UJoseph O'Neill KwiNetherlands . Ngapha nangapha phezulu ibhena yayiprintwe kuyo yonke ikepusi: INOVELI EBEKWA NGUMONGAMELI OBAMA NGOKU UFUNDA.
Kwangoko kulenyanga, uVintage wayenyusile umhla wokukhutshwa kwencwadi entsha ukuze axhase isibonelelo esivela ku-Barack Obama owayesandula ukuvela Ixesha leMagazini ibali elingaphandle . Inxalenye efanelekileyo yeli bali, ebhalwe nguDavid Leonhardt, iphinde yaveliswa kwintengiso yeVintage: Xa ndabuza [uMongameli Obama] ukuba ingaba ikhona into ayifundayo elungileyo, wathi… ‘Ilizwe laseNetherlands nguJoseph O'Neill.’
Yayingeyongxaki nje — uMnu. U-Obama khange akhe acatshulwe esithi uyayithanda le ncwadi, kuba nje ebeyifunda-kodwa ke, lonto ayibanqandi abapapashi ekusebenziseni umongameli ukuhambisa iiyunithi ezimbalwa ngaphambili.
Ngo-Novemba, kwiintsuku ezimbalwa phambi konyulo, abalishumi elinesibini bapapasha iJohn Stauffer Izigebenga: Ubomi obufanayo bukaFrederick Douglass kunye no-Abraham Lincoln , ngesicatshulwa esikhulu kwiphepha elingasemva ukusuka Ukuphicothwa kwethemba , apho u-Obama angqina ngendlela acinga ukuba upholile ngayo ucinga ukuba uLincoln noDouglass.
Isicatshulwa ngokupheleleyo:
Ndiyathanda ukukholelwa ukuba kuLincoln… ibingumbandela wokugcina ngaphakathi kwakhe ulungelelwaniso phakathi kweembono ezimbini eziphikisanayo- ekufuneka sithethe kwaye sifikelele ekuqondeni ngokufanayo, kuba sonke asifezekanga kwaye asinakuze senze ngokuqiniseka ukuba uThixo kwicala lethu; ukanti ngamanye amaxesha kufuneka senze nangona kunjalo, ngokungathi siqinisekile, sikhuselwe kwimpazamo kuphela ngolungiselelo.
Eyona nto ingcono endinokuyenza ebusweni bembali yethu kukuzikhumbuza ukuba bekungasoloko kuyipragmatist, ilizwi lesizathu, okanye amandla okulalanisa, adale iimeko zenkululeko. Iinyani ezinzima nezibandayo ziyandikhumbuza ukuba yayingamadoda afana noFrederick Douglass owaqondayo ukuba igunya alinakuvuma nto ngaphandle komlo.
Isandi esomeleleyo sikaJohn Stauffer ovela kumongameli wase-USA!
Kwakhona kulungile: ukuvuma kwakhe uReinhold Niebuhr's Irony yeMbali yaseMelika , engaqondanga enikezwe ngexesha lodliwanondlebe noDavid Brooks ngo-Epreli, 2007 kwaye waphinda wabuyela umva kwibhantshi yencwadi yiYunivesithi yaseChicago Press emva konyaka:
[Niebuhr] yenye yezithandi zobulumko endizithandayo. Ndisusa [kwimisebenzi yakhe] uluvo olunyanzelayo lokuba kukho ububi obubi kakhulu emhlabeni, nobunzima nentlungu. Kwaye kufuneka sithobeke kwaye sithozame ekukholweni kwethu ukuba singazisusa ezo zinto. Kodwa akufuneki siyisebenzise loo nto njengesizathu sokugxeka nokungasebenzi.
Ngokwazi kwethu, incwadi yokugqibela uMnu Obama wayiphazamisa ngaphambi kokuba abe ngumongameli yekaTed Sorensen Umcebisi: Ubomi kwiNqanaba leMbali , Ipapashwe ngoMeyi ophelileyo nguHarperCollins. Umnumzana u-Obama-owayedityaniswe ngasemva nebhatyi ngu-Robert Caro, u-Walter Isaacson, u-Tom Brokaw kunye no-Jon Meacham-wabiza incwadi kaMnu. Sorensen ngokubamba nangokungagungqi, wancoma umbhali wayo ngokukhuthaza isizukulwana nokunceda ukukhokela ilizwe lethu ezinye zeeyure ezinzima kakhulu.
