Obama’s Wonderful Town
By GAIL COLLINS, NYT
Today, the story of the bare-chested crossword-puzzle solver.
Barack Obama barely mentions his New York years in his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father.” I have always wanted to know more, ever since I learned that in 1981, when he was a student at Columbia, we lived within a few blocks of each other. Also, we patronized the same diner, and his first book editor was the editor of one of my books. So, really, we are practically the same person.
This is not to be confused with the curiosity of, say, Donald Trump, who — during his pseudopresidential campaign — subjected Obama’s Columbia degree to the same keen intellectual scrutiny as the birth certificate. (“The people that went to school with him, they never saw him. They don’t know who he is. It’s crazy.”)
I am bringing all this up because Vanity Fair has just published an interesting excerpt from a forthcoming Obama biography by David Maraniss. It includes interviews with two former girlfriends from the New York period.
(More here.)
Today, the story of the bare-chested crossword-puzzle solver.
Barack Obama barely mentions his New York years in his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father.” I have always wanted to know more, ever since I learned that in 1981, when he was a student at Columbia, we lived within a few blocks of each other. Also, we patronized the same diner, and his first book editor was the editor of one of my books. So, really, we are practically the same person.
This is not to be confused with the curiosity of, say, Donald Trump, who — during his pseudopresidential campaign — subjected Obama’s Columbia degree to the same keen intellectual scrutiny as the birth certificate. (“The people that went to school with him, they never saw him. They don’t know who he is. It’s crazy.”)
I am bringing all this up because Vanity Fair has just published an interesting excerpt from a forthcoming Obama biography by David Maraniss. It includes interviews with two former girlfriends from the New York period.
(More here.)
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