Isn't it nice to have a president-elect who is a reader? As a dad, he's already read all the Harry Potter books with his girls and, according to reports, is now tackling the popular Twilight series with Malia. On the campaign trail he showed he was familiar with Michael Pollan's books on food and Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World.
But our new president has something even more magical...he's acquired 'The Oprah Touch" for sending books to the top of bestseller lists. As he ascends to the presidency, Barack Obama has been reading about Lincoln and FDR, specifically Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln and Jonathan Alter's The Defining Moment: FDR's 100 Days and the Triumph of Hope. These two books were published in, respectively, 2005 and 2006, yet they are currently #13 and #120 on Amazon's top sellers list! Our library copies are out in circulation and there are four holds on Goodwin's title.
I wonder what Michelle Obama is reading? Any guesses?
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