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		<title>Wall Street politics before the crash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I happened to be looking through the May issue of Portfolio, which is a magazine that turns out to be a lot more compelling eight months after publication. A little info-graphic subtitled &#8220;How Investment-Bank Executives have split their donations to presidential campaigns&#8221; is especially interesting in hindsight, because two of those banks no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2008/12/23/wall-street-politics-before-the-crash/</link>
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		<title>Bernie Madoff&#8217;s bizarre media invisibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How extremely curious it is that Bernard Madoff &#8212; uncannily successful investor and manager of billions for the rich and famous, Wall Street bigwig, generous philanthropist, important civic personage, New Yorker of consequence and stature for decades &#8212; was a virtual nobody until the second Thursday of December, according to the paper of record. Before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2008/12/19/bernie-madoffs-bizarre-invisibility/</link>
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		<title>Half of Americans are in Obama&#8217;s &#8220;base&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the discussion of &#8220;electability,&#8221; and which broadly defined constituencies are and aren&#8217;t drawn to Barack Obama, the focus has been on what has turned out to be Hillary Clinton&#8217;s strongest constituencies &#8212; working-class whites and people over 65. There is conversely a tendency to consider Obama&#8217;s reliably enthusiastic constituencies &#8212; black voters, voters under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2008/05/11/half-of-americans-are-in-obamas-base/</link>
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		<title>Depends what the meaning of the word &#8220;slight&#8221; is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an NPR interview yesterday, Hillary Clinton was asked whether she was  &#8220;willing to win ugly.&#8221; Instead of answering, she complained that the premise of the question represented &#8220;a double standard,&#8221;  since Barack Obama is not being asked whether he will fight dirty to get the support of superdelegates necessary to win the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2008/04/09/depends-what-the-meaning-of-the-word-slight-is/</link>
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		<title>Shamelessly pleased</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday the New York Public Library announced their list of the 25 best books of the year. Among the eleven 2007 novels honored were those by Jim Crace, Junot Diaz, Denis Johnson, David Leavitt, Edmund White&#8230;and &#8212; holy cow! &#8212; me, for Heyday. And this week the Langum Charitable Trust is announcing that Heyday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2008/04/06/shamelessly-pleased/</link>
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		<title>No errors-in-Heyday winner yet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to thank all the readers who&#8217;ve written in with what they thought were errors in Heyday. So far, none of them have successfully busted me. But I&#8217;m still accepting submissions.

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		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2008/02/22/no-errors-in-heyday-winner-yet/</link>
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		<title>A vote for Clinton is, alas, a vote against progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m voting for Barack Obama in the New York primary on Tuesday. There are all kinds of excellent reasons to do so, which I don&#8217;t need to rehash here.
But for wafflers and fence-sitters and even more or less committed Clinton voters who happen to be white, here&#8217;s another reason: every white vote that Obama gets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2008/02/03/a-vote-for-clinton-is-alas-a-vote-against-progress/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m heading across America, and offering a prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be heading out across the country &#8212; to Atlanta, Nashville, Columbus (Ohio), Denver, Salt Lake City, and Portland (Oregon) &#8212; for readings and discussions and signings in bookstores. (To find out exactly where and when I&#8217;ll be appearing, you can see my schedule here.)
Now, a confession and an offer. There were two tiny factual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2007/12/30/im-heading-across-america-and-offering-a-prize/</link>
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		<title>The Heyday paperback is lovely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The paperback edition of Heyday was published this week. It&#8217;s a very gratifying object, and not just because it&#8217;s swaddled in page after page of bits of critical praise. The cover image is the same as on the hardback &#8212; a photograph of an anonymous circa-1848 young man. But the cover has a quarter inch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2007/12/27/the-heyday-paperback-is-lovely/</link>
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		<title>So I wasn&#8217;t hallucinating: Michi Kakutani&#8217;s favorite adjective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have absolutely no axe to grind with Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times&#8217;s chief book critic. I know her slightly, like her personally, and have never been reviewed by her.
But over the years I&#8217;ve thought I noticed a tic in her writing &#8212; that is, an extreme fondness for the adjective &#8220;hallucinatory.&#8221; And when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2007/09/13/so-i-wasnt-hallucinating-michi-kakutanis-favorite-adjective/</link>
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