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Elizabeth N. Saunders
Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University Full Bio
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In this special edition, CFR.org Managing Editor Robert McMahon, CFR's Director of Studies Jim Lindsay and Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow Elizabeth Saunders start off the summer with a list of books that they will be reading in the weeks ahead. Listen in for recommendations from their reading lists.
Elizabeth's books:
Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, by Bethany Albertson and Shana Kushner Gadarian
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, by Nathalia Holt
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly
Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years, by Thomas Mallon
Robert's books:
Pumpkin Flowers: A Soldier’s Story, by Matti Friedman
One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment, by Mei Fong
Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World, by David Maraniss
Jim's books:
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall
The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, by Mary Norris
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