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Published 11/15/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

'Washington novelists' assess Barack Obama's ascension to the White House. > In the 1960s, Irving Wallace wrote a novel called "The Man," in which the sudden deaths of the president, vice president and speaker of the House bring to power a most unlikely occupant of the Oval Office: Sen. Douglas Dillman -- a black man. (link)

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