The United States
In this eminently readable book, Zelizer has provided an admirably balanced account of the politics of U.S. foreign policy that will be useful to teachers and students of the subject, as well as general readers with an interest in it.
Less useful as a conventional history than as a glimpse into the process of how American Muslims are developing their identity, Curtis' book never quite manages to define its subject or tell a coherent story.
Edited by Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills
In this slender but illuminating volume, Walzer and Mills have assembled essays on past military withdrawals and on the tasks facing Americans designing an exit from Iraq.
The sesquicentennial of the onset of the American Civil War will arrive in 2011; this engagingly written and beautifully researched study of the role of guerrilla warfare in the conflict will serve as a helpful antidote to the sentimentality and nostalgia sure to attend the event.
Anyone who seeks to understand U.S. politics must come to grips with the South; anyone who wants to know the South must read Flannery O'Connor.
The delegation of governmental functions to private companies has become standard practice, however, the scope, implications, and wisdom of it remain unclear, which is why One Nation Under Contract is so useful.
