Obama’s Book Club Strategy Barack Obama is taking the book-as-campaign-tool strategy a step further than his peers, launching a series of book clubs in New Hampshire towns and online, focused on his DREAMS OF MY FATHER. Among the features, the Chicago Tribune notes, is that “book club participants will be able to dial into conference calls throughout the summer with significant figures from his life.” (About 85 people participated in the first round.) The paper adds, “the Obama effort is one of the campaign’s more creative ways to push his biography, something his operatives feel is one of his biggest […]
