Out this fall: Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us by Donald Trump Jr.

Axios: “The book’s thrashing of political correctness previews the stump message Don Jr. will use to try to jack up swing-state turnout by the Republican base.”

Out next month: Almanac of American Politics 2020.

It’s a must-have for any political junkie.

Almanac of American Politics 2020

• Publisher: Columbia Books. Inc.
• Paperback: 2100 pages

$89.00

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The Guardian offers another great review of American Carnage:

Tim Alberta, Politico’s chief political correspondent, has written a masterful must-read. Across 600-plus pages, he chronicles more than a decade of transformation and turmoil within what was once but is no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln…

Alberta’s storytelling is bolstered by his access to powers that be and were. Trump, Ryan and John Boehner, another ex-speaker, all go on the record. American Carnage is filled with scoop. It is an exercise in a pulling back the curtain, not breathlessness.

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

• Tim Alberta
• Harper
• Kindle Edition
• English

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Harvard professor Tom Patterson has written a summary of the Mueller Report, for those too busy to read the nearly 500 pages of the full report.

Proceeds from book sales will be used to buy ads on social media to bring the abridged version to the attention of a wider audience.

Summary of the Mueller Report, for those too busy to read it all

• Thomas E. Patterson
• Publisher: Independently published
• Paperback: 129 pages

$7.95

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The New York Times has a great review of American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta, noting it “isn’t just another drop in the deluge of Trump books; in fact, it isn’t really a Trump book at all.”

“Instead it’s a fascinating look at a Republican Party that initially scoffed at the incursion of a philandering reality-TV star with zero political experience and now readily accommodates him.”

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

• Tim Alberta
• Harper
• Kindle Edition
• English

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A must-read: American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta.

Andrew Weissman, a top prosecutor on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, is shopping a book proposal, publishing industry sources told Brian Stelter.

Out next week: Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington’s War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia’s Death to Justice Kavanaugh by Carl Hulse.

Playbook: “The book, which we read this week, is like getting a professional guided tour of the fascinating confirmation process going back 30 years. It’s scoopy, informative and fun.”

A must-read: The Blue Wave: The 2018 Midterms and What They Mean for the 2020 Elections edited by Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik.

Just out: The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump by Peter Wehner.

“Any nation that elects Donald Trump to be its president has a remarkably low view of politics.”

An excerpt from The Best People: Trump’s Cabinet and the Siege on Washington by Alexander Nazaryan describes President Trump berating adviser Kellyanne Conway in front of the author:

Trump also became upset at senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, who was sitting in on the meeting, for apparently keeping Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward from interviewing the president for his own book Fear, which was also critical of Trump. “Kellyanne didn’t tell me he asked 10 times for a meeting. I wish she did,” he said bitterly of Conway. “I’m sure it would have been a little bit of a different book.” This obviously bothered him. “You should have told me,” he went on. “Honestly, you should have told me.”

Conway just sat there, taking it as she has doubtlessly taken it from the boss many times before. You couldn’t last in this administration unless you were willing to take it daily, take with a smile and a “yessir,” take it even while knowing that much of the country loathed you, considered you’re complicit in one of the great political crimes in American history.

New York Times: “You might think that Michael Wolff, whose blockbuster Fire and Fury wasn’t exactly a glowing portrait of President Trump’s first year in the White House, might have burned so many bridges that a second insider book on the administration would have been an impossible task.”

“But it’s not as if the Trump team became more disciplined and tight-lipped in its second year. As Wolff explains in Siege, a number of the people who helped him on the first book have left the administration but are still in on the gossip loop, joining Wolff in what he calls ‘my train-wreck fascination with Trump — that certain knowledge that in the end he will destroy himself.'”

“There are salacious details in this book — many of which Trump’s critics will want to eat up — though with so many unnamed sources, Trump’s compulsion for hyperbole and Wolff’s own journalistic record, it’s hard to know which tidbits to trust.”