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Obama's 'Inheritance'

In three weeks, President-elect Barack Obama will be the world’s most powerful public official, faced with rising threats from all over the world. David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, has a timely book out, The Inheritance : The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power.

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By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

In three weeks, President-elect Barack Obama will be the world’s most powerful public official, faced with rising threats from all over the world. David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, has a timely book out, The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power.

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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    Karen Radziner

    Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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    David Sanger

    Pulitzer Prize-winning White House and national security correspondent for the New York Times, author of “New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend The West”

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