The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politicsin Most of the World. By Partha Chatterjee. New York:Columbia University Press, 2004. 173p. $33.00 cloth, $20.00paper.

Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and EverydayPolitics in Turkey. By Esra Özyürek. Durham, NC: DukeUniversity Press, 2006. 227p. $74.95 cloth, $21.95 paper.

Few leaders have been as lionized by their people decades after theirdeaths or have influenced their nation's political development asmuch as Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In the wake of World War Iand the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Atatürk (an honorary titlemeaning “father of the Turks”) led a war of national independence,established the Turkish Republic, and introduced a series ofmodernizing/westernizing reforms that included secularization of thestate, relative emancipation of women, and westernization of thealphabet, dress, and the legal code.