April 07, 2006

THe White House '08 Bush Club

Every year this librarian in Maine asks various celebs to name their favorite books.

This year she got books from George Pataki (Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin), Newt Gingrich (The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker) and Tom Vilsack (The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman.)

Past contributors have included John McCain (For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway) and John Kerry (Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley with Ron Powers, Shackleton (author not provided), Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose)

She also got book recommendations from Bush when he was TX GOV (including The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl) and Al Gore when he was VP (Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater.)

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