Leaders of presidential transition teams are expected to be discreet, tight-lipped, button-down, servants of power, but not quite so in the case of John Podesta. The senior member of the team setting up the new administration, Podesta also heads a progressive think tank and has authored his own book on progressive politics, which includes a draft inaugural speech.
Podesta's 2008 book The Power of Progress will be scanned by pundits seeking clues to the new administration's thinking, but that could...
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