Obama's summer reading: shelf disclosures

[Mark Kohut]

An almost-despicable piece of pseudo-journalism. From the stupid slam
on the two books that begin with ALL to the final almost-vile
suggestion that Obama is reading Chernow's WASHINGTON because legacy,
this guy knows nothing about Obama's reading choices and probably how
and why ( all inferential and circumstantial of course) they were
made.

Chernow's because he saw HAMILTON, the acclaimed musical, I'd bet,
which started with Chernow's superb bio on that guy. And because O
reads history. Coates' because of the acclaim, yes the Baldwin-level
immediate classic of it and because O has more than hinted that when
his presidency is up, he wants to work for African-American Justice in
some way.

He always finds a first-rate female writer of fiction to read--seems
surely because she IS female. He has chosen Pulitzer winners
before--Maryanne Robinson ( whose Gilead he borrowed from in his Mercy
speech)

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
> Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
> All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
> The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
> The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
> All That Is by James Salter
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> http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/aug/14/obamas-summer-reading-shelf-disclosures
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