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10 books university leaders are reading

Here are some of the titles leading figures at universities around the country are currently perusing.

9. David W. Leebron, president of Rice University

Dec. 15, 2014, 8:30 a.m. ET

By Ross Atkin

President David W. Leebron
Rice University
Houston, Texas

Prior to taking the helm at Rice, Leebron was dean of Columbia Law School in New York. Leebron is currently reading:

"The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present," by Eric Kandel

"The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History," by Elizabeth Kolbert

"The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery," by W. Caleb McDaniel

"Souvenir (a collection of autobiographical essays)," by Kathryn Rhett

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