August 24, 1999
President Clinton's Summer Reading List
Wondering what the President is reading on his summer vacation?
Here's his eclectic (and ambitious) list:
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Title
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Author
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Year Published
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"Waves of Rancor: Tuning in the Radical Right"
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Robert Hillard and Michael Keith
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1999
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"Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk"
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Peter L. Bernstein
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1998
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"Crossing to Safety"
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Wallace Stegner
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1991
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"A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the
Nineteenth Century"
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Witold Rybczynski
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1999
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"Cold Hit"
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Linda A. Fairstein
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1999
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"Dark Lady"
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Richard North Patterson
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1999
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"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life and Death"
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Jean-Dominique Bauby
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1998
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"Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies"
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Jared Diamond
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1999
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"Just Revenge"
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Alan Dershowitz
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1999
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"The Last Patrician: Bobby Kennedy and the End of American
Aristocracy"
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Michael Knox Beran
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1998
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"Memoirs of Hadrian"
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Marguerite Yourcenar
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1951
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"Prayers for Rain"
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Dennis Lehane
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1999
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Source: White House.
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