Rebecca Traister digs deep into women's anger

Plus: Michael Lewis on the Trump administration's "vague hostility" to governing, Buffy Sainte-Marie looks back on her career, and picks from our critics books [Christine Blasey Ford]( Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Following a hearing last week that sought to look into sexual assault allegations brought against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, discussions of assault have been kicked off around the country. For author and New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister, that contentious hearing highlighted important differences in the way Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who testified to the allegations, told their stories. Traister says Ford's polite and constrained demeanor was in stark contrast to Kavanaugh's use of a full range of expression -- and her new book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, is a deeper exploration of that dynamic. She talked to Morning Edition about [why she chose to examine women's anger]( and how it has been both politically transformative and perilous for women throughout U.S. history. [The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis]( There have been a lot of books written about dysfunction in the Trump White House -- but this latest book by Michael Lewis looks at the agencies and departments that don't get as much attention. The stories begin during the transition between administrations — and read nearly the same across each government agency: [Lewis tells NPR]( that while Obama staffers spent "the better part of a year and a thousand people's time creating essentially the best course ever created on how the federal government works," when the time came, "the Trump administration just didn't show." [Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography]( Buffy Sainte-Marie, native Canadian singer-songwriter, social activist and member of the Cree First Nation, is now in her 70s and has co-authored the first and only authorized biography that tells her story — the story of a woman who survived an abusive childhood to create a career that stretched from the coffeehouses of Toronto and Greenwich Village in the early 1960s to concert halls around the world. "Buffy has sort of mapped a lot of her life experiences through her songs," [her co-author Andrea Warner says](. "She's given us an incredible map for hope." Finally this week, Mariya Karimjee says Nicole Chung ["writes with an empathy that's careful to consider the perspectives of everyone involved in her adoption story."]( Michael Schaub says There Will Be No Miracles Here is [not your typical rags-to-riches story](. And we couldn't pass it up: Annalisa Quinn says Stormy Daniels' new Full Disclosure is a ["canny Trojan horse of a book"]( that sneaks in interesting biographical tidbits alongside the expected salacious details. [All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung]( [There Will Be No Miracles Here, by Casey Gerald]( [Full Disclosure, by Stormy Daniels]( -- Happy reading! [Facebook]( [Twitter]( You received this message because you're subscribed to our Books emails. | [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Policy]( | NPR 1111 N. CAPITOL ST. NE WASHINGTON DC 20002 [NPR]