Katie Couric has a series underway at CBS called “Primary Questions: Character, Leadership, and the Candidates” where she asks the presidential candidates questions “designed to go beyond politics and show what really makes them tick.”
Her current question:
If you were elected president, what is the one book other than the bible you would think is essential to have along?
The question was asked prior to the recent thinning of the field so Giuliani and Edwards are included.
Here are their books of choice:
McCain: “Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith
Obama: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln “Team of Rivals.”
Romney: “John Adams” by David McCullough.
Huckabee: Francis Schafer’s “Whatever Happened to the Human Race?”
Edwards: “The Trial of Socrates” I.F. Stone’s book.
Clinton: “The Federalist Papers”
Giuliani: The bible would be it. The next would be “The Federalist Papers.”
Full text of the candidate’s responses.
Video responses:
Previous Book Patrol post, The Presidential Book Debate
Thanks to PhiloBiblos for the lead