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Vol. 090 Issue 003 (August 1 2007)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Bye-Bye Bush
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bye-Bye Bush Forall practical purposes, President Bush’s tenure can be said to have ended, even though he will not leave office until January 20,...
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Ehud Barak Redux
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RABINOVICH, ABRAHAM
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Facing a More Complex Challenge Ehud Barak Redux By Abraham Rabinovich Jerusalem Ifirst became aware of a distinction between West Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians in the 1980s, when I...
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Serbia's Slow Transition
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KASTLEMAN, REBECCA
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As the Next Generation Watches and Wonders Serbia’s Slow Transition By Rebecca Kastleman Belgrade The Capital of Serbia taunts the fledgling visitor with its uncanny sense of freedom: Cars...
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The Roots of World War II
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FRANKEL, MAX
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Summer Books The Roots of World War II By Max Frankel THE LESSONS that pour from Ian Kershaw’s reenactment of the planet’s plunge into World War II offer a sobering reminder of the...
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A Willful Blurring of Memory
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MERKIN, DAPHNE
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A Willful Blurring of Memory Peeling the Onion By Günter Grass Translated by Michael Henry Heim Harcourt. 425 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Essayist and critic;...
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Profiles in Military Leadership
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O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
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Profiles in Military Leadership 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century By Stanley Weintraub Free Press. 541 pp. $30.00. Partners in...
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Exploiting a Superpower Standoff
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HEILBRUNN, JACOB
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Exploiting a Superpower Standoff The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 By Frederick Taylor HarperCollins. 486 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Contributor, New York “Times...
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Memoir of a Chinese Maverick
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ROSEN, STANLEY
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Memoir of a Chinese Maverick Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China By Kang Zhengguo Translated by Susan Wilf Norton. 455 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Stanley Rosen Director, East...
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'The Things We Saw!'
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SOSIN, GENE
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‘The Things We Saw!’ Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag By Nicolas Werth Translated by Steven Rendall Princeton. 223 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, “Sparks of Liberty:...
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Seeing Roosevelt in Full Color
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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Seeing Ro o s evelt in Full Color FDR By Jean Edward Smith Random House. 860 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor emeritus of history, Columbia University; editor,...
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Not the Devil We Know
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BERNSTEIN, R.B.
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Not the Devil We Know Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr By Nancy Isenberg Viking. 540 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by R.B. Bernstein Author, “Thomas Jefferson”; forthcoming, “The...
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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KANFER, STEFAN
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject By Meryle Secrest Knopf. 242 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Stefan Kanfer Meryle Secrest’s title...
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The State of the Fourth Estate
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HABERMAN, CLYDE
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The State of the Fourth Estate American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media By Neil Henry University of California Press. 326 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Clyde...
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Making a Mess
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction Making aMess By Brooke Allen WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between literature and romance fiction? It’s easy enough to place honest practitioners of the latter art, like Georgette Heyer...
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The Recurring Problem
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KAMINE, MARK
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The Recurring Problem The Ministry of Special Cases By Nathan Englander Knopf. 339 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Contributor, “TLS,” New York “Times Book Review,” the...
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Touching on History and Destiny
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ROSENFELD, ALVIN H.
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Touching on History and Destiny The Yiddish Policemen’s Union By Michael Chabon HarperCollins. 411 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Professor of English; director, Institute for...
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Advantages of a Burqa
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REICH, TOVA
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Advantages of a Burqa A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini Riverhead. 372 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Tova Reich Author, “My Holocaust” THE STUNNING SUCCESS of Khaled Hosseini’s first...
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Terror and Narcissism
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SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON
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Terror and Narcissism A Day at the Beach By Helen Schulman Houghton Mifflin. 214 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Author, “The Writing on the Wall”; forthcoming, “The...
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'Heat, Then Fuel, Then Fire'
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LORENTZEN, CHRISTIAN
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‘Heat, Then Fuel, Then Fire’ Falling Man By Don DeLillo Scribner. 256 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Christian Lorentzen Associate editor, “Harper’s” Don Delillo’s 9/11 novel offers...
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Trapped Between Two Worlds
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WEBER, KATHARINE
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Trapped Between Tw o Worlds Free Food for Millionaires By Min Jin Lee Warner. 562 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Katharine Weber Author, “Triangle,” “The Little Women,” “The Music...
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Novel Expressions of Identity
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetr y Novel Expressions of Identity By Phoebe Pettingell WHENINAHANDFUL OF WORDS they capture the salient details of a particular locale or a signal event, poets have something in...
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After the Graphic Novel
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JACOBSON, SID
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Evolution of an Art Form After the Graphic Nove l By Sid Jacobson “I T’S A GIANT LEAP from Jughead to The 9/11 Report,” began an article in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post just about a...
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