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Bill Clinton's 21 Favorite Books

To coincide with the opening of a Clinton Library-related exhibit of books and gifts he received while president, Clinton has released a list of his 21 favorite books.

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/bios-WJC.html
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
2. Meditations (Penguin Classics)
by Marcus Aurelius
  
3. The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
  
4.
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 Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
by Taylor Branch
  
5. Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  
6. Lincoln
by David Herbert Donald
  
7.
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 Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
  
8. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
9. The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century
by David Fromkin
  
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
11. The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
by Seamus Heaney
  
12.
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 King Leopold's Ghost : A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
  
13. The Imitation of Christ
by Thomas, A Kempis
  
14. Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
by George Orwell
  
15.
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 Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis
by Carrol Quigley
  
16. Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics (Library of Theological Ethics)
by Reinhold Niebuhr
  
17. Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
  
18.
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 Politics as a vocation (Facet books : Social ethics series)
by Max Weber
  
19. You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe
  
20. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright
  
21. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
by William Butler Yeats
  
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Created by bwittkop on Aug 13, 2007.