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International Standard Book Number  

9781400842032 (electronic bk.)

International Standard Book Number  

1400842034 (electronic bk.)

Library of Congress Call Number  

E908.3-.K58 2012eb online

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

973.932092

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Kloppenberg, James T.

Edition Statement  

Paperback edition.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012

Physical Description  

1 online resource (343 pages)

Bibliography, Etc. Note  

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-285) and index.

Formatted Contents Note  

Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Education of Barack Obama -- Chapter 2. From Universalism to Particularism -- Chapter 3. Obama's American History -- Conclusion. Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition -- Essay on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary, Etc.  

요약Derided 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, Kloppenberg explains why Obama has stuck with his commitment to compromise in the first three years of his presidency, despite the criticism it has provoked. 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. 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, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement, 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. Reading Obama reveals the sources of Obama's commitment to democratic deliberation: the books he has read, the visionaries who have inspired him, the social movements and personal struggles that have shaped his thinking. Kloppenberg shows that Obama's positions on social justice, religion, race, family, and America's role in the world do not stem from a desire to please everyone but from deeply rooted--although currently unfashionable--convictions about how a democracy must deal with difference and conflict.--해제Publisher description.

Subject Added Entry-Personal Name  

Obama, Barack

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Obama, Barack Knowledge History

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Obama, Barack Knowledge and learning

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Obama, Barack Philosophy

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

United States Politics and government

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

History

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Political culture United States

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

HISTORY / United States / 21st Century.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.

Subject Added Entry-Geographic Name  

United States Politics and government.

Additional Physical Form Entry  

Print versionKloppenberg, James T. Reading Obama : Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition [New in Paper] Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012 9780691154336

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