During the media frenzy that came to be known as Club Ted, a report surfaced that the infamous Unabomber was writing a second manifesto. He was in fact creating this compelling book which deftly treads the line between eloquent memoir and uncompromising defense. This intriguing artifact is Ted Kaczynski's attempt to tell the other side of the tale spun by his family in their attempt to save him from the death penalty, as well as the outright lies told by media-charmed acquaintances and opportunistic strangers. 

In this provocative analysis, Professor Michael Mello, who informally advised the Unabomber defense team, sifts through the media circus, court transcripts, and his own friendship with Kaczynski to expose the conflicts of interest and ideological forces that led to one of the most famous non-trials in legal history. 

The New York Times Book Review: Gelernter's new book is all about good and evil, but mostly it is about evil.... Such an agenda might seem fated to produce a puritanical, mean-spirited, tedious piece of writing. Drawing Life is, in fact, witty and entertaining, and filled with provocative questions that no writer this good has forced upon us in a long time. 

The New York Times Book Review: The Future Once Happened Here is a subversive book. In tracing the fate of New York, Washington and Los Angeles in recent decades, Fred Siegel, a professor of history at the Cooper Union for the Arts and Sciences, bitterly attacks the left-liberal consensus that has to varying degrees dominated the governance of each of the cities he examines. But he does so as a dedicated urbanite who, unlike many on the right, is not only at home with cultural diversity but also deeply attached to it.