The Joshua Generation

New Yorker by David Remnick | Nov. 16, 2008 (Special Report)
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 »

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4.4
 by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 16, 2008

Remnick gives us an in depth analysis of Barack Obama's relationship with race, both personally, historically, publicly. He traces Obama's life, and the campaign, from the lens of race and identity. Simultaneously, he writes a larger narrative of African-Americans in political power. All this is achieved with a breadth of mind-boggling sources, including Colin Powell, key civil rights leaders, even Studs Turkel.

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