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Can Barack Obama redeem his presidency?
Troughou his rs year, Obama dismayed many o his mos erven supporers by ailing o make a Roosevel-scale break wihhe old economic order ha brough he economy o crisis. He sough common ground wih Republicans who were deer-
ined o desroy him. He gave prioriy o Wall Sree over Main Sree. Te ar righ began o appropriae he populis anger.
In his deniive accoun o Obama’s rs 14 monhs, bes selling auhor and economic criic Rober Kutner ells he sory o
why Obama did no rise o he occasion in 2009, how he lled his adminisraion wih he same nancial elies ha producedhe collapse—and how Obama can sill redeem his presidency and he promise o a new progressive era.
As Kutner explains, he wake-up call afer he Massachusets senae elecion and Obama’s belaed leadership on healh reormare jus he beginning o a long road back o he hopes ha Obama kindled as a candidae. Kutner concludes by reporing onhe inerplay o progressive acivism on he ground and presidenial leadership in he Whie House.
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Publication Date: April 15th 2010
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Pub Date: April 15th 2010
The Inside Story of Obama’s Promise,Wall Street’s Power, and the Struggleto Control our Economic Future
Robert Kuttner
A Presidency in Peril
Robert Kuttner, author of the most prescient political book of the year, Obama’s Challenge:
America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency is cofounder and coeditor of The
American Prospect magazine, as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. He was
a longtime columnist for BusinessWeek and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe.
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“ ”In A Presidency in Peril , Rober Kutner explores how and why Candidae Obama’s audaciy o hope mor-
phed ino Presiden Obama’s imidiy o governing--rom his deerenial reamen o Wall Sree o his
misguided atachmen o he anasy o biparisanship. Bu Kutner goes beyond criicism and oers sharp,
pracical ideas on how Obama can sill redeem he promise o his adminisraion and break he chokehold
special ineress have on our poliics.
—Arianna Hufngon, cofounder and Editor-in-Chief of Te Hufngton Post
“ ” A mus-read or he Obama eam and is supporers as well as is criics. Kutner provides he defniive
progressive criique o he Obama presidency and chars a way orward—and a way ou o he mess we are in.
—Joseph Sigliz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Freeall:
America, Free Markets, and the Sinking o the World Economy
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