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Washington Monthly's "What Obama Should Read"

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

(found at: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0901.obama.html)
1. The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
by Hooman Majd
  
2.
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 Irony of American History
by Reinhold Niebuhr
  
3. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
by William James
  
4. Character And Opinion In The United States
by George Santayana
  
5. Memoirs (George F. Kennan Memoirs)
by George F. Kennan
  
6. The Invisible Cure
by Helen Epstein
  
7. People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn
  
8.
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 America's Defense Meltdown
by Center for Defense Information
  
9. The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
by Peter Schwartz
  
10.
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 The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
by Mark Twain
  
11. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha
  
12.
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 Coldest Winter, The: America and the Korean War
by David Halberstam
  
13.
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 The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington
by Garrett Epps
  
14. The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Graham Greene
  
15. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
by Avi Shlaim
  
16. The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
by Stephen Flynn
  
17. A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
by Richard Bookstaber
  
18. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition
by Warren E. Buffett
  
19. Lost in the City
by Edward P. Jones
  
20. Free Market Monetary System & The Pretense of Knowledge
by F A Hayek
  
21. Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
by Irving L. Janis
  
22. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott
  
23. The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream
by John Zogby
  
24. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)
by Garry Wills
  
25.
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 Beyond Human Scale: Large Corporation at Risk
by Eli Ginzberg
  
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Created by K McQuage on Feb 11, 2009.