From FDL, a book club on William Kleinknecht's The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America; and a book club on Steven Gillon's The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation. Republican Justice(s): Citizens United and Bush v. Gore don't stand alone — a decade worth of Supreme Court decisions has tiled the electoral playing field toward the Republicans. From NYRB, a review of American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by Joan Biskupic and John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life by Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman. The Postradical Legal Generation: David Fontana on how elite law schools, and the court nominees who come from them, have changed. From The Awl, one of "them" Davis voted for George Bush, twice (and part 2). Thomas Frank on Jim DeMint's capitalist fairy tales: The hero of the tea partiers is not much of a historian. The crying conservative: How Glenn Beck taught his feminine side to turn tricks. David Weigel on why liberals aren't hypocrites when they criticize Rand Paul and Barry Goldwater. Jason Zengerle on why Rand Paul is unashamed to declare his Tea-Party cred. John Amato and David Neiwert on their book Over the Cliff: How Obama’s Election Drove the American Right Insane. David Leonhardt on how Obama’s progressive project is changing Washington. A review of The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). Christopher Hitchens reviews The Bridge by David Remnick (and more and more and more). First Lady Lit: Every first lady since Lady Bird Johnson has written a memoir — with the exception of Pat Nixon.
