Lincoln, Steeped In The Bible

'dreams From My Father' Reveals More About Obama Than Is Usually Known About Political Leaders Until After They're Dead. Perhaps More Than It Intends, It Shows His Mind Working, In Real Time, Sentence By Sentence, In What Feels Like A Private Audience With The Reader.

The City Has Always Been An Embodiment Of Hope And A Source Of Feeling Guilt; A Dream Pursued, And Found Vain, Wanting, And Destructive.

Books Admitted Me To Their World Open-handedly, As People For Their Most Part, Did Not. The Life I Lived In Books Was One Of Ease And Freedom, Worldly Wisdom, Glitter, Dash And Style.

When I Want An Opinion, I'll Get It From My Peers - From Men Of Vision, Like Our Great Railroad Builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... Fellows With Imaginations Broad Enough To Span The Continent.

All This Piling Up Of One Technology On Top Of Another-railroad On Steamboat, Interstate Highway On Railroad, Hydroelectric Dam On Watermill-had Reduced The Mississippi From A Wonder Of Nature To This Sluggish Canal On The Wrong Side Of The Tracks.