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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Bill Clinton's Favorite Books

With the recent opening of the George W. Bush Library, we thought it would be a great opportunity to remind ourselves of former presidents' favorite reading. Here's Bill Clinton's favorite books according to a previous exhibit at his own presidential library:




• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou.







• Meditations, Marcus Aurelius.







• The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker.







• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch.







• Living History, Hillary Rodham Clinton.







• Lincoln, David Herbert Donald.







• The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot.







• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison.







• The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century, David Fromkin.







• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.







• The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney.







• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild.







• The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis.







• Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell.







• The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis, Carroll Quigley.







• Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, Reinhold Niebuhr.







• The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron.







• Politics as a Vocation, Max Weber.







• You Can't Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe.







• Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright.







• The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats.






via Books on HuffingtonPost.com

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