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Radio 4,06 Jan 2009,40 mins
Obama: Professor President
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Prof Kwame Anthony Appiah investigates president-elect Obama's academic career before his election to the US Senate in 2004. He examines the intellectual ideas which influenced him during his time as a student at Harvard and later as a law professor at the University of Chicago, and considers what effect they might have on his policy-making as president.
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