Barack Obama and ‘The American Wanderer’

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  08.29.08 | 12:04 PM ET

Michael Powell offers an intriguing examination of the American tradition of “wanderlust ambition.” A familiar subject, but I like Powell’s angle: He gets into the story through Barack Obama’s personal story, and talks about whether or not “Americans desire a lodestar rather than a wanderer in their leaders.”

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