The publication of Angela Merkel’s memoir, Freedom, should be significant: the former German chancellor’s political career has been one of the most noteworthy of the 21st century. Yet reviews ...

Palimpsest, by Gore Vidal . Vidal wrote some of the greatest American novels about politics—Burr, Lincoln, 1876.In this magnificently malicious memoir, he trains that political acumen on himself.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski reveals details of private meetings with Trump, candid assessments of major political figures — ...

Moseley Braun hit the political spotlight and broke the glass ceiling in 1992, when the Chicago native was elected to the U.S ...

If you’re reading this, you almost certainly love politics, which means you’re probably on the hunt for a political book to take on vacation this summer.But All the President’s Men is a ...

Six Political Memoirs Worth Reading. By Franklin Foer. Hackish campaign memoirs shouldn’t indict the entire genre—there are truly excellent books written about power from the inside.

Politicians write memoirs to tell their stories, lay their lives out for all to see, and sometimes seek higher office, while others use them to promote themselves or seek revenge.

I urged you to think broadly about fiction and nonfiction — no need for lab-grown political memoir here — and nearly 1,000 of you obliged before we closed our submissions. I read every single one.

The beauty of memoir is its resistance to confinement: We contain multitudes, so our methods of introspection must, too. This year’s best memoirs perfectly showcase such variety. Some are sparse ...

Item 1 of 2 U.S. President Donald Trump greets Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel after a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 27, 2018.

Woodward and Bernstein were paid a $55,000 advance for All the President’s Men, and then a record-breaking $1.55 million deal for paperback rights to the sequel (about $10 million, in 2024 dollars).