Timeline xi 1 Policy Revolution without a Political Transformation: The Presidency of Barack Obama 1 Julian E. Zelizer 2 Tea Partied: President Obama's Encounters with the Conservative-Industrial Complex 11 Julian E. Zelizer 3 Neither a Depression nor a New Deal: Bailout, Stimulus, and the Economy 30 Eric Rauchway 4 Achievement without Credit: The Obama Presidency and Inequality 45 Paul Starr 5 Obama's Fight against Global Warming 62 Meg Jacobs 6 Obama's Court? 78 Risa Goluboff and Richard Schragger 7 The Gay Rights President 95 Timothy Stewart-Winter 8 Education in the Age of Obama: The Paradox of Consensus 111 Jonathan Zimmerman 9 Barack Obama and the Movement for Black Lives: Race, Democracy, and Criminal Justice in the Age of Ferguson 127 Peniel E. Joseph 10 A Decent-Sized Foundation: Obama's Urban Policy 144 Thomas J. Sugrue 11 "Tough and Smart": The Resilience of the War on Drugs during the Obama Administration 162 Matthew D. Lassiter 12 A Promise Unfulfilled, an Imperfect Legacy: Obama and Immigration Policy 179 Sarah R. Coleman 13 Liberal Internationalism, Law, and the First African American President 195 Jeremi Suri 14 Terror Tuesdays: How Obama Refined Bush's Counterterrorism Policies 212 Kathryn Olmsted 15 A Hyphenated Legacy? Obama's Africa Policy 227 Jacob Dlamini 16 Criticize and Thrive: The American Left in the Obama Years 246 Michael Kazin 17 Civic Ideals, Race, and Nation in the Age of Obama 261 Gary Gerstle Notes 281 List of Contributors 327 Index 331
Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a CNN Political Analyst. He is the author and editor of eighteen books on American political history, has written hundreds of op-eds, and appears regularly on television as a news commentator.
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