March 2012 4 Sunday, March 4, 5 p.m. Thursday, March 15, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 25, 5 p.m. 25 Mar. 12 Peggilene Bartels with Mar.15 12 Michael E. Mann David M. Dorsen Mar. 12 Eleanor Herman The Hockey Stick And Henry Friendly King Peggy The Climate Wars (Harvard Univ., $35) (Doubleday, $25.95) (Columbia Univ., $20.95) In this first comprehensive biography of Friendly When Bartels’s uncle died in 2008, she inherited Mann was the lead author of the 2001 report by (1903-1986), Dorsen, a Washington-based law- his position as king of Otuam, a village of 7,000 the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate yer, considers the circuit judge’s stellar record at on Ghana’s central coast. Making this more than a Change (winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize) Harvard Law School, during which time he clerked ceremonial role, Bartels, born in Ghana but a nat- that documented the correlation between rising for Supreme Court Justice Brandeis; his work on the uralized American citizen since 1997, addressed the community’s lack temperatures and increased use of fossil fuels. The chart resembled Second Circuit from 1959 to 1974; and his lasting achievements, espe- of health care, running water, and educational facilities. This account a hockey stick and became a focal point for climate-change deniers. cially in securities law. of her first two years as king stems from Herman’s Washington Post In his account of the politics behind the science, Mann discusses the Magazine cover story. attacks he and other scientists have faced from business and energy Monday, March 26, 7 p.m.

interests. Mar.26 12 Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Monday, March 5, 7 p.m. Brysac Masha Gessen 5 Friday, March 16, 7 p.m. Pax Ethnica Mar. 12 Mar.16 12 The Man Without a Face Elaine Pagels (PublicAffairs, $28.99) (Riverhead, $27.95) Revelations For this look at the peaceful corners of the Vladimir Putin was a KGB operative when he (Viking, $27.95) world, the authors of Tournament of Shadows and was hand-picked by Yeltsin’s circle to succeed the In her bestselling Reading Judas and The Gnostic Kingmakers combine anthropology, political history, increasingly unpopular leader. Gessen, a Moscow- Gospels, Pagels, Princeton professor of religion, and solid reporting to show how populations of based journalist and editor of the Russian-language made ancient texts vital by illuminating their his- diverse faiths and ethnicities have built thriving cultures in the Indian magazine Snob, has drawn on diverse and previously tory. Here she considers the Book of Revelation in state of Kerala, the Russian republic of Tatarstan, and in cities includ- untapped sources to recount Putin’s steadily more repressive measures. light of events in the year 66 C.E., which included ing Marseille and the Borough of Queens. John of Patmos’s response to the Roman occupation of Jerusalem. Tuesday, March 6, 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, 7 p.m. 6 Saturday, March 17, 3 p.m. 27 Mar. 12 David Rothkopf 17 Peter Beinart Mar. 12 Power, Inc. Mar. 12 Robert Kanigel The Crisis of (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30) On an Irish Island (Times Books, $26) In his thought-provoking look at globalism, the (Knopf, $26.95) This assessment of Israel’s future, by the author of Superclass starts from the observation that Great Blasket Island, off the west coast of Ireland, senior political writer for and for- the world’s largest corporations have revenues high- was an isolated preserve of traditional ways until mer New Republic editor, homes in on the occupation er than the GDP of many nations. Rothkopf, with the last residents left in 1953. In his profile of this of the West Bank as the main threat to the Zionist a background in government and business, grounds rugged spot, Kanigel, MIT professor of science dream of a Jewish homeland. Beinart argues that his view of the future in a history of markets and the balance of pub- writing emeritus, delves into the island’s history and the occupation endangers Israeli democracy and discourages liberal lic and private interests. some of the personages associated with it. American from supporting Israel. Wednesday, March 7, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 18, 5 p.m. 18 28 Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m. Steven Goldman, Derek Carty, Mar.7 12 Ellen Cassedy Mar. 12 Mar. 12 Robert J. Shiller Jay Jaffe, Ben Lindberg, We Are Here Finance and the Good Society Adam Sobsey (Univ. of Nebraska, $19.95) (Princeton Univ., $24.95) Baseball Prospectus 2012 Cassedy’s investigation of Lithuanian history began While the finance industry must shoulder its share (John Wiley, $24.95) with her efforts to recover her mother’s and uncle’s of blame for the economic downturn, Shiller, With prescient statistical predictions and entertain- pasts; it gradually widened to include the region’s economist and author of The Subprime Solution and ing articles, Baseball Prospectus has become the ulti- brutal experiences under both Nazis and Russians. Irrational Exuberance, argues that it shouldn’t be mate guide to baseball players and teams. Join your fellow fans and condemned outright. Rather, with innovation and baseball’s leading analysts in P&P’s annual pre-season warm-up. Monday, March 19, 7 p.m. redefined roles, finance can contribute to the com-

Mar.19 12 Guy Gugliotta mon good. Thursday, March 8, 7 p.m. Freedom’s Cap 8 Peter Behrens (Hill and Wang, $35) Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m. Mar. 12 29 The O’Briens As the longtime Washington Post Congress reporter Andrew Nagorski Mar. 12 (Pantheon, $25.95) shows, the Capitol is indeed a rich national sym- Hitlerland In his second novel Behrens resumes the saga of bol. Union General Meigs was its lead engineer (Simon & Schuster, $28) the family he introduced in The Law of Dreams. and Jefferson Davis supported it. But no soon- For this unique portrait, Nagorski, the veteran Spanning half a century, this lyrical and evoca- er was ground broken for the new building than journalist and author of The Greatest tive fiction from the Stegner Fellow follows Joe the compromise of 1850 inflamed the slavery debate; just five months Battle, has assembled the first-hand impressions O’Brien from his backwoods Canadian youth after the Battle of Gettysburg, a statue called “Freedom” rose on the of Americans who met Hitler during the Nazi through his move to California, his courtship of Iseult, and his rise to Capitol dome. rise to power. The accounts left by figures includ- railroad magnate. ing Charles Lindbergh, William Randolph Hearst, Tuesday, March 20, 7 p.m. 20 and W.E.B. Dubois range from alarmed to oblivious. Friday, March 9-Sunday, March 11 Jonah Lehrer Mar. 12 Spring Member Sale Imagine Friday, March 30, 7 p.m. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26) Mar.30 12 Anthony Shadid Friday, March 9, 7 p.m. 9 In Proust was a Neuroscientist and How we Decide, Tribute Event Noam Scheiber Mar. 12 Lehrer gave fascinating glimpses into the cognitive Shadid’s death in February robbed the The Escape Artists science behind remembering and decision-making. world of one of its greatest foreign correspon- (Simon & Schuster, $28) His third book combines science and case studies dents. His new book, House of Stone, pub- In his analysis of the Obama administration’s team for a wide-ranging look at creativity from artists like lished posthumously, uses his own Lebanese family of economic policy-makers, senior Bob Dylan to corporations like Apple. history and the story of reconstructing his great- editor profiles key figures, including Geithner, grandfather’s house to recapture the vibrant past of Summers, and Obama himself, looking at how these 21 Wednesday, March 21, 7 p.m. a region now engulfed in conflict. people work as a team, and considering their particu- Mar. 12 Ahmed Rashid lar visions and blind spots regarding the American economy. Pakistan on the Brink Saturday, March 31, 1 p.m. (Viking, $26.95) Charles Kupchan 31 Saturday, March 10, 3 p.m. Four years after his Descent into Chaos, the Lahore- No One’s World Mar. 12 Mar.10 12 Beryl A. Radin based Pakistani journalist reassesses the situation (Oxford Univ., Press, $27.95) Federal Management Reform in a in Pakistan and Afghanistan and offers sugges- Kupchan, a professor at Georgetown World of Contradictions tions for American foreign policy in the region. University and a Senior Fellow at the Council of (Georgetown Univ., $29.95) He pays particular attention to the role of the Foreign Relations, challenges the prevailing view Radin, a Georgetown Public Policy Institute faculty Taliban and the reliability of U.S. allies. that Western order and dominance will continue member, cites three basic areas of incompatibility to spread, arguing instead that the world is head- between the U.S. federal system and many of the Thursday, March 22, 7 p.m. 22 ed for political and ideological diversity. proposals for reform offered in recent decades. In Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott Mar. 12 considering diverse aspects of the government’s shared-powers struc- Some Assembly Required Saturday, March 31, 6 p.m. ture, values, and politics and administration, she makes a thorough (Riverhead, $26.95) Douglas Schoen analysis of how techniques suited to the private sector or borrowed Co-written with her son Sam, subject of Operating Mar.31 12 Hopelessly Divided from parliamentary systems are often a poor fit for federal manage- Instructions and a new father at age 19, Lamott here (Rowman & Littlefield, $27) ment. ventures into the new ground of grandmotherhood. As a Democratic consultant, Fox News Based on a journal she kept during her grandson’s political analyst, and author of The Political Fix, Sunday, March 11, 3 p.m. first year, this memoir is a candid and often funny Declaring Independence, and others, Schoen is well- Campbell McGrath Mar.11 12 chronicle of family adjustments. positioned for this incisive look at the pre-elec- In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys tion political climate. He finds that the main- (Ecco, $14.99) 23 Friday, March 23, 7 p.m. stream electorate is increasingly dissatisfied with In his eighth collection of poems, the Mar. 12 Jack Goldsmith the politicians, lobbyists, and fund-raisers who Guggenheim and MacArthur “genius” grantee Power and Constraint seem to call the shots. applies Walt Whitman’s capaciousness to con- (W.W. Norton, $26.95) temporary culture. While noting the banalities of While many provisions of the Patriot Act, along everyday life, McGrath wields an ironic romanti- with detentions and military commissions, suggest cism to winnow enduring meaning from the ephemeral. that the presidency is more powerful and less sub- Children and Teens’ Department ject to accountability than ever before, Goldsmith, Monday, March 12, 7 p.m. a Harvard law professor and former assistant attor- 12 Monday, March 12, 3:30-5:30 Mar. 12 Senator Bob Graham ney general at the Office of Legal Counsel, looks at the broader spec- 12 Cal Ripken, Jr. Mar. 12 Keys to the Kingdom trum of checks and balances built into American government to argue Super-Sized Slugger (Vanguard, $7.99) that, in fact, the opposite is true. (Hyperion, $16.99) This thriller from the former Florida senator Signing only and governor starts with the murder of the 9/11 Saturday, March 24, 1 p.m. Cody Parker may be an incredible third- Congressional Commission co-chair and leads to the Reem Bassiouney Mar.24 12 baseman, but he’s overweight and an easy target uncovering of an international conspiracy involving Professor Hanaa for bullies like Dante Rizzo. Competing with al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia. The plot culminates in a (Garnet, $14.95) Dante for a chance to play ball and dealing with race against time to prevent a nuclear device from being detonated off A successful academic but alone at age forty, Professor thefts at school threaten to sideline Cody, but he’s determined to the California coast. Hanaa wants both independence and the security of a traditional household. In her fifth novel, Bassiouney, a show his true colors. Ages 8 and up. This is a signing only. Purchasing the book at P&P is required for signing. Tuesday, March 13, 7 p.m. bestselling and award-winning Egyptian writer, explores 13 Please call the store for details. Eric Klinenberg Mar. 12 gender and power relationships in contemporary Egypt Going Solo through this portrait of a strong-minded woman professor. Tuesday, March 13, 5 p.m. (Penguin Press, $27.95) 13 Mar. 12 Bethesda Library In most cities today, a third of the population lives Saturday, March 24, 6 p.m. 24 Ally Carter alone. In his investigation of this demographic Mar. 12 Traci Brimhall shift, the NYU sociology professor, editor of Public Our Lady of the Ruins Out of Sight, Out of Time Culture, and author of Heat Wave, finds that liv- (W.W. Norton, $15.95) (Hyperion, $16.99) ing alone is on the rise in all age groups and classes, After winning the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Rachel Hawkins which suggests concurrent changes in attitudes toward marriage and Poetry First Book Award for Rookery, Brimhall Spell Bound family. was awarded the 2011 Barnard Women Poets (Hyperion, $17.99) Prize for her second collection, described by In Carter’s latest installment of the Gallagher Wednesday, March 14, 7 p.m. Carolyn Forché, the contest’s judge, as “poetry for Girls series, Cammie Morgan wakes up in a con- vent and doesn’t know how she got there—she’s Mar.14 12 Tiki Davies and Todd S. Purdum the new century: awake to the world, spiritually profound, and radi- China Hand ant with lyric intelligence.” forgotten the entire past month. In Hawkins’s (Univ. of Pennsylvania, $34.95) new Hex Hall book, Sophie Mercer is stripped John Paton Davies, Jr. (1908-1999) was a Foreign Sunday, March 25, 1 p.m. 25 of her demonic powers, but can’t be sure who Service Officer from 1931 to 1954, when Lee Stout with Barbara Hackman Mar. 12 her true enemies are. Ages 11 and up. McCarthyism ended his career. His memoir recounts Franklin his deep relationship with China, including his role A Matter of Simple Justice Thursday, March 15 at as one of the first Americans to talk with Mao. (Penn State Univ., $24.95) 10:30 a.m.

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Thursday, March 1, 7 p.m. Saturday, March 3, 3:30 p.m. Raymond Bonner Mar.1 12 Sara Mansfield Taber Book Groups Mar.3 12 Anatomy of Injustice Born Under an Assumed Name P & P book groups meet monthly, and are free and open to the public. (Knopf, $26.95) (Potomac Books, $29.95) Book group titles are 20% off for attendees. Read the book and join us! Bonner applies his skills as a lawyer and a Being repeatedly uprooted makes childhood difficult; the • Capital James Joyce Club (1st Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter to challenges are compounded when your father is a covert 3/1: The Divine Comedy (last 3 Cantos), by Dante and Ulysses, by Joyce recount the harrowing story of Edward CIA operative. In her memoir of life abroad during the • Classics (1st Monday, 7:30 p.m.) Lee Elmore, wrongfully convicted of mur- Cold War, Taber, a literary journalist and author of Bread 3/5: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, trans. Foss der in 1982. As he follows a young defense of Three Rivers, recounts the dual stories of her own efforts • Daytime (3rd Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.) attorney working to free Elmore from to establish an identity and her father’s struggle to come to terms with an 3/21: Mama Day, by Naylor death row, Bonner’s exposure of mishandled evidence, an America he grew increasingly disenchanted with. • Evening Fiction (2nd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.) 3/13: The Tiger’s Wife, by Obreht incompetent defense team, and other iniquities constitutes a • Fascinating History (4th Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) powerful indictment of the American criminal justice system. Saturday, March 3, 6 p.m. 3 3/22: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Weatherford Thomas Mallon Mar. 12 • Futurist (1st Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.) Friday, March 2, 7 p.m. Watergate 3/7: Next Wave, by West

Mar.2 12 Jim Yardley (Pantheon, $26.95) • Graphic Novel (4th Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.) Brave Dragons With Dewey Defeats Truman, Fellow Travelers, and others, 3/28: Habibi, by Thompson (Knopf, $26.95) Mallon has proven himself an adept novelist of recent • Lez Read (2nd Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.) Taking over the Shanxi Brave Dragons, history. His ninth work of fiction revisits the Nixon years 3/14: Wingshooters, by Revoyr • Memoirs of Africa (Swarthmore) (3rd Monday 7:30) China’s lowest-ranked professional basket- and, from several carefully selected perspectives, Mallon 3/19: Ake: Years of Childhood, by Soyinka ball team, former NBA coach Bob Weiss lets the scandal’s participants tell us what happened, including the fate of • Poetry (4th Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.) found that he had to adapt his techniques those erased 18 -1/2 minutes of tape. 3/27: Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems, by Sandburg as much as the players had to change • Public Affairs (4th Monday, 7:30 p.m.) theirs. In this entertaining account of a season with the Brave Sunday, March 4, 1 p.m. 3/26: Too Big to Fail, by Sorkin • Science Fiction & Fantasy Dragons, Yardley, former New York Times Beijing bureau chief, Mar.4 12 Dusko Doder William Beecher (2nd Thurs., 6:30 p.m.) profiles players, owners, and fans. The Firebird Affair Nuclear Revenge 3/8: Fantasy (6:30 p.m.): Mythago Woods, by Holdstock Doder uses his experience as the former Washington Science Fiction (7:30 p.m.): Ender’s Game, by Card • Spanish Language (3rd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.) Saturday, March 3, 1 p.m. Post Moscow correspondent for this gripping thriller 3 3/20: Conquistadora, by Santiago Anthony Franze Mar. 12 involving a journalist, the mysterious death of his wife, • Spirituality (3rd Sunday, 6 p.m.) The Last Justice and KGB infiltration of the CIA in the last days of the 3/18: Contemplative Prayer, by Merton (Sterling & Ross, $24.95) Soviet Union. In Beecher’s latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize- • Teen (4th Sunday, 3:30 p.m.) Franze’s debut thriller is a tale of murder, winning journalist and former official at the Department 3/25: TBD corruption, and unbridled ambition set in of Defense and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has • Travel (1st Tuesday, 7 p.m.) the marble halls and secluded corridors of concocted a pulse-racing story involving academics over- 3/6: The Masque of Africa, by Naipaul the U.S. Supreme Court. seas who stumble onto an al-Qaeda plot to smuggle dirty • Veterans Book Group (3rd Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) 3/15: TBD bombs into the U.S. • Women’s Biography (2nd Monday, 7:30 p.m.) 3/12: Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life, by Darznik

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 7 p.m. 2 7 p.m. 3 1 p.m. Raymond Bonner Jim Yardley Anthony Franze 20% off P&P Hardcover Bestsellers The Last Justice Anatomy of Injustice Brave Dragons and all Event Titles for Members 3:30 p.m. March 2012 Sara Mansfield Taber throughout March Born Under an Assumed Name 6 p.m. Thomas Mallon Watergate

4 1 p.m. 5 7 p.m. 6 7 p.m. 7 7 p.m. 8 7 p.m. 9 7 p.m. 10 3 p.m. Dusko Doder Masha Gessen David Rothkopf Steven Goldman, Derek Carty, Peter Behrens Noam Scheiber Beryl A. Radin The Firebird Affair The Man Without a Face Power, Inc. Jay Jaffe, Ben Lindberg, The O’Briens The Escape Artists Federal Management Reform in a William Beecher Nuclear Revenge Adam Sobsey World of Contradictions Baseball Prospectus 2012 7 p.m. 5 p.m. Sidwell Friends School Peggilene Bartels with Baratunde Thurston Eleanor Herman How to Be Black King Peggy Spring Member Sale Spring Member Sale 11 3 p.m. 12 3:30 p.m. 13 5 p.m. 14 7 p.m. 15 10:30 a.m. 16 7 p.m. 17 3 p.m. Campbell McGrath Cal Ripken, Jr. Bethesda Library Tiki Davies and Christopher Paul Curtis Elaine Pagels Robert Kanigel In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys Super-Sized Slugger Ally Carter Todd S. Purdum The Mighty Miss Malone Revelations On an Irish Island Out of Sight, Out of Time Rachel Hawkins China Hand 7 p.m. Spell Bound 7 p.m. Senator Bob Graham Michael E. Mann Keys to the Kingdom 7 p.m. The Hockey Stick And Eric Klinenberg The Climate Wars Spring Member Sale Going Solo 18 5 p.m. 19 7 p.m. 20 7 p.m. 21 7 p.m. 22 7 p.m. 23 7 p.m. 24 1 p.m. Ellen Cassedy Guy Gugliotta Jonah Lehrer Ahmed Rashid Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott Jack Goldsmith Reem Bassiouney We Are Here Freedom’s Cap Imagine Pakistan on the Brink Some Assembly Required Power and Constraint Professor Hanaa

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25 1 p.m. 26 7 p.m. 27 7 p.m. 28 7 p.m. 29 7 p.m. 30 7 p.m. 31 1 p.m. Lee Stout with Karl E. Meyer and Peter Beinart Robert J. Shiller Andrew Nagorski Anthony Shadid Charles Kupchan Barbara Hackman Franklin Shareen Blair Brysac The Crisis of Zionism Finance and the Good Society Hitlerland Tribute Event No One’s World A Matter of Simple Justice Pax Ethnica 6 p.m. 5 p.m. Douglas Schoen David M. Dorsen Hopelessly Divided Henry Friendly