Título: The Black President
Autor: Claude A. Clegg III
Sinopse: 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 Americansthe 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.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Black President”, de Claude A. Clegg III, publicado pela editora JHU Press, em 2021 e com 697 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: JHU Press
Páginas: 697
Ano: 2021
Edição:
Linguagem: English
ISBN: 1421441896
ISBN13: 9781421441894
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora JHU Press costumam apresentar conteúdos que transitam entre o rigor acadêmico e a clareza didática, oferecendo ao leitor uma experiência de leitura que combina aprofundamento histórico, científico e cultural. Muitas obras exploram contextos históricos detalhados, como a vida urbana na antiguidade ou estudos sociais finos, enquanto outras abordam temas contemporâneos como inteligência artificial e bioética, sempre com uma linguagem que equilibra densidade e acessibilidade. O catálogo inclui desde análises minuciosas de figuras históricas e movimentos intelectuais até investigações científicas ilustradas, mostrando uma diversidade que vai do relato histórico mais narrativo até o ensaio técnico e crítico. O ritmo da leitura pode variar entre textos que convidam à reflexão cuidadosa e outros que apresentam uma narrativa mais fluida, mas em geral o tom permanece sóbrio e fundamentado.
