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How Obama Got Schooled by a Broken System

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After the 2012 election, conventional wisdom said the GOP had to become more centrist to survive, but that didn't acknowledge the power of conservative lobbyists and think tanks.

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Writing about contemporary history poses a difficult challenge. This week, Princeton University Press has published my new edited volume on the presidency of Barack Obama—a first historical assessment by some of the nation’s leading scholars.

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