To the Edge: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: To the Edge: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis. Philip A. Wallach. Washington, D. C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2015. 319 pp. ISBN 978-0-8157-2623-4

Afrikaners: Biography of a People (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: Hermann Giliomee, The Afrikaners: Biography of a People. Cape Town, South Africa and Charlottesville, Virginia: Tafelberg Publishers and the University of Virginia Press, 2003. Xix+698 pp. Paper, R 295. ISBN:0-8139-2237-2

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: Putman, Robert, and David E. Campbell, with assistance from Shaylyn Romney Garrett. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010. 673 pages. ISBN 978-1-4165-6671-7 and 978-1-4165-6688-5 (e-book)

Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: Monsma, Stephen V., and J. Christopher Soper. The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies. Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, 2nd ed., 2009. 265 pages. ISBN: 978-0742554177

Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: Kaiser, Robert G. Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 2013. 417 pp. ISBN 978-0-307-74451-7

Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: Democracy at Risk: how political choices undermine citizen participation and what we can do about it, by Stephen Macedo, et al, Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2005. 228pp

Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: Brooks, Arthur C. Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism. New York: Basic Books, 2006. 250 pp. ISBN: 13:978-0-465-00821-6