Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Obama's books

The NYT ran a story titled A Reading List That Shaped a President that listed some of President-elect Barack Obama’s favored reading matter.  Do you share any of his favorites?

The Bible 

Parting the Waters,” Taylor Branch

“Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gandhi’s autobiography

“Team of Rivals,” Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The Golden Notebook,” Doris Lessing

Lincoln’s collected writings

“Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville

“Song of Solomon,” Toni Morrison

Works of Reinhold Niebuhr

“Gilead,” Marilynne Robinson

Shakespeare’s tragedies

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