Abstract
Books reviewed in this issue. Visions of America PAUL AUERBACHGood Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm.The Challenge of Affluence Self‐control and Well‐being in the United States and Britain since 1950, by Avner Offer. A great world disorder Andrew Gamble Global Challenges for Leviathan: A Political Philosophy of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming, by Furio Cerutti. Let's do it by lot Andrew Blick The Athenian Option: Radical Reform for the House of Lords, by Anthony Barnett and Peter Carty. A People's Parliament, by Keith Sutherland. The lawyer's responsibility Caroline Fournet Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law, by Philippe Sands. The journalist's responsibilities John Lloyd Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press, by Michael Schudson. Red in tooth and claw Dick Pountain The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, by James K. Galbraith. The quandaries of the Nazi empire Richard Mullender Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, by Mark Mazower. The colour‐coding of American elections Gianfranco Pasquino Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do, by Andrew Gelman. Organising warring parties John Ramsden Parties at War: Political Organisation in Second World War Britain, by Andrew Thorpe. The United States since Vietnam: a life on the wire Vassilis K. Fouskas World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy, by Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth.
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