The United States
Fleshler provides a moderate and nuanced view of the centrist and center-right organizations that dominate Jewish advocacy on Middle East issues, and his descriptions of their smaller but scrappy rivals on the left are useful, too.
This well-researched and stimulating book makes an important addition to the growing literature that interprets U.S. foreign policy from a historical perspective.
This study of U.S. nation-building efforts in Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq both challenges and confirms Churchill's approach, where winning the war first was the most important task.
This brisk and accessible book summarizes the policies and controversies over U.S. immigration between 1892 and 1954, when Ellis Island was used to process immigrants to the United States and/or hold those scheduled for deportation.
The latest volume of Starr's magisterial history of California covers the post-World War II era, when California's prosperity and cultural exuberance astonished the world -- and when many of the seeds of the state's current travails were sown.
