Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe key to Barack Obama’s electoral success — and to the ways his post-presidency will continue to evolve — could be his talent as a writer.It’s not simply his eloquence, his ability to convey his beliefs to a sprawling and fractious electorate.
It’s also his gift at packaging his experiences and image of himself. Before he was a politician, Obama was a memoirist, and, fittingly, he has made a career of using accessibly plain English to convert life’s complications into a forward-moving narrative.What Obama has lately lacked, though, is a meaningful mission onto which to pin his talents: His first presidential memoir was blandly written and rote, suggesting he’d rather be looking ahead than back.
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