Claremont Review of Books

Volume VI, Number 3, Summer 2006


From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Business as Usual

Correspondence

Essays

Patrick J. Garrity: The Long Twilight Struggle

John Lewis Gaddis's evolving history of the Cold War.

Andrew E. Busch: After Compassionate Conservatism

To win in 2006 and beyond, Republicans need to recover their standing as the party of limited government.

Michael M. Uhlmann: The Supreme Court v. the Constitution of the United States of America

Why the Court thinks it is above the law.

James R. Stoner: Constitutional Resistance

Americans have saved their Constitution from the Court before.

Books in Brief

Reviews of Books

Douglas A. Jeffrey: Soft in the Middle

A review of Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party), by Rod Dreher

Allen C. Guelzo: Good Democrats and Bad Democrats

A review of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, by Sean Wilentz

Bruce S. Thornton: New World, Old Myths

A review of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann

Peter S. Onuf: Redefining the Revolution

A review of The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America, by Gary B. Nash.

David Forte: Regime Change

A review of The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy, by Bruce Ackerman

E. Christian Kopff: Battlewise History

A review of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, by Victor Davis Hanson

R. Shep Melnick: Reading, Writing, and Reform

A review of Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools—And Why It Isn't So, by Jay P. Greene, with Greg Forster and Marcus A. Winters

John S. Gardner: Between East and West

A review of Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World, by Hugh Pope

Eva Brann: Plato's Impossible Polity

A review of Plato's Republic: A Study, by Stanley Rosen

Dorothea Israel Wolfson: Let Sleeping Beauties Lie

A review of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English, edited by Jack Zipes, Lissa Paul, Lynne Vallone, Peter Hunt, and Gillian Avery

James G. Basker: Man of Letters

A review of Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary, by Henry Hitchings

Peter Berkowitz: When Liberalism Was Young

A review of John Stuart Mill: A Biography, by Nicholas Capaldi.

Peter Augustine Lawler: Where's the Love?

A review of American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Charlotte Mandell

Edward J. Erler: Hedging Allegiance

A review of True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism, by Noah Pickus

Peter C. Myers: An American Hero

A review of Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July, by James A. Colaiaco

David K. Nichols: Magnanimous History

A review of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Michael Barone: The Year Liberalism Died

A review of Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right, by Andrew E. Busch

John B. Kienker: Good-Government Conservatism

A review of Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values Our Nation Needs Today, by Edwin J. Feulner and Doug Wilson

Ross Terrill: The Bad Man School of History

A review of Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: Uncaptive Mind

The films of Krysztof Kielowski.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Migrant Thoughts

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