In a piece for Elle magazine’s Shelf Life, Jonathan Franzan recommends GOLDEN GATES by Conor Dougherty. He selected the title as the book that “currently sits on [his] nightstand,” saying: “I’m halfway through and seriously admiring [GOLDEN GATES]…Dougherty has a gift for making complex policy problems both clear and compellingly readable, and for rendering his characters with unsentimental sympathy. However much attention the book got when it was published, last year, I’ll bet it didn’t get nearly enough.” Penguin Press published the book on February 18, 2020.