President Barack Obama makes an unannounced stop at Prairie Lights book shop in Iowa City, Iowa Thursday, March 25, 2010. (Charles Dharapak/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The president's reading list
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When President Obama had a book thrown at him at a recent rally in Philadelphia, many pundits had suggestions for what the book should have been. Midmorning asks a book critic and an historian what they think should be on the President Obama's reading list.
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Marjorie Kehe: Book editor for the Christian Science Monitor. She also writes the Monitor's Chapter & Verse Blog.
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Peter Kastor: Associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.
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