Let the Sunstein In

Filed Under: American Exceptionalism, Cass Sunstein, Obama's Second Inaugural, Second Bill of Rights

Watershed election presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt do not simply happen on election day. The significance of the election is played out in speeches that illuminate and in policy that transforms. Whether President Obama is a critical …

Jan 22, 2013

President Obama—Man of Words

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by Ken Masugi / 6 Comments

Filed Under: Abraham Lincoln, Declaration of Independence, Franklin Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address, I Am the Change, Obama's Second Inaugural, Perpetuation Address

Barack Obama’s life is an open book—he wrote two autobiographies whose principal themes of constant self-renewal reinforce each other, the earlier book more philosophical and radical, the later book political and “pragmatic.” Both are equally honest accounts. Yet he continually …