THE AGE OF OBAMA

摘要

He was, once, the consummate outsider. The first time Barack Obama saw the White House was a quarter century ago, in 1984, when he was working as a community organizer based at the Harlem campus of the City College of New York. President Reagan was proposing reductions in student aid. The young Obama, just out of Columbia, got together with student leaders -"most of them black, Puerto Rican, or of Eastern European descent, almost all of them the first in their families to attend college"-to take petitions protesting the cuts to the New York delegation on Capitol Hill.