NYT Books in Review: “Human Smoke,” “Worlds At War,” “Liberty of Conscience,” “Fatal Misconception”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Toibin-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Human Smoke: The Beginnnigs of World War II, the End of Civilization, by Nicholson Baker

“Baker’s portrait of Churchill may infuriate those who believe he was a hero.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Chua-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Worlds At War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West, by Anthony Pagden

“Anthony Pagden charts the long battle between East and West, Islam and Christianity.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Bazelon-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality, by Martha C. Nussbaum

“A legal philosopher applauds America’s history of religious tolerance.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Kristof-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Fatal Misconcpetion: The Struggle to Control World Population, by Matthew Connelly

“A historian examines a century of miscalculation and arrogance by population planners.”

 

 

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