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P Fkn R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa DíazOffering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, "P FKN R" draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in a historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa Diaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau--creators of the Bad Bunny Syllabus--demonstrate Bad Bunny's place in a long tradition of infusing both joy and protest into music and honor the many evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.
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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman A riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time. From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. "Regime Change" covers the first year of Trump's second presidency--a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him no are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone. This is the story of how Trump has used that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds--and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power. It is an account of "Regime Change" right here in America--a landmark real-time history of a modern presidency like no other.
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Anne Boleyn: Reputation, Revolution, Religion, and the Queen Who Changed History by Martha TatarnicA provocative exploration of the iconic Anne Boleyn, her influence on Europe's political and religious landscape during her life, and why she matters today. In a story that has intrigued readers for generations, this Queen of England has been portrayed through many of the tropes we typically use to discuss women, including as a seductress and a power-hungry manipulator. A closer examination of her ascent to power and her reign reveals instead a complex woman who was pursued and then killed by the King and yet claimed what power she could to exert enormous influence on the English Reformation, and therefore on the political and religious landscape of Europe.
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Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General by Peter MauchJapan's prime minister and top military general during WWII, Hideki Tojo is today associated above all with the ignominy of defeat. Yet, before his downfall, he was a brilliant, ambitious, and at times ruthless political operator. Peter Mauch chronicles Tojo's story, his military genius, and the will to power that drove him to supreme heights.
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