The works that have influenced Obama illustrate that he would be the most literary president in recent memory -- and one likely to govern from the center.
By Laura Miller Jul 7, 2008
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A British paper lures Eastwood and Lee into an unfortunate feud. Here's the real question: Which of their films should the other one have made?
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 11, 2008
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Beneath the furor over the film's wisecrack about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. lies a real crisis in black leadership.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
October 1, 2002
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A new biography of Elijah Muhammad tackles tough issues, including the matter of blacks' collusion with the Japanese during World War II.
By Debra Dickerson
January 6, 2000
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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter has lived a life of novelistic proportions. Unfortunately, the only fiction was the prosecutor's case.
By Frank Houston
December 24, 1999
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Despite what liberal critics say, Michael Jordan is the true heir to the radical legacy of Muhammad Ali.
By Larry S. Platt
September 14, 1999
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As we divide along racial lines, aren't we surrendering the fundamental idea of what it means to be American?
By David Horowitz
September 13, 1999
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A melting pot of several stories, "Summer of Sam" is a sprawling urban epic from Brooklyn's native son.
By Sarah Vowell
June 30, 1999
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Many commentators, notably feminists, dismiss stories
about the sex life of President Clinton as irrelevant to his public role. But this drawing of a line between public and private
lives, says a homosexual writer, cannot work.
By Richard Rodriguez
January 29, 1998
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By Roni Sarig
July 24, 1997
Barack by the books
Clint vs. Spike: WWII racial grudge match!
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