The Audacity to Win

Seven Important Political Books of 2009

David Wood: "The Good Soldiers," by David Finkel. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pages) Of the many books written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the only one to skip the policy and strategy arguments and go straight to the heart of the matter: young Americans grappling with the most brutal and frightening violence experienced in generations. Matt Lewis: There's no dearth of books about Ronald Reagan, but Craig Shirley has written a great new one. Having devoured Shirley's previous book about the 1976 campaign, "Reagan's Revolution," I was amazed to find that his '09 effort, ...

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