Fall books: Reviews

Cover Story in the October 17, 2012 issue

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Our fall books issue includes the following reviews (subscription required):

Robert Westbrook: The Short American Century, by Andrew J. Bacevich; The World America Made, by Robert Kagan

Timothy Renick: Just and Unjust Peace, by Daniel Philpott

Sam Wells: Ethics of Hope, by Jürgen Moltmann

Edward J. Blum: Brigham Young, by John G. Turner

William H. Willimon: Summoned from the Margin, by Lamin Sanneh

Walter Brueggemann: Inheriting Abraham, by Jon D. Levenson

Shirley Hershey Showalter: Does This Church Make Me Look Fat? by Rhoda Janzen

Trudy Bush: Canada, by Richard Ford

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