From the Christian Science Monitor, February 13, 2007
Ishmael Beah’s memoir tells the story of his “surreal transformation into and out of the killer mentality that war and drugs and circumstances force upon him” during Sierra Leone’s recent civil war. [read review]
From the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Jan. 28, 2007
 ”Around the time of the War of Independence, America’s main contact with the Middle East consisted in trading Caribbean rum for Turkish opium. It’s hard not to wish, reading the epic story of this 230-year relationship, now usefully condensed into a single well-researched volume, that things could have remained as simple as the swapping of your recreational poison for mine…” [Read review]
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From the Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 23, 2007
This new book by brothers Chip and Dan Heath, “summons plenty of brain science, social history, and behavioral psychology to explain what makes an idea winning and memorable – and the Heaths do the telling with beautiful clarity.” [Read the review]
 From the Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 9, 2007
“Mainstream journalism in the US was late to the civil rights story – but powerful when it finally arrived.” [read review]Â
The Race Beat is available at the Kennedy School Library [check circulation information]
From the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Dec. 24, 2006Â
 Former Presidential candidate Gary Hart says of this book, “in a more perfect world, a graduate program complete with a doctoral thesis might be required of all those seeking the presidency. In certain ways, “The Audacity of Hopeâ€? qualifies as Senator Barack Obama’s thesis submission.” [Read review]
Obama’s book is available at the Kennedy School Library and several other Harvard libraries. [check circulation information]
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From the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Jan. 7, 2007
This memoir by the President of Pakistan, ”is a book written for American readers, a tale of how the Bush administration recruited him into the new war after 9/11. ‘You are either with us or against us,’a fellow soldier, Secretary of State Colin Powell, told him… ”[Read review]
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From the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Dec. 17, 2006
In this “provocative and deeply absorbing new book …one of two volumes on the United States as an international power, [Kagan] shows how America was always a player, and often a ruthless one, in the great game of nations.” (Read Review)
From the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Sept. 24, 2006
Two new books offer collected columns of Bush critics Lewis H. Lapham and Sidney Blumenthal. Lapham’s Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration and Blumenthal’s How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime are reviewed by New York magazine’s contributing editor Jennifer Senior. [read reviews]
From the Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 5, 2006
Richardson, Executive Dean and Senior Lecturer on Government at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced study, argues that it’s essential to know the enemy. Reviewer Peter Grier says, .. if you’ve ever stared slack-jawed at the television screen, while some terrorism “expert” belabored the obvious like it was a stubborn pony, this book is a welcome source of information. It’s written by a true expert, giving her measured thoughts.”
>From the Christian Science Monitor, July 18, 2006
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The right thing may also be the smart thing, argues a researcher known
for his studies of baby boomers.” Renowned social scientist Daniel
Yankelovitch explains in his latest book how businesses can combine
ethics and profitmaking
[Link to review ]
