Every election season, American readers cling to buzzy political books. But how do publishers make plans despite an uncertain outcome, and how do their decisions influence the national conversation?
As a journalist who has thought, talked, and written about electoral politics every day for as long as I can remember, I can suggest five books that might lend readers a new perspective on ...
The books cover everything from the Declaration of Independence and shifts in conservative politics – beginning in the Reagan era – to the US's cultural foundations. Also in the mix ...
A Brooklyn mom was horrified to find a book of antisemitic and anti-American political cartoons as part of a kids display on world cultures at the Brooklyn Public Library in Bed-Stuy this week.
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