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2004 Hendryk Hertzberg, Politics: Observation & Arguments, 1966-2004 2003 Bryan F. La Beau, The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O'Hair Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others Clive James, As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 James Woods, The Book Against God: A Novel Adam Bellow, In Praise of Nepotism Elinor Langer, A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America Paul Krugmam The Great Unravelling: Losing Our Way in the New Century Washington, Jefferson, and Slavery 2002 Two Books on the Wen Ho Lee Case Two Books on Cloning Stephen Jay Gould, I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History Anthony Everitt, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician Martin Amis, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million Mike Heppner, The Egg Code [note: poem attached at end is not part of review!] Daniel Goldhagen, A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair 2001 Stephen Levy, Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 2000 David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There 1998 Charles Adams, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes: The Tax Revolts That Built America J.G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights Bryan Cholfin, ed. The Best of Crank! Grace Paley, Just As I Thought Philip Roth, "I Married a Communist" George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life 1997 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio John Thorpe, Home Body Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories III Hortense Calisher, In the Slammer With Carol Smith: A Novel
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