Hello, this is the In-Pear Politics Watchtower.

Okay, we are here to talk about books like taking a stand against the tide, leadership

and crisis, which are just a few indistinguishable book titles from Presidential candidates this

election year.

We're going to talk about why candidates write these books, who reads them, what they

can tell normal voters, and what I want to know, which is why can't they just name their

books like Beyonce named her last album.

It was called Beyonce.

Simple, you know what's her.

That's such a brilliant idea.

Right.

It didn't work at all when my band and-

The Ron Elvins?

No, Mike, Mike.

My band tried to call it's first album Beyonce and it just laid it before it's time.

That's what it was.

In the parlance of the record industry, it just laid there.

Okay, intro's, I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter here at NPR.

I'm Danielle Curzley, but Digital Political Reporter for NPR.

I'm Ron Helving Editor in Correspondence.

So today we are talking campaign trail books.

And so I'm going to start by giving you guys a couple of book titles and you're going

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