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Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

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

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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.

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Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

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Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 14th, 1942

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