Washington Monthly's "What Obama Should Read"

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Washington Monthly asked some writers and intellectuals to recommend books to the president.

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    Irony of American History
    by Reinhold Niebuhr

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    The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
    by William James

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  4. 4.
    Character And Opinion In The United States
    by George Santayana

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    Memoirs (George F. Kennan Memoirs)
    by George F. Kennan

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    The Invisible Cure
    by Helen Epstein

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    America's Defense Meltdown
    by Center for Defense Information

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
    by Mark Twain

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    Coldest Winter, The: America and the Korean War
    by David Halberstam

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    The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington
    by Garrett Epps

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  12. 14.
    The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

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  13. 15.
    The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
    by Avi Shlaim

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    The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
    by Stephen Flynn

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    Lost in the City
    by Edward P. Jones

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    Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
    by Don Tapscott

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    Beyond Human Scale: Large Corporation at Risk
    by Eli Ginzberg

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MestnyiGeroi
New York City

Untitled — 38 weeks ago

I am sure he has read many of these. We actually have an intelligent man at the helm again, not another obscurantist.