The 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-à-vis African Americans. This interpretative account captures the America that made Obama's White House years possi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2021.
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| Summary: | "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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| 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 1421441888 |
