Journalist and author Franklin Foer grew up in Washington. He was editor of The New Republic and now is a staff writer for The Atlantic. His most recent book, The Last Politician: Inside the Biden White House and the Struggle for America’s Future, is a New York Times bestseller. With exclusive access to Biden’s inner circle of advisors and more than 300 interviews between November 2020 and February 2023, Frank Foer thoroughly chronicles the first two years of Biden’s presidency.

Foer’s previous books include World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech, How Soccer Explains the World, Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America, and with Marc Tracy, Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame.

The Last Politician will be available for sale in the library lobby at 6:30, and Frank Foer will be on hand to sign books.