Expectations were sky tall when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. As his term draws to a close,has he disappointed or delivered? From race to healthcare, from the drone war to the Iran deal, and novelists in America appraise himTobias Wolff is best known for his memoir This Boy’s Life,which won the Los Angeles Times book award for biography. His 1984 novella, The Barracks Thief, or won the Pen/Faulkner award for fiction. He was the director of creative writing at Stanford from 2000 to 2002 and received a National Medal of Arts from the president in 2015.
We wanted heat. We wanted him to call liars liars,idiots idiots. We wanted him to bully the bulliesTo me now, those black people standing before the window were smarter than I was Related: Sign up to our Bookmarks newsletter A perverse gift of his presidency is the fact it allowed a sickness to bubble up to the surface, and like a boil on the skinObama has always been a cautious centrist Democrat,not a man likely to align himself with the politics of black powerObama’s presidency marks an honourable few years in American history. He is Trump’s polar oppositeContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com