Something you may like doing when the talking heads appear (a fun/interesting thing)
A couple years back I'm watching some Sat. AM program, and being interviewed is political columnist, Ron Brownstein. Unlike EVERY interview today, Ron was Skyped-in from his home. And behind Ron as his spoke was - his library (or part of it). And I started to read the titles of his books. And discovered I had almost every one of Ron's books in my library! Indicating great intelligence, says I! And what you read says a lot about you.
And it doesn't matter the speaker. If I'm watching ESPN and someone is being interviewed - right behind that person is that person's library.
And I do that to this day for the fun of it. But these days, with every one being broadcast from their homes - I see a lot more books in private bookshelves.
Last Saturday was the same. The guy being interviewed had these books in the shelving behind him:
"Master of the Senate" by Robert Caro (And one of my all-time favorites!)
"Churchill", by Lawrence James.
"Team of Rivals" by Goodwin.
"John Adams" by McCullogh.
"The Republic". Small and thin so it was hard to tell but I think, Plato's. (And why, if you do this you need a really high-quality TV so you can read those titles! And the price of OLED TV's are dropping, so there's your excuse.)
Who was being interviewed? Scroll on down....
Adam Schiff!!
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my books are pretty tattered and not such a good background... so, if ever I need to do an interview, I will clear my bookshelf and leave a nice big space for my Kindle! 
where the photographer known as "Animal" would be reading books/magazines with "odd" titles -- "Fun With Leather" was the only one that stuck in memory. I like to fantasize about what books I would sneak onto the shelves if I were on camera from my own library, and would be sure to include a couple of head-scratchers. 
(Nothing too shocking, maybe something like a Futurama comic or some juvie SF from my childhood shelved among all the scholarly tomes.)
