The first sweeping, legacy-defining history of the entire Obama
presidency. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Biography
& Autobiography by the Association of American Publishers In
The Black President, the first interpretative, grand-narrative
history of Barack Obama's presidency in its entirety, Claude A.
Clegg III situates the former president in his dynamic,
inspirational, yet contentious political context. He captures the
America that made Obama's White House years possible, while
insightfully rendering the America that resolutely resisted the
idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent
of the most unlikely of his successors. In elucidating the Obama
moment in American politics and culture, this book is also, at its
core, a sweeping exploration of the Obama presidency's historical
environment, impact, and meaning for African Americans-the tens of
millions of people from every walk of life who collectively were
his staunchest group of supporters and who most starkly experienced
both the euphoric triumphs and dispiriting shortcomings of his
years in office. In Obama's own words, his White House years were
"the best of times and worst of times" for Black America. Clegg is
vitally concerned with the veracity of this claim, along with how
Obama engaged the aspirations, struggles, and disappointments of
his most loyal constituency and how representative segments of
Black America engaged, experienced, and interpreted his historic
presidency. Clegg draws on an expansive archive of materials,
including government records and reports, interviews, speeches,
memoirs, and insider accounts, in order to examine Obama's
complicated upbringing and early political ambitions, his delicate
navigation of matters of race, the nature and impacts of his
administration's policies and politics, the inspired but also
carefully choreographed symbolism of his presidency (and Michelle
Obama's role), and the spectrum of allies and enemies that he made
along the way. The successes and the aspirations of the Obama era,
Clegg argues, are explicitly connected to our current racist, toxic
political discourse. Combining lively prose with a balanced,
nonpartisan portrait of Obama's successes and failures, The Black
President will be required reading not only for historians,
politics junkies, and Obama fans but also for anyone seeking to
understand America's contemporary struggles with inequality,
prejudice, and fear.
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