New at Reason: Greg Beato on Barack Obama and the Triumph of Successories Politics

January 13, 2009

Like a Successories catalog made flesh, writes Greg Beato, Barack Obama's presidential campaign invoked burning beacons, long roads, steep climbs, and new dawns. He was lofty, he was declamatory, he was as aesthetically challenging as a majestic golf course on a crisp autumn morning. And yet his well-worn rhetoric managed to move multitudes. Could it be that all those corny corporate psalms to Character and Service have touched us more deeply than we realized?

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