The New Republic: Great Books Or Great Leaders?

Adam Kirsch of The New Republic asks if politicians really learn anything from literature. He says the advent of Barack Obama, who many writers believed was "on their side" has shown that no statesman can be on the same side as the writer, because the virtues of the man of action are different from the virtues of the writer.

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