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Jill Biden's Reading List
- Thomas M.
- Wednesday, November 18, 2020
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Dr. Jill Biden, former Second Lady of the United States and soon to be First Lady, is also an accomplished English professor and champion of community colleges. In her memoir, Where The Light Enters, she quotes a bunch of authors across a spectrum of genres. Here is a reading list made up of the works she cites.
Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops
Published in 2012
Natalie waits for the day when her soldier father will come home from war, in a book inspired by the author's granddaughter and her family's true story.
Where the Light Enters
Building a Family, Discovering Myself
Published in 2019
This is the story of how Jill built a family of her own: from seeking small moments of joy, to balancing the family's needs with her personal and professional goals, to forming traditions that helped carry them through tragedy - all with the support of an extended family circle. That circle would morph over the years, but the one constant was love. And whether finding her own voice as Second Lady or changing lives as a teacher, whether nurturing the Biden clan or surviving devastating loss, Jill discovered her own strength and came to understand what it truly means to make a family.
A Guide for Grown-ups
Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry.
Published in 2002
Walt Whitman Speaks
His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America, As Told to Horace Traubel ; Edited and with an Introduction by Brenda Wineapple.
Published in 2019
"Here is Whitman the sage, champion of expansiveness and human freedom. Here too, is the poet's more personal side--his vivid memories of Thoreau, Emerson, and Lincoln, his literary judgments of writers such as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Tolstoy, and his expressions of hope in the democratic promise of the nation he loved. The result is a keepsake edition to touch the soul, capturing the distilled wisdom of America's greatest poet"--from Jacket.