Oakland, CA (Vocus) January 19, 2010 This week?s anniversary of President Barack Obama?s inauguration has led to numerous reflections on his first year. Between the brouhaha over Senate leader Harry Reid?s recently published remarks and today?s Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, race has assumed prominence in these assessments. Now, conservatives are making race an issue [...]
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime ISBN13: 9780061733635 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed In 2008 , the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching [...]
From Publishers Weekly A team of scholars and journalists explore the implications of Barack Obama’s speech A More Perfect Union, given in the heat of the 2008 primary campaign, in this volume edited by Sharpley-Whiting (Pimps Up, Hos Down). Written by Obama in response to the media frenzy over statements by his pastor Rev. Jeremiah [...]
From Publishers Weekly Elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was offered a book contract, but the intellectual journey he planned to recount became instead this poignant, probing memoir of an unusual life. Born in 1961 to a white American woman and a black Kenyan student, Obama was reared in Hawaii [...]
