Out of Many, One
Obama and the Third American Political Tradition
With A Foreword by Thomas Byrne Edsall
432 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2013
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 In the Beginning: Locke, Rousseau, and Two Political Traditions
2 The Third Political Tradition—Reclaiming the Frontier: Wagon Trains, Pioneers, and Deputies, but No Cowboys or Nannies
3 Thinking in Threes: Diversity, Destruction, Redemption, and Social Policy Ruptures
4 Obama Stakes the Nation: A Spinozan Stakeholder State, Market, and Society
5 Foreign Stakeholders: Just War and Just Peace in a New World Order of Universal Anti-Universalism
6 A Lose-Lose Leader, or a Script for a President?
7 The Prius Presidency: A “Paramount Empire of Reason”?
Acknowledgments
1 In the Beginning: Locke, Rousseau, and Two Political Traditions
2 The Third Political Tradition—Reclaiming the Frontier: Wagon Trains, Pioneers, and Deputies, but No Cowboys or Nannies
3 Thinking in Threes: Diversity, Destruction, Redemption, and Social Policy Ruptures
4 Obama Stakes the Nation: A Spinozan Stakeholder State, Market, and Society
5 Foreign Stakeholders: Just War and Just Peace in a New World Order of Universal Anti-Universalism
6 A Lose-Lose Leader, or a Script for a President?
7 The Prius Presidency: A “Paramount Empire of Reason”?
Notes
Index
Review Quotes
Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania
“Obama’s vision of E Pluribus Unum—a democratic progressive vision—is central both to his own sense of purpose and to his appeal. Ruth O’Brien lays out very concretely how this vision is expressed in Obama’s policy positions and modes of governing. Out of Many, One is a distinctive and thought-provoking contribution to understanding Obama and contemporary American political thought.”
Eric Alterman, author of The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama
“Ruth O’Brien’s Out of Many, One is a model of thoughtful, careful scholarship in the service of compelling argument. It’s not been easy to make sense of many of Barack Obama’s decisions since his historic election. O’Brien provides a useful starting point and an important contribution to our understanding.”
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