The United States
As a former editor of The New Republic, Beinart stands well within the tradition he sets out to examine: that of progressives who seek to express liberal ideas in U.S. foreign policy.
This document provides helpful insight into the mindset of the Obama administration in its early days.
Historians have a hard time making Henry Clay a compelling figure, and although the Heidlers have written a useful and clarifying account that is a pleasure to read, they have not created the kind of electrifying biography of Clay that could explain his appeal and importance to the twenty-first century.
Nugent's book provides an irreproachable and clear summary of the conventional view of the American Progressive movement and its historical importance.
This account, by a young Harvard-trained anthropologist, of two years of field study at an elite New England boarding school vividly demonstrates how an anthropologist's assumptions largely determine what he or she sees in the field.
