Reading Obama

A leading intellectual historian traces the origins of Barack Obama’s ideas Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama , James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to deliberation and experimentation derive from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. In a new preface, Kloppenbe