Most readers can point to a book (or to several books) that changed the way they think about something.
Can a book read by a U.S. President change the course of history?
Apparently, at least one book did.
Found at Reader’s Almanac
How a Book Influenced a President’s Decision
March 21, 2012
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“Americans Don’t Burn Books”
August 12, 2011
An editorial by James Cannon Boyce, posted to Salon.
(Although I remember a Florida minister threatening to burn a copy of the Koran, I hadn’t heard that there are people planning to do this on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks.)
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