MB Civic

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/review/Margolick-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin

“Toobin plumbs a mystery: why a court so loaded with Republicans hasn’t shifted more to the right.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/review/Lowenstein-t.html?pagewanted=print

The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics, by Jonathan Chait

“How President Bush came to embrace the supply-side economics his father scorned, and why that’s bad for the country…Supply-siders see tax cuts as the answer to any economic problem. Chait regards that idea as deranged.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/review/Frankel-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam

“Korea was where America first revealed its imperial ineptitude. Then came Vietnam, then Iraq.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/review/Gelb-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

“Two scholars contend that the Jewish lobby jeopardizes the national security of the United States…Mearsheimer and Walt argue that the Jewish lobby has made American policy lopsidedly pro-Israel…[They] don’t want to abandon Israel. But they do want the United States to distance itself.”