This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, November 24th, 2016. I'm

Keelah Brown. For those who'd rather read a good book that engage with family on

politics, here's a reading list to help you turn away from the depressing machinations of the day.

Sarah Squire, a fellow at Liberty Fund and literary editor at the Foundation for Economic Education.

Talked with me this week about what various political

actors and the disaffected want to be reading. We're recording this on the Monday

before Thanksgiving and I'm going to put this out over the Thanksgiving holiday so that people can refuse to engage with relatives and loved ones and instead dive deep into some some works that have relevance, fiction, and otherwise relevance to our current

political situation. Hillary Clinton shortly following her defeat when it for the presidency just said she would like to sit at home and read a book.

So if Hillary Clinton is relaxing this holiday weekend, what should she start with?

I'm thinking that Hillary Clinton should read Main Street by Upton Sinclair.

It's a novel about a young woman who comes to a moderately sized town in the Midwest, looks

around, doesn't like it, and decides to change it to make it more like what she thinks it ought to be

to bring culture and enlightenment to the uneducated masses of Main Street.

So she moves there and she decides she wants to stay there.

Yeah, she has a job there if I recall correctly.

So exit is not, she doesn't think of that as an option.

Yeah, no, it doesn't seem to occur to her.

She's just going to make it be more like what she thinks it ought to be.

So she sets about to change Main Street and make it over in her own image and Main Street resists the changes.

The people don't pick up the cultural cues, they don't want to make the book clubs, they don't

want to do her little musical societies and that sort of thing and she just can't make change happen.

She can't remake the world the way that she wants it to be.

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