BOOK REVIEWS

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Books reviewed in this issue.Shock! Horror! America shocks Europe  DONALD SASSOON The Shock of America. Europe and the Challenge of the Century , by David Ellwood. Greedy grey voters?  David Metz Going Grey: the Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society , by Scott Davidson. How to hate Muslims in America  Tahir Abbas The Islamophobia Industry: How the Far Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims , by Nathan Lean. Planning urban blight  Joseph Rykwert A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain , by Owen Hatherley. The self‐appointed imperial umpire  Andrew Johnstone American Umpire , by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman. Daddy knows best?  Dick Pountain Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly. Advice to (male) politicians: keep trousers zipped up  Dick Leonard Intimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media‐Saturated Democracies , by James Stanyer. Christians and Muslims facing the world  Alessandra Cecolin Christian 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 voice  Gianfranco Pasquino The 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 nationalist  Daniel Gordon The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post‐War Immigration , by David Goodhart.