Washington Monthly's "What Obama Should Read"

1. 1. The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd Drag me to re-order

2. 2. Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr Drag me to re-order

3. 3. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James Drag me to re-order

4. 4. Character And Opinion In The United States by George Santayana Drag me to re-order

5. 5. Memoirs 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan Drag me to re-order

6. 6. The Invisible Cure by Helen Epstein Drag me to re-order

7. 7. A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn Drag me to re-order

8. 8. ? America's Defense Meltdown by Center for Defense Information Drag me to re-order

9. 9. The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World by Peter Schwartz Drag me to re-order

10. 10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin by Mark Twain Drag me to re-order

11. 11. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha Drag me to re-order

12. 12. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam Drag me to re-order

13. 13. The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington by Garrett Epps Drag me to re-order

14. 14. The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene Drag me to re-order

15. 15. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim Drag me to re-order

16. 16. The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation by Stephen Flynn Drag me to re-order

17. 17. A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation by Richard Bookstaber Drag me to re-order

18. 18. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition by Warren E. Buffett Drag me to re-order

19. 19. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones Drag me to re-order

20. 20. Free-Market Monetary System and The Pretense of Knowledge, A by F. A. Hayek Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes by Irving L. Janis Drag me to re-order

22. 22. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott Drag me to re-order

23. 23. The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream by John Zogby Drag me to re-order

24. 24. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills Drag me to re-order

25. 25. ? Beyond Human Scale: Large Corporation at Risk by Eli Ginzberg Drag me to re-order