 | Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel S. Greenberg
Buy new: $11.40 / Used from: $3.96 What a president needs to understand is not science which science, after all? but the role of scientific expertise in the democratic political process.
Steven Shapin
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 | The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.27 There is a crisis in scientific literacy in the United States: only 25% of Americans accept our evolution from ape-like ancestors, yet 74% believe in angels...Anyone aspiring to be president should have a basic acquaintance with evolution and with the masses of evidence that it's not just a theory, but a fact.
Jerry Coyne
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 | The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition by Robert Axelrod
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $6.71 The next US leader should be concerned by the instability of intelligent life...To reach a solution, humans must cooperate on a global scale, requiring us to show wisdom, generosity and respect.
Martin Nowak
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 | Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.47 Probably more bioscientists and physicians have been stimulated to adopt their careers after reading this captivating book than any other. It is easy to read but still relevant, and might help a president to understand the life sciences and the commitment of life scientists to their work.
Rita Colwell
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 | Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet by Denise Caruso
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $4.18 In these uncertain times, the presidential incumbent might be less well served by all the good news about science...A cautionary tale is told by Denise Caruso...Her story is one-sided, but it is well researched and she recommends a feasible system of risk analysis.
Jerry Ravetz
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 | Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration by Seth Shulman
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.25 Seth Shulman argues that George W. Bush's science policies recall those of Trofim Lysenko under Josef Stalin...Shulman reports that the present administration has so thoroughly sown loyalists of questionable competence into science bodies...that it will take a considerable effort to root them out.
Kevin Padian
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