The bulk of my nonfiction reading this year fits into a few themes.
Best end-of-Trump book: Jonathan Karl's Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show.
Best Alexander Hamilton book: Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton (2004).
Best autocracy/authoritarianism/democracy-is-in-trouble book: Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017).
Best social history: Julia Cooke's Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am.
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