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What’s the President Reading?

Reader’s Advisor Online is compiling lists of Barack Obama’s reading, including recent reading, earlier reading, and his favourite books.  Includes links to the sources for all titles on the list.
Some recent books:
Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy — Until You’re 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M. D.
Critical: What [...]

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Obama Bookarama

PW reports lots of books about President-Elent Barack Obama in the offing, and the LA Times reports that “there are at least nine books about the president-elect and the 2008 campaign coming out in the next few months,” among which:

NBC’s Chuck Todd and polling expert Sheldon Gawiser will co-write How Obama Won, “a state-by-state guide [...]

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Author Obit: William F. Buckley, Jr., 24 Nov. 1925 - 27 Feb. 2008

Conservative commentator, author and journalist (founder of National Review) Bill Buckley has died today at age 82 after suffering with diabetes and emphysema. Among his books are God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of ‘Academic Freedom’ (1951), McCarthy and His Enemies (1954, with L. Brent Bozell), spy novels featuring Blackford Oakes, Right Reason: A [...]

Benazir Bhutto’s Book Out Soon

“Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated last week at a rally in Pakistan. Harper Collins announced that her new book, originally scheduled for Spring, was completed only about a week before her death. The book, called Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, will be rushed into print as soon as possible, according to [...]

Presidential Publications?

Salon surveys the books written by all the 2008 candidates for U.S. President. Apparently all but one candidate (Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.?) has written and published a book.
Among the titles are A Prayer for America by Dennis Kucinich (”Have you texted Peace 73223? Do you advocate the abolition of all nuclear weapons? Are you [...]