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  Not since Lincoln has there been a may hut sua medela mua o dau president as fundamentally shaped - in his life, convictions and outlook on the world - by reading and writing as Barack Obama.
  
  Last Friday, seven days before his departure from the White House, Mr. Obama sat down in the Oval Office and talked about the indispensable role that books have played during his presidency and throughout his life - from his peripatetic and sometimes lonely boyhood, when "these worlds that were portable" provided companionship, to his youth when they helped him to figure out who he was, what he thought and what was important.
  
  During his eight years in the White House - in a noisy era of information overload, extreme partisanship and knee-jerk reactions - books were a sustaining source of ideas and inspiration, and gave him a renewed appreciation for the complexities and ambiguities of the human condition.
  
  "At a time when events move so quickly and so much information is transmitted," he said, reading gave him the ability to occasionally "slow down and get perspective" and "the ability to get in somebody else's shoes." These two things, he added, "have been invaluable to me. Whether they've made me a better president I can't say. But what I can say is that they have allowed me to sort of maintain my balance during the course of eight years, because this is a place that comes at you hard and fast and doesn't let up."
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  The writings of Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, Mr. Obama found, were "particularly helpful" when "what you wanted was a sense of solidarity," adding "during very difficult moments, this job can be very isolating." "So sometimes you have to sort of hop across history to find folks who have been similarly feeling isolated, and that's been useful." There is a handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address in the Lincoln Bedroom, and sometimes, in the evening, Mr. Obama says, he would wander over from his home office to read it.
  Mr. Obama's long view of history and the optimism (combined with a stirring reminder of the hard work required by democracy) that he articulated in his farewell speech last week are part of a hard-won faith, grounded in his reading, in his knowledge of history (and its unexpected zigs and zags), and his embrace of artists like Shakespeare who saw the human situation entire: its follies, cruelties and mad blunders, but also its resilience, decencies and acts of grace. The playwright's tragedies, he says, have been "foundational for me in understanding how certain patterns repeat may hut sua medela gia bao nhieu themselves and play themselves out between human beings."

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Not since Lincoln has there been a <a href="http:" rel="nofollow">may hut sua medela mua o dau</a> president as fundamentally shaped - in his life, convictions and outlook on the world - by reading and writing as Barack Obama. <br /> <br /> Last Friday, seven days before his departure from the White House, Mr. Obama sat down in the Oval Office and talked about the indispensable role that books have played during his presidency and throughout his life - from his peripatetic and sometimes lonely boyhood, when "these worlds that were portable" provided companionship, to his youth when they helped him to figure out who he was, what he thought and what was important. <br /> <br /> During his eight years in the White House - in a noisy era of information overload, extreme partisanship and knee-jerk reactions - books were a sustaining source of ideas and inspiration, and gave him a renewed appreciation for the complexities and ambiguities of the human condition. <br /> <br /> "At a time when events move so quickly and so much information is transmitted," he said, reading gave him the ability to occasionally "slow down and get perspective" and "the ability to get in somebody else's shoes." These two things, he added, "have been invaluable to me. Whether they've made me a better president I can't say. But what I can say is that they have allowed me to sort of maintain my balance during the course of eight years, because this is a place that comes at you hard and fast and doesn't let up." <br /> Continue reading the main story <br /> Related Coverage <br /> <br /> Transcript: President Obama <a href="http:" rel="nofollow">dia chi ban may hut sua medela</a> gon What Books Mean to Him JAN. 16, 2017 <br /> <br /> Recent Comments <br /> jacobi 3 hours ago <br /> <br /> Reading books must have been how he became a military strategic genius and explains how he so thoroughly outmaneuvered Putin... <br /> John Adams 3 hours ago <br /> <br /> I'm going to miss the presence of intellectual curiosity in the Oval Office every day. Our new President watches a lot of television and his... <br /> <br /> The writings of Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, Mr. Obama found, were "particularly helpful" when "what you wanted was a sense of solidarity," adding "during very difficult moments, this job can be very isolating." "So sometimes you have to sort of hop across history to find folks who have been similarly feeling isolated, and that's been useful." There is a handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address in the Lincoln Bedroom, and sometimes, in the evening, Mr. Obama says, he would wander over from his home office to read it. <br /> Mr. Obama's long view of history and the optimism (combined with a stirring reminder of the hard work required by democracy) that he articulated in his farewell speech last week are part of a hard-won faith, grounded in his reading, in his knowledge of history (and its unexpected zigs and zags), and his embrace of artists like Shakespeare who saw the human situation entire: its follies, cruelties and mad blunders, but also its resilience, decencies and acts of grace. The playwright's tragedies, he says, have been "foundational for me in understanding how certain patterns repeat <a href="http:" rel="nofollow">may hut sua medela gia bao nhieu</a> themselves and play themselves out between human beings."</div>

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