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The Political Power of Intimacy: Barack Obama and the Lessons of John Adams and Huck Finn

Of all the images from Tuesday’s historic night, this simple, intimateĀ fist pumpĀ is the most striking: BagnewsNotes, of course, is all over it, appreciating “Michelle’s proud, private, knowing, understated, intimate and unselfconscious expression, as well as the lack of tension in each partner’s body.” Not only does it show the Obamas and their relationships in a...

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