JFK famously read Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August"

[kairos12]

during the Cuban Missile Crisis in order to understand how not to blunder into a world war, as what happened in WWI. Unfortunately, the only thing Drumpt is probably reading is Golf Digest and transcripts of Faux and Friends.

[msongs]

1. read that book. instant communications are as bad as 1915 in the hands of a moron nt

[katmondoo]

2. I read it many years ago but cannot remember much of what it was about

I must read it again and perhaps today I will have a better understanding of it. I was only 25 at the time.

[msongs]

5. its about the months leading up to the start of WW 1. all the posturing, bad

communications, missed opportunities and ethnic/national pride that pushed everyone over the brink...momentum once underway could not be halted

[FM123]

3. I don't think Trumpy is reading anything - I think he is coloring.....

[0rganism]

4. i'd expect Trump to be reading "The Buns of August"

i'm sure he has a copy in each bathroom at the WH

[bellmartin]

6. Let's start small. At this point, I'd be happy if he'd read Dr. Seuss' "The Butter Battle Book"

[kairos12]

8. Great book.

[Tiggeroshii]

7. All is quiet on the western front

Supposedly