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The books Obama is supposedly reading on his vacation.

The list:

? The Way Home by George Pelecanos, a crime thriller based in Washington;
? Lush Life by Richard Price, a story of race and class set in New York's Lower East Side;
? Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded, on the benefits to America of an environmental revolution;
? John Adams by David McCullough;
? Plainsong by Kent Haruf, a drama about the life of eight different characters living in a Colorado prairie community.

I never believe Presidents are actually reading the books their people tell us they're reading, so, for me, the only question is what they thought they were saying with these titles and why they thought it was a good idea to say that.

If you could pick a book for Obama to read ? actually read ? what book would you pick? If he could make you read a book of his choice, what do you think it would be? If you picked political books or history books or economics books, please pick again and be more out there so this late night discussion isn't too boring.

I'm just noticing that all Obama's books are written by men. Maybe these really are the books he's reading. If it's PR, his PR people have a big blind spot.

Full post as published by Althouse on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).