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.
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/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 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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