The Black president Hope and fury in the age of Obama
Book - 2021
"With lively prose and sensitivity to context, this book offers a sweeping, authoritative history of the Obama presidency, focusing particularly on its impact and meaning vis-à-vis African Americans. This interpretative account captures the America that made Obama's White House years possible, while at the same time rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of his most unlikely of successors"--
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- Published
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2021.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xvi, 656 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 622-633) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781421441887
- Preface
- Part I: A chronic restlessness.
- Wanderers and dreamers
- Joshua rising
- The pendulum swings forward
- Part II: Hope and change
- Bamelot
- President of the entire United States
- Dancing with the caucus
- Man on a tightrope
- Pitchforks, daggers, and carnival barkers
- Guess who's coming to tea
- Signifier in chief
- Renaissance woman
- The blood of Africa
- Demographics and destinies
- Part III: The best of times, the worst of times
- Bamelot 2.0
- A second wind
- "If I had a son"
- The measure of a president
- The pendulum swings back
- Epilogue.