Michael Kruse Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at Politico. Senior staff writer, @POLITICO, @POLITICOMag. Repped by @JavelinDC. At work on a @twelvebooks book. @DavidsonCollege alum. Love Lauren and the girls.

What It Takes: The Way to the White House
Richard Ben Cramer
Richard Ben Cramer’s “What It Takes” was published 30 years ago today. https://t.co/p27zOVcsGW
Paperback, 1993
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The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis
“Once you have made the world an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing,” a senior devil advises a junior devil in C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. https://t.co/H6hBryGIAv
Paperback, 2001
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Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
Tim Miller
Tim Miller’s new book reveals the ways he and his fellow GOP operatives poisoned the national discourse and helped enable the rise of Donald Trump... What distinguishes this book is his willingness to put his own behavior under the microscope...
Hardcover, 2022
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Letters to Trump
Donald J. Trump
A woman named Stephanie Tatar wearing a hot-pink pantsuit told @elainejgodfrey she’s starting a business that allows people to fax her handwritten letters to Trump; she’ll deliver them personally to Mar-a-Lago, to avoid censorship by the postal service. https://t.co/WsYfnJGbOq
Hardcover, 2023
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason Stanley
“Trump engages in fascist rhetoric,” says Jason Stanley, a Yale professor who wrote the book “How Fascism Works.” https://t.co/KXiCbxrKGx
Paperback, 2020
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Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon
Leonard S. Marcus
... he used “compromise and cunning and occasional cruelty,” as Adam Gopnik once put it, to achieve great things. https://t.co/iT1YE7UQOi
Hardcover, 2023
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