by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 24, 2022 | RELAX: Memoir, RESIST: Politics
Congressman Jamie Raskin bares his soul in Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. This combination of memoir and political history covers topics related to the health of this country. One is the crisis of mental illness in this country,...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 11, 2022 | RESIST: Politics
Malcolm Nance presents a compelling case in his new book, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency. And it couldn’t be more timely, with the January 6th hearings currently ongoing. Nance is a former US Navy...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 18, 2020 | RESIST: Politics
Watching real-life strongman moves while reading Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present from Ruth Ben-Ghiat is both surreal and chilling. But given that the book’s publication date was also the U.S. Election Day, comparisons are inevitable. At least to one of the...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 3, 2020 | RESIST: Politics
Rage by Bob Woodward is the combination of rage-inducing, all the rage, and full of rage. Woodward’s on every interview show (at least on the channels I watch). He’s getting his message out and selling books, for gosh sakes. Plus of course, time is short before...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 3, 2020 | RESIST: Politics
What does it say about my reading habits that when I needed something easy, I picked up the 2017 book Unbelievable: My Front Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur? And that subtitle? It’s not holding up over time, if the state of the 2020...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 18, 2020 | RELAX: Memoir, RESIST: Politics
If you’ve been present for the last five years, you know that Donald Trump (herein mostly referred to as 45*) is all about winning. But sometimes his wins aren’t especially positive. Like the story Mary Trump tells in her new book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 16, 2020 | RESIST: Politics
Jonathan Karl offers new insights into the current White House in his book, Front Row at the Trump Show. And of course, that means insights on two other important subjects: the President himself, and the concept of the free press. Karl is a long-time journalist, who’s...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 2, 2019 | RESIST: Politics
Andrew McCabe tells the story of his FBI career in The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump. And the last two main elements of the title are the salient points in his story. First, he fills us in on the way the FBI changed in order to...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 12, 2019 | RESIST: Politics
I confess. It wasn’t easy to read this Seth Abramson book. I spent a lot of it feeling down, depressed, and angry. But what we need is clarity, and Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America is absolutely crystal clear.It explains exactly how Trump has been...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 20, 2019 | RESIST: Politics
I purchased this group of essays, edited by Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M. Div., in 2017. However, this month was the perfect time to read them. The issue of President Donald Trump’s psychological makeup has been making more headlines and tweets than ever. In fact, it was his...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 4, 2018 | RESIST: Politics
Veteran reporters David Corn and Michael Isikoff present solid, meticulous reporting in Russian Roulette. They tell the story of Donald Trump’s myriad connections to Russia, both before and during the 2016 election cycle. They integrate this into the Russian...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 7, 2018 | RESIST: Politics
Former FBI Director James Comey tells his side of the story in A Higher Loyalty. Plus, he details the big cases that he was part of before the whole Trump White House debacle. He’s a surprisingly good writer, and I enjoyed this book. In addition to the investigations,...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 8, 2018 | RESIST: Politics
Donna Brazile’s memoir / political history book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House, offers a relevant perspective on the 2016 election cycle. Given her decades of political experience, Brazile writes with...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 8, 2018 | RESIST: Politics
Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is that accident you just have to rubberneck. Wolff begins the book by saying he strove to be a “fly on the wall” in the White House during nearly the entire first year of Trump’s presidency. While I...
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