Welcome, fellow readers and political enthusiasts! This new webpage is your one-stop shop for engaging with insightful political reads, curated by Linnea and other members of our book club. Here, you’ll find recommendations for thought-provoking books that delve into the intricacies of the political landscape, both current and historical.
Fascism: A warning
by Madeleine Albright
#1 New York Times Bestseller
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of the most admired public servants in American history, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state.
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
by Madeleine Albright
From the seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright—among history’s most admired and tireless public servants—a revealing, funny, and inspiring reflection on the challenge of continuing one’s career far beyond the normal age of retirement
TOO MUCH and NEVER ENOUGH:
How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
by Mary Trump
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric
The Reckoning::
Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
by Mary Trump
The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller
America is suffering from PTSD-The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps us begin the healing process.
For four years, Donald J. Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas upon the American people, targeting anyone he perceived as being an “other” or an enemy. Women were discounted and derided, the sick were dismissed as weak and unworthy of help, immigrants and minorities were demonized and discriminated against, and money was elevated above all else. In short, he transformed our country into a macro version of his malignantly dysfunctional family.
Where Law Ends::
Inside the Mueller Investigation
by Andrew Weissmann
New York Times Best Seller
In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one of the special counsel’s most trusted prosecutors breaks his silence on the team’s history-making search for the truth, their painstaking deliberations and costly mistakes, and Trump’s unprecedented efforts to stifle their report.
Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life:
by Nicholas D. Kristof
From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism.
Since 1984, Nicholas Kristof has worked almost continuously for The New York Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and now columnist, becoming one of the foremost reporters of his generation. Here, he recounts his event-filled path from a small-town farm in Oregon to every corner of the world.
The Plot Against America:
by Philip Roth
In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history.
In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America – and with it his mother, his father, and his older brother.
Also:
♥ Any book by a President and/or First Lady
♥ For mystery lovers: Margaret Truman’s mysteries