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Can you recommend a good biography of Obama?
Now that he has been in office a year, I would suspect that there would be a good crop of biographies. I’m looking for an objective book, in the vein of "First in His Class" on Clinton and "First Son" on Bush. Objectivity is my first requirement, and if it is engaging and reveals illuminating … Continue reading
Besides Obama, how many other world leaders have written biographies before they accomplished anything?
obama wrote his "Dreams of My Father" before he’d ever been elected to anything, before anyone knew who the heck he was, and before he’d accomplished anything of note. The only other two world leaders that did that (that I can think of) were Hitler (Mein Kampf) and Stalin…. Jesse–All were famous before they wrote … Continue reading