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Obama and the Liberal Dilemma in Power

Jacobs, Lawrence R
2010-01-21
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Obama and the Liberal Dilemma in Power

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Many liberals are disappointed in Obama's domestic and foreign policies. Obama's policies toward health care and Afghanistan epitomize his betrayal of the principles they saw him campaign on. This liberal disappointment reflects Obama's accommodations to power as well as tensions within liberalism that have been evident since the 1930s. One of the nation's premier historians of liberalism, Alan Brinkley, will analyze the Obama presidency in historical perspective. Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of History, specializes in the history of twentieth-century America. From 2003 to 2009, he was University Provost, and before that chair of the Department of History. In 1998-99, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Knopf, 1992); The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Oxford, forthcoming 2009); and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (Knopf, forthcoming 2010). He was the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation, a trustee of Oxford University Press, a trustee of the National Humanities Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard, Princeton, and the City University of New York Graduate School. He received his A.B. from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Harvard.

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Jacobs, Lawrence R. (2010). Obama and the Liberal Dilemma in Power. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/217638.

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