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.
Just published: Don’t Tell the President: The Best, Worst, and Mostly Untold Stories from Presidential Advance.
A collection of the greatest tales of triumph and near-crisis in presidential advance.
Just published: End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America by Chris Jennings.
How a historic standoff enabled the conspiracy-laden politics of the Trump era.
Just published: Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Pinsker.
“We know Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, equally central to his character and leadership: Lincoln was a master of party politics.”
Coming soon: Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today’s Supreme Court by Sarah Isgur.
“A myth-busting glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court, revealing what we get wrong about the Roberts Court, what the justices’ clerks gossip about, and how to fix a court in crisis.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s new book, Where We Keep the Light, will debut at No. 3 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list Sunday, Politico reports.
“Gavin Newsom is heading south to hawk his new memoir,” Politico reports.
“The California governor will launch his Young Man in a Hurry book tour in Nashville later this month, just before its Feb. 24 release. He’ll then have events in Atlanta and Rock Hill, South Carolina before stopping in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.”
“Mike Lindell’s memoir, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, has enjoyed a new surge of sales since he announced a run for governor late last year,” the Minnesota Reformer reports.
“Who’s buying the book, which details his addictions and his rise to fame?”
“His campaign for Minnesota governor.”
Out today: Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family – and the World by Gabriel Sherman.
Sherman spoke to the Washington Post: “A member of the family told me that ‘Succession’ was good but that the family was even weirder. And that stuck in my head when I was doing the book: that the real-life story was even more unexpected than the TV show.”
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced a coast-to-coast book tour to promote Stand, a 270-page expansion of his famous 25-hour speech on the Senate floor.
“How Bernie Sanders built a device to give himself ‘cosmos-shattering orgasms.’”
— The Daily Mail, reviewing a new book, Bernie for Burlington.
“This is not the book that Gavin Newsom says he set out to write. In fact, it’s not even the book he initially wrote,” the New York Times reports.
“That book had been more about his governorship, California and his state’s relationship to the country. It would have fit neatly in the well-worn genre of tomes by politicians with presidential ambitions. But his editor had another idea after he shared an early draft.”
“The result, Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, includes little on current events or politics. It lands somewhere between a personal investigation, a meditation and a re-litigation of his own past.”
Out this summer: This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler.
How the hell do we get out of this mess?
“A dozen sitting U.S. senators published books last year, including big names such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY),” the Washington Post reports.
“But a book by Sen. John Neely Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican who is a regular on Fox News but hardly a household name, outsold all the rest of them last year — combined — according to data from NPD BookScan.”
Out today: Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind by Jason Zengerle.
“After watching Carlson turn away from measured reporting, while simultaneously gaining unparalleled power in Donald Trump’s Republican Party, most are left asking, What the hell happened to Tucker?”
Out next week: Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family –– and the World by Gabriel Sherman.
Tina Brown: “To lumber through the financial minutiae of seven decades of dominance and predation by the world’s most rampant media mastodon is a task better left to biographers who can bear it. The great benefit of Gabriel Sherman’s new book, Bonfire of the Murdochs, is its brevity, 256 pages. It allows him to lay bare patterns of ruthlessness repeated over and over again.”
Just published: Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ’80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation by Elliot Williams.
“Crime was at an all-time high. So was racial tension. Was Goetz, who was white, a hero who finally fought back? Or a bigot whose itchy trigger finger seriously wounded three unarmed black kids and condemned a fourth to irreversible brain damage?”
In his new memoir, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) suggests that when Kamala Harris’ team vetted him to be her running mate, aides asked if he had ever been an agent of the Israeli government, a question he found deeply offensive, the New York Times reports.
The Atlantic: “The account highlights some of the fault lines that Democrats are navigating as they try to put the 2024 campaign behind them and chart a path back to the White House. With his book, Shapiro aims to showcase why Democrats lost and how his brand of consensus-building politics can usher them back to power. But before the consensus building, it seems, Shapiro felt compelled to do some score settling.”
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.
