Featured Historians Tevi Troy: What’s Obama Reading?

FEATURED HISTORIANS What’s Obama Reading? Source: National Review Online, 8-23-11 On this summer’s presidential book list, fiction trumps reality. The reports are in about the books President Obama is looking at on his annual trip to Martha’s Vineyard. According to reports from the Los Angeles Times and the AP, Obama purchased five books on his [...]

Featured Historians Tevi Troy: What books are the GOP 2012 contenders reading?

FEATURED HISTORIANS What books are the GOP 2012 contenders reading? Source: Tevi Troy, WaPo, 8-19-11 When Democratic politicians brag about the books they read, they usually highlight big-name New-York-Times-bestseller-list kind of works. Think Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat ,” David McCullough’s biographies, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals” and anything by David Brooks. Reading [...]