Russia’s Master Spy in America
Reviewed by John M. Handley, Ph.D.

Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War, by Pete Earley, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007 (ISBN -13: 978-0-399-15439-3) 340 pages

Reviewed by Jacqueline E. Whitt
Randall Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, Harvard University Press (paperback edition), 2007, 1007 pp

Review by John Brown
Yale Richmond, Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. 175 pages.

Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa, Contributing Editor
Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. 449 pages.

U.S. Covert Operations in Chile 1964-1975
Review by Amb. (ret.) Michael W. Cotter
Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile 1964-1975. By Kristian Gustafson. (Washington: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007. Pp. xiv, 244.

Reviewed by John M. Handley
Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider’s View of Iraq’s Reconstruction by James “Spike” Stephenson, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007 (ISBN 978-1-59797-151-5) 166 pages

Review by Norvell B. DeAtkine
A Chronology of United States-Iraqi Relations, 1920-2006. By Henry E. Mattox (McFarland and Company; Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: 2008. 190 pages.

The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies
Reviewed by Henry E. Mattox, Contributing Editor
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies. By M. Stanton Evans (Crown Forum, 2007, 660 pages

Review by Bart Moon
The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro’s Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile. By Patrick Symmes (Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 2007. 352 pp.

Review by Louis V. Riggio
The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy. By Glenn Kessler (St. Martin’s Press, First Edition, Sept. 2007, 288 pages, $25.95)

Reviewed by J. R. Bullington, Editor
FDR’s 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa. By Hal Vaughn (The Lyons Press, Guilford, CT, 2006. 311 pp. $24.95)

by Lou Riggio

by James L. Abrahamson

Reviewed by J. R. Bullington, Editor

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. By Tim Weiner. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

Review by Captain Timothy E. Wolfe, US Army
Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War & Unholy Terror, New York: Random House Books, 2003.

Review by John Burgess
Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World, by Stephen O’Shea. (Walker & Company, 2006)

Review by Norvell B.DeAtkine
Divide and Perish: The Geopolitics of the Middle East, by Curtis F. Jones, Author House, Bloomington IN, 2007

Review by Benjamin Fordham
Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes, America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked. (New York: Times Books, 2006, pp. xix, 259, charts, notes, index).

Review by Michael Hornblow
Dangerous Nation, by Robert Kagan (New York: Knopf, 2006)

Review by Curtis F. Jones
One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, by Ali Abunimah (New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Co., 2006)