ROGER WILLIAMS AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN SOUL:
Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty.
By John M. Barry.
Viking. 464 pp. $35.
THE SOURCE: “The End of the American Era” by Stephen M. Walt, in The National Interest, Nov.–Dec. 2011.
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Author Alasdair Roberts on the lessons of a different Great Depression.
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Wilson Quarterly editor Steve Lagerfeld, Robert Aliber, professor emeritus of international economics and finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and David Wessel, a current public policy scholar at the center and economics editor for The Wall Street Journal discuss lessons of the Great Depression.
ROME:
A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History.
By Robert Hughes.
Knopf. 498 pp. $35
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Grand strategist George F. Kennan found inspiration in unlikely places.
THE SOURCE: “Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines” by Eli Berman, Michael Callen, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro, in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Aug. 2011.
