MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, Jan. 30, 2012 issue
The making of a post-post-partisan Presidency: hundreds of pages of internal White House memos show Obama grappling with the unpleasant choices of government.
[....] A close look at the choices Obama made on domestic policy, based on a review of hundreds of pages of internal White House documents, reveals someone who is canny and tough—but who is not the President his most idealistic supporters thought they had elected [.....]
Also: On Wednesday, January 25th, at 3 P.M. E.T., Lizza will answer readers’ questions in a live chat.