South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) claims in her new book that she once met with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un when she served in Congress, but the Dakota
https://politicalwire.com/2024/05/03/kristi-noem-made-up-story-about-meeting-kim-jong-un/
John Hendrickson: “In the book, the governor recalls the day she realized that her puppy, Cricket, had crossed the line from poorly behaved menace to, well, a problem that needed
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/29/did-kristi-noem-just-doom-her-career/
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) “has privately met with publishers and literary agents about writing a book,” Semafor reports. “Still, one publishing insider said that a deal has not y...
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/29/kevin-mccarthy-hasnt-landed-a-book-deal/
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) defended killing a 14-month old puppy, which she wrote about in her forthcoming book: “We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/26/kristi-noem-defends-killing-her-dog/
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) admitted to killing her dog in her new book, The Guardian reports. “She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/26/kristi-noem-says-she-killed-her-dog/
Just published: New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West by David Sanger. “The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volati...
Michael Grunwald pays tribute to the late Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) and the book he wrote in 1978. “Workdays is my favorite book by a politician, partly because Graham was
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/20/the-greatest-book-a-politician-ever-wrote/
Just published: A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People by Kevin J. McMahon. “A data-rich examination of the US Supreme Court’s unprecedente...
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/18/a-supreme-court-unlike-any-other/
Out this summer: The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi. “The most powerful woman in American political history tells the
“During the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was writing a memoir about his life and work as a pro-democracy
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/11/navalny-wrote-a-memoir-before-he-died/
Just published: Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy by Isaac Arnsdorf. Said Steve Bannon, in a Vanity Fair excerpt: “Trump’s our instrument. I think
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/08/finish-what-we-started/
Former President Bill Clinton will be out Nov. 19 — two weeks after the election — with a new memoir, Citizen, about his personal and political life after Jan. 20,
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/04/clinton-to-release-new-memoir/
“Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court,
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/02/anthony-kennedy-to-reflect-on-supreme-court-years/
“House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is in discussions with at least one publisher about a book deal at the same time that he is leading the Biden impeachment
https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/30/comer-discusses-book-deal-on-biden-probe/
Out next month: The Age of Grievance by Frank Bruni. “The twists and turns of American politics are unpredictable, but the tone is a troubling given. It’s one of grievance.
Coming soon: The Kremlin’s Noose: Putin’s Bitter Feud with the Oligarch Who Made Him Ruler of Russia by Amy Knight. “The riveting story of Vladimir Putin and the oligarch Boris
In another sign of the soft Biden book market, Simon and Schuster has withdrawn its contract with Axios’ Alex Thompson for a book about the Biden administration, Politico reports.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/27/publisher-cancels-book-on-biden/
Coming soon: The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy by Federico Finchelstein. “Meet today’s almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept t...
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) gave his colleagues a parting gift just before announcing he would leave office early, Politico reports.
Just published: Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism by John Kenneth White. “It didn’t begin with Donald Trump. The unraveling of the Gra...
https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/20/grand-old-unraveling-2/