“There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless asshole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else.”
— Former House Speaker John Boehner, describing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his new book, On the House.
Inside Team Biden’s Push Back on Trump Jokes
Vanity Fair runs an excerpt from Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency on how Biden’s campaign team tried to tone down Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ act at the Democratic convention.
Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Allen, Jonathan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 480 Pages - 03/02/2021 (Publication Date) - Crown (Publisher)
Boehner Goes Off Script
“John Boehner has been going off script while recording the audio version of his new memoir, using expletives and asides not in the book — such as the former Republican House speaker saying, ‘Oh, and Ted Cruz, go fuck yourself,'” Axios reports.
The audio version — which costs more than the book itself — “will be sprinkled with Boehner’s unfiltered, baritone, inner monologue.”
On the House: A Washington Memoir
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Boehner, John (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 04/13/2021 (Publication Date) - St. Martin's Press (Publisher)
The Political Memoir is Year’s Hottest Book Genre
Town & Country: “At a time when redemption is in the air, former Trump administration officials and adjacent untouchables are getting ready for their close-ups with the last shreds of currency they have left: information, the more tantalizing and eyebrow-raising the better. They saw the book deals and sales of the first (and second and third) wave of blabbermouths, everyone from James Comey and John Bolton to Trump’s very own niece Mary, and they want a slice of the indiscretion abbondanza, even if the only road to laundering their reputations is betrayal.”
“At least, members of Trump’s inner circle are hoping that’s the case.”
Battle for the Soul
Coming soon: Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump by Edward-Isaac Dovere.
“A searing, fly-on-the-wall account of the Democrats’ journey through recalibration and rebirth.”
Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Dovere, Edward-Isaac (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 05/18/2021 (Publication Date) - Viking (Publisher)
How Biden Barely Won the Presidency
A must-read: Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.
One of the more interesting elevations is that Biden almost ended his campaign after the New Hampshire primary when his campaign’s treasury was down to $1.5 million — “less than some candidates were spending in a single day at that point.”
The Guardian: Key aide said the pandemic “was the best thing that ever happened to Biden.”
Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Allen, Jonathan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 480 Pages - 03/02/2021 (Publication Date) - Crown (Publisher)
Cruz Buying His Own Books Through Mystery Company?
Salon: “One day before the Georgia Senate runoff elections — and two days before the Capitol insurrection — a leadership PAC attached to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a mystery company that had previously bought copies of Cruz’s book…”
“Over the course of 2020, the Cruz-affiliated Jobs, Freedom, and Security PAC paid $1.2 million — nearly 80% of its operating budget — to a company called Reagan Investments LLC for ‘sponsorship advertising.’ The only other committee to register any disbursements to that company was Trump Make America Great Again, for a fundraising promotion for Cruz’s books in December… However, the Trump group clearly marked the payment for ‘collateral: books.'”
Hillary Clinton to Publish Political Thriller
Hillary Clinton will pen an a political thriller novel with her longtime friend, author Louise Penny, Axios reports.
State of Terror will be out in October.
Tuesday Night Massacre
Coming soon: Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party by Marc C. Johnson.
“The turnover of these seats not only allowed Republicans to gain control of the Senate for the first time since 1954 but also fundamentally altered the conduct of American politics.”
Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Johnson, Marc C. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 243 Pages - 02/25/2021 (Publication Date) - University of Oklahoma Press (Publisher)
The Ten Year War
Out this week: The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage by Jonathan Cohn.
HuffPost runs an excerpt, featuring an interview with Barack Obama.
Playbook: “One big takeaway from Obama, who sat down with Cohn for over an hour last year: There’s nothing new about moderate Democratic senators from consevative states frustrating Democratic presidents. And even without the filibuster, there’s no magic solution that allows progressives to enact ambitious legislation without winning the support of the Manchins of the world.”
The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Cohn, Jonathan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 408 Pages - 02/23/2021 (Publication Date) - St. Martin's Press (Publisher)
What Racism Costs Everyone
Just published: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee.
Michelle Goldberg: “McGhee’s book is about the many ways racism has defeated efforts to create a more economically just America. Once the civil rights movement expanded America’s conception of ‘the public,’ white America’s support for public goods collapsed. People of color have suffered the most from the resulting austerity, but it’s made life a lot worse for most white people, too.”
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- McGhee, Heather (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 450 Pages - 02/16/2021 (Publication Date) - One World (Publisher)
American Kompromat
Just out: American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger.
From Kirkus Reviews: “A must-read. The gun’s not quite smoking, but the barrel’s plenty hot, and there are Russian shell casings all around.”
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American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
- Hardcover Book
- Unger, Craig (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 352 Pages - 01/26/2021 (Publication Date) - Dutton (Publisher)
Kill Switch
Just published: Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson.
“Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative. Although they do not represent a majority of Americans―and will not for the foreseeable future―today’s Republican senators possess the power to block most legislation. Once known as ‘the world’s greatest deliberative body,’ the Senate has become one of the greatest threats to our democracy. How did this happen?”
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Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
- Hardcover Book
- Jentleson, Adam (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 336 Pages - 01/12/2021 (Publication Date) - Liveright (Publisher)
The Secret Battle to End the Great War
This looks interesting: The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 by Philip Zelikow.
The book tells the unknown story of, for more than five months, leaders from America, Britain and Germany held secret peace negotiations in an attempt to end the Great War. They did so far out of public sight—one reason why their battle is little understood today.
The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917
- Hardcover Book
- Zelikow, Philip (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 352 Pages - 03/16/2021 (Publication Date) - PublicAffairs (Publisher)
Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
A must-read: Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power by Susan Page.
The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history.
Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Page, Susan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 432 Pages - 04/20/2021 (Publication Date) - Twelve (Publisher)
Biden Says Hunter’s Book ‘Gave Me Hope’
President Joe Biden told CBS News that he felt “my boy’s back” when he started to read his son Hunter’s upcoming book.
Said Biden: “The honesty with which he stepped forward and talked about the problem. And the hope that — it gave me hope reading it.”
Beautiful Things: A Memoir
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Biden, Hunter (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 272 Pages - 04/06/2021 (Publication Date) - Gallery Books (Publisher)
Hunter Biden Writing a Memoir
After the Fall
Coming soon: After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes.
“Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A former White House aide and close confidante to President Barack Obama travels the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers.”
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Rhodes, Ben (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 06/01/2021 (Publication Date) - Random House (Publisher)
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