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Historian
Thomas Sugrue explores the rise of Barack Obama in the contentious
politics of late twentieth century America. He traces Obama's evolving
understanding of race, inequality, and division in the United States
from his early days as a community organizer in Chicago through his time
as a law student and attorney to his spectacular rise to power as a
charismatic candidate and elected official. Sugrue examines the
influence of the civil rights movement, the "culture wars," and
religious ideas on Obama's ideas and career.
Thomas J. Sugrue is
David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of
Pennsylvania. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban
history, civil rights, and race, Sugrue was educated at Columbia;
King's College, Cambridge; and Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in
1992.He is author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (Princeton University Press, 2010) and Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (Random
House, 2008), a Main Selection of the History Book Club and a finalist
for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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