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Kloppenberg, James T.
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Obama, Barack -- Philosophy.
Obama, Barack -- Knowledge and learning.
Obama, Barack -- Knowledge -- History.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
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Reading Obama : dreams, hope, and the American political tradition / James T. Kloppenberg.
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Kloppenberg, James T.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Subjects
Obama, Barack -- Philosophy.
Obama, Barack -- Knowledge and learning.
Obama, Barack -- Knowledge -- History.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
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9780691147468 (alk. paper) :
0691147469 (alk. paper)
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xviii, 302 p. ; 23 cm.
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Introduction -- The education of Barack Obama -- From universalism to particularism -- Obama's American history -- Conclusion: dreams, hope, and the American political tradition.
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Barack Obama puzzles observers. Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Obama does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Instead, his writings and speeches reflect a principled aversion to absolutes that derives from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. "Reading Obama" traces the origins of his ideas and establishes him as the most penetrating political thinker elected to the presidency in the past century. James T. Kloppenberg demonstrates the influences that have shaped Obama's distinctive worldview, including Nietzsche and Niebuhr, Ellison and Rawls, and recent theorists engaged in debates about feminism, critical race theory, and cultural norms. Examining Obama's views on the Constitution, slavery and the Civil War, and the New Deal and civil rights, Kloppenberg shows Obama's sophisticated understanding of American history. Obama's interest in compromise, reasoned public debate, and the patient nurturing of civility is a sign of strength, not weakness, Kloppenberg argues. He locates its roots in Madison, Lincoln, and especially in the philosophical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey, which nourished generations of American progressives, black and white, female and male, through much of the twentieth century, albeit with mixed results. -- Book jacket.
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