Carmen Maria Machado, In The Dream House Politics and Prose 2019-12-12 | Carmen Maria Machado reads from and discusses her memoir, "In The Dream House", at Politics and Prose.Machado’s electrifying Her Body and Other Parties—a finalist for the National Book Award—expanded our sense of what a short story could be and do. Her powerful new book draws on a similarly wide range of tones, cultural references, and formal innovations to redefine the memoir. Organizing each chapter around different themes—a haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—Machado explores an abusive lesbian relationship from multiple angles. As she chronicles her attraction to a charismatic and volatile woman, Machado looks back at the role of religion in her adolescence, interrogates the assumption that lesbian relationships are safe, and explores the history and reality of abuse within the queer community. Machado is in conversation with Jeannie Vanasco, author of Things We Didn’t Talk about When I Was a Girl. politics-prose.com/book/9781644450031Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife.Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the web at http://www.politics-prose.comProduced by Tom Warren
Paola Ramos — Defectors - Symone Sanders and Natalie Montelongo Politics and Prose 2024-10-19 | Watch author Paola Ramos' book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780593701362Democrats have historically assumed they can rely on the Latino vote, but recent elections have called that loyalty into question. In fact, despite his vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric and disastrous border policies, Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote in 2020 than he did in 2016. Now, journalist Paola Ramos pulls back the curtain on these voters, traveling around the country to uncover what motivates them to vote for and support issues that seem so at odds with their self-interest.From coast to coast, cities to rural towns, Defectors introduces readers to underdog GOP candidates, January 6th insurrectionists, Evangelical pastors and culture war crusaders, aiming to identify the influences at the heart of this rightward shift. Through their stories, Ramos shows how tribalism, traditionalism, and political trauma within the Latino community has been weaponized to radicalize and convert voters who, like many of their white counterparts, are fearful of losing their place in American society.We meet Monica de la Cruz, a Republican congresswoman from the Rio Grande Valley who won on a platform centered on finishing "what Donald Trump started" and pushing the Great Replacement Theory; David Ortiz, a Mexican man who refers to himself as a Spaniard and opposed the removal of a statue of a Spanish conquistador in New Mexico; Luis Cabrera, an evangelical pastor pushing to "Make America Godly Again;" Anthony Aguero, an independent journalist turned border vigilante; and countless other individuals and communities that make up the rising conservative Latino population. Cross-cultural and assiduously reported, Defectors highlights how one of America's most powerful and misunderstood electorates may come to define the future of American politics.Paola Ramos is an author and Emmy-Award winning journalist. She is a contributor for Telemundo News and MSNBC, where she is the host of "Field Report." Ramos is a former Correspondent for Vice News. Prior to her career in journalism, Ramos was the Deputy Director of Hispanic Media for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, a political appointee during the Obama Administration, and served in President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. She is also a former Hauser Leader in the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, where she received her Master's in Public Policy, and recently joined the board of trustees of her alma mater, Barnard College. She is the author of Finding Latin-X: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity. Ramos was born in Miami to Cuban and Mexican parents, grew up in Madrid, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.Ramos is in conversation with Symone Sanders and Natalie Montelongo.Natalie Montelongo works in political engagement at Pivotal with Melinda Gates. She’s a political strategist with national experience in both electoral campaigns and issue advocacy. In both 2016 and 2020, Naltalie launched national initiatives to harness to power of the Latina vote. Symone Sanders Townsend is an author, seasoned democratic strategist and co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend. Symone rose to prominence in 2016 as the national press secretary for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’s then-presidential campaign. At 31, Symone was appointed as a senior member of the Biden-Harris administration serving as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris. With her White House appointment, Symone became the first Black woman to serve as a spokesperson to a Vice President. .Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Steve Wasserman — Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If Its a Lie - with Marie Arana Politics and Prose 2024-10-19 | Watch author Steve Wasserman's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781597146470"A troublemaker of the good kind since his youth, Wasserman continues to inspire with his vigorous dedication to the life of the mind, exhibited with clarity and grace in this book." --Viet Thanh NguyenBorn on the West Coast, the son of Bronx-born parents, Steve Wasserman is a generalist and public intellectual but is perhaps less well known as a cultural essayist and social critic of the first rank. In thirty splendid essays, originally published in such diverse publications as The New Republic and The Nation, The American Conservative and The Progressive, The Village Voice and The Economist, Wasserman delivers a riveting account of the awakening of an empathetic sensibility and a lively mind. Taken together, they reveal the depth and breadth of his enthusiasms and range over politics, literature, and the tumults of a world in upheaval.These essays include the remarkable tale of a bookstore owner who wouldn't let him buy the books he wanted, to his brave against-the-grain take on the Black Panthers, to his shrewd assessment of the fast-changing world of publishing. Here is, as Joyce Carol Oates notes, "arguably the very best concise history of Cuba and the legendary Fidel Castro; beautifully composed eulogies for two close friends, Susan Sontag and Christopher Hitchens; sharply perceptive commentary on Daniel Ellsberg; a thrillingly candid interview with W. G. Sebald."Steve Wasserman is publisher of Heyday. A 1974 graduate of UC Berkeley, he holds a degree in criminology. His past positions include being deputy editor of the op-ed page and opinion section of the Los Angeles Times; editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review; editorial director of New Republic Books; publisher and editorial director of Hill and Wang at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and of the Noonday Press; editorial director of Times Books at Random House; and editor at large for Yale University Press. A former partner of the literacy agency Kneerim & Williams, he represented many authors, including Christopher Hitchens, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Scheer, and David Thomson. He lives in Berkeley, California.Marie Arana is a prizewinning author, literary critic, and the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress. Among her numerous books are the memoir and National Book Award Finalist for nonfiction American Chica, the highly praised novels Cellophane and Lima Night, her biography Bolívar: American Liberator, and a sweeping history of Latin America Silver, Sword, and Stone. Her most recent book Latinoland, a portrait of the largest and least understood minority in America, was published in 2024. Winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature in 2020, Marie has been an executive at two publishing houses, a judge for the National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes, a Latin America columnist for the New York Times, a media commentator for numerous news outlets, and editor in chief of Book World at the Washington Post. Apart from her service on the board of the Amazon Conservation Association, she sits on the boards of PEN/Faulkner, PEN America, the American Writers Museum, and the Board of Governors of Northwestern University. She is president of the Authors Guild Foundation as well as president of the 150-year-old Literary Society of Washington.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Connie Chung — Connie: A Memoir - with Maury Povich Politics and Prose 2024-10-18 | Watch author Connie Chung's book talk and reading at Sixth & I in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781538766989Footage courtesy of Sixth & I.A trailblazing journalist for NBC, CBS, and ABC, Connie Chung shattered glass ceilings, paving the way for many women and Asians alike. In 1969, at the age of 23, the once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her hometown of DC and soon thereafter began working at CBS News as a correspondent. Chung was tenacious in her pursuit of stories – battling rival reporters to get scoops that ranged from interviewing Magic Johnson to covering the Watergate scandal – and quickly became a household name. She made history when she became the first woman to co-anchor “CBS Evening News” and the first Asian to anchor any news program in the country. An entire generation of Asian women have been named after her. In Connie: A Memoir, Chung pulls no punches as she shares a behind-the-scenes tour of her life and career, from showdowns with powerful men in and out of the newsroom where overt sexism was a way of life to the stories behind some of her career-defining reporting. Chung is in conversation with her husband Maury Povich, a former news reporter and anchor who hosted the talk show “Maury” for over thirty years. Povich is a recipient of the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Honor. Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Sayantani Dasgupta — Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)Comfort and Delight Politics and Prose 2024-10-17 | Watch author Sayantani Dasgupta's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781469681771As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends, and reading everything: English adventures, Russian folktales, Hindi comics, Bengali ghost stories.Brown Women Have Everything embraces the same spirit of wonder as we follow Dasgupta, now living and teaching in the United States, to cathedrals in Italy, pirate graveyards in North Carolina, hair salons in Idaho, her aunt's kitchen in Bangladesh, graffiti-lined streets of Colombia, the hierarchical world of academia, and her marriage to a handsome Sikh. As she moves through the world, she examines issues of the body, violence, travel, and belonging with a mix of humor, joy, pride, and outrage. While the eighteen interwoven essays in this collection call out bigotry, bias, and othering, they ultimately celebrate the ties that bind our disparate, global lives together.Sayantani Dasgupta is associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Musa Al-Gharbi — We Have Never Been Woke - with Shadi Hamid Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Musa Al-Gharbi's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780691232607Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new elite—the symbolic capitalists. In education, media, nonprofits, and beyond, members of this elite work primarily with words, ideas, images, and data, and are very likely to identify as allies of antiracist, feminist, LGBTQ, and other progressive causes. Their dominant ideology is “wokeness” and, while their commitment to equality is sincere, they actively benefit from and perpetuate the inequalities they decry. Indeed, their egalitarian credentials help them gain more power and status, often at the expense of the marginalized and disadvantaged.We Have Never Been Woke details how the language of social justice is increasingly used to justify this elite—and to portray the losers in the knowledge economy as deserving their lot because they think or say the “wrong” things about race, gender, and sexuality. Al-Gharbi’s point is not to accuse symbolic capitalists of hypocrisy or cynicism. Rather, he examines how their genuine beliefs prevent them from recognizing how they contribute to social problems—or how their actions regularly provoke backlash against the social justice causes they champion.A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. He is a columnist for The Guardian and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications.al-gharbi is in conversation with Shadi Hamid. Hamid is a columnist and former editorial board member at The Washington Post and a research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Hamid is the author of several books, including most recently The Problem of Democracy. His previous book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs. His forthcoming book On Power will be published in 2025 by Simon & Schuster. In 2019, Hamid was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. He is also the co-founder of Wisdom of Crowds, a podcast, newsletter, and debate platform. Hamid received his B.S. and M.A. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and his Ph.D. in political science from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Tiffany Yu — The Anti-Ableist Manifesto Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Tiffany Yu's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780306833663As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD, and sustaining a permanent arm injury at age nine, Tiffany Yu is well aware of the intersections of identity that affect us all. She navigated the male-dominated world of corporate finance as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before founding Diversability, an award-winning community business run by disabled people building disability pride, power, and leadership, and creating the viral Anti-Ableism series on TikTok.Organized from personal to professional, domestic to political, Me to We to Us, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto frames context for conversations, breaks down the language of ableism, identifies microaggressions, and offers actions that lead to authentic allyship.- How do we remove ableist language from our daily vocabulary?- How do we create inclusive events?- What are the advantages of hiring disabled employees, and what market opportunities are we missing out on when we don't consider disabled consumers?With contributions from disability advocates, activists, authors, entrepreneurs, scholars, educators, and executives, Yu celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to foster the proximity, intimacy, and humanity of disability identities that have far too often been "othered" and rendered invisible.Tiffany Yu is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur, disability advocate, and content creator. She is the founder and CEO of Diversability, a social enterprise to elevate disability pride and build disability power. Having started her career at Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, and REVOLT, Yu is now an in-demand corporate speaker, creating an approachable bridge in corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion spaces. Yu is the cofounder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, serves on the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Working Group, and was a Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit. Her TED Talk, How to Help Employees with Disabilities Thrive, has over one million views. Her work and story have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Insider, Marie Claire, Forbes, USA Today, The Guardian and more. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Connect with her across social media at @imtiffanyyu.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Piotr Smolar — Bad Jew: A Familys Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahus Israel Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Piotr Smolar's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781635424249What is a Jew? There are as many answers as there are Jewish people.Written four years ago, and now available in English with a new introduction, Bad Jew speaks intelligently to our current crises. A striking portrait of the identity fever that has overtaken the Israeli right, and a moving family saga, it follows three generations, three Jewish men, each involved in public life in his own personal way: Piotr Smolar's grandfather, a passionate Polish communist, who led the resistance in the Minsk ghetto during World War II; Smolar's father, who opposed the communist regime in Poland in 1968 and had to flee the country; and Smolar himself, confronted with the question of Jewish identity after becoming Le Monde's correspondent in Jerusalem.Deftly interweaving their stories of activism and migration, Smolar explores how tribalism harms democracy and asks difficult questions: when does loyalty turn into betrayal? What place is left for basic values and empathy? This important book has never been timelier.Piotr Smolar is a French journalist of Polish origin. He is the senior correspondent for Le Monde in Washington, DC. After working in Moscow from 1997 to 2001, he published a book in French on Russia's heartland, Gloubinka. He extensively covered Russia's neighboring countries, before becoming Le Monde's correspondent in Jerusalem (2014-2019). Bad Jew is his first book to appear in English.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Serene Khader — Faux Feminism- with Anushay Hossain Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Serene Khader's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780807008270After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In Faux Feminism, political philosopher Serene Khader advocates for another feminism--one that doesn't overwhelmingly serve white, affluent #girlbosses. With empathy, passion, and wit, Khader invites the reader to join her as she excavates the movement's history and draws a blueprint for a more inclusive and resilient future.A feminist myth buster, Khader begins by deconstructing "faux feminisms." Thought to be the pillars of good feminism, they may appeal to many but, in truth, leave most women behind. Khader identifies these traps that white feminism lays for us all, asking readers to think critically about- The Freedom Myth: The overarching misconception that feminism is about personal freedom rather than collective equality- The Individualism Myth: The pervasive idea that feminism aims to free individual women from social expectations- The Culture Myth: The harmful misconception that "other" cultures restrict women's liberation- The Restriction Myth: The flawed belief that feminism is a fight against social restrictions- The Judgment Myth: The fallacy of celebrating women's choices without first interrogating the privileges afforded or denied to the womenIn later chapters, Khader draws on global and intersectional feminist lessons of the past and present to imagine feminism's future. She pays particular attention to women of color, especially those in the Global South. Khader recounts their cultural and political stories of building a more inclusive framework in their societies. These are the women, she argues, from whom today's feminists can learn.Khader's critical inquiry begets a new vision of feminism: one that tackles inequality at the societal, not individual, level and is ultimately rooted in community.Serene J. Khader is an American moral and political philosopher and feminist theorist. She is Professor and Jay Newman Chair in the Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic and Adaptive Preferences and Women’s Empowerment, and Faux Feminism, publishing on October 29, 2024 (Beacon Press). Serene studies the moral values that underlie feminist activism, especially in cross-cultural contexts. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, ABC News, along with journals like Philosophical Studies, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and many more. Khader is in conversation with Anushay Hossain. Hossain is a Washington, DC-based author and podcast host, renowned for her advocacy in women's health and her bestselling book, The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women. Through her podcast, The Pain Gap, Anushay highlights the systemic challenges that women, especially women of color, face within the U.S. healthcare system. Her advocacy is fueled by personal experiences, including a life-threatening childbirth that exposed the deep-seated sexism and racism in healthcare. Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Peggy Noonan — A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Peggy Noonan's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780593854778From Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America.For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been thinking aloud about America in her beloved Wall Street Journal column, and this new collection of her essential recent work demonstrates the erudition, wisdom and wit that have made her one of America’s most admired writers.She calls balls and strikes on current politicians and honors great figures such as Bob Dylan, Billy Graham, Tom Wolfe, and the heroes of 9/11. A thinker who never allows her tenderness to slip into sentimentality, she writes with clear-eyed urgency about the internal and external dangers facing our republic. She sometimes writes with indignation, but above all she writes with love—and an enduring faith that America can be its best self, that its ideals are worth protecting.Since her time as Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, and her subsequent first book for Random House, the political and literary classic What I Saw at the Revolution, her column has cemented her position as a moral compass for Americans who value character, love of country, and civility.This book is a celebration of what America has been, is, and can be.Peggy Noonan is a Pulitzer-Prize winning opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. Formerly a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, she is the author of ten books on American politics, history and culture.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz — The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781250903167To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim Native identity has exploded--increasing 85 percent in just ten years--the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not. While the federal government recognizes Tribal sovereignty, being a member of a Tribe requires navigating blood quantum laws and rolls that the federal government created with the intention of wiping out Native people altogether. Over two million Native people are tribally enrolled, yet there are Native people who will never be. Native people who, for a variety of reasons ranging from displacement to disconnection, cannot be card-carrying members of their Tribe.In The Indian Card, Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz grapples with these contradictions. Through in-depth interviews, she shares the stories of people caught in the mire of identity-formation, trying to define themselves outside of bureaucratic processes. With archival research, she pieces together the history of blood quantum and tribal rolls and federal government intrusion on Native identity-making. Reckoning with her own identity--the story of her enrollment and the enrollment of her children--she investigates the cultural, racial, and political dynamics of today's Tribal identity policing. With this intimate perspective of the ongoing fight for Native sovereignty, The Indian Card sheds light on what it looks like to find a deeper sense of belonging.Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She spent seven years working in the Obama Administration on issues of homelessness and Native policy. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The Indian Card is her first book.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Richard Price — Lazarus Man - with David Simon Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Richard Price's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780374168155East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. At day's end, six bodies are recovered, but many of the other tenants are missing.In Lazarus Man, Richard Price, one of the greatest chroniclers of life in urban America, creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently impacted by the disaster.Anthony Carter--whose miraculous survival, after being buried for days beneath tons of brick and stone, transforms him into a man with a message and a passionate sense of mission.Felix Pearl--a young transplant to the city, whose photography and film work that day provokes in this previously unformed soul a sharp sense of personal destiny.Royal Davis--owner of a failing Harlem funeral home, whose desperate trolling of the scene for potential "customers" triggers a quest to find another path in life.And Mary Roe--a veteran city detective who, driven in part by her own family's brutal history, becomes obsessed with finding Christopher Diaz, one of the building's missing.Price, the bestselling author of Lush Life and, most recently, The Whites, has created a bravura portrait of a community on the edge of disintegration. Rich with indelible characters and high drama, Lazarus Man is a riveting work of suspense and social vision by one of our major writers.Richard Price is the author of nine previous novels—including Clockers, Freedomland, The Whites, and Lush Life—all of which have won widespread praise for their vividly etched portrayals of urban America. His award-winning writing for television includes The Wire, The Night Of, The Deuce, and The Outsider. His feature film screenplays include Sea of Love, New York Stories, and The Color of Money. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the novelist Lorraine Adams.Price is in conversation with David Simon, a Baltimore-based journalist, author, and television producer. A former crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, he is the creator of the celebrated HBO series The Wire, which depicts the political and socioeconomic fissures in an American city. His other television credits include the NBC drama Homicide and HBO’s The Corner, Generation Kill, Treme, Show Me a Hero, The Deuce, The Plot Against America, and We Own This City. The author of two books of narrative nonfiction, Homicide and The Corner, Simon is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Toni Tipton Martin & Morgan Bolling — When Southern Women Cook - with Pati Jinich Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch authors Toni Tipton Martin & Morgan Bolling's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781954210493Shepherded by Toni Tipton-Martin and Cook's Country Executive Editor and TV personality Morgan Bolling, When Southern Women Cook showcases the hard work, hospitality, and creativity of women who have given soul to Southern cooking from the start. Every page amplifies their contributions, from the enslaved cooks making foundational food at Monticello to Mexican Americans accessing sweet memories with colorful conchas today.70+ voices paint a true picture of the South: Emmy Award-winning producer and author Von Diaz covers Caribbean immigrant foodways through Southern stews; food journalist Kim Severson delves into recipes' power as cultural currency; mixologist and beverage historian Tiffanie Barriere reflects on Juneteenth customs including red drink.300 Recipes--must-knows, little-knowns, and modern inventions: Regional Brunswick Stew, Dollywood Cinnamon Bread, Pickle-Brined Fried Chicken Sandwiches, Grilled Lemongrass Chicken Banh Mi, and Oat Guava Cookies bridge the gap between what Southern cooking is known for and how it continues to evolve.Recipe headnotes contextualize your cooking: Learn Edna Lewis' biscuit wisdom. Read about Waffle House and fry chicken thighs to top light-as-air waffles. Meet Joy Perrine, the "Bad Girl of Bourbon."Covering every region and flavor of the American South, from Texas Barbecue to Gullah Geechee rice dishes, this collection of 300 recipes is a joyous celebration of Southern cuisine and its diverse heroes, past and present.Currently residing in Texas, Julia Child Award recipient, journalist, and Cook's Country Editor-in-Chief Toni Tipton-Martin is the force behind the James Beard and IACP Award-winning book Jubilee as well as The Jemima Code and the newly released Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs & Juice. North Carolina-born Morgan Bolling is Cook's Country Executive Editor and TV personality. She is a Southern cooking and barbecue expert. Together, their knowledge spans the culinary traditions of the South, which they aim to promote and share.Tipton-Martin and Bolling will be in conversation with Pati Jinich. Born and raised in Mexico City, Pati is host of the 3x James Beard Award-winning PBS television series “Pati’s Mexican Table” and the PBS primetime docuseries “La Frontera.” She is resident chef at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., and a cookbook author. A former political analyst she switched policy papers for cooking pots to make exploring and sharing Mexico’s cuisine her life’s work. She has cooked at the White House for President Obama’s Cinco de Mayo celebration. The Council of the Americas named Pati one of the “Top 5 Border Ambassadors” who have performed outstanding work bringing the United States and Mexico closer together in their Americas Quarterly (AQ) magazine. She was also named one of the National Immigration Forum’s “Keepers of the American Dream,” which honors individuals who embody the spirit of immigrant achievement and contribute to the well-being of immigrants in the US. She lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband. They have three sons and a dog named Mila.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Tova Reich — Camp Jeff - with Judith Plotz Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Tova Reich's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781644214213Somewhere in the Catskills there's a camp, it's called Camp Jeff. The place is named for Jeffrey Epstein, not that Jeffrey Epstein, this is the good Jeffrey Epstein, a benefactor who wants his name on the building, though the bad one's not entirely irrelevant to this story. Tova Reich's newest novel, on the heels of her award-winning Mother India is a raucous and biting tale of a reeducation camp for alleged sex offenders. Reich's verbal blade is sharp and she slashes with it, but not without the sensitivity that such incisiveness requires. Camp Jeff is a work in Reich's signature satirical mode, an unhindered indictment of both #MeToo and therapeutic culture, and at the same time is also a deeply considered work of psychological portraiture and an examination of love, faith, and affection in American culture.Tova Reich is the author of the novels Mara, Master of the Return, The Jewish War, My Holocaust, and One Hundred Philistine Foreskins. Her most recent novel, Mother India (2018) was longlisted for the South Asian Literature Prize and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's, Ploughshares, and in her collection The House of Love and Prayer (Seven Stories, 2023). She lives on the fringe of Washington DC.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
William H. Luers — Uncommon Company: Dissidents and Diplomats, Enemies and Artists Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author William H. Luers' book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781957588308In his revelatory memoir Uncommon Company, William Luers shares stories of his incredible career as a US diplomat to European and Latin American nations, where he introduced art and culture to forge common ground and community, improving the lives of citizens in many countries closed to Western ideas. From touring the Soviet Union with playwright Edward Albee in the 1960s to bringing such famous writers and artists as John Updike, Arthur Miller, William Styron, Peter Matthiessen, Francine du Plessix Gray, Richard Diebenkorn, and Frank Stella to Venezuela and Prague during his ambassadorships in Venezuela and Czechoslovakia, Bill Luers' practice of cultural diplomacy became known as his ability to wield "soft power" that strengthened US relationships wherever he served.After more than thirty years with the State Department, Luers brought his art expertise to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as its president, where he secured the Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by such masters as Van Gogh, Picasso, and Cézanne, among many other accomplishments.Uplifting and inspirational, William Luers' Uncommon Company is the true story of a life well lived, celebrating the challenges and triumphs found in the virtues of being a servant leader.William Luers served as a United States ambassador and Foreign Service diplomat for more than three decades with various posts in Europe and South America, before becoming President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and President of the United Nations Association of the USA. A renowned speaker on foreign affairs, diplomacy, the UN, and the arts, Luers was an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Director of The Iran Project. He also served jointly on several corporate and nonprofit boards including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The National Museum of Natural History, and the Rubin Art Museum.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Layla Martínez — Woodworm - with Lily Meyer Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Layla Martínez's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781949641592The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a smalltime hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can't leave. They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws unwanted attention, the two isolated women, already subjects of public scorn, combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in pursuit of something that resembles justice.In this lush translation by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott, Layla Martinez's eerie debut novel is class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun. Described by Mariana Enriquez as "a house of women and shadows, built from poetry and revenge, " this vision of a broken family in our unjust world places power in the hands of the eccentric, the radical, and the desperate.Layla Martínez (Madrid, 1987) is the author of two nonfiction books in Spanish, Surrogate Pregnancy (Pepitas de calabaza, 2019) and Utopia is not an Island (Episkaia, 2020), as well as stories and articles in numerous anthologies. She has translated essays and novels, writes about music for El Salto, and about television for La Última Hora. Since 2014 she has co-directed the independent publisher Antipersona. Woodworm is her first novel.Martínez is in conversation with Lily Meyer. Meyer is a translator, critic, and author of the novel Short War. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her novel The End of Romance is forthcoming from Viking. Lily holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati, and will be Princeton University’s translator-in-residence in Fall 2024. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals, and her essays and criticism appear in outlets including Bookforum, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Seth Rockman — Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery - with Michael Ralph Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Seth Rockman's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780226723457The industrializing North and the agricultural South--that's how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early nineteenth century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss slavery's long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South. Using plantation goods--the shirts, hats, hoes, shovels, shoes, axes, and whips made in the North for use in the South--historian Seth Rockman locates the biggest stories in American history in the everyday objects that stitched together the lives and livelihoods of Americans--white and Black, male and female, enslaved and free--across an expanding nation.By following the stories of material objects, such as shoes made by Massachusetts farm women that found their way to the feet of a Mississippi slave, Rockman reveals a national economy organized by slavery--a slavery that outsourced the production of its supplies to the North, and a North that outsourced its slavery to the South. Melding business and labor history through powerful storytelling, Plantation Goods brings northern industrialists, southern slaveholders, enslaved field hands, and paid factory laborers into the same picture. In one part of the country, entrepreneurs envisioned fortunes to be made from "planter's hoes" and rural women spent their days weaving "negro cloth" and assembling "slave brogans." In another, enslaved people actively consumed textiles and tools imported from the North to contest their bondage. In between, merchants, marketers, storekeepers, and debt collectors lay claim to the profits of a thriving interregional trade.Examining producers and consumers linked in economic and moral relationships across great geographic and political distances, Plantation Goods explores how people in the nineteenth century thought about complicity with slavery while showing how slavery structured life nationwide and established a modern world of entrepreneurship and exploitation. Rockman brings together lines of American history that have for too long been told separately, as slavery and capitalism converge in something as deceptively ordinary as a humble pair of shoes.Seth Rockman is associate professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore and coeditor of Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. Rockman serves on the faculty advisory board of Brown University's Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. He lives in Providence.Rockman is in conversation with Michael Ralph, Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies and Founding Director of the Center for an Equitable Economy and Sustainable Society (E2S2) at Howard University. Michael’s research integrates political science, economics, history, and medical and economic anthropology through an explicit focus on debt, slavery, insurance, forensics, and incarceration. Michael is the author of Before 13th, which revises the scholarly consensus about convict leasing, demonstrating that it did not begin with the 13th amendment but several decades prior.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Richard Powers — Playground - with John Williams — Playground - with John Williams Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Richard Powers' book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781324086031Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.Set in the world's largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.Powers is in conversation with John Williams. Williams oversees books coverage for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post in 2022, he spent 11 years on the books desk of the New York Times, where he edited the paper’s staff book critics and frequently wrote literary reviews and features. Before that, Williams spent six years in the editorial department of HarperCollins Publishers and then worked as a freelance writer and editor. He founded the literary website the Second Pass, which featured reviews of new books alongside essays about older and more obscure ones.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Dr. Curtis Boyd, MD, Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN — We Choose To - with Melissa Fowler Politics and Prose 2024-10-16 | Watch author Dr. Curtis Boyd, MD, Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN 's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781633310872Although the Dallas Fire Department had saved the clinic, we were shaken and heartsick that our son had just spent Christmas Day at a crime scene.I had performed my first abortion in the year Kyle was born, and though he had long supported our work, he now felt worried for us in ways he'd never expressed. As we stood near the ruins, breathing fresh air in gulps, he said, "Do you have to keep doing this work?"We were both silent for long moments before I simply said, "No. We choose to."In this deeply personal account, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their lives in abortion care, from the childhood experiences that shaped their paths to the Supreme Court decision that forced the closure of their Dallas clinic.Their stories begin in the 1960s, as Curtis opens a clandestine abortion practice while breaking with the beliefs of his Baptist family and Glenna pursues psychology while coming to understand the world of restrictive gender roles. When the two of them meet shortly after abortion is legalized, they bond over a common commitment to women, forming a professional and personal partnership that will weather the coming decades.We Choose To is the story of that partnership, and the staff and patients that have shaped the history of modern abortion. In these pages, Curtis and Glenna share their holistic, morally rooted approach to their work. Led by a desire to empower patients, they advance abortion and mental health care further than ever even as they find themselves at the center of a controversial new issue in American life.Sweeping, introspective, and deeply honest, We Choose To is a rare portrait of abortion providers and the world in which they work, where abortion is not a talking point in a culture war but a private, even spiritual, act.Curtis Boyd, MD, is nationally known for developing abortion procedures and standards of care. He is also recognized for his expertise in pain management and minimizing surgery risk. Furthermore, Dr. Boyd was involved in establishing the National Abortion Federation (NAF) and is a founding member of the Federation’s Board of Directors. NAF serves as a forum for abortion providers and others committed to providing quality abortion services so that they remain accessible to all women.Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN, served on National Abortion Federation’s Board of directors and as NAF’s president for two years (1984-1986). She is an accomplished counselor, trainer, and consultant with a national reputation for her training of professionals in this field. Dr. Halvorson-Boyd has a PhD in Human and Organizational Development. Her previous publications include the book Dancing in Limbo: Making Sense of Life after Cancer.Dr. Curtis Boyd and Dr. Glenna Boyd are in conversation with Melissa Fowler, Chief Program Officer at the National Abortion Federation.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Mary L. Trump — Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir - with Jen Taub Politics and Prose 2024-10-15 | Watch author Mary L. Trump's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781250278470Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family’s exile.Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch’s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump, and Linda Clapp, a flight attendant from a working-class family, Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy’s humiliation at the hands of his father.Fred Trump embodied the ethos of the zero-sum game and among his five children, there could only be one winner. That was supposed to be Freddy, his namesake, but Fred found him wanting—too sensitive, too kind, too interested in pursuits beyond the realm of the real estate empire he was meant to inherit. In Donald, Fred found a kindred spirit, a “killer,” who would stop at nothing to get his own way.Even after Freddy’s short-lived career as a professional pilot for TWA came to an end, he never stopped trying to gain his father’s approval. Finally, at the age of forty-two, he succumbed to Fred’s lethal contempt and died alone in an emergency room, with no family by his side.In Who Could Ever Love You, Mary Trump brings us inside the twisted family whose patriarch ignored, froze out, and eventually destroyed his own. Freddy Trump’s decline into alcoholism and illness, along with Linda’s suffering after their divorce, left Mary dangerously vulnerable as a very young girl.Inadequately and only conditionally loved, there were no adults in her life except for the father she loved, but lost before she could know him; and a mother abandoned by her ex-husband’s rich and powerful family who demanded her loyalty but left her with nothing.With searching insight, poignant detail, and unsparing prose, Mary Trump reveals the cold, selfish cruelty that has come to define the Trump family thanks in large part to her uncle, whose malignant ambition has riven our nation and threatens the world.Mary L. Trump is the author of the international #1 bestseller, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. She holds a Ph.D from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, and has taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology.Mary Trump is in conversation with Jen Taub. Taub is a legal scholar and advocate whose writing focuses on “follow the money” matters— promoting transparency and opposing corruption. She has testified as a banking law expert before Congress and has appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and CNN’s Newsroom. Taub was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law in fall 2019 at Harvard Law School and is now a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law. A former associate general counsel at Fidelity Investments, she is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Edwidge Danticat — Were Alone: Essays - with Glory Edim Politics and Prose 2024-10-14 | Watch author Edwidge Danticat's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781644453025This event is in partnership with The PEN/Faulkner Foundation.Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience.From hurricanes to political violence, from her days as a new student at a Brooklyn elementary school knowing little English to her account of a shooting hoax at a Miami mall, Danticat has an extraordinary ability to move from the personal to the global and back again. Throughout, literature and art prove to be her reliable companions and guides in both tragedies and triumphs.Danticat is an irresistible presence on the page: full of heart, outrage, humor, clear thinking, and moral questioning, while reminding us of the possibilities of community. And so "we're alone" is both a fearsome admission and an intimate invitation--we're alone now, we can talk. We're Alone is a book that asks us to think through some of the world's intractable problems while deepening our understanding of one of the most significant novelists at work today.Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and the novel-in-stories, The Dew Breaker. She is the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures , Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2, and Best American Essays 2011. She has written several books for young adults and children-- Anac aona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, and Untwine--as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance, A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.Danticat is in conversation with Glory Edim. Edim is the Director of Marketing at Politics & Prose and founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club and digital platform that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. She edited the Well-Read Black Girl anthology, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and named a best book of the year by Library Journal. The winner of the Innovator’s Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Edim worked as a creative strategist for over ten years and serves on the board of New York City’s Housing Works Bookstore.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Ernesto Castañeda & Daniel Jenks — Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration Politics and Prose 2024-10-14 | Watch authors Ernesto Castañeda & Daniel Jenks' book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780871544995In the second decade of the twenty-first century, an increasing number of children from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala began arriving without parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. In many cases, the parents had left for the United States years earlier to earn money that they could send back home. In Reunited sociologists Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel Jenks explain the reasons for Central American youths' migration, describe the journey, and document how the young migrants experience separation from and subsequent reunification with their families.In interviews with Central American youth, their sponsors, and social services practitioners in and around Washington, D.C., Castañeda and Jenks find that Central American minors migrate on their own mainly for three reasons: gang violence, lack of educational and economic opportunity, and a longing for family reunification. The authors note that youth who feel comfortable leaving and have feelings of belonging upon arrival integrate quickly and easily while those who experience trauma in their home countries and on their way to the United States face more challenges.Castañeda and Jenks recount these young migrants' journey from Central America to the U.S. border, detailing the youths' difficulties passing through Mexico, proving to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials that they have a legitimate fear of returning or are victims of trafficking, and staying in shelters while their sponsorship, placement, and departure are arranged. The authors also describe the tensions the youth face when they reunite with family members they may view as strangers. Despite their biological, emotional, and financial bonds to these relatives, the youth must learn how to relate to new authority figures and decide whether or how to follow their rules.The experience of migrating can have a lasting effect on the mental health of young migrants, Castañeda and Jenks note. Although the authors find that Central American youths' mental health improves after migrating to the United States, the young migrants remain at risk of further problems. They are likely to have lived through traumatizing experiences that inhibit their integration. Difficulty integrating, in turn, creates new stressors that exacerbate PTSD, depression, and anxiety. Consequently, schools and social service organizations are critical, the authors argue, for enhancing youth migrants' sense of belonging and their integration into their new communities. Bilingual programs, Spanish-speaking PTA groups, message boards, mentoring of immigrant children, and after-school programs for members of reunited families are all integral in supporting immigrant youth as they learn English, finish high school, apply to college, and find jobs.Offering a complex exploration of youth migration and family reunification, Reunited provides a moving account of how young Central American migrants make the journey north and ultimately reintegrate with their families in the United States.Ernesto Castañeda is director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University.Daniel Jenks works in policy research in Washington, D.C., and as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Sociology at American University.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Shastri Akella — The Sea Elephants - with Jeffrey Dale Lofton Politics and Prose 2024-10-13 | Watch author Shastri Akella 's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781250867247Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother's grief, and his father's violent disapproval by enrolling at an all-boys boarding school. But he doesn't find true belonging until he encounters a traveling theater troupe performing the Hindu myths of his childhood.Welcomed by the other storytellers, Shagun thrives, easily embodying mortals and gods, men and women, and living on the road, where his father can't catch him. When Shagun meets Marc, a charming photographer, he seems to have found the love he always longed for, too. But not even Marc can save him from his lingering shame, nor his father's ever-present threat to send him to a conversion center. As Shagun's past begins to engulf him once again, he must decide if he is strong enough to face what he fears most, and to boldly claim his own happiness.Utterly immersive and spellbinding, The Sea Elephants is both dark and beautiful, harrowing and triumphant. An ode to the redemptive joys of art, Shastri Akella's debut novel is a celebration of hard-won love--of others and for ourselves.Shastri Akella's writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Fairy Tale Review, Guernica, LitHub, The Masters Review, Electric Literature, and CRAFT, among others. The Sea Elephants is his debut. He's a professor of creative writing at Michigan State University.Akella is in conversation with Jeffrey Dale Lofton. Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Georgia, best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House. He calls the nation’s capital home now and has for over three decades. He is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress where he is surrounded by books and people who love books—in short, paradise. Red Clay Suzie is his first novel, a fictionalized memoir written through his personal lens as an outsider—gay and living with a disability in a conservative family and community in the Deep South. It was Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize and was awarded the Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Jessica Valenti — Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win Politics and Prose 2024-10-12 | Watch author Jessica Valenti's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780593800232In her most urgent book yet, New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the conservative assault on women's freedom, cutting through the misinformation and overwhelm to inform, engage, and enrage. From the attacks Americans know about to the ones anti-abortion lawmakers and groups are trying to hide, Valenti details the tactics and horrors that she's been painstakingly tracking in her acclaimed newsletter, Abortion, Every Day.Abortion gives voice to women's frustration and outrage in a moment when they're fed up with being talked over and diminished. And in an election year when abortion is dominating the national conversation, Valenti provides the language, facts, and context readers need to feel confident when talking about the attacks on their bodies and freedom.Abortion is a handbook for the overwhelming majority of Americans who support abortion rights, whether they're seasoned activists or those just starting to learn. With the wit, expertise, and blunt moral clarity that's made her writing popular for decades, Valenti offers an essential manifesto in an urgent moment.Award-winning writer and activist Jessica Valenti is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestseller Sex Object: A Memoir. Her groundbreaking anthology, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, paved the way for legislation of the same name, setting what's now considered the gold standard for sexual consent. Jessica has also been credited with sparking feminism's online wave by founding the trailblazing blog Feministing. She's been a columnist for The Guardian and The Nation, and her writing has been published everywhere from The New York Times and The Atlantic to Bitch magazine and The Toast. After the demise of Roe, Jessica founded Abortion, Every Day, an urgent synthesis of anything and everything happening with abortion rights in the United States. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Ben Macintyre — The Siege - with David E. Sanger Politics and Prose 2024-10-11 | Watch author Ben Macintyre's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780593728093True-life espionage master Ben Macintyre takes readers on a thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most daring rescue attempts of our time. As the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian Embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath.Policeman Trevor Lock was supposed to have gone to the theater that night. Instead he found himself overpowered and whisked into the Embassy. The terrorists never noticed the gun hidden in his jacket. The drama that ensued would force him to find reserves of courage he didn't know he had. The gunmen themselves were hardly one-dimensional--all Arabs, some highly educated, they hoped to force Britain to take their side in their independence battle against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Behind the scenes lurked the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who had bankrolled the whole affair as a salvo against Iran.As police negotiators pressed the gunmen, rival protestors clashed violently outside the embassy, and MI6 and the CIA scrambled for intelligence, Britain's special forces strike team, the SAS, laid plans for a dangerous rescue mission. Inside, Lock and his fellow hostages used all the cunning they possessed to outwit and outflank their captors. Finally, on the sixth day, after the terrorists executed the embassy press attaché and dumped his body on the front doorstep, the SAS raid began, sparking a deadly high-stakes climax.A story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure, The Siege takes readers minute-by-thrilling-minute through an event that would echo across the next two decades and provide a direct historical link to the tragedy on 9/11. Drawing on exclusive interviews and a wealth of never-before-seen files, Macintyre brilliantly reconstructs a week in which every day minted a new hero and every second spelled the potential for doom.Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (UK) and the bestselling author of Agent Sonya, The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, Rogue Heroes, and Prisoners of the Castle, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.Macintyre is in conversation with David E. Sanger. Sanger is the White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times and the bestselling author of New Cold Wars, The Inheritance, Confront and Conceal, and The Perfect Weapon. He has been a member of three teams that won the Pulitzer Prize, including in 2017 for international reporting about Russia’s effort to manipulate the presidential election. A contributor to CNN, he also teaches national security policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Sarah Pekkanen — House of Glass - with Alex Finlay Politics and Prose 2024-10-09 | Watch author Sarah Pekkanen's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781250283993On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to uncover who in the family is a victim and who is a murderer. But how can you find out the truth when everyone here is lying?Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the possible murder of her nanny - in the midst of her parent's bitter divorce - and immediately stopped speaking. Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney, appointed to serve as counsel for children in custody cases. She never accepts clients under thirteen due to her own traumatic childhood, but Stella's mentor, a revered judge, believes Stella is the only one who can help.From the moment Stella passes through the iron security gate and steps into the gilded, historic DC home of the Barclays, she realizes the case is even more twisted, and the Barclay family far more troubled, than she feared. And there's something eerie about the house itself: It's a plastic house, with not a single bit of glass to be found.As Stella comes closer to uncovering the secrets the Barclays are desperate to hide, danger wraps around her like a shroud, and her past and present are set on a collision course in ways she never expected. Everyone is a suspect in the nanny's murder. The mother, the father, the grandmother, the nanny's boyfriend. Even Rose. Is the person Stella's supposed to protect the one she may need protection from?Sarah Pekkanen is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 4 co-authored and 10 solo novels. Her books are sold in 36 countries, with several optioned for TV and film. Sarah also co-wrote the screenplay for The Wife Between Us for Amblin Entertainment. She serves on the board of directors of International Thriller Writers, and is the founder of a nonprofit that rescues injured and abused street dogs in India. She lives just outside of Washington, D.C.Pekkanen is in conversation with Alex Finlay, the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including the 2021 breakout Every Last Fear and the 2022 Goodreads Choice Nominee for Best Mystery & Thriller The Night Shift. His work regularly appears on best-of-the-year lists and has been translated into twenty-two languages, and all of his novels have been optioned for film or television. Every Last Fear is in development for a major limited series. Alex lives in Washington, D.C., and Virginia.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Cebo Campbell — Sky Full of Elephants - with Jason Reynolds Politics and Prose 2024-10-09 | Watch author Cebo Campbell's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781668034927One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charles Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he's now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn't even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old who watched her white mother and step-family drown themselves in the lake behind their house.Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across America headed for Alabama, where Sidney believes she may still have some family left. But neither Sidney or Charlie is prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.When they enter the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, Cebo Campbell's astonishing debut novel is about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.Cebo Campbell is an author and creative director based in Brooklyn, New York. Winner of the Linda B. Ross Creative Writing Award and the Stories Award for Poetry, Cebo's work has been featured in numerous publications. Cebo is the cofounder of the award-winning creative agency, Spherical, where he leads a team of creatives in shaping the best hotel brands in the world. Sky Full of Elephants is his debut novel.Campbell is in conversation with Jason Reynolds, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books for children and young adults. He is best known for his novels All American Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely), the Track series, and Long Way Down, which received Newbery, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Honors. Among Jason’s many accolades, he was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2020-2022. He is on faculty at Lesley University, for the Writing for Young People MFA Program and lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Tara Campbell — City of Dancing Gargoyles - with Amber Sparks Politics and Prose 2024-10-07 | Watch author Tara Campbell's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781951631390In the parched, post-apocalyptic Western U.S. of the 22nd Century, wolves float, bonfires sing, and devils gather to pray. Water and safety are elusive in this chaotic world of alchemical transformations, where history books bleed, dragons kiss, and gun-toting trees keep their own kind of peace. Among this menagerie of strange beasts, two sentient stone gargoyles, known only as " E" and " M," flee the rubble of their Southwestern church in search of water. Along the way, they meet climate refugees Dolores Baker and her mother Rose, who've escaped the ravaged West Coast in search of a safer home. This quartet forms an uneasy alliance when they hear of a new hope: a mysterious city of dancing gargoyles. Or is it something more sinister? In this strange, terrible new world, their arrival at this elusive city could spark the destruction of everything they know. Tara Campbell summons fantastical magic in this kaleidoscopic new speculative climate fiction.Tara Campbell is an award-winning writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse, and graduate of American University's MFA in Creative Writing. Her flash and speculative fiction stories have appeared in Masters Review, Wigleaf, Electric Literature, CRAFT Literary, Uncharted Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Escape Pod/Artemis Rising, among others. She's the author of the eco sci-fi novel TreeVolution, two hybrid collections of poetry and prose, and two short story collections from feminist sci-fi publisher Aqueduct Press.Campbell is in conversation with Amber Sparks, the author of an upcoming novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, and four collections of short fiction, including And I Do Not Forgive You: Revenges and other Stories and The Unfinished World, and her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, the Paris Review, Slate, Tin House, Granta, The Cut and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, daughter, and two cats.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.
David Daley — Antidemocratic- with Colby Itkowitz Politics and Prose 2024-10-07 | Watch authors David Daley's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780063321090In 1981, a young lawyer, fresh out of Harvard law school, joined the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, taking up a cause that had been fomenting in Republican circles for over a decade by that point. From his perch inside the Reagan DOJ, this lawyer would attempt to bring down one of the defining pieces of 20th century legislation--the Voting Rights Act. His name was John Roberts.Over thirty years later in 2013, these efforts by John Roberts and the conservative legal establishment culminated when Roberts, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote Shelby County vs. Holder, one of the most consequential decisions of modern jurisprudence. A dramatic move that gutted the Voting Rights Act, Roberts's decision--dangerously premised on the flawed notion that racism was a thing of the past--emboldened right-wing, antidemocratic voting laws around the country immediately. No modern court decision has done more to hand elections to Republicans than Shelby.Now lauded investigative reporter David Daley reveals the urgent story of this fifty-year Republican plot to end the Voting Rights Act and encourage minority rule in their party's favor. From the bowels of Reagan's DOJ to the walls of the conservative Federalist Society to the moneyed Republican resources bankrolling restrictive voting laws today, Daley reveals a hidden history as sweeping as it is troubling. Through careful research and exhaustive reporting, he connects Shelby to a well-funded, highly-coordinated right-wing effort to erode the power of minority voters and Democrats at the ballot box--an effort that has grown stronger with each election cycle. In the process Roberts and his conservative allies have enabled fringe conservative theories about our elections with the potential to shape the 2024 election and topple the foundations of our democracy.Timely and alarming, Daley offers a powerful message that, while Shelby was the misguided end of the Voting Rights Act, it was also the beginning of something far darker.David Daley is the author of the national bestseller Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, which helped spark the drive to reform gerrymandering. He regularly discusses democracy and voting rights on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other outlets. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the Guardian, among other publications. He is the former editor in chief of Salon. He lives in Massachusetts.Daley is in conversation with Colby Itkowitz. Itkowitz has covered Washington policy and politics for most of her career. Since coming to the Washington Post in March 2014, she's covered presidential and congressional campaigns, Congress and health policy, anchored the 'Inspired Life' blog, and wrote about the quirks of the federal government and campaigns for the famed 'In the Loop' column. She was previously The Morning Call’s D.C. correspondent. Prior to that, she covered Capitol Hill with a focus on transportation policy for Congressional Quarterly.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.
Erica N. Cardwell — Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art with Glory Edim Politics and Prose 2024-10-01 | Watch author Erica N. Cardwell's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781558613812At the age of twenty-one, Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City, reeling from the loss of her mother and numb to the world around her. She turns inward instead, reading books and composing poetry, eventually falling into the work of artists such as Blondell Cummings, Lorna Simpson, Lorraine O'Grady, and Kara Walker. Through them, she communes with her mother's spirit and legacy, and finds new ways to interrogate her writing and identity.Wrong Is Not My Name weaves together autobiography, criticism, and theory, and considers how Black women create alternative, queer, and "hysterical" lives through visual culture and performance. In poetic, interdisciplinary essays--combining analytical and lyrical stream-of-consciousness--Cardwell examines archetypes such as the lascivious Jezebel, the caretaking Mammy, and the elusive Sapphire to formulate new and inventive ways to write about art.Pioneering and inquisitive, Wrong Is Not My Name celebrates Black womanhood, and illuminates the ways in which art and storytelling reside at the core of being human.Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, critic, and educator based in Brooklyn and Toronto. Cardwell's teaching and writing consider the consciousness and imaginations of people of color as a tool for social, spiritual, and collective movement. She centers Black feminist theory as her primary critical approach, and often writes about print and paper-making practices, archival media, and interdisciplinary performance. Her writing has appeared in ARTS. BLACK, Artsy, Frieze, BOMB, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, CULTURED, Hyperallergic, C Mag, Art in America, and other publications. Cardwell has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Queer Art Mentorship. She received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and has taught for various institutions, such as Parsons School of Design at The New School, Barnard College, City University of New York, and the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency.Cardwell is in conversation with Glory Edim. Edim is the Director of Marketing at Politics & Prose and founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club and digital platform that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. She edited the Well-Read Black Girl anthology, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and named a best book of the year by Library Journal. The winner of the Innovator’s Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Edim worked as a creative strategist for over ten years and serves on the board of New York City’s Housing Works Bookstore.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Maya Wiley — Remember, You Are a Wiley - with Dorian Warren Politics and Prose 2024-09-30 | Watch author Maya Wiley's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781538739938Born in a country that has repeatedly traumatized her and her loved ones, Maya Wiley grew up in a household that prioritized activism, hope, and resilience above all else. This attitude landed her father on President Nixon's enemies list as her mother organized third-party political platforms. Still, they modeled hope for their children. In the decades since, she has borne witness as presidents and political figures used racism and fascism to gain power, and as cities have again and again elected white men, effectively shutting out people of color and women from having a political voice. As a result, she has been forced, time after time, to confront death, injustice, and indifference--just as her Civil Rights activist parents did before her.After a mayoral race that further exposed our country's deep divisions, Maya is ready to share her story and that of her parents: one of passion, possibility, and compassion in the face of fear and injustice. She takes readers through her unconventional upbringing, her father George Wiley's tragic death and the resulting trauma, as well as how her experiences spoke to racial, gender, and class identity. Against this painful backdrop, Maya charts her journey of coming into herself and finding hope in a dire political landscape. She also digs into how her previous struggles informed her platform, driving her to represent those who have similarly felt voiceless or ignored. In facing and sharing her own past, Maya shows readers how they too can remain optimistic in the face of adversity.Maya Wiley is President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and a former legal analyst on MSNBC. She was previously senior vice president for social justice at the New School. Maya's compassionate approach was (and remains) almost unprecedented in the world of cable news, making her star power shine bright. Likewise, Maya's performance in the mayor's race, her strong social media, her extensive experience on television, and the compelling narrative laid out in her proposal, ensure her book will get tremendous coverage upon publication. She serves as the Joseph L. Rash Jr. Chair of Civil & Human Rights at the University of the District of Columbia School of Law.Wiley is in conversation with Dorian Warren. Warren is co-president of Community Change and Community Change Action, and co-founder of the Economic Security Project. Warren taught for over a decade at the University of Chicago and Columbia University. He's the co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race, co-editor of Race and American Political Development, and has penned numerous academic articles. Dorian previously worked as a guest host and contributor at MSNBC. He sits on several boards, including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Education Fund Board and The Nation Magazine Editorial Board. As a commentator on public affairs, Warren has appeared regularly on television and radio and has also written for The New York Times, Newsweek, and Ebony.com, among others.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein — Interference Politics and Prose 2024-09-30 | Watch authors Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781668063743Interference is the true history of the most important and consequential decisions, obstacles, and quandaries Mueller and his team faced when investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. For the first time, Mueller's only deputy, his most senior counselor who served on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and the lead prosecutor looking into obstruction of justice and Russian interference, have come together to tell a highly relevant and readable account of what it was like to carry out their investigation of election interference, as well as any connections that existed between the Russians and members of the Trump campaign.Interference also highlights the many actions Russia took as it favored candidate Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton offering a powerful reminder of how committed Russia was to determine the outcome of the election. Ultimately, the special counsel brought indictments against thirty-four individuals and entities, including Trump's campaign chairman; his deputy campaign chairman; a campaign advisor; his first national security advisor; and one of Trump's longtime associates; as well as against Russian participants. Nearly every case that was able to proceed resulted in a guilty verdict or plea.Interference explains the motivations and actions of Russia (which has not stopped exploiting America's weaknesses), the importance and the limitations of a special counsel, and the need for people to make principled decisions even when being pushed from all directions not to. Much can be learned from the experiences faced by the Mueller special counsel office as it broke ground on some of the most complicated challenges facing our country--then and now. The narrative carries special relevance today, as the Supreme Court has sharply limited the conduct by a president that can be prosecuted--or even investigated.Aaron Zebley was Robert Mueller's deputy and was by his side for every major decision. Prior to working in the special counsel's office, Zebley served in multiple roles at the US Department of Justice and the FBI, including FBI chief of staff, senior counselor in the Department of Justice's National Security Division, assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and as an FBI team leader and case agent in the 9/11 investigation. Zebley is in private practice in Washington, DC.James Quarles was Mueller's senior counselor. A seasoned trial lawyer who has practiced for more than fifty years, Quarles primarily focuses on representing high-technology companies. Prior to his long career in private practice, Quarles served as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973 to 1975.Andrew Goldstein was one of Mueller's lead prosecutors investigating obstruction of justice and Russian interference. Prior to working in the special counsel's office, Goldstein served as chief of the public corruption unit at the US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted numerous high-profile cases. Goldstein chairs the white-collar defense and investigations practice at Cooley LLP.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.
Jesmyn Ward — Let Us Descend Politics and Prose 2024-09-30 | Watch author Jesmyn Ward's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781982104504Let Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is "[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours" (NPR).Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Annis leads readers through the descent, hers is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this "[s]earing and lyrical...raw, transcendent, and ultimately hopeful" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land--the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward's most magnificent novel yet.Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner--first woman and first Black American--of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.
Dana Milbank — Fools on the Hill - with Jennifer Rubin Politics and Prose 2024-09-29 | Watch author Dana Milbank's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780316570923When Republicans took control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections with a historically slim majority, mayhem began immediately. "Failed completely." "Can't govern." "Broken." "Lunatics." "Embarrassing." "Bunch of idiots." And that's how House Republicans described themselves. Take it from Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said in May 2024 that "many Americans in general are sick and tired and fed up with a feckless, useless Republican Party, a conference that does nothing." This is the House of George Santos and Jim Jordan, of Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz. They investigated space aliens and Hunter Biden's art dealer. They punched and they groped. They championed Confederates and insurrectionists--while disparaging the military and sabotaging the economy. They tied up the House so often with far-right fantasies that they produced what was arguably the least effective session of Congress in history.Dana Milbank, widely-read Washington Post columnist, spent a year reporting from inside the Capitol, watching the circus from the front row. The result, Fools on the Hill, is simultaneously horrifying and laugh-out-loud funny. Sadly, it is all true.Dana Milbank is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist with The Washington Post and a New York Times bestselling author.His column appears in the Post and hundreds of other newspapers. Milbank also has provided political commentary for MSNBC, CNN and various other TV and radio outlets, and he is the author of four books on politics, including the New York Times bestseller "The Destructionists" and the national bestseller "Homo Politicus."Before starting the column, Milbank was a White House reporter for the Post and won the White House Correspondents' Association Beckman award for "repeated excellence in White House coverage." He previously worked as a political reporter in the Post's Style section, as a senior editor of the New Republic, and as a congressional and foreign correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. He is a graduate of Yale University.Milbank is in conversation with Jennifer Rubin. Rubin writes reported opinion for The Washington Post. She covers politics and policy, foreign and domestic, and provides insight into the conservative movement, the Republican and Democratic parties, and threats to Western democracies. Rubin, who is also an MSNBC contributor, came to The Post after three years with Commentary magazine. Prior to her career in journalism, Rubin practiced labor law for two decades, an experience that informs and enriches her work. She is a mother of two sons and lives with her husband in D.C. She is the author of “Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump” and is host of the podcast Jen Rubin's "Green Room."Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Francis S. Collins — The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust Politics and Prose 2024-09-28 | Watch author Francis S. Collins' book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780316576307As the COVID-19 pandemic revealed, we have become not just a hyper-partisan society but also a deeply cynical one, distrustful of traditional sources of knowledge and wisdom. Skepticism about vaccines led to the needless deaths of at least 230,000 Americans. "Do your own research" is now a rallying cry in many online rabbit holes. Yet experts can make mistakes, and institutions can lose their moral compass. So how can we navigate through all this?In The Road to Wisdom, Francis Collins reminds us of the four core sources of judgement and clear thinking: truth, science, faith, and trust. Drawing on his work from the Human Genome Project and heading the National Institutes of Health, as well as on ethics, philosophy, and Christian theology, Collins makes a robust, thoughtful case for each of these sources--their reliability, and their limits. Ultimately, he shows how they work together, not separately--and certainly not in conflict. It is only when we relink these four foundations of wisdom that we can begin to discern the best path forward in life.Thoughtful, accessible, winsome, and deeply wise, The Road to Wisdom leads us beyond current animosities to surer footing. Here is the moral, philosophical, and scientific framework with which to address the problems of our time--including distrust of public health, partisanship, racism, response to climate change, and threats to our democracy--but also to guide us in our daily lives. This is a book that will repay many readings, and resolve dilemmas that we all face every day.Francis S. Collins is a physician and geneticist. His groundbreaking work has led to the discovery of the cause of cystic fibrosis, among other diseases. In 1993 he was appointed director of the international Human Genome Project, which successfully sequenced all 3 billion letters of our DNA. He went on to serve three Presidents as the Director of the National Institutes of Health.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Lindsay M. Chervinsky — Making the Presidency - with Peter Baker Politics and Prose 2024-09-28 | Watch author Lindsay M. Chervinsky's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780197653845The United States of 1797 faced enormous challenges, provoked by enemies foreign and domestic. The father of the new nation, George Washington, left his vice president, John Adams, with relatively little guidance and impossible expectations to meet. Adams was confronted with intense partisan divides, debates over citizenship, fears of political violence, potential for foreign conflict with France and Britain, and a nation unsure that the presidency could even work without Washington at the helm.Making the Presidency is an authoritative exploration of the second US presidency, a period critical to the survival of the American republic. Through meticulous research and engaging prose, Lindsay Chervinsky illustrates the unique challenges faced by Adams and shows how he shaped the office for his successors. One of the most qualified presidents in American history, he had been a legislator, political theorist, diplomat, minister, and vice president--but he had never held an executive position. Instead, the quixiotic and stubborn Adams would rely on his ideas about executive power, the Constitution, politics, and the state of the world to navigate the hurdles of the position. He defended the presidency from his own often obstructionist cabinet, protected the nation from foreign attacks, and forged trust and dedication to election integrity and the peaceful transfer of power between parties, even though it cost him his political future.Offering a portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential periods in US history, Making the Presidency is a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of the presidency and the creation of political norms and customs at the heart of the American republic.Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky is a historian of the presidency, political culture, and U.S. government institutions. She is a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Chervinsky is the author of the award-winning The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution and the co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Dr. Chervinsky has been published in the Washington Post, TIME, USA Today, CNN.com, The Bulwark, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, and numerous others; she is a regular source on American history for outlets like The BBC, Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Times, CBC News, and many more. She has recently appeared on CBS News and CNN.Chervinsky is in conversation with Peter Baker. Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of Days of Fire and The Breach.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Rumaan Alam — Entitlement - with Jason Reynolds Politics and Prose 2024-09-27 | Watch author Rumaan Alam's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780593718469Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, as well as the novels Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.Alam is in conversation with Jason Reynolds, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books for children and young adults. He is best known for his novels All American Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely), the Track series, and Long Way Down, which received Newbery, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Honors. Among Jason’s many accolades, he was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2020-2022. He is on faculty at Lesley University, for the Writing for Young People MFA Program and lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig — Lucky Loser - with Peter Baker Politics and Prose 2024-09-27 | Watch authors Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780593298640Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life "has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me." Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever.Drawing on over twenty years' worth of Trump's confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he'll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant - the public image that will carry him to the White House.A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump's tether to success and power is more precarious than ever, here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money - what he had, what he lost, and what he has left - and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire.Russ Buettner is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. Since 2016, his reporting has focused on the personal finances of Donald J. Trump, including in-depth articles with Susanne Craig and other Times reporters that revealed the fortune Trump inherited from his father and the record of business failures hidden in twenty years of Trump’s tax returns. Those articles were awarded a Pulitzer Prize and two George Polk awards. Buettner, who joined The Times in 2006, was also a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for articles with Danny Hakim highlighting abuse and neglect in New York’s care of developmentally disabled people. He previously worked on investigations teams at the Daily News in New York and New York Newsday. Susanne Craig is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. Since 2016, her reporting has focused on the personal finances of Donald J. Trump, including in-depth articles that revealed the fortune Trump inherited from his father and the record of business failures hidden in twenty years of Trump’s tax returns. Buettner and Craig are in conversation with Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of Days of Fire and The Breach.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Rachel Kushner — Creation Lake - with Hillary Kelly Politics and Prose 2024-09-26 | Watch author Rachel Kushner's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781982116521Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France."Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader.Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by "cold bump"--making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her "contacts"--shadowy figures in business and government--instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more.In this region of centuries-old farms and ancient caves, Sadie becomes entranced by a mysterious figure named Bruno Lacombe, a mentor to the young activists who communicates only by email. Bruno believes that the path to emancipation from what ails modern life is not revolt, but a return to the ancient past.Just as Sadie is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.Written in short, vaulting sections, Rachel Kushner's rendition of "noir" is taut and dazzling . Creation Lake is Kushner's finest achievement yet as a novelist, a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.Rachel Kushner is the author of Creation Lake, her latest novel, The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.Kushner is in conversation with Hillary Kelly. Kelly is a critic and essayist living in Washington, D.C. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Vogue.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Gioia Diliberto — Firebrands - with Maureen Dowd Politics and Prose 2024-09-25 | Watch author Gioia Diliberto's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780226819679In the popular imagination, the story of Prohibition in America is a story of men and male violence, one full of federal agents fighting gangsters over the sale of moonshine. In contrast, Firebrands is the story of four Jazz Age dynamos--all women -who were forces behind the passage, the enforcement, the defiance, and, ultimately, the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. They battled each other directly, and they learned to marshal clout with cowed and hypocritical legislators, almost all of them men. Their clash over Prohibition stands as the first significant exercise of women's political power since women gained the right to vote, and their influence on the American political scene wouldn't be equaled for decades.In Gioia Diliberto's fresh and timely take on this period of history, we meet Ella Boole, the stern and ambitious leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, who campaigned fiercely to introduce Prohibition and fought desperately to keep it alive. We also meet Mabel Walker Willebrandt, the most powerful woman in America at the time, who served as the top federal prosecutor charged with enforcing Prohibition. Diliberto tells the story, too, of silent film star Texas Guinan, who ran New York speakeasies backed by the mob and showed that Prohibition was not only absurd but unenforceable. And, she follows Pauline Morton Sabin, a glamorous Manhattan aristocrat who belatedly recognized the cascading evil in Prohibition and mobilized the movement to kill it.These women led their opposing forces of "Wets" and "Drys" across a teeming landscape of bootleggers, gangsters, federal agents, temperance fanatics, and cowardly politicians, many of them secret drunks. Building on the momentum of suffrage, they forged a path for the activists who followed during the great civil rights battles of the mid-twentieth century. Yet, they have been largely lost to history. In Firebrands, Diliberto finally gives these dynamic figures their due, creating a varied and dramatic portrait of women wielding power, in politics, society, and popular culture.Gioia Diliberto is the author of four biographies, among them Diane von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped, Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife, and A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams, as well as three novels and a play. As a journalist, Diliberto has contributed to many publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Smithsonian, and Vanity Fair. She also teaches writing and has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and DePaul and Northwestern Universities. She lives with her husband in Woodbury, Connecticut.Diliberto is in conversation with Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary and author of three New York Times best sellers. In August 2014, she became a writer for The Times Magazine. Born in Washington, Ms. Dowd began her journalism career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for The Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter and feature writer. In 1983, she joined The New York Times as a metropolitan correspondent and then moved to The Times’s Washington bureau in 1986 to cover politics. In the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, G. P. Putnam published her first book, Bushworld. After Bushworld, Dowd switched from presidential politics to sexual politics in another best seller, Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide. Her third book, The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics, was released in 2016. Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Paul Murray — The Bee Sting Politics and Prose 2024-09-25 | Watch author Paul Murray's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE:politics-prose.com/book/9781250338259The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he's on the brink of running away.If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the infamous bee sting that ruined Imelda's wedding day? To the car crash one year before Cass was born? All the way back to Dickie at ten years old, standing in the summer garden with his father, learning how to be a real man?The Bee Sting, Paul Murray's exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de force: a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.Paul Murray was born in 1975 in Dublin. He is the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes, which was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies (2010) was long-listed for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Mark and the Void (2015) was the joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was named one of Time's Top 10 Fiction Books of the year.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
André Aciman — Roman Year Politics and Prose 2024-09-25 | Watch author André Aciman's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780374613389In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Aciman's family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his younger brother, and his deaf mother moved into a rented apartment in Rome's Via Clelia. Though dejected, Aciman's mother and brother found their way into life in Rome, while Aciman, still unmoored, burrowed into his bedroom to read one book after the other. The world of novels eventually allowed him to open up to the city and, through them, discover the beating heart of the Eternal City.Aciman's time in Rome did not last long before he and his family moved across the ocean, but by the time they did, he was leaving behind a city he loved. In this memoir, the author, a genius of "the poetry of the place" (John Domini, The Boston Globe), conjures the sights, smells, tastes, and people of Rome as only he can. Aciman captures, as if in amber, a living portrait of himself on the brink of adulthood and the city he worshipped at that pivotal moment. Roman Year is a treasure, unearthed by one of our greatest prose stylists.André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Nikkya Hargrove — Mama: A Queer Black Woman’s Story of a Family Lost and Found - with Kristal Knight Politics and Prose 2024-09-25 | Watch author Nikkya Hargrove's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781643751580Growing up, Nikkya Hargrove's mother was in and out of prison. Hargrove, one of the 5 million children dealing with the effects of an incarcerated parent, spent a good portion of her childhood in prison visiting rooms but almost never actually living with her mother. In Hargrove's case, though, life got even more complicated when her mother--addicted to cocaine and just out of prison--had a son. When that child was just months old, Hargrove's mother died and Hargrove, who had just graduated from college, decided to fight for custody of her half brother.And fight she does. We see how she is subjected to preconceived notions that she, a Black, queer, young woman, cannot be given such responsibility. She's honest about the shame she feels accepting food stamps, about her family's reaction to her coming out, and about the joy she experiences when she meets the woman who will become her wife. But whether she's clashing with Jonathan's biological father or battling for Jonathan's education rights after he's diagnosed with ADHD and autism, this is a woman who won't give up.Hargrove's memoir picks up where Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy left off, exploring generational trauma and pulling back the curtain on family court and poverty in America. Moving and inspiring, Mama is an ode to motherhood and identity, to never giving up, and to finding strength in family and community.Nikkya Hargrove is a graduate of Bard College and currently serves as a member of the school's Board of Governors and chair of the alumni/ae Diversity Committee. A LAMBDA Literary Nonfiction Fellow, she has written about adoption, marriage, motherhood, and the prison system for The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, Scary Mommy, and Shondaland. She has worked for social impact nonprofits providing support to underserved communities throughout her professional career. She lives in Connecticut with her wife and three children.Hargrove is in conversation with Kristal Knight. With over a decade of political experience, Kristal has positioned herself as a premier political operative and commentator. She recently hosted a self-titled podcast with Newsweek discussing relevant political and cultural news and she actively provides political commentary on Fox News, MSNBC and News Nation. Her past political experience includes working with the NAACP during the 2022 midterm cycle and serving as the political director for Priorities USA during the 2020 presidential cycle. Presently she consults with national non-profits and think tanks to help elevate their advocacy agendas as well as advise on communication strategies. She completed her master’s degree from University College of London and her bachelors from Howard University. She is a native Memphian.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Debra Bruno — A Hudson Valley Reckoning - with Helene Cooper Politics and Prose 2024-09-25 | Watch author Debra Bruno's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781501776564Bruno, who grew up in New York's Hudson Valley knowing little about her Dutch heritage, was shaken when a historian told her that her Dutch ancestors were almost certainly slaveholders. Driven by this knowledge, Bruno began to unearth her family's past. In the last will and testament of her ancestor, she found the first evidence: human beings bequeathed to his family along with animals and furniture. The more she expanded her family tree, the more enslavers she found. She reached out to Black Americans tracing their own ancestry, and by serendipitous luck became friends with Eleanor C. Mire, a descendent of a woman enslaved by Bruno's Dutch ancestors.A Hudson Valley Reckoning recounts Bruno's journey into the nearly forgotten history of Northern slavery and of the thousands of enslaved people brought in chains to Manhattan and the Hudson Valley. With the help of Mire, who provides a moving epilogue, Debra Bruno tells the story of white and Black lives impacted by the stain of slavery and its long legacy of racism, as she investigates the erasure of the uncomfortable truths about our family and national histories.Debra Bruno is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, among many other publications. She lives in Washington, DC. For more information, visit her website debrabruno.com.Bruno is in conversation with Helene Cooper. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Helene Cooper covers national security for the New York Times and is the author of The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood, which was a New York Times bestseller, as well as Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Washington Post bestseller. The Liberian-born writer previously worked at the Wall Street Journal.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Don Lemon — I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America - with Laura Coates Politics and Prose 2024-09-25 | Watch author Don Lemon's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780316567695Renowned journalist Don Lemon always had a complicated relationship with God. He cherished the Southern Black church he was raised in, but struggled with the fundamentalist rejection of his right to exist as a gay man--one who wanted to marry his longtime love in a church wedding with all the traditional trimmings. In his work as a reporter, moreover, he saw his fellow Americans losing faith in a higher power, in institutions, and in each other.Setting out to understand the place that religion has in our lives today, Don turned a journalistic eye on ancient stories and found connections that sparked memories, conversations, and chance encounters. Then, suddenly, his world unraveled: In a blaze of inglorious headlines, Don was ousted from his high-profile network news job and tasked with redefining his role in the shifting media landscape. But through a year of personal changes and professional whiplash, he kept his "eyes on the prize" and ultimately found what he was seeking: grace, within himself and in this nation we call home.Rich with humor and Louisiana realness, I Once Was Lost is a prayer for a country that reflects the multifaceted image of God and a clarion call to those who believe in our common humanity enough to fight for it.Don Lemon spent three decades on local and national TV, a trusted voice after the Sandy Hook massacre, in war-torn Eastern Europe, and during the riots of 2020. Anchoring Don Lemon Tonight on CNN, he was known for hard-hitting interviews with public officials and compassionate dialogue with everyday people. The Don Lemon Show is now streaming on all platforms. His book on race, This is the Fire, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.Lemon will be in conversation with Laura Coates, CNN’s Chief Legal Analyst and anchor of “Laura Coates Live,” and the host of “The Laura Coates Show” on SiriusXM.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Kate Conger & Ryan Mac — Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter Politics and Prose 2024-09-22 | Watch authors Kate Conger & Ryan Mac's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE:politics-prose.com/book/9780593656136The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media--where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before. While its founder had idealistically dreamed of building a "digital town square," he detested Wall Street and never focused on building a profitable business.Musk joined the platform in 2010 and, by 2022, had become one of the site's most influential users, hooking over 80 million followers with a mix of provocations, promotion of his companies, and attacks on his enemies. To Musk, Twitter -- once known for its almost absolute commitment to free speech -- had badly lost its way. He blamed it for the proliferation of what he called the "woke mind virus" and claimed that the survival of democracy and the human race itself depended on the future of the site. In January of 2022, Musk began secretly accumulating Twitter stock. By April, he was its largest shareholder, and soon after, made an unsolicited offer to purchase the company for the unimaginable sum of $44 billion dollars. Backed into a corner, Twitter's board accepted his offer--but Musk quickly changed his mind, forcing Twitter to sue him to close the deal in October. The richest man on earth controlled one of the most powerful media platforms in the world--but at what price? Before long Twitter would be gone for good, replaced by something radically different, as Musk remade the company in his own image from the ground up.The story of the showdown between Musk and Twitter and his eventual takeover of the company is unlike anything in business or media that has come before. In vivid, cinematic detail, Conger and Mac follow the inner workings of the company as Musk lays siege to it, first from the outside as one of its most vocal users, and then finally from within as a contentious and mercurial leader. Musk has shared some of his version of events, but Conger and Mac have uncovered the full story through exclusive interviews, unreported documents, and internal recordings at Twitter following the billionaire's takeover. With unparalleled sources from within and around the company, they provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers.This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost?Kate Conger is a technology reporter for the New York Times. She writes about X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and its owner, Elon Musk. In more than a decade of covering the tech industry, she has written about the underground world of hackers, the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons and labor uprisings in the gig economy. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.Ryan Mac is a Los Angeles-based technology reporter for the New York Times. He has spent more than a decade reporting on wealth and power in Silicon Valley, first on staff at Forbes, and then at BuzzFeed News, where he was a senior reporter. He led the outlet's deep reporting on Facebook, which garnered a 2019 Mirror Award and a 2021 George R. Polk Award.. Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.
Timothy Snyder — On Freedom - with Representative Jamie Raskin Politics and Prose 2024-09-19 | Watch author Timothy Snyder's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780593728727Timothy Snyder has been called "the leading interpreter of our dark times." As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarianism here and abroad. His book On Tyranny has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Now, in this tour de force of political philosophy, he helps us see exactly what we're fighting for.Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means--and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we're free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn't so much freedom from as freedom to--the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.On Freedom takes us on a thrilling intellectual journey. Drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers, and his own experiences coming of age in a time of American exceptionalism, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes--the habits of mind--that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions (championed by the right) but also the role of institutions (the purview of the left). Intimate yet ambitious, this book helps forge a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance, generosity, and grace.Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His books, which have been published in over forty languages, include Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, Road to Unfreedom, Our Malady, and On Freedom. His work has inspired poster campaigns and exhibitions, sculptures, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play, and an opera, and he has appeared in over fifty films and documentaries. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.Snyder is in conversation with Rep. Jamie Raskin. Rep. Raskin proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he also served as the Senate Majority Whip. He was also a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for more than 25 years. He has authored several books, including the Washington Post best-seller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People, the highly-acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America’s Students, and the New York Times #1 best-seller Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.
Aliah Wright and DC Frost — Now You Owe Me and A Punishing Breed - with Dr. Kate Gale Politics and Prose 2024-09-14 | Watch authors Aliah Wright and DC Frost' book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE Now You Owe Me HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781636281568PURCHASE A Punishing Breed HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781939096173In Now You Owe Me, Ben and Corinthia spent years abducting college coeds, until one night they took the wrong victim.No one knew witnessing their first murder at seven would propel Ben and his twin toward a killing spree in Pennsylvania. Racked with guilt, they vow to take just one more victim. Too bad they snatched the wrong woman . . .Aliah Wright worked her way through college simultaneously as an editorial assistant for the Philadelphia Daily News and as a stringer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. A successful journalist, she spent her career working for a variety of news outlets. Those include the Associated Press, where she was a political correspondent, and the USA Today Network as the former entertainment editor for Gannett News Service. A graduate of Temple University, she lives with her family just outside her hometown of Philadelphia. This is her first novel.A Punishing Breed takes place on the Los Angeles campus of Hesperia College, where the death of a philandering administrator raises questions of class, race, and gender. The murder brings together DJ Arias, an old-school Mexican American detective; Danny Mendoza, an ex-convict campus gardener; and The Watcher, a mysterious neighborhood recluse. As the investigation progresses, DJ becomes enmeshed in the insular world of a private elite liberal arts institution that in many ways replicates the class system of a medieval fiefdom. DJ, still grappling with memories of his beloved gang member cousin and failed marriage, feels out of place and finds himself stumped as The Watcher wends his way through the periphery of the murder investigation just out of DJ's grasp. Meanwhile, a dangerous murderer stalks the campus and may kill again. In its portrayal of culture clashes, human folly, and power inequities, A Punishing Breed embraces the rich culture of Los Angeles. The novel blends dark humor with loss and the vagaries of love, all amid the tense aftermath of a murderDC Frost is a second-generation Angeleno. For almost twenty years, she has worked at a small private liberal arts college in the heart of Los Angeles. DC loves and respects Southern California, a melting pot of class and culture that is often misrepresented and misunderstood in popular fiction and media. DC lives in Eagle Rock, California, with her husband, who is an NPR journalist and reporter, and three rescue dogs. DC and her husband have an adult son, a filmmaker, who resides in Los Angeles.Wright and Frost will be in conversation with Dr. Kate Gale, co-founder and publisher of Red Hen Press. She is the author of Under a Neon Sun from Three Rooms Press and The Loneliest Girl from the University of New Mexico Press and of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis, which had its world premiere at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. Her opera on Esther was written for the singer Hila Plitmann and is in process with the composer Mark Abel.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.
Andrew R. Chow — Cryptomania - with Jeff Guo Politics and Prose 2024-09-12 | Watch author Andrew R. Chow's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781668038161As cryptocurrency rose in popularity during the pandemic, new converts bought into the idea that crypto would not only make them rich, but would usher in imminent revolutions across art, finance, politics, and gaming. Cryptocurrency caught the zeitgeist through figures like FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who only two years later would be convicted of one of the most calamitous acts of financial fraud in US history.During his meteoric rise, Sam Bankman-Fried outflanked idealists in the movement like Vitalik Buterin, who sought to build fairer, more democratic systems through Ethereum. Bankman-Fried pursued a growth-obsessed, by-any-means approach to crypto, which proved seductive to those who just wanted to get rich. But this Silicon Valley-like approach also drove the creation of a spate of high-risk financial instruments that mirrored those of the 2008 financial crisis. Accused of misleading investors and mishandling funds, Bankman-Fried became a target of prosecutors.Now, Cryptomania unfolds the tumultuous twenty months inside this male-dominated, overhyped industry that led to its downfall. Drawing on exclusive reporting and an extensive network in the global NFT community, Andrew Chow chronicles the battle for crypto's soul, and the human toll of its economic meltdown--from the conmen and eccentrics driving the bubble to the victims caught in its burst.Andrew R. Chow is a correspondent for Time who covers technology, culture, and business. He has written four Time cover stories, including about the impacts of the AI corporate arms race and a prescient profile of Vitalik Buterin months before the 2022 crypto crash. He has previously written for The New York Times, Pitchfork, and NBC News. Cryptomania is his first book.Chow is in conversation with Jeff Guo (he/him), a co-host and reporter for Planet Money, NPR's award-winning podcast that finds creative, entertaining ways to make sense of the complicated forces that move our economy. Previously, Guo covered economics and policy for The Washington Post, where his work frequently blended reporting and data analysis.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
Race in America Panel 2024 — April Ryan with Keith Boykin and Bakari Sellers Politics and Prose 2024-09-12 | April Ryan, White House correspondent at TheGrio and author of Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem, Under Fire, At Mama’s Knee, and The Presidency in Black and White returns for another installment in an ongoing series of discussions focusing on the panelists' most recent books and current events. Ryan will examine recent and longstanding issues with the following panelists: Bakari Sellers made history in 2006 when, at just twenty-two years old, he defeated a twenty-six-year incumbent State Representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature and the youngest African American elected official in the nation. In 2014 he was the Democratic Nominee for Lieutenant Governor in the state of South Carolina. Sellers is a CNN political analyst and served in the South Carolina state legislature. He is also the author of The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now and a practicing attorney who fights to give a voice to the voiceless.Keith Boykin is a New York Times-bestselling author of Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away, TV and film producer, and former CNN political commentator. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Keith served in the White House, cofounded the National Black Justice Coalition, cohosted the BET talk show My Two Cents, and taught at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. He's a Lambda Literary Award-winning author and editor of seven books. He lives in Los Angeles.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.
David Rohde — Where Tyranny Begins - with Hallie Jackson Politics and Prose 2024-09-11 | Watch author David Rohde's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9780393881967Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public servants. He sowed public doubt in both agencies so successfully that when he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, he paid little political cost and, despite an unprecedented array of criminal indictments, easily won the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.In Where Tyranny Begins, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde investigates the strategies Trump systematically used to turn the country's two most powerful law-enforcement agencies into his personal political weapons. Rohde also reveals how, during the Biden years, Justice Department non-partisan 1970s norms that Attorney General Merrick Garland reinforced inadvertently helped Trump, and could fail to deliver a trial and legal accountability by Election Day 2024.Where Tyranny Begins exposes how ill-suited both the DOJ and FBI are to serve as checks on abuses of presidential power. The rise of hyper-partisanship and the Trump and Biden presidencies have uncovered core flaws in American constitutional democracy that Trump would exploit in a second term. A round of historic reforms equivalent to the post-Watergate reforms that stabilized American democracy in the 1970s are immediately needed. A five-word warning coined by the English philosopher John Locke in 1689 captures the stakes in 2024: "Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins."David Rohde is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of In Deep and three other books. He is the national security editor at NBC News and a former executive editor of The New Yorker website, where he wrote about the Justice Department, democracy, and disinformation. He is also a former New York Times, Reuters, and Christian Science Monitor reporter. He lives in New York with his family.Rohde is in conversation with Hallie Jackson, the senior Washington correspondent for NBC News and anchor for “Hallie Jackson NOW” on NBC News NOW, as well as Sunday’s “NBC Nightly News.” Previously, Jackson was NBC News’ Chief White House Correspondent covering President Donald Trump’s administration. Jackson, a native of Yardley, Pa., graduated from The Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor’s degree in political science.Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1@politicsproseVisit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsProseFollow us on instagram: instagram.com/politicsproseLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/politicsandproseFollow us on Threads: threads.net/@politicsproseFollow Us On TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooterBecome a store member and save: politics-prose.com/membershipAudio Archive: archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstoreFounded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.#books #booktube
