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Obama at the Crossroads - Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future (Paperback) Loot Price: R931
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Obama at the Crossroads - Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future (Paperback): Lawrence R. Jacobs, Desmond...

Obama at the Crossroads - Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future (Paperback)

Lawrence R. Jacobs, Desmond S. King

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The 2010 election serves as a bookend to one of the remarkable political periods in recent U.S. history. Amidst a profound economic crisis, Americans elected an African American to the presidency and massive Democratic majorities to Congress. Beginning in 2009, the President and Congress put forward a sweeping agenda to both address the economic crisis and enact progressive policies that liberals had been advocating for decades. Within a year and a half, they would pass health care reform and financial reform alongside a stimulus package of nearly a trillion dollars. Democrats also rescued the auto industry via a partial government takeover and expanded the Bush administration's incipient program for saving the banking sector by pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into it. Finally, the Obama administration dramatically increased our commitment in Afghanistan while simultaneously winding down our presence in Iraq. In Obama at the Crossroads, eminent political scientists Desmond King and Larry Jacobs have gathered some of the best scholars in American politics to take stock of this extraordinary period. Covering the financial crisis, health care reform, racial politics, foreign policy, the nature of Obama's leadership, and the relationship between the administration's agenda and broader progressive goals, this will serve as a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing the Obama administration as it entered office.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2012
First published: May 2012
Authors: Lawrence R. Jacobs (Professor of Political Science) • Desmond S. King (Professor of Politics)
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-984538-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
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LSN: 0-19-984538-7
Barcode: 9780199845385

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