Books & Literary Life | 10.19.2010 Kloppenberg on Obama: melding individual interests into the common good James Kloppenberg explicates Barack Obama’s perspective on the American democratic ideal of melding individual views and interests into the common good. Features | November-December 2010 Excerpt from "Reading Obama," by James T. Kloppenberg Deliberative democracy, philosophical pragmatism, and Barack Obama's conception of American governance
