Sunday, March 25, 5 p.m.David M. DorsenHenry Friendly (Harvard Univ., $35)In this first comprehensive biography of Friendly (1903-1986), Dorsen, a Washington-based law-yer, considers the circuit judge’s stellar record at Harvard Law School, during which time he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Brandeis; his work on the

Second Circuit from 1959 to 1974; and his lasting achievements, espe-cially in securities law.

Monday, March 26, 7 p.m.Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair BrysacPax Ethnica (PublicAffairs, $28.99)

For this look at the peaceful corners of the world, the authors of Tournament of Shadows and Kingmakers combine anthropology, political history, and solid reporting to show how populations of diverse faiths and ethnicities have built thriving cultures in the Indian state of Kerala, the Russian republic of Tatarstan, and in cities includ-ing Marseille and the Borough of Queens.

Tuesday, March 27, 7 p.m.Peter BeinartThe Crisis of Zionism (Times Books, $26)This assessment of Israel’s future, by the senior political writer for The Daily Beast and for-mer New Republic editor, homes in on the occupation of the West Bank as the main threat to the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland. Beinart argues that

the occupation endangers Israeli democracy and discourages liberal American Jews from supporting Israel.

Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m.Robert J. ShillerFinance and the Good Society(Princeton Univ., $24.95)

While the finance industry must shoulder its share of blame for the economic downturn, Shiller, economist and author of The Subprime Solution and Irrational Exuberance, argues that it shouldn’t be condemned outright. Rather, with innovation and redefined roles, finance can contribute to the com-mon good.

Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m.Andrew NagorskiHitlerland (Simon & Schuster, $28)For this unique portrait, Nagorski, the veteran Newsweek journalist and author of The Greatest Battle, has assembled the first-hand impressions of Americans who met Hitler during the Nazi rise to power. The accounts left by figures includ-ing Charles Lindbergh, William Randolph Hearst,

and W.E.B. Dubois range from alarmed to oblivious.

Friday, March 30, 7 p.m.Anthony Shadid Tribute Event Shadid’s death in February robbed the

world of one of its greatest foreign correspon-dents. His new book, House of Stone, pub-lished posthumously, uses his own Lebanese family history and the story of reconstructing his great-grandfather’s house to recapture the vibrant past of a region now engulfed in conflict.

Saturday, March 31, 1 p.m. Charles KupchanNo One’s World(Oxford Univ., Press, $27.95)Kupchan, a professor at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, challenges the prevailing view that Western order and dominance will continue to spread, arguing instead that the world is head-ed for political and ideological diversity.

Saturday, March 31, 6 p.m.Douglas SchoenHopelessly Divided (Rowman & Littlefield, $27)As a Democratic consultant, Fox News

political analyst, and author of The Political Fix, Declaring Independence, and others, Schoen is well-positioned for this incisive look at the pre-elec-tion political climate. He finds that the main-stream electorate is increasingly dissatisfied with the politicians, lobbyists, and fund-raisers who seem to call the shots.

Thursday, March 15, 7 p.m.Michael E. MannThe Hockey Stick And The Climate Wars(Columbia Univ., $20.95)

Mann was the lead author of the 2001 report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize) that documented the correlation between rising temperatures and increased use of fossil fuels. The chart resembled a hockey stick and became a focal point for climate-change deniers. In his account of the politics behind the science, Mann discusses the attacks he and other scientists have faced from business and energy interests.

Friday, March 16, 7 p.m.Elaine PagelsRevelations (Viking, $27.95)In her bestselling Reading Judas and The Gnostic Gospels, Pagels, Princeton professor of religion, made ancient texts vital by illuminating their his-tory. Here she considers the Book of Revelation in light of events in the year 66 C.E., which included

John of Patmos’s response to the Roman occupation of Jerusalem.

Saturday, March 17, 3 p.m.Robert KanigelOn an Irish Island (Knopf, $26.95)

Great Blasket Island, off the west coast of Ireland, was an isolated preserve of traditional ways until the last residents left in 1953. In his profile of this rugged spot, Kanigel, MIT professor of science writing emeritus, delves into the island’s history and some of the personages associated with it.

Sunday, March 18, 5 p.m.Ellen CassedyWe Are Here (Univ. of Nebraska, $19.95)Cassedy’s investigation of Lithuanian history began with her efforts to recover her mother’s and uncle’s pasts; it gradually widened to include the region’s brutal experiences under both Nazis and Russians.

Monday, March 19, 7 p.m.Guy GugliottaFreedom’s Cap (Hill and Wang, $35)

As the longtime Washington Post Congress reporter shows, the Capitol is indeed a rich national sym-bol. Union General Meigs was its lead engineer and Jefferson Davis supported it. But no soon-er was ground broken for the new building than the compromise of 1850 inflamed the slavery debate; just five months after the Battle of Gettysburg, a statue called “Freedom” rose on the Capitol dome.

Tuesday, March 20, 7 p.m.Jonah LehrerImagine (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26) In Proust was a Neuroscientist and How we Decide, Lehrer gave fascinating glimpses into the cognitive science behind remembering and decision-making. His third book combines science and case studies for a wide-ranging look at creativity from artists like

Bob Dylan to corporations like Apple.

Wednesday, March 21, 7 p.m.Ahmed Rashid Pakistan on the Brink (Viking, $26.95)

Four years after his Descent into Chaos, the Lahore-based Pakistani journalist reassesses the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan and offers sugges-tions for American foreign policy in the region. He pays particular attention to the role of the Taliban and the reliability of U.S. allies.

Thursday, March 22, 7 p.m.Anne Lamott with Sam LamottSome Assembly Required (Riverhead, $26.95)Co-written with her son Sam, subject of Operating Instructions and a new father at age 19, Lamott here ventures into the new ground of grandmotherhood. Based on a journal she kept during her grandson’s first year, this memoir is a candid and often funny chronicle of family adjustments.

Friday, March 23, 7 p.m.Jack GoldsmithPower and Constraint (W.W. Norton, $26.95)

While many provisions of the Patriot Act, along with detentions and military commissions, suggest that the presidency is more powerful and less sub-ject to accountability than ever before, Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor and former assistant attor-ney general at the Office of Legal Counsel, looks at the broader spec-trum of checks and balances built into American government to argue that, in fact, the opposite is true.

Saturday, March 24, 1 p.m.Reem BassiouneyProfessor Hanaa (Garnet, $14.95)A successful academic but alone at age forty, Professor Hanaa wants both independence and the security of a traditional household. In her fifth novel, Bassiouney, a bestselling and award-winning Egyptian writer, explores gender and power relationships in contemporary Egypt

through this portrait of a strong-minded woman professor.

Saturday, March 24, 6 p.m.Traci BrimhallOur Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, $15.95)

After winning the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award for Rookery, Brimhall was awarded the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize for her second collection, described by Carolyn Forché, the contest’s judge, as “poetry for the new century: awake to the world, spiritually profound, and radi-ant with lyric intelligence.”

Sunday, March 25, 1 p.m.Lee Stout with Barbara Hackman FranklinA Matter of Simple Justice (Penn State Univ., $24.95)A staff assistant to President Nixon, Franklin was hired to bring more women into the federal gov-ernment. Her efforts resulted in some 100 women

assuming high-level executive positions, as well as increasing women’s presence on boards and commissions. Based on the “A Few Good Women” oral history project at the Penn State University Libraries, this book documents the Nixon-era push for equality of women in the workplace.

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Sunday, March 4, 5 p.m. Peggilene Bartels with Eleanor HermanKing Peggy (Doubleday, $25.95)

When Bartels’s uncle died in 2008, she inherited his position as king of Otuam, a village of 7,000 on Ghana’s central coast. Making this more than a ceremonial role, Bartels, born in Ghana but a nat-uralized American citizen since 1997, addressed the community’s lack of health care, running water, and educational facilities. This account of her first two years as king stems from Herman’s Washington Post Magazine cover story.

Monday, March 5, 7 p.m.Masha GessenThe Man Without a Face (Riverhead, $27.95) Vladimir Putin was a KGB operative when he was hand-picked by Yeltsin’s circle to succeed the increasingly unpopular leader. Gessen, a Moscow-based journalist and editor of the Russian-language magazine Snob, has drawn on diverse and previously

untapped sources to recount Putin’s steadily more repressive measures.

Tuesday, March 6, 7 p.m.David RothkopfPower, Inc. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30)

In his thought-provoking look at globalism, the author of Superclass starts from the observation that the world’s largest corporations have revenues high-er than the GDP of many nations. Rothkopf, with a background in government and business, grounds his view of the future in a history of markets and the balance of pub-lic and private interests.

Wednesday, March 7, 7 p.m.Steven Goldman, Derek Carty, Jay Jaffe, Ben Lindberg, Adam Sobsey Baseball Prospectus 2012 (John Wiley, $24.95)With prescient statistical predictions and entertain-ing articles, Baseball Prospectus has become the ulti-

mate guide to baseball players and teams. Join your fellow fans and baseball’s leading analysts in P&P’s annual pre-season warm-up.

Thursday, March 8, 7 p.m.Peter BehrensThe O’Briens (Pantheon, $25.95)

In his second novel Behrens resumes the saga of the family he introduced in The Law of Dreams. Spanning half a century, this lyrical and evoca-tive fiction from the Stegner Fellow follows Joe O’Brien from his backwoods Canadian youth through his move to California, his courtship of Iseult, and his rise to railroad magnate.

Friday, March 9-Sunday, March 11Spring Member Sale

Friday, March 9, 7 p.m.Noam ScheiberThe Escape Artists (Simon & Schuster, $28) In his analysis of the Obama administration’s team of economic policy-makers, the New Republic senior editor profiles key figures, including Geithner, Summers, and Obama himself, looking at how these people work as a team, and considering their particu-

lar visions and blind spots regarding the American economy.

Saturday, March 10, 3 p.m.Beryl A. RadinFederal Management Reform in a World of Contradictions (Georgetown Univ., $29.95)

Radin, a Georgetown Public Policy Institute faculty member, cites three basic areas of incompatibility between the U.S. federal system and many of the proposals for reform offered in recent decades. In considering diverse aspects of the government’s shared-powers struc-ture, values, and politics and administration, she makes a thorough analysis of how techniques suited to the private sector or borrowed from parliamentary systems are often a poor fit for federal manage-ment.

Sunday, March 11, 3 p.m.Campbell McGrathIn the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco, $14.99)In his eighth collection of poems, the Guggenheim and MacArthur “genius” grantee applies Walt Whitman’s capaciousness to con-temporary culture. While noting the banalities of everyday life, McGrath wields an ironic romanti-

cism to winnow enduring meaning from the ephemeral.

Monday, March 12, 7 p.m.Senator Bob GrahamKeys to the Kingdom (Vanguard, $7.99)

This thriller from the former Florida senator and governor starts with the murder of the 9/11 Congressional Commission co-chair and leads to the uncovering of an international conspiracy involving al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia. The plot culminates in a race against time to prevent a nuclear device from being detonated off the California coast.

Tuesday, March 13, 7 p.m.Eric KlinenbergGoing Solo (Penguin Press, $27.95) In most cities today, a third of the population lives alone. In his investigation of this demographic shift, the NYU sociology professor, editor of Public Culture, and author of Heat Wave, finds that liv-ing alone is on the rise in all age groups and classes,

which suggests concurrent changes in attitudes toward marriage and family.

Wednesday, March 14, 7 p.m.Tiki Davies and Todd S. PurdumChina Hand (Univ. of Pennsylvania, $34.95)

John Paton Davies, Jr. (1908-1999) was a Foreign Service Officer from 1931 to 1954, when McCarthyism ended his career. His memoir recounts his deep relationship with China, including his role as one of the first Americans to talk with Mao. Davies also offered early assessments of Chiang Kai-shek, met with Nehru and Gandhi in the 1940s, and served in Moscow with Kennan.

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Children and Teens’ Department

Monday, March 12, 3:30-5:30Cal Ripken, Jr.Super-Sized Slugger (Hyperion, $16.99)Signing onlyCody Parker may be an incredible third-baseman, but he’s overweight and an easy target for bullies like Dante Rizzo. Competing with Dante for a chance to play ball and dealing with

thefts at school threaten to sideline Cody, but he’s determined to show his true colors. Ages 8 and up.This is a signing only. Purchasing the book at P&P is required for signing. Please call the store for details.

Tuesday, March 13, 5 p.m.Bethesda LibraryAlly CarterOut of Sight, Out of Time (Hyperion, $16.99)Rachel HawkinsSpell Bound (Hyperion, $17.99)

In Carter’s latest installment of the Gallagher Girls series, Cammie Morgan wakes up in a con-vent and doesn’t know how she got there—she’s forgotten the entire past month. In Hawkins’s new Hex Hall book, Sophie Mercer is stripped of her demonic powers, but can’t be sure who her true enemies are. Ages 11 and up.

Thursday, March 15 at 10:30 a.m.Christopher Paul CurtisThe Mighty Miss Malone (Wendy Lamb, $15.99)In Curtis’s Newbery Award-winning novel Bud, Not Buddy, Bud met a girl named Deza Malone. This book is her story. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana,

and her teachers predict she will do great things. But the Depression hits the Malone family hard, and after Deza’s father leaves to find work, the rest of the family follow, ending up in a Michigan Hooverville. Ages 10-14

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P & P book groups meet monthly, and are free and open to the public. Book group titles are 20% off for attendees. Read the book and join us!

Book Groups

• Capital James Joyce Club (1st Thursday, 7:30 p.m.)3/1: The Divine Comedy (last 3 Cantos), by Dante and Ulysses, by Joyce• Classics (1st Monday, 7:30 p.m.)3/5: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, trans. Foss• Daytime (3rd Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.)3/21: Mama Day, by Naylor• Evening Fiction (2nd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.)3/13: The Tiger’s Wife, by Obreht• Fascinating History (4th Thursday, 7:30 p.m.)3/22: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Weatherford• Futurist (1st Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.)3/7: Next Wave, by West • Graphic Novel (4th Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.)3/28: Habibi, by Thompson• Lez Read (2nd Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.)3/14: Wingshooters, by Revoyr• Memoirs of Africa (Swarthmore) (3rd Monday 7:30)3/19: Ake: Years of Childhood, by Soyinka• Poetry (4th Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.)3/27: Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems, by Sandburg• Public Affairs (4th Monday, 7:30 p.m.)3/26: Too Big to Fail, by Sorkin• Science Fiction & Fantasy (2nd Thurs., 6:30 p.m.)3/8: Fantasy (6:30 p.m.): Mythago Woods, by Holdstock Science Fiction (7:30 p.m.): Ender’s Game, by Card• Spanish Language (3rd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.)3/20: Conquistadora, by Santiago• Spirituality (3rd Sunday, 6 p.m.)3/18: Contemplative Prayer, by Merton • Teen (4th Sunday, 3:30 p.m.) 3/25: TBD• Travel (1st Tuesday, 7 p.m.) 3/6: The Masque of Africa, by Naipaul• Veterans Book Group (3rd Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) 3/15: TBD• Women’s Biography (2nd Monday, 7:30 p.m.) 3/12: Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life, by Darznik

Thursday, March 1, 7 p.m.Raymond BonnerAnatomy of Injustice (Knopf, $26.95) Bonner applies his skills as a lawyer and a Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter to recount the harrowing story of Edward Lee Elmore, wrongfully convicted of mur-der in 1982. As he follows a young defense attorney working to free Elmore from

death row, Bonner’s exposure of mishandled evidence, an incompetent defense team, and other iniquities constitutes a powerful indictment of the American criminal justice system.

Friday, March 2, 7 p.m.Jim YardleyBrave Dragons (Knopf, $26.95)

Taking over the Shanxi Brave Dragons, China’s lowest-ranked professional basket-ball team, former NBA coach Bob Weiss found that he had to adapt his techniques as much as the players had to change theirs. In this entertaining account of a season with the Brave Dragons, Yardley, former New York Times Beijing bureau chief, profiles players, owners, and fans.

Saturday, March 3, 1 p.m. Anthony FranzeThe Last Justice(Sterling & Ross, $24.95)Franze’s debut thriller is a tale of murder, corruption, and unbridled ambition set in the marble halls and secluded corridors of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Saturday, March 3, 3:30 p.m.Sara Mansfield TaberBorn Under an Assumed Name(Potomac Books, $29.95)

Being repeatedly uprooted makes childhood difficult; the challenges are compounded when your father is a covert CIA operative. In her memoir of life abroad during the Cold War, Taber, a literary journalist and author of Bread of Three Rivers, recounts the dual stories of her own efforts to establish an identity and her father’s struggle to come to terms with an America he grew increasingly disenchanted with.

Saturday, March 3, 6 p.m.Thomas MallonWatergate (Pantheon, $26.95) With Dewey Defeats Truman, Fellow Travelers, and others, Mallon has proven himself an adept novelist of recent history. His ninth work of fiction revisits the Nixon years and, from several carefully selected perspectives, Mallon

lets the scandal’s participants tell us what happened, including the fate of those erased 18 -1/2 minutes of tape.

Sunday, March 4, 1 p.m.Dusko Doder The Firebird Affair Doder uses his experience as the former Washington

Post Moscow correspondent for this gripping thriller involving a journalist, the mysterious death of his wife, and KGB infiltration of the CIA in the last days of the Soviet Union. In Beecher’s latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former official at the Department of Defense and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has concocted a pulse-racing story involving academics over-seas who stumble onto an al-Qaeda plot to smuggle dirty bombs into the U.S.

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Friday, March 9-Sunday, March 11Spring Member Sale

3:30 p.m.Cal Ripken, Jr.

Super-Sized Slugger

7 p.m.Senator Bob GrahamKeys to the Kingdom

5 p.m.Bethesda Library

Ally CarterOut of Sight, Out of Time

Rachel HawkinsSpell Bound

7 p.m.Eric Klinenberg

Going Solo

7 p.m.Tiki Davies and Todd S. Purdum

China Hand

7 p.m.Elaine Pagels

Revelations

7 p.m.Jonah Lehrer

Imagine

7 p.m.Ahmed Rashid

Pakistan on the Brink

7 p.m.Noam Scheiber

The Escape Artists

3 p.m.Beryl A. Radin

Federal Management Reform in a World of Contradictions

3 p.m.Campbell McGrath

In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys

7 p.m.Jack Goldsmith

Power and Constraint

3 p.m.Robert Kanigel

On an Irish Island

1 p.m.Reem Bassiouney

Professor Hanaa

6 p.m.Traci Brimhall

Our Lady of the Ruins

5 p.m.Ellen Cassedy

We Are Here

7 p.m.Guy GugliottaFreedom’s Cap

7 p.m.Jim Yardley

Brave Dragons

1 p.m. Anthony FranzeThe Last Justice

3:30 p.m.Sara Mansfield Taber

Born Under an Assumed Name

6 p.m.Thomas Mallon

Watergate

7 p.m.Masha Gessen

The Man Without a Face

7 p.m.David Rothkopf

Power, Inc.

7 p.m.Steven Goldman, Derek Carty,

Jay Jaffe, Ben Lindberg, Adam Sobsey

Baseball Prospectus 2012

7 p.m.Peter BehrensThe O’Briens

7 p.m.Sidwell Friends SchoolBaratunde Thurston

How to Be Black

1 p.m.Dusko Doder

The Firebird AffairWilliam BeecherNuclear Revenge

5 p.m. Peggilene Bartels with

Eleanor HermanKing Peggy

1 p.m.Lee Stout with

Barbara Hackman FranklinA Matter of Simple Justice

5 p.m.David M. Dorsen

Henry Friendly

7 p.m.Peter Beinart

The Crisis of Zionism

7 p.m.Raymond Bonner

Anatomy of Injustice

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Shareen Blair BrysacPax Ethnica

10:30 a.m.Christopher Paul CurtisThe Mighty Miss Malone

7 p.m.Michael E. Mann

The Hockey Stick And The Climate Wars

7 p.m.Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott

Some Assembly Required

7 p.m.Robert J. Shiller

Finance and the Good Society

7 p.m.Anthony Shadid

Tribute Event

1 p.m. Charles Kupchan

No One’s World

6 p.m.Douglas Schoen

Hopelessly Divided

7 p.m.Andrew Nagorski

Hitlerland

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March 2012

Tuesday, March 13, 7 p.m.Eric Klinenberg

Wednesday, March 21, 7 p.m.Ahmed Rashid

Monday, March 5, 7 p.m.Masha Gessen

Friday, March 16, 7 p.m.Elaine Pagels

Thursday, March 22, 7 p.m.Anne Lamott

Monday, March 12, 3:30-5:30Cal Ripken, Jr.

Tuesday, March 27, 7 p.m.Peter Beinart

Tuesday, March 20, 7 p.m.Jonah Lehrer