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Teddy White’s Ghost

Teddy White’s Ghost

A review of Renegade: The Making of a President, by Richard Wolffe; The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election, by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson; and Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, by John Heilmann and Mark Halperin
Monopoly of Violence

Monopoly of Violence

A review of To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement, by Robert H. Churchill
Present at the Creation

Present at the Creation

A review of Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics , by Lewis L. Gould; Remaking the Presidency: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, 1901-1916, by Peri E. Arnold; The Dilemma of Progressivism: How Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Reshaped the American Regime of Self-Government, by Will Morrisey; Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy , by Sidney M. Milkis
Medieval Renaissance

Medieval Renaissance

A review of The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, by Rémi Brague, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
The Strauss Wars Revisited

The Strauss Wars Revisited

A review of Straussophobia: Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians against Shadia Drury and Other Accusers, by Peter Minowitz and Cloaked in Virtue: Unveiling Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of American Foreign Policy, by Nicholas Xenos
Get Happy

Get Happy

A review of The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being, by Derek Bok
Hear Me Roar

Hear Me Roar

A review of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, by Gail Collins

Shadow Play

Vol. X3Vol. X, Number 3, Summer 2010

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