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

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• Dovere, Edward-Isaac (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 05/25/2021 (Publication Date) - Viking (Publisher)

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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

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• Brownstein, Ronald (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 442 Pages - 03/23/2021 (Publication Date) - Harper (Publisher)

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“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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

“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.

“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.

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

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• Allen, Jonathan (Author)
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• 480 Pages - 03/02/2021 (Publication Date) - Crown (Publisher)

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“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

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• Boehner, John (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 274 Pages - 04/13/2021 (Publication Date) - St. Martin's Press (Publisher)

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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.”

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)
• 05/25/2021 (Publication Date) - Viking (Publisher)

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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 will pen an a political thriller novel with her longtime friend, author Louise Penny, Axios reports.

State of Terror will be out in October.

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

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• Johnson, Marc C. (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 243 Pages - 02/25/2021 (Publication Date) - University of Oklahoma Press (Publisher)

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