Election 2020 Reading

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Top 10 Democratic Candidates, By Polling:

Joe Biden, 76, Vice President, former Senator from Delaware, read Promises to Keep (also wrote Promise Me, Dad)

Elizabeth Warren, 69, US Senator from Massachusetts, read 1) This Fight is Our Fight, 2) A Fighting Chance, 3) All Your Worth

Bernie Sanders, 77, US Senator from Vermont, read 1) Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, 2) Our Revolution (also wrote a million more books)

Kamala Harris, 54, US Senator from California, read The Truths We Hold (also wrote Smart on Crime)

Pete Buttigieg, 37, Mayor of South Bend Indiana, read Shortest Way Home

Cory Booker, 50, US Senator from New Jersey, read United

Amy Klobuchar, 58, US Senator from Minnesota, currently reading The Senator Next Door

Julian Castro, 44, Cabinet Member, HUD, Mayor of San Antonio, read An Unlikely Journey

Beto O’Rourke, 46, Congressman from Texas 16th District, (to read Dealing Death and Drugs)

Andrew Yang, 44, founder for Venture for America, (to read The War on Normal People)


Remaining 11 Candidates by Alphabetical Order:
Michael Bennet, 54, US Senator from Colorado, read The Land of Flickering Lights
Bill de Blasio, 58, Mayor of NYC, no book
Steve Bullock, 53, Governor of Montana, (My Name Is Steve Delano Bullock)
John Delaney, 56, Congressman, Maryland 6th District, no book?
Tulsi Gabbard, 38, Congresswomen Hawaii 2nd District, (book coming in 2021, Is Today the Day?)
Kirsten Gillibrand, 52, Senator from New York, read Off the Sidelines
Wayne Messam, 44, Mayor of Miramar, Fl, not in debates, no book
Tim Ryan, 45, Congressman from 16th district, (A Mindful Nation)
Joe Sestak, 67, former Congressman, not in debates, (Walking in Your Shoes to Restore the American Dream)
Tom Steyer, 62, billionaire donor, not in the debates, (Drawdown?)
Marianne Williamson, 66, founder of Project Angel Food and author, lots of books I won’t read

Dropped out:
Mike Gravel, 89, Senator from Alaska (38 years ago), not in the debates, (two books I won't read)
John Hickenlooper, 67, Governor of Colorado, read The Opposite of Woe
Jay Inslee, 68, Governor of Washington, (Apollo’s Fire)
Seth Moulton, 40, Congressman from Massachusetts 6th District, not in debates, (Called to Serve)
Richard Ojeda, 48, former West Virginia state senator
Eric Swalwell, 38, House representative from California's 15th

Republicans 
Donald Trump (R)
Bill Weld (R)
Joe Walsh (R)

Climate Change:
Please drop everything and read: 1) The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
2) Green Metropolis by David Owen
3) The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen (currently reading)

Protecting Democracy:
1) Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election by Robert S. Mueller III 
2) Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence by James R. Clapper
3) How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky
4) Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister

American Healthcare:
1) Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans by Wendell Potter
2) An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

Guns: 
1) Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen
2) American Gun by Chris Kyle (currently reading)