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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 he does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's writings and speeches reflect a principled aversion to absolutes: his commitments to deliberation and experimentation derive from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. Kloppenberg shows that Obama's political ideas stem from deeply rooted--although currently unfashionable--convictions about how a democracy must deal with difference and conflict.…mehr

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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 he does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's writings and speeches reflect a principled aversion to absolutes: his commitments to deliberation and experimentation derive from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. Kloppenberg shows that Obama's political ideas stem from deeply rooted--although currently unfashionable--convictions about how a democracy must deal with difference and conflict.
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James T. Kloppenberg With a new preface by the author