"A transgender boy prepares for the first day of school and introduces himself to his family and friends for the first time"--

A holiday collection from the pages of "The New Yorker" offers an anthology of short fiction, poetry, cartoons, cover art, and nonfiction from the past seventy-five years.

After four years in the White House, Martin Van Buren quipped, "As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it." Even Thomas Jefferson--one of the country's Founding Fathers--struggled with the realities of the job, saying, "No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carried him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and...

A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of the presidents in their freshman year of the toughest job in the world. Grouped by the issues the new presidents confronted in their first years in office, the book takes readers into the history, thought processes, and results on a case-by-case basis, including how the presidents subsequent actions proved that they learned (or didn t learn) from their mistakes. From George...