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European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment, by Guiliano Bonoli, Vic George and Peter Taylor‐Gooby The New Politics of the Welfare State, edited by Paul Pierson The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, by Jacob S. Hacker The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model, by Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen Market‐Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, by Colin Leys The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty‐First Century, by Robert Cooper Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters or Technicians? By Tevi Troy Nehru: A Political Life, by Judith M. Brown The Labour Market under New Labour: The State of Working Britain 2003, edited by Richard Dickens, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth European Integration, 1950–2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? by John Gillingham Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore     

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Book reviewed in this article: Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A. B. Atkinson. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment, by Paul Pierson. Managing Policy Change in Britain: The Politics of Water, by William A. Maloney and Jeremy Richardson. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change, by Stanley Fish. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, by Will Kymlicka. The Rights of Minority Cultures, edited by Will Kymlicka. Globalisation in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance, by Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Economic Growth and Political Change in Asia, by Graham Field. American Exceptionalism: A Double-edged Sword, by Seymour Martin Lipset. Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, by Zeev Sternhell, trans. David Maisel. Strategies for Self-Govemment: The Campaigns for a Scottish Parliament, by James Mitchell. The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Norbert Elias, edited by Michael Schröter, translated from the German and with a preface by Eric Chinning and Stephen Mennell.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Uniting the United Kingdom? The Making of British History, edited by Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer. Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State 1485–1725, edited by Steven G. Ellis and Sarah Barber. A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707, edited by John Robertson. The British Problem, c.1534–1707, edited by Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill. Macmillan. Three Nations—A Common History? England, Scotland, Ireland and British History c.1600–1920, edited by Ronald G. Asch. Brockmeyer. Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603, edited by Roger A. Mason. The Monarchy and the Constitution, by Vernon Bogdanor. The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution, by Peter Hennessy. Prime Minster, Cabinet and Core Executive, edited by R. A. W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy. SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King. Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age, by John Gray. The Way We Live Now, by Richard Hoggart. Arts and Cultures: The History of the 50 Years of the Arts Council of Great Britain, by Andrew Sinclair. The Faber Book of Science, edited by John Carey. But is it True? by Aaron Wildavsky. Orchestrating Europe: The Informal Politics of the European Union 1973–95, by Keith Middlemas. Living Islam:From Samarkand to Stomoway, by Akbar S. Ahmed. Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet is both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy, by Benjamin Barber. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Doubting President
SELINA CHEN The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama. Old age and new economics
David Metz The Age of Aging: How Demographics are Changing the Global Economy and Our World, by George Magnus. Vindicating the state
Gianfranco Pasquino In Government We Trust: Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation, by Warvick Funnell, Robert Jupe and Jane Andrew. Italian communists and the USSR
Maud Anne Bracke Palmiro Togliatti: A Biography, by Aldo Agosti. Antisemitism in the hall of mirrors
Brian Klug Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism, by Denis MacShane. Taking on the sceptics
Rosemary Bechler Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Approach, by Gillian Brock. Financial scandals: the lessons from France
Robert Boyce Shades of Indignation: Political Scandals in France, Past and Present, by Paul Jankowski: Berghahn. Fewer Willys but more consensus
Matthew Grant Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970, by Brian Harrison. The crunching of classical economics
Paul Auerbach The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do about It, by Robert J Shiller. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. ‘Special’ yes, but when and why? Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America, by Kathleen Burk. God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter Russell Mead. Judicial corruption Global Corruption Report 2007: Corruption in Judicial Systems, by Transparency International. Internet crimes Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age, by David S. Wall. $$ and €€€ in the global world The Euro and the Dollar in a Globalized Economy, edited by Joaquín Roy and Pedro Gomis‐Porqueras. The engagement of media citizens Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention, by Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham. Scotching the Scots The Scots and the Union, by Christopher Whatley. The Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707, by Michael Fry. The Union of 1707: Why and How, by Paul Henderson Scot. Citizens and supercapitalists Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life, by Robert Reich. More Blair effects Blair's Britain, 1997–2007, edited by Anthony Seldon. Carl Schmitt: a scholarly Nazi Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The ‘Jewish Question’, The Holocaust and German Legal Theory, by Raphael Gross. Ein gefährlicher Geist. Carl Schmitts Wirkung in Europa, by Jan‐Werner Müller. Carl Schmitt, Ludwig Feuchtwanger, Briefwechsel 1918–1935, edited by Rolf Rieß. Hans Blumenberg, Carl Schmitt, Briefwechsel, edited by Alexander Schmitz and Marcel Lepper. Gretha Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Briefwechsel (1934–1953), edited by Ingeborg Villinger and Alexander Jaser.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Once Upon a Time in America
NINA FISHMAN Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California's Loyalty Oath, by Bob Blauner. Don't blame Bush on Strauss
Lars Fischer The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss, edited by Steven B. Smith. Afghanistan: not a barbarous country of savage people
Grahame Hunter Butcher and Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Entanglement in Afghanistan, by David Loyn. Protesting is good for you
Ilaria Favretto Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: How Protest Creates Communities, by Donatella della Porta and Gianni Piazza. The Internet: a school for life?
Brian Groombridge Learning through Life: Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, by Tom Schuller and David Watson. The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy, by Stephen Coleman and Jay G. Blumler. Right‐wing spectres
Vassilis Fouskas Twenty‐First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy, edited by Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell. Macmillan: the unflappable politician?
Peter Catterall Harold Macmillan, by Charles Williams.     

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Books reviewed in this article: The Rationality of Social Justice BHIKHU PAREKH Why Social Justice Matters: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus, by Brian Barry Varieties of Corruption Paul Jankowski Corrupt Histories, edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan Are we all republicans now? Dawn Oliver Our Republican Constitution, by Adam Tomkins Defending the NHS: Myths and Realities Jennifer Dixon NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care, by Allyson M. Pollock Global Non‐sustainability Dick Pountain Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, by Jared Diamond Trade union history Nina Fishman United We Stand: A History of Britain's Trade Unions, by Alastair J. Reid Britons behaving badly? Mary Chamberlain Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain, by Robert Winder Out of Yugoslavia into Europe Ilaria Favretto The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in the Post‐Communist World, by Ales Debeljak Making Americans Fiona Ross The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation, by Desmond King The cancer of torture Victoria Brittain The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror, by Mark Danner     

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Books reviewed: The US Presidency in Crisis: A Comparative Perspective, by Colin Campbell Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models B. Guy Peters “A Dutch Miracle,” Job Growth, Welfare Reform and Corporatism in the Netherlands, by Jelle Visser and Anton Hemerijck The Economic History of the Netherlands, 1914–1995: A Small Open Economy in the “Long” Twentieth Century, by Jan L. van Zanden The German and Dutch Economies: Who Follows Whom?, edited by Lei Delsen and Eelke de Jonge The Reordering of British Politics: Politics After Thatcher, by Dennis Kavanagh     

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Book reviewed in this issue. The Dogs of Journalism. STEVEN BARNETT. Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies. Public intellectual: The art of making oneself up. Richard Mullender. Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4, by Richard Rorty. The Second Plane: September 11: 2001–2007, by Martin Amis. Planning and all that. Matthew Grant. From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain, by Glen O'Hara. Let a hundred flowers bloom. Munira Mirza Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts, by Caroline Levine. How to change your brains. Dick Pountain On Deep History and the Brain, by Daniel Lord Smail. ‘Clean’ torture. Caroline Fournet Torture and Democracy, by Darius Rejali. Reforming Italy. Gianfranco Pasquino Political Institutions in Italy, by Maurizio Cotta and Luca Verzichelli. Choice and competition in health care. Jennifer Dixon The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Competition and Choice, by Julian Le Grand, Afterword by Alain Enthoven. Who is afraid of politics?. Meg Russell Politics and the People: A History of British Democracy since 1918, by Kevin Jefferys. Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work, by Gerry Stoker, Palgrave Macmillan. Why We Hate Politics, by Colin Hay.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Democratic Flaws
RICHARD BOURKE The Life and Death of Democracy, by John Keane. Flawed democracy
Gianfranco Pasquino Democracy Inc. Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, by Sheldon Wolin. Democracy in the Land of Good Things (Britain)
Richard Mullender Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty, by Peter Kellner. The soldier's right to kill
Christopher Finlay Killing in War, by Jeff McMahan. Facts from Eastern Europe and elsewhere
Richard Briand Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name, by Timothy Garton Ash. The soul of Tony Blair
Ilaria Favretto Losing Labour's Soul? New Labour and the Blair Government, 1997–2007, by Eric Shaw. Greeks and Turks in Europe and Cyprus
Mehmet Ugur Turkey's Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy, by Constantine Arvanitopoulos. Cyprus: The Post‐Imperial Constitution, by Vassilis K. Fouskas and Alex O. Tackie. Obama's last chance
Tony Klug The Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance, by David Gardner. Thatcher's grandchildren
Mark Garnett Thatcher's Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s, by Richard Vinen.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The European Project: There Could Be Troubles Ahead
DONALD SASSOON The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, by David Marquand. Europe's killing fields
Paul Jankowski Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder. Memoirs of a repentant Stalinist
Oliver Bullough Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (edited and translated by Deborah Kaple). Doing God in America
Gianfranco Pasquino American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell. Blair's journey: bowels, balls and getting to grips
James E. Cronin A Journey: My Political Life, by Tony Blair.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. ‘It's Inequality, Stupid!’
PHILIP ARMSTRONG AND BOB SUTCLIFFE Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, by Raghuram G. Rajan. Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis, by Arthur MacEwan and John A. Miller. Politics without power
Richard Briand A Walk‐On Part, by Chris Mullin. Debunking Afghan myths
Joanna Buckley Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, by Jonathan Steele. The way after the Third Way
Patrick Diamond Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age, by Jenny Andersson. Latin America: the left returns
Richard Gott The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, by George Philip and Francisco Panizza. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts. The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Emir Sader, translated by Iain Bruce. (Re)inventing political culture?
Gianfranco Pasquino Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. When the middle began to be squeezed
Dick Pountain Winner‐Take‐All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. Italy: endlessly resisting
John Foot The Legacy of the Italian Resistance, by Philip Cooke. Plus ça change …
Mark Garnett Eighteenth‐century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt, by Dick Leonard. Gridlock or peak travel?
David Metz Gridlock Nation, by Kwasi Kwarteng and Jonathan Dupont. TINA (there is no etc.): the sequel
Jim Tomlinson UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective, edited by Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel and Thomas Springbett.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Labour: Professionalism and Internal Democracy
JAMES E. CRONIN Building New Labour: The Politics of Party Organisation, by Meg Russell Cuba: Miserable Happiness? Cuba: A New History, by Richard Gott
Maurice Walsh Yeh but no but
Robert Colls The Politics of Identity. Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference, by Michael Kenny Does economic growth help the poor?
Norman Flynn The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime, by Jeffrey Sachs, with a Foreword by Bono Jews for dialogue
Ann Jungmann A Tale of Love and Happiness, by Amos Oz. Vintage A modest proposal
James Cornford Magnificent Vision: The Right to Work, by Alan Whitford Churchill's righting history
John Rams den In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War, by David Reynolds     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Real Story of the Romanian ‘Revolution’
SILVIA MARTON 1989 à l'est de l'Europe: une mémoire controversée, edited by Jérôme Heurtaux and Cédric Pellen. La mort des Ceau?escu: la vérité sur un coup d'Etat communiste, by Catherine Durandin and Guy Hoedts. A hedgehog approach to capitalism
Paul Auerbach 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, by Ha‐Joon Chang. A Scottish Salmond in a sea of banalities?
Tom Gallagher Salmond Against the Odds, by David Torrance. Israel: the politics of brute force
Geoffrey Bindman The Punishment of Gaza, by Gideon Levy. Heath: no need to be loved
Mark Garnett Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography, by Philip Ziegler. The politics of rebellious music
Nico Pizzolato Reds, Whites and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music and Race in the United States, by William G. Roy. Lloyd George's wrong choices
Dick Leonard David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider, by Roy Hattersley. The constraints on American caesars
Richard Briand American Caesars: Lives of the American Presidents, from Franklyn D. Roosevelt to George Bush, by Nigel Hamilton. Faltering Habermas
Gianfranco Pasquino Europe: The Faltering Project, by Jürgen Habermas. Some light on the Prince of Darkness
Andrew Blick The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour, by Peter Mandelson. Trio: Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project, by Giles Radice.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Travails of Opposition
MARK GARNETT The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron, by Tim Bale. Labour's travails
Richard Briand Speak for Britain! A New History of the Labour Party, by Martin Pugh. Anti‐social behaviour? Dial 101
Paul Michael Garrett The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics, by Stuart Waiton. Surviving nukes in one's back garden
Victoria Honeyman After the Bomb; Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain 1945–68, by Matthew Grant. Israel's foundation myths
Richard Kuper The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand, (trans. Yael Lotan). Political science mission statement
Gianfranco Pasquino The Oxford Handbook of Political Science, edited by Robert E. Goodin. Sir Ian Blair: the Burkean top cop
Ian Loader Policing Controversy, by Ian Blair. To intervene or not to intervene?
Daniele Archibugi Humanitarian Intervention, by Michael Newman. A phenomenal trade unionist
Geoffrey Goodman Arthur Horner: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: 1918–1944; Vol. 2: 1944–1968, by Nina Fishman.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Life and Times of Neo‐Cons
THOMAS BENDER Neo‐conservatism: The Biography of a Movement, by Justin Vaïsse (translated by Arthur Goldhammer). The two faces of British Liberalism
Robert Taylor The Political Thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945, edited by Kevin Hickson. Labour and Liberals: opportunities lost, opportunities taken
Richard Briand Parties and People: England (1914–51), by Ross McKibbin. Do political personalities really matter?
Gianfranco Pasquino The Personalization of Politics: A Study of Parliamentary Democracies, by Lauri Karvonen. The politics of economics
John Grahl The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession, by Andrew Gamble. The successes of organised crime: the case of Naples
Ombretta Ingrascì Storia della camorra, by Francesco Barbagallo. Dismal days are here again?
Paul Auerbach Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, by Nouriel Roubini with Stephen Mihm.     

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Books reviewed in this article: The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War. Calling the Tune? by Hugh Wilford. Western Intelligence and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Ten Days That Did Not Shake the World 1980–1990, edited by David Arbel and Ran Edelist. Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century, edited by Heike Bungert, Jan G. Heitman and Michael Wala. How Mumbo‐Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, by Francis Wheen. Neighbours from Hell: The Politics of Behaviour, by Frank Field. Memoirs, by Douglas Hurd. Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens, by Julian Le Grand. Concept and Controversy: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market, by W. W. Rostow. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with an Introduction and Notes by Gareth Steadman Jones. World on Fire, by Amy Chua.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Britain's problem: how to be nice about Europe ILARIA POGGIOLINI Britain's Policy towards the European Community, 1964–7: Harold Wilson and Britain's World Role, by Helen Parr. Harold Wilson's EEC Application, by Jane Tooney. A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair, by Stephen Wall. For love of what you are not Rosemary Bechler Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender Culture and the Normalisation of Difference, by Mica Nava. Globalised capitalism: the migrants Selina Chen Chinese Whispers: The True Story behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour, by Hsiao‐Hung Pai. Globalised capitalism: the poor Suzanne Franks The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It, by Paul Collier. The dark side of globalisation Ombretta Ingrascì McMafia: Crime without Frontiers, by Misha Glenny. The militant matryoshkas F. S. Aijazuddin Frontline Pakistan: The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto, by Zahid Hussain. Walking under Israeli occupation Jad Adams Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape, by Raja Shehadeh. A decade of deconstruction: Britain in the 1970s Richard Mullender Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s, by Alwyn W. Turner. The threat from the Internet Kathy Bowrey The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, by Jonathon Zittrain.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Pakistan: The Hope of Wiser Mornings
F. S. AIJAZUDDIN The Future of Pakistan, by Stephen P. Cohen and others. The euro crisis: will the left awaken?
Jon Bloomfield The Future of Social Democracy: Building the Good Society, by Henning Meyer and Jonathan Rutherford. Nudging or nagging? Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour, by Peter John, Sarah Cotterill, Alice Moseley, Liz Richardson, Graham Smith, Gerry Stoker, Corinne Wales, Hanhua Liu and Hisako Nomura. Is Berlusconi history?
Claudia Capelli Berlusconi passato alla storia. L'Italia nell'era della democrazia autoritaria, by Antonio Gibelli. Berlusconismo. Analisi di un sistema di potere, edited by Paul Ginsborg and Enrica Asquer. Island story or real history?
Kate Moorse The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth‐century England, by David Cannadine, Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon. The Tea Parties: neither crazies nor righteous
Martin Durham The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williams. A global mafia?
John Dickie Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories, by Federico Varese. What now, America?
Ilaria Poggiolini Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Knaves not fools
Dick Pountain The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super‐Rich and the Economy, by Stewart Lansley.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Shock! Horror! America shocks Europe
 DONALD SASSOON The Shock of America. Europe and the Challenge of the Century, by David Ellwood. Greedy grey voters?
 David Metz Going Grey: the Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society, by Scott Davidson. How to hate Muslims in America
 Tahir Abbas The Islamophobia Industry: How the Far Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims, by Nathan Lean. Planning urban blight
 Joseph Rykwert A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain, by Owen Hatherley. The self‐appointed imperial umpire
 Andrew Johnstone American Umpire, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman. Daddy knows best?
 Dick Pountain Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly. Advice to (male) politicians: keep trousers zipped up
 Dick Leonard Intimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media‐Saturated Democracies, by James Stanyer. Christians and Muslims facing the world
 Alessandra Cecolin Christian Response to Islam. Muslim–Christian relations in the modern world, edited by Anthony O'Mahony and Emma Loosley. The sweet charms of the upper‐class voice
 Gianfranco Pasquino The Unheavenly Chorus. Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady. Integration, again: the Frenchness of a British nationalist
 Daniel Gordon The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post‐War Immigration, by David Goodhart.