Obama Buys Pacific Crest Trail Book

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'Getting High--The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal', Cheryl Strayed, Skywalker--Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, Skywalker--Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail

January 30, 2014

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President Obama has purchased the Pacific Crest Trail memoir, Wild, by Cheryl Strayed. Unsurprisingly, Miss Strayed was wowed by the news. I think President Obama has really searched his soul in the way that writers do, Miss Strayed wrote. He has really had a lot of people who loved him well, who had a lot of teachers. But he is really a self-made man. So much of Wild is about how we must ultimately make ourselves. Bill Walker is the author of...

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