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Volume 70 - Fall 2008

Book Reviews

ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND THE BEHAVIOR OF LEGISLATORS - David M. Farrell and Roger Scully: Representing Europe's Citizens? Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 230. $85.00.)

WHEN ELECTIONS WORK - Michelle Penner Angrist: Party Building in the Modern Middle East (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 247. $50.00, cloth.)

THE PERILS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE - Hannah Dawson: Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 361. $96.00.)

QUESTIONS OF RELEVANCE - Elisabeth Young-Bruehl: Why Arendt Matters (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 232. $35.00.)

PLURALISM'S FORGOTTEN FATHER - Kennan Ferguson: William James: Politics in the Pluriverse (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Pp. xxviii, 110. $24.95, paper.)

VARIETIES OF RATIONALITY - Michael Taylor: Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 218. $75.00; $26.99, paper.)

A REPRESENTATIVE MODERN - Edward Kanterian: Ludwig Wittgenstein (London: Reaktion Books, 2007. Pp. 224. $16.95.)

FLAWED DESIGN, FLAWED EXECUTION - Eric D. Weitz: Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 425. $29.95.)

THE TENSION OF EXISTENCE - Jeffrey C. Herndon: Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 189. $39.95.)

MIRROR TO THE POLITY - Jenny Adams: Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 252. $49.95.)

A MORE OR LESS COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT - Thomas D. D'Andrea: Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue: The Thought of Alasdair MacIntyre (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. 504. $ 99.95/£ 60.00.)

ORAL EVASIONS, MORAL VACUITY - Joachim Fest: Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's Architect. Translated by Patrick Camiller (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 220. $29.95.)

SELF-MADE MEN AND MAN-MADE SELVES: THE GENETIC ARMS RACE AND THE MYTH OF THE MERITOCRACY - Michael J. Sandel: The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. vii, 162. $18.95.)

CROSS-FERTILIZATION - John WitteJr.: God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006. Pp. xiv, 498. $32.00.)

RADICALIZED PRAGMATISM - Roberto Mangabeira Unger: The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. vii, 277. $29.95.)

“ORWELL” AS POLICAL INSTRUMENT - Daniel Leab: Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of “Animal Farm” (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 195. $55.00.)

MYTHS ABOUT PRESIDENTIALISM - José Antonio Cheibub: Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 208. $24.99.)

OTHER GODS - Emilio Gentile: Politics as Religion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp xxiii, 168. $39.50.)

WOUNDED LEVIATHAN - John Brenkman: The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought Since September 11 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. 1, 205. $29.95.)

The Erotic Prince - Haig Patapan: Machiavelli in Love: The Modern Politics of Love and Fear (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. Pp. 169. $65.00.)

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