Recently Released and Upcoming Releases:
After the War Zone: A Practical Guide for Returning Troops and Their Families, by Laurie B. Slone and Matthew J. Friedman, Lifelong Books, 279 pp., $16. Book’s blurb: “Drs. Friedman and Slone—two experts from the VA National Centre for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—provide an essential resource for service members, their spouses, their families, and communities by […]
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Canadians and Asia-Pacific Security: Vimy Paper 2008, edited by Brian MacDonald, Conference of Defence Associations Institute, 138 pp. Book’s blurb: ” The collection of eight essays explores security and defence issues in the Asia-Pacific region, an area that is of growing importance to Canada in respect to defence and security, trade, investment, and geopolitics. Given […]
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning: Churchill’s First Speech as Prime Minister, by John Lukacs, Basic Books, 151 pp., $25.95. Book’s blurb: “Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form.” —Anthony Beevor. The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika, by Christopher […]
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A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, by Lawrence Freedman, Doubleday, 601 pp., $34.95. Book’s blurb: “The title A Choice of Enemies was initially meant to refer to another historical irony. I was struck by how the United States had managed to find itself in conflict at the same time with Iraq, Iran […]
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Deep Cultural Diversity: A Governance Challenge, by Gilles Paquet, University of Ottawa Press, 225 pp. Book’s blurb: “Deep cultural diversity is an issue that has generated much debate in Canada in recent decades, but it is not clear that a general agreement had been reached about the best way to analyse this phenomenon, about the […]
Painstakingly detailed portrait of Ahmad Chalabi
In his book, The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi, Aram Roston offers a painstakingly detailed portrait of a man who “helped propel the United States to war in Iraq.” Roston has much to say about this gregarious Iraqi mathematician, businessman, bon vivant, habitual liar, and […]
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An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century, by James Orbinski, Doubleday Canada, 431 pp, $35. Book’s blurb: “With vivid personal anecdote, Orbinski chronicles the struggle around humanitarian intervention in one hot spot after another across the planet. In a narrative of grace and power, he displays the intense components of his remarkable life: […]
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A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney and the Public Trust, 2008 edition, by William Kaplan, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 245 pp, $19.95. Book’s blurb: “I can’t imagine a more entertaining political book than A Secret Trial. Where else are you going to get juice like this?” —Paul Wells, Maclean’s. This is a new edition, foreword by Andrew […]
The 2008 Donner Prize Nominees
Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent, by Rodrigo Bascunan & Christian Pearce, Vintage Canada, 360 pp, $22. Book’s blurb: “A gripping compendium of hip-hop’s ‘fascination with the image of guns.’”—the National Post. Fueling Our Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy, by Robert L. Evans, Cambridge University Press, 180 […]
Recently Released Books, Of Note
The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi, by Aram Roston, Nation Books, 375 pp, $29.50. Book’s blurb: “In January 2004, as President Bush gave his State of the Union address celebrating the decision to launch America on its disastrous path to war, the special guest of […]
