Chronicles Magazine Book Review

The Natural History of the Night Watchman State

Donald Livingston - JULY 03, 2006

Liberalism, in all its guises, is a vision of the final form of political association. All history is viewed as a slow and painful struggle toward the realization of the liberal state.

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Right Deserves Might
Daniel McCarthy - JULY 03, 2006
The world could use a few more volumes devoted to Grover Cleveland; it has little need for more books about Theodore Roosevelt. But if more there must be, at least the two under consideration here explore terrain not yet strip-mined.
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Republican Rapture
Jack Trotter - JULY 03, 2006
Kevin Phillips’ American Theocracy is divided into three parts held together, at times, only by the most tenuous of rhetorical threads.
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Decline Without Fall
Srdja Trifkovic - JULY 03, 2006
Stephen Glain, a former Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, joins a long list of journalists, pundits, and think-tank analysts who have endeavored, since the World Trade Center attacks, to help America understand the...
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3:00 A.M. in America
James Vogel - JULY 03, 2006
In Decade of Nightmares, Philip Jenkins considers how the progressive and “forward-looking” decade of free love, drugs, and cultural revolution led to the reactionary “counterrevolution” of the 1980’s, personified by Ronald Reagan.
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Genuine Outrages
Clark Stooksbury - JULY 03, 2006
I admit to being a biased reviewer. Donkey Cons is a book about the Democratic Party, and I will say up front that I don’t much care for the Democrats.
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Chronicles Magazine Book Review

The Natural History of the Night Watchman State

Right Deserves Might

Republican Rapture

Decline Without Fall

3:00 A.M. in America

Genuine Outrages

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