Barack Obama kicked off the opening of the Winter Institute at 10:40 this morning, after a montage reviewing the “extraordinary journey” of the past year, as ABA president Alison Hill put it in her later remarks. Obama’s short recorded message thanked booksellers for “expanding my mind, filling my spirit, and broadening my sense of possibility,” saying that, “what happened to me, you’re providing for so many other kids and teenager and adults around the world.” Booksellers, he said, aren’t selling only books but “knowledge, discovery, wisdom, empathy, access to thoughts and worlds that readers have never experienced before. And by […]
