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.”

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Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.

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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.

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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.

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Back in 2008 the United States had what was called a “California style” referendum. Empire or No Empire. Simple as that.

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In 1985 I traveled to the United States for a lecture tour. I was then still the co-director of Al Haq the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, a human rights organization which I helped establish six years earlier.

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My worry was that this might be another leftist book that glibly made analogies between Israel and South Africa. I worried that the story would be more about being a privileged white western woman living with Palestinian others and not enough about the Arab Israeli citizens of this town and their lives.

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Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing to take steps toward running for President in 2008.

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Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the United States, James Knox Polk.

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Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published by an academic press. The author is a professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska, a public institution which is also the seat of the publisher.

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After winning reelection in 2004, President George W. Bush made restructuring Social Security his top domestic priority.

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You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his thinking and his writing are so broad, rich, and in-depth that all but the most iconoclastic, the most radicalized, is forced to consider his perspectives.

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Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite its title it will not tell them what they want to know.

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A ghost is a spirit who won’t stay dead.

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He finished his schooling in England and then moved on to a period of sexually charged radical politics where he met Sasha, a diminutive, hobbled, leftist action junkie who will reappear throughout his life.

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