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Books
Book reviews and essays from the Washington Monthly on the new books shaping debates over politics, policy, history, and American democracy.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
Erasing the Color Lines
The problem of residential segregation is racial. The best solutions are not.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
The Judge Who Sentenced the Rosenbergs
It was the most high-profile espionage trial of the Cold War, and Irving R. Kaufman and his liberal and controversial legacy remain a source of debate.
Posted inBooks
The 2023 Kukula Award Winners
The Washington Monthly’s annual award celebrates the best in nonfiction book reviewing and honors the memory of Kukula Kapoor Glastris, the magazine’s beloved books editor.
Posted inBooks
The 2023 Kukula Award Finalists
The Washington Monthly’s annual award celebrates the best in nonfiction book reviewing and honors the memory of Kukula Kapoor Glastris, the magazine’s beloved books editor.
Posted inBooks
American Terrorism: From Timothy McVeigh to January 6
Jeffrey Toobin offers a grim portrayal of the growth of the radical right since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Posted inMagazine
Was Edith Wilson the First Woman President?
Woodrow Wilson’s wife had extraordinary influence. Then he suffered a debilitating stroke.
Posted inMagazine
Birch of a Nation
How a group of conspiratorial far-right business tycoons in the 1950s and ‘60s helped lay the groundwork for the MAGA movement decades later.
Posted inMagazine
Desperately Seeking Union
A new biography of Daniel Webster argues that the antebellum statesman forged a civic nationalist vision that has held America together. If only it were true.
Posted inMagazine
The New Company Towns
Monopolistic hospital systems now dominate the economies of many cities—and shape public policy far beyond the scope of medicine.
