Book Reviews

Book reviews: Barkan, Peter, The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historcal Injustices (reviewed by Matthew Dodd); Tokar, Brian (ed.), Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering (reviewed by John Dupré); Powell, Lawrence N., Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, The Holocaust, and David Dukes's Louisiana (reviewed by Clive Webb); Pinto, António Costa, The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascists and the New State (reviewed by Alexander G. Nesterov); Kershen, Anne J. (ed.), Language, Labour and Migration (reviewed by Mike Cole); Holt, Thomas C., The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century (reviewed by Andrew M. Kaye); Kline, Wendy, Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (reviewed by Dan Stone)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: America's Choice 2000: Entering a New Millenium edited by William Crotty. The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election by James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch.     

Are the gatekeepers of memory awake?

Book reviews: Cole, Tim, Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler, How History Is Bought, Packaged and Sold (reviewed by Samuel Huston Goodfellow); Finkelstein, Norman G., The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (reviewed by Samuel Huston Goodfellow); Novick, Peter, The Holocaust in American Life (reviewed by Samuel Huston Goodfellow); Sniderman, Paul M. and Edward G. Carmines, Reaching beyond Race (reviewed by John A. Kirk); Barbieri, William A. Jr, Ethics of Citizenship: Immigration and Group Rights in Germany (reviewed by Gregg Kvistad)     

Reviews

Book reviews: Tim Cole, Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler, How History Is Bought, Packaged and Sold (reviewed by Samuel Huston Goodfellow); Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (reviewed by Samuel Huston Goodfellow); Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (reviewed by Samuel Huston Goodfellow)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bruce Mccallum , The Public Service Manager: An Introduction to Personnel Management in the Australian Public Service R. J. K. Chapman and Michael Wood , Australian Local Government Kosmas Tsokhas , A Class Apart? Businessmen and Australian Politics 1960–1980 Andrew Kakabadse and Suresh Mukhi (eds), The Future of Management Education Jonathan Boston , Incomes Policy in New Zealand: 1968–1984, Wellington, Victorian University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies David Dery , Problem Definition in Policy Analysis     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Crosland Was Wrong The Future of Socialism, by Anthony Crosland, Introduction by Dick Leonard, Foreword by Gordon Brown, Afterword by Susan Crosland. Who represents what? Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy, by Nadia Urbinati. Morgan's Foot Michael Foot, by Kenneth O. Morgan. No consensus on consensus Welfare Policy under New Labour: Views from inside Westminster, by Hugh Bochel and Andrew Defty. Englishness revisited The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair, by Peter Mandler. Does oil lead to war? Oil Wars, edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said. Global health inequalities Governing Global Health. Challenge, Response, Innovation, by Andrew F. Cooper, John J. Kirton and Ted Schrecker. Charity without rationality? After Identity, by Jonathan Rutherford.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Steven D. Gold, (ed.) The Unfinished Agenda for State Tax Reform Andrew Dunsire and Christopher Hood, Cutback Management in Public Bureaucracies: Popular Theories and Observed Out-comes in Whitehall The Auditor General's Report to the Legislative Assembly, Province of British Columbia, Canada, April 10, 1989 Charles K. Coe, (ed.) Public Financial Management for Public Budgeting & Finance     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: From White Australia to Woomera: The History of Australian Immigration James Jupp The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia Marian Sawer What's Wrong with the Liberal Party? Greg Barnes Government Reformed: Values and New Political Institutions Ian Holland and Jenny Fleming eds Turning off the Television: Broadcasting's Uncertain Future Jock Given Handbook of Public Administration B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre eds Policy Responses to Social Exclusion: Towards Inclusion? Janie Percy‐Smith ed. Bob Carr: A Self‐Made Man Andrew West and Rachel Morris     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Refining Regulatory Regimes: Utilities in Europe David Cohen and Adrienne Heritier (eds) Civil Service Reform in the United States: Personnel Policy and Politics at the Subnational Level J. Edward Kellough and Lloyd G. Nigro (eds) Measuring Corruption Charles Sampford, Arthur Shacklock, Carmel Connors and Fredrick Galtung (eds) Francis De Groot. Irish Fascist. Australian Legend Andrew Moore Recognising Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English‐Settler Colonialism Peter Russell     

Rwanda: the aftermath

Book reviews: Des Forges, Alison, Leave None to Tell the Story. Genocide in Rwanda (reviewed by Mark Levene); Gourevitch, Philip, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. Stories from Rwanda (reviewed by Mark Levene); Sibomana, André, Hope for Rwanda. Conversations with Laure Guibert and Hervé Deguine (reviewed by Mark Levene)     

Reviews

Book reviews: Robinson, Cedric J., Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (reviewed by Frederick Knight); Robinson, Cedric J., Black Movements in America (reviewed by Frederick Knight)     

The black radical tradition

Book reviews: Robinson, Cedric J., Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (reviewed by Frederick Knight); Robinson, Cedric J., Black Movements in America (reviewed by Frederick Knight)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue.
Visions of America
PAUL AUERBACH
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm.
The Challenge of Affluence Self-control and Well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950, by Avner Offer.
A great world disorder
Andrew Gamble
Global Challenges for Leviathan: A Political Philosophy of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming , by Furio Cerutti.
Let's do it by lot
Andrew Blick
The Athenian Option: Radical Reform for the House of Lords , by Anthony Barnett and Peter Carty.
A People's Parliament , by Keith Sutherland.
The lawyer's responsibility
Caroline Fournet
Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law , by Philippe Sands.
The journalist's responsibilities
John Lloyd
Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press , by Michael Schudson.
Red in tooth and claw
Dick Pountain
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too , by James K. Galbraith.
The quandaries of the Nazi empire
Richard Mullender
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe , by Mark Mazower.
The colour-coding of American elections
Gianfranco Pasquino
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do , by Andrew Gelman.
Organising warring parties
John Ramsden
Parties at War: Political Organisation in Second World War Britain , by Andrew Thorpe.
The United States since Vietnam: a life on the wire
Vassilis K. Fouskas
World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy , by Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth.     

STUDYING THE STATES

The Bannon Decade: The Politics of Restraint in South Australia. Edited by Andrew Parkin & Allan Patience Trials in Power: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982–1992. Edited by Mark Considine & Brian Costar Keeping them Honest: Democratic Reform in Queensland. Edited by Andrew Hede , Scott Prasser & Mark Neylan The Tasmanian Parliamentary Accord & Public Policy: Accommodating the new politics? Edited by Marcus Haward & Peter Larmour Affairs of State: Politics in the Australian States and Territories. By Scott Bennett     

Review Essay: Death and Delusion on the Trade Front

Books reviewed in this article: How to Kill a Country: Australia's Devastating Trade Deal with the United States Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Matthews All the Way with the USA: Australia, the US and Free Trade Ann Capling Community and Local Governance in Australia Paul Smyth, Tim Reddel and Andrew Jones (eds) The Thirty Year Problem: The Politics of Australian Tax Reform Richard Eccleston Into the Future: The Neglect of the Long Term in Australian Politics Ian Marsh and David Yencken Yes, Premier: Labor leadership in Australia's States and Territories John Wanna and Paul Williams (eds) Making and Breaking Universities Bruce Williams Ethics and organisational politics Chris Provis Power Politics. The electricity crisis and you John Spoehr (ed) Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue John Braithwaite Pensions: Challenges and Reforms, International Studies on Social Security, Vol. 9 Editors Einar Overbye and Peter A. Kemp     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Vincent Bugliosi, The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President Jack N. Rakove (ed.), The Unfinished Election of 2000: Leading Scholars Examine America’s Strangest Election Daniel Lazare, The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court and the Decline of American Democracy Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett, Keith Joseph Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox Gerd‐Rainer Horn and Emmanuel Gerard (eds.), Left Catholicism 1943–1955: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation Lorna Arnold, Britain and the H‐Bomb Joseph V. Femia, Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti‐Democratic Thought since the French Revolution Gino Bedani and Bruce Haddock (eds.), The Politics of Italian National Identity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Paul M. Sniderman, Pierangelo Peri, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr and Thomas Piazza, The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy Norman Birnbaum, After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century Gøsta Esping‐Andersen and Marino Regini (eds.), Why Deregulate Labour Markets? Andrew Murray, Off the Rails: Britain’s Great Rail Crisis—Cause, Consequences and Cure Christian Wolmar, Broken Rails     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895–1995 .
The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State , by Nicholas Timmins.
Party, Parliament and Personality , edited by Peter Jones. Routledge.
The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe , by Edmund Dell.
The Throw that Failed: Britain's 1961 Application to Join the Common Market , by Lionel Bell.
Mandarin: The Diaries of an Ambassdor, 1969–1982 , by Sir Nicholas Henderson.
The Failure and Future of British Democracy , by Andrew Marr.
World Orders, Old and New , by Noam Chomsky.
Economic Democracy: The Politics of Feasible Socialism , by Robin Archer.
Socialism after Communism: The New Market Socialism , by Christopher Pierson.
Intellectuals and Socialism: 'Social Democrats'and the Labour Party , by Radnika Desai.
Opening the Books: Essays on the Cultural and Social History of the British Communist Party , edited by Geoff Andrews, Nina Fishman and Kevin Morgan.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Decline of the Public: The Hollowing-Out of Citizenship , by David Marquand. Polity. 176pp. £45 and £14.99.
Endgames and New Times: The Final Years of British Communism 1964–1991 , by Geoff Andrews. Lawrence & Wishart. 264 pp. £15.99.
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire , by Niall Ferguson. Allen Lane. 384 pp. £20.
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City , by Tristram Hunt. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. pp. 432. £25.
From Bevan to Blair: Fifty Years Reporting from the Front Line , by Geoffrey Goodman. Pluto Press. 286 pp. £18.99.
Obscure Scribblers: A History of Parliamentary Journalism , by Andrew Sparrow. Politico's. 238 pp. £20.
The New Labour Reader , edited by Andrew Chadwick and Richard Heffernan. Polity. 352 pp. £17.99 and £60.00.
The Progressive Manifesto. New Ideas for the Centre-Left , edited by Anthony Giddens. Polity. 224 pp. £14.99.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States , by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. Norton & Co., 2004. xviii+567 pp. £6.99.
The Sacred and the Sovereign: Religion and International Politics , edited by John D. Carlson and Erik C. Owens. Georgetown University Press. xvii+284 pp. £19.50.
Free World: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of our Time , by Timothy Garton Ash. Allen Lane. 308 pp. £ 17.99.
William Pitt the Younger , by William Hague. HarperCollins. 652 pp. £25.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Barry Hughes , Exit Full Employment: Economic Policy in the Stone Age. Peter Sheehan , Crisis in Abundance. Royal Institute of Public Administration, Policy and Practice: The Experience of Government. Clifford Pearce , The Machinery of Change in Local Government 1888–1974. P. B. Beaumont , Government as Employer—Setting an Example?. A.F. Davies , skills, Outlooks and Passions: A Psychoanalytic Contribution to the Study of Politics. Andrew Parkin and Allan Patience (eds). John Power , Helen Nelson (eds), The Regional Administrator in the Riverina, Roger Scott , Northern Ireland, The Politics of Violence. John Dixon , Australia's Policy Towards the Aged.     

Book Reviews

Duff, Andrew, Reforming the European Union
Duff, Andrew, The Treaty of Amsterdam
Newman, Michael, Democracy, Sovereignty and the European Union
Sperling, James and Kirchner, Emil, Recasting the European Order: Security Architectures and Economic Cooperation
Edwards, Geoffrey and Pijpers, Alfred (eds), The Politics of European Treaty Reform: The 1996 Intergovernmental Conference and Beyond
Salmon, Trevor and Nicoll, Sir William (eds), Building European Union: A Documentary and Historical Analysis
Urban, Michael, Igrunov, Vyacheslav and Mitrokhin, Sergei, The Rebirth of Politics in Russia
Truscott, Peter, Russia First: Breaking with the West
Mandelbaum, Michael (ed), Post Communism: Four Perspectives
Offe, Claus, Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience
Ramsden, John, The Age of Churchill and Eden: The Conservative Party 1840–1957
Ramsden, John, Winds of Change: The Conservative Party 1957–1975
Thorpe, Andrew, A History of the British Labour Party
Francis, Martin, Ideas and Policies under Labour 1945–1951
Foote, Geoffrey , The Labour Party's Political Thought: A History , 3rd edn
Lipow, Arthur, Political Parties and Democracy: Explorations in History and Theory
Khilnani, Sunil, The Idea of India
Strachan, Hew, The Politics of the British Army
Phillips, Melanie, All Must Have Prizes
Evans, Richard J., In Defence of History
Finer, S.E., The History of Government , Volume 1:, Ancient Monarchies and Empires; Volume 2:, The Intermediate Ages
Volume 3:, Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State
Cowling, Maurice, A Conservative Future