Posted by ERIC WILSON – The Daily Beast has rummaged through newspaper archives and delivers a list of books President Barack Obama has been seen reading or totting around since the end of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Friends of the Clinton School know we are big fans of recommended reading lists. Every year, Dean Skip Rutherford asks members of the incoming class to recommend one book, and we display those books at Sturgis Hall. Orientation begins this Sunday for the Class of 2011, and we look forward to announcing its recommended reading list.
If you want to join the Barack Obama Book Club, you need to read the following:
• “What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng” by Dave Eggers
• “Netherland” by Joseph O’Neill
• “Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet” by Jeffrey D. Sachs
• “Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer” by Fred Kaplan
• “Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope” by Jonathan Alter
• FDR” by Jean Edward Smith
• “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001” by Steve Coll
• “Collected Poems, 1948 to 1984” by Derek Walcott
• “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America” by Thomas Friedman
• “Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age” by Larry Bartels
• “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• “The Post-American World” by Fareed Zakaria
Both Dave Eggers and Jonathan Alter have spoken at the Clinton School and you can watch their speeches HERE and HERE.