Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail Hardcover - 2017
by Jonathan Chait
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Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama amassed an array of historic achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded health insurance to tens of millions who previously could not afford it, negotiated an unprecedented nuclear deal with Iran, helped craft a groundbreaking international climate accord, reined in Wall Street, launched a fundamental overhaul of our education system, and formulated a new vision of racial progress. He has done all of this despite a left that frequently disdained him as a sellout, and a hysterical right that did everything possible to destroy his agenda, even in instances when they actually agreed with what he was doing before Obama was the one doing it.
Now, as the page turns to possibly the most dangerous commander in chief in our history, Jonathan Chait, one of America's most incisive and meticulous political commentators, digs deep into Obama's record on major policy fronts--the economy, the environment, domestic reform, health care, race, and foreign policy--to demonstrate why history will judge our forty-fourth president as among our greatest. Chait explains why so many observers, from cynical journalists to disheartened Democrats, missed the enormous evidence of progress amidst the smoke screen of extremist propaganda and the confinement of short-term perspective. He also reveals why Obama's accomplishments will last despite the reactionary effort by Donald Trump and the Republicans to extinguish them. And in its resounding defense of Obama's tenure, Audacity both makes clear his victories, and what we need to fight for next.
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- Title Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
- Author Jonathan Chait
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Hardback
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Custom House, New York
- Date 2017-01
- ISBN 9780062426970 / 0062426974
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Library of Congress subjects Obama, Barack, United States - Foreign relations - 2009-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016038527
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.932
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- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2016, Page 0
- Library Journal, 02/15/2017, Page 96
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/15/2016, Page 51
- Publishers Weekly, 10/10/2016, Page 0
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