
Why Obama is a series of guest essays by musicians and authors, where they share their support for Democratic United States presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama and offer arguments why he needs to be elected president of the United States. Peter Trachtenberg's most recent book is The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning . He is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing program of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. In his own words, here is Peter Trachtenberg's Why Obama [...]