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Books

• November 5 -- The Patriot Act Threatens Civil Liberties, Again
Michiko Kakutani reviews a law professor's new book on civil liberties in wartime and finds ominous modern-day parallels (of course): "At a time when the Patriot Act threatens to curtail civil liberties…."

• October 11 -- Trashing "Unfit for Command," Loving Kitty Kelley
After spending seven weeks near the top of the Times best seller list, the NYT finally issues a 100% negative review of "'Unfit for Command," while giving a favorable notice to Kitty Kelley's trashy anti-Bush "biography."

• October 5 -- "Valuable Historical Perspective" From a Far-Left Paranoid
A new book by cartoonist/far-left conspiracist Ted Rall (who once wrote about the possibility Bush had Sen. Paul Wellstone assassinated) achieves "some valuable historical perspective," according to staff editor Neil Genzlinger.

• September 30 -- Seymour Bias in the Book Section
Michiko Kakutani praises left-wing muckraker Seymour Hersh's new book on Iraq and summarizes the current "conventional wisdom" on the war: "…a group of conservative, utopian civilians dominated thinking about Iraq at the Pentagon."

• September 28 -- Tommy Franks' Book Sounds "Scripted By Fox News"
Editor Michael Newman takes on Gen. Tommy Franks' book and says some of it sounds scripted by Fox News (at the Times, that's an insult).

• September 21 -- "Consumer Advocate" Nader
Managing editor Michael Oreskes reviews Ralph Nader's new book and wonders what happened to the old left-wing activist--er, "consumer advocate."

• September 15 -- Bush-Blair's "Headlong Rush" to War?
Reviewing a book on Tony Blair, Alan Cowell characterizes Bush and Blair as rushing to war in Iraq and leaves out vital information about a BBC report accusing the government of exaggerating the Hussein threat.

• September 14 -- Room for Kitty Kelley, None for Swift Boat Vets
After ignoring the book "Unfit for Command" by members of the Swift Boat Veterans (now #1 on the New York Times best seller list), the Times greets Bush-hater Kitty Kelley's trashy anti-Bush "biography" with a front-page Arts section review.

• August 12 -- "Dowdworld," Starring Dick Cheney as Darth Vader
Maureen Dowd, promoting her new book, denies her liberal bent and relates a wacky Star Wars analogy starring Dick Cheney as Darth Vader.

• August 9 -- Maureen Dowd, on Another Planet
Maureen Dowd, promoting "Bushworld," her new collection of columns: "…what an astonishing story it is that a group, a small group of neo-cons who had never been to war themselves, would take over the entire apparatus of the federal government and hijack the war on terror."

• June 24 -- The Times Repents for Dissing Clinton's Book
The Times, repenting for a harsh review of Bill Clinton's autobiography, is rushing a favorable review of the Clinton book onto its website--though it won't see print for another two weeks.

• June 23 -- Greg Packer Returns!
A Times report on the crowds for Bill Clinton's Manhattan book signing includes quotes from Greg Packer, the media's infamous "man on the street."

• June 21 -- Throwing the Book at Clinton
No one can accuse book reviewer Michiko Kakutani of going soft on Clinton's new autobiography: "The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull--the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history."

• June 2 -- "Sloth, Greed And Fear" to Blame for Kyoto Rejection
The Sunday Book Review features a round-up review of several environmental doomsayer books by editorial board member Verlyn Klinkenborg, who quotes discredited environmental hysteric Paul Ehrlich and puts resistance to the Kyoto Protocol down to "custom, ignorance, sloth, greed and fear."

• April 5 -- Liberal Spin on "Spin Sisters"
A review of Myrna Blyth's "Spin Sisters" by Emily Nussbaum makes Blyth's point about the liberalism of the mainstream media.

• March 30 -- Richard Clarke a Must-Read, Raves Risen
National security reporter James Risen likes Richard Clarke's Bush-bashing book a lot: "…if President Bush and his advisers were hoping that their loud pre-emptive attacks on 'Against All Enemies' would make this book go away, they were sadly mistaken. Richard A. Clarke knows too much, and 'Against All Enemies' is too good to be ignored."

• March 29 -- Labeling Bias Not "Left Behind"
Conservative beat reporter David Kirkpatrick previews the newest book in the popular "Left Behind" series of apocalyptic Christian novels. But he fails to identify the left-wing beliefs of a prominent critic.

• March 15 -- The Times Tackles Blair's Book
The Times outsources the review of Jayson Blair's book to Slate's Jack Shafer--a smart move, as Shafer focuses on the sins of Blair, not on the paper's flaws.

• March 2 -- Pointing Out Liberal Bias = "Lobbing a Grenade"
David Carr's article on Myrna Blyth's new book on liberal fear-mongering in women's magazines smacks of overkill: "But after her decision to throw a grenade over her shoulder upon leaving an industry she was very much a part of for more than three decades, many in her former cohort see her as traitorous and self-interested."

• February 24 -- "Abhorrent Steps" by the Bushies
Foreign editor Ethan Bronner reviews eight anti-Bush books attacking the administration on civil liberties. Bronner has some issues with the books but also says: "Many of the steps taken by the administration are wrong, even abhorrent."

• February 4 -- Left-Wing Praise for Paul O'Neill
Three days after the Times ran a review of Paul O'Neill's Bush-bashing book by an editor for the liberal American Prospect magazine, the paper features another thumbs-up--from the editor of the even further-left Nation magazine.

• February 3 -- A Tale of Two "Tell-Alls"
George Stephanopoulos' Clinton administration expose "All Too Human" was excoriated from the left in the Times Sunday Book Review. So how did the paper treat ex-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's recent tell-all?

• February 2 -- Left-Wing Novel As "Ferocious" As Paul Krugman
High praise indeed.

• January 14 -- Times Book Critic Not Mum On Frum
Michiko Kakutani takes on the recent volume by conservative hawks David Frum and Richard Perle: "It is a screed….all the subtlety of a pit bull on steroids…smug, shrill and deliberately provocative….macho posturing…bullying tone and often specious reasoning." She didn't like Frum's last book much, either.

• November 24 -- Sexy, Uxorious Jesus
Book Review Editor Charles McGrath ponders the popularity of "The Da Vinci Code," sees a rise in religious fundamentalism in America, and takes a look at Jesus the family man: "...in the [Da Vinci book], there's that welcome notion of a sexy, uxorious Jesus; Jesus the family man."

• November 24 -- Krugman's Cover Story
David Kirkpatrick weighs in on the shockingly strident cover art gracing the British edition of Paul Krugman's collection of anti-Bush columns: "...the British book jacket bears caricatures of President Bush as Frankenstein-like and Vice President Dick Cheney with a Hitler mustache."

• November 18 -- Uchitelle Hits Damaging U.S. "Allegiance to Deregulation"
In the liberal American Prospect magazine, Times economic reporter Louis Uchitelle praises a book by Clinton administration economist Joseph Stiglitz for its bashing of Clinton policies from the left: "Stiglitz is particularly good at describing the failure to strengthen government's hand in a market economy."

• October 27 -- Republican Party "Most Extreme" Ever
Contributing writer James Traub rationalizes the Bush-bashing tomes taking over the best-seller lists: "Our political culture has not been infected by some virus from outer space, or from TV. The carrier was Newt Gingrich….Gingrich brought delegitimation to the core of G.O.P. strategy….The politics of delegitimation worked, at least in the short term. Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress in 1994…Today's Republican Party is arguably the most extreme--the furthest from the center--of any governing majority in the nation's history."