NYT Books in Review: “Flying High/Strictly Right,” “U.S. Vs. Them,” “Standard Operating Procedure,” “The Bin Ladens,” “The Big Squeeze”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/books/review/Navasky-t.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin
Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater, by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Strictly Right: William F. Buckley, Jr. and the American Conservative Movement, by Linda Bridges and John R. Coyne, Jr.
“Through two new books, a view of William F. Buckley’s transideological conservatism.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/books/review/Confessore-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined American’s Security, by J. Peter Scoblic
“[Scoblic] asserts that conservatism – not neoconservatism – is the tue impetus behing Bush foreign policy.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/books/review/Bonner-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
Standard Operating Procedure, by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
“[T]he story of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/books/review/Caldwell-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, by Steve Coll
“The children of Muhammad bin Laden, from the desert to the jet set to the cave.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/books/review/Frank-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, by Steven Greenhouse
“The outlook for the American worker: increasingly hostile.”
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