The Book of Obama
From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt
Published on 19. June 2012
240 pages
978-1-60980-451-0 (ISBN)
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How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tonedeaf. In The Book of Obama Rall revisits the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Obama--and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements--and draws a startling conclusion: We the People weren't lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system. We voted when we ought to have revolted.
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Twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, TED RALL is a political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, and Los Angeles Times. He is the illustrator of the full-length comic in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps, written by Greg Palast.
Content
- The Book of O(bama)
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- First: Hope, Change, and All Those Wiggly Jazz Fingers
- The American Fall: The Occupy Movement
- Second: The Swindle Begins
- Hope
- In the Beginning, There Was a Former Community Organizer from Chicago
- The Wannabe Emperor's Hart Schaffner Marx Suit Is Uninhabited
- An Unreasonable Man
- Don't Look Back
- Party Like It's 1929
- It's the Torture, Stupid
- Third: Change You Can Bereave In
- Face It, Liberals: He's Just Not That Into You
- 2009: The Beginning of the End
- Fourth: What Obama Did
- What If They Gave the Presidency and No Protesters Came?
- George W. Bush, Jr.
- Keeping a Promise He Should Have Broken
- Obama Loses His Last Excuse for Inaction
- Money for Nothing
- Assassin-in-Chief
- The Great American Healthcare Swindle
- Too Deep to Fail
- The Cavalry Isn't Coming. Stop. Regrets. Stop.
- Fifth: The Age of Revolt
- Revolt on the Right: The Tea Party
- Foreclosure for Fun and Profit
- Stage Left: Exit the Moderates
- Occupy before Occupy: The Obama Effect
- Democracy and Freedom: Good for Other Countries, Not Ours
- Libya: Another War We Can't Believe In
- Rise of the Left: Occupy Wall Street
- Better Late Than Never
- About the Author
- About Seven Stories Press
- Footnotes
