On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
By MICHAEL LIND
Reviewed by DAVID LEONHARDT
This ambitious economic history of the United States argues that the country thrives when the federal government acts as a robust partner to private enterprise.
Also in the Book Review
By TIMOTHY NOAH
Reviewed by BENJAMIN M. FRIEDMAN
Timothy Noah summarizes the causes of widening economic inequality in the United States, and offers policy recommendations for fixing it.
By ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
Reviewed by JUDITH SHULEVITZ
Arlie Russell Hochschild examines how we meet some of our most personal needs with the aid of paid strangers.
The president of Harvard University, a historian and the author of multiple works of nonfiction, wishes all incoming freshmen would read "Being Wrong."
By ROLAND CHAMBERS
Reviewed by KEN KALFUS
A British journalist and spy in Russia had a more successful career as a children's author.
By HILARY MANTEL
Reviewed by CHARLES McGRATH
Hilary Mantel's sequel to "Wolf Hall" traces Anne Boleyn's fall.
By JAMES WRIGHT
Reviewed by ANDREW J. BACEVICH
Despite the bumper stickers, the gap between soldier and civilian is wider than ever.
By PETER CAREY
Reviewed by ANDREW MILLER
In Peter Carey's novel, two narrators separated by time are brought together in the pursuit of an automaton.
By AKASH KAPUR
Reviewed by GEOFFREY C. WARD
Rapid change, Akash Kapur explains, has brought contrast and contradiction to India.
By WILLIAM HJORTSBERG
Reviewed by JOHN LELAND
Richard Brautigan, author of the 1960s best seller "Trout Fishing in America," is the subject of this biography.
CRIME
By MARILYN STASIO
Alex Grecian's Victorian mystery "The Yard" is the bloody tale of a serial killer targeting detectives from Scotland Yard.
By TANIA JAMES
Reviewed by EMILY COOKE
In Tania James's stories, a chimpanzee and a ghost are among the characters entangled in sticky human relationshi
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By DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN
Erich Segal's 1985 novel about a 25th reunion at Harvard tapped into ambitions and fears that are all too real.
By GREGORY COWLES
Henry A. Crumpton, a former C.I.A. operative whose memoir, "The Art of Intelligence," is on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 3, says he was influenced by Sean Connery's James Bond.
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
By IHSAN TAYLOR
Paperback books of particular interest.
This week, Michael Lind talks about his economic history of the United States, "Land of Promise"; John Leland discusses a biography of Richard Brautigan; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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