MONDAY:
Kelly McMasters will be at Politics and Prose to talk about her memoir, Welcome to Shirley, which looks at the town of Shirley, New York — a wonderful place to grow up in the 1970s, but unfortunately not a great place to spend the rest of your life thanks to the close proximity of the leaky Brookhaven atomic research facility. 7 p.m.

Rick Perlstein will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson’s to talk about Nixonland , which isn’t some fantastical tale of a Nixon-themed amusement park but a look at Nixon’s rise to power during the 1960s and early 1970s. 7 p.m. Perlstein also will be at the National Press Club on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

TUESDAY:
Benjamin Wallace will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to tell the tale of the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold — a 1787 bottle of Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once owned by Thomas Jefferson. In The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Wallace tracks the history of the $156,000 bottle of wine. 7 p.m.