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December 1998 - Volume 30 Issue 12

Our Best Picks from 1998

A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America, by David K. Shipler

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, by Ron Suskind

A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe

A Mother's Place: Taking the Debate About Working Mothers Beyond Guilt and Blame, by Susan Chira

Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars, by Cynthia Gorney

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew

Calamaties of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas, by Lawrence Weschler

Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus, by Carlotta Gall & Thomas de Waal

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, by Michael Davis

George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee, by Herbert S. Parmet

Governing With the News: The News Media as a Political Institution, by Timothy E. Cook

Lawyer, by Arthur Liman

Murder in the Name of God: The Plot to Kill Yitzak Rabin, by Michael Karpin and Ina Friedman

No Regrets: The Life of Marietta Tree, by Caroline Seebohm

Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD, by Lou Cannon

One Nation, After All: How the Middle Class Think About God, Country, and Family, by Alan Wolfe

Our Man in Belize, by Richard Timothy Conroy

Out of Order: Arrogance and Incompetence in the Bench, by Max Boot

Reaching Beyond Race, by Paul Sniderman & Edward G. Carmines

Secrecy: The American Experience, by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Someone Else's House, by Tamar Jacoby

Sotheby's: Bidding for Class, by Robert Lacey

Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine, by Howard Kurtz

Standards For Our Schools: How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them, by Marc Tucker and Judy Codding

Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration is Transforming America, by Robert Suro

The Buying of the Congress, by Charles Lewis

The Collapse of the Soviet Military, by William E. Odom

The Fix, by Michael Massing

The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, by Steven Watts

There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadilloes, by Jim Hightower

To End a War, by Richard Holbrooke

Twilight in the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the U.S.-Mexican Border, by Sebastian Rotella

Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict, by David Callahan


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