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We know President-elect Obama is partial to reading books on Lincoln, but reports also suggest he;s reading a book on Franklin Roosevelt’s first one hundred days as president: The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter.Paul Begala: ‘I could not be happier or more impressed. Alter has a first-class writing style and a first-class sense of the moment. The book, published in 2006, was not intended as a veiled memorandum of advice for the 44th president, but in some ways it may have become just that.’