The Hope for Audacity
Todd Gitlin assesses the difference between Obama's outlook and that of FDR and LBJ, and considers what it will take for him to succeed in office.… More »
Todd Gitlin is the author The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, is the co-author of The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election. His forthcoming nonfiction novel is Undying. He is a journalism professor at Columbia University.