while he was inventing TV.
I wonder what fool advised this. "The Stranger" is not a great work, and not even a particularly important one. It is simply a short, easy-to-read "classic" -- classic in the sense that it's famous -- that happens to have been read by many "educated" people. Someone who wanted Bush to look more "educated" and thought of "The Stranger" as one of the books the "educated" have read and will recogtnize the title of, must have suggested this. It's indicative of how this White House works. There are so many other short classics, true classics, that Bush could have spent his time reading.