Perry Anderson teaches history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Two books about Kofi Annan illuminate the controlling relationship between the US and the United Nations.
In America at the Crossroads, Francis Fukuyama critiques the neoconservative movement and its disastrous defense of the Iraq War. But he remains fully committed to the unchecked use of American power.
The family in the twentieth century.
As ways of writing about a past, memoirs and autobiographies, although in practice they may often overlap, are different undertakings.
