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The 9/11 Novels Worth Reading
Eight years on, which of the many works about the terrorist attacks are most likely to stand the test of time? The Daily Beast finds three novels that are up to the task-and only one was written by an American.
The Barack Obama Book Club
Want to read like a president? The Daily Beast pulled together every book that the Reader in Chief has been spotted with since the campaign. Find out what's on his night table.
Professional Lust and Girl Crushes
Who are the women in media other women admire and secretly want to be? Doree Shafrir on worshipping in the workplace and how it fuels female ambition.
Do Book Awards Really Matter?
Is it better to get a Pulitzer or the Booker, and does a prize from Barnes & Noble mean more than a Nobel? Sara Nelson looks inside the winners' circle.
Breakout Stars of 2008
You may not have heard of them in 2007. Now just try to imagine your world without them.
DAVID PLOUFFE Barack Obama would never have become the Man if David Plouffe, his 41-year-old campaign manager, hadn't built the Machine. With a sw...



















