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We try not to do books about politics — political discourse in this country is, currently, divisive in the extreme. However, Carlos Lozada, in his new book, The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians, gives us a survey of Washington literature that will surprise, delight and inform you. From Tocqueville to Trump, from The Muller Report to DeSantis’ plea for the presidency, Carlos has read it all, and written about almost everything he has read. This book is a compendium of his best columns about books…why does Carlos think presidents insist on writing their own biographies? Why is George H.W. Bush one of the only presidents without a presidential autobiography? Tune in and find out.

Books mentioned in this week's episode:

• The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians by Carlos Lozada
• What We Were Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
• Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
• The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
• An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy Carter
• Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham
• Heartburn by Nora Ephron
• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

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