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		<title>The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4840</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this great country, for all its goodness, and for all the excellence of the medical care available to the more fortunate, Reid states that 20,000 American citizens die each year due to lack of health insurance and health care. (A more recently released Harvard study indicates more than twice that many.) The notion we have something to learn from other industrialized, wealthy societies often meets with considerable resistance, not because of the oft touted bugaboo of “socialized medicine,“ but simply because the ideas involved are foreign. ]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4131</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and <em>Waiting for the Etonians</em> will be a genuine treat for readers who have come to rely on his rigorous thinking, stylish phrase-making and carefully controlled rage.  The book’s subtitle, <em>Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England</em>, reflects his despair at the current state of left-wing (or “left-ish”) thinking in Britain, which he sees as almost irrevocably compromised by post-modernism, cultural relativism and the focus-group politics of New Labour.]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Rita, What Was She?</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/3047</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy.  Let’s get out of here!”  She slid off her stool and thrust her arm under mine. I heard whispered words somewhere inside my head, <em>O, heart, be still!</em>  The best I could manage was a stammer, “Miss Hayworth, I came with my wife.  That’s her there, with Margo and Eddie.”]]></description>
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		<title>Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2255</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000 people to work by repairing our infrastructure–our crumbling roads, bridges and schools.” What about our passenger train system, that lags sadly behind other developed countries–and is far worse than what Americans enjoyed decades ago?]]></description>
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		<title>A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1680</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over the last three hundred pages – did we will this? Are we guilty of this ending, if only by five percent? The brutal inanity of the dialogue is a warning that in Le Carré’s world, we don’t get to argue over the proportions and scale of what we set in motion.]]></description>
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		<title>Events Leading to America&#8217;s Involvement in Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1472</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rufus Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two years, or even less, seemed unavoidable. Beyond vague ideas of somehow rallying the Vietnamese in the South and contingency plans for creating stay-behind agents to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Vietminh, the U.S. had little idea of how to prevent a complete Communist take-over.]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1331</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed with Kashmir, which they have repeatedly tried and failed to wrest from India through war and militancy, and with a desire to “cut India down to size” by bleeding it through terrorism. What needs to happen is for a new political culture to prevail in Pakistan, one that privileges peace, dialogue, co-operation, tourism and trade instead of resentment, bigotry, militarism, intolerance and violence."]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1077</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor should we try to bring Ukraine into NATO. Ukraine is now independent and recognized by the world as such, but for most of its history its relationship with Russia has been, to say the least, very close; Kiev was the capital of the first Russian state. One assumes the Europeans will continue to prevent either Georgia or Ukraine from joining NATO; but this has not stopped George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, and John McCain from continuing to push the idea.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/875</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North Korean society is in a permanent mobilization. Party and government declarations are stripped down to single-line catchphrases. Through their endless repetition in banners, newspaper headlines, and media reports, these compact slogans become self-explanatory, simultaneously interpreting and constructing reality.]]></description>
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		<title>Imag(in)ing America</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/786</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and moral equivalent of the first U.S. moon landing; and as a European I am stuck down here on earth watching the Yankee space ship make its landing way up there,” Valli wrote.]]></description>
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		<title>Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/776</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades of the 20th century, a five-time presidential candidate for a third-party crusade against capitalism. He was a homegrown rebel, born and raised in Indiana, and a powerful speaker who knew how to translate socialism into an American idiom.]]></description>
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		<title>Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/511</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John G. Rodwan, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield it than like a hammer bludgeoning readers. Imagining a more plausible premise also would have helped.]]></description>
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		<title>Worries of a Liberal Conservative</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/458</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous people out there (and also here), but they may not always be so. Members of Italy’s Red Brigades, who were targeting Americans when I last worked in Rome, decided to turn to sales or accounting after their movement failed to attract public support and the government began to grab them. One former terrorist, Menachem Begin, later got the Nobel Peace Prize; another, Michael Collins, is revered as a creator of independent Ireland. Do I speak lightly about such things? I have lost four friends and former colleagues to terrorism. How many have you lost?]]></description>
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		<title>Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/396</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater shares of foreign economies—and thus gaining significant political and even military leverage over them—at our expense. Power has to be a fair balance among a range of tools, including the military, in order to be used effectively. We’re not doing that now, and I don’t see a good strategy coming out of Washington as to how to do it better."]]></description>
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		<title>American-Made by Nick Taylor</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/392</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered on horseback, archaeological digs were being excavated, and Orson Welles was directing an all-black version of Macbeth set in the Haitian jungle. Along with the carpenters and secretaries, painters, sculptors, writers, and actors had also joined the ranks, though with some confusion on how one measured an artist’s full working week. The WPA was feeding a need, both for the individual and the community.]]></description>
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		<title>Comrade J by Pete Earley</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/309</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the vandalism and looting that commenced after 1989, related by Tretyakov, that finally discouraged him, a professional through and through and a Russian patriot. The principles that led to his flight into the cloaking arms of the CIA and FBI are suggestive: leaving behind all his property and possessions, amounting to about two million dollars, was worth it because in his view Russia was ruined and things had gone beyond any hope of redemption in his lifetime. He wanted his daughter to grow up a free woman.]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Fascism? Jonah Goldberg Explains</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/303</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["If I had to pick a single overall theme in the book, I would say it’s to rectify the misunderstanding of what fascism is and to highlight the deep historical, ideological and emotional ties between progressivism (now called liberalism) and fascism."]]></description>
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		<title>Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/301</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able to turn and fire one return shot at Abu-Jamal that hit him in the abdomen. Danny then fell onto the sidewalk. Mumia Abu-Jamal approached him as he lay unarmed and wounded on the ground and pointed his 5 shot Charter Arms revolver at Danny. He fired three more shots at him; two pierced his jacket but did not hit him. Jamal then moved closer, bent down and placed his gun to within 6 inches of Danny’s face. He fired his final shot into Danny’s forehead and the bullet came to rest in his brain."]]></description>
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		<title>The Common Secret by Susan Wicklund</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/300</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her home was invaded in her absence. Both muddy boot prints and anti-abortion pamphlets were left behind. Her driveway was barricaded with barrels of concrete to keep her from going to work. Threatening phone calls and letters arrived regularly. Her daughter’s school was invaded and the child harassed to tears. She endured the death of colleagues who were gunned down by anti-abortion zealots. On occasion local authorities were indifferent to her plight, so an armored vest and a .38 caliber revolver became part of her clinic attire.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/280</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to. Italians say they do not have the American friends and acquaintances that they used to. What do embassy officers do with their time? Like many professionals in this country, they spend hours in front of computer screens, busy with e-mail. That may be work, but it has little to do with representing the United States.]]></description>
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		<title>Hanna Rosin Discusses God&#8217;s Harvard</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/267</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and Nietzsche for the first time. They may be alarmed, but they also may find those writers intoxicating."]]></description>
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		<title>The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy  by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/256</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Abourezk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and in their most recent book.  But they have had to spend a great deal of words and time assuring their readers that they are not anti-Semites, an accusation that has been the main force of the attack on them by the Israel Lobby.  There is a well-rehearsed chorus of Israel supporters lying in wait for whoever dares to criticize Israel’s policies, ready to pounce, catlike, and with great force on the unfortunate miscreant.  What is interesting is that I have yet to see any of Mearsheimer and Walt’s pro-Israel critics challenge the accuracy of what they have written.  Those critics rely on the charge of anti-Semitism, as well as vague, unspecified allegations of inaccuracies in what they have written.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/251</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time.  In his Europe, in a time of worldwide economic depression, a whole series of governments were run by “strong men.”  Besides Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany, there were authoritarian regimes if not dictatorships in the 1930s in Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, and Spain.  There were Blueshirts in Ireland, Blackshirts in Britain, and Vidkun Quisling’s followers in Norway.  At the eastern end of Europe lay the greatest dictatorship of them all, Stalin’s Soviet Union.]]></description>
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		<title>Look Homeward America by Bill Kauffman</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/234</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is not much impressed with modernity, rejecting with certitude McDonald’s transfatty fries, the inter-state highway system, television, the decline of literature, and a pernicious militarism that has sponsored the “great American diaspora.” ]]></description>
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		<title>A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/231</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform a society more or less overnight, and in the process “jumpstart democracy” in the entire Middle East—was a colossal act of hubris. And it was essentially a Roman act. It was undertaken with America-centric motives, and with little understanding of the people on the receiving end, or of their ability to oppose us. Those haunting words from Velleius—'as if on a picnic'—pretty much sum up our approach to this and to too many other things."]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/216</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of a new class of super-rich, while at the same time their middle and lower classes find themselves increasingly burdened by debt and worried whether their jobs will be “outsourced” to  India or China.]]></description>
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		<title>Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by  Lewis Dabney</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/196</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capshaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the truth, no matter where it lay or who it hurt."]]></description>
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		<title>The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/183</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.]]></description>
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		<title>The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East &#8211; by Robert Fisk</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/182</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his father won as a British officer in the First World War--which few people, and certainly not Fisk, see now as having been a war for civilization.]]></description>
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		<title>The Conservative Bookshelf by Chilton Williamson, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/171</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a small cadre of American writers whose gifts and talents are so significant that readers, at least the cognitive ones, are required to procure their latest efforts the moment they come off the press.]]></description>
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