This Week's Hot Reads
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This week: a hardboiled female detective, a pop novelist's return to form, a scathing indictment of Washington's role in the financial crisis, a moving memoir of a grand English family, and a new way of looking at Anne Frank's diary.
Hype, Hops, and a Hangover
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Even through beer goggles, The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove writes, the reality of the summit could never have lived up to the cable TV hype. The one bright spot: Sgt. Crowley's star-making post-beer poise.
Would My Father Have Voted for Obama?
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
You get asked a lot of odd questions when you go on a book tour. And give even stranger answers. Did I ever tell you about the time I collaborated with Proust? Or was an adviser to William Howard Taft?
Showdown at Notre Dame
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
As Obama prepares to speak at the Catholic university's commencement, priests and pundits are attacking the school for inviting a pro-choice politician. Get ready for a battle of biblical proportions.
Bush Booed at Inauguration
As Chris Matthews shakes his head at the 'bad form' of it all, the crowd serenades George W. Bush with a rousing 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.'
What Post-Racial America?
Rep. Bobby Rush tells Chris Matthews he's never lived in a post-racial America, and compares Roland Burris' attempt to enter the Senate to the civil rights movement.
Piling on Palin, Hating on Hillary
Caroline Heldman is a politics professor at Occidental College. Dr. Heldman co-edited Rethinking Madame President: Are We Ready for a Woman in the White House?, and regularly appears on Fox News and Al-Jazeera English.
The treatment the Alaskan governor got during the election was an embarrassment for the media.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Jacki Zehner is the President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Family Foundation and a Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group. She blogs at www.pursepundit.blogspot.com.
The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson is the President of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, an institute for religious leadership, founded in 1818 with a history of commitment to progressive social causes from abolition of slavery to women's rights. She blogs at newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith.
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