The New Republic

Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration By Norbert Frei Translated by Joel Golb READ MORE >>

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ON MONDAY, WHEN the Supreme Court heard arguments in Bush v. Gore, there was a sense in the courtroom that far more than the election was at stake. I ran into two of the most astute and fair-minded writers about the Court, who have spent years defending the institution against cynics who insist the justices are motivated by partisanship rather than reason. Both were visibly shaken by the Court's emergency stay of the manual recount in Florida; they felt naïve and betrayed by what appeared to be a naked act of political will. READ MORE >>

Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess by Robert H. Frank (Free Press, 326 pp., $25)   READ MORE >>

Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism By Aviezer Ravitzky. Translated by Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman (University of Chicago Press, 303 pp., $17.95) READ MORE >>

When renowned conservative radio talk-show host Armstrong Williams offered Stephen Gregory a job as his personal trainer in 1994, Gregory assumed his new boss was simply interested in shaping up. But when Gregory later became a producer for the radio program, occasionally traveling to speaking engagements with Williams, Williams allegedly began showing an interest that Gregory took as more than merely professional. In a complaint filed on April 10 in D.C. READ MORE >>

The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960 by Morton J. Horwitz (Oxford University Press, 361 pp., $30)   READ MORE >>

On Reading the Constitution By Laurence H. Tribe and Michael C. Dorf (Harvard University Press, 144 pp., $18.95) READ MORE >>

The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman   (Morrow, 719 pp., $22,95)   Yesterday: The Unauthorized Biography of Paul McCartney   by Chet Flippo   (Doubleday, 400 pp., $18.95)    I. READ MORE >>

Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead by Irving Kristol (Basic, 336 pp., $19.95) READ MORE >>