Suggested Readings

All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
By William H. Rehnquist
ISBN: 0-67-976732-0

Rehnquist defends the right of government to engage in conduct that infringes on civil liberty in wartime but acknowledges that such actions must be vigilantly monitored and not permitted to go beyond what the immediate set of circumstances demands. . . . Leaving the legal issues to the courts to sort out can take considerable time and does not provide immediate relief to those whose basic right have been violated. [But Rehnquist] argues that courts are much more likely to be sympathetic to rights violations after a war is over than during it. . . . All the Laws but One offers intelligent, balanced commentary on how the nation has addressed civil liberty claims in time of national emergency. It is a valuable book, both for what it tells about past cases and for the insights it offers on how the current chief justice might approach such cases in the future.
— James D. Fairbanks, The Houston Chronicle

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
By Mark E. Neely Jr.
ISBN: 0195064968

Mark E. Neely Jr. has done a prodigious job of research and a masterly job of organization and interpretation to fashion a milestone study of civil liberties in civil war. . . . The records Neely has unearthed suggest that the Union government stumbled forward in hapless confusion, trying desperately to keep itself together against genuine enemies from without and both real and imagined ones from within. . . Neely convincingly argues that chaos was inevitable during this unprecedented crisis. Lincoln, he points out, had good reason to worry about internal disruption and had ample moral grounds to do what was necessary, even extra-constitutionally, to save the Union. As Lincoln put it with his usual clarity: "Often a limb must be sacrificed to save a life." He may have sacrificed the 'limb' temporarily, but Neely demonstrates that these policies neither deserve to alter Lincoln's reputation as statesman nor invite a new one as tyrant.
— Harold Holzer, The Chicago Tribune

Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorist Network, 2001 Edition
By Benjamin Netanyahu
ISBN: 0374524971

The book, first published in 1995, contains a new foreword with Netanyahu's testimony before Congress Sept. 20—nine days after the attacks. The text is otherwise unchanged, but many of his points seem even more pertinent in the wake of the attacks.
Like his testimony, his short book gets right to the point.
"What is at stake today is nothing less than the survival of our civilization," he writes.
But the MIT-educated Netanyahu, who has lived in the United States at various times, says the battle against terrorism will come at the expense of civil liberties.
"Every one of the active steps that a democratic state can take against domestic terrorists constitutes a certain curtailment of someone's freedom to speak, assemble or practice his religion without interference," he says. . . .
Since the attacks, the United States has enacted at least three of his proposals—greater surveillance of suspected terrorists, sharing intelligence among nations, and freezing the assets of terrorist groups.
— Dave Newbart, The Chicago Sun-Times

Militant Islam Reaches America
By Daniel Pipes
ISBN: 0393052044

Pipes presents here the results of his research, dividing his work into two key subjects. First, he explains what militant Islam is and stresses the large and crucial difference between Islam, the faith, and militant Islam, the ideology. He demonstrates that it is not a clash of civilizations underway, but a battle for the soul of Islam among Muslims themselves. He shows that militant Islam is not caused mainly by poverty and that its adherents, far from being the dispossessed, tend to include the more talented and Westernized elements. Militant Islam strikingly has much in common with fascism and communism. . . .
Secondly, Pipes takes up the relatively new subject of Islam in the United States, and how it has rapidly developed in the last decade. . . .
Pipes concludes that, like it or not, the United States is now party to the difficult task of modernizing Islam globally; he argues that this is the ultimate aim of the war on terrorism.
— Publisher's description

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
By Samuel P. Huntington
ISBN: 0-68-484441-9

"Huntington has written a brilliant, riveting, and utterly original book, masterful in presentation and brimming with insight, its disturbing conclusions corroborated by an impressive array of data and well-chosen quotations. How Huntington makes his case is no less impressive than the argument itself. The author's style is precise, pithy, plainspoken, and coolly analytical." —A. J. Bacevich, director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University

Islam and the West
By Bernard Lewis
ISBN: 0-19-509061-6

"Bernard Lewis 's brilliant book of essays, 'Islam and the West,' weaves a seamless web between past and present. In a collection of remarkable learning and range Mr. Lewis takes us, as he alone among today's historians and interpreters of Islam can, from the early encounters of Christendom and Islam to today's Islamic dilemmas." — Fouad Ajami, director of Middle East Studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University

The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years.
By Bernard Lewis
ISBN: 0684832801

"This 'brief history of the last 2,000 years,' by the twentieth century's preeminent historian of the Islamic world, is written with its author's customary wit and gravity, sympathy and objectivity, breadth and precision. As in all his many works, Bernard Lewis is here neither an old-fashioned chronicler nor a with-it historical revisionist but rather a master distiller, one who combines a phenomenal range of knowledge with a humane temperament and a powerfully synthesizing mind." — Robert B. Satloff, editor of Campaign against Terror: The Middle East Dimension

Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923
By Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh
ISBN: 0674251520

"In a tour de force that offers a profoundly new understanding of a key issue in modern Middle Eastern history, Efraim and Inari Karsh review the relations between Europe and the Ottoman empire in the final century-and-a-half of the latter's existence, and in the process nearly reverse the standard historical interpretation." — Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum

The Muslim Discovery of Europe
By Bernard Lewis
ISBN: 0393321657

"A learned and typically balanced account of the divides and bridges between East and West that is characterized throughout by intellectual integrity and independence — and therefore as unfashionable as it is brilliant in avoiding the usual stereotypes that Islam was not a warrior religion and that the Europeans they met were simply backward and uncivilized." — Victor Davis Hanson, author Carnage and Culture

Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery
By Bernard Lewis
ISBN: 0195102835

"Unlike many others who have tried to tell this tale, Lewis does not indulge in facile castigation of the West or try to pretend that all cultures are equal in the multicultural dispensation. . . . He comes down squarely in favor of Western culture." — Robert Royal, author of 1492 and All That: Political Manipulations of History

In The Path Of God
By Daniel Pipes
ISBN: 0-465-03451-9

“A valuable book. Pipes takes the Islamic historical dimension seriously. His analysis goes beyond regionally limited discussion and provides thought-provoking insights into the modern Islamic experience.” —John Orbert Voll, professor of history, University of New Hampshire

Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival
By Martin Kramer ISBN: 1560002727

“In an outstanding piece of scholarship, Kramer tackles some thorny issues in a penetrating study that digs deep into the Arab psyche—probably the finest of its kind. He presents the key facts and treats them objectively, without apology. Whoever seeks to understand the dynamics of modern Arab politics must read his book, with its clear presentation and crisp analysis untainted by the Arabists’ romanticism.” —Middle East Quarterly

Fighting Terrorism
By Benjamin Netanyahu
ISBN: 0374524971

“The Prime Minister of Israel and a noted authority on international terrorists, Benjamin Netanyahu offers a compelling approach to understanding terrorism. Much more dangerous than domestic terrorists is the spread of fundamentalist Islamic terrorism. Netanyahu explores how democracies can defend themselves against this new threat.” —Ingram

The Political Language of Islam
By Bernard Lewis
ISBN: 0226476936

“Lewis, doyen of Middle East studies in the English-speaking world, has written an original and highly informative study. As with several other of his recent books, notably The Muslim Discovery of Europe . . . and The Jews of Islam . . . , he offers a synoptic view based on wide readings over a long career. . . . Lewis succeeds in showing the underpinnings of political thinking among the Muslims, as well as the great divide between that thinking and Western political theory.”—Choice

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