“Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate minority leader, insisted Republicans would move on from Donald Trump and go back to a past version of the party even as Trump’s return to power loomed last year, according to the authors of a new book on politics during the Biden administration,” The Guardian reports.

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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• 304 Pages - 03/25/2025 (Publication Date) - Random House (Publisher)

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“A new book details the extent of Donald Trump’s obsession with the destruction of Ron DeSantis’ political career during the 2024 presidential campaign and the ruthless tactics his team employed to try and make it impossible for the governor to run for anything ever again,” the Miami Herald reports.

“In Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power, reporter Alex Isenstadt writes that in the run-up to DeSantis’ presidential campaign launch in 2023, Trump was incredulous that he was actually going through with it.”

Said Trump: “Is Ron really that stupid to run against me? Why doesn’t he just wait until 2028?”

Just out: Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service edited by Michael Lewis.

“Who works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers.”

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Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

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• 272 Pages - 03/18/2025 (Publication Date) - Riverhead Books (Publisher)

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Just out: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

“To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage.”

Thompson, writing in The Atlantic: “For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and scarcity. Liberals can stand for abundance.”

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• Klein, Ezra (Author)
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• 304 Pages - 03/18/2025 (Publication Date) - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (Publisher)

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“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) book tour announced Monday it will postpone multiple events, citing security concerns, after he helped prevent a government shutdown last week,” Axios reports.

Bloomberg: Schumer cancels book tour amid backlash over government shutdown stance.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) may “get an earful from activists” when he hits the road for his book tour this week, the Washington Post reports.

Michael Wolff claims that the cable news networks are being bullied by the White House to keep him off the air to discuss his new book, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America.

“While the book was greeted by gratifying reviews in many print outlets, including The New York Times, and debuted at No. 9 on the Times’ best-seller list, most every significant television news outlet — ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN — has declined to have it discussed on its news shows.”

“MSNBC, a network whose bread and butter is opposition to the president and which had booked me for several shows, including Lawrence O’Donnell, a show I regularly do when I publish a book, canceled those appearances as soon as portions of the book began to leak, followed shortly by the White House tirades.” 

Robert Caro offered some updates on the next installment of his Lyndon Johnson biography to Smithsonian.

He’s already written 980 pages, but he adds: “The trouble is, it’s going to be too long. It’s going to be very, very long! That’s about all I can say.”

If you haven’t read his previous four volumes, they’re just tremendous.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is penning a bipartisanship-focused memoir that calls for compromise amid a deeply divided Congress, The Hill reports.

Far from Home: An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C.

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• 06/24/2025 (Publication Date) - Forum Books (Publisher)

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Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper are releasing Original Sin, an unsparing look at Joe Biden’s “decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again,” Axios reports.

“Biden, his family, and his team let their self-interest and fear of another Trump term justify trying to put an at times addled old man in the Oval Office for four more years.”

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Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

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• 352 Pages - 05/20/2025 (Publication Date) - Penguin Press (Publisher)

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Jake Tapper’s new book Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al-Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War traces the extraordinary efforts of American law enforcement officers to gather evidence and build a case that would eventually put a terrorist in prison for life.

Military.com: “The case was essentially a murder investigation. The suspect was in custody, and he’d even admitted to the killings; all investigators had to prove was that he was at the scene of the crime.”

“But the case wasn’t that simple: The victims were two U.S. service members, the crime scene was a remote battlefield in Afghanistan, and the suspect was a self-described al-Qaida terrorist — one who was also about to walk free if prosecutors couldn’t prove their case.”

Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War

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• 10/07/2025 (Publication Date) - Atria Books (Publisher)

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Out next week: All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America by Michael Wolff.

“On one side, a picture that could not be worse for Trump: an inescapable, perhaps mortal legal quagmire; on the other side, an entirely positive political outlook: overwhelming support within his party, ever-rising polling numbers, and lackluster opposition.”

Vanity Fair has an excerpt.

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• Wolff, Michael (Author)
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• 400 Pages - 02/25/2025 (Publication Date) - Crown (Publisher)

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“To Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy, pardons are ‘X-rays into the soul’ of the American president who gives them, revealing true character,” The Guardian reports.

“Pardons can show compassion and mercy in the occupant of the Oval Office. More often, they expose venality and self-preservation.”

Said Toobin: “One thing you can say about Donald Trump is that his moral compass always points in the same direction, and his motives are always the same, which are transactional and narcissistic. This is a good example, I think, of my thesis that pardons are X-rays into the president’s soul.”

The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy

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• Toobin, Jeffrey (Author)
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• 295 Pages - 02/11/2025 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)

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A perfectly timed book release: The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy by Jeffrey Toobin.

“Toobin explores why the Founding Fathers gave the power of pardon to the President and recreates the behind-the-scenes political melodrama during the tumultuous period around Nixon’s resignation.”

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The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy

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• Toobin, Jeffrey (Author)
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• 304 Pages - 02/11/2025 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)

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Next on my reading list: The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes.

“With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.”

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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

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• Hayes, Chris (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 336 Pages - 01/28/2025 (Publication Date) - Penguin Press (Publisher)

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