NYT: Books in Review [“State of Denial,” “War on the Middle Class,” “Ethical Realism,” “Grand Illusion”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Foer.t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

State of Denial, by Bob Woodward

“Bob Woodward’s new book shows an administration without a clue about Iraq…Woodward’s Bush used to be resolute; he now comes across as a ‘Saturday Night Live’ version of himself.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Sirota.t.html?pagewanted=print

War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream, and How to Fight Back, by Lou Dobbs

“The financial journalist Lou Dobbs, once pro-business, has reinvented himself as an economic class warrior.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Traub.t.html?pagewanted=print

Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World, by Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman

“This prescription for foreign policy sees advantage in America’s cold-war era prudence and realism…The authors see neoconservatism as a particularly militaristic and noxious strain of a virus they call ‘Democratism.'”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Mahler.t.html?pagewanted=print

Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11, by Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins

“A re-evaluation of Rudy Giuliani’s career questions his image as a hero.”

 

 

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