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Jonathan Raban

British Author

Born: Jun 14, 1942

Better City Every Lincoln Political You

Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf

'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s. Jonathan Raban

Events Political Word Looking Party Tea Rage Enraged Riots More Outside True Since Most Protests Demonstrations Anti-War Itself Than America Any Often Movement Public Race Tea Party Tea Party Movement Appear

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

Negatives Emphatic Over Always Denied May Being Really Asserted Suggest

Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.' Jonathan Raban

Liberal Island Curious Seattle

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer. Jonathan Raban

Prayer History Lesson Finish Start

The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks? Jonathan Raban

Words Responsibility Trouble President State Says Diminished He Implications Does Issue Whether Speaks Grasp Actually Raises

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there. Jonathan Raban

Few White White House Every Thomas Thomas Jefferson Presidents Wilson John John Adams More More Or Less Had House Been Intellectuals Very List Stops Woodrow Woodrow Wilson Themselves Less Jefferson

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're 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

Dreams Time Political Father Mind Obama About More Leaders Feels Like Perhaps Until Dead Known Reader Audience Reveals Real Private His Political Leaders Than Real Time After Sentence Working Shows

I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty. Jonathan Raban

Nature Class Eyes Better Our See Above Thrill Both Lift Tourist Majesty Beyond Western Taught Her

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer. Jonathan Raban

President Writer Come Lincoln Near

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

Dreams Best Book Father President Jimmy Obama Carter Only Bears Campaign Modern Short Autobiography Serious Comparison Why Published Why Not

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