ANN ALTHOUSE: “If you could pick a book for Obama to read — actually read — what book would you pick?” It would have to be Amity Shlaes’ The Forgotten Man. Or, if that’s too obvious, James Scott’s Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.

UPDATE: One of Althouse’s commenters recommends Sen. James Webb’s Born Fighting as explaining a side of America that Obama clearly doesn’t “get.”