Every December the Economist magazine publishes a list of the best books of the preceding year. I decided that it would be worthwhile to publish this list, to assist my readers in planning their reading for the next while. I have omitted the short reviews which appeared with the list in the December 6, 2008, issue. Many of these books, if not all, had longer reviews in the Economist in the course of 2008. Here is the first section of the Economist’s best of 2008.
Politics and Current Affairs
The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State. By Noah Feldman. Princeton University Press; 200 pages; $22.95 and ₤13.50.
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East. By Lawrence Freedman. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $29.95. Weidenfeld & Nicolson; ₤20.
Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy. By David Marquand. Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 496 pages; ₤25.
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes. Norton; 311 pages; $22.95. Allen Lane; ₤20.
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. By Jane Mayer. Doubleday; 400 pages; $27.50 and ₤22.85.
Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror. By Benjamin Wittes. Penguin Press; 305 pages; $25.95.
India: The Emerging Giant. By Arvind Panagariya. Oxford University Press; 544 pages; $39.95 and ₤19.99.
Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant. By Heidi Holland. Penguin; 280 pages; $30 and ₤17.99.
Glenn A Knight
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