Vladimir Putin’s Reading List
Posted by Ian Crouch
May 24, 2011
"While the world awaits confirmation as to whether Vladimir Putin will challenge, or push aside, his protégé Dmitry Medvedev and run for a third presidential term, we’ve been enjoying the odd and extensive Q. & A. that Gayne C. Young, a high-school English teacher and contributor to Outdoor Life magazine, managed to get with Putin, in which the Russian leader talks about America’s history of manly Presidents (he points to Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama), environmental preservation, Christianity, and some of his favorite books:
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors..."
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