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President Obama is also an avid reader. Some of his recent reads include:
Jonathan Alter's The Defining Moment
Larry Bartels's Unequal Democracy
Steve Coll's Ghost Wars
Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals
He has mentioned other books and authors that have impressed and influenced him:
Shakespeare's plays
Hermann Melville's Moby Dick
Marilynne Robinson‘s Gilead
Lincoln’s collected writings
Emerson’s Self Reliance
Reinhold Neibuhr's writings
Taylor Branch’s Parting the Waters
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison
Langston Hughes
Richard Wright
W.E.B. Du Bois
Toni Morrison
Doris Lessing
Derek Walcott
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