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Books Recently Received at the American Center

Biography

Soldier:  The Life of Colin Powell, by Karen DeYoung.  New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. (Bio Powell)

Walt Disney:  The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler.  New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. (791.43 Gab)

Conflict Resolution

The Conflict Resolution Toolbox, by Gary T. Furlong.  Canada, John Wiley & Sons, 2005. (303.6 Fur)

Is There a Culture War?  A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life, by James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe.  Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press, 2006. (306.0973 Hun)

Peace Be Upon You:  The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence, by Zachary Karabell.  New York, Alfred A Knopf, 2007. (201 Kar)

Bringing Peace into the Room:  How the Personal Qualities of the Mediator Impact the Process of Conflict Resolution, edited by Daniel Bowling and David Hoffman.  San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass, 2003. (303.6 Bri)

The Power of a Positive No:  How to Say No and Still Get to Yes, by William Ury.  New York, Bantam Books, 2007. (303.6 Ury)

Fiction

After This, by Alice McDermott.  New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. (Mcd)

Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon.  New York, Penguin Press, 2006. (Pyn)

Ahab’s Wife, or, The Star-Gazer, by Sena Jeter Naslund.  New York, HarperPerennial, 1999. (Nas)

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006, edited by David Eggers.  Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2006. (Bes)

The Best American Short Stories 2006, edited by Ann Patchett.  Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2006. (Bes)

Best Stories of the American West, edited by Marc Jaffe.  New York, Tom Doherty Associates, 2007. (Bes)

Body Surfing, by Anita Shreve. New York, Little, Brown, 2007 (Shr)

The Brambles, by Eliza Minot.  New York, Vintage Books, 2006 (Min)

Digging to America, by Anne Tyler.  New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. (Tyl)

Dragon Bones, by Lisa See.  New York, Ballantine Books, 2003. (See)

The Emperor’s Children, by Claire Messud.  New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. (Mes)

Everyman, by Philip Roth.  New York, Vintage Books, 2006. (Rot)

Farewell Summer, by Ray Bradbury.  New York, William Morrow, 2006. (Bra)

Flying Changes, by Sara Gruen. New York, HarperTorch, 2005. (Gru)

Golden Country, by Jennifer Gilmore.  New York, Scribner, 2006. (Gil)

Goodnight, Texas, by William J. Cobb.  Denver, Colorado, Unbridled Books, 2006. (Cob)

The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss.  New York, W.W. Norton, 2005. (Kra)

The Hunters, by Claire Messud.  New York, Harcourt Books, 2001. (Mes)

Kockroach, by Tyler Knox. New York, William Morrow, 2007. (Kno)

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, by Ayelet Waldman.  New York, Anchor Books, 2006.  (Wal)

Look At Me, by Jennifer Egan.  New York, Anchor Books, 2001. (Ega)

Lucky Girls, by Nell Freudenberger.  New York, HarperPerennial, 2003. (Fre)

Magic Time, by Doug Marlette.  New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. (Mar)

The March, by E. L. Doctorow.  New York, Random House, 2005.  (Doc)

Once in a Promised Land, by Laila Halaby.  Boston, Beacon Press, 2007.  (Hal)

Overture, by Yael Golstein. New York, Doubleday, 2007 (Gol)

Paint It Black, by Janet Fitch.  New York, Little, Brown, 2006. (Fit)

The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, by Elinor Lipman.  New York, Vintage Books, 2003. (Lip)
A Perfect Stranger: and other stories, by Roxana Robinson.  New York, Random House, 2005. (Rob)

Rescue Missions: Stories, by Frederick Busch.  New York, W.W. Norton, 2006. (Bus)

Returning to Earth, by Jim Harrison.  New York, Grove Press, 2007. (Har)

A Seahorse Year, by Stacey D’Erasmo.  Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. (Der)

Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiaasen.  New York, Warner Books, 2004. ((Hia)

The Stories of Mary Gordon, by Mary Gordon.  New York, Pantheon Books, 2006.  (Gor)

Tallgrass, by Sandra Dallas.  New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2007. (Dal)

Ten Days in the Hills, by Jane Smiley. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. (Smi)

Twilight of the Superheroes, by Deborah Eisenberg.  New York, Picador, 2006. (Eis)

Foreign Policy

Dangerous Nation, by Robert Kagan.  New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. (327.73 Kag)

Finding the Target:  The Transformation of American Military Policy, by Frederick W. Kagan.  New York, Encounter Books, 2006. (355.03 Kag)

The Foreign Policy Disconnect:  What Americans Want From Our Leaders But Don’t Get, by Benjamin I. Page with Marshall M. Bouton.  Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. (327.73 Pag)

A New World Order, by Anne-Marie Slaughter.  Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2004. (341.5 Sla)

Overthrow:  America’s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer.  New York, Times Books/Henry Holt, 2006.  (327.73 Kin)

Presidents at War:  From Truman to Bush, the Gathering of Military Power to Our Commanders in Chief, by Gerald Astor.  Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.  (355.03 Ast)

Regime Change:  U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11, by Robert S. Litwak.  Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2007. (327.73 Lit)

Spying on the Bomb:  American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea, by Jeffrey T. Richelson.  New York, W.W. Norton, 2006. (327.12 Ric)
Iran

Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam, by Mark Bowden.  New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. (955 Bow)

Iraq

Mugged by Reality:  The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions, by John Agresto.  New York, Encounter Books, 2007. (956.7044 Agr)

History

Eyewitness to Watergate:  A Documentary History for Students, edited by David Hosansky. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2007. (973.924 Eye) 

Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick. New York, Penguin Books, 2006. (973.2 Phi)

Victory in Tripoli, by Joshua E. London.  Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, 2005. (973.4 Lon)

Literature

American Sweethearts:  Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture, by Ilana Nash.  Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2006. (813.5 Nas)

The Best American Poetry 2006, edited by Billy Collins.  New York, Scribner Poetry, 2006. (811.08 Bes)

The Paris Review:  Interviews, vol.1.  New York, Picador, 2006. (823 Par)

Middle East

Arab-Israeli Military Forces in an Era of Asymmetric Wars, by Anthony H. Cordesman.  Westport, Connecticut, Praeger Security International, 2006. (956 Cor)

Prisoners:  A Muslim & A Jews Across the Middle East Divide, by Jeffrey Goldberg. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. (956.94 Gol)

The State of the Middle East:  An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution, by Dan Smith, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006. (NC 956 Smi)

To Be an Arab in Israel, by Laurence Louer.  New York, Columbia University Press, 2007.  (956.94 Lou)

U.S. Politics

American Speeches:  Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War.  New York, Library of America, 2006. (973 Ame)

American Speeches:  Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton.  New York, Library of America, 2006. (973 Ame)

The Broken Branch:  How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein.  New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. (328.73 Man)

Claiming the Mantle:  How Presidential Nominations are Won and Lost before the Votes are Cast, by R. Lawrence Butler.  Cambridge, MA., Westview Press, 2004. (324.273 But)

The Most Exclusive Club, by Lewis L. Gould.  New York, Basic Books, 2005. (328.73 Gou)

State Constitutions of the United States, by Robert L. Maddex.  Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2005.  (Ref. 342.73 Mad)

Transforming America:  Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years, by Robert M. Collins.  New York, Columbia University Press, 2007. (973.927 Col)

Reference

The Facts on File Guide to Style, by Martin H. Manser.  New York, Facts on File, 2006. (NC 808.042 Man)

Funny You Should Say That:  Amusing Remarks From Cicero To the Simpsons, by Andrew Martin.  Woodstock, New York, The Overlook Press, 2005. (Ref. 817 Fun)

Religion

American Islam:  The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion, by Paul M. Barrett.  New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. (297.0973 Bar)

U.S. Society

Jews and American Popular Culture, edited by Paul Buhle. (3 volumes).  Westport, CT, Praeger, 2007.  (NC 305.8 Jew)

Social Issues in America:  An Encyclopedia, edited by James Ciment. (8 Volumes).  Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 2006.  (Ref. 300 Soc)

Terrorism

From the Terrorists’ Point of View:  What They Experience and Why They Came to Destroy, by Fathali M. Moghaddam.  Westport, CT., Praeger Security International, 2006. (303.625 Mog)

Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias:  The Warriors of Contemporary Combat, by Richard H. Shultz and Andrea J. Dew. New York, Columbia University Press, 2006.  (355.02 Shu)

Updated: November 6, 2008