MB Civic

By Tevi Troy | Sunday, April 18, 2010 | The Washington Post

“…One of the reasons the country’s intellectual class has taken so gleefully to Obama is precisely that, in addition to writing bestsellers, the man is clearly a dedicated reader. During his presidential campaign, he was photographed toting around Fareed Zakaria’s ‘The Post-American World‘, the it-book of the foreign policy establishment at the time. A year ago, in an interview about economic policy, he told a reporter that he was reading Joseph O’Neill’s post-Sept. 11 novel ‘Netherland‘, which had recently won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041503706_pf.