Claremont Review of Books

Volume VII, Number 3, Summer 2007


From the Publisher's Desk

Brian T. Kennedy: Making Americans

Correspondence

Essays

Charles R. Kesler: Iraq and the Neoconservatives

Beyond the Bush Doctrine.

William Voegeli: Crisis of the Old Liberal Order

The eclipse of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Robert R. Reilly: Winning the War of Ideas

How to reinvigorate American public diplomacy.

Michael M. Uhlmann: Taming Big Government

Congress won't and the president can't.

Books in Brief

Reviews of Books

Angelo M. Codevilla: Intelligence Failures

A review of At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, by George Tenet
and Safe For Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA, by John Prados

Wilfred M. McClay: A Left-Handed Salute

A review of The Intellectuals and the Flag, by Todd Gitlin

Diana Schaub: The Greatness and Decline of American Oratory

A review of American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War
and American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton, edited by Ted Widmer

John C. Briggs: Statecraft and Wordcraft

A review of Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, by Douglas L.Wilson
and The Gettysburg Gospel: The Speech that Nobody Knows, by Gabor Boritt

Carnes Lord: The Great Triumvirate

A review of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, by John O’Sullivan

Joseph Tartakovsky: Pith and Pen

A review of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, edited by John Gross

Giuseppe Mazzotta: Between Riddle and Revelation

A review of Dante: the Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man, by Barbara Reynolds

Ross Douthat: Lord Have Mercy

A review of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens

Howard F. Ahmanson: Getting Religion

A review of Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem—and What We Should Do About It, by Noah Feldman

Randy E. Barnett: Constitutional Conventions

A review of Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It), by Sanford Levinson

Peter Augustine Lawler: Saving Liberalism from Itself

A review of Natural Law Liberalism, by Christopher Wolfe

Hadley Arkes: Building Democracy

A review of Architecture of Democracy: American Architecture and the Legacy of the Revolution, by Allan Greenberg

Daniel J. Mahoney: A Noble and Generous Soul

A review of Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life, by Hugh Brogan
and Democracy’s Guide, by Joseph Epstein

James W. Ceaser: Bodiless Politics

A review of A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State, by Pierre Manent, translated by Marc LePain

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: © Inequity

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