Evan Osnos Quotes

United Kingdom, Journalist
December 24, 1976

Evan Lionel Richard Osnos (born December 24, 1976) is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, best known for his coverage of China. He is the author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, which won the 2014 National Book Award for nonfiction.

If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they get into office, their credibility, their ability to do anything depends on doing the things that they said they would.

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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

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- Books
- China
- Readers

The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

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The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.

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- United States
- Corrupt