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...by Richard Overy (Pelican)What leads humans to wage war?...
...Here he profiles six leaders he has known — Lee Kuan Yew, Konrad Adenauer, Richard Nixon, Charles de Gaulle, Margaret Thatcher and Anwar Sadat — and draws general lessons about the character and intellect...
...The Last Days of Roger Federer: and Other Endings by Geoff Dyer, Canongate £20/Farrar, Straus and Giroux $28, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Liberalism and Its Discontentsby Francis Fukuyama, Profile £16.99/Farrar Straus and Giroux $26 Fukuyama has been one of the most influential political theorists in the west for more than 30 years....
...Waiting for the Waters to Riseby Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox, World Editions £12.99/$16.99 When the Nobel Prize was suspended in 2018, Swedish cultural figures named Condé winner of The...
...“People react to fear, not love,” Richard Nixon once said about US voters. “They don’t teach that in Sunday school but it’s true.”...
...A brain tumour, an unplanned pregnancy, a naive Franciscan abbot, a Richard Dawkins stand-in named Sir William Moorhead (author of a book titled Why the Sublime is Ridiculous) and Kraftwerk are thrown into...
...Among novelists drawn to the subject is Richard Flanagan, whose The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Chatto & Windus, January) explores the climate emergency through a familial crisis....
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...The Celestial Hunter, by Roberto Calasso, translated by Richard Dixon, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, RRP$35/Allen Lane, RRP£25, 464 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café....
...Roula Khalaf, FT deputy editor Richard Davies’ Extreme Economies (Bantam Press, RRP£20) is a reflection on human resilience....
...Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City , by Richard Sennett, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 368 pages....
...“Whatever its cause,” Richard Dawkins wrote in The God Delusion, perhaps the best-known recent literary assault on faith and religion, “Zeitgeist progression is more than enough to undermine the claim that...
...Like Richard, Bloch is impotent or at least acutely anxious about sexual performance. Like Richard, he is also preoccupied by astronomical speculation....
...precedents will enjoy Cohen’s sparkling history of the dramatic and violent 1968 election, which saw the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, a riot at the Democratic convention and the eventual triumph of Richard...
...Rachel Cusk’s Outline (Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) falls into neither camp....
...… Thrive: The Power of Evidence-based Psychological Therapies , by Richard Layard and David Clark, Allen Lane, RRP£20 In this important book, the authors – one an economist, the other a psychologist...
...Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$35 Crawford’s exhaustive biography of TS Eliot’s early years anatomises the poet’s early...
...… The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99/ Knopf, RRP$26.95 Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize, this exquisitely written novel by the Australian author Richard...
...Alvandi throws new light on the period by showing that Iran’s last shah was more than just President Richard Nixon’s cat’s paw in the Middle East....
...The link with gold had become untenable and, in August 1971, President Richard Nixon unilaterally abandoned gold convertibility and also imposed tariffs on imported goods....
...What Science is Telling us About the Parent We’ve Overlooked, by Paul Raeburn, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$26/£17.99, 288 pages When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs...
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...What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, by Michael Sandel, Allen Lane RRP£20/Farrar, Straus and Giroux RRP$27, 256 pages How Much is Enough?...
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