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Race and the Obama phenomenon : the vision of a more perfect multiracial union

Table of Contents: “…Barack Obama: Embracing Multiplicity-Being a Catalyst for Change -- 4. …”
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Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations : Establishing the Obama Presidency. by Vaughn, Justin S.

Table of Contents: “…Barack Obama and the rhetoric of heroic expectations / Jennifer R. …”
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The Obama phenomenon : toward a multiracial democracy

Table of Contents: “…Dead Certain: The Election of Barack Obama and Its Implications for Racial Politics -- 4. …”
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Democracy remixed / Black youth and the future of American politics by Cohen, Cathy J., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 1 "My Petition": Black Youth and the Promise of Democratic Citizenship; CHAPTER 2 "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It": Bill Cosby, Don Imus, and Black Moral Panics; CHAPTER 3 "Baby Mama": Black Love, Black Deviance, and the Sexual Politics of Morality; CHAPTER 4 "Minority Report": Kanye West, Barack Obama, and Political Alienation (with Jamila Celestine-Michener); CHAPTER 5 "Fight the Power": From Jena to the White House; CHAPTER 6 "My President Is Black": Barack Obama and the Postracial Illusion; EPILOGUE "A Change Is Gonna Come": Policy and Politics; Appendix A; Notes; Index.…”
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The quest for argumentative equivalence : argumentative patterns in political interpreting contexts by Brambilla, Emanuele

Table of Contents: “…Strategic manoeuvring in political interpreting contexts -- Corpus and methodology -- Barack Obama -- David Cameron -- Nicolas Sarkozy -- François Hollande -- Conclusions.…”
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The historian's eye : photography, history, and the American present by Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Barack Obama, the icon -- At the crossroads of hope and despair -- Space available -- American studies road trip -- I want my country back -- Reflections.…”
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Claiming Lincoln : progressivism, equality, and the battle for Lincoln's legacy in Presidential rhetoric by Jividen, Jason R.

Table of Contents: “…Lincoln and the idea of equality -- Theodore Roosevelt's Lincoln -- Woodrow Wilson's Lincoln -- Franklin Roosevelt's Lincoln -- Lyndon Johnson's Lincoln -- Barack Obama's Lincoln.…”
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Obama and the biracial factor : the battle for a new American majority.

Table of Contents: “…Is "no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama?"; Commentary on Obama's racial and ethnic identity; Obama's own racial and ethnic claims.…”
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Africa's peacemakers : Nobel Peace laureates of African descent by Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Obama's Nobel ancestors / Adekeye Adebajo -- Barack Obama / Ali A. Mazrui -- Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama / Pearl T. …”
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Crisis! : when political parties lose the consent to rule by Leon, Cedric de

Table of Contents: “…The crisis sequence -- The appeal of Manifest Destiny -- The tug of unionism -- The end of the slaveholding republic -- The contradiction of the New Deal -- The miseducation of Barack Obama -- The election of Donald Trump -- The paths out of crisis.…”
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Obama at the crossroads : politics, markets, and the battle for America's future

Table of Contents: “…Obama's Critical Juncture -- American Renewal and the Politics of the New Middle America / E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Barack Obama and the Angry Left : The Fight for Progressive Realism / Lawrence R. …”
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Making the case : advocacy and judgment in public argument

Table of Contents: “…Bostdorff -- Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address: narrative signature and interpretation / Martin J. …”
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The Obama Presidency : Change and Continuity. by Dowdle, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…; The Stylistic Ironies of Barack Obama: Deliberative Reform; Overview of the Book; 2. …”
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Containing (un)American bodies : race, sexuality, and post-9/11 constructions of citizenship by Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…Bush Administration Narratives of Threat and Containment -- Same-Sex Marriage as "Domestic Terrorism" -- Bodies that Resisted Containment -- The Merger of Immigration, Citizenship, and Same-Sex Marriage -- Constructions of Threat and the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign -- Threatening Bodies in the Age of Obama.…”
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Studies of Identity in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. by DENTON, JR., ROBERT E.

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Political Power and Social Theory. by Go, Julian

Table of Contents: “…'everything's got a moral, if only you can find it''': Let social justice not die at the altar of ''pragmatism'' and color blindness; Notes; References; PART II: SCHOLARLY CONTROVERSY: THE CIVIL RELIGION OF BARACK OBAMA; Barack Obama and civil religion; What is civil religionquest.…”
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Solomon Islanders in World War II : an Indigenous perspective by Kwai, Anna Annie

Table of Contents: “…Letter of recognition from President Barack Obama.…”
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A fatherless child : autobiographical perspectives on African American men by Green, Tara T.

Table of Contents: “…-- The meaning of Langston Hughes's father-and-son relationships -- Richard Wright's fathers and sons -- Malcolm X's declaration of independence from his fathers -- Barack Obama's dreams -- The sons return to Africa -- Conclusion: Contemporary African American fathers and communities.…”
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A fatherless child : autobiographical perspectives on African American men by Green, Tara T.

Table of Contents: “…-- The meaning of Langston Hughes's father-and-son relationships -- Richard Wright's fathers and sons -- Malcolm X's declaration of independence from his fathers -- Barack Obama's dreams -- The sons return to Africa -- Conclusion: Contemporary African American fathers and communities.…”

Resowing the seeds of war : presidential peace rhetoric since 1945 by Heidt, Stephen J.

Table of Contents: “…The recivilized savage : Harry Truman and the victory of the Good War -- The mobile savage : Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and stalemate in Korea -- Erasing the savage : Richard Nixon, the architecture of peace, and the eternal Vietnam -- The disembodied savage : Barack Obama and the perpetuity of national violence -- War, the globalization of violence, and the sovereign power of the present.…”
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Rewriting Exodus : American futures from Du Bois to Obama by Hartnell, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Re-reading America : Barack Obama -- Double consciousness and the master/slave dialectic : W.E.B. …”
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Whose Black politics? : cases in post-racial Black leadership

Table of Contents: “…s tenure as a US congressman / Randolph Burnside and Antonio Rodriguez -- Hype, hip-hop, and heartbreak : the rise and fall of Kwame Kilpatrick / Athena King, Todd Shaw, and Lester Spence -- The rise of Barack Obama : its implications for Black politics -- The burden of Jekyll and Hyde : Barack Obama, racial identity, and Black political behavior / Lorrie Frasure -- Leadership, legitimacy, and public perceptions of Barack Obama / Charlton McIlwain -- New perspectives on deracialization -- Between generations : Deval Patrick's election as Massachusetts' first Black governor / Angela K. …”
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Obama on the home front : domestic policy triumphs and setbacks by Graham, John D. (John David), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Barack Obama's assets and constraints -- Presidential effectiveness when Congress is polarized -- Preventing collapse, stimulating recovery -- Promoting long-term growth, reducing inequality -- The Affordable Care Act: legislative victory -- The Affordable Care Act: implementation nightmare -- Global warming warrior -- Driller in chief -- Deporter in chief? …”
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Obama on the home front : domestic policy triumphs and setbacks by Graham, John D. (John David), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Barack Obama's assets and constraints -- Presidential effectiveness when Congress is polarized -- Preventing collapse, stimulating recovery -- Promoting long-term growth, reducing inequality -- The Affordable Care Act: legislative victory -- The Affordable Care Act: implementation nightmare -- Global warming warrior -- Driller in chief -- Deporter in chief? …”
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Religion of the field Negro : on Black secularism and Black theology by Lloyd, Vincent W., 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Newton -- The Postracial Saint: On Barack Obama -- The Race of the Soul: On Gillian Rose -- Coda: The Birth of the Black Church.…”

CNN specials. will democracy win? / CNN specials.

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Culture, Rhetoric, and Voting : the Presidential Election of 2012. by Brattebo, Douglas M.

Table of Contents: “…Psychology, Religion, and Culture; Chapter 2: Understanding Barack Obama's Leadership: Gamble of the "Rational Democrat"; Chapter 3: Church and State in America: What Roger Williams Might Say Regarding the 2012 Elections; Chapter 4: Perceptions of Mormonism: Romney's Faith-Based Challenges; Chapter 5: The Culture Wars in the 2012 Presidential Election; II. …”
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The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy. by Skidmore, David

Table of Contents: “…ENGAGEMENT WITH INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; 6 BARACK OBAMA AND THE UNILATERALIST TEMPTATION; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.…”
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The President's czars : undermining Congress and the Constitution by Sollenberger, Mitchel A.

Table of Contents: “…Nixon-Jimmy Carter: Congress's feeble response -- Ronald Reagan-Bill Clinton: the reemergence of czars -- George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the vast proliferation of czars -- Conclusions: restoring the constitutional balance.…”

The presidential road show : public leadership in an era of party polarization and media fragmentation by Heith, Diane J.

Table of Contents: “…An obstructed president : Barack Obama -- ch. 6. Changing tactics, improving outcomes? …”
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Simple, not easy : reflections on community, social responsibility and tolerance / Reflections on community, social responsibility and tolerance by Roberts, Terrence J.

Table of Contents: “…-- In search of an open mind -- On the inauguration of Neal King as President of Antioch University -- Letter to Sen. Barack Obama, Democratic Presidential candidate -- President Barack Obama: thoughts and reflections.…”
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The new American exceptionalism by Pease, Donald E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the United States of fantasy -- Staging the new world order: Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Persian Gulf War -- America of the two covenants: the Waco siege and the Oklahoma City bombing -- A national rite of passage: the return of Alexis de Tocqueville -- Patriot acts: the Southernification of America -- From virgin land to Ground Zero: mythological foundations of the homeland security state -- Antigone's kin: from Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama.…”
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The other Barack : the bold and reckless life of president Obama's father by Jacobs, Sally H., 1957-

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Representing the race : a new political history of African American literature by Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Toward a political history of African American literature -- The politics of early African American literature -- The intellectual culture of racial politics after slavery -- New Negro politics from reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance -- The geopolitics of African American autobiography between the world wars -- Copyright law, free speech, and the transformative value of African American literature -- The political audacity of Barack Obama's literature -- Epilogue: The politics of African American literature after Obama.…”
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The American vice presidency : from the shadow to the spotlight by Baumgartner, Jody C., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Bush's loyal lieutenant -- Joe Biden: Barack Obama's handyman -- Making sense of it all: the future of the Vice Presidency.…”
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National security entrepreneurs and the making of American foreign policy by Boucher, Vincent, 1989-, David, Charles Philippe, Prémont, Karine, 1973-, Routhier, Florence Darveau

Table of Contents: “…Smith and the SALT Negotiations, 1969-72 -- An Ill-Fated Success: Robert McFarlane and the "Iranian Initiative," 1981-85 -- The Beginning of the Endgame: Anthony Lake and the Reorientation of Clinton's Bosnia Policy, 1994-95 -- The Successors: Entrepreneurship in the Era of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald J. Trump.…”
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The presidents and the poor : America battles poverty, 1964-2017 by McAndrews, Lawrence J. (Lawrence John)

Table of Contents: “…Bush, 2001-2009 -- The elasticity of hope : Barack Obama, 2009-2017.…”
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The Constitution today : timeless lessons for the issues of our era by Amar, Akhil Reed

Table of Contents: “…Bush's drama : his un-popular election -- Barack Obama's drama : his signature statute.…”

The no-nonsense guide to democracy by Swift, Richard

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Race and the Obama administration : substance, symbols, and hope by Gillespie, Andra

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