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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win, by Shelby Steele

‘It is not uncommon to see Barack Obama described as “comfortable in his skin.” Yet in “A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win,” Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele argues that underneath Mr. Obama’s cool-tempered exterior is a soul divided against itself. Specifically, Mr. Steele suspects that Mr. Obama has crafted an oppositional “black” identity of a staged variety, despite having been raised by whites in a culture disconnected from the black American community.’ Read the review at the New York Sun or at City Journal.

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