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The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obamas Dreams From My Father is Jimmy Carters short campaign autobiography, Why Not the Best?, published in 1975. – Jonathan Raban

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Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I dont. – Jonathan Raban

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Failure
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. – Jonathan Raban

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Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after theyre dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. – Jonathan Raban

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Dreams
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. – E. V. Lucas

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So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby. – Rick Baker

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A horse is the projection of peoples dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. – Pam Brown

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This is the city of dreamers and time and again its the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. – Michael Bloomberg

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