Just published: Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America’s Politics Forever by Chris Wallace.

“The election of 1960 holds stunning parallels to our current political climate. There were—potentially valid—claims of voter fraud and a stolen election. There was also a presidential candidate faced with the decision of whether to contest the result or honor the peaceful transfer of power.”

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Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever

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• Wallace, Chris (Author)
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• 448 Pages - 10/08/2024 (Publication Date) - Dutton (Publisher)

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CNN has some more tidbits from Bob Woodward’s new book, War:

• Woodward writes that Biden’s national security team at one point believed there was a real threat, a 50% chance, that Putin would use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
• Biden said he “should never have picked” Attorney General Merrick Garland during a conversation over his son’s legal troubles.
• Biden criticized former President Barack Obama’s handling of Putin’s invasion of Crimea in 2014, concluding that “Barack never took Putin seriously.”
• Citing a Trump aide, Woodward reports that there have been “maybe as many as seven” calls between Trump and Putin since Trump left the White House in 2021.

“Bob Woodward — in his forthcoming book War, out Oct. 15 — reveals in-the-room details of a one-on-one lunch in which Secretary of State Tony Blinken and President Biden, his longtime friend and boss, discussed the president’s post-debate political peril,” Axios reports.

“Woodward reports that during the July 4 lunch at the White House, Blinken posed a series of questions about the pros and cons of Biden continuing his re-election race.”

“Blinken made it clear that getting out was a decision only Biden could make — wanting the president to feel he was making it on his terms, rather than being forced.”

War

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• Woodward, Bob (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 441 Pages - 10/15/2024 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)

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“Melania Trump describes in her new memoir how she made her husband, then president Donald Trump, drop a signature hardline immigration policy under which migrant children were separated from their parents, stoking domestic and international uproar,” The Guardian reports.

“‘This has to stop,’ the former first lady says she told her husband, ’emphasizing the trauma it was causing these families’ and seeing him swiftly comply, ending the policy on June 20 2018.”

NPR: “This month marks the 50th anniversary of Caro’s first book, The Power Broker. It told the story of how urban planner Robert Moses reshaped New York City and state through the roads and bridges he built — and the lives and communities he destroyed.”

“And it began to tell the story how political power really works, and how it’s welded in this country. It’s a story that, 50 years later, has Caro still hard at work, still time traveling through his research, writing and conversation.”

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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• Caro, Robert A. (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 1298 Pages - 09/16/2024 (Publication Date) - Vintage (Publisher)

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“Melania Trump will sit down with Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt for an interview to air on Thursday,” Deadline reports.

“This will be the former first lady’s first interview in more than two years, per Fox News. She will discuss her new book, Melania, as well as the presidential campaign and the assassination attempts on her husband’s life.”

“It’s been almost four years since President Barack Obama‘s memoir A Promised Land was published on Nov. 17, 2020 as Volume 1 of a planned two-volume series,” Deadline reports.

“There has been little information since on when Volume 2 will be ready, with no release date set.”

Said Obama: “I’m writing, hopefully eventually this will be done next year, the second volume of my Presidential memoir.”

Out next month: John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg.

Born into poverty in rural Alabama, John Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.

John Lewis: A Life

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• Greenberg, David (Author)
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• 700 Pages - 10/08/2024 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)

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Just published: Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists and Dunces who Burned Down the House by Dana Milbank.

The Washington Post has an excerpt.

Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House

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• Milbank, Dana (Author)
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• 366 Pages - 09/24/2024 (Publication Date) - Little, Brown and Company (Publisher)

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Oliver Darcy: “With only a few weeks until the former first lady releases her book on October 8, the race to lock a rare potential sit-down with Melania is on. The major news networks, I’m told, have put in various pitches for a one-on-one conversation, with ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ having expressed particular interest in nabbing an interview.”

“But it is far from clear whether any of the pitches from the networks will be granted. During her time in public life, Melania has largely avoided the press. She only granted a small handful of interviews during her time in the White House and has eschewed reporters since the Trump family exited in disgrace after the January 6 insurrection.”

Coming soon: Mad House: How Donald Trump, Maga Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress by Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater.

How Congress got this way.

Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress

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• Karni, Annie (Author)
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• 03/25/2025 (Publication Date) - Random House (Publisher)

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“Donald Trump has tried all manner of ways to monetize his post-presidency. He has sold chocolate bars, sneakers, Bibles, NFT trading cards and even scraps of fabric from the suit he wore when his mug shot was taken last year at a jail in Atlanta. He has also been, a bit under the radar, cranking out coffee table books,” the New York Times reports.

“He just published his third since 2021. It is titled ‘Save America’ and costs $99 (the autographed version is $499). It’s a tour through his time in the White House, told with photographs and captions written by Mr. Trump in a style unmistakably his own — pithy, trollish, gossipy, hyperbolic and arbitrarily capitalized. In its way, it is a revealing document, both as a piece of political propaganda and as a window into Mr. Trump’s approach to geopolitics. Much of the book concerns his relationships with various world leaders. It is a reminder, weeks before the next election, of how he conducted the nation’s affairs on the global stage.”

Melania Trump promoted her upcoming memoir Thursday, saying in a new video that she feels “a responsibility to clarify the facts,” CNN reports.