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• Introduction: Barack Obama and the Transformational Impulse.- The Obama Legacy in American Electoral Participation.- Managing a Regime in Crisis: The Twilight of Neoliberalism and the Politics of Economic Recovery During the First Year of the Obama Administration.- The Obama Health Care Legacy: The Origins, Implementation, and Effort to Repeal the Affordable Care Act of 2010.- Appraising the Foreign Policy Legacy of the Obama Presidency.- The World We Have Lost: US Labor in the Obama Years.- Swimming the Multiple Currents: The Political and Racial Time of Barack Obama's Presidency.- The Legacy of President Obama in the U.S. Supreme Court.-
• 9. The Obama Administration's Global Warming Legacy: Going with the Flow and the Politics of Failure.- Unfulfilled Hopes: President Obama's Legacy.- Conclusion: Who was President Barack Obama?.
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When President Barack Hussein Obama left office January 20, 2017, he left a fascinating legacy. The Obama Presidency will remain an intriguing part of our nation's political history, and we can now say that there were unexpected achievements and failures. His tenure was both historical and complex, and will inevitably be compared with his predecessors and successors. The chapters in this volume are a serious assessment of President Obama's tenure written by a diverse team that includes political scientists, sociologists, historians, and economists. They provide critical insights into the man and his policies and, more importantly, are written in a manner that makes them available to laypersons, journalists, students, and scholars.
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• La tentative de de-légitimation d'Obama
• Le contexte de la genèse de ce projet
• Une autorité importée du sud des Etats-Unis
• Le discours du Caire : un mea culpa qui ne fait pas l'unanimité
• Les effets secondaires du discours du Caire sur le débat politique domestique
• Les tonalités de la construction de l'extranéité d'Obama
• Autopsie de la débacle du parti républicain
• Le pacte avec l'intolérable
• La politique yoyo de Mitt Romney
• Le Tea Party : un futur ancré dans le passé
• Naturalisation du Tea Party dans la campagne de Mitt Romney
• Une devoir de civilisation
• Une vidéo fatale
• Le marché au service du citoyen t
• Citizens United : la raison du plus riche est toujours la meilleure
• Leçon non apprise
• Une vision du monde en manque de traction
• Le père Noël en novembre 91
• Il était une fois la bonne femme et la mauvaise femme
• Croisade contre la fraude électorale
• La politique de la terre brûlée
• La contestation de la loi du père
• Le signifié de Mai 68
• Une théologie de la libération incarnée
• Une presse collaboratrice
• Linéarités entre Mai 68 et le Printemps arabe
• Séparer la religion et l'Etat 9
• Une presse à double tranchant
• Mai 68, le Printemps arabe et Occupy : une fraternité globale
• De l'Eglise à la rue : un activisme inscrit dans les Ecritures
• Une presse fake news
• Les graffitis : des mots simples pour amender la grammaire sociale
• Le retour de l'opprimé
• La licence politique d'Obama
• Un nouveau pacte entre le politique et le citoyen
• Réappropriation de l'esprit des Lumières
• La nécessité de museler Wall Street
• Le vote : un droit inaliénable
• La génération Obama
• Le mariage gay et la régularisation des sans-papiers
• Le non-alignement politique et la justice sociale
• Un mythe national émacié
• Le choc de deux écoles de pensée
• La malédiction des droits civils
• Une école et une élite politique corrompues
• Le polygénisme : diviser pour incarcérer
• La Californie : un danger pour la nation
• Le phénomène Trump
• Un changement paradigmatique urgent.

"Trois ans après la fin de la présidence d'Obama, il est légitime d'explorer une des empreintes que son passage à la Maison-Blanche a laissée sur l'Histoire des États-Unis. Ancrée dans les deux mandats d'Obama, La répudiation du tribalisme sous l'ère Barack Hussein Obama est une analyse iconoclaste de moments critiques de sa présidence. Dans un langage accessible au monde non-universitaire, cette analyse suit au quotidien un rapport de force musclé entre une faction progressiste et une faction passéiste aux États-Unis. Au soir de l'élection du premier Président noir des États-Unis, la Droite politique fait front commun pour saboter son programme. Cette stratégie, relayée par une presse collaboratrice, puise son essence dans une imagerie qui fait la promotion de certains travers du tribalisme : la diabolisation de l'Autre, la peur et la paranoïa. Cet ouvrage accentue l'optimisme radical qui a marqué les deux mandats d'Obama. En élisant Obama, le peuple américain veut s'émanciper d'une page sombre du récit national et plébisciter une vision du monde qui est alignée aux aspirations globales inscrites dans Mai 68, le Printemps arabe et Occupy."--Page 4 of cover.

An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historians Barack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his second term, Republicans controlled Congress, and, after the 2016 presidential election, Obama's legacy and the health of the Democratic Party itself appeared in doubt. In The Presidency of Barack Obama, Julian Zelizer gathers leading American historians to put President Obama and his administration into political and historical context. These writers offer strikingly original assessments of the big issues that shaped the Obama years, including the conservative backlash, race, the financial crisis, health care, crime, drugs, counterterrorism, Iraq and Afghanistan, the environment, immigration, education, gay rights, and urban policy. Together, these essays suggest that Obama's central paradox is that, despite effective policymaking, he failed to receive credit for his many achievements and wasn't a party builder. Provocatively, they ask why Obama didn't unite Democrats and progressive activists to fight the conservative counter-tide as it grew stronger. Engaging and deeply informed, The Presidency of Barack Obama is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand Obama and the uncertain aftermath of his presidency. Contributors include Sarah Coleman, Jacob Dlamini, Gary Gerstle, Risa Goluboff, Meg Jacobs, Peniel Joseph, Michael Kazin, Matthew Lassiter, Kathryn Olmsted, Eric Rauchway, Richard Schragger, Paul Starr, Timothy Stewart-Winter, Thomas Sugrue, Jeremi Suri, Julian Zelizer, and Jonathan Zimmerman.
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• Timeline
• Policy revolution without a political transformation : the presidency of Barack Obama / Julian E. Zelizer
• Tea partied : President Obama's encounters with the conservative-industrial complex / Julian E. Zelizer
• Neither a depression nor a New Deal : bailout, stimulus, and the economy / Eric Rauchway
• Achievement without credit : the Obama presidency and inequality / Paul Starr
• Obama's fight against global warming / Meg Jacobs
• Obama's courts? / Risa Golubuff and Richard Schragger
• The gay rights president / Timothy Stewart-Winter
• Education in the age of Obama : the paradox of consensus / Jonathan Zimmerman
• Barack Obama and the movement for Black lives : race, democracy, and criminal jusitce in the age of Ferguson / Peniel E. Joseph
• A decent-sized foundation : Obama's urban policy / Thomas J. Sugrue
• "Tough and smart" : the resilience of the war on drugs during the Obama administration / Matthew D. Lassiter
• A promise unfulfilled, an imperfect legacy : Obama and immigration policy / Sarah R. Coleman
• Liberal internationalism, law, and the first African American president / Jeremi Suri
• Terror Tuesdays : how Obama refined Bush's counterterrorism policies / Kathryn Olmsted
• A hyphenated legacy? : Obama's Africa policy / Jacob Dlamini
• Criticize and thrive : the American left in the Obama years / Michael Kazin
• Civic ideals, race, and nation in the age of Obama / Gary Gerstle.

An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historians Barack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his second term, Republicans controlled Congress, and, after the 2016 presidential election, Obama's legacy and the health of the Democratic Party itself appeared in doubt. In The Presidency of Barack Obama, Julian Zelizer gathers leading American historians to put President Obama and his administration into political and historical context. These writers offer strikingly original assessments of the big issues that shaped the Obama years, including the conservative backlash, race, the financial crisis, health care, crime, drugs, counterterrorism, Iraq and Afghanistan, the environment, immigration, education, gay rights, and urban policy. Together, these essays suggest that Obama's central paradox is that, despite effective policymaking, he failed to receive credit for his many achievements and wasn't a party builder. Provocatively, they ask why Obama didn't unite Democrats and progressive activists to fight the conservative counter-tide as it grew stronger. Engaging and deeply informed, The Presidency of Barack Obama is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand Obama and the uncertain aftermath of his presidency. Contributors include Sarah Coleman, Jacob Dlamini, Gary Gerstle, Risa Goluboff, Meg Jacobs, Peniel Joseph, Michael Kazin, Matthew Lassiter, Kathryn Olmsted, Eric Rauchway, Richard Schragger, Paul Starr, Timothy Stewart-Winter, Thomas Sugrue, Jeremi Suri, Julian Zelizer, and Jonathan Zimmerman.
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• Introduction: A Controversial Presidency Steven E. Schier
• 1 Sound Work in a Tough Environment: Obama's Governing Achievements John Kenneth White
• 2 Obama and Washington: Fallen Hopes and Frustrated Change John J. Pitney Jr.
• 3 Barack Obama's Electoral Legacy: In a Polarized Era, Democrats Poised for Success in 2016 and Beyond Alan I. Abramowitz
• 4 With Enemies Like This, Who Needs Friends?: How Barack Obama Revived the Republican Party \William G. Mayer
• 5 Obama's Foreign Policy: Securing America's Position, Avoiding Costly Errors Lawrence Korb and Peter Juul
• 6 America in Decline Danielle Pletka
• 7 Progress and Good Governance in Domestic Policy Ruth O'Brien
• 8 The Limits of Governmental Accomplishment: Obama's Domestic Policies Andrew E. Busch
• 9 Back from the Brink: Obama's Economic Record Daniel E. Ponderl
• 10 Economic Stagnation in the Obama Presidency Raymond Tatalovich About the Contributors.
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This is the first book to present both the arguments for and against Barack Obama's presidency and its policies. In it, prominent political scientists and Washington think tank scholars address Obama's domestic, economic and foreign policies and his political legacy. Contrasting perspectives assess the consequences of the large aspirations of the Obama presidency and the political and policy challenges Obama encountered in the pursuit of those aspirations. Barack Obama's project in the White House involved installing lasting changes in national policy and politics. Institutionally, the Obama administration sought to preserve control of Congress through maintenance of reliable partisan Democratic majorities, and enhance influence over the federal courts through a steady stream of liberal judicial appointees. The administration sought increased autonomy over the executive branch by a reorganizations spawned by a national economic crisis and an ambitious domestic policy agenda. Politically, the Obama administration sought the entrenchment of consistent Democratic electoral majorities. Such large ambitions have generated enduring controversies surrounding his presidency, controversies that receive a full airing and debate in this volume. Contributions by Alan I. Abramowitz, Emory University; Andrew E. Busch, Claremont McKenna College; Peter Juul, Center for American Progress; Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress; William G. Mayer, Northeastern University; Ruth O'Brien, City University of New York Graduate Center; John J. Pitney Jr. Claremont McKenna College; Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute; Daniel E. Ponder, Drury University; Steven E. Schier, Carleton College; Raymond Tatalovich, Loyola University Chicago; and John Kenneth White, Catholic University of America.
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• 1. Barack Obama's Assets and Constraints
• 2. Presidential Effectiveness When Congress is Polarized
• 3. Preventing Collapse, Stimulating Recovery
• 4. Promoting Long-Term Growth, Reducing Inequality
• 5. The Affordable Care Act: Legislative Victory
• 6. The Affordable Care Act: Implementation Nightmare
• 7. Global Warming Warrior
• 8. Driller in Chief
• 9. Deporter in Chief?
• 10. Midterm Massacres
• 11. A Counterfactual Obama Presidency.
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The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation's 240-year history, is of special interest. Obama came into office as the economy was careening into the worst downturn since the Great Depression. On the political front, he would be challenged by the intense congressional polarization faced by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, exacerbated by the rise of the Tea Party movement. In this comprehensive assessment of domestic policymaking, John D. Graham considers what we may learn from the Obama presidency about how presidents can best implement their agendas when Congress is evenly divided. What did Obama pledge to do in domestic policy and what did he actually accomplish? Why did some initiatives succeed and others fail? Did Obama's policies contribute to the losses experienced by the Democratic Party in 2010 and 2014? In carefully documented case studies of economic policy, health care reform, energy and environmental policy, and immigration reform, Graham asks whether Obama was effective at accomplishing his agenda. Counterfactuals are analyzed to suggest ways that Obama might have been even more effective than he was and at less political cost to his party. This book builds on Graham's well-received analysis in Bush on the Home Front, elaborating and applying a theory of presidential effectiveness in a polarized political environment.
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This volume examines the array of challenges facing the Obama administration and the president himself. Topics range from how best to manage a ruptured economy to controlling the budget, the green agenda, foreign policy, and the recalibration of U.S. relations with Britain. It also includes sections on presidential leadership, elections, healthcare, and food poverty. The common theme throughout is the issue of governing in a fractured, unruly political environment, and the accompanying difficulties. Contributing scholars, based at academic institutions in the United States and the UK, offer a range of informed perspectives throughout this engaging work. Packed with detail yet highly accessible, this volume will appeal to those interested in American politics, history, and the political process.
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• 1. Chicago, that toddlin' town
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• 2. Amateur hour at the White house
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• 3. With friends like this
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• 4. The Obama doctrine
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• 5. A one-term proposition?

Think you know the real Barack Obama? You don't--not until you've read The Amateur In this stunning expose, bestselling author Edward Klein--a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, former foreign editor of Newsweek, and former editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine--pulls back the curtain on one of the most secretive White Houses in history. He reveals a callow, thin-skinned, arrogant president with messianic dreams of grandeur supported by a cast of true-believers, all of them united by leftist politics and an amateurish understanding of executive leadership. In The Amateur you'll discover: * Why the so-called "centrist" Obama is actually in revolt against the values of the society he was elected to lead * Why Bill Clinton loathes Barack Obama and tried to get Hillary to run against him in 2012 * The spiteful rivalry between Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey * How Obama split the Kennedy family * How Obama has taken more of a personal role in making foreign policy than any president since Richard Nixon--with disastrous results * How Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett are the real powers behind the White House throne The Amateur is a reporter's book, buttressed by nearly 200 interviews, many of them with the insiders who know Obama best. The result is the most important political book of the year. You will never look at Barack Obama the same way again.
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• Partt I. Assessing President Obama's Performance in the Domestic Arena: 1. Obama: performance in office / Louis Fisher; 2. The economic stimulus, health care, and financial reform: evaluating President Obama's legislative agenda / John Davis; 3. President Barack Obama and racial politics / Sharon Wright Austin and Danielle King; 4. Rise of Obama: the Lincoln link / William D. Pederson; 5. Obama and executive power / Martin S. Sheffer
• Part II. Assessing President Obama's Performance in the Foreign Policy Arena: 6. The United States and Europe in the Obama years / David Jervis; 7. Obama and the Middle East / Mohamed A. El-Khawas; 8. Assessing Obama's efforts to redefine the War on Terror / John Davis; 9. Assessing Obama's war in Afghanistan / John Davis
• Conclusion: assessing the Obama Presidency : a window into the future / John Davis.

Exploring the "promise" and "peril' associated with the opening two years of the presidency of Barack Obama, this book is a comparative look at the various aspects of his presidential strategy. On the domestic front, the book examines Obama's presidential style, his dysfunctional relationship with the media, the impact of his legislative agenda, his use of executive power, and the burgeoning disillusionment and frustration within the African American community. In the area of foreign policy, the study assesses Obama's management of the Afghan War, the war on terror, Obama's engagement with the Muslim World and Middle East Policy, and Obama's efforts to repair U.S.-Atlantic relations.
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• The war on America
• The war on the right
• The war on the disobedient
• The war on our culture and values
• The war on the economy
• The war on our future
• The war on oil
• The war on other energy resources
• The war on business
• The war on America's national security
• The war on guns: operation fast & furious
• The war on the dignity of his office
• Conclusion.

• Dans la tête d'Obama
• Comment fonctionne "44"?
• Économie
• Menaces sur la puissance américaine
• Pauvreté
• Le cauchemar américain
• Santé
• Une réforme historique?
• Politique
• L'Amérique coupée en deux?
• Diplomatie
• Une nouvelle vision du monde
• Irak, Afghanistan
• Deux guerres perdues?
• Énergie
• Vers l'après-pétrole
• Accès au savoir
• De l'école aux nouvelles technologies
• Immigration
• "La liberté pour 5 000 dollars"
• Conclusion: 44e ou 45e.

"Yes we can ! Quatre ans après le "miracle Obama", que reste-t-il de l'espoir soulevé par son élection ? Il a déçu ceux qui le croyaient réformiste, alors qu'il a toujours été un centriste pragmatique. S'il a fait preuve d'audace pour mener à bien la réforme de l'assurance maladie, il y a laissé des forces. Al-Qaida a été décapitée, mais l'image internationale des États-Unis est-elle durablement restaurée ? Le chômage et la pauvreté continueront-ils longtemps à gangréner le pays ? De quelle faillite les mouvements tels que le Tea Party et Occupy sont-ils les symptômes ? Santé, économie, politique énergétique, éducation et accès au savoir, immigration et tensions communautaires, bourbiers d'Irak et d'Afghanistan... Les plaies de l'Amérique ne sont pas encore refermées. Reposant sur des témoignages, des interviews réalisées dans tout le pays, l'enquête de Guillaume Serina offre une radiographie de la plus grande démocratie du monde."--P. [4] of cover.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Rating presidents and assessing Obama / Robert P. Watson
• Rhetoric and image / Casey Malone Maugh
• Obama's Lincoln: image to ideology / William D. Pederson
• The optimist and the realist / R. Ward Holder
• Obamania in Europe / Marie des Neiges Léonard
• The first hundred days / Sean Savage
• Relations with Congress / Max J. Skidmore
• The firing of General Stanley McChrystal / Douglas M. Brattebo
• The 2010 midterm election / Matthew N. Green
• The u.s. auto industry rescue / Steven A. Stuglin
• Environmental policy and global climate change / Byron W. Daynes & Glen Sussman
• Food and agricultural policy / Julie A. Lester
• Health care reform / Michael K. Gusmano
• Response to the Gulf oil spill / Matthew A. Williams & Brian Richard
• Inherited wars: Afghanistan and Iraq / Tom Lansford & Jack Covarrubias
• Iran policy / Robert J. Pauly
• China policy / De-Yuan Kao
• Counterterrorism policy / Leonard Cutler
• Obama, Libya, and war powers / Louis Fisher
• The policy czar debate / Justin S. Vaughn & José D. Villalobos
• The use of unilateral directives / Graham G. Dodds
• Vice president Joe Biden / Richard M. Yon
• First Lady Michelle Obama / Robert P. Watson
• Conclusion.

• Preface and Overview - Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige "Change We Can Believe In" Meets Reality - Joel D. Aberbach Strategic Assessments: Evaluating Opportunities and Strategies in the Obama Presidency - George C. Edwards III Political Forces on the Obama Presidency: From Election '08 to Governing - James E. Campbell Public Opinion and the Presidency: The Obama and Anti-Obama Coalitions - Gary C. Jacobson Obama and the Public Presidency: What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Diane J. Heith The Privileges of Access: Interest Groups and the White House - Lawrence R. Jacobs Rivals, or a Team? Staff and IIssue Management in the Obama Administration - Andrew Rudalevige Obama and the 111th Congress: Doing Big Things - Barbara Sinclair Obama and the Law: Judicial Restraint at the Crossroads - David A. Yalof Ambition, Necessity, and Polarization in the Obama Domestic Agenda - Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. Continuity and Change in Obama's Foreign Policy - Robert Singh Economic Crisis and Political Change: A New New Deal? - M. Stephen Weatherford Concluding Thoughts: President, Person, and System - Bert A. Rockman, Colin Campbell and Eric N. Waltenburg.
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In the latest volume in this classic series, Rockman, Rudalevige, and Campbell once again bring together top-notch scholars, this time to take a comprehensive look at the first two years of Barack Obama's presidency. Assessing Obama's political strategy, as well as his administration's successes and setbacks, chapter authors critically examine a presidency marked by continued partisanship, major policy battles, and continued global turmoil.
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• Part One: The Setting
• 1. Barack Obama: A Reagan of the Left? Andrew Dowdle, Dirk C. van Raemdonck, and Robert Maranto
• 2. Making Race Go Away President Obama and the Promise of a Post-Racial Society Wilbur C. Rich
• 3. Presidential Leadership and Public Opinion in an Age of Polarization Jeffrey E. Cohen and Costas Panagopoulos Part Two: Managing the Executive Branch
• 4. The Obama Cabinet: A Team of Rivals or Pragmatic Governance? Shirley Anne Warshaw
• 5. Presidential Appointments in the Obama Administration: An Early Evaluation David E. Lewis
• 6. President Barack Obama, Unilateralist Christopher S. Kelley, Melanie Cook Marlowe, and Ryan J. Barilleaux
• 7. Continuity and Change in White House Communications: President Obama Meets the Press Martha Joynt Kumar Part Three: Managing Relations with the Other Branches
• 8. No Place for a Community Organizer: Barack Obama's Leadership of Congress Justin S. Vaughn
• 9. Beyond Two Terms: Shaping the Supreme Court and a Legacy Richard L. Pacelle, Jr. Part Four: Managing Policies
• 10. Economic Policymaking During the Great Recession Ted Gayer
• 11. President Obama's Health Care Reform: The Inevitable Impossible Mark Carl Rom
• 12. President Obama and Education: The Personal and the Political Robert Maranto and Michael Q. McShane
• 13. Fighting Two Wars Lawrence J. Korb and Laura Conley Part Five: At the End of the Beginning: Judging President Obama
• 14. Barack Obama's First Two Years: Policy Accomplishments, Political Failure William A. Galston.
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At his inauguration, President Barack Obama was seemingly poised to become America's strongest and most influential president since Ronald Reagan. However, President Obama's first two years in office has led to some notable surprises. What accounts for the political stability and change demonstrated by the Obama administration? Which factors shaping a presidency are structural, which are personal, and which are driven by events? How will decisions made in the first two years of the administration affect its future course? What lessons can we glean from past presidencies? This timely volume of notable thinkers on the presidency presents scholarly as well as applied insights on Obama's administration at the half-way point. Assessing the political context of his first two years, the inter-branch relations, and policy developments all provide the necessary grounding for students to make sense of the continuity and change that Barack Obama represents.
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• Chapter 1: Representation and Counter-Representation in the Obama Presidency by William Crotty
• Chapter 2: Obama By The Numbers: A Comparison With Pre-vious Presidencies by Bruce E. Caswell
• Chapter 3: Obama's Health Reform: The Managerial President and the Political Storm by James A. Morone
• Chapter 4: Environmental Policy: The Success and Failure of the Obama Presidency by John C. Berg
• Chapter 5: Shifting Global Paradigms and Obama's Adaptive Foreign Policy by Lawrence C. Reardon
• Chapter 6: African-American Perspectives of the Obama Presidency by Shayla C. Nunnally
• Chapter 7: Minority Party Strategies and Political Successes in Opposition to the Obama Policy Agenda by R. Lawrence Butler
• Chapter 8: Coalitional Divisions and Realignment Dynamics in the Obama Era by Arthur C. Paulson
• Chapter 9: Recalibrating the Obama Presidency: The Off-Year Elections and Their Consequence by Maureen F. Moakley
• Chapter 10: Principles and Pragmatism in the Obama Presidency by William Crotty.
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In this illuminating examination of the Obama presidency, the contributors describe the policy directions followed, and the administration's level of success in achieving its objectives. Throughout the Obama administration, efforts were intended to alleviate the worst of the economic stress facing the nation, move the president closer to the center of the American political spectrum, and prepare for the upcoming reelection campaign, to be fought primarily on the same issues as the earlier one. The contributors present an analysis of the motivations and political thinking underlying the administration's action along with assessments of the policy consequences of the issue agenda favored and the public's reaction. The Obama Presidency is an in-depth account of one of the most intriguing and important presidencies at a time of economic crisis that goes a long way in explaining the policy decisions made and their political consequences, as well as the choices facing a nation in transition.
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• Chapter 1: An Introduction to an Early Assessment of the Obama Presidency James A. Thurber PART I: FROM CAMPAIGNING TO GOVERNING
• Chapter 2: Obama and the Polarized Public Gary C. Jacobson
• Chapter 3: Obama and the Public Mood Richard W. Boyd
• Chapter 4: Obama's Personality and Performance Stephen J. Wayne
• Chapter 5: Organizing the Obama White House James P. Pfiffner PART II: ON THE HILL AND OFF
• Chapter 6: Congressional Leadership in Obama's First Two Years Barbara Sinclair
• Chapter 7: A "Post-Partisan" President in a Partisan Context John E. Owens
• Chapter 8: Obama's Battle with Lobbyists James A. Thurber PART III: OBAMA AND THE MEDIA
• Chapter 9: Fall of the Favorite Ron Elving
• Chapter 10: Communication is Destiny Scott Lilly PART IV: OBAMA AND DOMESTIC POLICY
• Chapter 11: From Ambition to Desperation on the Budget Joseph White
• Chapter 12: The Politics of Regulation in the Obama Administration Claudia Hartley Thurber, Esq.
• Chapter 13: The Obama Administration and Internet Policy Douglas E. Van Houweling
• PART V: OBAMA AND FOREIGN POLICY
• Chapter 14: Structural Challenges for American Foreign Policy in the Obama Administration Jonathan Wilkenfeld
• Chapter 15: The Obama Administration and Counterterrorism Martha Crenshaw
• Chapter 16: Obama's Use of Prerogative Powers in the War on Terrorism Richard M. Pious
• Chapter 17: Reclaiming and Rebuilding American Power Lawrence J. Korb and Alexander H. Rothman.
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Barack Obama entered office on a wave of popular expectation; will he exit at the hands of a Tea Party inspired populist tsunami or return for four more years? Obama in Office brings together well-established political scientists and journalists to offer the first detailed assessment of President Obama and his first two years in office. This book covers the range of policy tests which the administration has faced during this period, including the recession and its jobless recovery, health care reform, financial regulation, the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, and the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Looking beyond the midterms, Obama in Office considers the results of 2010, the impact of the Tea Party, and the prospects for 2012.
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• Chapter 1 Introduction: Obama's "Big Bang" Presidency
• Chapter 2 Historical and Electoral Perspectives
• Chapter 3 From Reconstruction to Recession: The First Phase of the Obama Presidency in Historical Context
• Chapter 4 Caught Between Hope and History: Obama, Public Opinion, and the 2010 Elections
• Chapter 5 Parties as a Resource for Presidential Leadership: The Case of Barack Obama
• Chapter 6 Obama, Religious Politics, and the Culture Wars
• Chapter 7 Washington Governance
• Chapter 8 Accomplishments and Miscalculations of the Obama Presidency
• Chapter 9 Asymmetric Warfare: Supporters and Opponents of President Obama
• Chapter 10 Small Ball in the Long Game: Barack Obama and Congress
• Chapter 11 A Transformative Politics of Judicial Selection? President Obama and the Federal Judiciary
• Chapter 12 Policy Legacies
• Chapter 13 Obama and Social Policy: Acclamation or Alienation among Women, Minorities, and Gays?
• Chapter 14 The Obama Administration and the Great Recession
• Chapter 15 The Obama Presidency: A Foreign Policy of Change?
• Chapter 16 Conclusion: How Transformative a Presidency?
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The presidency of Barack Obama seeks a major transformation of American politics and policy. This new collection, edited by Steven E. Schier, examines the unusual combination of risk and ambition in Obama's presidency concerning popular politics, Washington politics, and economic and foreign policy. It also places the Obama presidency in historical perspective, noting the unusual circumstances of his election and the similarities and differences between presidential politics today and those of previous eras. Transforming America: Barack Obama in the White House provides a guiding focus involving the successes and failures of the administration's transformative aspirations during Obama's initial years in the White House. Contributions by John J. Coleman, James L. Guth, John F. Harris, James Hohmann, Bertram Johnson, Richard E. Matland, Nancy Maveety, James M. McCormick, John J. Pitney Jr, Nicol C. Rae, Steven E. Schier, Raymond Tatalovich, Andrea L. Walker, and John K. White.
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• Freedom in crisis
• All the President's men : the czars
• Packing the courts
• The unchecked president
• Health care
• "We're all Socialists now" : the economy
• Barack the vote : elections
• Gunfight
• A prison for your mind : information
• A new birth of freedom.

• Governing
• Fixing the economy
• Into the maze: health care
• Contexts: analogy and ideology
• Unfinished business: policy and politics.

We tend to view the character of an administration through the persona of its president, especially that of Barack Obama, with his unique baggage of race, personality, political style, and campaign message of hope and renewal. In this critical look at the realities that have shaped the first stage of Obama's presidency, Morton Keller provides a progress report that rests less on the day-to-day perspective of pundits and politicians and more on the longer perspective of history. His history-focused examination looks at the president's developing style of governing, with particular attention to his signature policies of the stimulus, financial, and health care reforms, and analyzes the Obama presidency in light of historical analogues, contemporary political life, and the nature of key government institutions such as Congress and the bureaucracy. Comparing our presidents with their predecessors is one way to understand more fully the character and quality of their performance. Keller compares the current president to predecessors such as Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and concludes that, as yet, there is no clear consensus on the character or content of Obama's presidential leadership or where he fits in the prevailing typology/classification of America's chief executives. Taking into account the general standing of the president, his program, and his party; the sources of public discontent; and the appeal (or lack thereof) of the opposition, Keller concludes by speculating on the future prospects of Obama's administration in the realms of policy and politics.
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• Governing
• Fixing the economy
• Into the maze: health care
• Contexts: analogy and ideology
• Unfinished business: policy and politics.

We tend to view the character of an administration through the persona of its president, especially that of Barack Obama, with his unique baggage of race, personality, political style, and campaign message of hope and renewal. In this critical look at the realities that have shaped the first stage of Obama's presidency, Morton Keller provides a progress report that rests less on the day-to-day perspective of pundits and politicians and more on the longer perspective of history. His history-focused examination looks at the president's developing style of governing, with particular attention to his signature policies of the stimulus, financial, and health care reforms, and analyzes the Obama presidency in light of historical analogues, contemporary political life, and the nature of key government institutions such as Congress and the bureaucracy. Comparing our presidents with their predecessors is one way to understand more fully the character and quality of their performance. Keller compares the current president to predecessors such as Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and concludes that, as yet, there is no clear consensus on the character or content of Obama's presidential leadership or where he fits in the prevailing typology/classification of America's chief executives. Taking into account the general standing of the president, his program, and his party; the sources of public discontent; and the appeal (or lack thereof) of the opposition, Keller concludes by speculating on the future prospects of Obama's administration in the realms of policy and politics.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)