This is the first comparative study of ideas and politics in France, Germany, the US, and Great Britain between 1870 and 1920 - a period when two generations of European and American intellectuals created a transatlantic community of philosophical and political discourse. In particular, it demonstra[...]
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 de[...]
Looks at the origins of President Obama's ideas, influences, understanding of American history, and interest in compromise, and explains why his aversion to absolutes does not fit in contemporary partisan politics.[...]