One year ago this week we concluded one of the most trans formative Presidential campaigns of all times. A campaign and an election that will forever change the paradigm of American politics. One of the most astute chroniclers of that campaign was The New Yorker's Rick Hertzberg. In his new book Obamanos!: The Rise of a New Political Era gives us his insights into the birth of this new political epoch. My conversation with Rick Hertzberg: