Chapter 1 Introduction: Evaluating the Obama Presidency

Meena Bose
Paul Fritz

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Illinois State Senator, and US Senate Democratic Nominee Barack Obama, Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, July 27, 2004.

We are in a defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war. The planet is in peril. The dream that so many generations fought for feels as if it’s slowly slipping away. We are working harder for less. We’ve never paid more for health care or for college. It’s harder to save and ...

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