The Shock of America. Europe and the Challenge of the Century

Books reviewed in this issue. Shock! Horror! America shocks EuropeDONALD SASSOONThe Shock of America. Europe and the Challenge of the Century, by David Ellwood. Greedy grey voters?David MetzGoing Grey: the Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society, by Scott Davidson. How to hate Muslims in AmericaTahir AbbasThe Islamophobia Industry: How the Far Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims, by Nathan Lean. Planning urban blightJoseph RykwertA New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain, by Owen Hatherley. The self-appointed imperial umpireAndrew JohnstoneAmerican Umpire, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman. Daddy knows best?Dick PountainAgainst Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly. Advice to (male) politicians: keep trousers zipped upDick LeonardIntimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media-Saturated Democracies, by James Stanyer. Christians and Muslims facing the worldAlessandra CecolinChristian Response to Islam. Muslim-Christian relations in the modern world, edited by Anthony O'Mahony and Emma Loosley. The sweet charms of the upper-class voiceGianfranco PasquinoThe Unheavenly Chorus. Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady. Integration, again: the Frenchness of a British nationalistDaniel GordonThe British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration, by David Goodhart.