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The mendacity of hope

By Roger D. Hodge

Roger D. Hodge is the editor of Harper’s Magazine.

A year and more has passed, yet we have not been delivered. Some believed that Barack Obama had come to restore the Republic, to return our nation to the righteous path. A new, glorious era in American politics was at hand.

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SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Bomb power: the modern presidency and the national security state (Book); Executive power; Wills, Garry; Military leadership; Military policy; 2009-; National security; Politics and war
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