David Pepper, the former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, is out with a new book, Laboratories of Autocracy.

“Laboratories of Autocracy shows that far more than the high-profile antics of politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jim Jordan—and yes, even bigger than Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie’—it’s anonymous, often corrupt politicians in statehouses across the country who pose the greatest dangers to American democracy.”

Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines

• Pepper, David (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 452 Pages - 10/14/2021 (Publication Date) - St. Helena Press (Publisher)

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Meghan McCain is out with an “audio memoir” called Bad Republican.

Vanity Fair runs a text excerpt where McCain writes about the turning point with Joy Behar last January that convinced her it was time to leave “The View.”

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Bad Republican

• Audible Audiobook
• Meghan McCain (Author) - Meghan McCain (Narrator)
• English (Publication Language)
• 10/21/2021 (Publication Date) - Audible Originals (Publisher)

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Just published: The Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work and Can Make It Work Again by former Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Hartford Courant: “For the past 15 years, former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman has never spoken publicly about the secret help that he received from Republicans Karl Rove and Elizabeth Dole to help him defeat Democrat Ned Lamont in the contentious 2006 Senate race.”

“But in a new book and an interview, Lieberman says that Rove, the chief political strategist for then-President George W. Bush, told him that he would do anything possible to help Lieberman against Lamont, an anti-war Democrat at a time when the Iraq War was highly controversial.”

The book also has a story about a secret ambassadorship offer from President Bush in 2004.

The Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work and Can Make It Work Again

• Amazon Kindle Edition
• Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 345 Pages - 10/19/2021 (Publication Date) - Diversion Books (Publisher)

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Coming later this year: The Chief’s Chief by Mark Meadows.

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The Chief’s Chief

• Hardcover Book
• Meadows, Mark (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 304 Pages - 12/07/2021 (Publication Date) - All Seasons Pr (Publisher)

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Then-President Donald Trump asked his top intelligence official to investigate a conspiracy theory that Chinese thermostats changed votes in the 2020 election, according to an excerpt from the soon-to-be-released Betrayal by journalist Jonathan Karl, Mediaite reports.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny’s novel State of Terror, to be published on Tuesday, is already at the top of Amazon’s best sellers list.

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State of Terror: A Novel

• Hardcover Book
• Penny, Louise (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 512 Pages - 10/12/2021 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster/St. Martin’s Press (Publisher)

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“While the Capitol was under attack on Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump remained out of sight from the public and watched TV in the White House private dining room,” ABC News reports, based on reporting from Jonathan Karl’s new book, Betrayal.

“The former president liked what he saw, boasted about the size of the crowd and argued with aides who wanted him to tell his supporters to stop rioting.”

Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

• Amazon Kindle Edition
• Karl, Jonathan (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 11/16/2021 (Publication Date) - Dutton (Publisher)

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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has an excerpt of his new book in Vanity Fair that describes what it was like at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 during the insurrection.

“It was not always like this, it must be said, because the Republican Party has also not always been like this. The four years of the Trump presidency destroyed many friendships, and not a few marriages.”

“But it also destroyed the Republican Party—once devoted to robust alliances, a healthy mistrust of executive power, and the expansion of democracy around the world—and turned it into something else: a party willing to tear down the institutions of its own government, a party willing to give aid and comfort to a malign foreign power that wishes to destroy us, a party hostile to the truth.”

The book is a must-read.

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

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• Schiff, Adam B. (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 484 Pages - 10/12/2021 (Publication Date) - Random House (Publisher)

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Olivia Nuzzi reviews I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House by Stephanie Grisham.

“As I read Grisham’s book, I kept thinking that it felt, in some ways, like the story of the Trump presidency was less about one demagogue than it was about the everyday choices of the smaller people working at the levels below policy-making, and how run-of-the-mill self-centeredness and expediency, when practiced by dozens or hundreds of people in an organization, amounts to the system that allows evil. The Trump administration was not possible because of Trump and his brain trust, as it were. It was possible because of the people like Grisham who let them, in minor and individual ways, function.”

I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

• Amazon Kindle Edition
• Grisham, Stephanie (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 352 Pages - 10/05/2021 (Publication Date) - Harper (Publisher)

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Andrew Yang describes his presidential bid in his upcoming book out this week, which was excerpted in Politico.

Said Yang: “On the campaign trail, I could clearly see how politicians become susceptible to growing so out of touch. You function on appearance; appearance becomes your role. Empathy becomes optional or even unhelpful. Leadership becomes the appearance of leadership.”

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Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy

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• Yang, Andrew (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 368 Pages - 10/05/2021 (Publication Date) - Crown (Publisher)

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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley admitted at a Senate hearing that he spoke with the authors of three books — Peril, Frankly, We Did Win This Election and I Alone Can Fix It — about the Trump presidency, Axios reports.

Even some of Milley’s friends have cringed at his extensive and high-profile scenes in the books and the perceptions that he participated on “deep background” with these authors.