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Marion Dodd and Mary Smith open Hampshire Bookshop in Northampton together. The pioneering endeavors of the two female owners had a significant impact on politics within the bookstore setting as well as the profession of bookselling itself. Twenty years later, Carla Cohen is born and finds herself following closely in their footsteps.
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At the age of 16, Carla Cohen shows her political investment by joining campaigns against Maryland's loyalty oaths
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Aside from the owner of D.C.'s Moonstone Book Cellar (a well-known sci-fi bookstore), Meade was the only other employee. Because of this, she learned a great deal about book selling in a short amount of time.
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Barbara Meade opens Bookstall, her own bookstore, in Potomac, Maryland.
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A very young Carla begins sitting in on her father's chapter meetings for the Americans for Democratic Action meetings. She eventually is removed for talking to much. Her response? To sit at the top of the stairs and eavesdrop on the meetings anyway.
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As a result, Carla Cohen loses her job with the Carter administration and has to seek employment elsewhere. She is known for her love of bookstores, and is encouraged to open a challenger bookstore to Crown Books
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Carla Cohen chooes the "Washington-sounding" name of the bookstore. Barbara Meade, who responded to Cohen's post in the classifieds, becomes a shareholder of 50 percent of the company.
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The store is now 5x the original store's size at 5015 Connecticut Avenue.
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Politics and Prose adds its coffeehouse to the store.
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The Cheshire Cat was a bookstore designated specifically to children. P&P incorporates many of children's bookstore staff.
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Politics and Prose is recognized by Publishers Weekly as the bookseller of the year.
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The store is intended to be sold to Danny Gainsburg, but the sale falls through after he kisses an employer and is encouraged to resign.
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This was the first time the award was given to booksellers and not a prominent author.
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On October 11, 2010 Carla Cohen passes away from a rare cancer of the bile ducts.
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Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine purchase Politics and Prose
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A massive printing machine Opus, nicknamed "Espresso Book Machine," is installed into Politics and Prose. Rather than the initial intent of printing out-of-print books, customers sought to use it primarily for memoirs for younger family members.
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Bill Clinton was book signing his "Back to Work" at Politics and Prose Bookstore
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To celebrate "Small Business Saturday" President Barack Obama shopped at Politics and Prose, buying nearly two dozen books for Christmas gifts.
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Keeping with the "Small Business Saturday" shopping tradition, President Obama brings his family to P&P to purchase a hefty load of books.
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The Coffeehouse has been renamed The Den and will be operated by Matt Carr. Carr and his wife Jena founded the popular nearby market and eatery Little Red Fox.
