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The Room Where It Happened review: John Bolton fires broadside that could sink Trump The ex-national security adviser is no hero or martyr and certainly no prose stylist either. What counts is how damaging his memoir will be Donald Trump speaks as John Bolton, national security adviser, listens in August 2019. Photograph: Andrew Harrer/EPA John […] More
Trump says Bolton ‘must pay a very big price for this’ Former national security adviser’s memoir due out Tuesday Donald Trump, left, flanked by national security advisor John Bolton, right, speaks at the White House in April 2018. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images A federal judge has declined to block the publication of a tell-all […] More
Eric Cervini’s story of one man’s struggle touches on many others and leaves the reader wanting 500 pages more Frank Kameny picketing in a still from a documentary, The Lavender Scare. Photograph: PBS Trained at Harvard and Cambridge, Eric Cervini is an LGBTQ historian. His debut, subtitled The Homosexual vs the United States of America, falls […] More
As US-China relations deteriorate, Barry Gewen offers an unsparing biography of a man still at the center of events The Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, shakes hands with the former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November. Photograph: Jason Lee/Pool/EPA Only two of America’s secretaries […] More
F ew things are more unexpected than a genuinely inspirational memoir by a freshman member of Congress. If you’re looking for the perfect antidote to the perpetual tweetstorm of insanity and hatred from Donald Trump, try this beautiful new book from the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar. This migrant from Somalia came from a family of teachers and […] More
Trumpocalypse review: David Frum bushwhacks a new axis of evil The former George W Bush speechwriter thinks 21st-century conservatism has ‘delivered much more harm than good’ Donald Trump arrives to address a rally in Colorado Springs in February. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Nearly 100,000 Americans lie dead, almost 40 million people are out […] More
Molly Ball’s biography of the most powerful woman in American history is worthy of its subject Nancy Pelosi holds a press conference after the House passed Resolution 755, Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J Trump, in January. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images From her perch as speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has […] More
A life of the fifth president makes interesting reading, not least for his warnings about foreign influence in the White House James Monroe, circa 1816. The last of the founding generation to be president, he bridged the Revolution with the first sectional conflicts of the Antebellum era. Photograph: Buyenlarge/Getty Images Why read a biography of […] More
