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According to U.S. News, President George Bush has already completed 60 books in 2006 alone, including Albert Camus' The Stranger and two plays by William Shakespeare. Here is his summer reading list.
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Albert Camus
Published in 1942, the novel follows a disaffected young man who kills an Arab on an Algerian beach and shows no remorse for his act nor appears to be moved by his mother's death. A classic tale on alienation.
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William Shakespeare
First printed in 1623, the tragedy of Macbeth and his unquenchable thirst for power remains one of William Shakespeare's most popular works.
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Walter McDougall
The celebrated historian reinterprets the traditions that have shaped American foreign policy from 1776 to the present.
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John D. MacDonald
When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lends his boat to his niece and her new husband Evan, the boat explodes out in the waters of the Florida Keys. Travis thinks it's no accident, and clues lead him to ponder possibilities of drugs and also to wonder where Evan was.
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Ronald C. White, Jr.
Filled with all the facts and factors surrounding the Second Inaugural, Lincoln's Greatest Speech is both a historical document and a thoughtful analysis of Lincoln's moral and rhetorical genius.
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Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life.
He is recovering from his grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when terrorism comes to find him once again.
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Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
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James Patterson, Peter de Jonge
The best-selling author takes readers to the luxurious Hamptons, as small-time lawyer Tom Dunleavy defends a local suspect in a triple murder case amid the playground of the rich.
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Also making it onto his list
- The Places in Between, Rory Stewart
- Quick Red Fox, John D. MacDonald
- Finding Fish: A Memoir, Antwone Quenton Fisher
- Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, Gordon S. Wood
- The Bridge at Andau, James Michener
- Through a Glass, Darkly : A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, Donna Leon
- Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History , Craig L. Symonds
- Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, David Maraniss
- Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power, Richard Carwardine
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare
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