"Louis Menand" is an American writer and academic, best known for his book The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America/The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.

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When you talk to a politician like that, it's hard to get something new out of him. I do think he's intelligent, and the way he thinks must make it hard for him politically.

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They're evil twins of one another.

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When I met him, I didn't feel a particular warmth toward him.

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