The Unwritten Law
Review of The Invisible Constitution
by Lawrence Tribe
Bookforum, Fall 2008

The Challenge
Review of The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight for Presidential Power
by Jonathan Mahler
San Francisco Chronicle, August 15, 2008

For the Love of Animals
Review of For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement,
by Kathryn Shevelow

San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 2008

The Second Plane
Review of The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom, by Martin Amis
San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2008

Judge George Clarke Extols DNA Data
Review of Justice and Science: Trials and Triumphs of DNA Evidence, by George Clarke
San Francisco Chronicle, February 29, 2008

'Torture and Democracy' is Definitive
Review of Torture and Democracy, by Darius Rejali
San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2008

'The Nine' Offers Riveting Insider Reading on Supreme Court
Review of The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin
San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 2007

A Balanced Look at Deadly Colorado Miners Strike
Review of Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class Warfare
in the American West
, by Scott Martelle.
San Francisco Chronicle, August 5, 2007

Young, Pregnant, and in Peril
Review of
Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors, by Helena Silverstein. 
San Francisco Chronicle - July 8, 2007

So-Called Guilded Age a Failure of Government
Review of Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900, by Jack Beatty. 
San Francisco Chronicle - May 8, 2007

The Silly, Secret, Momentous Time when Nixon went to China
Review of Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World, by Margaret MacMillan. 
San Francisco Chronicle - February 17, 2007

Prime Green
Review of Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties, by Robert Stone. 
Christian Science Monitor - February 13, 2007  extended version

How the Press Learned to Cover Race
Review of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle,
and the Awakening of a Nation
, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff.
Christian Science Monitor - January 9, 2007

Meat Eaters, Chew on This
Review of The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of
Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times, by Tristram Stuart.
San Francisco Chronicle - January 7, 2007

Between Enemies
Review of Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the
Middle East Divide
, by Jeffrey Goldberg.
San Francisco Chronicle - October 29, 2006

Brown Pursued Just Ideas to Bloody End
Review of Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America, by Evan Carton.
San Francisco Chronicle - October 23, 2006

A Minister's Big Love
Review of The Most Famous Man in America:
The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
, by Debby Applegate.
San Francisco Chronicle - July 7, 2006

Freud Remains Iconoclastic Professor's Most Worthy Opponent
Review of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays, by Frederick Crews.
San Francisco Chronicle - May 7, 2006

Another Frenchman Assesses our Democracy
Review of American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps
of Tocqueville
, by Bernard-Henri Levy.
San Francisco Chronicle - January 29, 2006

England's Irish Intermediary
Review of White Savage: William Johnson and the
Invention of America
, by Fintan O'Toole.
Los Angeles Times - December 17, 2005

The Dark History of Mind Control
Review of World As Laboratory: Experiments with
Mice, Mazes, and Men
, by Rebecca Lemov.
San Francisco Chronicle - December 11, 2005

Finding Good in Bad Kids
Review of Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of
Criminal Youth
, by John Hubner.
San Francisco Chronicle - September 4, 2005

Corporate Cash and Global Greed Frolic on the Sands of the Caymans
Review of Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy, by William Brittain-Catlin.
San Francisco Chronicle - July 10, 2005

Fixing Blame
Review of Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, by Jean Hatzfeld
(Unpublished)

Justice of Note
Review of Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's
Supreme Court Journey
, by Linda Greenhouse.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - May 22, 2005

Less than Zero
Review of Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, by Philip Short.
Bookforum - April/May 2005

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