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"Hands of State: A Political History of Gesture"

by Denis Franz

A leader's mouth makes the statement. The hands make the confession.
A sharp cultural history of the political gesture — Caesar to Merkel to the AI hand. For readers of Mary Beard and Anne Applebaum.
# Political
# History
# Nonfiction
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In Hands of State, Denis Franz catalogues the gestures of political power: the handshake that wouldn't let go, the raised fist, the apology hand, the pointed finger, the fidget caught on camera. Across thirty short, devastating chapters — from Caesar to AOC, from Merkel's diamond to Macron's counter-grip — he reads the hand as the oldest political language we have, and the one we forget we're fluent in. This is not a body-language manual. It is a cultural history of the most political organ a person owns — written for readers who already suspect that the photo op is doing more work than the speech. For readers of Mary Beard, Malcolm Gladwell, and Anne Applebaum.

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