MONDAY:
We apparently didn’t pay enough attention in history class, because we never knew Alice Roosevelt Longworth was such a bad girl. The daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, Alice married then Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth and had a child by Sen. William Borah of Idaho. Stacy A. Cordery will be at Politics and Prose with all the juicy details found in her latest book Alice . 7 p.m.

TUESDAY:
New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, The Conscience of a Liberal, a look at the return of economic and political inequality. 7 p.m.

U.S. foreign policy expert Trita Parsi puts a critical eye to all sides in her fictional account his new book, Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States. Parsi will be at Busboys and Poets to discuss how we will never be able to diffuse the situation unless we attempt to fully understand it. 6 p.m.