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David Garrow
American
Historian
Born:
May 11
,
1953
Any
Barack
King
Life
Think
Who
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One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
David Garrow
Great
Challenges
People
Three
Other
Interviewing
Some
Something
Call
Matches
Were
Historian
Version
Up
Conference
Modern
Being
Who
Multiple
Even
Event
Four
Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history.
David Garrow
Life
History
You
President
Once
States
Run
Part
Major
Major Part
American
American History
Succeed
Your
Choose
United
United States
Biography
Earlier
The Barack who was so successful in Illinois in a Republican-controlled legislative situation for most of his time and who was a very outspoken progressive voice, that's not the man who we ended up having as president.
David Garrow
Time
Man
Situation
President
Progressive
Having
Voice
Outspoken
Most
His
Up
Very
Ended
Legislative
Barack
Successful
Who
Illinois
I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me, that's a contradiction of who I believe I am given my absorption of the teaching of Martin Luther King, Jr.
David Garrow
Me
King
Believe
Think
Prominent
Signed
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Given
Purposely
Never
Absorb
Most
Because
Am
Lecture
Historical
Up
Very
Contradiction
Commercial
Authors
Agencies
Teaching
Who
Luther
With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.
David Garrow
Win
Victory
Emotional
He
Smartest
Obtain
Always
Person
Barack
Room
Succeed
Believes
Need
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.
David Garrow
Work
Dreams
Father
Ways
Memoir
Instead
Without
Question
Historical
Historical Fiction
Any
Autobiography
Fiction
It's simply incorrect to call Dr. King a Republican.
David Garrow
King
Simply
Call
Republican
Dr
Dr. King
Incorrect
King would certainly be overjoyed by Barack Obama's inauguration, but we must avoid, and indeed reject, any careless claims that Obama's swearing in marks the fulfillment of King's dream.
David Garrow
King
Careless
Indeed
Marks
Claims
Dream
Must
Obama
Would
Any
Barack
Swearing
Inauguration
Fulfillment
Certainly
Avoid
Reject
President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against the prophetically moral voice of Martin Luther King Jr.
David Garrow
King
Before
President
Those
Moral
Must
Obama
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Voice
Failures
Come
Him
Executives
Chief
Achievements
Against
Measured
Who
Comparison
Luther
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