Obama’s Beach Reads

by Thessaly La Force

President Obama is taking ten days this month to be with his family on Martha’s Vineyard. What’s he reading?According to Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton, he has packed:

• Tom Friedman’s “Hot, Flat and Crowded”

• David McCullough’s “John Adams”

• Richard Price’s “Lush Life”

• Kent Haruf’s “Plain Song”

• George Pelecanos’s “The Way Home”