The New York Review of Books - USA (2022-04-07)

April 7, 2022 7

Hollywood and Israel

A History

TONY SHAW

AND GIORA GOODMAN

“Combining pioneering research

with meticulous scholarship, this

wonderful book illuminates an

unknown dimension of Hollywood

history and the U.S.-Israel

‘special relationship’. With a cast

of world-famous actors, mighty

moguls, colorful propagandists,

and a rabbi to the stars, it’s also

a hugely entertaining read.”

—Hugh Wilford, author of

America’s Great Game

Defining the Age

Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

PAUL STARR

AND JULIAN E. ZELIZER, EDS.

“Defining the Age captures like no

other book on Daniel Bell the range

of his interests, the reach of his

learning, and the drama of the

historical moment in which he lived. ”

—Mark Lilla, author of

The Once and Future Liberal

The Wuhan Lockdown

GUOBIN YANG

“Enriched by Yang’s expert

understanding of Chinese culture

and politics, this is a valuable record

of the early stages of the pandemic.”

—Publishers Weekly

“A uniquely valuable contribution to

the growing literature on

COVID-19 as well as that on

contemporary China.”

—Los Angeles Review of Books

Line of Advantage

Japan’s Grand Strategy

in the Era of Abe Shinzō

MICHAEL J. GREEN

“A detailed and thoughtful analysis

of the strategic ambitions of one

of Japan’s most important postwar

political leaders.”

—Sheila A. Smith, author of

Japan Rearmed

Crisis Under Critique

How People Assess, Transform, and

Respond to Critical Situations

DIDIER FASSIN

AND AXEL HONNETH, EDS.

“Rich in originality, this collection

revisits the classic tropes of

critique and crisis, but reorients our

relationship to them ... opens up

valuable new horizons of inquiry.”

—David Owen, author of What Do We

Owe to Refugees?

COLUMBIA

UNIVERSITY

PRESS

CUP.COLUMBIA.EDU

Undoing the Liberal

World Order

Progressive Ideals and Political Realities

Since World War II

LEON FINK

“[A] gripping book that manages

to elicit a vision of postwar

liberalism as a global project and to

suggest some of the real difficulties

that it encountered.”

—Kimberly Phillips-Fein, author of

Fear City

The Essential Writings

of Vannevar Bush

G. PASCAL ZACHARY, ED.

“Historians and engaged enthusiasts

will find that Bush’s writings,

brilliantly framed by Zachary’s

introduction, provide both the

compass and true north for

our digital world.”

—Dan’l Lewin, president of the

Computer History Museum

Not Exactly Lying

Fake News and Fake Journalism

in American History

ANDIE TUCHER

“[A] beautifully written and

deeply researched history of ‘fake

news’ and ‘fake journalism’

in the United States.”

—Kathy Roberts Forde, coeditor of

Journalism and Jim Crow

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