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Thursday, November 6, 2008 12:00 AM

The new era of Obama

Sherman Alexie, Joan Blades, Robert Dallek, Greil Marcus, Dan Savage and others weigh in on Obama's historic presidential win.

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  • Thursday, November 6, 2008 05:35 AM

    Greil Marcus's friend

    Greil Marcus's friend seems to be channeling Ralph Waldo Emerson, who famously wrote in "Experience," "I am born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West."

    Will we have the patience Emerson asked of us in that essay? I wonder.

    —thomas dumm Read thomas dumm's other letters

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