Books Quote by Fred Kaplan

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history…

— Teju Cole

I read contrived memoirs by presidential candidates. For every 'Dreams From My Father' - Barack Obama's honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing -…

— Amy Chozick

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama,…

— James Fallows

It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most…

— Jonathan Raban

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

— Jonathan Chait

“I had never seen a black man like Barack Obama. He talked to white people in a new language—as though he actually trusted them…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I like to say that I don't have the slightest doubt that Barack Obama read me in the early 80s. It's the kind of…

— Robert Christgau

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“(On Barack Obama) "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean,…

— Joe Biden

Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I…

— E. L. Doctorow

“Whatever Obama’s other triumphs, arguably his greatest has been an expansion of the black imagination to encompass this: the idea that a man can…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates