Publication Date: April 15th 2010

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A Presidency in Peril
The Inside Story of Obama’s Promise,
Wall Street’s Power, and the Struggle
to Control our Economic Future
Robert Kuttner
$25.00 US • Hardcover
ISBN 9781603582704
6 x 9 • 336 pages
Pub Date: April 15th 2010

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A must-read for the Obama team and its supporters as well as its critics. Kuttner provides the definitive
progressive critique of the Obama presidency and charts a way forward—and a way out of the mess we are in.
—Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Freefall:
America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

Can Barack Obama redeem his presidency?

Throughout his first year, Obama dismayed many of his most fervent supporters by failing to make a Roosevelt-scale break with
the old economic order that brought the economy to crisis. He sought common ground with Republicans who were deter-
mined to destroy him. He gave priority to Wall Street over Main Street. The far right began to appropriate the populist anger.
In this definitive account of Obama’s first 14 months, best selling author and economic critic Robert Kuttner tells the story of
why Obama did not rise to the occasion in 2009, how he filled his administration with the same financial elites that produced
the collapse—and how Obama can still redeem his presidency and the promise of a new progressive era.
As Kuttner explains, the wake-up call after the Massachusetts senate election and Obama’s belated leadership on health reform
are just the beginning of a long road back to the hopes that Obama kindled as a candidate. Kuttner concludes by reporting on
the interplay of progressive activism on the ground and presidential leadership in the White House.

“ In A Presidency in Peril, Robert Kuttner explores how and why Candidate Obama’s audacity of hope mor-
phed into President Obama’s timidity of governing--from his deferential treatment of Wall Street to his
misguided attachment to the fantasy of bipartisanship. But Kuttner goes beyond criticism and offers sharp,
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practical ideas on how Obama can still redeem the promise of his administration and break the chokehold
special interests have on our politics.
—Arianna Huffington, cofounder and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post

Robert Kuttner, author of the most prescient political book of the year, Obama’s Challenge:
America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency
Presidency, is cofounder and coeditor of The
American Prospect magazine, as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. He was
a longtime columnist for BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek, and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe.

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