The Miami Herald asks presidential candidates what last work of fiction they read:
DEMOCRATS
Delaware Sen. Joe Biden: "Runaway Jury" by John Grisham.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd: "The Broker" by John Grisham.
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards: "Exile" by Richard North Patterson.
Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich: "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama: "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: "The administration's energy plan."
REPUBLICANS
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback: "The Dream Giver" by Bruce Wilkinson with David and Heather Kopp.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: "The Beach House" by James Patterson and Peter De Jonge.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: "My oldest son's screenplay."
California Rep. Duncan Hunter: "The Democrats' proposal to balance the budget."
Arizona Sen. John McCain: "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: "Term Limits" by Vince Flynn.
Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo: "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore.
I'm not going to take the obvious potshots at those Grisham and Patterson readers - hey, to each his own right? Right. I will say that I'm most impressed with Obama's read. Perhaps, the Miami Herald will next ask the candidates what they thought of their reads. Now that would be interesting reading.
2 comments:
Interesting post. I'm not surprised really by the types of books that they seem to be reading. You can tell by their personalities who would be reading the mainstream bestseller list novels and who would be reading the, dare I say, more literary novels.
Yes, I think what surprised me was how unsurprised I was by the books they were reading. Of all the books on the list, there were only two I hadn't heard of and was interested enough to look up.
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