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Books by and about 2020 presidential candidates |
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Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015) |
United,
by Cory Booker (2016) |
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019) |
Smart on Crime,
by Kamala Harris (2010) |
Guide to Political Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2017) |
Where We Go From Here,
by Bernie Sanders (2018) |
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017) |
Conscience of a Conservative,
by Jeff Flake (2017) |
Two Paths,
by Gov. John Kasich (2017) |
Every Other Monday,
by Rep. John Kasich (2010) |
Courage is Contagious,
by John Kasich (1998) |
Shortest Way Home,
by Pete Buttigieg (2019) |
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden) |
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Our Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2016) |
This Fight Is Our Fight,
by Elizabeth Warren (2017) |
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017) |
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Books by and about the 2016 presidential election |
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What Happened ,
by Hillary Clinton (2017) |
Higher Loyalty ,
by James Comey (2018) |
Trump vs. Hillary On The Issues ,
by Jesse Gordon (2016) |
Hard Choices,
by Hillary Clinton (2014) |
Becoming ,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Outsider in the White House,
by Bernie Sanders (2015) |
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Book Reviews |
(from Amazon.com) |
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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Meet the Press interviews during 2014
(David Gregory interviewing candidates for 2014 and 2016 races)
A long-standing political tradition is the Sunday morning talk show,
beginning with "Meet the Press" in 1947.
Currently, five separate "talking head" programs appear on five different TV stations every Sunday morning.
Making an appearance on all five talk shows on one Sunday is known as a Full Ginsburg,
because it was first accomplished by William Ginsburg (Monica Lewinsky's attorney) in 1998.
In 2013, both Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio accomplished a Full Ginsburg,
fueling speculation that both are planning a presidential run in 2016.
In 2014, John Kerry was the only person to accomplish a Full Ginsburg,
but no one thinks he is planning a presidential run in 2016.
In 2015 so far, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough accomplished a Full Ginsburg in the follow-up to the
January 2015 State of the Union speech.
OnTheIssues.org excerpts all five of the shows, listed below, with their respective interviewing pundits and each pundit's political affiliation:
- ABC This Week: (George Stephanopoulos; liberal; from Bill Clinton's staff)
- CNN "State of the Union": (Candy Crowley; moderate liberal)
- Fox News Sunday: (Chris Wallace; conservative)
- Meet the Press: (Chuck Todd; moderate)
- CBS Face the Nation: (Bob Schieffer; moderate; ran briefly as Democrat for governor of Texas in 2009)
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| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Budget & Economy
Jerry Brown: Fiscal discipline is fundamental to a free society.
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Civil Rights
James Webb: Evolution on gay marriage has been good for the country.
Carly Fiorina: Women professionals are not treated the same as men.
Jerry Brown: 40 years ago, wording didn't exist to talk about gay rights.
Marco Rubio: Balance gay anti-discrimination with religious rights.
Rand Paul: Women won the "war on women": they're no longer downtrodden.
Cory Booker: MLK's dream still demands work to do, after 50 years.
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Corporations
Scott Walker: Put power into hands of job creators, and job growth results.
James Webb: If you've got capital, you're feeling pretty good.
Bernie Sanders: Americans want change: corporations get rich & people don't.
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Crime
Ben Carson: Arrests for "Driving While Black" is common.
Ben Carson: Equip police with body cameras to avoid abusiveness.
Deval Patrick: Police & black people often don't understand each other.
Rand Paul: Blacks look who's in prison & conclude cops out to get them.
Rand Paul: Let convicted felons regain the right to vote.
Rick Perry: Death penalty is appropriate for those who kill cops or kids.
Rick Perry: Don't apply one-size-fits-all to state's death penalties.
Cory Booker: Bipartisan solution to reduce recidivism.
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Drugs
Bill Clinton: Medical marijuana ok; leave recreational pot to the states.
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Energy & Oil
Carly Fiorina: Pass the Keystone Pipeline even if Obama vetoes it.
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Families & Children
Rand Paul: Volunteer eye surgery for blind kids in Guatemala.
Mitt Romney: Impact of same-sex marriage on kids won't be known for years.
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Foreign Policy
Marco Rubio: Cuba embargo was designed to protect American companies.
James Webb: We need a clearly articulated doctrine for the Mideast.
James Webb: Arab Spring: stay out if no Americans at risk.
Lindsey Graham: America is the glue that holds the free world together.
Ben Carson: US is exceptional, with different values than rest of world.
Marco Rubio: Putin wants to reconstitute Russian power & Russian prestige.
Marco Rubio: The Russian government is a government of liars.
Mitt Romney: Russia & China waster $50B on Olympics; should be $3B.
Jack Reed: Suspend aid to Egypt while military crushes protestors.
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Free Trade
Howard Schultz: Bring manufacturing back, even at cost to bottom line.
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Government Reform
Mike Rounds: America is not broken, but Washington is.
Bernie Sanders: Citizens United opens up the road to oligarchy.
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Health Care
Deval Patrick: ObamaCare is interconnected with debt and other problems.
Carly Fiorina: Repeal ObamaCare; it's vast legislative overreach.
Carly Fiorina: Competitive insurance market instead of crony capitalism.
Mike Rounds: Remove medical devices tax & payment advisory board.
Scott Walker: No Medicaid expansion means no waiting list for poor.
Ben Carson: ObamaCare robs you of your ability to control your own life.
Rick Santorum: The Tea Party revolution was all about opposing ObamaCare.
Tea Party: The Tea Party revolution was all about opposing ObamaCare.
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Homeland Security
Howard Schultz: Imagine if politicians lived by "Honor, country, and duty".
Howard Schultz: Volunteer army means 98% of us have no skin in the game.
Bill Clinton: On Benghazi: No outrage when 10 were killed under Bush.
Rand Paul: Multiple requests for security at Benghazi were ignored.
Rand Paul: Benghazi disqualifies Hillary from the presidency.
Newt Gingrich: Snowden should be tried as a felon for releasing secrets.
Richard Durbin: $48M to protect US Embassies around the world.
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Immigration
Rick Santorum: Border is not yet secure; existing laws are not yet enforced.
Carly Fiorina: Pass immigration reform in a series of bills.
Paul Ryan: Send illegal immigrant kids back to Central America.
Lindsey Graham: Streamline and quicken deportations.
Rand Paul: Status quo is untenable; we must do some sort of reform.
Rand Paul: Move beyond amnesty, but eventually to path to citizenship.
Mitch McConnell: Border security first: the key to getting a final outcome.
Richard Durbin: Immigration reform bill makes America safer.
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Jobs
Rick Santorum: GOP must focus on opportunities for middle and lower class.
Rick Perry: Focus on maximizing wages, not the minimum wage.
Rob Portman: Opposed unemployment extension as unpaid-for, & needs reform.
Cory Booker: 1/3 of all NJ development is in Newark, where only 3% live.
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Principles & Values
Gwen Graham: The North Florida way: compromise when you don't agree.
Scott Walker: I won with independents' and young people's votes.
Bill Clinton: Clintons were millions in debt when leaving White House.
James Inhofe: Flying is his passion, but lost his son in plane accident.
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Social Security
Richard Durbin: Simpson-Bowles got it right. put everything on the table.
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Tax Reform
Mitch McConnell: Comprehensive tax reform can work if it's revenue-neutral.
John Hickenlooper: $5 trillion of tax cuts to the wealthy is not the answer.
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Technology
Rand Paul: 5% tax on overseas profits & put it all into infrastructure.
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War & Peace
James Webb: Iraq invasion empowered Iran & led to sectarian violence.
James Webb: Anti-ISIS alliances are fluid; we've trained some ISIS.
Lindsey Graham: Israel: stay as long as needed in Gaza to deal with Hamas.
Lindsey Graham: Arm Ukraine; sanction Russia; more NATO troops to region.
Bill Clinton: ISIS would not be in Iraq if we had not invaded.
Rand Paul: ISIS are nasty terrorists but no clear-cut American interest.
Rand Paul: Iraq War gave Iran regional hegemony & caused Mideast chaos.
Mitt Romney: ISIS: bad things happen as a result of inaction.
Mitt Romney: Leave 20,000 US troops in Iraq as an ongoing presence.
Peter King: ISIS creates a privileged sanctuary from which to attack US.
Rick Santorum: Obama left Iraq because it was politically popular to do so.
Tom Udall: Chemical weapons are despicable, but avoid Syrian civil war.
Lindsey Graham: Syria: Assad must go, and small arms won't do it.
Tom Cotton: Jihadists attack us for who we are.
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Welfare & Poverty
Paul Ryan: Switch from poverty management to get people out of poverty.
Paul Ryan: Customize benefits for each person, run by the states.
Paul Ryan: End dependency culture; end disincentives to work.
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The above quotations are from Meet the Press interviews during 2014
(David Gregory interviewing candidates for 2014 and 2016 races).
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