Book Reviews

Three Days at Camp David: A Review

`The global monetary system often goes unnoticed by an American public whose concern over the economy usually only extends to gas prices, unemployment numbers, and…


A New Idea of India: A Review

A New Idea of India, written by Harsh Madhusudan (’09) and Rajeev Mantri provides a fascinating vision of an India informed by a free-market, secularist…


Race Against Time: A Review

In less than 25 years from now, white people will become a minority in America. Keith Boykin ’87 connects this fact to what he argues is a latent racism in white Americans that will ignite a racial civil war in Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America, a digestible and at times revelatory but ultimately unconvincing synopsis of the trajectory of race in America.



The Right to Bear Arms: A Review

This divergence between the right to possess and carry around a weapon as expressed in the Constitution and its recognition (or lack thereof) by individual states serves as the topic of The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of People or a Privilege of the Working Class?, the newest analysis of Second Amendment history by noted appellate lawyer and scholar Stephen Halbrook.



First Duty: A Review

In an age of iron triangles and revolving doors, impossible-to-audit defense budgets and “national security professionals,” does the quality and character of the middle-aged man…


Mark My Words: A Review

In his new book Mark My Words: Reflections, Reminiscences and Recollections from a Life Well Lived, Dartmouth Class of 1953 Mark H. Smoller is able to walk the fine line of an impactful memoir for a targeted Dartmouth audience.


Accountable: A Review

My reading of Warren Valdmanis and Michael O’Leary’s Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism, could not have come at a better time. Valdmanis, a Dartmouth…