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(Slick Willie) Clinton Releases List of Favorite Books
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| 11-21-03
Posted on 11/21/2003 11:02:21 AM PST by steppenwolffe
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Ah, nothing like curling up in front of the fireplace with 21 of President Clinton's favorite books.
To coincide with the opening of a Clinton Library-related exhibit of books and gifts he received while president, Clinton has released a list of his 21 favorite books - from his wife's "Living History" to Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" to Thomas a Kempis' "The Imitation of Christ."
Clinton's presidential library is to open next November on the south bank of the Arkansas River in downtown Little Rock. A nearby office building, the Cox Creative Center, has hosted a number of preview exhibits, and on Monday opens "America Presents: A Collection of Books and Gifts of the Clinton Presidency." The exhibit runs through Jan. 3.
Copies of Clinton's 21 favorite books will be on display at the Cox building.
Besides Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's autobiography, Ellison's soaring novel of a black man's journey through white America and Kempis' 15th-century treatise on Christian living, other books of note include Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and Thomas Wolfe's "You Can't Go Home Again."
The entire list of Clinton's favorite books, listed alphabetically by author:
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou.
"Meditations," Marcus Aurelius.
"The Denial of Death," Ernest Becker.
"Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963," Taylor Branch.
"Living History," Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"Lincoln," David Herbert Donald.
"The Four Quartets," T.S. Eliot.
"Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison.
"The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century," David Fromkin.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
"The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes," Seamus Heaney.
"King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa," Adam Hochschild.
"The Imitation of Christ," Thomas a Kempis.
"Homage to Catalonia," George Orwell.
"The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis," Carroll Quigley.
"Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics," Reinhold Niebuhr.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner," William Styron.
"Politics as a Vocation," Max Weber.
"You Can't Go Home Again," Thomas Wolfe.
"Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny," Robert Wright.
"The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats," William Butler Yeats.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: clinton
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To: steppenwolffe
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou. "I Know What the Intern Brings," Bill Clinton.
To: steppenwolffe
He didn't include Xaviera Hollander's famous book?
-PJ
To: chiefqc
MEIN KAMPF
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:19:36 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
To: steppenwolffe
"Meditations," Marcus Aurelius. "Masturbations," Bill Clinton.
To: steppenwolffe
He uses Lying History in the restroom. His favorite books are Playboy and Hustler.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:21:05 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter are living proof that not all blondes are dumb.)
To: steppenwolffe
He didn't give his real list of favorites:
A PENIS RUNS THROUGH IT
IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD PENIS
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S PENIS
2001: A SPACE PENIS
THE PENIS WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
THE HUNT FOR RED PENIS
And his No. 1 favorite: PENIS DEAREST
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:21:59 AM PST
by
doug from upland
(Why aren't the Clintons living out their remaining years on Alcatraz?)
To: steppenwolffe
As usual, he's a lying asshole. Imitation of Christ? Yeah right, he didn't have enough space to list The City of God. BARF!!!!!!
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:22:47 AM PST
by
TheSpottedOwl
(My eyes are blind but I can see....Ozzy)
To: steppenwolffe
"Parting the Waters . . . ," Taylor Branch. "Parsing the Tenses," Bill Clinton.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:23:04 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: steppenwolffe; martin_fierro
"Lincoln," David Herbert Donald. "Lincoln Bedroom," Bill Clinton.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:24:28 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: Quilla
I'm surprised "Vox" and "Leaves of Grass" didn't make his list.
"Leaves of Grass" isn't one of his favorites. It's merely the one that he gives to potential oral candidates.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:24:43 AM PST
by
Bush2000
To: Charles Henrickson
"I Know What the Intern Brings," Bill Clinton. LOL! But what about "The Rise and Fall of the [CENSORED]"?
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:25:07 AM PST
by
talleyman
("Fatal error - foam flaw in tap stack - drinking has been halted.")
To: steppenwolffe
"The Four Quartets," T.S. Eliot. "The Four-Quart T*ts," Bill Clinton.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:26:11 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: Spok
Someday he may even have an intern read them to him. That may be somewhat difficult if the intern's mouth is full.
To: steppenwolffe
Funny he didn't list "It Takes a Village".
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:26:39 AM PST
by
maggief
To: Charles Henrickson
P.S.:
Copies of Clinton's 21 favorite books will be on display at the Cox building. How appropriate...
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:27:15 AM PST
by
talleyman
("Fatal error - foam flaw in tap stack - drinking has been halted.")
To: steppenwolffe
I looked around but APTM DNC a wholly owned subsidiary of HILLARYFAX INC. was apparently unable to find a "reporter" willing to have his/her name put to this idiocy.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:28:54 AM PST
by
mrsmith
To: steppenwolffe
What makes you think he's actually read any of these books?
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:30:08 AM PST
by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again...")
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To: steppenwolffe
I don't see Foucault on his list...he also questions the meaning of "is". :)
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:31:48 AM PST
by
exmarine
(u)
To: steppenwolffe
"Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison. "Impeachable Man," Bill Clinton.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:32:30 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
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