Obama's Summer Reading

My guess is the Obamas (maybe even including Malia) have already read it, but the ideal book for a Martha's Vineyard vacation might be "The Emperor of Ocean Park" by Stephen Carter (a mystery thriller set in part in Oak Bluffs).

I can highly recommend "Lush Life" and "John Adams." I would on general principal, tell him and everyone to ignore anything written by Friedman.

Amy, sorry to read about your cold and hopefully you're feeling better already. I recommend Granny's cold cure from “The Beverly Hillbillies” (ingredients unknown but it works): take one spoonful of CC and in a week to ten days you're cured. I've read (and own a copy of) McCullough's Adams profile, highly recommended. Amy, if YOU want a wildly different spin on political events back then, try Marvin Kitman's “The Making of the Prefident 1789” (uses old funny-looking “f” for “s” as back then). It has some blush-inducing moments to boot.

Any chance he'll read the health scam bill?

Of course not.

I knew there was a reason I liked him! Pelecanos is incredible; I bet he's got series 2 of The Wire with him as well.

Whoa! Pelecanos AND Price! The man has taste.

[...] Obama and his family are off to Martha’s Vineyard for vacation this week, and according to Time.com, the president is hoping to get some reading done.  His vacation [...]

If he's going to the beach shouldn't he take a copy of the NYTimes or the Washington Post to wrap dead fish in? They're not really good for anything else are they?

homer and buzz are right on. Not one, but two contributing writers to The Wire on the prez' reading list. Good taste. Altho homer, I would hope he's viewing seasons 4 and 5, which imho, were the series at it's best.

btw - from 2008 - am I the only person who thought Netherland was overrated?

I'm pretty sure the president is on record as saying his favorite tv show is The Wire. Man has taste.

Too bad Obama doesn't have HR 3200 on his summer reading list