The Black president : hope and fury in the age of Obama

Author

Claude A Clegg

Call Number

• 973.932 C6244 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.

Physical Description

xvi, 656 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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"--

Contents

• Preface
• Part I: A chronic restlessness.
• Wanderers and dreamers
• Joshua rising
• The pendulum swings forward
• Part II: Hope and change
• Bamelot
• President of the entire United States
• Dancing with the caucus
• Man on a tightrope
• Pitchforks, daggers, and carnival barkers
• Guess who's coming to tea
• Signifier in chief
• Renaissance woman
• The blood of Africa
• Demographics and destinies
• Part III: The best of times, the worst of times
• Bamelot 2.0
• A second wind
• "If I had a son"
• The measure of a president
• The pendulum swings back
• Epilogue.