In honor of tomorrow's Democratic primary debate, here's some of what I've been reading.
The 7 Democratic Candidates in the December Debate, By Polling*:
1) Joe Biden, 76, Vice President, former Senator from Delaware, read Promises to Keep (also wrote Promise Me, Dad)
2) Bernie Sanders, 77, US Senator from Vermont, read 1) Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, 2) Our Revolution (also wrote a million more books)
2) Elizabeth Warren, 69, US Senator from Massachusetts, read 1) This Fight is Our Fight, 2) A Fighting Chance, 3) All Your Worth
4) Pete Buttigieg, 37, Mayor of South Bend Indiana, read Shortest Way Home
5) Andrew Yang, 44, founder for Venture for America, read The War on Normal People
6) Amy Klobuchar, 58, US Senator from Minnesota, read The Senator Next Door
7) Tom Steyer, 62, Billionaire former hedge fund executive, not in the debates, (he doesn't have a book, he only wrote the foreword in Drawdown)
Remaining 9 Candidates by Alphabetical Order:
Michael Bennet, 54, US Senator from Colorado, read The Land of Flickering Lights
* Michael Bloomberg, 77, former Mayor of New York City, Billionaire media executive (Climate of Hope) (joined race Nov. 24)
Cory Booker, 50, US Senator from New Jersey, read United
Julian Castro, 44, Cabinet Member, HUD, Mayor of San Antonio, read An Unlikely Journey
John Delaney, 56, Congressman, Maryland 6th District, no book?
Tulsi Gabbard, 38, Congresswomen Hawaii 2nd District, (book coming in 2021, Is Today the Day?)
*Deval Patrick, 63, former Governor of Massachusetts (joined race Nov. 14)
Joe Sestak, 67, former Congressman, not in debates, (Walking in Your Shoes to Restore the American Dream)
Marianne Williamson, 66, founder of Project Angel Food and author, lots of books I won’t read
Dropped out:
Bill de Blasio, 58, Mayor of NYC, no book
Steve Bullock, 53, Governor of Montana, (My Name Is Steve Delano Bullock)
Kirsten Gillibrand, 52, Senator from New York, read Off the Sidelines
Mike Gravel, 89, Senator from Alaska (38 years ago), not in the debates, (two books I won't read)
Kamala Harris, 54, US Senator from California, read The Truths We Hold (also wrote Smart on Crime)
John Hickenlooper, 67, Governor of Colorado, read The Opposite of Woe
Jay Inslee, 68, Governor of Washington, (Apollo’s Fire)
Wayne Messam, 44, Mayor of Miramar, Fl, not in debates, no book
Seth Moulton, 40, Congressman from Massachusetts 6th District, not in debates, (Called to Serve)
Beto O’Rourke, 46, Congressman from Texas 16th District, (Dealing Death and Drugs)
Richard Ojeda, 48, former West Virginia state senator
Tim Ryan, 45, Congressman from 16th district, (A Mindful Nation)
Eric Swalwell, 38, House representative from California's 15th
Republicans:
Donald Trump, 73, current President
Joe Walsh, 57, former Congressman from Illinois
Bill Weld, 74, former Governor of Massachusetts
Dropped out:
Mark Sanford, 59, former Governor of South Carolina
* To see all the books I read tagged Election 2020 click the link. I got my polling information here: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/national/
Books about Election Topics of Importance:
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
4) Unstoppable by Bill Nye
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
5) The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
6) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
A subset of Protecting Democracy- Campaign Finance/ Financial Abuse/ Income Inequality:
1) Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
2) Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
4) The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris
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) Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World by Shannon Watts
2) Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen
3) American Gun by Chris Kyle
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