Coming this summer: True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump by Jeffrey Toobin.

“A real-life legal thriller about the prosecutors and congressional investigators pursuing the truth about Donald Trump’s complicity in several crimes–and why they failed.”

True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump

• Amazon Kindle Edition
• Toobin, Jeffrey (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 08/04/2020 (Publication Date) - Doubleday (Publisher)

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Just published: A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America by Brian Harrison.

The book includes concrete, actionable steps to improve our political conversations in a time of severe polarization.

A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America

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• Harrison, Brian F. (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 208 Pages - 03/02/2020 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)

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Out next month: OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work by Ben Sheehan.

“With clear notes and graphics on everything from presidential powers to Supreme Court nominations to hidden loopholes, Sheehan walks us through the entire Constitution from its preamble to its final amendment (with a bonus section on the Declaration of Independence).”

OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work

• Hardcover Book
• Sheehan, Ben (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 224 Pages - 04/14/2020 (Publication Date) - Black Dog & Leventhal (Publisher)

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Coming in June: The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam.

“During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However as the twentieth century opened, America became—slowly, unevenly, but steadily—more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society on the upswing, more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest. Sometime during the 1960s, however, these trends reversed, leaving us in today’s disarray.”

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

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• Putnam, Robert D. (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 480 Pages - 10/13/2020 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)

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Out in June: The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank.

“The real story of populism is an account of enlightenment and liberation; it is the story of American democracy itself, of its ever-widening promise of a decent life for all. Taking us from the tumultuous 1890s, when the radical left-wing Populist Party—the biggest mass movement in American history—fought Gilded Age plutocrats to the reformers’ great triumphs under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, Frank reminds us how much we owe to the populist ethos. Frank also shows that elitist groups have reliably detested populism, lashing out at working-class concerns.”

The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism

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• Frank, Thomas (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 320 Pages - 07/14/2020 (Publication Date) - Metropolitan Books (Publisher)

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Out in June: Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams.

“Abrams chronicles a chilling account of how the right to vote and the principle of democracy have been and continue to be under attack.”

Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

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• Abrams, Stacey (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 304 Pages - 06/09/2020 (Publication Date) - Henry Holt and Co. (Publisher)

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This is a must-read: Pelosi by Molly Ball.

“Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It’s a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party—even though, as speaker under President Barack Obama, she deserves much of the credit for epochal liberal accomplishments from universal access to health care to saving the US economy from collapse, from reforming Wall Street to allowing gay people to serve openly in the military. How did an Italian grandmother in four-inch heels become the greatest legislator since LBJ?”

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• Ball, Molly (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 368 Pages - 05/05/2020 (Publication Date) - Henry Holt and Co. (Publisher)

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Coming soon: The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III By Peter Baker and Susan Glasser.

“For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice.”

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

• Hardcover Book
• Baker, Peter (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 720 Pages - 09/29/2020 (Publication Date) - Doubleday (Publisher)

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Madeleine Westerhout, who spent 2½ years as President Trump’s Oval Office gatekeeper, will release a frank memoir on Aug. 11 about one mistake that cost her one of the world’s most fascinating jobs, Axios reports.

Westerhout will recount an “off-the-record” dinner with reporters on the road — an age-old White House tradition. Hers had a disastrous fallout when word of what was discussed over drinks got back to the West Wing.

Just published: The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress by Jennifer Steinhauer.

“In November 2018, the greatest number of women in American history entered Congress. From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and ‘the Squad’ to ‘the Badasses’ with national security backgrounds, from the first two Native Americans in Congress to the first two Muslim women, all were swept into office on a wave of grassroots support, diverse in background, age, professional experience, and ideology.”

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The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

• Hardcover Book
• Steinhauer, Jennifer (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 272 Pages - 03/10/2020 (Publication Date) - Algonquin Books (Publisher)

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This looks interesting: The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World by Jim Sciutto.

“From praising dictators to alienating allies, Trump has made chaos his calling card, and the world has suffered for it. Trump’s foreign policy is hurting the very people who have been on our side for more than seventy years, which leaves them, in turn, isolated and vulnerable without American support.”

A must-read: The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency by John Dickerson.

As Lyndon Johnson observed: “The office is kinda like the little country boy found a hoochie coochie show at the carnival. Once he paid his dime and got inside the tent: it ain’t exactly as it was advertised.”

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The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency

• Hardcover Book
• Dickerson, John (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 656 Pages - 06/09/2020 (Publication Date) - Random House (Publisher)

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“Rudy Giuliani is having phone trouble again — and this time, it’s sad,” the New York Daily News reports.

“The former New York mayor forgot to hang up on a Daily News reporter Wednesday and, thinking he was off the line, started trash-talking ex-Gov. George Pataki while complaining he only has ‘five friends left.'”

Said Giuliani: “He’s trying to sell a book. Even if we would have had that conversation, it would have been privileged between a mayor and a governor … He’s an honorable guy. I can’t believe he would do that. I just keep getting disappointed. I got about five friends left.”

Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) is writing a memoir, She Will Rise, that will recount the struggles and scandal that pushed her to resign from Congress last year.

She Will Rise: Becoming a Warrior in the Battle for True Equality

• Amazon Kindle Edition
• Hill, Katie (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 304 Pages - 08/18/2020 (Publication Date) - Grand Central Publishing (Publisher)

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