Obama, rhetorical fisticuffs, and the new “jobs surge”
Flickr/phil dokas Below is a new, short piece of mine—an introduction, to be precise, to Steve Fraser’s most recent piece for TomDispatch.com, “The New Deal in Reverse: How the Obama Administration Ended Up Where Franklin Roosevelt Began.” Fraser’s piece compares the first years of Obama and FDR, and unlike any other historian, he describes how the first 365 days of these two historic presidents (albeit for different reasons) resemble mirror images of... Read More
