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Presidential Picks: The Library's Got Them

In a New York Times article on January 19, President Barack Obama talked about the books that inspired and edified him, about his appreciation for "the magic of language" and his "ardent love of reading." You can find some of the President's favorite books at the Library:

  • "Parting the Waters," Taylor Branch
  • The Bible
  • "Self-Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Gandhi's autobiography
  • "Team of Rivals," Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • "The Golden Notebook," Doris Lessing
  • Lincoln's collected writings
  • "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville
  • "Song of Solomon," Toni Morrison
  • Works of Reinhold Niebuhr
  • "Gilead," Marilynne Robinson
  • Shakespeare's tragedies

 

Henry DuBois

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