The Joshua Generation
Race and the campaign of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic service of his youth. His record was too slight. His Democratic and Republican opponents were right: he ran largely on language, on the expression of a country’s potential and the self-expression of a complicated man who could reflect and lead that country. And a powerful thematic undercurrent of his oratory and prose was race. Not race as ... Full Story »
Posted by Leo Romero
David Remnick's account of the rise of Barack Obama to the Presidency was one of the best I've read. From a small child, to a teenager, college graduate. community organizer, to state senator, U.S. Senator, to the highest office in the world, with only a hint of the racial diversity that is so prevalent is a testament of a great journalist.