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Number 11
Highfalutin Abstractions, by Barton Swaim
A review of College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be , by Andrew Delbanco
Contraception Con, by Ashley McGuire
A review of Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, by Mary Eberstadt
Philosopher Statesman, by Timothy Caspar
A review of Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, by Robert Harris and Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome, by Robert Harris
Debating Originalism, by Joel Alicea
Number 10
Slavery and the Liberal Aesthetic, by Nicholas Buccola
A review of Andrew Delbanco's The Abolitionist Imagination
In But Not Of, by Jon A. Shields
A review of The Man in the Middle: An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era, by Timothy S. Goeglein and To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, by James Davison Hunter
Crime and Punishment, byJennifer E. Walsh
A review of The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control, by Franklin E. Zimring and The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, by WilliamJ. Stuntz
Number 9
Evangenlicals and the Right, by Joseph M. Knippenberg
A review of D.G. Hart's From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin:Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism
The Road Back to Liberty, by Lane Scott
Drifting Daughters, by Margaret D. McGaughey
Number 8
Philosophical Pragmatist in Chief?, by Tevi Troy
A review of James T. Kloppenberg's Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition
More than a Pastime, by Guy Burnett
A review of Andrea Wulf's Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
Coming to America, by Michael McDonald
A review of Alexis de Tocqueville's Letters from America(translated by Frederick Brown) and Leo Damrosch's Tocqueville's Discovery of America
Number 7
Give Peace a Chance?, by Andrew Busch
Another Vietnam, by Thomas Bruscino
Founder of Modernity, by Glenn Moots
A review of Lee Ward's John Locke and Modern Life
The Case for Iowa, by Jon Lauck
A review ofGrassroots Rules: How the Iowa Caucus Helps Elect American Presidents, by Christopher Hull;
The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event, by Hugh Winebrenner and Dennis J. Goldford; and
Why Iowa?: How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process, by David P. Redlawsk, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Todd Donovan.
Number 6
Hungering for Violence, by James Kirchick
A review of Thanassis Cambanis's A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel
Disease of Conceit, by Michael Long
A review of Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in Americaand David Yaffe's Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown
Delightful Instruction, by James V. Schall, S.J.
A review of Richard G. Stevens's Political Philosophy: An Introduction
In Every Generation, by Michael M. Rosen
A review of Giulio Meotti's A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism
Number 5
Freedom's March, by James G. Basker
A review ofSeymour Drescher's Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery
Churchill at War, by Justin D. Lyons
A review of Carlo D'Este's Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945; and Max Hastings's Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945
All-American, by Kimberly Shankman
A review of Jeanne Heidler and David Heidler's Henry Clay: The Essential American
Number 4
Washington Square, by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.
A look at Henry James's classic novel, especially what it has to say about authority in republican times.
Number 3
Washington's Virtues, by Peter N. McNamara
A review of George Washington: America’s First Progressive, by W. B. Allen;
The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Genius of an American Icon, by John Ferling;
and The Political Philosophy of George Washington, by Jeffry H. Morrison
Wrong Answer, by David Tucker
A review of A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq, by Mark Moyar
The Great Healer, by Joshua Parens
A review of Maimonides: The Life of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, by Joel L. Kraemer
Be Prepared, by Tevi Troy
A review of The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic, by Alan Sipress
Number 2
Lessons from Venus, by Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey
A review of La Pensée Française à l’Epreuve de l’Europe, by Justine Lacroix
The Heroic Effort of Booker T. Washington, by Peter W. Schramm
A review of Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington, by Robert J. Norrell
The Case of Jefferson and Hemings, by Kathryn Moore and D.M. Giangreco
A review of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed
and In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal, by William G. Hyland, Jr.
Number 1
Lives of Johnson, by Jack Lynch
A review of Samuel Johnson: A Biography, by Peter Martin, Jr.
and Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, by Jeffrey Meyers
Quarreling with God, by Louis Greenspan
A review of Emil L. Fackenheim: Philosopher, Theologian, Jew, edited by Sharon Portnoff, James A. Diamond, and Martin D. Yaffe
Necessity Knows No Law, by Stephen F. Knott
Abraham Lincoln embraced the idea that the battle to control public opinion was as critical as the battle on the front lines.
