BEST Nonfiction? WashPost Promotes All Their Leftist and Anti-Trump Attack Books of 2021

Maybe it shouldn’t be surprising when The Washington Post makes a list of the “Best Books” of the year, and then uses it to promote books by their own staff. It looks more like book criticism than advertising.

This is the very first title in their 10-best lists for 2012 (published Sunday). Afghanistan Papers: Secret History of the War.Craig Whitlock is the reporter. This was an investigative series in the newspaper, which they’ve promoted agggresively. So this is just more pushy PR.

They gushed: “Whitlock shows how early in the conflict and how thoroughly U.S. leaders began misleading the world – and themselves – but putting a smiling face on failure and calling it success.”

In their “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction,” there is more of the same, including: 

I Alone Can Fix It: Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year By Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker

Here’s the next follow-upThe Very Reliable Genius two Pulitzer-winning Post reporters break down the last year of Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency.

Zero Fail: The Rise & Fall of the Secret Service By Carol Leonnig

There’s plenty of courage in the Secret Service described by a Pulitzer-winning reporter for The Post, but not as mush professionalism as you’d think, and not nearly enough sobriety.

They won’t miss out on telling you all about the Pulitzers. Advertising. Wait, there are more anti-Trump books. 

Nightmare Scenario:  Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History By Yasmeen Albutaleb and Damian Paletta

Two chronicles Post reporters of the United States’ early response to the Covid-19 pandemic reveals that whenever public health and public relations came into conflict, public health lost out.

PerilRobert Costa and Bob Woodward

With copious interviews Post The Trump Administration’s final days are described by investigative journalists as being “the 45”.^ThJoe Biden refused to concede defeat to President Obama

American Children’s Crisis: Children under Fire By John Woodward Cox

Post Reporter examines the devastating collateral effects of gun violence on children with terrible clarity.

Formerly PostReporters received a plug. Glenn Frankel was a former diplomat reporter who won one for an old movie book. Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, the Making of a Dark Classic

Then there’s some log-rolling for other liberal journalists. Anderson Cooper’s The VanderbiltsThe best-books lists. So did New York TimesFor her book, race-baiter Nikole Jones The 1619 Project: An Origin Story.

For a full circle of the universe, you can use this: PostEven worked for the owner, with a plug to a Bloomberg News editor.

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos & The Invention of a Global EmpireBrad Stone

Author of Everything Store focuses on a lucrative but lesser-known enterprise that generates the revenue to fuel Amazon’s super-charged expansion: cloud computing. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post).

You love the disclosure, as they shamelessly plug the boss’s “global empire.” But then, the Bezos book comes with this plug: 

“Fascinating and deeply researched….Stone is at his best describing Bezos’s demanding style of management….[a]A masterful work.”
—Marc Levinson, Washington Post.