Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
From Jonathan Raban
No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.
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.
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
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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