Looking Back on President Barack Obama's Legacy Hope and Change /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rich, Wilbur C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-Politics and government.; Political leadership.; World politics.; US Politics.; Political Leadership.; Political History.

When President Barack Hussein Obama left office January 20, 2017, he left a fascinating legacy. The Obama Presidency will remain an intriguing part of our nation's political history, and we can now say that there were unexpected achievements and failures. His tenure was both historical and comp...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Barack Obama and the Transformational Impulse
• The Obama Legacy in American Electoral Participation
• Managing a Regime in Crisis: The Twilight of Neoliberalism and the Politics of Economic Recovery During the First Year of the Obama Administration
• The Obama Health Care Legacy: The Origins, Implementation, and Effort to Repeal the Affordable Care Act of 2010
• Appraising the Foreign Policy Legacy of the Obama Presidency
• The World We Have Lost: US Labor in the Obama Years
• Swimming the Multiple Currents: The Political and Racial Time of Barack Obama's Presidency
• The Legacy of President Obama in the U.S. Supreme Court
• 9. The Obama Administration's Global Warming Legacy: Going with the Flow and the Politics of Failure
• Unfulfilled Hopes: President Obama's Legacy
• Conclusion: Who was President Barack Obama?.