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      <title>De verde a Maduro by Roger Santodomingo</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804169837&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780804169837&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804169837&quot;&gt;De verde a Maduro&lt;/a&gt; El sucesor de Hugo Chavez&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=185509&quot;&gt;Roger Santodomingo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 192 pages | Vintage | History - Latin America; History - America (North, Central, South, West Indies); Political Science | &lt;b&gt;$14.00&lt;/b&gt; | June 18, 2013 | 978-0-8041-6983-7 (0-8041-6983-7)&lt;p&gt;El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Ch&amp;aacute;vez regresaba a Venezuela luego de m&amp;aacute;s de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida pol&amp;iacute;tica activa eran m&amp;iacute;nimas. El 8 de diciembre hab&amp;iacute;a nombrado a Nicol&amp;aacute;s Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente de la Rep&amp;uacute;blica, como sucesor al frente del gobierno. Tras el fallecimiento de Hugo Ch&amp;aacute;vez y su elecci&amp;oacute;n como presidente, Maduro se ha convertido en el hombre m&amp;aacute;s poderoso del r&amp;eacute;gimen venezolano. Pero, &amp;iquest;qui&amp;eacute;n es Nicol&amp;aacute;s Maduro? &amp;iquest;Cu&amp;aacute;l es su historia? &amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo ascendi&amp;oacute; de ser un gris y desconocido sindicalista a alcanzar tanto poder en la escena nacional e internacional? Todo el mundo se pregunta si podr&amp;aacute; asumir el legado del &amp;ldquo;comandante&amp;rdquo;, enfrentar los retos de una econom&amp;iacute;a y un Estado disfuncional y sobrevivir a las intrigas que dentro del mismo chavismo intentan competir por su liderazgo.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Esta investigaci&amp;oacute;n period&amp;iacute;stica teje un acercamiento a un personaje de vital actualidad; incluidas entrevistas con el propio Maduro, sus familiares, colaboradores, y adversarios, este libro cuenta de modo exclusivo aspectos desconocidos de su vida como activista de la izquierda venezolana, su faceta de rockero, su formaci&amp;oacute;n en Cuba en los ochenta, su primer encuentro con Ch&amp;aacute;vez en la c&amp;aacute;rcel, sus inclinaciones espirituales y la fe en Sai Baba, y en especial, su papel en la construcci&amp;oacute;n de Ch&amp;aacute;vez como figura casi divina y de &amp;eacute;l mismo como el primer sacerdote del chavismo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>De verde a Maduro by Roger Santodomingo</title>
      <link>http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804170185</link>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804170185&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780804170185&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804170185&quot;&gt;De verde a Maduro&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=185509&quot;&gt;Roger Santodomingo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 192 pages | Vintage | History - Latin America; History - America (North, Central, South, West Indies); Political Science | &lt;b&gt;$9.99&lt;/b&gt; | June 18, 2013 | 978-0-8041-7018-5 (0-8041-7018-5)&lt;p&gt;El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Ch&amp;aacute;vez regresaba a Venezuela luego de m&amp;aacute;s de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida pol&amp;iacute;tica activa eran m&amp;iacute;nimas. El 8 de diciembre hab&amp;iacute;a nombrado a Nicol&amp;aacute;s Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente de la Rep&amp;uacute;blica, como sucesor al frente del gobierno. Tras el fallecimiento de Hugo Ch&amp;aacute;vez y su elecci&amp;oacute;n como presidente, Maduro se ha convertido en el hombre m&amp;aacute;s poderoso del r&amp;eacute;gimen venezolano. Pero, &amp;iquest;qui&amp;eacute;n es Nicol&amp;aacute;s Maduro? &amp;iquest;Cu&amp;aacute;l es su historia? &amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo ascendi&amp;oacute; de ser un gris y desconocido sindicalista a alcanzar tanto poder en la escena nacional e internacional? Todo el mundo se pregunta si podr&amp;aacute; asumir el legado del &amp;ldquo;comandante&amp;rdquo;, enfrentar los retos de una econom&amp;iacute;a y un Estado disfuncional y sobrevivir a las intrigas que dentro del mismo chavismo intentan competir por su liderazgo.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Esta investigaci&amp;oacute;n period&amp;iacute;stica teje un acercamiento a un personaje de vital actualidad; incluidas entrevistas con el propio Maduro, sus familiares, colaboradores, y adversarios, este libro cuenta de modo exclusivo aspectos desconocidos de su vida como activista de la izquierda venezolana, su faceta de rockero, su formaci&amp;oacute;n en Cuba en los ochenta, su primer encuentro con Ch&amp;aacute;vez en la c&amp;aacute;rcel, sus inclinaciones espirituales y la fe en Sai Baba, y en especial, su papel en la construcci&amp;oacute;n de Ch&amp;aacute;vez como figura casi divina y de &amp;eacute;l mismo como el primer sacerdote del chavismo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>The President and the Assassin by Scott Miller</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812979282&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780812979282&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812979282&quot;&gt;The President and the Assassin&lt;/a&gt; McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=83048&quot;&gt;Scott Miller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 448 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - United States - 20th Century; Political Science - Political Ideologies - Anarchism; Political Science - Political Freedom &amp; Security - Terrorism | &lt;b&gt;$18.00&lt;/b&gt; | June 18, 2013 | 978-0-8129-7928-2 (0-8129-7928-1)&lt;p&gt;A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin&amp;rsquo;s bullet shattered the nation&amp;rsquo;s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century. &lt;i&gt;The President and the Assassin&lt;/i&gt; is the story of the momentous years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together two of the most compelling figures of the era: President William McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The two men seemed to live in eerily parallel Americas. McKinley was to his contemporaries an enigma, a president whose conflicted feelings about imperialism reflected the country&amp;rsquo;s own. Under its popular Republican commander-in-chief, the United States was undergoing an uneasy transition from a simple agrarian society to an industrial powerhouse spreading its influence overseas by force of arms. Czolgosz was on the losing end of the economic changes taking place&amp;mdash;a first-generation Polish immigrant and factory worker sickened by a government that seemed focused solely on making the rich richer. With a deft narrative hand, journalist Scott Miller chronicles how these two men, each pursuing what he considered the right and honorable path, collided in violence at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Along the way, readers meet a veritable who&amp;rsquo;s who of turn-of-the-century America: John Hay, McKinley&amp;rsquo;s visionary secretary of state, whose diplomatic efforts paved the way for a half century of Western exploitation of China; Emma Goldman, the radical anarchist whose incendiary rhetoric inspired Czolgosz to dare the unthinkable; and Theodore Roosevelt, the vainglorious vice president whose 1898 charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba is but one of many thrilling military adventures recounted here. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rich with relevance to our own era, &lt;i&gt;The President and the Assassin&lt;/i&gt; holds a mirror up to a fascinating period of upheaval when the titans of industry grew fat, speculators sought fortune abroad, and desperate souls turned to terrorism in a vain attempt to thwart the juggernaut of change.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Praise for &lt;i&gt;The President and the Assassin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;[A] panoramic tour de force . . . Miller has a good eye, trained by years of journalism, for telling details and enriching anecdotes.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;The Washington Independent Review of Books&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Even without the intrinsic draw of the 1901 presidential assassination that shapes its pages, Scott Miller&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;The President and the Assassin &lt;/i&gt;[is] absorbing reading. . . . What makes the book compelling is [that] so many circumstances and events of the earlier time have parallels in our own.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Oregonian&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A marvelous work of history, wonderfully written.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Fareed Zakaria, author of &lt;i&gt;The Post-American World&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A real triumph.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;BookPage&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Fast-moving and richly detailed.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Buffalo News&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;[A] compelling read.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Boston Globe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;One of &lt;i&gt;Newsweek&lt;/i&gt;&amp;rsquo;s 10 Must-Read Summer Books&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307886101&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307886101&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307886101&quot;&gt;The Skies Belong to Us&lt;/a&gt; Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=177127&quot;&gt;Brendan I. Koerner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 336 pages | Crown | History - United States - 20th Century; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Criminals &amp; Outlaws; Political Science - Political Freedom &amp; Security - Terrorism | &lt;b&gt;$26.00&lt;/b&gt; | June 18, 2013 | 978-0-307-88610-1 (0-307-88610-7)&lt;p&gt;In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands, where they imagined being hailed as heroes; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when the young lovers at the heart of Brendan I. Koerner&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;The Skies Belong to Us&lt;/i&gt; pulled off the longest-distance hijacking in American history.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague protest against the war. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom, a feat that made them notorious around the globe. Koerner spent four years chronicling this madcap tale, which involves a cast of characters ranging from exiled Black Panthers to African despots to French movie stars. He combed through over 4,000 declassified documents and interviewed scores of key figures in the drama&amp;mdash;including one of the hijackers, whom Koerner discovered living in total obscurity. Yet &lt;i&gt;The Skies Belong to Us&lt;/i&gt; is more than just an enthralling yarn about a spectacular heist and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath. It is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent, and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307886125&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307886125&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307886125&quot;&gt;The Skies Belong to Us&lt;/a&gt; Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=177127&quot;&gt;Brendan I. Koerner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 336 pages | Crown | History - United States - 20th Century; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Criminals &amp; Outlaws; Political Science - Political Freedom &amp; Security - Terrorism | &lt;b&gt;$12.99&lt;/b&gt; | June 18, 2013 | 978-0-307-88612-5 (0-307-88612-3)&lt;p&gt;In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands, where they imagined being hailed as heroes; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when the young lovers at the heart of Brendan I. Koerner&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;The Skies Belong to Us&lt;/i&gt; pulled off the longest-distance hijacking in American history.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague protest against the war. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom, a feat that made them notorious around the globe. Koerner spent four years chronicling this madcap tale, which involves a cast of characters ranging from exiled Black Panthers to African despots to French movie stars. He combed through over 4,000 declassified documents and interviewed scores of key figures in the drama&amp;mdash;including one of the hijackers, whom Koerner discovered living in total obscurity. Yet &lt;i&gt;The Skies Belong to Us&lt;/i&gt; is more than just an enthralling yarn about a spectacular heist and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath. It is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent, and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Twilight of the Elites by Christopher Hayes</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307720467&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307720467&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307720467&quot;&gt;Twilight of the Elites&lt;/a&gt; America After Meritocracy&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=161526&quot;&gt;Christopher Hayes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 304 pages | Broadway | Political Science - Government - National; Business &amp; Economics | &lt;b&gt;$16.00&lt;/b&gt; | June 11, 2013 | 978-0-307-72046-7 (0-307-72046-2)&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to Major League Baseball&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;How did we get here? With &lt;i&gt;Twilight of the Elites&lt;/i&gt;, Christopher Hayes upends well-worn ideological and partisan categories to offer a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top, leaving a new American elite more prone to failure and corruption and more out of touch with the people they govern.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Mixing deft political analysis, timely social commentary, and deep historical understanding, Hayes entirely reorients our perspective on our times by arguing that the public's loss of trust in the&amp;nbsp;federal government, corporate America, and&amp;nbsp;the media has led to a crisis of authority that threatens to engulf not just our politics but our day-to-day lives.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>God Believes in Love by Gene Robinson</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307948090&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307948090&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307948090&quot;&gt;God Believes in Love&lt;/a&gt; Straight Talk About Gay Marriage&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=150886&quot;&gt;Gene Robinson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 208 pages | Vintage | Political Science - Social Policy; Social Science - Gay Studies; Religion - Bible - Criticism, Interpretation | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | June 4, 2013 | 978-0-307-94809-0 (0-307-94809-9)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;From the IX Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected &amp;nbsp;to the episcopate and the world&amp;rsquo;s leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage&amp;mdash;a groundbreaking book that persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Robinson holds the religious text of the Bible to be holy and sacred and the ensuing two millennia of church history to be relevant to the discussion. He is equally familiar with the secular and political debate about gay marriage going on in America today, and is someone for whom same-sex marriage is a personal issue; Robinson was married to a woman for fourteen years and is a father of two children and has been married to a man for the last four years of a twenty-five-year relationship.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Robinson has a knack for taking complex and controversial issues and addressing them in plain direct language, without using polemics or ideology, putting forth his argument for gay marriage, and bringing together sacred and secular points of view.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
      <dc:date>2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The New York Review Abroad by Ian Buruma</title>
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Together, he and Khrushchev would pull the world away from the nuclear precipice, charting a path for future peacemakers to follow.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; During his final year in office, Kennedy gave a series of speeches in which he pushed back against the momentum of the Cold War to persuade the world that peace with the Soviets was possible. The oratorical high point came on June 10, 1963, when Kennedy delivered the most important foreign policy speech of the modern presidency.&amp;nbsp; He argued against the prevailing pessimism that viewed humanity as doomed by forces beyond its control. Mankind, argued Kennedy, could bring a new peace into reality through a bold vision combined with concrete and practical measures. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Achieving the first of those measures in the summer of 1963, the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, required more than just speechmaking, however. 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Kennedy&amp;rsquo;s life was not the battle for reelection he did not live to wage, but the struggle for a sustainable peace with the Soviet Union. &lt;i&gt;To Move the World&lt;/i&gt; recalls the extraordinary days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK marshaled the power of oratory and his remarkable political skills to establish more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union and a dramatic slowdown in the proliferation of nuclear arms. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, led their nations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two superpowers came eyeball to eyeball at the nuclear abyss. This near-death experience shook both leaders deeply. Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how Kennedy emerged from the Missile crisis with the determination and prodigious skills to forge a new and less threatening direction for the world. Together, he and Khrushchev would pull the world away from the nuclear precipice, charting a path for future peacemakers to follow.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; During his final year in office, Kennedy gave a series of speeches in which he pushed back against the momentum of the Cold War to persuade the world that peace with the Soviets was possible. The oratorical high point came on June 10, 1963, when Kennedy delivered the most important foreign policy speech of the modern presidency.&amp;nbsp; He argued against the prevailing pessimism that viewed humanity as doomed by forces beyond its control. Mankind, argued Kennedy, could bring a new peace into reality through a bold vision combined with concrete and practical measures. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Achieving the first of those measures in the summer of 1963, the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, required more than just speechmaking, however. 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Robust competition could make the U.S. leaner, smarter, and more pragmatic, and could drive China to greater respect for human rights. 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But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era of renewed global struggle: the era of Cool War. Just as the Cold War matched the planet&amp;rsquo;s reigning superpowers in a contest for geopolitical supremacy, so this new age will pit the United States against a rising China in a contest for dominance, alliances, and resources. Already visible in Asia, the conflict will extend to the Middle East (U.S.-backed Israel versus Chinese-backed Iran), Africa, and beyond.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Yet this Cool War differs fundamentally from the zero-sum showdowns of the past: The world&amp;rsquo;s major power and its leading challenger are economically interdependent to an unprecedented degree. Exports to the U.S. account for nearly a quarter of Chinese trade, while the Chinese government holds 8 percent of America&amp;rsquo;s outstanding debt. This positive-sum interdependence has profound implications for nations, corporations, and international institutions. It makes what looked to be a classic contest between two great powers into something much more complex, contradictory, and badly in need of the shrewd and carefully reasoned analysis that Feldman provides.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; To understand the looming competition with China, we must understand the incentives that drive Chinese policy. Feldman offers an arresting take on that country&amp;rsquo;s secretive hierarchy, proposing that the hereditary &amp;ldquo;princelings&amp;rdquo; who reap the benefits of the complicated Chinese political system are actually in partnership with the meritocrats who keep the system full of fresh talent and the reformers who are trying to root out corruption and foster government accountability. He provides a clear-eyed analysis of the years ahead, showing how China&amp;rsquo;s rise presents opportunities as well as risks. Robust competition could make the U.S. leaner, smarter, and more pragmatic, and could drive China to greater respect for human rights. Alternatively, disputes over trade, territory, or human rights could jeopardize the global economic equilibrium&amp;mdash;or provoke a catastrophic &amp;ldquo;hot war&amp;rdquo; that neither country wants.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; The U.S. and China may be divided by political culture and belief, but they are also bound together by mutual self-interest. &lt;i&gt;Cool War&lt;/i&gt; makes the case for competitive cooperation as the only way forward that can preserve the peace and make winners out of both sides.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advance praise for &lt;i&gt;Cool War&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;We are leaving the era of &amp;lsquo;Chimerica&amp;rsquo;&amp;mdash;when China and America were economically joined at the hip&amp;mdash;and entering the era of what Noah Feldman has justly and wittily dubbed &amp;lsquo;Cool War.&amp;rsquo; Feldman anatomizes the rapid transformation of the Sino-American relationship from an unequal trading partnership into a new and heavily armed ambivalence. 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But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era of renewed global struggle: the era of Cool War. Just as the Cold War matched the planet&amp;rsquo;s reigning superpowers in a contest for geopolitical supremacy, so this new age will pit the United States against a rising China in a contest for dominance, alliances, and resources. Already visible in Asia, the conflict will extend to the Middle East (U.S.-backed Israel versus Chinese-backed Iran), Africa, and beyond.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Yet this Cool War differs fundamentally from the zero-sum showdowns of the past: The world&amp;rsquo;s major power and its leading challenger are economically interdependent to an unprecedented degree. Exports to the U.S. account for nearly a quarter of Chinese trade, while the Chinese government holds 8 percent of America&amp;rsquo;s outstanding debt. This positive-sum interdependence has profound implications for nations, corporations, and international institutions. It makes what looked to be a classic contest between two great powers into something much more complex, contradictory, and badly in need of the shrewd and carefully reasoned analysis that Feldman provides.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; To understand the looming competition with China, we must understand the incentives that drive Chinese policy. Feldman offers an arresting take on that country&amp;rsquo;s secretive hierarchy, proposing that the hereditary &amp;ldquo;princelings&amp;rdquo; who reap the benefits of the complicated Chinese political system are actually in partnership with the meritocrats who keep the system full of fresh talent and the reformers who are trying to root out corruption and foster government accountability. He provides a clear-eyed analysis of the years ahead, showing how China&amp;rsquo;s rise presents opportunities as well as risks. Robust competition could make the U.S. leaner, smarter, and more pragmatic, and could drive China to greater respect for human rights. Alternatively, disputes over trade, territory, or human rights could jeopardize the global economic equilibrium&amp;mdash;or provoke a catastrophic &amp;ldquo;hot war&amp;rdquo; that neither country wants.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; The U.S. and China may be divided by political culture and belief, but they are also bound together by mutual self-interest. &lt;i&gt;Cool War&lt;/i&gt; makes the case for competitive cooperation as the only way forward that can preserve the peace and make winners out of both sides.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advance praise for &lt;i&gt;Cool War&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;We are leaving the era of &amp;lsquo;Chimerica&amp;rsquo;&amp;mdash;when China and America were economically joined at the hip&amp;mdash;and entering the era of what Noah Feldman has justly and wittily dubbed &amp;lsquo;Cool War.&amp;rsquo; Feldman anatomizes the rapid transformation of the Sino-American relationship from an unequal trading partnership into a new and heavily armed ambivalence. 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