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President Obama's Summer Reading List

President Obama brought these six books with him to Martha's Vineyard.

Barack Obama, left, and daughters Sasha, center, and Malia, right, purchase books at the bookstore Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 29, 2014.
Barack Obama, left, and daughters Sasha, center, and Malia, right, purchase books at the bookstore Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 29, 2014.
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ByALI WEINBERG
August 13, 2015, 12:27 PM

— -- You can't golf all day.

President Obama packed plenty to read for his two weeks vacationing with his family in Martha's Vineyard.

Here are Obama's six summer reads, a mix of critically acclaimed fiction and nonfiction, obtained first by ABC News:

The cover of All That Is, by James Salter.

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