All reviews are by Daniel B. Clendenin except as noted.
| Floyd Abrams |
The Soul of the First Amendment
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| Amnesty International |
Amnesty International Report 2010: The State of the World's Human Rights
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| Anne Applebaum |
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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| Andrew Bacevich |
Breach of Trust; How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
The Limits of Power; The End of American Exceptionalism
The New American Militarism; How Americans Are Seduced By War
Washington Rules; America's Path to Permanent War
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| Mary Beard |
Women and Power: A Manifesto
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| Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon |
The Next Attack; The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right
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| Karima Bennoune |
Your Fatwa Does Not Belong Here; Untold Stories From the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
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| Morris Berman |
Dark Ages America; The Final Phase of Empire
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| Wendell Berry |
Our Only World
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| Gregory A. Boyd |
The Myth of a Christian Nation; How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church
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| Pete Buttigieg |
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Trust: America's Best Chance
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| Francisco Cantú |
The Line Becomes a River; Dispatches From the Border
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| Noam Chomsky |
Failed States; The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
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| Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn |
Half the Sky; Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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| Dalai Lama |
An Appeal to the World; The Way to Peace in a Time of Division
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| William Davies |
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
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| Barbara Demick |
Nothing to Envy; Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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| Larry Diamond |
Squandered Victory; The American Occupation and The Bungled Effort To Bring Democracy To Iraq
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| Wes Avram, ed |
Anxious About Empire; Theological Essays on the New Global Realities
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| Peter Eichstaedt |
Consuming the Congo; War and Conflict Minerals in The World's Deadliest Place
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| Mohamed ElBaradei |
The Age of Deception; Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
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| Deborah Ellis |
Children of War; Voices of Iraqi Refugees
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| Daniel Ellsberg |
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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| Jacques Ellul and Patrick Troude-Chastenet, |
Jacques Ellul on Politics, Technology and Christianity
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| Equal Justice Initiative |
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
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| Dexter Filkins |
The Forever War
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| Francis Fukuyama |
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
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| Peter W. Galbraith |
Unintended Consequences; How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies
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| Gary Geddes |
Drink the Bitter Root: A Search for Justice and Healing in Africa
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
My Own Words
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| Peter Godwin |
The Fear; Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
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| Philip Gourevitch |
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families; Stories From Rwanda
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| Melissa Fay Greene |
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children
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| Michael Griffin and Jennie Weiss Block, eds |
In the Company of the Poor; Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez
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| Richard N. Haass |
Foreign Policy Begins at Home; The Case for Putting America's House in Order
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| Richard Haass |
The World: A Brief Introduction
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| Yossi Klein Halevi |
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
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| Tom Hayden |
Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement
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| Chris Hedges |
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
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| Stephane Hessel |
Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous!
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| Adam Hochschild |
Bury the Chains; Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
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| Gwen Ifill |
The Breakthrough; Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
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| Debby Irving |
Waking Up White And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
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| Alan Jacobs |
The Year of our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
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| Chalmers Johnson |
Blowback; The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Dismantling the Empire; America's Last Best Hope
Nemesis; The Last Days of the American Republic
The Sorrows of Empire; Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
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| Michiko Kakutani |
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
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| Robert Kaplan |
Surrender or Starve; Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Warrior Politics; Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
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| Robert D. Kaplan |
The Revenge of Geography; What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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| Ibram X. Kendi |
How to Be an Antiracist
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| Joshua Key as told to Lawrence Hill |
The Deserter's Tale; The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq
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| Stephen Kinzer |
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
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| Jill Lepore |
This America: The Case for the Nation
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| Bernard-Henri Lévy |
The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World
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| Michael Lewis |
The Fifth Risk
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| Mark Lilla |
The Once and Future Liberal; After Identity Politics
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| Margaret MacMillan |
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
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| Lauren Markham |
The Far Away Brothers; Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
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| Charles Marsh |
Wayward Christian Soldiers; Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity
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| Barnaby Martin |
Hanging Man; The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
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| Jane Mayer |
The Dark Side; The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
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| Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos |
Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America
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| Terry McAuliffe |
Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism
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| George McGovern and William R. Polk |
Out of Iraq; A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now
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| Suketu Mehta |
This Land is Our Land; An Immigrant's Manifesto
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| Martin Meredith |
The Fate of Africa; From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of 50 Years of Independence
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| David Miliband |
Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time
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| Greg Mortenson |
Stones Into Schools; Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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| Cullen Murphy |
Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
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| Richard John Neuhaus |
American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile
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| Dion Nissenbaum |
A Street Divided; Stories From Jerusalem's Alley of God
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| Amos Oz |
Dear Zealots; Letters From a Divided Land
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| George Packer |
Assassins' Gate; America in Iraq
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| William Pfaff |
The Irony of Manifest Destiny; The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy
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| Robert B. Reich |
The Common Good
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| Rob Rieman |
To Fight Against This Age
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| Eugene Robinson |
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
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| David Rohde |
Beyond War; Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East
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| Jonathan Sacks |
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
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| Philippe Sands |
Torture Team; Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
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| Anthony Shadid |
Night Draws Near; Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
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| Lisa J. Shannon |
Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen; An Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo
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| Ari Shavit |
My Promised Land; The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
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| David Livingstone Smith |
The Most Dangerous Animal; Human Nature and the Origins of War
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| Timothy Snyder |
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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| Jason K. Stearns |
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters; The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
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| Brian Steidle |
The Devil Came on Horseback; Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
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| Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes |
The Three Trillion Dollar War; The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
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| William J. Stuntz |
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
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| Anthony Swofford |
Jarhead; A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
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| General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz |
The Battle for Peace; A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose
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| Jeffrey Toobin |
The Nine; Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
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| Brad Tyer |
Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and The Burial of an American Landscape
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| Jose Antonio Vargas |
Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
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| Gore Vidal |
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace; How We Got To Be So Hated
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| Éric Vuillard |
The War of the Poor
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| Jim Wallis |
Gods's Politics; Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It; A New Vision for Faith and Politics in America
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| Amy Wilentz |
Farewell, Fred Voodoo; A Letter From Haiti
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| Joan C. Williams |
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
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| Garry Wills |
Bomb Power; The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
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| David Wood |
What Have We Done; The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
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| Bill Wylie-Kellermann, ed |
William Stringfellow, Essential Writings
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| Fareed Zakaria |
The Future of Freedom; Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
The Post-American World
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| Howard Zinn |
The Bomb.
The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
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