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Obama: The Call of History - Updated with Expanded Text (Hardcover)
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Obama: The Call of History - Updated with Expanded Text (Hardcover)
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NEW EDITION WITH EXPANDED TEXT, WITH A FOREWORD BY JON MEACHAM: The
original edition of Obama: The Call of History (2017) was the first
full-fledged pictorial history of President Barack Obama's two
terms in office to be published as he stepped down. Now comes an
updated version that expands the narrative account and adds new
perspective from author Peter Baker, Chief White House
Correspondent for The New York Times. In this new edition, Baker
reports on new details about the final months of the Obama
presidency as Russia sought to intervene in American democracy, and
assesses the impact of Donald Trump's presidency on Barack Obama's
legacy. Baker chronicles a period of great hope, tumult,
accomplishments, and, yes, failure. This is the story of a young
president who took on the worst financial disaster since the Great
Depression, forged a controversial health care program, watched
anxiously in the Situation Room after approving the raid that
killed Osama Bin Laden and endured mid-term election defeats. In a
presidency buffeted by one crisis after another, he struggled with
the Syrian civil war, a Russian invasion of its neighbor, the rise
of the Islamic State, and, at home, often violent racial strife and
recalcitrant Congress. "His first line in the history books was
written the day he won office as the first African-American
president, but he was determined to offer more than simply a new
complexion in the Oval Office," writes Baker, Chief White House
Correspondent for The New York Times, about the 44th president of
the United States. Inspiring in a crowded stadium yet difficult
behind the scenes, Obama was a master politician who loathed
politics. To many, he was an enigma, often seen through the lens of
the observer--a liberal zealot to the right, an overeager
compromiser to the left. "I am a Rorschach test," he once noted.
But he was the dominant figure of his age. After eight eventful
years, he would never be the same--and neither would be his
country. Featuring expanded text , this fully updated chronicle of
Obama: The Call of History is an in-depth account of Barack Obama's
years in office, as well as an examination of his legacy as it
stands today.
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