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MONDAY:
Cass R. Sunstein will be at Politics and Prose to discuss the book Worst-Case Scenarios. No, it's not one of those books that gives you tips on how to survive if you wake up next to someone whose name you don’t remember or how to retrieve a candy bar stuck in the lunchroom vending machine. It's actually about scary stuff, like nuclear bombs in suitcases or avian flu. We prefer learning how to jump from a building into a dumpster. It's less of a downer. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
Don't hear enough about Lincoln's awesome lawyering skills in your average workweek? Best-selling historian Julie M. Fenster will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson's to read from The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President. 7 p.m.
Judith Jones, cookbook editor at Knopf, brings her memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, to Politics and Prose. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
Washington-area writers Michelle Brafman, Merle Collins, T. Greenwood, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Faye Moskowitz, Barbara Mujica, Jessica Neely, Amy Stolls, Hananah Zaheer, and Christy J. Zink will be at Politics and Prose to read from their contributions to the latest anthology Electric Grace: Still More Fiction by Washington Area Women. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY:
Former undercover CIA hottie Valerie Plame Wilson will be at Nathan's Q&A Café to read and discuss Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. Chances are, if you haven't made reservations to this one, you're probably not going to get a seat. Copies of the book will be available through Olsson's. Noon.
Nina Burleigh will be at Olsson's in Dupont Circle to read from her book Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt, which looks at the unlikely band of scientific explorers that followed Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Army into Egypt. 7 p.m.
SATURDAY:
The TransAfricaForum, American Friends Service Committee Africa Program and Busboys and Poets present a book reading and discussion of No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half-Century, 1950-2000, with the book's editors and Africa World Press. This event is free and open to the public. 5:30 p.m.
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The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President
What a great title! Almost as good as The Larry Craig Story: Splashing in the Toilets of Love (An Erotic Thriller).