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The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
James Fallows
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James Fallows
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 2
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James Mackenzie Fallows
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