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Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the words, ideas, and feelings of others, slipping into different roles in different scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem like they are saying it for the first time. It can be at once a creative art yet wholly derivative.

David Maraniss

It is not a contradiction to say that he was both a natural politician and an artful imitator, for those two types may in fact be one and the same.

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It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

David Maraniss

There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.

David Maraniss

David Maraniss

David Maraniss

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Born: 1949 (age 75)

Bio: David Maraniss is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate editor for The Washington Post.

Known for:

Barack Obama: The Story (2012)
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story (2015)
First in his class (1995)

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