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Obama book offers key insight about how laws really get made

  • Written by David Webber, Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia
imageIn a photo from 2004, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, right, speaks with a fellow legislator on the floor of the state Senate chamber.AP photo/Randy Squires

Amid all the attention on former President Barack Obama’s new book, what may not have shown up in the reviews is mention of a two-page summary that, for legislative scholars like me,...

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