I sat a few feet from President Barack Obama for almost three hours just over a year ago. True, we never spoke. Or even shook hands. And sitting next to me was a Secret Service agent carrying a large gun concealed beneath his borrowed-for-the-occasion academic robes. Welcome to graduation at the University of Notre Dame. The intersection of religion and national politics is oft (...)
August 13, 2010
Books
Conciliator-in-Chief
The BridgeThe Life and Rise of Barack ObamaDavid RemnickAlfred A. Knopf, $29.95, 672 pp.
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