March 23, 2007

Books

More than a Resumé

The Audacity of HopeThoughts on Reclaiming the American DreamBarack ObamaCrown, $25, 376 pp.

James Duffy

  There hasn’t been a book by an active politician as popular as The Audacity of Hope since John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage (1956). It has been at the top of the New York Times best-seller list and others since its publication last October. This appeal is not surprising. Barack Obama has attracted extraordinary attention since his keynote speech at the 2004 De (...)


 

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about the writer

James Duffy is a writer and retired lawyer living in New York City. He is the author of a nonfiction study of American politics, Domestic Affairs: American Programs and Priorities, and a political novel, Dog Bites Man: City Shocked!

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