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...First, minority voters. As David Maraniss recalled in his biography of Bill Clinton, First in His Class, the 1972 campaign was the first time minority communities in Texas demanded a seat at the table. In the years since, Latinos and African Americans have come to make up roughly half of the Lone Star Democratic electorate - and a majority of the state party's power brokers. Democrats control 13 of Texas' 32 congressional districts, and nine of those seats are occupied by minority lawmakers. Obama can count on strong support from African Americans in cities like Dallas and Houston, and that...
...them so much trouble. Each Clinton has a character flaw that gets in the other's way. His is a sloppy self-indulgence. Hers is a haughty grandiosity--the tendency to think that because she is devoted to doing good, she is also entitled to do well. Biographer David Maraniss reports how she complained about not having a pool at the Governor's house in Little Rock. There wasn't a lot of surprise in Arkansas over the disclosure of her shady cattle-futures investment or their Whitewater deal...
...mind-numbing pages that open this 504-page biography of Vince Lombardi bring to mind a howitzer aimed at a sparrow: this is about a football coach, after all. If Clinton biographer Maraniss had begun by telling us briefly that Lombardi arose from an ethos built on the trinity of church, family and a few years as assistant coach at West Point, that would have been enough for us to appreciate what follows. Because once Lombardi reaches Green Bay and the Packers, the book soars like a game-winning field goal...
...DAVID MARANISS Salad days for Clinton biographer, who gets out a quickie book on Bill's big speech...
...endured so many personal and political crises in his life and recovered from every one of them," says David Maraniss, author of the Clinton biography First in His Class. "It's just a habitual recovery process for him now. He starts out being angry, confused and depressed and then slowly tries to find his way." So whether Clinton's acts of public contrition are calculated performances or genuine bulletins from a man in pain--or both, which is always possible--it would be a mistake to see them as signs of a weakening will to fight back...