{"id":45001,"date":"2016-01-09T01:53:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T01:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45001"},"modified":"2017-02-27T22:01:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T22:01:26","slug":"president-barack-obama-a-more-perfect-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45001","title":{"rendered":"President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/9781594514777\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\" target=\"_blank\">Routledge<\/a><br \/>\n2010<br \/>\n272 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781594514777<\/p>\n<p><strong>John K. Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/9781594514777\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/agentjpg\/978159451\/9781594514777.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;improbable quest&#8221; has become a fact of American life and a benchmark in American history. Striving now toward &#8220;a more perfect union,&#8221; Obama and the nation confront obstacles unforeseen at the outset of the 2008 electoral campaign. John K. Wilson tracks the sweep of this progress from the beginning of Obama&#8217;s political career through his move into the White House. With his critical journalistic eye and his sympathetic &#8220;native son&#8221; perspective, Wilson shows us a side of Obama we haven&#8217;t seen as well as a view of the media we need to understand-even more now as the Obama administration begins to govern. The paperback edition of this popular book includes a new introduction, updates throughout, and two new chapters on the electoral victory and the transition from campaigning into governing. New photos and new insights include a focus on the continued importance of race in American politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to the Paperback Edition<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 1: Generation Obama: The Youth Movement for Barack<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2: Are You Experienced? Obama and the Media<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3: Race and the President: Is Obama Black Enough?<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4: The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: The Conservative Attack on Obama<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5: Why Leftists Hate A Liberal: The Far Left Attacks on Obama<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6: &#8220;This Is My House, Too&#8221;: Obama and the Liberal God<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7: From Quest to Reality: Politics and Policy in an Obama Administration<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8: The Victory: Barack Obama&#8217;s Improbable Triumph<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 9: The Obama Administration: Turning Hope into Change Conclusion: Obama&#8217;s Hopes and Dreams<\/li>\n<li><em>Notes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Index<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>About the Author<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;improbable quest&#8221; has become a fact of American life and a benchmark in American history. Striving now toward &#8220;a more perfect union,&#8221; Obama and the nation confront obstacles unforeseen at the outset of the 2008 electoral campaign. John K. Wilson tracks the sweep of this progress from the beginning of Obama&#8217;s political career through his move into the White House.<\/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":[22563,420],"class_list":["post-45001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-john-k-wilson","tag-routledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001","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=45001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51934,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001\/revisions\/51934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}