10
Feb
Obama’s brush with political disaster.
Read an excerpt from Senior Editor Noam Scheiber’s upcoming book, The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery.
“For the better part of the next four months, the administration would be mired in painstaking negotiations with Republicans over a series of dead-end deficit deals, even as the economy teetered on the edge of a second recession. It would prove to be a damaging experience for Team Obama and a window onto the administration’s self-sabotaging obsession with deficits. Above all, it would expose Obama’s greatest vulnerability as a leader.”
—Noam Scheiber, “Obama’s Worst Year: The inside story of his brush with political disaster.”
