
The Obama Presidency
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Robert P. Watson is Professor of American Studies at Lynn University. His many books include George W. Bush: Evaluating the President at Midterm (coedited with Bryan Hilliard and Tom Lansford) and Life in the White House: A Social History of the First Family and the President's House, both also published by SUNY Press. At the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, Jack Covarrubias is Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Tom Lansford is Professor of Political Science. Douglas M. Brattebo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hiram College.
Content
List of Illustrations
Preface
PART I. Introduction
1. Rating Presidents and Assessing Obama
Robert P. Watson
PART II. Character and Identity
2. Rhetoric and Image
Casey Malone Maugh
3. Obama's Lincoln: Image to Ideology
William D. Pederson
4. The Optimist and the Realist
R. Ward Holder
5. Obamania in Europe
Marie des Neiges Léonard
PART III. Politics and Leadership
6. The First Hundred Days
Sean Savage
7. Legislative Leadership
Max J. Skidmore
8. The Firing of General Stanley McChrystal
Douglas M. Brattebo
9. 2010 Midterm Election
Matthew N. Green
PART IV. Domestic Policy
10. U.S. Auto Industry Rescue
Steven A. Stuglin
11. Environmental Policy and Global Climate Change
Byron W. Daynes & Glen Sussman
12. Food and Agricultural Policy
Julie A. Lester
13. Health Care Reform
Michael K. Gusmano
14. Response to the Gulf Oil Spill
Matthew A. Williams & Brian Richard
PART V. Foreign Policy and National Security
15. Inherited Wars: Afghanistan and Iraq
Tom Lansford & Jack Covarrubias
16. Iran Policy
Robert J. Pauly
17. China Policy
De-Yuan Kao
18. Counterterrorism Policy
Leonard Cutler
19. Obama, Libya, and War Powers
Louis Fisher
PART VI. The Obama Administration
20. The Policy Czar Debate
Justin S. Vaughn & José D. Villalobos
21. Unilateral Directives
Graham G. Dodds
22. Vice President Joe Biden
Richard M. Yon
23. First Lady Michelle Obama
Robert P. Watson
PART VII. Conclusion
24. Making History
Douglas M. Brattebo & Robert P. Watson
Appendix A: Barack Obama Biography
Appendix B: The Obama Administration
List of Contributors
Index
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