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Watergate: A Novel

March 22, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Jim Cullen: It’s the women who make Watergate a distinctive piece of storytelling. They are, as a group, as incisive and ruthless as any of their male counterparts.

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Christopher Hitchens: Satan’s Mistress

December 19, 2011 By admin 3 Comments

Jonathan David Farley: Christopher Hitchens was so sharp his wordplay could slice your argument in two. Indeed, Hitchens was literally too clever by half: he took the “tionary” out of “Oxford English dictionary.”

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Apologist, Bedfellows, Buggery, Christopher Hitchens, Comers, Escalation, First Few Years, Kissinger, Neo Conservatives, Outrageous Statements, Pro War, Smooth As Silk, vietnam war, War Criminal, War In Afghanistan, War In Iraq, War In Vietnam, War On Terror, Warmongers, Weapons Of Mass Destruction

’60s Memoir Troublemaker Speaks to Us Now

July 19, 2011 By Michael Sigman Leave a Comment

Michael Sigman: This vivid tale of the author’s participation in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements not only sets the record straight on a frequently misunderstood era, it also helps us re-examine contemporary issu

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: 1960s, Afghanistan War, Assisted Suicide, barack obama, Bill Zimmerman, Books News, Cancer Patient, Contemporary Issues, Conventional Wisdom, Couple Dozen, Draft Notice, George W. Bush, Inverse Relationship, iraq war, Jungles, Medical Marijuana, Middle Class Men, Military Draft, MoveOn.Org, Peace Movement, Polite Society, Political Activist, Sick Man, Southeast Asia, Troublemaker, U.S. Army, vietnam war, Volunteer Force, War Zone, Wounded Knee, X Rays

America at the Dawn of a Global Age

April 26, 2011 By Jim Cullen Leave a Comment

Jim Cullen: In this important new book, Christopher McKnight Nichols invites a broad reconsideration of the concept of isolationism by tracing its origins back to the debates over U.S. imperialism at the end of the 19th century and its surprising continuities — and surprising bedfellows — over the next-half century.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Apologist, Bedfellows, Canard, Classic Moment, Connotations, Global Age, Humphrey Bogart, Isolationism, Isolationist, jim cullen, Market Globalization, Michael Kazin, Nationalists, Pacifists, Populism, Skeptics, Sydney Greenstreet, Target, Unilateral Action, vietnam war

Holy Wars: Putting the “Mental” into Fundamentalism

August 2, 2010 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

Ed Rampell: General Sherman, who burned Atlanta to the ground, rather famously and pithily said, “War is hell.” Stephen Marshall’s new documentary about religious fanaticism, Holy Wars, turns Sherman’s quote on its head with the clever tagline, “War is Heaven.”

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: 1st millennium, aaron taylor, afghan war, documentaries, early middle ages, fanaticism, fundamentalism, general sherman, holy spirit, holy war, holy warrior, iraq war, islam, islamic conquests, jihad, khalid, khalid kelly, michael moore, putting, religion, sahaba, stephen marshall, taglines, vietnam war, wars, year of birth missing

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