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Obama: Professor President

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Last broadcast on Sun, 11 Jan 2009, 17:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

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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  1. Tue 6 Jan 2009
    20:00
  2. Sun 11 Jan 2009
    17:00

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Duration

40 minutes

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