Ben Weyl
| Dec. 16, 2010, Midnight
“Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America” is mostly a collection of Beck’s outrageous tirades coupled with author Dana Milbank’s signature snark.
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Kaitlin Kovach
| Dec. 14, 2010, Midnight
Douglas Egerton’s new book, “Year of Meteors,” explores the heated competition between presidential candidates Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln and how politics catapulted the country into a civil war.
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Rachael Bade
| Dec. 9, 2010, Midnight
Award-winning author Laura Hillenbrand has done it again. After winning hearts and inspiring readers with her New York Times-bestselling book about a horse named Seabiscuit in 2001, she’s hit the bull’s-eye again in her new narrative of Zamperini’s life, “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption.”
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Gabe Starosta
| Dec. 7, 2010, Midnight
The life, career in law and politics, and eventual downfall of Richard Scruggs, known as Dickie to his friends, are chronicled by author Curtis Wilkie in “The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America’s Most Powerful Trial Lawyer,” a book that is equal parts biography and legal thriller.
Eugene Mulero
| Dec. 7, 2010, Midnight
In “This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount,” Jay Weiner illustrates every possible detail imaginable about the 2008 race between Franken and incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.
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Elizabeth Brotherton
| Nov. 16, 2010, Midnight
In "Decision Points," President George W. Bush not only shares his thoughts on the most important moments of his presidency, but reveals tidbits about his relationship with Congress.
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Gabe Starosta
| Nov. 16, 2010, Midnight
In “Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices,” Harvard law professor Noah Feldman tells the story of four of the most important Supreme Court justices in modern history: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Robert Jackson.
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Melanie Zanona
| Nov. 8, 2010, Midnight
In Robert Scheer’s latest book, “The Great American Stickup," the financial troubles of the country originated before President Obama inherited a down economy when he took office.
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Rachael Bade
| Nov. 8, 2010, Midnight
Blame the elites if you've lost your job, your house or the lifestyle you once live, suggests pollsters and political commentators Scott Rasmussen and Douglas Schoen in "Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System."
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Kaitlin Kovach
| Oct. 26, 2010, Midnight
“Elvis at 21,” the National Portrait Gallery's latest exhibit, presents the world in 1956, when a new pop culture phenomenon emerged. Rock ’n’ roll was shaking things up in the United States, Elvis Presley was its rising star and Alfred Wertheimer was there to capture it all with his camera.
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Kaitlin Kovach
| Oct. 26, 2010, Midnight
Jeffrey Owen Jones and Peter Meyer take readers back to the beginning of the patriotic oath and show how it stirred up national pride and questions about freedom of speech in “The Pledge: A History of the Pledge of Allegiance.”
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Gabe Starosta
| Oct. 26, 2010, Midnight
In “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle Over American History,” author Jill Lepore tries to do what politicians aren’t willing to: actually study the history behind events such as the Boston Tea Party and examine the way they are manipulated politically.
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Jessica Estepa
| Oct. 26, 2010, Midnight
In “The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist’s Release From Captivity,” Euna Lee fills in the blanks of what happened to her and Laura Ling during their imprisonment in North Korea, a country that has been mostly closed off to the rest of the world for decades. She reveals details that not only paint a vivid picture of her personal experience in North Korea, but also tell the stories of the people she met there.
Eugene Mulero
| Oct. 21, 2010, Midnight
Two years after leaving Foggy Bottom, Condoleezza Rice has apparently had time to reflect about her life, and in “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family,” the former secretary of State writes a detailed account of her childhood in Alabama, where she had a front-row seat to witness the turbulent years of the civil rights movement.
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Gabe Starosta
| Oct. 19, 2010, Midnight
Gary Noesner's new book, “Stalling for Time,” details his 30 years of working as a hostage negotiator. While he saw and even used violence, his job required compassion and understanding.
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Matthew Murray
| Oct. 12, 2010, Midnight
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s “hike on the Appalachian Trail” in 2009 was the latest in a string of bad press that would befall the residents past and present of 133 C St. SE, a religious commune of sorts for Christian lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
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Kaitlin Kovach
| Oct. 12, 2010, Midnight
Larry Colton’s new book, “No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life,” tells the stories of four crew members of a U.S. submarine who were captured by Japan in World War II and sent to prison camps for three years.
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Gabe Starosta
| Oct. 5, 2010, Midnight
Roger Hodge has a new treatise on government to share with the American people.
Hodge, the former editor in chief of Harper’s magazine, rails against the political establishment with visceral intensity in his new book, and he does so from the political left — a change of pace in this electoral climate. As it turns out, that change of pace is a problematic one.
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Alison McSherry
| Sept. 28, 2010, Midnight
Jefferson Davis is a titan of American history. Not only did he serve as president of the Confederate States of America, but he was a Congressman and Senator. These days, however, many Americans know next to nothing about the man who led the South. Author James Swanson is hoping to change that with his new book, “Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln’s Corpse.” The book, released this week, is actually two stories woven together.
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Gabe Starosta
| Sept. 28, 2010, Midnight
In “Our Patchwork Nation,” authors Dante Chinni and James Gimpel suggest that it isn’t easy to define a country by splitting people up into categories such as Republicans and Democrats or rich and poor. Instead, communities all over the country share certain traits, from income level to religious character, and the combination of those traits gives a place, and its people, its identity.
