The Black president : hope and fury in the age of Obama
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.932092/CLEGG,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 656 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781421441887, 1421441888 :, 1421441888, 9781421441887
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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"--