The World Next Week

In this special episode of The World Next Week, Heather A. Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joins James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon to discuss the books they recommend reading, the books they’re looking forward to reading, and the podcasts they’re listening to for fun this summer.   Read more about Jim, Bob, and Heather’s picks on Jim’s blog, The Water’s Edge.   Jim’s Picks Michael Mandelbaum, The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy (2022) Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (2021) Laszlo Montgomery, The China History Podcast, Teacup Media   Bob’s Picks Catherine Belton, Putin’s People (2020) Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois (2021) Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, Gastropod, Vox Media Podcast Network   Heather’s Picks Greg Behrman, The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and How America Helped Rebuild Europe (2007) Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2018) T