T. R. Reid, Author . Penguin Press $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59420-234-6
Washington Post
correspondent Reid (The United States of Europe
) explores health-care systems around the world in an effort to understand why the U.S. remains the only first world nation to refuse its citizens universal health care. Neither...
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T. R. Reid, Author Random House Trade $16 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-75828-7
In 1958, ""before Chernobyl, before the Challenger rocket blew up, before the advent of Internet porn or cell phones that ring in the middle of the opera,"" when ""`technological progress' still had only positive connotations,"" Jack Kilby had a...
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T. R. Reid, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-45624-7
In this breezy homily, Reid, an NPR commentator who was the Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief for five years, offers a look at what he calls Asia's ""social miracle"" (as opposed to its once vaunted economic growth). The nations of East Asia, he...
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T. R. Reid, Author Penguin Press $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59420-033-5
While ""old Europe"" is most often portrayed as more bark than bite in its differences with the current U.S. administration, NPR commentator and former Washington Post European bureau chief Reid finds the E.U. as a whole ""determined to change a...
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