×
The Washington Monthly asked 19 public intellectuals, only three of them female, to recommend books for President Obama to read. The resulting list of 23 texts is notable for including only one single volume written by a woman: Helen Epstein's The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS, recommended by the inestimable Steve Coll. My additions:
- The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial, by Susan Eaton
- The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, by Michelle Goldberg
- Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War, by TAP's very own Tara McKelvey
- Personal History, by Katharine Graham
- Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, by Lisa Delpit
Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?
--Dana Goldstein