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Battle for the Soul

March 27, 2021 at 2:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A must-read this Spring: Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump by Edward-Isaac Dovere.

“A fly-on-the-wall account of the Democrats’ journey through recalibration and rebirth.”

Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Dovere, Edward-Isaac (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 05/25/2021 (Publication Date) - Viking (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

Rock Me on the Water

March 23, 2021 at 8:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

This looks really good: Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics by Ron Brownstein.

“At a time when Richard Nixon won two presidential elections with a message of backlash against the social changes unleashed by the sixties, popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. The early 1970s in Los Angeles was the time and the place where conservatives definitively lost the battle to control popular culture.”

Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Brownstein, Ronald (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 442 Pages - 03/23/2021 (Publication Date) - Harper (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

Nightmare Scenario

March 19, 2021 at 9:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta will be out June 29 with Nightmare Scenario, a scoopy narrative of President Trump’s chaotic response to the pandemic,” Axios reports.

The book will “reveal the numerous times officials tried to dissuade Trump from following his worst impulses… And they show how the petty backstabbing and rivalries amongst cabinet members, staff, and aides, created a toxic cycle of blame, sycophancy, and political pressure.”

Filed Under: Political Books

Kellyanne Conway Gets Big Book Deal

March 18, 2021 at 7:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway has a multi-million dollar book deal, according to Page Six.

“She’s written books before. This one’s recipe is a little about her tough pillow talk with her husband, a little about growing up a growing family and a lot about Donald.”

Filed Under: Political Books

Trump Set to Do 12 Book Interviews

March 17, 2021 at 9:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “The former president is scheduled to sit for a dozen interviews in the coming weeks with authors examining his presidency, some of whom are penning sequels to books they published during Trump’s time in office.”

“The sheer number of book interviews is so massive that some in his orbit worry he may be doing too many and hurting his ability to monetize his own recollections for a book of his own, should he choose to write one.”

Filed Under: Political Books

Andrew Cuomo Biographer Has Stories

March 13, 2021 at 8:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Michael Shnayerson: “In 2012, I began writing an unauthorized biography of the governor of New York, who’d been in office a year. I talked to his associates and enemies. I gathered a dossier on his bullying ways and confrontational tactics. I pored over court documents surrounding his nasty split, a decade before, from his wife, Kerry Kennedy, a member of another powerful Democratic dynasty. As I plunged into writing, I hoped he might even agree to sit for an interview—and he did agree, sort of.”

“By the time I was about to hand in my manuscript, the governor had a book of his own in the works. It was titled All Things Possible. And his intention was to beat me to market. But I was ahead. Back came word that if I would let his book appear first, he would grant me all the interview time I wanted. So I agreed. But the governor pulled a fast one. I never did get that interview; his book came out in October 2014, a full five months ahead of mine. And there was, after all, no longer anything he needed from me. It was a quintessential Cuomo move: underhanded, stealthy, self-serving, and hard-ass.”

Filed Under: Political Books

Kushner Plans to Write Book

March 10, 2021 at 3:51 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Jared Kushner plans to write a book about his White House experiences, including his role in negotiating normalization deals between Israel and Arab states,” Reuters reports.

Filed Under: Political Books

Publisher Stops Promoting Cuomo’s Book

March 9, 2021 at 8:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The publisher of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s book on his leadership during the pandemic said it had stopped promoting the title because of an inquiry into the withholding of data on the deaths of nursing home residents,” the New York Times reports.

Filed Under: Political Books, Scandal

Quote of the Day

March 2, 2021 at 2:56 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“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.

Filed Under: Political Books

Inside Team Biden’s Push Back on Trump Jokes

February 26, 2021 at 11:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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
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)
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Filed Under: Political Books

Boehner Goes Off Script

February 25, 2021 at 10:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“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
On the House: A Washington Memoir
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Boehner, John (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 274 Pages - 04/13/2021 (Publication Date) - St. Martin's Press (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

The Political Memoir is Year’s Hottest Book Genre

February 25, 2021 at 6:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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.”

Filed Under: Political Books

Battle for the Soul

February 25, 2021 at 6:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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
Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Dovere, Edward-Isaac (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 05/25/2021 (Publication Date) - Viking (Publisher)
Buy on Amazon

Filed Under: Political Books

How Biden Barely Won the Presidency

February 24, 2021 at 7:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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
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)
Buy on Amazon

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign, Political Books

Cruz Buying His Own Books Through Mystery Company?

February 24, 2021 at 6:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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.'”

Filed Under: Political Books

Hillary Clinton to Publish Political Thriller

February 23, 2021 at 8:39 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Political Books

Tuesday Night Massacre

February 21, 2021 at 9:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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
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)
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Filed Under: Political Books

The Ten Year War

February 21, 2021 at 1:03 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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
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)
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Filed Under: Health Care, Political Books

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