Authors, Bookmarks, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Alexander, Presidential Inauguration, Rick Warren
January 20, 2009 | 12:10 PM | By Danielle Ng-See-Quan
- Taken from Fellow Citizens: The Penguin Book of U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses, test your knowledge of the final words of former presidents’ inaugural speeches (Jacket Copy)
- Barack Obama will take the oath of office on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used, and will eat a meal modelled on some of Lincoln’s favourite dishes (including the apple-cinnamon sponge cake). For The Book Bench, Adam Gopnick and Jill Lepore recommend some Lincoln books (The New Yorker)
- Martin Levin dissects Obama’s reading list (The Globe and Mail)
- Evangelist Rick Warren (and author of The Purpose Driven Life) delivers the invocation at Obama’s inauguration (abc6.com)
- Q&A with inauguration poet Elizabeth Alexander (TIME Magazine)
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