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Volume 71 - Winter 2009

Book Reviews

FOR THOSE WHO LIKE THIS SORT OF THING, THE SORT OF THING THEY'LL LIKE - Laurence D. Cooper: Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche: The Politics of Infinity (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 257. $55.00.)

A COMMONWEALTH OF ORDERED WORDS - Philip Pettit: Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 183. $29.95.)

RADICAL DEMOCRAT - Peter T. Manicas: Rescuing Dewey: Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism (Landham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. Pp. xxviii, 323. $85.00.)

THE VIEW FROM THE LOSING SIDE - Richard E. Ellis: Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 230. $26.44.)

DIPLOMAT AS LITTERATEUR - Lee Congdon: George Kennan: A Writing Life (Wilmington, DL: ISI Books, 2008. Pp. xii, 220. $25.00.)

TO MIRROR AND TO TRANSFORM - Rhodri Lewis: Language, Mind, and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 286. $96.00.)

MONTAIGNE IN HIS CONTEXT - Biancamaria Fontana: Montaigne's Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 205. $29.95.)

NEW FIGHT FOR OLD LIBERTIES - Ernest Freeberg: Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, and the Right to Dissent (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 380. $29.95.)

A CLOSER LOOK AT FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS - Mitchel A. Sollenberger: The President Shall Nominate: How Congress Trumps Executive Power (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Pp. xi, 312. $39.95.)

ODD COUPLE - Michael Kimmage: The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 419. $45.00.)

LIONS AND FOXES - Alasdair J. Marshall: Vilfredo Pareto's Sociology: A Framework for Political Psychology (Hampshire, UK: Aldershot, 2007. Pp. ix–xx, 215. $99.95.)

DISCOURSE AS DISCOURSE - Daniel Martin Varisco: Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 501. $30.00, paper.)

THE PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY OF PRACTICE - Andrew Sullivan: Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2007. Pp. xi, 219. $49.90.)

NOT UP TO THE JOB - Paul C. Light: A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. viii, 278. $45.00.)

EXTENDING THE CONTEST - David E. Kyvig: The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture Since 1960 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Pp. xiii, 405. $34.95.)

ANOTHER NIETZSCHE - Tamsin Shaw: Nietzsche's Political Skepticism (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 159. $24.95.)

THEORY REPLACING RESEARCH - Walter L. Hixson: The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 337. $35.00.)

NOT A COMPROMISE - Michael F. Holt: By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Pp. xiv, 300. $34.95.)

RED TORY - Hugh Donald Forbes: George Grant: A Guide to His Thought (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 301. $27.95.)

THUS TASTED ZARATHUSTRA - Diego A. von Vacano: The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. Pp. xii, 216. $60.00; 29.95, paper.)

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