None of this should be taken as an apologia pro Bush.

ECONOMIST: LEXINGTON

While Johnson loves America, his book is no Pollyannaish apologia.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

We hear from former trading vice-president of Lehman's, Larry McDonald, who has written an insider's view of the systemic problems within the bank in his literary apologia "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers".

BBC: This week: Culture and the crash