{"id":44524,"date":"2016-06-07T14:44:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T14:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44524"},"modified":"2016-06-07T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T14:45:23","slug":"black-man-white-house-an-oral-history-of-the-obama-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44524","title":{"rendered":"Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062399793\/black-man-white-house\" target=\"_blank\">Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Administration<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/search-results\/?search-term=William+Morrow\" target=\"_blank\">William Morrow<\/a> (an imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\" target=\"_blank\">HarperCollins<\/a>)<br \/>\n2016-06-07<br \/>\n352 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780062399793<br \/>\nEbook ISBN: 9780062399816<br \/>\n6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.09 in (d)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D._L._Hughley\" target=\"_blank\">D. L. Hughley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062399793\/black-man-white-house\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.harperapps.com\/covers\/9780062399793\/y648.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as \u201ctold\u201d by the key political players on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>What do the Clintons, Republicans, fellow Democrats, and Obama\u2019s own family really think of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a>? Finally, the truth is revealed in this raucously funny \u201coral history\u201d parody.<\/p>\n<p>There is no more astute\u2014and hilarious\u2014critic of politics, entertainment, and race in America than D. L. Hughley, famed comedian, radio star, and original member of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Original_Kings_of_Comedy\" target=\"_blank\">Kings of Comedy<\/a>.\u201d In the vein of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_Stewart\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Stewart\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/America_(The_Book)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>America: The Book<\/em><\/a>, <em>Black Man, White House<\/em> is an acerbic and witty take on Obama\u2019s two terms, looking at the president\u2019s accomplishments and foibles through the imagined eyes of those who saw history unfold.<\/p>\n<p>Hughley draws upon satirical interviews with the most notorious public figures of our day: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> (\u201cWhat\u2019s \u2018poverty\u2019? Is that some sort of rap jargon?\u201d); <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nancy_Pelosi\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (\u201cI play F**k\/Marry\/Kill, and there\u2019s a lot more kills than fu**ks in Congress, believe me.\u201d); <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rod_Blagojevich\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Blagojevich<\/a> (\u201cYou can\u2019t sell political offices on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EBay\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a>; I discovered that personally.\u201d); <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Biden\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden<\/a> (\u201cI like wrestling.\u201d); and other politicians, media pundits, and buffoons. It is sure to be the most irreverent\u2014and perhaps the most honest\u2014look at American politics today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Administration William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-06-07 352 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780062399793 Ebook ISBN: 9780062399816 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.09 in (d) D. L. Hughley From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11,8,17,26,20],"tags":[22216,680,22217],"class_list":["post-44524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-d-l-hughley","tag-harpercollins","tag-william-morrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47396,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44524\/revisions\/47396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}