Imminent Threat
/A harrowing new study tries to determine why the myth of torture's effectiveness persists despite all the evidence - and despite a long line of permanently maimed victims. Greg Waldmann reviews.
Read MoreThe Broken Clock
/Controversial former Vice President Dick Cheney and his journalist daughter Liz have written a book claiming that the exceptional nature of American power is being sullied and squandered by the current occupant of the White House. Greg Waldmann reviews Exceptional.
Read MoreThe Management of Savagery
/Many new books - some excellent, some awful - are now seeking to explain the terrorist group ISIS, but the group's own origins dynamics are dauntingly complex. Greg Waldmann tries to make sense of it all.
Read MoreFaith-Based Initiative
/In his new book City of Rivals, James Grumet takes a gloomy close-up look at America's deeply dysfunctional Congress and offers some solutions. But are those solutions dysfunctional too?
Read MoreWe Are Oil
/Just how powerful is Exxon Mobil? Who can they pay off and which governments are they propping up? Steve Coll's new book explores the dark side of power and light.
Read MoreLOL, SRSLY?
/MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has made a career of joking about easy political targets - so what happens when she tries to deliver a factual inquiry of a serious subject? Nothing funny, as Greg Waldmann discovers.
Read MoreThe Apparatchik
/For two terms, first as National Security Advisor and then as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice was the most - often the only - likeable face of the George W. Bush administration. But does this quintessential team player break ranks in her new memoir?
Read MoreA Heartbeat Away
/John Nance Garner famously referred to the vice presidency as being not worth a bucket of warm, er, spit - and yet, during the two terms of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney used that office to wield unprecedented power. The former vice president writes an unapologetic memoir.
Read MoreA Brief for the Defense
/If you're hoping for a heartfelt mea culpa from an architect of two disastrous wars, this isn't it. Donald Rumsfeld's memoir is shallow at best, cynically self-serving at worst.
Read MoreSimple Man
/No American president in a generation has so polarized the country as George W. Bush, and his new book will almost certainly polarize its readers. Is it defiant agitprop or heartfelt memoir?
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