What should President Obama read?

Slate readers make suggestions for the president\'s summer reading list.

In a few weeks, President Obama will start his summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. What should he take for beach reading? The White House usually releases the president’s reading list on the eve of the trip, providing the first item in what the president and the traveling press corps hope will be a week and a half of low-impact news coverage. Slate is asking readers to help choose the president’s summer reading list. The objective is the president’s: A set of books that will both entertain and not open him to a lot of grief in the press.

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