On Monday evening, at 6:30, our Jay Nordlinger will be speaking at a New York public library: the Mid-Manhattan Library, at 40th and Fifth. For info, go here. His topic will be his recent book Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators. You can learn from these “children,” and their fathers: about government, fate, people, and more.

Mark Helprin calls Children of Monsters “a magnetic page-turner that nonetheless is complex and deep.” Andrew Roberts says, “Nordlinger’s exceptional investigation into the children of 20 modern dictators grips and convinces.”