Audacity How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail

Jonathan Chait

eBook - 2017

The veteran political journalist presents "a compelling case that [Obama] was one of the most successful presidents of modern times" (The Guardian). Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded health insurance to millions, negotiated an historic nuclear deal with Iran, helped craft a groundbreaking international climate accord, reined in Wall Street and crafted a new vision of racial progress. He has done all of this despite a left that frequently disdained him as a sellout, and a hysterical right that did everything possible to destroy his agenda even when they agreed with what he was doing. In Audacity, Jonathan C...hait digs deep into Obama's record on major policy fronts—economics, the environment, domestic reform, health care, race, foreign policy, and civil rights—to demonstrate why history will judge our forty-fourth president as among the greatest in history.... more