The
AmSpecBlog is proud to present a new feature, our Friday book
highlights. TAS receives dozens of review copies of
upcoming books each week. We pull those that catch our collective
eye and link to them. Inspirational hat tip to Glenn Reynolds's
"In the Mail" feature.
Condi and Hillary
together? They joined forces for an AIDS fundraiser Wednesday
night, but Dick Morris has them squaring off for the 2008
presidential election in his forthcoming book, Condi vs.
Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race.
Remember those reports last year of the apparent casing of a
Northwest flight by terrorists? In Terror in the
Skies: Why 9/11 Could Happen Again, Flight 327 passenger
Annie Jacobsen details the federal government's ineptitude in
securing the airlines from terrorism.
In God's
Choice, George Weigel gives his account of the election of
Pope Benedict XVI, including an assessment of John Paul II's
papacy.
Sean Wilentz, New Republic contributing editor,
Princeton history professor, and notorious Clinton defender, offers
a remarkable tome, The Rise of
American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. In the
preface, Wilentz argues the story of American democracy was neither
inevitable nor unanimous.
In paperback: Mary Eberstadt's Home-Alone
America: Why Today's Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More
Troubled Than Ever Before. Eberstadt defends her
first edition in a new preface. Missing from the development of
feminism, Eberstadt argues, is the "darker side of this massive
experiment: namely, the sharp rise in child and adolescent problems
that has occurred alongside this increasing adult, and particularly
maternal, exodus from home."
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