NYT Books in Review: “A Path Out of the Desert,” “Falun Gong and the Future of China,” “Invisible Nation,” “Spaced Out”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Rodenbeck-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for American in the Middle East, by Kenneth M. Pollack
“Pollack is reticient about the most pressing issues: how to get out of Iraq and what to do about Iran.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Kahn-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
Falun Gong and the Future of China, by David Ownby
“Why did the Chinese authorities react so strongly against an exercise society?”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Goldfarb-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
Invisible Nation: How the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East, by Quil Lawrence
“A foreign correspondent recounts the history of the Kurds.”
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Spcaed Out: Crash Pads, Hippie Communes, Infinity Machines, and other Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties, by Alastair Gordon
“A trippy, nostalgic homage to the counterculture era.”
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