David Lowe

The Changing Face

Maimonides

On Capitol Hill

Chiang Kai-shek

The Almanac of American Politics 2004

The Vanishing Voter Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty by Thomas E. Patterson Knopf, 196 pp., $25 Downsizing Democracy How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public by Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg Johns Hopkins University Press, 244 pp., $29.95 IS AMERICAN…

Across the Sabbath River In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel by Hillel Halkin Houghton Mifflin, 394 pp., $28 THE CENTURIES-OLD search for Israel's "lost tribes" has been experiencing a revival. Last May it was reported that a group of businessmen, scholars, and rabbis had joined forces to raise the…

The Rise of Southern Republicans by Earl and Merle Black Harvard University Press, 442 pp., $29.95 ADVOCATES of activist government in the United States have long looked with envy at West European countries with ideologically based party systems. In 1950, a special committee of the American…

Keith Joseph by Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett Acumen, 458 pp., $39.50 JUST twenty-five years ago, Britain stood on the brink of economic disaster as the "sick man of Europe." One of its two major parties was chained to socialist dogma, and the other was intellectually bankrupt. It's fitting that…