PositiveThe Guardian (UK)Drawing on archives, interviews with surviving family members and friends, and biographies, memoirs and contemporaneous news reports, Callahan details the stories of several more women whose lives were upended by the Kennedys.
Kamala Harris
MixedThe Observer\"... Harris’s The Truths We Hold fits more squarely into the category of \'serviceable\' – not so much a literary event as the book tour as election campaign ... Harris’s prose rarely sparkles and there is not much by way of self-revelation ... The book is at its most powerful when highlighting stark injustices ... As a pamphlet or stump speech, then, The Truths We Hold serves its purpose; personal integrity shines through every page. Like Obama, Harris may prove an extraordinary candidate and an extraordinary president. But she has written an ordinary book because, if truth be told, it was never about the book.\
Robert Skidelsky
MixedThe Sunday TimesI disagree with a lot of it ... I would...hope that governments are not tempted to go down the protectionist route by the arguments presented here. Skidelsky notes that there are seven general arguments for protectionism ... Most economists would say that these only provide arguments for temporary protectionist measures, but Skidelsky argues that the conditions in which free trade is beneficial are so often lacking that there can be \'no general presumption\' in favor of it. That is dangerous territory ... Skidelsky is more convincing about the requirement for economics to change ... Skidelsky favors reopening economics to sociology, history, politics and ethics to prevent it turning into \'a drying reservoir of abstractions.\' He has a point.
Adam Tooze
PositiveThe Times (UK)\"Those like me who have read or written it before might find that there is more narrative than analysis, and that at times that detail can be a little wearying. But it is well researched and many readers will come to it fresh and wonder, as does Tooze, at the circumstances that forced governments that proclaimed the virtues of free markets to become interventionists on a huge scale in order to stop their banking systems from collapsing.\
Dag Solstad, Trans. by Steven T. Murray
PositiveAsymptoteTo Solstad, the author in Norway—and the West in general—has been reduced to a symbol, a symbol of perfect freedom, undergirding the myth of the ahistorical individual, free from historical necessity ... established Solstad fans may well find Armand V an interesting minor work.
Paul Howarth
PositiveBooklistRich in character and period atmosphere, this effective blend of family saga and historical mystery will please fans of Jeffrey Archer and Wilbur Smith.
