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Book Reviews and Interviews:

David Hursh, High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008), Choice, forthcoming.

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik (Princeton University Press, 2008), The American, June 5, 2008.

Susan Levine, School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program (Princeton University Press, 2008), History News Network, April 7, 2008.

Evans Clinchy, Rescuing the Public Schools: What It Will Take to Leave No Child Behind (New York: Teachers College Press, 2008), Choice, April 2008.

Nancy Kriplen, The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur, Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist, Relentless Adversary (New York: Amacom, 2008), The American, February 13, 2008.

Peter J. Bowler, Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), The Weekly Standard, February 11, 2008. The review may be accessed freely here.

Clifford Winston, Government Failure versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance (Washington, DC: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2006), Public Administration Review, January/February 2008.

Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (Yale University Press, 2007), The Weekly Standard, December 17, 2007. The review may be accessed freely here.)

"'There Was No Plan': An Interview with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City" (Knopf, 2007), Public Administration Review, November/December 2007.

Stefanie Chambers, Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006), Choice, September 2007.

Kenneth Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006), Presidential Studies Quarterly, September 2007.

Thomas K. McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (Harvard University Press, 2007), The Weekly Standard, May 28, 2007.

A.M. Bertelli and L.E. Lynn Jr., Madison's Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), Claremont Institute, March 15, 2007.

"Welfare Reform and the Platonic Master Science: An Interview with Lawrence Mead," Public Administration Review, November/December 2006.

Lawrence J. McAndrews, The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools, 1965-2001 (Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006), Teachers College Record, September 25, 2006.

William G. Howell, ed., Besieged: School Boards and the Future of Education Politics (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2005), Choice, April 2006.

Chris Whittle, Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005), Choice, March 2006.

Larry Cuban, The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can’t Be Businesses (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), Choice, March 2006.

Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn, Jr., Leaving No Child Behind: Options for Kids in Failing Schools (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Choice, March 2005.

James P. Comer, Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), Choice, February 2005.

Frederick M. Hess, Common Sense School Reform (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004), Choice, December 2004.

Willis Rudy, Building America’s Schools: The Federal Contribution (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2003), Teachers College Record, September 2004.

Christopher Hitchens, A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq (Slate Books, 2003), Bully Magazine, April 15, 2004.

F. Stuart Gulley, The University President As Moral Leader (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001), History of Education Quarterly, vol. 43, number 2, summer 2003.

John Merrifield, School Choices: True and False (Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2002), Teachers College Record, May 2003.

Kenneth J. Saltman, Collateral Damage, Corporatizing Public Schools, A Threat to Democracy (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), The Texas Education Review, autumn 2001.

“The Promise of American Life Revisited,” A Review of “John B. Judis, The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of the Public Trust (New York: Pantheon, 2000), TomPaine.com, March 14, 2000.

Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, & the Moral Life of the Inner City (New York: W.W. Norton and Company,1999), The Wagner Review, spring 2000.

C.S. Walton, Ivan Petrov: Russia Through a Shot Glass (Philadelphia, PA: Garrett County Press,1999), The New York Hangover, November 1999.

Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1999), New York Press, Best of Manhattan issue, 1999.

Welfare: The Past, Present, and Future (Interview with Lawrence M. Mead) Conference, autumn 1998.

Antonin Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation, Federal Courts and the Law (Princeton University Press, 1998), Conference, autumn 1998.

Andrew Ross, Real Love: In Search of Cultural Jutice (New York University Press, 1998), Conference, autumn 1998.

Michael Palmer and Thomas L. Pangle, eds., Political Philosophy & the Human Soul: Essays in Memory of Allan Bloom (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995), Conference, A Journal of Philosophy and Theory, spring 1996.

Richard K. Matthews, James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994), H-POL- The History of Politics Internet Discussion Group for Scholars, May 1995.