NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #91 of #GMGReads, the end of our 13th week. Every night through this weird (and sad) time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
Tonight, after featuring a number of different presidential bios and histories, I wanted to feature the best books on Barack Obama and his presidency I've come across so far:
1) CONFRONT AND CONCEAL, by David Sanger (@SangerNYT) is a great portrait of the complexity of the Obama administration's foreign policy, from Iran to North Korea to cyber: bookshop.org/books/confront…
2) Michael Grunwald's (@MikeGrunwald) THE NEW NEW DEAL is an illuminating and deeply-reported study of Obama's domestic policy and the response to the financial crisis, and will convince you it was a more effective response than you likely recall: bookshop.org/books/the-new-…
3) Jodi Kantor's (@jodikantor) THE OBAMAS is a great book on Barack and Michelle, their relationship, and their family: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
PS: It's not quite a full full history of his presidency, but Peter Baker's (@peterbakernyt) THE CALL OF HISTORY is a great first crack at assessing the sweep of the presidency: bookshop.org/books/obama-th…
4) David Remnick's THE BRIDGE is the best Obama biography to emerge yet: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
PS: I've not read most of the "Obama staff memoir" genre of books, but if I was going to read one of them, I'd pick WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? by Alyssa Mastromonaco (@AlyssaMastro44). Also fun fact: She got her start in politics in Vermont! politics-prose.com/book/978145558…
5) If you've never read it, Obama's own DREAMS OF MY FATHER is really fascinating, the rarest of rare—an innocent memoir written long before a presidency, free of much of the paralysis that comes with knowing you're writing for history: politics-prose.com/book/978140008…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are your favorite books on the Obama and his presidency? What have you been reading this weekend? Share! #avidreadersunite
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