Barack Obama backs independent bookshops
US president goes on book shopping spree to mark 'Small Business Saturday'
Barack Obama picked up a copy of classic children's novel The Phantom Tollbooth on a trip to an independent Washington DC bookshop on Saturday.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 29 November, 2011
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