For those who have read Obama’s revealing memoirs, this narrative makes for compelling reading
No American election evoked as much interest in India as the one that gave the USA its first black president. During his campaign, Barack Obama never made race an issue; he appealed to broader concerns. After the elections, when the Indian media wondered if we will ever have a Dalit prime minister, the underlying assumption was that Obama’s victory represented a post-racial America. David Remnick, editor of New Yorker and the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lenin’s Tomb, disabuses us of that notion in his biography of Obama.
(This story appears in the 30 July, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)