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Jesse Wegman
Positive The Washington Independent Review of Books ... a thoroughly researched and forcefully argued attack on the odd system enshrined in the Constitution for selecting the president of the United States.
Joan Biskupic
Mixed The Washington Independent Review of Books Biskupic, a friend and colleague for 30 years, is both charmed and awed by Roberts...She exploits her extraordinary access and three decades of Supreme Court reportage and analysis to provide intimate insight into her subject\'s persona and illuminating (if thinly sourced) scuttlebutt about Roberts\' less-than-perfect relations with his colleagues ... In her subtitle, Biskupic promises an account of Roberts\' \'life and turbulent times,\' but the account makes clear that Roberts has been untouched and largely unaffected by the turbulences of his formative years.
Jane Sherron de Hart
Rave Washington Independent Review of Books \"The public\'s familiarity with Ginsburg\'s life presents a challenge for a serious biographer, but Jane Sherron de Hart... has succeeded with a masterful biography that adds depth and insight to Ginsburg\'s only-in-America life story ... With limited information about the Court\'s internal operations, De Hart\'s account of Ginsburg\'s tenure necessarily relies primarily on her written opinions ... Ginsburg\'s persona recedes somewhat in De Hart\'s thorough descriptions of that and other major cases during Ginsburg\'s tenure.\
Ronan Farrow
Positive The Washington Independent Review of Books The book reflects dogged shoe-leather reporting ... Farrow scored interviews with every living former secretary of state, six of whom provided on-the-record comments criticizing the severe budget-cutting imposed by the Trump administration with Tillerson\'s full support. Farrow gives Trump a pass of sorts by spreading the blame for \'diplomats sidelined and soldiers and spies ascendant\' back to 2001. The book comes too soon to provide a full, Bob Woodward-style examination of Trump\'s foreign policy, but one expects to read or see more from Farrow on the subject in either of his journalistic homes: the New Yorker and NBC News.
Richard Kluger
Rave The Washington Independent Review of Books Kluger masterfully tells a story that is rich in both human drama and historical background ... Kluger tells those stories in detail but without taking a position on whether Cosby was as bad as his critics charged ... Kluger concludes by highlighting a new threat to press freedom: the prosecution or attempted prosecution of whistleblowers from within the newly emerging national security state, such as the now-imprisoned Chelsea Manning or the in-exile Edward Snowden.