Alumni Work Among Washington Post Notable Nonfiction of 2016

The Washington Post recently published a list of notable nonfiction books in 2016. Four of the books on the list were written by Wilson Center scholars while in residence at the Wilson Center.

The books and authors are detailed below:

Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security (Oxford University Press, 2016) details the creation of the Office of Civilian Defense, a precursor to the Department of Homeland Security.  The author, Matthew Dallek, an expert on U.S. History, Security and Defense, National Security, and U.S. Politics, was a Fellow in 2007-2008 and a Public Policy Scholar in 2013.

A Kingdom of Their Own:  The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster (Knopf, 2016), written by Joshua Partlow, studies the political and personal life of President Hamid Karzai and his family post, focusing on President Karzai and Afghanistan post 9/11. Partlow is an expert on Security and Defense, Asia, Afghanistan, Middle East, and North Africa.  He was a bureau chief in Kabul for the Washington Post from 2009-2012 and a Public Policy Scholar in 2013.

My Own Words (Simon & Schuster, 2016) is a collection of the writings of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court since 1993. The book gives a glimpse into the life of one of the few female justices serving on the Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote and edited this set of essays with her authorized biographers, Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams. Mary Hartnett was a Public Policy Scholar in 2007, and Wendy W. Williams was a Public Policy Scholar in 2008.

Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency(Norton & Company, 2016), written by David Greenberg, describes the tools and techniques of presidential persuasion used since Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. Greenberg is an expert in American political and cultural history and was a Fellow in 2010-2011.