Book Reviews
Life as a low-wage worker in Australia
Dirt Cheap, Life at the wrong end of the job market by Elisabeth Wynhausen, Macmillan, Sydney 2005
By Laura Tiernan, June 6, 2005
In late 2002, Elizabeth Wynhausen, a senior journalist on Rupert Murdoch’s Australian, took unpaid leave and began a nine-month undercover assignment in the ranks of the working poor. Her book, ...
Review of Robert Service’s Stalin. A Biography—Part Two
Harvard University Press, 2005, 715 pages
By Fred Williams, June 3, 2005
The following is the second part of a two-part article. Part one was posted Wednesday, June 2.
Review of Robert Service’s Stalin: A Biography–Part One
Harvard University Press, 2005, 715 pages
By Fred Williams, June 2, 2005
The following is the first part of a two-part article. The second and concluding part will posted Friday, June 3.
By Richard Hoffman, May 24, 2005
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff was received with great fanfare in liberal circles when published last year. It purports to canvass important political and ...
Military interference in American film production
Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies by David L. Robb
By Mile Klindo and Richard Phillips, March 14, 2005
Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies by David L. Robb, a former journalist for Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, is a timely work. Published in 2004, a year afte...
Is this a novel of genuine anguish?
By Sandy English, February 17, 2005
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, New York: Doubleday, 2003, 376 pp.
The dawn of reformism in the US
By Tom Mackaman, January 27, 2005
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America, by David Von Drehle (2003, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York)
The drug industry’s chokehold on America’s health care
By Joanne Laurier, January 3, 2005
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to do About it by Marcia Angell M.D., published by Random House, 304 pp.; Overdosed America: the Broken Promise of American Medicine, b...
Anticommunism run amok: the life of Senator Pat McCarran
By Rick Kelly, December 18, 2004
Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt, Michael J. Ybarra, Steerforth Press, 2004
What price an American Empire? Part Three
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99615-3
By Ann Talbot, December 9, 2004
This is the conclusion of a three-part review
What price an American Empire?
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99615-3
By Ann Talbot, December 8, 2004
This is the second of a three-part review
What price an American empire?
Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Penguin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99615-3
By Ann Talbot, December 7, 2004
This is the first of a three-part review.
