Walter Russell Mead

Faust's painstakingly researched account of the Civil War dead details how they died, what happened to their bodies, how families received the news, how they mourned, and how the North and the South memorialized the slain.

David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, shows how President Barack Obama is the latest in a long line of U.S. leaders attempting to cope with problems that become more urgent and less tractable with every passing year.

Readers looking for clues as to how the Obama administration might seek to reposition U.S. foreign policy could can consult this book for a wide-ranging and candid presentation of some of the principal themes in American political thought at this critical moment.

Trudeau brings an encyclopedic knowledge of the copious controversial literature on this subject to this book and takes readers in Sherman's footsteps on a day-by-day account of the march, using journals, newspapers, and other sources to re-create everything from the weather to the conflicting guesses among the Confederates and the Yankees about where, exactly, Sherman was headed.

Was George W. Bush the heir of Woodrow Wilson? That is the important question addressed by the four authors who created this short but lucid contribution to the U.S. foreign policy debate.

If it hopes to bring peace to the Middle East, the Obama administration must put Palestinian politics and goals first.