IN THE MAIL: James Gustave Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. One of a sudden huge wave of lefty books. Is it an election year? Interestingly, though, the accompanying promotional material tends to spin the books as farther-left and more anti-Bush than they really are. What does that say about their target audience?

Of course, some of them don’t need any spinning.