Here are some of our editors’ and reviewers’ top picks so far this year for policy and political nonfiction.
Charles Sumner
Posted inBooks
Blood on the U.S. Senate Floor
The 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery Republican, by a pro-slavery U.S. Representative Preston Brooks was a step on the road to the Civil War and has echoes in our own violent times.
Posted inMagazine
The Scandal About Scandals
A new book says polarization breeds impunity. But America’s worst injustices emerged when the parties got along too well.
