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Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Harper Collins Hardcover, 244p
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America's most prominent environmental lawyer, presents a scathing indictment of President George W. Bush's environmental policies. Kennedy argues that Bush administration is systematically selling out America to the corporations that bankrolled them into office. Naming names and citing specific actions, he shows how federal agencies packed with Bush/Cheney energy industry friends and corporate polluters have pillaged our environment, endangered our health, and undermined our future.
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Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
Robert Kagan
Knopf Hardcover, 112pp
After years of mutual resentment and tension, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its allies are diverging sharply and that the trans-atlantic relationship itself has changed, possibly irreversibly. Europe sees the United States as high-handed, unilateralist, and unnecessarily belligerent; the United States sees Europe as spent, unserious, and weak. The anger and mistrust on both sides are hardening into incomprehension. This past summer, in Policy Review, Robert Kagan reached incisively into this impasse to force both sides to see themselves through the eyes of the other.
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
Fareed Zakaria
W W Norton Hardcover, 256p
At a time when democracy is transcendent, the one political system whose legitimacy is unquestioned, this deeply important book points out the tensions between democracy and freedom. It ranges widely through the past and present to remind us that we can have too much of a good thing.
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Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism
Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover, 400pp
Longitudes and Attitudes is made up of the columns Friedman has published about September 11, the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his reporting on the post-September 11 world, as the author travels from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich
Henry Holt Softcover, 240pp
Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom.
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Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century
Neil Postman
Vintage Softcover, 224pp
Acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman looks back to the 18th century at the humane ideas he believes Americans would do well to embrace anew as a new century begins.
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Straight Talk from the Heartland