NYT Books in Review: “Dreams and Shadows,” “The Bush Tragedy,” “Reagan’s Disciple,” “What the Gospels Meant”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Cockburn-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, by Robin Wright
“Wright’s stories of brave reformers in the Middle East show them as javing depressingly small effect.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Brinkley-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
The Bush Tragedy, by Jacob Weisberg
“[Weisberg] argues that Bush’s presidency has been driven by his psychological needs…To challenge a thoughtful, moderate father, Bush ‘trained himself to be hasty, extreme and unbending.'”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Heilbrunn2-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
Reagan’s Disciple: George W. Bush’s Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy, by Lou Cannon and Carl M. Cannon
“President Bush sought to emulate Reagan. Too bad he failed.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Gibson-t.html?sq=Wills&st=nyt&scp=1&pagewanted=print
What the Gospels Meant, by Garry Wills
“A Catholic scholar decodes the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John.”
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