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Campaign of Chaos

July 24, 2025 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Just published: Campaign of Chaos: Trump, Biden, Harris, and the 2024 American Election.

“A comprehensive review of everything in play during the 2024 elections, exploring the nominating processes, the unexpected handoff to Kamala Harris, conventions, and futures of both the Democratic and Republican parties, and what recent geographic and demographic electoral realignments might mean for America’s politics beyond 2024.”

Campaign of Chaos: Trump, Biden, Harris, and the 2024 American Election
Campaign of Chaos: Trump, Biden, Harris, and the 2024 American Election
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 272 Pages - 08/12/2025 (Publication Date) - Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

Biden Sells Memoir for Roughly $10 Million

July 24, 2025 at 5:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former President Joe Biden has sold his presidential memoir to the Hachette Book Group for an advance in the range of $10 million,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Filed Under: Political Books

Trump Books Draw Lackluster Sales

July 22, 2025 at 2:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning — for now, it appears they are getting tired of reading about him,” Politico reports.

“Trump’s first term saw books authored by prominent journalists sell hundreds of thousands of copies each as the public rushed to learn the inside details of Trump’s norm-shattering presidency.”

Filed Under: Political Books


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The Game Changer

July 21, 2025 at 11:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

This will be a must-read: The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight by Jon Ralston.

“He was, in his own words, willing to do what no one else would do in his Machiavellian pursuit of what he thought was best for his country and his party.”

The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight
The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight
  • Hardcover Book
  • Ralston, Jon (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 400 Pages - 01/20/2026 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
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Judge Dismissed Trump’s Lawsuit Against Bob Woodward

July 19, 2025 at 5:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump that attempted to sue Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward for publishing interviews during his first administration in an October 2022 audiobook called The Trump Tapes,” the Washington Post reports.

The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Woodward, Bob (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 461 Pages - 01/17/2023 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
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So You Want to Own Greenland?

July 10, 2025 at 4:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Juts published: So You Want to Own Greenland? by Elizabeth Buchanan.

 Why do despots over the centuries keep wanting to own Greenland? The fascinating, calamitous story of the many who’ve tried… and uniformly failed.

So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump
So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump
  • Buchanan, Elizabeth (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 208 Pages - 09/16/2025 (Publication Date) - Melville House (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Political Books

Where Kamala Harris Went Wrong

July 8, 2025 at 6:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “The Kamala Harris campaign was presented with a series of memos in its final stages setting out a clear strategy for winning over independent and ‘soft’ Republican votes — but chose a strikingly different path, a new book out today on the 2024 campaign reveals.”

“The confidential documents, written in the final weeks of the campaign by Dem official Maria Comella, warned the current strategy was not working…”

“The memos urged Harris to get herself onto the Joe Rogan podcast, and warned her not to make Jan.6 the final focus of her campaign with a speech at the Ellipse.”

2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Dawsey, Josh (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 416 Pages - 07/08/2025 (Publication Date) - Penguin Press (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

Why Biden Wanted an Early Debate

July 7, 2025 at 6:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “In the ill-fated briefing document, dated April 15, 2024, Biden’s senior advisers told him not to wait for the autumn dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates — the first of which, they noted, was scheduled after mail-in ballots would start going out — but instead to arrange a head-to-head with Trump within a matter of weeks.”

“The memo was obtained by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, in the process of reporting their new book, 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, which is out tomorrow.”

“The book says support for an early debate was not unanimous among the president’s aides, and that some members of Biden world felt he should not go head-to-head with Trump at all. One unnamed donor called the White House in May, the book reports, ‘alarmed’ by a recent appearance by the president at a Chicago fundraiser, and urged his team to ‘find an excuse’ to get him out of the debates. This was rejected out of hand.”

Filed Under: Political Books

Mike Pompeo Was Nearly Assassinated

June 28, 2025 at 10:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A forthcoming book reveals that Iran “nearly succeeded” in assassinating Mike Pompeo in 2022, the Washington Post reports.

2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
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  • Dawsey, Josh (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 416 Pages - 07/08/2025 (Publication Date) - Penguin Press (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

When You Come at the King

June 23, 2025 at 10:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Coming this fall: When You Come at the King by Elie Honig.

“You might unearth information that will be politically, professionally, and personally devastating to your subject, and you alone hold the power to indict and potentially imprison him. At the same time, the boss can fire you and end the case—and might even turn the tables and launch an inquiry aimed at you.”

“As the lone-wolf assassin Omar put it in The Wire: ‘You come at the king, you best not miss.'”

When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, from Nixon to Trump
When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, from Nixon to Trump
  • Hardcover Book
  • Honig, Elie (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 336 Pages - 09/16/2025 (Publication Date) - Harper (Publisher)
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Ranked Choice Voting

June 22, 2025 at 7:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Just out: Ranked Choice Voting By James W. Endersby and Michael J. Towle.

A comprehensive and balanced analysis of RCV systems, drawing from examples across the United States to evaluate how they function.

Ranked Choice Voting
Ranked Choice Voting
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  • Endersby, James W. (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 359 Pages - 02/26/2025 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
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Political Book Authors Turn to Podcasts

June 17, 2025 at 9:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “In an era when mainstream media is increasingly politically polarized and siloed, and authors face dwindling opportunities for coverage in print and on television, podcasts have emerged as the rare popular medium where hosts are willing, even eager, to engage with the opposition.”

“Podcasts have also become one of the few forms of mass media that indulge lengthy conversations about serious topics, allowing authors to speak in more than a 30-second sound bite. Writers from across the political spectrum have flocked there to push their books, and some political podcast hosts have even branched into book publishing.”

Filed Under: Media Buzz, Political Books

Karine Jean-Pierre’s Book Lands with a Thud

June 5, 2025 at 9:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Publishers usually anticipate a surge in preorders following widespread press coverage of a book announcement, but the release of former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s book failed to generate any noticeable sales.

It currently ranks #1,728,594 in books on Amazon.

Filed Under: Political Books Tagged With: 1

Bidenworld Goes Scorched Earth on Karine Jean-Pierre

June 5, 2025 at 7:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s announcement of her new book led many former Biden aides” to tee off on her,” Axios reports.

“Many quietly had fumed for years, believing she was incompetent at her job at the White House podium and more interested in promoting herself than Joe Biden.”

“News of her book — Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines — and that she was leaving the Democratic Party was the final straw for many people who’d worked with her.”

Filed Under: Biden Legacy, Political Books

Karine Jean-Pierre’s Book Greeted With a ‘WTF’ Chorus

June 4, 2025 at 5:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s new attempt to distance herself from the Democratic Party while diagnosing its problems is landing with a thud,” NOTUS reports.

“A vague synopsis of a new book from the former press secretary was met with jeers from her former colleagues.”

Said one former White House official: “She always talked about how close she was to Biden and now to turn around and do this. It’s so gross.”

Said a second: “How out of touch do you need to be that your takeaway from the past 12 months is, ‘I’m leaving the party because the party left Joe Biden.’”

S.E. Cupp: “I talk to a lot of Democrats, and believe me when I tell you, they are desperate to move past Biden. That’s hard when news from Bidenworld keeps popping up, and none of it good.”

Filed Under: Political Books

Ex-Colleagues Respond with Derision to Karine Jean-Pierre

June 4, 2025 at 1:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Karine Jean-Pierre’s announcement that she’s leaving the Democratic Party — timed with the rollout of a new book — has detonated long-simmering grievances among her former White House colleagues about Jean-Pierre’s pursuit of celebrity and personal media exposure while serving as then-President Joe Biden’s press secretary,” Politico reports.

“One former official recalled that Jean-Pierre had joked about becoming an independent even while on the job in the Biden White House, an off-key comment for someone ostensibly serving as a major messenger for the Democratic Party. Another former official said that Jean-Pierre had begun working during the Biden administration with a New York-based publicist and had copied that person on official emails before some of Jean-Pierre’s White House colleagues intervened.”

Said another former colleague: “Everyone thinks this is a grift.”

Filed Under: Political Books

Biden’s Press Secretary Dishes on ‘Broken White House’

June 4, 2025 at 12:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has a book out this fall that promises a close look at President Biden’s decision not to run for reelection and calls for thinking beyond the two-party system,” the AP reports.

“Jean-Pierre herself has switched her affiliation to independent after working in two Democratic administrations.”

From the book jacket: “She takes us through the three weeks that led to Biden’s abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision.”

Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines
Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Jean-Pierre, Karine (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 10/21/2025 (Publication Date) - Legacy Lit (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Biden Legacy, Political Books

Ashley Biden Rips Book About Her Father

June 2, 2025 at 4:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ashley Biden, daughter of former President Biden, issued a fiery response to a new book alleging her father is in cognitive decline, calling the claims “damn disrespectful” and “fake news.”

Filed Under: Political Books

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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