Bookshelf

What’s on your nightstand? – Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.)

REP. ANNA ESHOO (D-CALIF.)

Which book is on your nightstand right now?
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende, and Journal of a Soul: The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII.

Which magazines do you read regularly?
Congressional Quarterly, The Economist, Time.

What’s your guilty-pleasure read?

Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman.

Which books have most influenced your political philosophy?

The works of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Which book about Washington should every member read?
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.

Which authors do you most often reference?
The historians David McCullough and David M. Kennedy.