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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray

On February 6, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Political, Social Studies, by Wilfried F. Voss

In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson

On February 5, 2012, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Political, by Wilfried F. Voss

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism combines fine-grained portraits of local Tea Party members and chapters with an overarching analysis of the movement’s rise, impact, and likely fate.

Thinking the Twentieth Century – Essays by Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder

On February 2, 2012, in Book Reviews, Essays, History, Nonfiction, Political, Social Studies, by Wilfried F. Voss

The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement.

Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of The Second Generation by Robert Leiken

On January 20, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Political, Religious Studies, Social Studies, by Wilfried F. Voss

Bombings in London, riots in Paris, terrorists in Germany, fury over mosques, veils and cartoons–such headlines underscore the tensions between Muslims and their European hosts. Did too much immigration, or too little integration, produce Muslim second-generation anger?

The Real Romney – A Biography by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman

On January 16, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Political, by Wilfried F. Voss

In The Real Romney, Kranish and Helman delve searchingly into the psyche of a complex man now at his most critical juncture—the private Romney whom few people see.

Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui by Deborah Scroggins

On January 16, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Religious Studies, by Wilfried F. Voss

A riveting look at militant Islam, Muslim women’s rights, and the war on terror—brought into focus through two lives on opposite sides: activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and religious extremist Aafia Siddiqui.

The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan by Michael Hastings

On January 12, 2012, in Book Reviews, Military, Nonfiction, Political, by Wilfried F. Voss

In The Operators, Hastings picks up where his Rolling Stone coup ended. He gives us a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of our military commanders, their high-stakes maneuvers and often bitter bureaucratic infighting. Hastings takes us on patrol missions in the Afghan hinterlands, to late-night bull sessions of senior military advisors, to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation-building gone awry.

The Obamas – Partners In Love And Presidency by Jodi Kantor

On January 9, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Political, by Wilfried F. Voss

In the Obamas, Jodi Kantor takes us deep inside the White House as they try to grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be the first black President and First Lady.

After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent by Walter Laqueur

On January 8, 2012, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Political, by Wilfried F. Voss

Walter Laqueur was one of the few experts who predicted Europe’s current financial and political crisis when he wrote The Last Days of Europe six years ago. Now this master historian takes readers inside the European crisis that he foresaw.

Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals by Ken Ballen

On January 8, 2012, in Book Reviews, Military, Nonfiction, Political, Social Studies, by Wilfried F. Voss

Imagine a world where a boy’s dreams dictate the behavior of warriors in battle; where a young couple’s only release from forbidden love is death; where religious extremism, blind hatred, and endemic corruption combine to form a lethal ideology that can hijack a man’s life forever.

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