Summer Reading

If you’re looking for some “lite” reading, some area pundits and reporters are taking a break from their craft and hitting the book tour trail in town in the coming week. Local independent book seller Politics and Prose will be hosting three of them:

Tonight at 7 p.m., Geoffrey Nunberg, a Berkeley professor and NPR commentator will be reading from his just-released book, with the roll-off-your-lips title, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show.

This weekend, you can catch Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of the New Republic talking about his book The Good Fight, about “why liberals—and only liberals—can win the War on Terror and make America great again.”

Monday, Thomas E. Ricks, WaPo’s Pentagon correspondent stops by Politics and Prose to promote his book, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, a look at the current Iraq war, which includes criticism about the conduct of the war that comes from some of the “top the American military establishment itself.”

Politics and war make such great beach reading!

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