Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power / Edition 1

Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power / Edition 1

by Paul Street
ISBN-10:
1594518459
ISBN-13:
9781594518454
Pub. Date:
08/30/2010
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
1594518459
ISBN-13:
9781594518454
Pub. Date:
08/30/2010
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power / Edition 1

Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power / Edition 1

by Paul Street
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Overview

As Obama nears the middle of his first-term as president Paul Street assesses his performance against the expectations of his supporters. While mainstream journalists have noted discrepancies between Obama's original vision and reality, Paul Street uniquely measures Obama's record against the expectations of the truly progressive agenda many of his supporters expected him to follow. Taken together, the list of Obama's weakened policies is startling: his business-friendly measures with the economy, the lack of support for the growing mass of unemployed and poor, the dilution of his health reform agenda, the passage of a record-setting Pentagon budget, and escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Street's account reveals these and many other indications of how deeply beholden Obama is to existing dominant domestic and global hierarchies and doctrines.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781594518454
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/30/2010
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Paul Street is an independent journalist, policy adviser, and historian. Formerly he was Vice President for Research and Planning at the Chicago Urban League. Among his recent books are Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Paradigm, 2008), Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), and Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America (Routledge, 2005). His many articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune; In These Times; Dissent; Z Magazine; Black Commentator; Monthly Review, Journal of American Ethnic History; Journal of Social History, and other publications.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction: "An Instant Overhaul for Tainted Brand America" 1

Chapter 1 Business Rule as Usual 9

Chapter 2 Expire's New Clothes: Deeds and Words in Obama's Foreign Policy 47

Chapter 3 Corporate-Managed "Health Reform" (2009) 109

Chapter 4 Barack Obama, the Myth of the Postracial Presidency, and the Politics of Identity 129

Chapter 5 Big Brother Lives 153

Chapter 6 We Were Warned 167

Afterword: Beyond the Perverted and Deadly Priorities of Empire and Inequality, Inc. 201

Postscript: The Sorry Surrender of the So-Called Radical Left 211

Notes 223

Index 261

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