ON NOVEMBER 4TH, 2008, Cass and I sat on plastic chairs in a white tent in Grant Park, Chicago, among Obama’s friends, advisers, donors, and a host of politicians and celebrities. Just outside—in the same spot where police had mauled protesters at the Democratic National Convention forty years before—240,000 people of all races, religions, and generations watched the election results on a Jumbotron showing CNN.
