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Can Barack Obama redeem his presidency?

Troughou his rs year, Obama dismayed many o his mos erven supporers by ailing o make a Roosevel-scale break wihhe old economic order ha brough he economy o crisis. He sough common ground wih Republicans who were deer-

ined o desroy him. He gave prioriy o Wall Sree over Main Sree. Te ar righ began o appropriae he populis anger.

In his deniive accoun o Obama’s rs 14 monhs, bes selling auhor and economic criic Rober Kutner ells he sory o

 why Obama did no rise o he occasion in 2009, how he lled his adminisraion wih he same nancial elies ha producedhe collapse—and how Obama can sill redeem his presidency and he promise o a new progressive era.

 As Kutner explains, he wake-up call afer he Massachusets senae elecion and Obama’s belaed leadership on healh reormare jus he beginning o a long road back o he hopes ha Obama kindled as a candidae. Kutner concludes by reporing onhe inerplay o progressive acivism on he ground and presidenial leadership in he Whie House.

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 The Inside Story of Obama’s Promise,Wall Street’s Power, and the Struggleto Control our Economic Future

Robert Kuttner

A Presidency in Peril

Robert Kuttner, author of the most prescient political book of the year, Obama’s Challenge:

 America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency  is cofounder and coeditor of The

 American Prospect  magazine, as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. He was

a longtime columnist for BusinessWeek  and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe.

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“ ”In A Presidency in Peril , Rober Kutner explores how and why Candidae Obama’s audaciy o hope mor-

phed ino Presiden Obama’s imidiy o governing--rom his deerenial reamen o Wall Sree o his

misguided atachmen o he anasy o biparisanship. Bu Kutner goes beyond criicism and oers sharp,

pracical ideas on how Obama can sill redeem he promise o his adminisraion and break he chokehold

special ineress have on our poliics.

—Arianna Hufngon, cofounder and Editor-in-Chief of Te Hufngton Post 

“ ” A mus-read or he Obama eam and is supporers as well as is criics. Kutner provides he defniive

progressive criique o he Obama presidency and chars a way orward—and a way ou o he mess we are in.

—Joseph Sigliz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Freeall:

 America, Free Markets, and the Sinking o the World Economy

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