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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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"Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics," Reinhold Niebuhr. I'm impressed that's on his list.
No, not impressed that the book is there. Impressed that he has the ability to read with 0% comprehension.
To: steppenwolffe
As religious as he claimed to be, one wonders why "The Bible" isn't on the list.
Oh, wait. Perhaps I know. :)
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:04:22 AM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. -- Aldous Huxley)
To: steppenwolffe
"The Imitation of Christ," Thomas a Kempis. Not sure he read this one very closely either (but who am I to judge?).
FRegards,
PrairieDawg
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:05:20 AM PST
by
PrairieDawg
(FWIW, IMHO, etc)
To: steppenwolffe
I'm surprised "Vox" and "Leaves of Grass" didn't make his list.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:05:53 AM PST
by
Quilla
To: steppenwolffe
"Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics," Reinhold Niebuhr. Blawawawaawawawawwa
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:06:24 AM PST
by
OXENinFLA
To: Colonel_Flagg
'Forgot Lolita & Das Kapital.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:06:54 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: steppenwolffe
It is simply inconceivable that Bill Clinton could read Thomas a Kempis without turning to stone.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:07:07 AM PST
by
Taliesan
To: steppenwolffe
"Clinton Releases List of Favorite Books"
Someday he may even have an intern read them to him.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:08:17 AM PST
by
Spok
To: steppenwolffe
That list was compiled by some consultant. I don't believe for a minute that Blubba read anything more sophisticated than "Naked Came the Stranger."
To: steppenwolffe
I seriously doubt he read any of these, especially Maya Angeloo. Who could stomach a whole book of anti-poetry?
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:08:58 AM PST
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom!)
To: steppenwolffe
"No, not impressed that the book is there. Impressed that he has the ability to read with 0% comprehension."
It doesn't say he actually read them...
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:09:15 AM PST
by
Spok
To: steppenwolffe
He doesn't actually read them. These are his favorite books to hide his "Hustlers" in.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:11:40 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: steppenwolffe
He's lying. You haven't figured that out yet?
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:11:45 AM PST
by
Lady Jag
(Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
To: steppenwolffe
"Politics as a Vocation," Max Weber. "Politics as a Vacation," Bill Clinton.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:15:02 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: steppenwolffe
Up next, Clinton's favorite porn videos.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:15:26 AM PST
by
Argus
((Ninety-nine and forty-four one-hundredths percent Pure Reactionary))
To: Colonel_Flagg
How about the rest:
Debbie does Dallas
Thunder Buns
Deep Throat
Everything you wanted to know about oral sex - With many pictures.
The horse and the Lady
1,000,000 and 1 dirty pictures
How to scr** those around you
Lying is the best defense
Never admit that you inhaled
Lying as a life long profession
Never have to work during your lifetime
Never have to pay your debts during your lifetime
Living off of other peoples money
And thelist goes on and on
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:15:48 AM PST
by
chiefqc
To: steppenwolffe
This reminds me of those Amazon.com 'Listmania!' lists, e.g., "So, you want to look like a pompous intellectual liberal...a 21-item list by Bill Clinton"
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:15:52 AM PST
by
TrappedInLiberalHell
(Ban Aural Sects! Stop listening to Scientology books on tape!)
To: steppenwolffe
"The Denial of Death," Ernest Becker. "The Denial of Truth," Bill Clinton.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:16:55 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: mountaineer
I agree. This is his list of whatever he believes will complement the legacy he wants to leave, so it is interesting for that. It's also interesting that Homage to Catalonia (my favorite Orwell book) shows what a fraud communism is. I can't imagine that Clinton believes that for a minute. And I also really like Evolution of Civilizations by Quigley. Well worth the reading.
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:17:42 AM PST
by
twigs
To: Spok
"No, not impressed that the book is there. Impressed that he has the ability to read with 0% comprehension."
It doesn't say he actually read them...
Maybe they just look GOOD on his coffee table? :D
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posted on
11/21/2003 11:17:44 AM PST
by
GOPCajunLady
(God is Pro-Life! Your Mother was too.)
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