American Politics 2011
Fall 2011 Requirements and Readings
Course Description
This course covers a variety of issues at the forefront of political debate in the United States. It is a reading and writing intensive course. Readings come predominantly from The New York Review of Books and the books reviewed therein. Students will be expected to write several short essays on the issues covered in the course such as the privatization of the social safety net, the militarization of US foreign policy, corporate and political corruption, economic polarization, the erosion of civil and human rights, the state of the environment, the political influence of religious fundamentalists, homophobia in US political culture, elections and campaign finance reform, wikileaks and government secrecy, polarization of the electorate, the rightward drift of the federal courts, presidents and their histories, health care reform, the information age, prison reform, political thinking, and US education policy.
Each week's readings consists of various articles which are required, followed by recommendations of books you may wish to follow up on for the required papers a presentations. The recommended books are not exhaustive. Many other books are mentioned in the articles and may be well worth reading, but the recommended books are those which are likely to be most informative. You are expected to read the articles BEFORE the date listed on the syllabus. These are the readings that will be addressed during the class session on the date listed.
Three short (5 pages in length) papers and one long paper (not to exceed 15 pages) are required over the course of the semester. Each short paper must address the readings for one of the topics in the course (each topic is in "teal" colored text on the online syllabus). The long paper must go beyond the articles and include some of the books reviewed in the articles. You are not, however, limited to a single theme, but can combine different topics covered in the readings. For example, you might want to write about American political culture and its impact on US foreign Policy, or the impact of war and terrorism on US political culture, or media and democracy, or corporations and the environment. In short, for the long paper you can mix and match topics. One short paper addressing a set of readings during the appropriate month must be turned in any time in September, the second short paper can be turned in any time in October, the third short paper can be turned in any time in November, and the final paper is due during the time scheduled for the final exam in this course.
Participation, including substantial reading beyond required articles, is essential for the success of this course. I expect lively discussions of the topic covered each week and that means you have to come to class already immmersed in the debates on the topic. Each of you will be responsible for picking one book each month from the topics covered during September, October, and November/December. Notify me immediately when you decide which book you will read. On the day the book is listed on the syllabus, you will be responsible for leading a fifteeen minute discussion of the book. In addition, every class session you must come in with comments ready on the readings for that class session. You will be graded on participation each class session. You will not be graded on the frequeny of comments, but on the quality of your comments. The average of those grades will be your participation grade.
GRADES
Participation = 25%
Long Paper = 30%
September Paper = 15%
October Paper = 15%
November Paper = 15%
News Sources
- August 31: Introduction to the Course
- September 5: Obama
Joseph Lelyveld, "Who Is Barack Obama?", The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick, NYRB, May 13, 2010, Volume 57, Number 8.
Frank Rich "Why Has He Fallen Short?", The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter, NYRB, August 19, 2010, Volume 57, Number 13.
Michael Tomasky, "Can Obama Rise Again?", Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics by Ari Berman, The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism by Roger D. Hodge, NYRB, December 9, 2010, Volume 57, Number 19.
Michael Tomasky, "Obama at the Edge", Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House by Richard Wolffe, NYRB, February 10, 2011, Volume 58, Number 2.
Garry Wills, His Finest Hour, NYRB, February 10, 2011, Volume 58, Number 2.
Elizabeth Drew, "Obama and the Republicans", NYRB, March 10, 2011, Volume 58, Number 4.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Apple Fell Far from the Tree", The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family by Peter Firstbrook, NYRB, May 12, 2011, Volume 58, Number 8.
Ian Buruma, "A Free Spirit", A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott, NYRB, May 26, 2011, Volume 58, Number 9.
David Bromwich, "Obama: His Words & His Deeds," NYRB, July 14, 2011, volume 58, Number 12.
Books
David Remnick, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, Knopf.
Peter Firstbrook, The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family, Crown.
Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Simon and Schuster.
Ari Berman Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape
American Politics, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Roger D. Hodge, The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American
Liberalism, Harper.
Richard Wolffe, Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House, Crown.
Janny Scott, A Free Spirit: A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's
Mother, Riverhead.
Larry Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age,
Russell Sage Foundation/Princeton University Press.
- September 7: Economics
Jeffrey Friedman and Jeff Madrick, "What Caused the Collapse?: An Exchange", NYRB January 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 1.
Roger E. Alcaly, "How They Killed the Economy", Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis by John B. Taylor, The Fundamental Principles of Financial Regulation by Markus Brunnermeier, Andrew Crockett, Charles Goodhart, Avinash D. Persaud, and Hyun Shin, NYRB, March 25, 2010, Volume 57, Number 5.
Jeff Madrick, "Can They Stop the Great Recession?", NYRB April 8, 2010, Volume 57, Number 6.
Benjamin M. Friedman, "Two Roads to Our Financial Catastrophe," How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, by John Cassidy, I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, by John Lanchester, NYRB, April 29, 2010, Volume 57, Number 7.
Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, "Our Giant Banking Crisis—What to Expect", NYRB, May 13, 2010, Volume 57, Number 8.
Jeff Madrick, "At the Heart of the Crash", The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis, NYRB June 10, 2010, Volume 57, Number 10.
Paul Volcker, "The Time We Have Is Growing Short", NYRB, June 24, 2010, Volume 57, Number 11.
Paul Krugman and Robin Wells," The Slump Goes On: Why?", NYRB September 30, 2010, Volume 57, Number 14.
Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, "The Way Out of the Slump," The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession, by Richard C. Koo, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan, Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm, NYRB, October 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 15.
Don Peck, "Can The Middle Class Be Saved?", The Atlantic, September 2011, pp. 60-78.
Books
John B. Taylor, Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused,
Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis, Hoover.
Markus Brunnermeier, Andrew Crockett, Charles Goodhart, Avinash D. Persaud, and Hyun
Shin, The Fundamental Principles of Financial Regulation, International Center
for Monetary and Banking Studies.
John Cassidy, How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux.
John Lanchester, I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay,
Simon and Schuster.
Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Norton.
Richard C. Koo, The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great
Recession, Wiley.
Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy,
Princeton University Press.
Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm, Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future
of Finance, Penguin.
Joseph E. Stiglitz Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World
Economy, Norton.
Charles Gasparino, The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government
Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System, Harper Business.
Congressional Oversight Panel, Taking Stock: What Has the Troubled Asset Relief Program
Achieved?.
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of
Financial Folly, Princeton University Press.
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook, April 2009: Crisis and Recovery.
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook, October 2009: Sustaining
the Recovery.
Don Peck, Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures & What We
Can Do About It, Crown.
- September 12: The Supreme Court
Stephen Breyer, "On Handguns and the Law", NYRB, August 19, 2010, Volume 57, Number 13.
David Cole, "The Roberts Court vs. Free Speech", Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project a case decided by the Supreme Court, June 24, 2010, NYRB, August 19, 2010, Volume 57, Number 13.
Anthony Lewis, "How the Supreme Court Should and Should Not Work," Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View, by Stephen Breyer, NYRB, November 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 17.
John Paul Stevens, "On the Death Sentence", Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition, by David Garland, NYRB, December 23, 2010, Volume 57, Number 20.
Ronald Dworkin, The Court's Embarrassingly Bad Decisions, NYRB, May 26, 2011, Volume 58, Number 9.
Books
Stephen Breyer, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View, Knopf.
David Garland, Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition,
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press.
Ronald Dworkin, The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing, New York
Review Books.
- September 14: Economics II
George Soros, "The Real Danger to the Economy", NYRB, November 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 17.
John Cassidy, "The Economy: Why They Failed", NYRB, December 9, 2010, Volume 57, Number 19.
Jeff Madrick, "How Can the Economy Recover?", Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro, Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis by Anatole Kaletsky, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, by Robert B. Reich, NYRB, December 23, 2010, Volume 57, Number 20.
Paul Krugman, and Robin Wells, "Where Do We Go from Here?", NYRB, January 13, 2011, Volume 58, Number 1.
Robert Skidelsky and Felix Martin, "For a National Investment Bank," NYRB, April 28, 2011, Volume 58, Number 7.
Jeff Madrick, "The Wall Street Leviathan", NYRB, April 28, 2011, Volume 58, Number 7.
Michael Tomasky, "The Budget Battles on Which His Reelection Depends", NYRB, May 26, 2011, Volume 58, Number 9.
Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, "The Busts Keep Getting Bigger: Why?", Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, by Jeff Madrick, NYRB, July 14, 2011, Volume 58, Number 12.
Elizabeth Drew, "What Were They Thinking?", NYRB, August 18, 2011, Volume 58, Number 13.
Bruce Western and Jake Rosenfeld, Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality, American Sociological Review, August 2011, Volume 76: 513.
Books
Robert B. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, Vintage.
Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro, Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin
Runs Through Washington and How to Reclaim American Prosperity, FT Press.
Anatole Kaletsky, Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis,
Public Affairs.
Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World
Economy, W. W. Norton & Company.
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Final Report of the National Commission on the
Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States, Public Affairs.
Charles Ferguson, Inside Job.
Viral V. Acharya, Thomas F. Cooley, Matthew P. Richardson, and Ingo Walter, eds.,
Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance,
Wiley.
Randall S. Kroszner and Robert J. Shiller, Reforming US Financial Markets: Reflections
Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank, edited and with an introduction by
Benjamin M. Friedman, MIT Press.
Jeff Madrick, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to
the Present, Knopf.
- September 19: Supreme Court Justices
Anthony Lewis, "A Hero of American Justice", Louis D. Brandeis: A Life, by Melvin I. Urofsky, NYRB, February 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 2.
Anthony Lewis, "A Supreme Difference", American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, by Joan Biskupic, John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life, by Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman, NYRB June 10, 2010, Volume 57, Number 10.
Ronald Dworkin, "The Temptation of Elena Kagan", NYRB, August 19, 2010, Volume 57, Number 13.
Anthony Lewis, "The Most Skillful Liberal", Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel, NYRB, April 7, 2011, Volume 58, Number 6.
Books
Melvin I. Urofsky, Louis D. Brandeis: A Life, Pantheon.
Joan Biskupic, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia, Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman, John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life, Northern
Illinois University Press.
Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel, Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt.
Richard Posner, How Judges Think, Harvard University Press.
- September 21: Foreign Policy
David Cole, "Getting Away with Torture," NYRB January 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 1.
David Cole, "They Did Authorize Torture, But...", NYRB April 8, 2010, Volume 57, Number 6.
David Cole, "What to Do About Guantanamo?", eds., The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law edited by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, by Charles Fried and Gregory Fried, The Guantanamo Review Task Force Final Report, NYRB, October 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 15.
David Cole, "Guantanamo: The New Challenge to Obama", NYRB, June 9, 2011, Volume 58, Number 10.
Charles Simic, "Witness to Horror", Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War by Mark Danner, NYRB, February 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 2.
Books
Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, eds., The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison
Outside the Law, NYU Press.
Charles Fried and Gregory Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential
Power in the Age of Terror, Norton.
The Guantanamo Review Task Force Final Report.
Mark Danner, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War, Nation Books.
Office of Professional Responsibility, Department of Justice Investigation into the Office
of Legal Counsel's Memoranda Concerning Issues Relating to the Central
Intelligence Agency's Use of 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques' on Suspected Terrorists.
Deputy Attorney General David Margolis, Memorandum for the Attorney General
- September 26: Afghanistan
Pankaj Mishra, "Afghanistan: The India & Kashmir Connection", NYRB January 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 1.
Rory Stewart, "Afghanistan: What Could Work", NYRB January 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 1.
Ahmed Rashid, "A Deal with the Taliban?," My Life with the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef, translated from the Pashto and edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, NYRB, February 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 3.
David Miliband, "How to End the War in Afghanistan", NYRB, April 29, 2010, Volume 57, Number 7.
Steve Coll, "Kashmir: The Time Has Come", Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir, by Arif Jamal, The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir, by Howard B. Schaffer, NYRB September 30, 2010, Volume 57, Number 14.
Sue Halpern, "Brotherhood", Restrepo, a film by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, War by Sebastian Junger, NYRB, August 19, 2010, Volume 57, Number 13.
Christopher de Bellaigue, "The War with the Taliban", Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield, NYRB, October 28, 2010, Volume 57, Number 16.
Ahmed Rashid, "The Way Out of Afghanistan", NYRB, January 13, 2011, Volume 58, Number 1.
Jonas Gahr Store, "Why We Must Talk", NYRB, April 7, 2011, Volume 58, Number 6.
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan: Al-Qaeda Now, NYRB, June 9, 2011, Volume 58, Number 10.
Books
Abdul Salam Zaeef, My Life with the Taliban, Columbia University Press.
Thomas Barfield, Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Princeton University Press.
Arif Jamal, Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir, Melville House.
Howard B. Schaffer, The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir, Brookings
Institution Press.
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, Restrepo.
Sebastian Junger, War, Twelve Books.
- September 28: Elections
Jonathan Raban, "Sarah and Her Tribe", Going Rogue: An American Life, by Sarah Palin, Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar, by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, NYRB January 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 1.
Ronald Dworkin, "The Devastating Decision", NYRB, February 25, 2010, Volume 57, Number 3.
Floyd Abrams and Ronald Dworkin, "The 'Devastating Decision': An Exchange", NYRB, April 29, 2010, Volume 57, Number 7.
Jonathan Raban, "At the Tea Party", NYRB, March 25, 2010, Volume 57, Number 5.
Mark Lilla, "The Tea Party Jacobins," The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart, by Bill Bishop, with Robert G. Cushing Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again by David Frum, Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe, Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism ,by Marc J. Hetherington, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal, NYRB, May 27, 2010, Volume 57, Number 9.
Michael Tomasky, "The Elections: How Bad for Democrats?", NYRB, October 28, 2010, Volume 57, Number 16.
Ronald Dworkin, Mark Lilla, David Bromwich, et al., "The Historic Election: Four Views", NYRB, December 9, 2010, Volume 57, Number 19.
Gordon S. Wood, "No Thanks for the Memories", The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History, by Jill Lepore, NYRB, January 13, 2011, Volume 58, Number 1.
Heather Horn, "How Did Inequality in the U.S. Get So Out of Hand?", The Atlantic Wire.
Janet Malcolm, "Special Needs", NYRB, April 7, 2011, Volume 58, Number 6.
Andrew Hacker, "The Next Election: The Surprising Reality", NYRB, August 18, 2011, Volume 58, Number 13.
Books
Bill Bishop, with Robert G. Cushing, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of
Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart, Houghton Mifflin.
David Frum, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again, Doubleday.
Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe, Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds
and Big Government, Threshold.
Marc J. Hetherington, Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the
Demise of American Liberalism, Princeton University Press.
Max Blumenthal, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the
Party, Nation Book.
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics, Simon & Schuster.
Sarah Palin, Going Rogue: An American Life, Harper.
Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and
Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar, Public Affairs.
Jill Lepore, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History, Princeton University Press.
Larry J. Sabato, ed., Pendulum Swing. Longman.
Kate Zernike, Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America. Times Books.
- October 3: Health Care
Jerome Groopman, "Health Care: Who Knows'Best'?", NYRB February 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 2.
Matthew Pincus, Richard Ganz, M.D., Jerome Groopman, "Health Care: Who Knows Best?", NYRB April 8, 2010, Volume 57, Number 6.
Michael Tomasky, "The Money Fighting Health Care Reform", NYRB April 8, 2010, Volume 57, Number 6.
Michael Tomasky "After the Victory, What?", NYRB, April 29, 2010, Volume 57, Number 7.
Jonathan Oberlander and Theodore R. Marmor, "The Health Bill Explained at Last", NYRB, August 19, 2010, Volume 57, Number 13.
Arnold Relman, "Health Care: The Disquieting Truth", Tracking Medicine: A Researcher's Quest to Understand Health Care, by John E. Wennberg, NYRB September 30, 2010, Volume 57, Number 14.
Books
John E. Wennberg, Tracking Medicine: A Researcher's Quest to Understand Health Care,
Oxford University Press.
Laura Katz Olson, The Politics of Medicaid, Columbia University Press.
T.R. Reid., The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and
Fairer Health Care, Penguin.
- October 5: Health Care II
Marcia Angell, "FDA: This Agency Can Be Dangerous", Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA, by Daniel Carpenter, NYRB September 30, 2010, Volume 57, Number 14.
Daniel Carpenter and Marcia Angell, "How Dangerous is the FDA?: An Exchange", NYRB, October 28, 2010, Volume 57, Number 16.
David Cole, "Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional?", NYRB, February 24, 2011, Volume 58, Number 3.
Francis Barry McCarthy, Cheryl Mendelson, David Cole,"Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional?: An Exchange", NYRB, April 7, 2011, Volume 58, Number 6.
Helen Epstein, Flu Warning: Beware the Drug Companies!, NYRB, May 12, 2011, Volume 58, Number 8.
Marcia Angell, "The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?", The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, by Irving Kirsch, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, by Robert Whitaker, Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis, by Daniel Carlat, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), by American Psychiatric Association, NYRB, Part 1: June 23, 2011, and Part 2: July 14, 2011, Volume 58, Number 11.
Marcia Angell, "The Illusions of Psychiatry", The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, by Irving Kirsch, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, by Robert Whitaker, Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis, by Daniel Carlat, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), by American Psychiatric Association, NYRB, July 14, 2011, Volume 58, Number 12.
Books
Daniel Carpenter, Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical
Regulation at the FDA, Princeton University Press.
Simon Lazarus, Mandatory Health Insurance: Is It Constitutional?, American Constitution
Society Issue Brief.
Irving Kirsch, The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, Basic Book.
Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and
the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, Crown.
Daniel Carlat, Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor's Revelations
About a Profession in Crisis, Free Press.
- October 10: Prisons and Human Rights
David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow, "The Rape of American Prisoners", NYRB, March 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 4.
David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow, "The Way to Stop Prison Rape", NYRB, March 25, 2010, Volume 57, Number 5.
David Cole, "Hope and Betrayal on Death Row", The Autobiography of an Execution, by David R. Dow, In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, by Wilbert Rideau, NYRB, November 25, 2010, Volume 57, Number 18.
David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow, "Prison Rape and the Government", NYRB, March 24, 2011, Volume 58, Number 5.
Books
David R. Dow, The Autobiography of an Execution, Twelve.
Wilbert Rideau, In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, Knopf.
National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Report, National Prison Rape
Elimination Commission.
Allen J. Beck, Paige M. Harrison, and others, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and
Jails Reported by Inmates, 2008-09, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
- October 12: Presidents: Bush
David Bromwich, "The Curveball of Karl Rove", Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove, NYRB, July 15, 2010, Volume 57, Number 12.
Joseph Lelyveld, "Curveballs": Decision Points by George W. Bush, NYRB, January 13, 2011, Volume 58, Number 1.
Books
Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight, Threshold.
George W. Bush, Decision Points, Crown.
- October 19: Presidents: Carter & Reagan
Garry Wills, "The Strange Success of Jimmy Carter", White House Diary, by Jimmy Carter, NYRB, October 28, 2010, Volume 57, Number 16.
Russell Baker, "The Real Reagan", My Father at 100, by Ron Reagan, NYRB, March 10, 2011, Volume 58, Number 4.
Books
Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Ron Reagan, My Father at 100 , Viking.
Julian E. Zelizer, Jimmy Carter, Times Books.
E. Stanly Godbold Jr., Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974, Oxford
University Press.
- October 24: Presidents: Icons
James M. McPherson, "The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln", The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner, NYRB, November 25, 2010, Volume 57, Number 18.
Gordon S. Wood, "The Real Washington at Last", George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Maps by Barnet Schecter, Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, NYRB, December 9, 2010, Volume 57, Number 19.
Sean Wilentz, "The Pride of Teddy Roosevelt", Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, NYRB, May 12, 2011, Volume 58, Number 8.
Christopher Benfey, "The Age of Teddy", Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920, by Jackson Lears, NYRB January 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 1.
Books
Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Norton.
Barnet Schecter, George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Maps, Walker.
Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life, Penguin.
Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt, Random House.
Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920, Harper.
- October 26: Presidents and Significant Others
Joseph J. Ellis, "Our Flawed Founders", Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 9: January 1790-December 1793, edited by Margaret A. Hogan, C. James Taylor, Karen N. Barzilay, Hobson Woodward, Mary T. Claffey, Robert F. Karachuck, Sara B. Sikes, and Gregg L. Lint, The Quotable Abigail Adams, edited by John P. Kaminski, Abigail Adams, by Woody Holton, NYRB, December 23, 2010, Volume 57, Number 20.
Gordon S. Wood, "Those Sentimental Americans", First Family: Abigail and John, by Joseph J. Ellis, Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility, by G.J. Barker-Benfield, NYRB, May 12, 2011, Volume 58, Number 8.
Russell Baker, "The Charms of Eleanor", Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady, by Maurine H. Beasley, NYRB, June 9, 2011, Volume 58, Number 10.
David Eisenbach, "The Professor and the Pornographer", The Chronical of Higher Education, July 1, 2011.
Books
Margaret A. Hogan, et al., Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 9: January 1790-
December 1793, Belknap Press/ Harvard University Press.
John P. Kaminski, ed., The Quotable Abigail Adams, Belknap Press/Harvard
University Press.
Woody Holton, Abigail Adams, Free Press.
Joseph J. Ellis, First Family: Abigail and John, Knopf.
G.J. Barker-Benfield, Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of
Sensibility, University of Chicago Press.
Hazel Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, Farrar,
Straus and Giroux.
Maurine H. Beasley, Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady, University Press of
Kansas.
Larry Flynt an David Eisenbach, One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of
Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History,
Palgrave/Macmillion.
- October 31: Foreign Policy
Jeremy Bernstein, "Nukes for Sale", Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies, by David Albright, NYRB, May 13, 2010, Volume 57, Number 8.
Thomas Powers, "How They Got Their Bloody Way", Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Wills, Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War, by Robert Jervis, NYRB, May 27, 2010, Volume 57, Number 9.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "The Voice of Unconventional Wisdom", The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy, by William Pfaff, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, by Peter Beinart, NYRB, November 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 17.
William Pfaff, "Wise Men Against the Grain," Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs, edited by John Lukacs, George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence, with an introduction by John Lukacs, NYRB, June 9, 2011, Volume 58, Number 10.
Books
David Albright, Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's
Enemies, Free Press.
Garry Wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security
State, Penguin.
William Pfaff, The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's
Foreign Policy, Walker.
Peter Beinart, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, Harper.
John Lukacs, ed., Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of
George F. Kennan and John Lukacs, University of Pennsylvania Press.
John Lukacs, George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946: The
Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence, University of Missouri Press.
- November 2: Environment
Michael Pollan, "The Food Movement, Rising", NYRB June 10, 2010, Volume 57, Number 10.
Nicholas Stern, "Climate: What You Need to Know," Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, by Bill McKibben, NYRB, June 24, 2010, Volume 57, Number 11.
William Pfaff, "What Obama Should Have Said to BP", NYRB, June 24, 2010, Volume 57, Number 12.
Bill McKibben, "Resisting Climate Reality", Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits edited by Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It a film directed by Ondi Timoner, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard, NYRB, April 7, 2011, Volume 58, Number 6.
Books
Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from
the Local Food Front, Polyface.
Joel Berg, All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?, Seven
Stories.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals, Little, Brown.
Carlo Petrini, Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable
Food Communities, with a foreword by Alice Waters, Chelsea Green.
Janet A. Flammang, The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society,
University of Illinois Press.
Bill McKibben, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, Times Books.
Bjorn Lomborg, ed., Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits,
Cambridge University Press.
Ondi Timoner, director, Cool It.
Mark Hertsgaard, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt.
- November 7: Foreign Policy: Iraq, Cuba, & Vietnam
Robert Jervis and Thomas Powers, "The CIA & Iraq—How the White House Got Its Way: An Exchange", NYRB, June 24, 2010, Volume 57, Number 12.
Joost Hiltermann, "Iraq: The Impasse", NYRB, August 19, 2010, Volume 57, Number 13.
Joost Hiltermann, "Waiting for Baghdad", NYRB, May 12, 2011, Volume 58, Number 8.
William Pfaff, "Mac Bundy Said He Was 'All Wrong'", Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam, by Gordon M. Goldstein, June 10, 2010, Volume 57, Number 10.
Kai Bird and William Pfaff, Would JFK Have Left Vietnam?: An Exchange, NYRB September 30, 2010, Volume 57, Number 14.
Daniel Wilkinson and Nik Steinberg, "Cuba—A Way Forward", NYRB, May 27, 2010, Volume 57, Number 9.
Daniel Wilkinson, "The New Challenge to Repressive Cuba", NYRB, August 19, 2010, Volume 57, Number 13.
Books
Gordon M. Goldstein, Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in
Vietnam, Holt.
Robert Jervis, Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution
and the Iraq War, Cornell University Press.
- November 9: Education
E. D. Hirsch Jr., "How to Save the Schools", The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch, NYRB, May 13, 2010, Volume 57, Number 8.
Jonathan Zimmerman, "What Are Schools For?", In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark by Martha Minow, NYRB, October 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 15.
Diane Ravitch, "The Myth of Charter Schools, Waiting for "Superman' a film directed by Davis Guggenheim, NYRB, November 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 17.
Andrew Hacker, "Where Will We Find the Jobs?," NYRB, February 24, 2011, Volume 58, Number 3.
Peter Brooks, "Our Universities: How Bad? How Good?", NYRB, March 24, 2011, Volume 58, Number 5.
Diane Johnson, "Finish That Homework!", Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, NYRB, August 18, 2011, Volume 58, Number 13.
Books
Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How
Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, Basic Books.
Martha Minow, In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark,
Oxford University Press.
Davis Guggenheim, director, Waiting for "Superman".
Anthony P. Carnevale, Nicole Smith, and Jeff Strohl, Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and
Education Requirements Through 2018, Georgetown University Center on Education
and the Workplace.
Tony Wagner The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach
the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It, Basic Books.
Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, and David Ashton, The Global Auction: The Broken Promises
of Education, Jobs, and Incomes, Oxford University Press.
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College
Campuses, University of Chicago Press.
Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting
Our Money and Failing Our Kids—And What We Can Do About It, Times Books.
Mark C. Taylor, Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges
and Universities, Knopf.
Martha C. Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities,
Princeton University Press.
Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Penguin.
- November 14: Foriegn Policy: NATO, the UN and the Arab Spring
Brian Urquhart, "Finding the Hidden UN", No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations by Mark Mazower, UN Ideas That Changed the World by Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss, with a foreword by Kofi A. Annan, NYRB, May 27, 2010, Volume 57, Number 9.
Max Rodenbeck, "Yemen, al-Qaeda, and the US", Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes by Victoria Clark, NYRB September 30, 2010, Volume 57, Number 14.
William Easterly, "Foreign Aid for Scoundrels", NYRB, November 25, 2010, Volume 57, Number 18.
William Pfaff, "Uprisings: From Tunis to Cairo", NYRB, February 24, 2011, Volume 58, Number 3.
Ian Johnson, "Our Secret Connections with the Muslim Brotherhood", NYRB, March 10, 2011, Volume 58, Number 4.
Nicolas Pelham, "Bogged Down in Libya", NYRB, May 12, 2011, Volume 58, Number 8.
Max Rodenbeck, "From Cairo: Goodbye to bin Laden", NYRB, June 9, 2011, Volume 58, Number 10.
Books
Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins
of the United Nations, Princeton University Press.
Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss, UN Ideas That Changed the World,
Indiana University Press.
Victoria Clark, Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes, Yale University Press.
Peter Gill, Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid , Oxford University Press.
- November 16: Information Age
Anthony Lewis, Paul N. Courant, Laine Farley, et al., "Google & the Future of Books: An Exchange", NYRB January 14, 2010, Volume 57, Number 1.
Jason Epstein, "Publishing: The Revolutionary Future", NYRB, March 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 4.
Russell Baker, "A Bad Morning at The New York Times", My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times by Gerald M. Boyd, with an afterword by Robin D. Stone, NYRB, April 29, 2010, Volume 57, Number 7.
Russell Baker, "Decline But Not Fall," Morning Miracle: Inside The Washington Post: A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life by Dave Kindred, NYRB September 30, 2010, Volume 57, Number 14.
Robert Darnton, "Can We Create a National Digital Library?", NYRB, October 28, 2010, Volume 57, Number 16.
Charles Petersen, "Google and Money!", Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, NYRB, December 9, 2010, Volume 57, Number 19.
Robert Darnton, "The Library: Three Jeremiads", NYRB, December 23, 2010, Volume 57, Number 20.
Robert Darnton, "Google's Loss: The Public's Gain", NYRB, April 28, 2011, Volume 58, Number 7.
Books
Ken Auletta, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It, Penguin.
Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,
Norton.
Gerald M. Boyd, My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York
Times, Lawrence Hill.
Dave Kindred, Morning Miracle: Inside The Washington Post: A Great Newspaper
Fights for Its Life, Doubleday.
- November 21: Political History
Susan Dunn, "When America Was Transformed", Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, by Gordon S. Wood, NYRB, March 25, 2010, Volume 57, Number 5.
Gordon S. Wood, "Was Washington 'Mad for Glory'?", An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater, The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling, NYRB June 10, 2010, Volume 57, Number 10.
Gordon S. Wood, "Good Losers", Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, by Maya Jasanoff, NYRB, March 10, 2011, Volume 58, Number 4.
J.H. Elliott, "The Very Violent Road to America", Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts by Daniel K. Richter, NYRB, June 9, 2011, Volume 58, Number 10.
Books
Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815,
Oxford University Press.
Andro Linklater, An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General
James Wilkinson, Walker.
John Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an
American Icon, Bloomsbury.
Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,
Knopf.
Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts, Belknap Press/Harvard
University Press.
- November 23: Race Relations
Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan, "How Black & White America Took Shape", The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations by Ira Berlin, The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter, NYRB April 8, 2010, Volume 57, Number 6.
Peter Beinart, "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment", NYRB June 10, 2010, Volume 57, Number 10.
Darryl Pinckney, "Invisible Black America", The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, NYRB, March 10, 2011, Volume 58, Number 4.
Books
Ira Berlin, The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations, Viking.
Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People, Norton.
Charles J. Ogletree Jr., The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America, Palgrave Macmillan.
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the
Age of Colorblindness, New Press.
- November 28: Political Culture
Malise Ruthven, "Righteous & Wrong", The Flight of the Intellectuals, by Paul Berman, Nomad: From Islam to America, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Terror and Liberalism, by Paul Berman, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, by Ian Buruma, Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name, by Timothy Garton Ash, NYRB, August 19, 2010, Volume 57, Number 13.
Jane Mayer, "Covert Operations", The New Yorker, August 30, 2010.
Michael Tomasky, "The Specter Haunting the Senate", Politics or Principle?: Filibustering in the United States Senate, by Sarah A. Binder and Steven S. Smith, Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate, by Gregory Koger, NYRB September 30, 2010, Volume 57, Number 14.
R. Scott Appleby and John T. McGreevy, "Catholics, Muslims, and the Mosque", NYRB September 30, 2010, Volume 57, Number 14.
David Bromwich, "The Rebel Germ", NYRB, November 25, 2010, Volume 57, Number 18.
Books
Paul Berman,The Flight of the Intellectuals, Melville House.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: From Islam to America, Free Press.
Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism, Norton.
Ian Buruma, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents,
Princeton University Press.
Timothy Garton Ash, Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a
Decade Without a Name, Yale University Press.
Sarah A. Binder and Steven S. Smith, Politics or Principle?: Filibustering
in the United States Senate, Brookings Institution Press.
Gregory Koger, Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in
the House and Senate, University of Chicago Press.
Scott Rasmussen and Douglas Schoen, Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party
Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two Party System, Harper.
Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny, Threshold.
David Limbaugh, Crimes Against Liberty, Regnery.
Angelo Codevilla, The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and
What We Can Do About It, Beaufort.
- November 30: Information Age
Bill McKibben, "All Programs Considered", NYRB, November 11, 2010, Volume 57, Number 17.
Christian Caryl, "Why WikiLeaks Changes Everything", NYRB, January 13, 2011, Volume 58, Number 1.
Freeman Dyson, "How We Know", The Information: A History, a Theory a Flood, by James Gleick, NYRB, March 10, 2011, Volume 58, Number 4.
Steve Coll, "The Internet: For Better or for Worse", The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov, NYRB, April 7, 2011, Volume 58, Number 6.
Pico Iyer, "The McLuhan Galaxy", Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! by Douglas Coupland, NYRB, May 26, 2011, Volume 58, Number 9.
Sue Halpern, "Mind Control & the Internet", World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet, by Michael Chorost, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, by Eli Pariser, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier. NYRB,June 23, 2011, Volume 58, Number 11.
James Gleick, "How Google Dominates Us", In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy, I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards, The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Search & Destroy: Why You Can't Trust Google Inc. by Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky NYRB, August 18, 2011, Volume 58, Number 13.
Books
John Biewen and Alexa Dilworth, eds., Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in
Sound, University of North Carolina Press.
James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory a Flood,
Pantheon.
Douglas Coupland, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!,
Atlas & Co..
Tim Wu, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires,
Knopf.
Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom,
PublicAffairs.
Michael Chorost, World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity,
Machines, and the Internet, Free Press.
Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You,
Penguin.
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, Vintage.
Steven Levy, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives,
Simon and Schuster.
Douglas Edwards, I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee
Number 59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)
University of California Press.
Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky, Search & Destroy: Why You Can't Trust Google Inc.
Telescope.
- December 5: Political History
Christopher Benfey, "The Mysterious Mythmaker of New York", Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York by Elizabeth L. Bradley, NYRB, April 29, 2010, Volume 57, Number 7.
Daniel J. Kevles, "An American Passion Revealed", Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America, by Philip J. Pauly, NYRB, May 13, 2010, Volume 57, Number 8.
Gordon S. Wood, "The War We Lost--and Won", The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies by Alan Taylor, NYRB, October 28, 2010, Volume 57, Number 16.
Alan Ryan, "Tocqueville's Lesson", Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch, NYRB, December 9, 2010, Volume 57, Number 19.
Ian Frazier, "The Magic of Crazy Horse", The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers, NYRB, February 24, 2011, Volume 58, Number 3.
Robert Gottlieb, "Showing Off", My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy, by Nora Titone, with a foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin, NYRB, April 28, 2011, Volume 58, Number 7.
James M. McPherson, "What Drove the Terrible War?", A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman, The Union War by Gary W. Gallagher, 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart, America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation by David Goldfield, God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War by George C. Rable, NYRB, July 14, 2011, Volume 58, Number 12 .
Books
Elizabeth L. Bradley, Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York ,
Rivergate/Rutgers University Press.
Philip J. Pauly, Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation
of America, Harvard University Press.
Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects,
Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies, Knopf.
Leo Damrosch, Tocqueville's Discovery of America, Farrar, Straus
and Giroux.
Thomas Powers, The Killing of Crazy Horse, Knopf.
Nora Titone, My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and
John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy, Free Press.
Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American
Civil War, Random House.
Gary W. Gallagher, The Union War, Harvard University Press.
Adam Goodheart, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Knopf.
David Goldfield, America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation,
Bloomsbury.
George C. Rable, God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of
the American Civil War, University of North Carolina Press.
- December 7: Political Culture
Janet Malcolm, "Comedy Central on the Mall", NYRB, December 9, 2010, Volume 57, Number 19.
Mark Lilla, "The Beck of Revelation", Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure, by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine, by Glenn Beck, with Joseph Kerry, The Overton Window, by Glenn Beck, with contributions by Kevin Balfe, Emily Bestler, and Jack Henderson, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, by Alexander Zaitchik, Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, by Dana Milbank, NYRB, December 9, 2010, Volume 57, Number 19.
Elizabeth Drew, "In the Bitter New Washington", NYRB, December 23, 2010, Volume 57, Number 20.
Ronald Dworkin, "What Is a Good Life?", NYRB, February 10, 2011, Volume 58, Number 2.
Nicholas Lemann, "The New New Orleans", If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise, a film directed by Spike Lee, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts a film directed by Spike Lee, Race , a film directed by Katherine Cecil, Trouble the Water, a film directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, NYRB, March 24, 2011, Volume 58, Number 5.
A.C. Crayling, "'The Birth of a Classic'", Justice for Hedgehogs, by Ronald Dworkin, NYRB, April 11, 2011, Volume 58, Number 7.
Christopher Benfey, "The Long Shot", Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances, by Scott Brown, NYRB, May 12, 2011, Volume 58, Number 8.
Books
Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe, Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust,
Truth and Treasure, Threshold Editions/ Mercury Radio Arts.
Glenn Beck, with Joseph Kerry, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case
Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine, Mercury Radio Arts/
Threshold Editions.
Glenn Beck, et al., The Overton Window, Threshold Editions/Mercury
Radio Arts.
Alexander Zaitchik, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of
Ignorance, Wiley.
Dana Milbank, Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of
America, Doubleday.
Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs, Belknap/Harvard.
Scott Brown, Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and
Second Chances, Harper.
Spike Lee, director, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise.
Spike Lee, director, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
Katherine Cecil, director, Race .
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Trouble the Water.
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