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Yearly Archives: 2009

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  • 5 Jun 2009

    Book Expo Memories

    After weeks of planning, BEA was a hit! Thanks to all for stopping by and meeting us. Sometimes, the wait for the doors to open seems like an eternity. But then the day passes so quickly, and we had a busier year than we’ve had in a while. Yes, Dr. Ruth paid us a visit; […]

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  • 4 Jun 2009
    Brian Balogh

    Americans love a government out of sight

    Oddly, both conservatives and progressives agree that nineteenth-century Americans embraced the free market. Neither ideological perspective takes seriously the possibility that Americans turned regularly to the national government throughout the nineteenth century, or that it played a crucial role in shaping what Americans then and now regard as the “natural” market.

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  • 28 May 2009
    Gordon Silverstein

    A Boring Bench?

    Law's Allure author Gordon Silverstein writes in The New Republic that "it's good for liberals that Sonia Sotomayor is not the standard-bearer that they have been waiting for."

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  • 27 May 2009

    See ya at the show!

    See you at Book Expo America! I’ll be there for the rest of the week, and out early next week. Remember, we’re at Booth 4146.  No Free Book Friday this week; next week is Free Book Thursday.

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  • 27 May 2009

    That Time of Year Again

    It’s that time of year again. This week, thousands of industry professionals will descend upon the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for Book Expo America 2009.

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  • 26 May 2009

    Beckett in Bookforum

    “Beckett’s letters reveal an author warm, playful, and unfailingly polite” The Letters of Samuel Beckett got a stellar review in the current issue of Bookforum. Read it here >>

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  • 26 May 2009
    Bjørn Lomborg

    The Climate-Industrial Complex

    The tight relationship between the groups echoes the relationship among weapons makers, researchers and the U.S. military during the Cold War. President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the might of the "military-industrial complex," cautioning that "the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." He worried that "there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties."

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  • 22 May 2009
    Richard Bronk

    Richard Bronk in a Nutshell

    Romantic Economist Richard Bronk is the featured contributor on brainy blog Rorotoko, writing about the limitations of economics, and ways to work through them.

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