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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4.2
 by Fabrice Florin - Nov. 16, 2008

Outstanding report on the rise of Barack Obama and what he calls "Joshua Generation" (following the "Moses Generation" of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King). This in-depth, ten-page article chronicles this historic movement in vivid detail, leading to the election of America's first Afro-American President. A must-read story that provides ample context and helpful insights.

This is the best article I have read to date on the improbable journey of this exceptional candidate -- and the social and cultural impact of this historic election.

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