Deletion of Moses as symbol in American history

Comment: This article is great if you are turning in a paper for your history class. For a WP article, it's  and doesn't belong on Wikipedia
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Comment: blatantly obvious personal essay, typical  styled article
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Comment: and '''Salt'''(). This article is plain , , . Similes linking Moses to various figures of the American history are not evidence of notability
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Comment: I think there may be enough to justify an article on the book. As well as the Wapo article (written by Feiler himself, true, but the Wapo is an independent publisher), there are 7 or 8 reviews at http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Feiler%22+America%27s+Prophet+-Amazon+-b...&scoring=a&hl=en&ned=au&um=1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=2009/01&as_hdate=2009/12&lnav=hist9 Google Books - none of them from national papers, it appears, but enough perhaps for it to squeak past 
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Comment: First, it's not that clear that the book would pass . The Washington Post and the Huffington Post articles were written by Feiler (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503474.html, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-feiler/moses-vs-jesus-who-is-ame_b_311043.html) and NYT's coverage of the book is extremely trivial (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/bestseller/besthardnonfiction.html?_r=1
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Comment: WP:OR,  and . How does a British author calling Walt Whitman an "American Moses", some reverend once describing George Washington as a combination of Moses and Joshua, or another clergyman mentioning the alleged prophet during Lincoln's eulogy translate into Moses being a notable symbol in American political history? If I recall the Bible correctly, Moses may as well be one of the most important characters of the Old Testament. In a country with a large Christian population, it's rather natural to expect that his name will pop up from time to time. But this claim that he somehow played a key role in American political events is ''a synthesis of published material for advancing a position not explicitly stated by any of the sources
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