That opening, where Obama throws open the panoramic window for us, so we can see NYC with the wide-eyed wonder he saw it with — “New York. Just like I pictured it.” — is just the way the wide-eyed kid at the beginning of Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the city” greets NYC. An intended literary reference, or the forgotten soundtrack that Obama sought to evoke for a moment that OUGHT to have occurred ? I’m really not sure myself, and this is still more of the chiaroscuro of this man’s self-portrait. I didn’t actually read the book, but I wonder how many of these references there are to pop music. Perhaps this is some sort of BS-revealing code that whoever ghosted this thing wove into the narrative?