Obama: His Words and His Deeds David Bromwich

Obama: His Words and His Deeds

David Bromwich

Being president of the world has sometimes seemed a job more agreeable to Barack Obama than being president of the United States. Obama has always preferred the symbolic authority of the grand utterance to the actual authority of a directed policy.

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