From NPR
Many of the people running for president are also newly published authors. Other candidates are dusting off old books. Democrat Hillary Clinton’s It Takes a Village has been released in a 10th anniversary edition. Republican Mitt Romney has written Turnaround, an account of his time running the 2002 Winter Olympics. Obama and McCain’s books are also discussed.
“If history has taught us anything, it’s that ultimately it’s the character and the personality of the man or the woman in a moment of crisis that shapes the destinies and lives of the rest of us,” interviewee Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, says. “Any tool we can put our hands on to try to figure it out is useful, and I think these books are part of that tool set.”
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