| "Why Has He Fallen Short?"
Rich, Frank
New York Review of Books, July 22, 2010, online edition
Frank Rich reviews The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter. "Of course Barack Obama was too hot not to cool down. He was the one so many were waiting for—not only the first African-American president but also the nation’s long-awaited liberator after eight years of Bush-Cheney, the golden-tongued evangelist who could at long last revive and sell the old liberal faith, the first American president in memory to speak to voters as if they might be thinking adults, the first national politician in years to electrify the young. He was even, of all implausible oddities, a contemporary politician- author who actually wrote his own books."
Frank Rich is a columnist for The New York Times.
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/aug/19/why-has-he-fallen-short/?page=1
C2/03-10. Posted August 25, 2010
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