Read Something

Recently, Karl Rove wrote a column for The Wall Street Journal about the competition he and now-former President Bush held every year to see how many books they could read.

Today, New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani has an article about the books that have influenced Barack Obama.  Nice to see that he’s a fan of Moby Dick and Marilynne Robinson.

Here is a review of an interesting new book about how presidential speeches have focused less and less on logos and more and more on pathos–to America’s detriment.