MB Civic

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Brookhiser-t.html?pagewanted=print

Thomas Paine’s ‘Rights of Man’: A Biography, by Christopher Hitchens

“Christopher Hitchens considers Paine and Burke.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Brinkley-t.html?pagewanted=print

The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America, by Ronald Brownstein

“Ronald Brownstein searches for the roots of today’s passionate partisanship.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Noah-t.html?pagewanted=print

The Liberals’ Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party, by Bruce Miroff

“A political scientist reassesses the legacy of George McGovern and the ’72 campaign…’In retrospect, a McGovern vistory would probably have benefited Republicans as much as Democrats.'”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Mallon-t.html?pagewanted=print

Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy, by Michael Sherry

“In the 1950s and ’60s, the prominence of gay artists evoked a homophobic panic.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Meacham-t.html?pagewanted=print

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, by Joseph Ellis

“Joseph Ellis argues that America’s founders favored evolution over revolution…The United States was constructed to foster arguments, Ellis explains, not to settle them.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Heilbrunn2-t.html?pagewanted=print

Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism, by James Piereson

“James Piereson argues that the Kennedy assassination also killed American liberalism.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Marcus-t.html?pagewanted=print

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, by Peter Sis