Books

The high-tech bubble seems to have burst-or has it? Knowing where you are in the business cycle is crucial. Historical perspective helps, and so does keen analysis. Ruling the Waves offers both.

Debora Spar begins the historical context with pirate tales. Jean Lafitte's domination of the seas and Rupert Murdoch's domination of the British airwaves with BskyB have much in common. Tales of the telegraph and radio help you understand the natural evolution of Microsoft, the trials of the… more

This event is the Washington, D.C. book launch of Ted Halstead & Mike Lind's The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics. James Fallows, Chairman of the Board of the New America Foundation, will offer opening remarks.

"A political manifesto worthy of the Information Age."-- SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN

"A provocative, thoughtful, and timely message for the political establishment and the governing class, The Radical Center should be mandatory reading for everyone in office and… more

Selected reviews of Holy War, Inc. are featured below:

This bold book proposes to take American politics in a totally new direction -- away from "our rigid two-party cartel" and toward a centrism that currently doesn't exist in an electoral sense.

Please see below for a sampling of the reviews garnered by The Radical Center:

Sunday, November 11, 2001 Someday, it is… more

Sometimes, it's easier to see the full implications of some of our race-related social problems by looking at them not directly but with our peripheral vision. Sometimes … more

Selected reviews of Eastward to Tartary are featured below:

Friday, December 15, 2000 President-elect George W. Bush could do a lot worse in preparing for the foreign affairs part of his job than to read "Eastward to Tartary" by Robert D. Kaplan, a scholarly and adventurous journalist who roams the less-traveled regions of the globe and writes about them knowledgeably and with sophistication. Mr. Kaplan is the author, among other books, of "Balkan Ghosts," which achieved… more

Selected reviews of An American Story are featured below:

Sunday, October 8, 2000 It is a startling thing to hear an American speak as frankly and un-self-servingly about race as Debra J. Dickerson does in "An American Story," her memoir of her first 35 years, in which she lurches from ghetto misfit and two-time dropout to Air Force trainee, Pentagon junior officer and Harvard Law School graduate. The book traces her journey across borders… more

I just did a search on Google. I've left Yahoo because Google works faster in searches, and Jeffrey Rosen, when you plug in his name, has 12,493 citations. Now, they are not all the same Jeffrey Rosen; I've found there were sort of two or three others. But they are quite interesting. If any of you read Jeff's front cover of The New York Times Magazine story recently… more

Selected reviews of The Coming Anarchy are featured below:

Sunday, March 19, 2000 There can be little doubt that Robert D. Kaplan is one of America's most engaging writers on contemporary international affairs. It is inevitable, then, that the appearance of a new book by such a prominent journalist -- even a book mostly made up of previously published essays -- ranks as not only a literary event but as one bound to… more

Selected reviews of Vietnam: The Necessary War are featured below: