“There are two motives for reading a book,” once wrote Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell. “One, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” It does make you wonder what Russell would have thought of today’s political scene, where there’s no surer mark of fame than whether strangers are willing to read about what you’re reading—and where the book lists of top pols and pundits regularly make cameos in speeches, become the subject of cooing New York Times profiles and even spark White House rivalries. And so, in the spirit of Washington D.C. bookishness, we’ve asked the …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
