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Today, July 17, Barack Obama published a letter he wrote to America’s librarians. He shares with readers how books have shaped his life and notes that the effort to ban books today is an attempt to silence voices. In the letter, Obama thanks the nation’s librarians who are on the front line defending our freedom to read and encourages citizens to join him in reminding others that “the free, robust exchange of ideas has always been at the heart of American democracy.”
You can find the letter on Barack Obama’s Twitter, Instagram and on Medium.
Or, you may read the letter in its entirety below.