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...David Remnick...
...title of Remnick's opus refers to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the bloody origin point of a tide that swept the first black President into office 44 years later. But it is also an apt name for the story of Barack Obama's arc from youthful ambivalence to adult ambition, his struggle to reconcile his biracial roots and his attempt to build a political identity based on consensus rather than insistence. Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, has written an expansive work, as much an account of the forces that forged Obama's identity and intellect...
...doing this. My father, for most of his working life, was a grocer in Kansas City. Why would anybody be interested in a Kansas City grocer to whom nothing really dramatic happened? Why would anybody want to read it? I only wrote the book about my wife after David Remnick, the [current] editor of the New Yorker, asked if I had ever thought about doing one. You're never quite sure what readers are going to take away from what you write. The book about my wife, to some people, was a book about love and marriage. I just wanted...
...David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, likening the cover to comedian Stephen Colbert's mocking portrayal of a right-wing newscaster...
...think the cartoons used to be a little bit more insular. But they’re pretty accessible now…We don’t do a demographic on it to find out if everybody gets it. We just, you know, if we like it, I like it, Remnick likes it, we publish it. Any cartoon your mom doesn’t get, please have her give me a call. It’s a service. 1-800-GET JOKES. FM: What do you think about the Summers resignation? MANKOFF: Yeah. Well, I mean, I just think he shouldn?...