Lloyd Green

Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesAnthony Fauci directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for nearly 40 years. He tackled AIDS, Ebola, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and SARS, yet at the end of his run, COVID-19 tested him and the U.S. like nothing in recent memory. More than 1.1 million died. Life-expectancy dropped by more than a year.“I had confronted terrible outbreaks, but none of them prepared me for the environment I would find myself in during the coronavirus pandemic,” Fauci writes in On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service, his eagerly awaited memoir. Smoothly written and well-paced, On Call is a tale of upward arc and challenges met—but also unanswered questions.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBob Bauer has been counsel to presidents and campaigns. His clients included Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In 2020, he played Donald Trump in debate prep. He was “as personally insulting and unhinged as Trump can be,” he writes in The Unraveling, his latest book.Think politics 24-7-365, with stellar Democratic connections.Bauer is married to Anita Dunn, a veteran of the Obama White House and a presence in the Biden West Wing.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Stefani ReynoldsIn June 2022, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned more than a half-century of Supreme Court precedent. Five justices voted to deny constitutional protection for a woman’s right to choose and gutted privacy as a fundamental right. Texas and 13 other states now bar abortions in almost all circumstances. Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina have enacted six-week bans.Writing for the Supreme Court majority, Samuel Alito, a George W Bush appointee, explicitly compared the death of Roe to the end of state-enforced racial segregation, 68 years before. Back in 1954, in a landmark ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, a unanimous court overruled the doctrine of “separate but equal.” These days, Brown is under attack from Alito’s allies on and off the bench.In their new book The Fall of Roe, named for Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that previously safeguarded federal abortion rights, Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lehrer masterfully lay out how the cultural right and pro-life movement refused to take “no” for an answer, played the long game, and attained the victory for which they had yearned. Dias and Lerer also capture the somnolence of the left and how “intersectionality” came to divide old allies.Read more at The Daily Beast.