MB Civic

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Fairbanks-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

This Land Is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation, by Barbara Ehrenreich

“A collection of opinion pieces from Barbara Ehrenreich focuses on the casualties of our economy.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Burrough-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power, by Jonathan Mahler

“An account of the case that forced the administration to try accused terrorists…Hamdan is the classic nobody around whom legal landmark cases always seem to be built.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Bonner-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, by Ahmed Rashid

“Assessing what the Bush Administration did wrong in Central Asia and what the next president will face.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Von-Tunzelmann-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Kingmakers: The Inventions of the Modern Middle East, by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac

“Westerners have tried to have their imperial way in Arab lands for more than a century.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Rosen-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me, by Mahvish Rukhsana Khan

“An interpreter for Afghan detainees tells their side of their stories.”