Book Fair guests can shop titles and meet the authors behind incredible nonfiction and fiction tales in more than a dozen genres. It’s your chance to mingle with your favorite author and discover new ones, including Jason Rezaian, "Prisoner;" Marlin Fitzwater, "Calm Before the Storm;" Dorothy Butler Gilliam, "Trailblazer;" and James Reston Jr., "The Impeachment Diary."
The fair will feature a robust children’s section, along with selections in cooking, sports, fiction, health and medicine, history, law, lifestyle, mystery, psychology, sports, travel, true crime, and regional interests. The National Press Club Journalism Institute has partnered with landmark local bookseller Politics & Prose to coordinate the event.
Folks shown (in sequence):
* Jackson Bryer, Why I Like This Story
* Meryle Secrest, The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti
* Fred Bowen, Speed Demon
* Kate Black, Represent: The Woman’s Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World
* Juana Medina, Juana and Lucas: Big Problems
* Francis Gary Powers, Jr., Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy
* Ruth Kassinger, Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
* Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
* James Grady, Condor: The Short Takes
* Frank DiStefano, The Next Realignment
* Adam Frankel, The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing
* Peter Copeland, Finding the News: Adventures of a Young Reporter
* Lauren Chelec Cafritz, Breath Love
* Eugenia Kim, The Kinship of Secrets
* Marie Arana, Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
* Marc Mauer, The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences
* James Reston, Jr., The Impeachment Diary
* James Banner, Jr., Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today
* James Olson, To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence
* Breanna McDaniel, Hands Up!
* Maya Ajemera, Back To School
* Philip Greene, A Drinkable Feast: A Cocktail Companion to 1920s Paris
* Kimberly Cataldo Thompson, Amen to the Garden: Dandelions to Dinner
* Nadine Epstein, Elie Wiesel: An Extraordinary Life and Legacy: Writings, Photographs and Reflections
* Andrea Chamblee, The Capital of Basketball: A History of DC Area High School Hoops
* Tony Massenburg, Lessons From Lenny: The Journey Beyond a Shooting Star
* Mary Quattlebaum, Brother, Sister, Me and You
* Laura Gehl, Except When They Don’t
* Evita Giron, The Girl with the Magical Curls
* Ronald Smith, The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away
* Andy Parker, For Alison: The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father’s Fight for Gun Safety
* Lawrence Lanahan, The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide
* Ruth Kassinger (again)
* Joan Biskupic, The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
* Marlin Fitzwater, Calm Before the Storm: Desert Storm Diaries and Other Stories
* Ronald Collins, The People Vs. Ferlinghetti: Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg’s Howl
* Faye Haskins, The Evening Star: The Rise and Fall of a Great Washington Newspaper
* Steven Levingston, Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership
* Peter Copeland (again)
* Marie Arana (again)
* Ronald Collins (again)
* Robert Tsai, Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation
* Philip Greene (again)
* Brenna Maloney, Good Dog Diego
* Steven Levingston (again)
* Steve Vogel, Betrayal in Berlin
* Ronald Collins (again)
* Eric Lichtblau, Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis
* Kara Arundel, Raising America’s Zoo: How Two Wild Gorillas Helped Transform the National Zoo
* Derek Sandhaus, Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World’s Oldest Drinking Culture
* Fred Bowen (again)
* Kevin Panetta, Bloom
* Juana Medina (again)
* Audrey Kurth Cronin, Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists
* Charles Lane, Freedom’s Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror
* Mary Amato, Sing With Me, Lucy McGee
* Mary Quattlebaum (again)
* Peter Copeland (again)
Others:
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