President Obama and his speechwriters apparently haven’t read Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, the sort-of sequel to her much-loved To Kill a Mockingbird.
In his farewell speech Tuesday evening, Obama cited Atticus Finch, the white lawyer whose defense of an innocent African-American man serves as the engine that drives the main themes of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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