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Dreams of My Father

Lyndon Johnson's Thoughts on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

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Jonathan Leigh Solomon

And so I had to ask myself, if Lyndon were alive today, what he would make of Obama's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize? Knowing Lyndon it would probably be unprintable.

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Obama, One Year On

Todd Gitlin | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

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Todd Gitlin

The Obama operation proved its mastery at campaigning, looks pretty good at the inside game, but outsider politics--movement campaigns--haven't kept up.

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Ayers Obama Book Conspiracy Resurfaces; Bill Ayers Responds

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Way back in the fall of 2008, when some people were terribly concerned that then-senator Barack Obama had met a former terrorist named Bill Ayers, a f...

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Renegade and Dreams of My Absent Father

Don McNay | Posted 09.08.2009 | Media

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Don McNay

Obama's election was not only a door opener for people of color. It also showed that people with absent dads, or no dad at all, can grow up and live in the White House.

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Barack Obama And The Hope Of Audacity

Robert Kuttner | Posted 09.19.2008 | Home

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Robert Kuttner

Obama, in his books and speeches, has been almost obsessed with the idea that people are sick of partisan bickering. Yet he also has claimed the identity of a resolute progressive. Can he be both?

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