THE SERENITY PRAYER: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War. By Elisabeth Sifton. Norton. 353 pp. $24.95
Gouverneur Morris--the colorful, peg-legged lawyer who wrote the U.S. Constitution--deserves to be better known. Max Byrd reviews two new biographies.
GULAG: A History. By Anne Applebaum. Doubleday. 677 pp. $35
STALIN’S LOYAL EXECUTIONER: People’s Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895–1940. By Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov. Hoover Institution Press. 274 pp. $25
THE DIARY OF GEORGI DIMITROV, 1933–1949. Edited by Ivo Banac. Yale Univ. Press. 495 pp. $39.95
By Paul Elie. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 555 pp. $27
FAITH IN POLITICS. By A. James Reichley. Brookings Institution Press. 429 pp. $52.95 cloth, $20.95 paper
THE NEW ANTI-CATHOLICISM: The Last Acceptable Prejudice. By Philip Jenkins. Oxford Univ. Press. 258 pp. $27
NO END TO WAR: Terrorism in the 21st Century. By Walter Laqueur. Continuum. 288 pp. $24.95
DEMOCRACY AND THE NEWS. By Herbert J. Gans. Oxford Univ. Press. 168 pp. $26
PEEKING THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: The Evolution of North American Homes. By Avi Friedman and David Krawitz. McGill-Queens Univ. Press. 212 pp. $24.95
GREENBACK: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America. By Jason Goodwin. Holt. 320 pp. $26