(Slick Willie) Clinton Releases List of Favorite Books

AP ^ | 11-21-03

[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.

[EllaMinnow]

Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis.

Shoddy Imitation of a President by Bill Clinton.

[My2Cents]

Your Clintonesque twists are a hoot.

[My2Cents]

"One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

"Eight Years of Ineptitude," Bill Clinton

[Charles Henrickson]

"One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

"Fifty-Seven Years of Turpitude," Bill Clinton.

[Toskrin]

No lie - Clinton's favorite movie he saw while in the White House:

American Beauty

[My2Cents]

"The Confessions of Nat Turner," William Styron.

"The Denials of Bill Clinton -- Contemplations on the Meaning of the Word 'Is'" -- Bill Clinton

[Protagoras]

And the list goes on and on

"The ethical politicions' handbook".

[My2Cents]

"You Can't Go Home Again," Thomas Wolfe.

"I Can't Go Home Again (Hillary found little black book)" -- Bill Clinton.

[Charles Henrickson]

"The Cure at Troy . . . ," Seamus Heaney.

"The Cure I Tried," Seamen Handy (aka Bill Clinton).

[Argh]

What happened to Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill), Candy, and The Horse is Dead??

[samanella]

I wish Clinton WAS The Invisible Man.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Oh, crap. He never read Meditations
I absolutely refuse to believe it.

[SerpentDove]

[ZULU]

"Meditations," Marcus Aurelius."

YEAH. SURE!!!!!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

It's both remarkable and sad that the Left (AP) still fawns over him.

[PJ-Comix]

We read Ellison's Invisible Man last year as part of a Freeper Reading Club assignment. It's a little hard to believe Billy read that book. I think he merely put it on the list because it has a reputation of being a novel about the struggles of a black man. However, what most people who haven't read it DON'T KNOW is that it runs completely counter to stereotype. Although at first it seems to (rightly) condemn racist Southern society of many years ago, it then goes on to mock the left-wing types in the North after the protagonist of the story went there. This is one reason there is very little actual discussion of this book in leftists circles. It is one of the best looks at the hypocrisy of the leftists and how they tried to use black people for their own purposes. Also it is a very good look at the CPUSA although the Communist Party was not actually named.

For these reasons, I doubt Slick Willie actually read Invisible Man, unless it was the H.G. Wells version. I HIGHLY recommend the Ellison book to everyone!

[Charles Henrickson]

"Homage to Catalonia," George Orwell.

"Homage to Nymphomania," Bill Clinton.

[HarleyD]

"Imitation of Christ"...Please. Something for everyone.

[Charles Henrickson]

"The Imitation of Christ," Thomas a Kempis.

"The Imitation of Caligula," Bill Clinton.

[Burkeman1]

What about his autobiography: "American Pyscho"?