Books & Media Reviews

Fire in the Ashes: 25 Years Among the Poorest Children in America

by Jonathan Kozol Washington Post September 28, 2012

It’s a topic that is more timely than ever. More Americans are wrestling with the challenges of poverty in the wake of the Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis, both of which hit families of color particularly hard. The gaping disparities between children of different racial and socioeconomi...

Reviewed By: Wendy Kopp

HBO documentary about Sergio Viera de Mello airs May 2010, beginning May 6

by September 7, 2012

September 7, 2012 This month, beginning May 6, HBO television will premiere its riveting documentary “Sergio” based on the book “Chasing the Flame” by Samantha Power about the Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello. The film includes notable interviews from refugee and aid exp...

Reviewed By: Steve Hansch

The Price of Inequality

by Joseph E. Stiglitz New York Times August 3, 2012

Joseph E. Stiglitz’s new book, “The Price of Inequality,” is the single most comprehensive counter­argument to both Democratic neoliberalism and Republican laissez-faire theories. While credible economists running the gamut from center right to center left describe our bleak present as the re...

Reviewed By: Thomaas B. Edsall

The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at all Costs

by David Unger Washington Post May 25, 2012

Last year a Newsweek article made public President Obama’s reading list. Its message was promising: A third of the books focused on former presidencies. Yet according to “The Emergency State,” David C. Unger’s ambitious and valuable overview of 20th-century presidents and national security, ...

Reviewed By: Karen J. Greenberg

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West

by Blaine Harden Washington Post April 27, 2012

Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West” by Blaine Harden...

Reviewed By: Andrew Salmon

Tinderbox : How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It

by Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin Washington Post April 7, 2012

Just a few months ago, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a leading firebrand of the global AIDS movement, Stephen Lewis, said at a conference that the money given to Africa by the U.S. global AIDS initiative called PEPFAR and by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria amounted to “partial ...

Reviewed By: John Donnelly

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

by Katherine Boo Washington Post February 10, 2012

This is an astonishing book.eye view of the “undercity” of one of the world’s largest metropolises; as an intensely reported, deeply felt account of the lives, hopes and fears of people traditionally excluded from literate narratives; as a story that truly hasn’t been told before, at least n...

Reviewed By: Shashi Tharoor

World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development

by World Bank Woods Project February 8, 2012

The 2012 World Development Report (WDR) is a watershed moment: it is the first time that the World Bank, the world’s largest and most influential development institution, has devoted its flagship publication to gender. Kate Bedford of the University of Kent argues that the report leaves the Bank f...

Reviewed By: Kate Bedford Bretton

Earth Grab: Geopiracy, the New Biomassters, and Capturing Climate Genes

by Diana Bronson, Hope Shand, Jim Thomas, Kathy Jo Wetter World Hunger Education Service January 11, 2012

January 11, 2012 Human induced climate change is rapidly becoming an environmental crisis unprecedented in scope. As the crisis takes hold, with examples such as increasingly unpredictable and destructive weather patterns, unrestrained deforestation, the disappearance of arctic ice, risi...

Reviewed By: Michael Abouzelof

The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

by Kathryn Sikkink Washington Post December 30, 2011

What is the impact of putting former national leaders on trial for massive violations of human rights? Surely, most who are aware of the crimes, and certainly the surviving victims, find value in the trials and convictions of murderous leaders and their associates. On the other hand, there are cases...

Reviewed By: Micheline Ishay

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