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The Literary Obama

Weekly Standardmakes the case
The real problem with The Audacity of Hope (aside from the portentous, meaningless title) is that Obama's gifts of observation and sympathy have been reduced to the realm of the political, and it's a bad fit. Already his habit of seeing every side of every question--the writerly habit that rescued his memoir from stereotype and cliche--has begun to frustrate many of his would-be allies.
Eve Fairbanks