While Waiting for the Inauguration

College professors recommend these readings for the President-elect (and for you wannabes):
Isaiah Berlin’s classic essay on Roosevelt
Preparing to be President: The Memos of Richard E. Neustadt (AEI Press, 2000), edited by Charles O. Jones
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden
Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War
The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises
On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn
Polanyi’s The Great Transformation
Tobias Wolff’s In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
Nancy Cott’s Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2000)
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