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All
weekend long -- from 9 a.m. Friday, June 1 through 8
p.m. Sunday, June 3 -- Politics & Prose members
receive 20% off almost all of our current in-store book inventory and 15% off
our DVDs and CDs.
If you are not yet a
member, it's a great time to sign up
and take advantage of our discount opportunities. Members always receive:
• 20% off all titles in our monthly events calendars
• 20% off our weekly hardcover fiction and nonfiction bestsellers
• Store-wide discounts during four annual members sales
• Other periodic section discounts and promotions
Please note: Discounts can NOT be applied to specially ordered items or to items which are not currently in stock in the store.
Members' online and phone purchases will also receive the
same discounts as long as the items selected are on our shelves and payment is provided at the time of the order.
Our Next Event
Samuel L. Popkin - The Candidate
Jun 3 2012 5:00 pm
Jun 3 2012 6:00 pm
As a political scientist at UC San Diego as well as a consultant on numerous presidential campaigns, Popkin draws on the theory and practice of electoral politics to explain what makes one candidate successful and another fall short. His analysis covers the lessons learned and not learned from the last sixty years, focusing on the unsuccessful efforts of Bush in 1992, Gore in 2000, and Hillary Clinton’s 2008 bid for the Democratic nomination.
Location:
- Street:
- 5015 Connecticut Ave NW
- City:
- Washington ,
- Province:
- District Of Columbia
- Postal Code:
- 20008
- Country:
- United States
Next Events
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Sunday, June 3 - 5:00pm
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Friday, June 1 - 9:00am
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Monday, June 4 - 7:00pm
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Tuesday, June 5 - 7:30pm
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Wednesday, June 6 - 7:00pm
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Thursday, June 7 - 7:00pm
Literary Travel
Politics & Prose has long been regarded as a civic forum and community gathering spot, a place where serious readers and lovers of books can attend author talks, take classes, join book groups, and exchange ideas about the salient issues of the day. Now we are excited to expand on the store’s tradition of bringing people together around books and literally take readers and authors on the road. We invite you to join us this fall on a Politics & Prose Literary Tour to France or Ireland. Travel with Folger Poetry Board President Gigi Bradford to Ireland, or with P&P’s senior book buyer Mark LaFramboise to Paris and the French Riviera.
Please visit www.politicsandprosetravel.com for detailed itinerary and price information.
Storewide Member Sale
and Books for Political Junkies
With the heat of summer beginning, things tend to slow a bit in Washington, but not at Politics & Prose. We’ll be kicking off the month with our three-day Summer Member Sale, running June 1-3. The rest of the month promises another remarkable line-up of events with authors who’ll discuss new books about politics, history, poetry, culture, psychology, and economics. Also ahead are some highly anticipated works of fiction and debut novels.
Political junkies, in particular, will have no shortage of events to choose from in the next few weeks. We’re delighted to host two old friends and former colleagues who are among the most highly respected political reporters in America and also are familiar faces at P&P: E.J. Dionne, Jr. will be on hand the first evening of June to discuss his new book, Our Divided Political Heart (Bloomsbury, $27), and David Maraniss will speak at the end of the month about his highly anticipated biography, Barack Obama: The Story (Simon & Schuster, $32.50)
Dionne, a Washington Post columnist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is the author of some of the most cogent and insightful books and newspaper columns about our nation’s political culture. He makes the case in his latest work that a balanced but active role for government is—and always has been—essential to American democracy and progress.
Maraniss, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and associate editor of The Washington Post, and the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Bill Clinton, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, tackles in his new book the complex life and character of President Obama. Few reporters have achieved as deep and nuanced an understanding of their subjects as Maraniss, or are able to write with such deftness and style, which is why this biography has garnered so much attention even before its release.
In the middle of the month, New York Times columnist and best-selling author Gail Collins will talk about her new book, As Texas Goes (Liveright, $25.95), which traces politicians and politics from Texas and their outsized and highly conservative impact on America’s political agenda.
Also mid-month, Christopher Hayes, the political talk show host on MSNBC, will explain why trust in American institutions has hit rock bottom, the subject of his new book, Twilight of the Elites (Crown, $26).
Rounding out the assorted political book events will be: political scientist Samuel L. Popkin, whose book, The Candidate (Oxford Univ., $27.95), offers an analysis of why some candidates succeed while others fail; civil rights leader and veteran congressman John Lewis, whose Across That Bridge (Hyperion, $22.99) is part memoir and part call to action; Peter Edelman, who will discuss So Rich, So Poor (New Press, $24.95), an examination of what economic inequities mean for America’s poor; former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, who pulls no punches in assessing politicians in A Nation of Wusses (John Wiley, $25.95); and Jim Mann, whose The Obamians (Viking, $26.95) explores the Obama administration’s foreign policy advisers.
To our P&P members, we offer thanks for your continued support of the store and its mission serving as a community forum and marketplace for ideas. We encourage all members to take advantage of sales on virtually all books and other items in the store during the first three days of June. And to those of you who are not yet members, please consider joining and showing your support for your local independent bookstore. You can sign up at the store, on-line at www.politics-prose.com, or by calling 202-364-1919.
Happy reading.
Brad and Lissa
Round House Theatre Bethesda
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