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  • 2008-10-07 (xsd:date)
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  • What Does Obama Read? 'The Post-American World' (en)
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  • A photograph of Barack Obama carrying (and presumably reading) the best-selling book, The Post-American World, is a real one, snapped by Doug Mills of the New York Times in Bozeman, Montana, in May 2008: However, the characterization of the pictured book as a Muslim's view of a defeated America is erroneous: The book does not posit a defeated America, nor does it express a Muslim point of view: The The Post-American World was written by Fareed Zakaria, an Indian-born political journalist (commonly described as a political moderate) who specializes in world affairs and has written for (and edited) U.S. national news publications, hosted U.S. television news programs, and authored several books on international issues. A Village Voice profile described Zakaria (a naturalized citizen of the United States) thusly: The following review (from Publishers Weekly) summarizes the thesis of The Post-American World As for what the chief executive reads in his spare time, according to deputy press secretary Bill Burton, President Obama brought the following books with him to his August 2009 vacation at Martha's Vineyard: In 2015, President Obama's summer reading list, as announced by the White House, included the following books: (en)
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