Just published: RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise by Isabel Vincent.
People Magazine has an excerpt: “Fourteen years after RFK Jr.’s second wife died by suicide, a new biography reveals harrowing details of their bitter split and the secrets found in his diaries.”
Coming soon: Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
“A riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time.”
Vice President JD Vance, who is widely expected to run for president in 2028, announced Tuesday that he’s written a book about his “personal journey” in faith, which will come out in June, CNN reports.
Said Vance: “I’ve been writing this book for a long time, and I’m honored to finally be able to share the full story with you all. Communion is about my personal journey and how I found my way back to faith.”
A must-read: Secrets: A Reporting Memoir by Bob Woodward.
Said Woodward to Axios: “Some of the best sources are deceased, and I can tell those stories now.”
Out this fall: Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt by Spencer Cox.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) offers a practical guide to depolarization that teaches us how to disagree better at the dinner table, on social media, and in American politics.
Richard Haass: “It has been over forty years since the historian Barbara Tuchman wrote The March of Folly. The book examines wars that ought not to have been fought as they went against the self-interest of the empire or country that undertook them even when preferable alternatives were available. Tuchman’s thinking aligns with my own, with what I termed ‘wars of choice’ in an op-ed published in 2003, months into the Iraq War, and in my subsequent book, Wars of Necessity, Wars of Choice.”
“The subtitle of Tuchman’s book is From Troy to Vietnam. An updated edition might well read, From Troy to Iran or, better yet, From Troy to Iraq to Iran.”
Coming Soon: RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise by Isabel Vincent.
The book chronicles his tumultuous journey from the heir of a political dynasty to his current role as a prominent cabinet member of the Trump administration.
Former first lady Jill Biden announced that she will release a memoir of her White House years: View from the East Wing.
Coming this fall: How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time by Sarah Longwell.
The playbook for consigning MAGA-style politics to the ash heap of history.
Just published: Counties First: Restoring the Representative Government Guaranteed to Every State by Matt Hawkins.
“This book proposes a constitutionally rooted solution: a Convention of Counties—a grassroots-driven assembly where delegates from counties within a state convene to restore county voices in their state senate, modeling the U.S. Senate.”
“By redrawing state senate districts along county lines or clusters, will ensure that counties have a similar voice in state policy, just the same as states have a voice in national policy, through equal representation in the U.S. Senate.”
Just published: Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times by Cass R. Sunstein.
Why the separation of powers is essential to liberty and democracy.
This looks good: The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland.
For over a decade, Leon Trotsky’s greatest enemy, Joseph Stalin, had been trying to arrange his murder.
Just published: To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right by Christopher Mathias.
An investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States.
Oscar-winner Tom Hanks is set to portray President Abraham Lincoln in the upcoming film adaptation of Lincoln in the Bardo, Variety reports.
“Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear plans to publish his first book this fall, joining a slew of potential Democratic presidential candidates releasing memoirs that could set up future national campaigns,” the Washington Post reports.
“The book, set to publish Sept. 22, will focus on Beshear’s Christian faith — a topic he often brings up amid Democrats’ debates about how to broaden their appeal and take back power.”
“A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel 1984, ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia,” CNN reports.
Wrote U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe: “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not.”
Washington Post: The Trump administration removed a slavery exhibit. A judge ordered it restored.
New York Times: “The premise of Murder Bimbo, Rebecca Novack’s deviously intelligent new novel, is bracingly straightforward.”
Says the narrator: “I’m a 32-year-old sex worker who just killed a politician on what I thought were the orders of the American government.”
Out next month: Trump’s Ten Commandments: Strategic Lessons from the Trump Leadership Toolbox by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.
A Yale professor reveals the ten guiding principles—or “commandments”—that define Donald Trump’s decision-making across business, media, and politics.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
