David Remnick's bridge to Obama

In the Washington offices of The Times where I worked in 1992 there was a cupboard of cardboard clippings files about American politicians in whom British readers might just possibly show some interest. It was not a big cupboard. Even amongst those with presidential ambition, there were few outside George H.W. Bush's government who much excited the newsdesk in London - and even fewer of those who had time in their fund-raising schedules to spend with British reporters whose readers could...