From the Back of the Book
The Birth of American Finance
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy By Thomas K. McCraw (Harvard University Press, 485 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
The Mormon Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Mormonizing of America: How The Mormon Religion Became a Dominant Force in Politics, Entertainment, and Pop CultureBy Stephen Mansfield (Worthy Publishing, 264 pp., $22.99) People of Paradox: A History of Mormon CultureBy Terryl L. Givens (Oxford University Press, 414 pp., $29.99) Falling in Love with Joseph Smith: My Search for the Real Prophet By Jane Barnes (Tarcher, 294 pp., $25.95) READ MORE >>
How Many Constitutions Can Liberals Have?
America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By By Akhil Reed Amar (Basic Books, 615 pp., $29.99) READ MORE >>
Dante’s Vita Nova
Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. Vita Nova By Dante Alighieri Translation, introduction, and notes by Andrew Frisardi (Northwestern University Press, 350 pp., $24.95) READ MORE >>
Barack Obama, Supportable and Inscrutable
Barack Obama: The StoryBy David Maraniss (Simon & Schuster, 641 pp., $32.50) READ MORE >>
How Sectarianism Blinds the Shia to the Horrors of Syria
Baathism: An Obituary
A Close Look at How Evangelicals Communicate With God
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with GodBy T.M. Luhrmann (Knopf, 434 pp., $28.95) READ MORE >>
Keeping Our Heads
The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany By Tomaz Jardim (Harvard University Press, 276 pp., $29.95) Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin’s Ukraine, 1952–1953 By Hiroaki Kuromiya (University of Toronto Press, 212 pp., $60) All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals By David Scheffer (Princeton University Press, 533 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
America on the Brink of Oligarchy
The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy By Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady (Princeton University Press, 693 pp., $35) Oligarchy By Jeffrey A. Winters (Cambridge University Press, 323 pp., $29.99) The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy By David Karpf (Oxford University Press, 237 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>
