On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.

Daniel Wells of Gramercy Books in Bexley, Ohio, recommends the memoir “Coming Up Short” by Robert B. Reich.

Wells called it “a beautiful contextualization of the last 70 or so years in American history.”

An economist and educator, Reich served as Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton and economic advisor to President Barack Obama. Reich intersperses the narrative of his life with statistics and facts that ground the story in its political era.

Wells, age 25, said he was reminded of being in his high school government class — which he found positive.

He was particularly struck by the generational focus of the memoir.

Reich

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