by William N. Dale

Review by David W. Thornton
The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass DestructionThe New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction. By Walter Laqueur. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 312. $15.95 paper.)

Review by Henry E. Mattox
Flash Point. By James W. Huston. (William Morrow: June 2000. Avon (paper): June 2001. Copyright 2000. 579 pp.)

Review by Steven I. Levine
America’s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations. Fourth Edition. By Warren I. Cohen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 270.)

Review by David Ettinger
FDR and the Creation of the United Nations. By Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997; 2000. Pp. xii, 287.)

Review by Michael H. Hunt

Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era
By Michael E. Latham. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 288. $45 cloth; $18.95 paper.)

Review by Edward Marks
Africa, Africa!: Fifteen Stories
By Frederic Hunter. (Seattle: Cune Press, 2000. $23.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.)

Review by Carl R. Fritz
Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia.
By Charles T. Cross. (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. 281.)

Review by William N. Dale
Both Hunter and Hunted: A Cold War Adventure.
By Vincent Joyce. (Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, 2001. Pp. 318. $16.95 soft cover.)

Review by Howard Jones
One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the American Civil War. By Dean B. Mahin. (Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1999. Pp. x, 343. $27.95 cloth.)

The Ambassadorial Imperative Endangered
Review by William N. Dale

Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad By Thomas W. Zeiler (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2000. Pp. xvii, 235. $17.95 paper.)   Liberal Missionary: The ‘Whole’ Dean Rusk By Jack Perry* IN HIS USEFUL bibliographical essay at the end of this … Read more

Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy By Douglas C. Foyle (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 377. $24 paper.)   The Man in the Street and Uncle Sam and the World, Redux By David W. … Read more

On My Country and the World By Mikhail S. Gorbachev George Shriver, trans. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. 300) Poor Forgotten Gorby: The First Bolshevik’s Last Apologist by Katherine A. S. Sibley POOR MIKHAIL GORBACHEV.  While his San … Read more

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator By Arthur Herman (New York: Free Press, 2000. Pp. vi, 404. $26 cloth.) McCarthy and His Enemies, Revisited by Larry I. Bland* A POLITICAL TRACT DISGUISED AS A … Read more

By Victor Fic   Years of Renewal By Henry A. Kissinger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Pp. 1,119. $35 cloth.)     Henry Kissinger might just refute Andy Warhol’s nostrum that every American will be famous for fifteen minutes. … Read more

  Called to Serve The Life of An American Envoy By Kenneth Vickery   Safirka: An American Envoy By Peter Bridges (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227 $24 cloth.)   A career Foreign Service officer, … Read more

Review by Hermann Fr. Eilts   Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership By Parker T. Hart (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 283. $35 cloth.)   In 1991-92, President George Bush deployed a … Read more

By Michael Cotter Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire In Central Asia By Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999. Pp. xxv, 573. $35 cloth Journalists Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac … Read more

By Richard Matheron Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda By Rosamond Halsey Carr with Ann Howard Halsey (New York: Viking Penguin, 1999, Pp. 248. $23.95) I fear this cannot be an unbiased book review. I look back … Read more