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    The Cold War needs more great histories like this to show what a truly remarkable time it was, a period of nuclear terror, constant hair-trigger tensions, and the human dr

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    Early in his new book about the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, University of California law and politics professor Richard L.

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    This isn’t a great book. That’s not to say it’s useless. It has value, like a recipe for mashed potatoes or buttermilk pancakes.

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    Slanted is Attkisson’s most recent effort to expose the biases and corruption in the mainstream media even as she laments ‘the death of the news as we once knew it.’”

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    “May we find the courage . . . to make this land . . . a more just, more reasonable, and more tolerant place.”

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    Ever wonder what crime writers other crime writers read when not murdering and leaving corpses all over the place themselves?

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    “To Boomers, the Gabor sisters were a TV staple. . . . For decades they were Hollywood blondes and Broadway glamour gals. And then they were no more.”

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    “David Lesch’s Syria is timely, relevant, and to the point, providing the educated reader with everything needed to make sense of what is happening in that country.”

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    Whether you agree or disagree with the idea of mixing zombies with calculus, Adams is a craftsman of the first order.

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    “Chapman’s tenacity in sacrificing himself to save the lives of his comrades as other forces attempt to rescue him truly stand out as an example of the best America has to offer . .

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    “. . . interesting . . . attractive to an audience much broader than social scientists.”

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     This is a fantastic account for both general and academic audiences.

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    “Melvin A. Goodman is a damn fine author, and National Insecurity is a damning assessment of U.S. defense spending and covert operations.”

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    Anna Feigenbaum’s Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today is a poignant inquiry into the relationship between a corporate-capitalist system of governing and its implic

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    “. . . with More Room in a Broken Heart, we hear the ballad of Carly, sung long and sultry, in a voice as crisp as a winter’s night. . . .