Walter Russell Mead

Fischer gets so caught up with the complexities of the subject that he never manages to pull together an integrated portrait of Hitler’s view of the United States. As a result, this interesting and well-researched book never quite fulfills its potential.

Future chief justices would do well to read this book in preparation for their duties. The rest of us should thank Stevens for a lifetime of service and for the rarest kind of political book: a genuinely memorable memoir.

James Madison was among the most secretive of the Founding Fathers; Brookhiser’s engaging biography gives readers a deeper understanding of who he was and what he thought.

Although Obama’s election made both blacks and whites more optimistic about the future of race relations, Dawson argues convincingly that the road to a truly postracial society remains arduous and long.

This hard-hitting examination of the role of Fannie Mae in the housing bubble and the U.S. financial crisis features a clear plot, riveting detail, and a sense of burning anger.

Johnston recommends ways that the U.S. foreign policy apparatus can minimize the harm religion can do and, where possible, integrate a deeper religious understanding into both the development and the execution of its strategy.

Marable asserts that the real life of Malcolm X was sadder and more complicated than the airbrushed version Malcolm’s collaborator, the journalist Alex Haley, put forth in the posthumously completed autobiography.

Kieser, a German Swiss scholar, brings his backgrounds in Ottoman studies and Protestant theology together to offer a rewarding perspective on the complex relationship between the United States and what he calls the "nearest East."

As the United States lurched toward civil war 150 years ago, the political leaders in both the North and the South, Thomas writes in this concise book, were profoundly ignorant of their true situation.

C Street takes readers from the halls of Congress to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan and the hotels of Uganda to show the vast conspiracy at work.

Do Harvard professors of history have a more complex, nuanced, and grounded understanding of the American Revolution than rank-and-file Tea Party protesters? If anybody was in any doubt, The Whites of Their Eyes lays the question to rest

What does rise of the Tea Party movement mean for U.S. foreign policy? Since today's populists have little interest in creating a liberal world order, U.S. policymakers will have to find some way to satisfy their angry domestic constituencies while also working effectively in the international arena.