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Most recent book review

• Joel Simon, We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom

Feature

• Euripides, ancient Athenian playwright   Page 1 - Editorial remarks     |     Page 2 - Synopses of works

Looking back at some of our book reviews of past decades ...

• David A. Clary, Adopted Son : Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution (2007)
• David W. Blight, A Slave No More : Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (2007)
• Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets : A History of Collective Joy (2007)
• Jean Pfaelzer, Driven Out : The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans (2007)

Book reviews contributed by others

• Sidney Hook, Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx

Looking back at some of our book reviews of past decades ...

• Carlo D'Este, Eisenhower : A Soldier's Life (Biography, 2002)
• David McCullough, John Adams (Biography, 2001)
• Charles B. Strozier, Heinz Kohut : The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Biography, 2001)

Classic book excerpts

• Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society : Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism, to Civilization
  Do you have an opinion about the hypothesis that human history has progressed through a uniform pattern of "stages" ?
  Here we excerpt the most representatives pages from Morgan's thesis, published in 1877.
  
• Adam Ferguson, Of the History of Arts, an excerpt from the book An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)