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Sketchy lobby
TURKMENISCAM: HOW WASHINGTON LOBBYISTS FOUGHT TO FLACK FOR A STALINIST DICTATORSHIP by Ken Silverstein (Random House), 197 pages, $28 cloth. Rating: NNNNTurkmenistan is one of... -
Fallen heroes
UNLIKELY SOLDIERS: HOW TWO CANADIANS FOUGHT THE SECRET WAR AGAINST NAZI OCCUPATION by Jonathan F. Vance (HarperCollins), 298 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating: NNNWinnipeg's Frank Pickersgill... -
Net nemesis
MAFIABOY: HOW I CRACKED THE INTERNET AND WHY IT’S STILL BROKEN by Michael Calce and Craig Silverman (Viking), 275 pages, $34 cloth. Rating: NNNMichael Calce... -
Putin power play
PUTIN’S LABYRINTH: SPIES, MURDER, AND THE DARK HEART OF THE NEW RUSSIA by Steve LeVine (Random House), 193 pages, $30 cloth. Rating: NNNNPolitical assassination and... -
Macmillan misses
THE USES AND ABUSES OF HISTORY by Margaret Macmillan (Viking Canada), 194 pages, $30 cloth. Rating: NNThere's no doubt that Margaret Macmillan is one of... -
Saving the world
ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT: KENNEDY, KHRUSHCHEV, AND CASTRO ON THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR by Michael Dobbs (Knopf) 448 pages, $33.95 cloth. Rating: NNNNNOn October... -
Tap this
BUSH’S LAW: THE REMAKING OF AMERICAN JUSTICE by Eric Lichtblau (Pantheon), 349 pages, $32 cloth. Rating: NNNNHere’s a must-read book about how government secrecy allowed... -
Empire rethink
ON EMPIRE: AMERICA, WAR, AND GLOBAL SUPREMACY by Eric Hobsbawm (Pantheon), 97 pages, $22.95 cloth. Rating: NNNIf you want to learn why the United States... -
Modern Viking
THE OBSESSION: TRAGEDY IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC by John Chipman (Viking Canada), 243 pages,$32 cloth. Rating: NNNNYou have to cheer for a guy who chases... -
Power point
CHASING THE FLAME: SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE WORLD by Samantha Power (Penguin), 622 pages, $32.95. Rating: NNNNNThe Iraq war... -
Rebel in a suit
THE AMERICANO: FIGHTING WITH CASTRO FOR CUBA’S FREEDOM by Aran Shetterly (Algonquin), 300 pages, $27.95 cloth. Rating: NNNNNow that Cuban president Fidel Castro has taken... -
9/11s origins?
THE SIEGE OF MECCA: THE FORGOTTEN UPRISING IN ISLAMS HOLIEST SHRINE AND THE BIRTH OF AL QAEDA by Yaroslav Trofimov (Doubleday), 301 pages, $34 cloth.... -
Passage to India
INDIAN SUMMER: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE END OF AN EMPIRE by Alex Von Tunzelmann (Henry Holt), 416 pages, $36.99 cloth. Rating: NNNNNLast week’s killing... -
Satans choice
SATANS CIRCUS: MURDER, VICE, POLICE CORRUPTION AND NEW YORKS TRIAL OF THE CENTURY by Mike Dash (Crown), 449 pages, $32 cloth. Rating: NNNGrimy early-20th-century New... -
Jocks on trial
UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE SHAMEFUL INJUSTICES OF THE DUKE LACROSSE RAPE CASE by Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson (Thomas Dunne), 420...
