Dimensions
158 x 232 x 26mm
Who is Barack Obama? Even many liberals wonder if he really believes in anything. According to Charles Kesler, these disappointed liberals don't appreciate the scope of Obama's ambition or the long-term stakes for which he is playing.
Conservatives also misunderstand Obama. They dismiss him as a socialist, hopelessly out of touch with the American mainstream. The fringe Right dwells on Obama's Muslim upbringing, his missing birth certificate, Bill Ayers' supposed authorship of his books. What mainstream and fringe have in common is a stubborn underestimation of the man and the political movement he embodies.
I AM THE CHANGE tries to understand Obama as he understands himself, based largely on his own writings, speeches and interviews. Kesler -- a leading conservative scholar, educator, and journalist -- takes Obama seriously as few other conservatives have, viewing him as an intelligent and thoughtful progressive who is intent on reinvigorating the liberal faith -- but who fails to understand its contradictions and may prove to be its last great representative.
