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Jonathan Raban
British
Author
Born:
Jun 14
,
1942
Better
City
Every
Lincoln
Political
You
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'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
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
Jonathan Raban
Reality
Interstate
Loathe
Monotony
Distance
Scary
Almost
Highways
Dull
Effectively
Place
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