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  • Henry James famously said that to be an American is a complex fate. Few living Americans have as fully embodied that complexity in their own lives as Obama has done, and none has written about it with such intelligent regard for its difficulties and rewards.

    Excerpted from Jonathan Raban’s ‘Diary’ in the London Review of Books, March 20

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