MONDAY:
John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC and a political writer for The New York Times, will be at the Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of his new book, Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power. 7:30 p.m.

Alan Furst will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his new novel, the tenth in the Night Soldiers series, The Spies of Warsaw. 7 p.m.

Michael I. Meyerson will be at the Knight Conference Center at the Newseum to talk about Liberty’s Blueprint: How Madison & Hamilton Wrote The Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World. Lawyer and author David O. Stewart and Louis Fisher from the Congressional Research Service will join a panel discussion with Meyerson on “The Federalist Papers & the Future of Liberty in America.” 5:30 p.m.

TUESDAY:
Robert Friedman will be at the Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of his new novel, Shadow of the Fathers. The event is sponsored by the National Puerto Rican Coalition. 6 p.m.

Barbara Ehrenreich, who satirized the Reagan era in The Worst Years Of Our Lives before she tackled welfare reform in Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, returns with This Land is Their Land, which declares the present far worst than the past. Ehrenreich will be at Politics and Prose to explain. 7 p.m.