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The Examined Life

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By Joshua Glenn
November 6, 2005

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ACCORDING TO Christopher Lehmann, an editor at Congressional Quarterly Weekly, America's current political realities-quagmire in Iraq, White House investigations, a ''dauphin commander in chief striving in countless ways to surpass his father's wan patrician legacy''-are tailor-made for fictionalizing. There's just one problem, he writes in the October/November issue of The Washington Monthly: Since the country's inception, American political novels have ... (Full article: 394 words)

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