Black President - Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

"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-áa-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"--

About the author

Claude A. Clegg III is the Lyle V. Jones Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad and Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South.

Summary

Combining lively prose with a balanced, nonpartisan portrait of Obama's successes and failures, The Black President will be required reading not only for historians, politics junkies, and Obama fans but for anyone seeking to understand America's contemporary struggles with inequality, prejudice, and fear.

Product details

• Authors: Claude A. Clegg, Claude A. Clegg III
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781421441887
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4188-7
• No. of pages: 672
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Biography: general, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State, Political science & theory, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Political science and theory, Biography: historical, political and military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, HISTORY / African American & Black