Book Reviews in The Federalist

Benjamin Guterman Discussion

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UNEXCEPTIONAL: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941–2007. Marc J. O’Reilly. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. In The Federalist, Winter 2012–13

Oral Histories and Public Memories, by Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes. Temple University Press, 2008. In The Federalist, Summer 2012, 14–15.


Issue 48, Winter 2015–2016

Spies and Shuttles: NASA’s Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA. James E. David (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015)

With Courage and Persistence: Eliminating and Securing Weapons of Mass Destruction with the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Programs. Joseph P. Harahan (Wash., DC: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, 2014)

Toward “Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable”: A History of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series. William B. McAllister et al. (Wash., DC: U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, 2015)


Issue 49, Spring 2016

War, States, and Contention: A Comparative Historical Study. Sidney Tarrow (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2105)

War in the Shallows: U.S. Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, 1965–1968. John Darrell Sherwood (Wash., DC: Naval History and Heritage Command, 2015)

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