonization of Angola.
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