From the same Washington Monthly article as the Obama Campaign Trail Reading List, below are the 25 books that the new president should read. Washington Monthly gives detailed descriptions for why each book is important for the incoming administration.
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Pardox of Modern Iran, Hooman Majd
Irony of American History, Reinhold Niebuhr
The Will to Believe, William James
Character and Opinion in the United States, George Santayana
Memoirs, 1925–1950, George F. Kennan
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS, Helen Epstein
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
America’s Defense Meltdown
The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World, Peter Schwartz
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
India After Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, David Halberstam
The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington, Garrett Epps
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Avi Shlaim
The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation, Stephen Flynn
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds and the Perils of Financial Innovation, Richard Bookstaber
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Warren Buffett
Lost in the City, Edward P. Jones
The Pretence of Knowledge, Friedrich Hayek (FREE at Nobelprize.org)
Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes, Irving L. Janis
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream, John Zogby
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America, Garry Wills
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