Obama: Professor President

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.

Broadcast on:

BBC Radio 4, 5:00pm Sunday 11th January 2009

Duration:

40 minutes

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Categories:

• Factual,
• Life Stories,
• Politics