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In The Good Fight, Sen. Harry Reid — the Senate majority leader — offers the lessons from his life, which began in a small Nevada mining town with brothels and no churches. If the book delivers as advertised, Reid as honest about his mistakes as his successes. Also new in nonfiction: The Zoo On the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West Bank by Amelia Thomas, which centers on the Palestinian village situated closest to Israel; and Gandhi and Churchill, Arthur Herman’s book about the rivalry between the two men that he claims “destroyed an empire and forged our age.” Here’s an image of the cover, with a picture of Gandhi obviously taken after he had been on a hunger strike for some time:
