Review by New York Times Review
TO END A PRESIDENCY By Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz. (Basic, $28.) Should a president be impeached? And if so, how do you go about it? Tribe and Matz, both highly respected legal scholars, play out various scenarios, bringing to bear a sense of history and a deep knowledge of constitutional law. when life gives you LULULEMONS By Lauren Weisberger. (Simon & Schuster, $26.99.) From the author of "The Devil Wears Prada" comes a sequel featuring Emily Charlton, ex-assistant to the fashion editor Miranda Priestly. Charlton is now living in the Connecticut suburbs and her career as a Hollywood image consultant has suffered a number of blows, ft's time for an uplifting comeback. the origins of cool in postwar America By Joel Dinerstein. (University of Chicago, $40.) Exploring the intersection of all those midcentury markers of hipness - from film noir to jazz to existential literature - Dinerstein maps out a grand unified theory of "cool," as the concept that came to define the postwar era. not that bad Edited by Roxane Gay. (Harper Perennial, paper, $16.99.) What does it mean to live in a world in which women are, as one essay in this collection puts it, "routinely secondguessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked" simply for speaking their minds? Gay gathers a group of feminist writers who offer answers, ruthless tide By Al Roker. (William Morrow/HarperCollins, $28.99.) The "Today" show co-host and weatherman writes a narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown flood, the deadliest in American history, immersing himself, for a change, in the weather of the past. & Noteworthy "En route to my 20 th college reunion, 1 started reading Elif Batuman's the idiot. Its clever, awkward, insecure protagonist, Selin, is an unforgettable character. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, is a lovelorn Slavicist entering Harvard in 1995, when email was becoming ubiquitous but smartphones were far in the future. The novel is a terrific satire, because it comes from a sympathetic place, (ft even helped relieve my anxiety about the reunion, which turned out to be fun.) One memorable nonfiction book 1 just finished is Lauren Hilgers's patriot number one, a richly reported account of a Chinese dissident who settles in Flushing, Queens, the neighborhood where 1 grew up. ft's the second book I've read about Flushing lately - the other is Atticus Lish's debut novel, preparation for the next life. From radically different narrative perspectives, both books offer compelling portraits of the hopes and disappointments that exist in one of New York's fastest-growing immigrant communities." -SEWELL CHAN, INTERNATIONAL NEWS EDITOR, ON WHAT HE'S READING.
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Review by Booklist Review
Before Trump's first year in office ended, there were already calls for impeachment, and they weren't all coming from the hard left. Constitutional scholars and coauthors (Uncertain Justice, 2014) Tribe and Matz make clear their personal and political objections to the forty-fifth president. But this is no brief for his impeachment. Rather, it is a sober and systematic examination of the historical origin, varying definitions, and specific attempts to impeach American presidents. The roots of impeachment are found in British parliamentary custom, and the Constitution cites treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors as grounds for its implementation. No president has been charged with treason or bribery, and, as the authors illustrate, high crimes and misdemeanors can be open to interpretation. So impeachment has always been a political rather than a criminal process. Furthermore, they show that the right of Congress to impeach does not compel it to do so. Tribe and Matz provide a fair, balanced, and relevant examination of an often misunderstood function of our national government.--Freeman, Jay Copyright 2018 Booklist
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Review by Library Journal Review
Tribe (Carl M. Loeb Univ. Professor & constitutional law, Harvard Univ.) has again partnered with constitutional lawyer Matz (they previously collaborated on Uncertain Justice) to provide a legal analysis of the power of impeachment. Perhaps now more than ever, the United States is grappling at the question of when and how an American president can be removed from office, and this duo works to provide the historical and political backgrounds of the process. While impeachment became part of the political system as a way of providing a check on executive power, impeaching a president, as the authors posit, will likely result in significant national trauma. The authors focus on three aspects to consider regarding impeachment-is removal permissible, is removal likely to succeed, and is removal worth the cost to the nation? Tribe and Matz bridge the gap between the legal and political considerations of impeachment, shedding new light on an often discussed but little researched topic of civil discourse. VERDICT Timely and well researched, this will appeal to readers who have been clamoring for political science titles.-Mattie Cook, Flat River Community Lib., MI © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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