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On the heel of a trouble-filled year, authors anatomize past
catastrophes and raise new hopes.
The past year’s headlines were all about crises that seemed immune to medi-
ation or compromise—from Gaza to Ukraine to Washington, D.C. Padraig
O’Malley, who helped resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland, takes on the
evergreen foreign policy impasse of our time in
The Two-State Delusion:
Israel and Palestine; A Tale of Two Narratives
, arguing that new ideas
are needed before peace can be achieved. Meanwhile, hedge fund manager
Bill Browder relates his experiences with an increasingly bellicose Russia in
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s
Fight for Justice
.
Not all is dire in political titles this season. Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs,
author of the influential
The End of Poverty
, remains optimistic, in
The Age
of Sustainable Development
, that we can combat the persistent problem
of extreme poverty. And, with the White House’s move to normalize rela-
tions with Cuba, the message of New Left veteran Tom Hayden’s
Listen,
Yankee: Why Cuba Matters
will strike a timely chord. The controversial
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is back with
Heretic
, which argues that Islam is long over-
due for a reformation of its own.
What’s that about not knowing the past and being condemned to repeat
it? Emma Sky, who became a top U.S. general’s political adviser during the
Iraq reconstruction, shares her unique perspective on recent, disastrous his-
tory—currently repeating itself—in
The Unraveling: High Hopes and
Missed Opportunities in Iraq
.
The subtitle to journalist Michael Day’s
Being Berlusconi: The Rise
and Fall from Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga
aptly captures a bizarre
political journey that’s still not quite over.
The eloquent and combative essayist Renata Adler presents dispatches
from the frontlines of the 1960s and ’70s in
After the Tall Timber:
Collected Nonfiction
.
Two books give portraits of veterans of America’s ever-more-battle-scarred
political landscape. Michael Shnayerson’s
The Contender: Andrew
Cuomo, a Biography
traces the Democratic scion’s journey to the New
York governor’s mansion, while also looking ahead to a future some believe
may include the White House. Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney
Frank, in
Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex
Marriage
, looks back on past accomplishments, but also strives to leave
readers with something for the future: a practical grasp of how political
change happens.
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