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My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

~Frank Rich

Topics: Duck First Government Historical Kennedy Lifetime Native Odd Parents Particular Point Presidential Product Remember Sentient Transition Upbringing Vantage Vividly Were Whose I Remember

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One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.

~Frank Rich

Topics: After Aftermath Always American Complicated Drama Election Ever Ever After Everyone Happily Involves Like Lived More Race Say Than Would

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In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.

~Frank Rich

Topics: Among Artists Been Bubble Calling Decade Doctors Elite End Entrepreneurs Gifted Harvard Inventors Itself Like Making Making Money Might Money Off Otherwise Scientists Students Teachers Universities Who

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As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.

~Frank Rich

Topics: African-American America Career Career Path Choice Country Down Early Enormous First Guaranteed Harvard Him House Instead Knows Law Led Lucrative Missions Now Obama Our Path Potential President Pursue Review Rewards Service Teaching Turned White White House

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No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can't recognize that the world has changed or should change.

~Frank Rich

Topics: Adviser Better Change Changed Chief Construct Counter Deal Economic Forward Go His Including Many Masters More Narrative New New Deal Obama Old Our Philosophically Placed Possibly Quite Recognize Should Suited Than Universe World

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'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.

~Frank Rich

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'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.

~Frank Rich

Topics: Air Captures Depression Did Different Distinctive Far Grapes Great Great Depression Hollywood Landscape Laughter May More Our Product Production Recession Sex Up Vastly Vividly Wrath Years Years Ago

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 2nd, 1949

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