The United States
Suri’s core conclusion is sound: nation building is difficult, expensive, and unpleasant, and at best it can be only partially successful -- but it is often unavoidable.
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.
This is a book that the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street will both reject.
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.
Edited by Michael Kazin
Except in its language, which is uniformly accessible and mercifully free of the jargon that plagues contemporary scholarship, this encyclopedia reflects the atmosphere and the concerns of the contemporary academic community as effectively as Diderot’s encyclopedia reflected the French Enlightenment.
