politics

The New York Times Sunday Book Review asked a handful of writers to recommend books for the presidential candidates. Here’s what they came up with. There are certainly a few interesting—and highly appropriate—choices here…Macbeth is suggested for Clinton, for example.

Donald H. Rumsfeld, the powerful defense secretary and architect of the Iraq War who left office two years ago as he faced ever-rising criticism, is working on a memoir to be published by Penguin Group (USA) in 2010.

At lunch with editors, on the phone with writers, on the editorial page of Publishers Weekly, the news is all the same: the only news this fall will be political. The “deciders” in New York have concluded that we’ll all be so consumed with who goes to Washington that everything else will be pushed aside.

Phooey. I’m already sick of it. Who gorges on political books anyway? Fess up.

An Islamic cultural organization is urging its 50 member states to boycott the annual international book fair in Paris because the fair is honouring Israeli literature.

Oh brother.

See-using Huffington Post's Fundrace tool-what people identifying their occupation as "novelist" contributed to presidential/political campaigns. The search brings up one or two other familiar names. Wordsy has had a couple of items about a writer's views influencing whether to read them. Does your view change when you know the money you spend ends up in a detestable politician's coffers?

HarperCollins is letting readers have free online access to The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President. Mark Halperin, veteran reporter and political analyst, sizes up the White House hopefuls with intelligence, insight, and his trademark wit, offering engaging, in-depth examinations of the histories, qualifications, agendas, and personal beliefs of the major candidates.

The billionaire Mayor of New York is still a threat to any Presidential candidate especially in 2008. But what do you know about him?

The memoir and policy book Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West by former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, will be published February 12 by HarperCollins, six days before Pakistan’s postponed parliamentary elections are to take place.

Washington insider, Robin Gerber, writes a historical 'what if' in which the Democratic Party nominates former first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to run against Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 election.

HarperCollins is in a rush to get its book by former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto on the market. Bhutto completed the manuscript a mere week before her assassination.