Forum: The Long Battle Ahead: The 2012 Presidential Election and How The Washington Post Will Cover It

MARCUS BRAUCHLI, Washington Post executive editor, oversees print and digital news operations. Previously, he had served as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, overseeing its print and online news operations, both in the U.S. and internationally. CHRIS CILLIZZA writes “The Fix,” a politics blog for The Washington Post. He also covers the White House for the newspaper and web site. Cillizza has appeared as a guest on NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and CNN.

Forum: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad

It was only a week before 9/11 that PETER BERGEN turned in the manuscript of “Holy War, Inc.,” the story of Osama bin Laden (whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan) and his declaration of war on America.The book became a New York Times bestseller and the essential portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of our time. In “Manhunt,” Bergen picks up the thread with this taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of bin Laden. A book signing will follow his Forum.

Forum: What the American Public Thinks About the Obama Administration's Push for Evidence-Based Medicine

THE PEYTON AND JANET WEARY FORUM ON HEALTH CARE

ERIC M. PATASHNIK is a politics and public policy professor at the University of Virginia.  His research examines American national policymaking, health care, budgeting, and entitlement programs.

Forum: Watergate in Nixonland: The Challenge of Presenting Public History in a Presidential Library

TIMOTHY NAFTALI, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, studies leaders, power, and international affairs. From 1998 to 2006, Naftali led the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center. During this period, he also served as a consultant to the Nazi War Crimes Interagency Working Group and the 9/11 Commission. Joining the National Archives in 2006, he became the first director of the federal Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

Forum: Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of the Global Jihad

BRUCE RIEDEL, one of America's foremost authorities on U.S. security and South Asia, sketches the history of U.S.-Pakistani relations from the partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947 up through the present day. It is muddled story, meandering through periods of friendship and enmity. Riedel deftly interprets the tortuous path of relations between two very different nations that remain, in many ways, stuck with each other.  A book signing will follow his Forum.

Forum: Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance

Judge J. HARVIE WILKINSON argues that America's most brilliant legal minds have launched a set of cosmic constitutional theories that, for all their value, are undermining self-governance.  Judge Wilkinson calls for a plainer, simpler, self-disciplined commitment to judicial restraint and democratic governance.  A book signing will follow his Forum.

Forum: Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

On March 30, 1981, President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington, D.C., and was shot by a would-be assassin. For years, few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying, and no one has ever written a detailed narrative of that harrowing day. Now, drawing on exclusive new interviews, DEL QUENTIN WILBER tells the electrifying story of a moment when the nation faced a terrifying crisis. A book signing will follow his Forum.

Forum: The Real Romney

Mitt Romney has masterfully positioned himself as the front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. In “The Real Romney,” a definitive, unflinching biography by Boston Globe investigative reporter MICHAEL KRANISH, with Scott Helman, readers will finally discover the true Romney. A book signing will follow Kranish’s Forum.

Forum: Civility in American Politics: How to Get (Some of) it Back

JONATHAN HAIDT is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he does research on morality and emotion and how they vary across cultures.His most recent book is, "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion." A book signing will follow his Forum.

Forum: Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War

FRANK COSTIGLIOLA is a professor in the department of history at the University of Connecticut.  He is a recipient of fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Norwegian Nobel Institute.  This is the Gordon and Mary Beth Smyth History Forum. A book signing will follow his Forum.