10 university leaders share their personal reading lists

Check out these books university luminaries are perusing right now.

4. Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., president of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. is a former governor of Indiana whose name was circulated as a possible presidential candidate in 2012. Here's what Daniels is reading:

"The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914," by Margaret MacMillan

"Side Effects: The Economic Consequences of the Health Reform," by Casey Mulligan

"Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World," by George Gilder

"Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age," by Winston Churchill

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values," - by Robert Pirsig (rereading after four decades) 

"Texas Vendetta," (Texas Rangers) by Elmer Kelton (this is President Daniels’s current choice of escapist literature)

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