{"id":48134,"date":"2016-07-08T03:22:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48134"},"modified":"2016-07-08T03:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T03:22:47","slug":"the-best-worst-president-what-the-right-gets-wrong-about-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48134","title":{"rendered":"The Best “Worst President”: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Best “Worst President”: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Dey Street Books<\/a> (an imprint of HarperCollins)
\n2016-06-28
\n336 pages
\nTrimsize: 5.75 in (w) x 8.25 in (h) x 1.274 in (d)
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780062443052
\nE-book ISBN: 9780062443090<\/p>\n

Mark Hannah<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Illustrated by Bob Staake<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and renowned New Yorker<\/em> illustrator Bob Staake give Barack Obama<\/a> the victory lap he deserves in this compendium that takes the president\u2019s critics head-on and celebrates the president\u2019s many underappreciated triumphs.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama\u2019s election in 2008 was a watershed moment in American history that inspired supporters on the Left\u2014and fired up enemies on the Right. Elected in the midst of multiple crises\u2014a Wall Street meltdown that imperiled the global economy and American troops entangled in two foreign wars\u2014Barack Obama\u2019s presidency promised, from the start, to be one of the most consequential presidencies in modern American history.<\/p>\n

Although he stabilized the economy and restored America\u2019s prestige on the global stage, President Obama has been denied the credit he deserves, receiving instead acidic commentary from political opponents such as former Vice President Dick Cheney<\/a>, who declared that Obama was \u201cthe worst president in [his] lifetime\u201d\u2014an accusation that reflects the politics of resentment and recrimination that has come to characterize the president\u2019s critics.<\/p>\n

In The \u201cBest Worst\u201d President, Mark Hannah and New Yorker<\/em> illustrator Bob Staake swiftly and systematically debunk conservative lies and disinformation meant to negate the president\u2019s accomplishments and damage his reputation\u2014baseless charges too often left unchallenged by the national media. The \u201cBest Worst\u201d President is a whip-smart takedown of these half-truths and hypocrisies, each refuted in a smart, witty, fact-based style. Hannah and Staake not only defend the president but showcase his administration\u2019s most surprising and underappreciated triumphs\u2014making clear he truly is the best \u201cworst president\u201d our nation has ever known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Best “Worst President”: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama Dey Street Books (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-06-28 336 pages Trimsize: 5.75 in (w) x 8.25 in (h) x 1.274 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780062443052 E-book ISBN: 9780062443090 Mark Hannah Illustrated by Bob Staake Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and […]<\/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":[24430,24428,24429],"class_list":["post-48134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bob-staake","tag-dey-street-books","tag-mark-hannah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48134","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=48134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48135,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48134\/revisions\/48135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}