…with Washington politics clogging the news (for a break one could sample one of the titles on our baseball reading list), so with the television speaking of nothing but President, Congress, and politics a sampling from our collection on the titles we’ve purchased on President Barak Obama. Hopefully here we’re providing perspectives right, left, and center on the President:
- Reading Obama : Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg
- Young Mr. Obama : Chicago and the Making of a Black President by Edward McClelland
- The Presidential Campaign of Barack Obama : a Critical Analysis of a Racially Transcendent Strategy by Dewey M. Clayton
- Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
- The Violence of Peace : America’s Wars in the Age of Obama by Stephen L. Carter
- Overhaul : an Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry by Steven Rattner
- Bought and Paid For : the Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street by Charles Gasparino
- Courting Disaster : how the CIA kept America Safe and how Barack Obama is Inviting the Next Attack by Marc A. Thiessen
- The Promise : President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter
- Power in Words : the Stories Behind Barack Obama’s speeches, from the State House to the White House by Mary Frances Berry, Josh Gottheimer