BOOKS RECEIVED
The following books are available for review. Please contact the book review editor at pabooks@politicalaffairs.net for details and specifications. Also, if there is book you are interested in reviewing, contact us and we'll try to make arrangements.

Bivins, Jason C., The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics, University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Bove, Paul A. editor, Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to power, Duke University Press, 2000

Debord, Guy, Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, Documents, AK Press, 2003

Duggan, Lisa, The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy, Beacon Press, 2003

Fukuyama, Francis, Our Posthuman Future, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

Hitchens, Christopher, Along Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq, Plume, 2003

Irwin, Alexander, Joyce Millen and Dorothy Fallows, Global Aids: Myths and Facts, Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic, South End Press, 2003

Jones, Amelia, editor, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Routledge, 2003

Levine, June and Gene Gordon, Tales of Wo-Chi-Ca: Blacks, Whites and Reds at Camp Avon Springs Press, 2002

Magana, Lisa, Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS, University of Texas Press, 2003

Martin, Justin, Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon, Basic Books, 2002

Marquez, Benjamin, Constructing Identities In Mexican American Political Organizations: Choosing Issues, Taking Sides, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2003

Prashad, Vijay, Keeping Up With the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare, South End Press, 2003

Singer, Peter, One World: The Ethics of Globalization,Yale University Press, 2002

Smyser, W.R., The Humanitarian Conscience: Caring for Others in the Age of Terror, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Vidocq, Francois Eugene: Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime, AK Press, 2003

Weigel, George, The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, Oxford University Press, 2003

While the US prison population has surpassed 2 million people, this figure is more than 20 percent of the entire global imprisoned population combined. Angela Y. Davis shows, in her most recent book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, that this alarming situation isn’t as old as one might think.

For some, the curbing of civil liberties started with September 11th. For others, the struggle had been going on long before. There are many complex details to understanding the US government’s record on human rights.

It seems that most people who have reviewed Stupid White Men from a left perspective have focused mostly on the last few chapters that are embroiled in the controversy over the Greens and the Democrats. What is missing is praise for Michael Moore’s biting sarcasm, his well-researched criticism and his plucky humor that enable the reader to get through the book psychologically intact.

Joseph Stiglitz is no radical. He is a mainstream “free market” economist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. He served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Bill Clinton, starting in 1993. Globalization and Its Discontents is a fascinating insider’s look at the process of capitalist globalization.

Meghnad Desai is the director of the Centre for the study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, and Marx’s Revenge is his analysis of the glories of globalization, free trade and the everlastingness of capitalism.

William Gibson, best known for the sci-fi thriller Necromancer, in Pattern Recognition spins a post-9/11 tale of espionage and mystery set in the world of high-finance advertising.

A study of the diversity and complexity of African American poetry during the 1930s and 1940s, Smethurst’s The New Red Negro compellingly and subtly articulates a new view of this long-neglected period and genre of American letters.

In recent years, the conservative assault on the democratic values at the heart of our legal system has manifested itself in a range of sweeping repressive powers. In 2001, after Congress passed the dubious USA Patriot Act and the Department of Justice announced that it would authorize the federal government to monitor attorney-client conversations, George W. Bush signed a Military Order allowing the trial of non-citizens in military tribunals.

Robert Meeropol’s An Execution in the Family renders a fiery challenge to the family values of the right. It is a timely exposé of the violence that flows from the destruction of civil rights and liberties experienced by victims of the “McCarthy-era abuses of power.”

Close your eyes and imagine a scene from World War II. What do you see? US troops storming the beaches of Normandy? A Russian soldier placing the red flag of victory atop the German Reichstag in Berlin? The mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The grim gray dawns of the years long siege of Stalingrad? Search the awful war-torn terrain. Among the scorched steel and rubble, the twisted trees and cratered earth, between the near ruined armies arrayed against each other in that titanic struggle, do you discern any faces of color?

Harry Potter is an annoying, conceited little brat. Anything that was likable about the character through the first four books of the Harry Potter series has been overshadowed now by his generally distasteful personality.

Clyde Prestowitz’s Rogue Nation is an important book, not necessarily because of what it says but because of what it represents. Prestowitz is a former Reagan Administration official, who was catapulted to prominence during the 1980s because of his scorching critique of Japan, and what he then saw as its unfair trading practices.

The preface of The Great Wells of Democracy sets the tone for establishing this book as a document for those who are unfamiliar with African American history and its struggles.

During the period between the first and second World Wars, two different intellectual doctrines vied for control of shaping the future of Black Americans: nationalism and Marxism. In his book Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars, Anthony Dawahare illustrates the influence of this struggle and provides an excellent and thorough examination of the two most influential ideologies of the Harlem Renaissance, historicizing the movements in their proper context.

A young woman looking for work as a live-in personal secretary in the Cosey household rekindles memories long since tucked away in the mind of the quiet neighborhood. Within the Cosey household, the arrival of this young woman, Junior Viviane, sparks suspicion and fear.

As a few corporate criminals are paraded before the press to show government concern for the kinds of deception practiced by some Enron officials, Vijay Prashad’s book, Fat Cats and Running Dogs, delves more deeply to reveal the true extent of their crimes.

In a March 2002 interview with Pacifica radio in Berkeley, then Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of Georgia made headlines.