Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive
Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive In this insightful biography, Burton I. Obama's was a landmark presidency that paradoxically, Kaufman shows, resulted in few, if any, radical…
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Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive
In this insightful biography, Burton I. Obama's was a landmark presidency that paradoxically, Kaufman shows, resulted in few, if any, radical shifts in policy.Following his election, President Obama's supporters and detractors anticipated radical reform. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the lie to socialist fearmongering on the right.
But Kaufman finds in Obama clear patterns of classical conservativism of an ideological sort and basic policy-making pragmatism. As the first African American to serve as president, he reached the White House on a campaign promise of change. His commitment to usher in a multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural society was fundamentally connected to opening up, but not radically altering, the existing free enterprise system.