Nostalgia Works Its Magic on Tyrants Simon Sebag Montefiore, Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar," which won the British Book Award for History Book of the Year and which was published in the United States last month by Knopf.
Ashcroft Fishes Out 1872 Law in a Bid to Scuttle Protester Rights Bill McKibben, Bill McKibben, a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, is the author of many books on the environment, including "Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age" (Times Books, 2003).