David Maraniss - First in his class (1995)

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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.

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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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