00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Kloppenberg, James T. aut Verfasser/-in United States Government insights learning ideas biography revival Barack Obama English civic republicanism philosophical pragmatism American Shelves American President Englisch thinker Politics political culture Philosophy non-fiction knowledge HISTORY Reading Obama Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition Kloppenberg, James T. Princeton Princeton University Press 2011 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. 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. 9780691147468 9780691147468 0691147469 0691147469 eng Band 302 Seiten