The Barack Obama Book Club
by Samuel Jacobs With the Obama family vacation just around the corner, we’d like to offer a refresher to anyone who is behind on their Barack Obama reading list. When the president landed in Oaks Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard last August, he loaded his bedside table with 2,333 pages of reading for the week. Of course he had a little help: One of the books that his staff said he was reading, he’d been quoting from since the campaign: Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded. When we asked The New York Times columnist how he felt that his energy-policy book […]