The blame game for why we ended up fighting a long war in Iraq will be played for…well, probably the rest of our lives. In a book being released on Monday. “The Man Who Pushed America To War,” author Aram Roston — an investigative reporter who has worked for NBC, CNN and as a New York City detective — offers the suggestion that much of that blame can be laid at the feet of wealthy Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi. Those who pay attention to such things know a lot has been written about Chalabi, especially about how he influenced the Bush Administration in the build up to the war. But Roston takes it even further, offering new information about Chalabi’s connections with Iran and Islamic terrorists (among other things).

Also new in nonfiction is “Ask For It: How Women Can Use The Power of Negotiation To Get What They Really Want” by Hillary Clinton. No, just kidding! Clinton is not even at the negotiating stage, and may never reach it if she keeps winning. This book is actually by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever, two women who offer women a four-phase program that “walks women through the negotiating process.” Their theory is that women miss opportunites for negotiating all the time.

And, if your feeling more like a story, there’s “Pinkerton’s Secret” by Eric Lerner, in which he employs real historical facts from the eve of the American Civil War and incorporates them into a novel about the life of Allan Pinkerton. Pinkerton, you probably know, was the founder of the first detective agency in America.