Books Fit for a President

The New York Times on Friday printed a fabulous essay by Jon Meacham, entitled “How To Read Like a President”. In this fascinating piece, Meacham explores the reading interests of various presidents, including this year’s candidates.

The following is a quick rundown of both John McCain and Barack Obama’s favorite literary works.

McCain:

The stories of W. Somerset Maugham

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Bear and Turnabout by William Faulkner

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons

Obama:

Works by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, Friedrich Nietzsche, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich

The Federalist

Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American by Graham Greene

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (the Book Snark’s favorite book ever!)

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck

Power Broker by Robert Caro

Working by Studs Terkel

Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith

Both candidates like:

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

The tragedies of William Shakespeare

And if you haven’t done so yet…GO VOTE!

Story & Image Source The New York Times

November 4, 2008 | Filed Under Newsies, Politics 

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