{"id":1359,"date":"2009-10-16T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2009-10-16T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:17:24","slug":"next-the-literature-nobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/next-the-literature-nobel\/","title":{"rendered":"Next, the Literature Nobel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Draper has an interesting essay in GQ on Barack Obama the writer<\/a>.\u00a0 As I noted before, Obama\u00a0shares this\u00a0characteristic\u00a0with\u00a0Teddy Roosevelt<\/a>\u00a0(and with no other US President).\u00a0 And like TR and JFK, Bam is also a cosmopolitan<\/a>\u00a0urbanite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he sees the world through a writer\u2019s eye,\u201d says senior White House adviser and former Chicago journalist David Axelrod. \u201cI\u2019ve always appreciated about him his ability to participate in a scene and also reflect on it. I mean, I remember when we were meeting clandestinely with the guys who were vetting the vice presidential candidates. There was this courtly southern gentleman who was doing the vetting. The president said to me, \u2018This whole scene\u2019s right out of a Grisham novel.\u2019
\n\u201cI also have to say, one of the great thrills is to watch him work on a speech. It\u2019s not just the content\u2014he\u2019s very focused on that\u2014but more than anyone I\u2019ve ever worked with, he\u2019s focused on the rhythm of the words. Like, he\u2019ll invert words. He\u2019ll say, \u2018I need a one-beat word here.\u2019 There\u2019s no question who the best writer in the [speech-writing] group is.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1953, after writing \u2014 or perhaps supervising the writing of \u2014 his History of the English Speaking Peoples<\/em>), so there’s hope yet for Bam’s next Nobel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Draper has an interesting essay in GQ on Barack Obama the writer.\u00a0 As I noted before, Obama\u00a0shares this\u00a0characteristic\u00a0with\u00a0Teddy Roosevelt\u00a0(and with no other US President).\u00a0 And like TR and JFK, Bam is also a cosmopolitan\u00a0urbanite. \u201cI think he sees the world through a writer\u2019s eye,\u201d says senior White House adviser and former Chicago journalist David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,57,64,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-obama-speeches","category-politics","category-rhetoric","p1","y2009","m10","d16","h11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}