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Recent Reading:
- Jonathan Alter – The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
- Steve Coll – Ghost Wars
- Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M. D. – Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy Until You’re 80 and Beyond
- Tom Daschle – Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis
- Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals
- Fred Kaplan – Lincoln, the Biography of a Writer
- J. K. Rowling – all seven Harry Potter books
- Nick Salvatore – Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America
- Jean Edward Smith – FDR
- Derek Walcott – Collected Poems 1948-1984
- Fareed Zakaria – The Post-American World
- Elizabeth Alexander’s poetry
- Saul Alinsky – Rules for Radicals
- William Ayers – A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of the Juvenile Court
- James Baldwin
- Robert Caro – Power Broker
- W. E. B. Du Bois – Souls of Black Folk
- Ralph Ellison
- Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American
- Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Langston Hughes
- Thomas Jefferson
- Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
- Martin Luther King, Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Abraham Lincoln
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Friedrich Nietzche
- Philip Roth
- St. Augustine
- Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn – Cancer Ward
- John Steinbeck – In Dubious Battle
- Studs Terkel – Working
- Mark Twain
- Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men
- Paul Tillich
- Richard Wright
- The Bible
- Taylor Branch – Parting the Waters
- E. L. Doctorow
- Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance
- Abraham Lincoln – Collected Writings
- Herman Melville – Moby Dick
- Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon
- Marilynne Robinson – Gilead
- William Shakespeare – Tragedies
Earlier Reading
The President’s Favorites (according to his FaceBook page and other sources)
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