What books does the President read?
George Washington has 2 books over due from the NY public library. One of the books was the "Law of Nations," which deals with international relations.
Emmerich de Vattel: The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)
The other was volume 12 of debates from Britain's House of Commons.This is a 14 volume collection that the library still possesses sans volume 12 .
Both books were due on Nov. 2, 1789.
This discovery was made in a ledger in a rubbish heap in the library's basement, revealing the names of all the people who had borrowed books from the library between July 1789 and April 1792.The ledger also shows that Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay all borrowed books in that time. But they returned them.
The library is not looking to collect late fees (adjusted for inflation, $300,000 even though I don't believe library fines are adjusted in that manner)
But the library is very interested in having the books returned.