NYT Books in Review: “Terror and Consent,” “Right of the Dial,” “The Commission,” “Founding Faith”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Ferguson-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, by Philip Bobbitt

“Bobbitt believes there is a real war against terror, and that civil liberties may have to be curtailed to win it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Steinberg-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio, by Alec Forge

“The history of Clear Channel Communications and its rise to dominance.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Heilbrunn-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, by Philip Shenon

“George Tenet gave misleading testimony to the 9/11 Commission, Philip Shenon shows.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Brookhiser-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America, by Steven Waldman

“A Christian America? A secular America? Steven Waldman argues that the founders had in mind something else entirely…The Founding Faith…was not Christianity, and it was not secularism. It was religious liberty.”

 

 

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