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April 14, 2010

What Makes Barack Obama Run?

In 1995, the Chicago Reader profiled a little-known professor (and lawyer and philanthropist and author) who had decided to run for office to get back to his true passion: community organizing.

Hank De Zutter Chicago Reader Dec 1995 15min Permalink