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Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics

Autor Paul Street
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 ian 2009
In this work, the author looks at Obama in relation to contemporary issues of class, race, war, and empire and considers him in the context of the nation's political history.
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ISBN-13: 9781594516313
ISBN-10: 1594516316
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 150 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Paradigm Publishers

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PrefaceIntroduction: One: U.S. Political Culture, the Obama Phenomenon, and the Promise of BetrayalChapter One: "The Speech""Simply Enraptured""In No Other Country on Earth Is My Story Possible" "A Decent Shot at Life" "A Miracle That We Can Say What We Think""Absolute Faith in Our Country and Its Leaders""Never Go War without Enough Troops to Win" The Glorious "Hope" of Slaves and OccupiersPopular Struggle, Not "Elite" SaviorsChapter Two: Origin Myths"A Skinny Kid with a Funny Name from Hawaii"Finding a Home on the South Side of ChicagoThe Harvard ApprenticeshipStatehouse Days: Personal Ambition and "True Progressivism" The Role of Political LuckThe Real Audition"It Is Because They Marched That I Stand before You Today"Chapter Three: Obama, Inc. and the Golden Rule of U.S. PoliticsPast Democratic Betrayals IObama's Wonderful Wealth PrimaryDominant Media's Selective Skewering of Populist HypocrisyPritzker Populism"He's a Player": Investor ResultsMarket Democracy and Real DemocracyChapter Four: Capitalism Is "Our Greatest Asset": Audacious Deference to Private Power Beyond Bribery"Deeply Conservative" Respect for Class Rule "Our Free Market System" Because He's Black? The Pale Reflection IChapter Five: How "Black" Is Obama? Color, Class, and the Racial Politics of the Post-Civil Rights Era Past Democratic Betrayals II Obama: How Different? Running from Racism Obama's Triumph and the Janus Face of Black Victory The Pale Reflection II Race Matters: Class and Color in the Democratic Presidential PrimariesChapter Six: Barack Obama and the Audacity of Liberal Imperialism The Bipartisan Imperial Consensus "Join the Movement to End the [Iraq] War"A...by Caucusing for Obama? "We Should Take No Options Off the Table": Mixed Messages on Iran Israel: "A Degree of Anti-Arab Racism" "No Peace Candidate": Provocative Utterances on Pakistan The Audacity of Empire "This Is Left-Liberal Foreign Policy?" "Beyond Self-Defense" The Pale Reflection III The Democratic Front-Runners' Imperial Consensus Just "A Dime's Worth of Difference?'Chapter Seven: It Doesn't Have to Be Like This: Beyond the Narrow Spectrum and the Crackpot Realism of the "Power Elite" King's Refusal "They Have Other Priorities" "The Urgent Task": No Electoral Shortcuts to Progressive Outcomes Why Tactical Voting Matters: Democratic "Coke" versus Republican "Crack" The Need to Expose False Progressivism The Narrow Spectrum Political System and Culture Fixing Elections and Growing Democracy A Progressive Agenda for the twenty-first Century What Is to Be Done?

Notă biografică

Paul Street is an urban social policy researcher and teacher in Chicago. He writes regularly for Z Magazine and Black Commentator. His books include Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (2009) and Empire and Inequality (2005).

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In this work, the author looks at Obama in relation to contemporary issues of class, race, war, and empire and considers him in the context of the nation's political history.