Just published: A Call at 4 AM: Thirteen Prime Ministers and the Crucial Decisions that Shaped Israeli Politics by Amit Segal.
The full and untold story of Israeli politics penned by one of Israel’s most distinguished political journalists.
A Book Tour Most Authors Would Not Dream Of
“White House press secretaries are supposed to know how to talk to the press. But that has not been evident this week for Karine Jean-Pierre, whose publicity tour for Independent, her book about her time behind the briefing room lectern of the Biden White House, has gone viral, and not in a good way,” the New York Times reports.
“It is possible, of course, that the adage that all publicity is good publicity will prove true and result in spectacular sales for her book, subtitled ‘A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.’”
“But so far Ms. Jean-Pierre, who as Mr. Biden’s press secretary relied heavily on talking points although without the insults from the podium common today, has come across in interviews as erratic and defensive rather than as a forceful champion for her old boss.”
American Canto
Coming in December: American Canto by Olivia Nuzzi.
“A mesmerizing firsthand account of the warping of American reality over the past decade as Donald Trump has risen to dominance—from a participatory witness who got so far inside the distortion field that it swallowed her whole.”
The Great Contradiction
Out this week: The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding by Joseph J. Ellis.
A look at how America’s founders—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams—regarded the issue of slavery as they drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Giving Up Is Unforgivable
Just published: Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy by Joyce Vance.
A political manifesto for our present moment.
Memoir Omitted Name of Prime Minister Who Raped Girl
Virginia Giuffre’s memoir omitted name of a “well known” former prime minister who raped her because “she feared he’d kill her,” the Daily Mail reports.
Said ghostwriter Amy Wallace: “Well, people who read the book will see that the man was a sadist, not just a rapist.”
How to Test Negative for Stupid
Just published: How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA).
A senator’s tongue-in-cheek guidebook through Washington, punctuated by humorous stories about life from Louisiana politics and inside the Senate.
Autocrats vs. Democrats
Just published: Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder by Michael McFaul.
“The alliance between the autocracies of China and Russia, China’s economic might, the rise of the far right in the United States and Europe, and the disturbing isolationist foreign policy shifts of the Trump administration—taken together represent new challenges for the democratic world. They are threats with no precedent in the past century.”
The Atlantic runs an excerpt: “By rejecting the lessons of the previous century, the president has undermined America’s advantage over China and Russia.”
Poisoned Ivies
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has a new book out next year that is billed as “a damning exposé” of Ivy League universities.
Inside Paul Manafort’s Comeback
Politico excerpts Ken Vogel’s new book, Devils’ Advocates.
“Manafort made his name by helping launder the reputations of blood-stained foreign figures whom he sold to Ronald Reagan’s Washington as Cold War allies. But it’s a new era in Washington, and the pitch has changed. Instead of winning over an American administration by casting his clients as anti-communist stalwarts, he’s positioning them as comrades in Trump’s war against globalist, deep-state elites.”
What Everyone Is Talking About
Playbook: “The afterlife of the White House press secretary is normally a charmed one, with all those high-pressure televised briefings giving way to something more comfortable and — dare I say — even better-paid…”
“But it doesn’t always go that way. And things are certainly looking a little shaky this morning for Karine Jean-Pierre… As you cannot have failed to notice if you’ve opened any form of social (or even legacy) media this week, KJP currently has a book to sell. And — how to put this delicately? — the book tour is not going terribly well.”
“In retrospect, this no-regrets interview with the Never Trumpers at The Bulwark at the start of last week should have been a red flag. Conservative circles shared her defense of Biden’s media performances with glee. Then another ‘no regrets’ interview, with MSNBC, went equally viral on the left — and not in a good way. Jean-Pierre’s answers to the most critical questions the Democratic Party has faced in decades seemed… incoherent, at best. This book review, by Washington Post’s Becca Rothfeld, was one of the most excoriating things your Playbook author has read in a long time.”
“And now we have KJP’s ‘Chotiner moment,’ the inevitably catastrophic New Yorker Q&A in which participants are routinely hoisted by their own petard.”
How Jack Smith’s Case Against Trump Collapsed
The Washington Post runs an excerpt from Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department by Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis.
“This behind-the-scenes account reveals new details about the inner workings of Smith’s highly secretive team as he pushed it to complete a historic investigation in record time, including the venue choice that led to the unraveling of the most clear-cut criminal charges that Trump faced.”
“It lays bare previously unreported dissension on the Smith team over how to manage the classified documents investigation. And it recounts for the first time Smith’s effort to remove Cannon from the case, an idea that a top Justice Department official rejected and that Smith never presented to Attorney General Merrick Garland.”
‘You’ll Go Down as a Wimp’
Trump’s Cabinet Officials Sought to Sabotage Each Other
“To sabotage a fellow Cabinet secretary, Howard Lutnick dug up a decade-old comment critical of Donald Trump made by Sean Duffy to sink his chances of being named secretary of transportation, according to a new book about the 2024 election,” ABC News reports.
“The attempt ultimately failed, but the incident was one of many instances of sabotage and infighting between potential Cabinet officials that came to define Trump’s presidential transition…”
“The book details the frenzied process when billionaires, politicians and television stars flocked to Trump’s Florida club and residence, Mar-a-Lago, to rub shoulders with future leaders of government and increase their chances of being tapped by Trump.”
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Coming next month: The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, this line lays the foundation for the American Dream and defines the common ground we share as a nation.
A Dream Deferred
CNN excerpts Abby Phillip’s new book, A Dream Deferred.
“Focusing on his presidential runs in 1984 and, especially, 1988, Phillip highlights how Jackson built an unlikely coalition that showed how Black political power could be consolidated.”
Top Biden Aide Rips Jake Tapper’s Book
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote in her new book that she saw “no such decline” while working for octogenarian President Joe Biden, trashing Jake Tapper book Original Sin, the Daily Mail reports.
But she also admits she never read Tapper’s book and doesn’t intend to.
Flashback Quote of the Day
“For as in absolute governments the King is Law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”
— Thomas Paine, writing in Common Sense in 1776.
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