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After the Neocons

By Francis Fukuyama

(Published by Profile Books Ltd)

Review by Ben Rogers

The Islamist

By Ed Husain
(Published by Penguin)

Review by Benedict Rogers

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Words that work; It's not what you say, it's what people hear

By Frank Luntz

(Published by Hyperion, New York, 2007)

Reviewed by Damian Collins

The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand

By Chris Anderson
(Random House, July 2006)

Reviewed by Tim Montgomerie
A shorter version of this review appeared in Saturday's Times' Ten Books Of 2006.

Maggie: Her Fatal Legacy

By John Sergeant
(Published by Macmillan, Feb 2005)

Reviewed by Tim Aker

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Published by Simon & Schuster Oct, 2005)

Review by Graeme Brown

The Ambassadors

Murder In Samarkand: A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror
By the UK’s former Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray

DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to the US at the Time of 9/11 and the Run-up to the Iraq War
By the UK’s former Ambassador to the United States Sir Christopher Meyer

Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025
By former US Ambassador to Hungary, Mark Palmer

Reviewed by Ben Rogers

Celsius 7/7

By Michael Gove
(published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

Reviewed from different perspectives by Robert Halfon and Brian Jenner

Good Business: Your World Needs You

By Steve Hilton
and Giles Gibbons
(Published by Texere)

Review by Brian Jenner

The British Moment: Fighting Back For A Principled Foreign Policy

The Henry Jackson Society
(Published by the Social Affairs unit)

Review by William Norton

Londonistan

By Melanie Phillips
(Published by Encounter Books)

Review by Jeremy Brier

Life at the bottom

By Theodore Dalrymple
(Published by Ivan R. Dee)

Review by Oberon Houston

The European Question and the National Interest

By Jeremy Black
(Published by the Social Affairs Unit, Jan 2006)

Review by William Norton

Compassionate Conservatism: What is is and why we need it

By Jesse Norman and Janan Ganesh
(Published by Policy Exchange, June 2006)

Reviewed by Henry Curteis

The Politically Correct Scrapbook

By John and Laura Midgley
(Published by the Campaign Against Political Correctness)

Reviewed by Adrian Owens

The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order

by Samuel P Huntington

(Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd, February 1997)

Reviewed by William Norton

Nothing Like A Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter

by Andrew Hosken

(published by Granta 2006)

Reviewed by Brian Jenner February 17th 2006

The Bumper Book of Government Waste: The scandal of the squandered billions from Lord Irvine's wallpaper to EU saunas

By Matthew Elliott and Lee Rotherham

Harriman House Publishing

Reviewed by William Norton on 28th March 2006

Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America

Book by Thurston Clarke
(Henry Holt & Company, October 2004)

Reviewed by Damian Collins on 22nd March 2006

Neoconservatism: why we need it

Book by Douglas Murray
(Social Affairs Unit 2005)
Reviewed by Jeremy Brier on 14th February 2006.

Welcome to the books blog

Last week Alexander Deane submitted a review of Plato's Children for the Platform blog but it prompted the idea that ConservativeHome should really offer its own regular review of important books.  Alex's review launches this blog but also posted are some of the book reviews that the old Renewing One Nation team produced for that group's now defunct website.

'R1N' was founded in 2000 by Lord Kalms and William Hague to identify Conservative solutions to social exclusion.  Its work was largely taken over by the Centre for Social Justice when it was launched in summer 2004.

Plato's Children: The State We Are In

Book by Anthony O'Hear
(Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2005)
Reviewed by Alexander Deane on 7th February 2006

To Empower People: from State to Civil Society

Book by Peter L Berger and Richard John Neuhaus
(FTP, 1996 (Twentieth Anniversary Edition))
Reviewed by Tim Montgomerie on 1 August 2001

The Sex-Change Society

Book by Melanie Phillips
(Social Market Foundation, 1999)
Reviewed by Cameron Watt on 11 August 2001

Justice That Restores

Book by Charles W Colson
(IVP, 2000)
Reviewed by Tim Montgomerie on 1 October 2001

Relational Justice: Repairing the Breach

Book by Jonathan Burnside and Nicola Baker (Editors)
(The Relationships Foundation, 1994)
Reviewed by Tim Montgomerie on 30 October 2001

The War Against Boys

Book by Christina Hoff Summers
(Simon and Schuster, 2000)
Reviewed by Peter Franklin on 1 December 2001