A detailed² appraisal³ of how the Soviet Union handled undercover operations from the communist revolution in 1917 until the end of the cold war. The most gripping chapters focus on the chaos⁴ that was unleashed⁵ by Josef Stalin.

 

 

The most important divide in America today is class, not race, and the place where it matters most is in the home. In a thoughtful and persuasive⁶ book, the former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government analyses the growing gulf⁷ between how the rich and the poor raise their children, adding a liberal voice to long-standing conservative complaints about family breakdown⁸.

 

 

Two knowledgeable¹¹ journalists offer a bird's-eye view of everyday life that teases out how the famine of the 1990s prompted unexpected change in the attitudes, governance and lives of ordinary North Koreans, giving the lie to the simplistic view that Koreans are a homogenous¹² people under the thumb of a power-crazed dictator.

 

 

Black men are still dying at alarming rates in the toughest urban pockets even though, overall, America's murder rate is down. A study of one neighbourhood in Los Angeles has the power to change how people think about policing in America.

 

 

One of America's finest non-fiction writers, a son of Detroit, offers a lively and meticulously¹⁴ researched account of how the city, once the engine room of America, began sputtering¹⁵.

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