Saturday, October 11, 2008

Demos on witch hunting, Gellman on Cheney, and Halliday et. al on political liberalism

Just time for a quick round-up of this weekend's book reviews:

THE ENEMY WITHIN: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World by John Demos is reviewed by Germaine Greer in the New York Times.

ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman is taken up in the New York Times by Jacob Heilbrunn.

FIGHTING FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM: COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF THE LEGAL COMPLEX AND POLITICAL LIBERALISM, by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik and Malcolm M. Feeley (eds). is reviewed in the Law and Politics Book Review.