Tucson Festival of Books

Past as a Lens to the Future


Three historians look at big moments in the Republican Party, dating back decades, to help make sense of the current direction of our country and what we can expect in the future. They will discuss famous pardons, dirty secrets, voting rights erosion and much more.


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David Daley

David Daley's third book, "Antidemocratic," recounts the 50-year campaign by the Republican right to roll back the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A key participant in that movement was John Roberts, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....

Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin, the longtime CNN legal commentator, is the author of 10 books, including "The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court," "The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson," "Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism," and "Too Close to Call....

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Craig Unger

Craig Unger is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including "House of Trump, House of Putin" and "House of Bush, House of Saud". The former editor in chief of Boston Magazine, he has written for New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Esquire, among many other publications....

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Books:
Antidemocratic
Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
David Daley
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
HarperCollins Publishers
January 2024
ISBN 9780063321090
432 pages
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The Pardon
The Politics of Presidential Mercy
Jeffrey Toobin
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Simon and Schuster
February 2025
ISBN 9781668084946
304 pages
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Den of Spies
The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason That Stole the White House
Craig Unger

HarperCollins Publishers
October 2024
ISBN 9780008730215
304 pages
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