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Presidential Materials at the Library

A new book detailing President Obama's first year in office and a great HBO miniseries on the life of John Adams are in the stacks at the library.

President’s Day is nearly upon us. This week a book and a DVD set on two of the men who have held the prestigious office are among the new and noteworthy presidential materials in the collection at the Mansfield Public Library. The Promise: President Obama, Year One: Newsweek columnist and Harvard graduate Jonathan Alter has considerable access to President Obama’s administration and he took advantage of such by penning a book on Obama’s first year in office. In the book the reader gets a detailed account of just how methodically the Obama White House is run, and how starkly this contrasts to the knee-jerk reactive Bush administration. Alter goes into detail on Obama’s personality inside the White House and shares his observation about …

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