Not
since Lincoln has there been a president as fundamentally shaped — in
his life, convictions and outlook on the world — by reading and writing
as Barack Obama. Last
Friday, seven days before his departure from the White House, Mr. Obama
sat down in the Oval Office and talked about the indispensable role
that books have played during his presidency and throughout his life —
from his peripatetic and sometimes lonely boyhood, when “these worlds
that were portable” provided companionship, to his youth when they
helped him to figure out who he was, what he thought and what was
important. ... [mehr] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/books/obamas-secret-to-surviving-the-white-house-years-books.html
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