MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 08469cam a2200445Ii 4500
001 13611929
005 20181218134959.0
008 170520s2018 enk b 001 0 eng d
020 $a9781350032347$qhardcover
020 $a1350032344$qhardcover
020 $a9781350032330$qpaperback
020 $a1350032336$qpaperback
024 $a40028472747
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn987796784
035 $a(OCoLC)987796784
035 $a(NNC)13611929
040 $aBTCTA$beng$erda$cBTCTA$dYDX$dBDX$dYDX$dHTM$dFIE$dUEJ$dU3G$dCHVBK$dOCLCO
043 $an-us---
050 4 $aE907$b.S27 2018
082 04 $a973.932$223
100 1 $aSarson, Steven,$eauthor.
245 10 $aBarack Obama :$bAmerican historian /$cSteven Sarson.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bBloomsbury Academic,$c2018.
300 $axi, 357 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aBarack Obama's politics are deeply informed by his profound knowledge and understanding of his country's history. His articles, books, and speeches are replete with references to America's past and how that relates to the present he sees and the future he envisions. Exploring Obama's own words, Steven Sarson examines his interpretation of American history from colonial times to the present, showing how Obama sees American history as beginning with the “common creed” of equality and liberty proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and the “more perfect union” created by the Constitution. He analyses Obama's understanding of the colonies, revolution, and early nation, slavery and the civil war, segregation and civil rights, economy and society, Native Americans and foreign policy. An epilogue explores how Obama personifies the American dream through the stories of individuals, including his own. A unique and fascinating take on the past and how we interpret it, this book will appeal to all students and scholars of American history, as well as anyone interested in Obama's presidency.--$cProvided by Publisher.
505 00 $aMachine generated contents note:$tA more perfect union --$tThe landscape of our collective dreams --$tBarack Obama: American historian --$tPrologue A more perfect union: Barack Obama's American history --$tGod damn America --$tAmerica can change --$tThe substance of our common creed --$tThe audacity of hope --$tWE HOLD THESE truths --$tWhat makes us exceptional -- what makes us American --$tThe arc of the moral universe --$tWhere the perfection begins --$g1.$tOur starting point as Americans: The American colonies --$tOur starting point as Americans --$tIn a hall that still stands across the street --$tThe spring of 1787 --$tFarmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots --$tWho had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution --$t; --$tA city upon a hill --$tYou would have thought I was Cotton Mather --$tWe are no longer just a Christian nation --$tCommunity, democracy, and homespun virtues --$tHe lived usefully --$tThe first settlers --$tAmerica's original sin --$tA question that divided the colonies --$tOur starting point as Americans --$g2.$tThe substance of our common creed: The Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution --$tThe substance of our common creed --$tCreed --$tA subject of King George --$tIn the year of America's birth --$tLet it be told to the future world --$tFrom this time forward forever --$tEnlightenment thinkers like Hobbes and Locke --$tIts roots in eighteenth-century liberal and republican thought --$tWhat makes us exceptional --$tWhat makes us American --$tFarmers and scholars --$tFarmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots --$tAll men are created equal --$tAn American family --$tLiberty --$tWhere the perfection begins --$tThe pursuit of happiness --$g3.$tThe foundation of our government: The Constitution and the new nation --$tThe foundation of our government --$tStained by this nation's original sin --$tFinally made real --$tWe the People --$tA "deliberative democracy" --$tOne of the Founders' central insights --$tBefore the ink on the constitutional parchment was dry --$tA sufficient defense against tyranny --$tThe Supreme Court's role in determining the law --$tFundamentalist faith --$tThe freedom of the apostate --$tFidelity to our founding principles --$tThe context of an ever-changing world --$tA "wall of separation" between church and state --$tDefending organized religion --$tIn God We Trust E Pluribus Unum --$tThrough the early days of the Union --$tConservative or liberal, we are all constitutionalists --$g4.$tA new birth of freedom: Slavery and the Civil War --$tThis nation's original sin --$tA house that was built by slaves --$tThe answer to the slavery question --$tThe hope of slaves --$tWe're the slaves who built the White House --$tAny final resolution --$tGovernment of the people, by the people, for the people --$tThe self-imposed gag rule --$tA lawmaker was beaten unconscious on the Senate floor --$tWho would walk into the Supreme Court a free man and leave a slave --$tA house divided against itself --$tWhat does this say about our democracy? --$tThe cranks, the zealots, the prophets, the agitators, and the unreasonable --$tWilliam Lloyd Garrison --$tDenmark Vesey --$tFrederick Douglass --$tHarriet Tubman --$tJohn Brown --$tI'M LEFT THEN with Lincoln --$tPower in words --$tWe unified a nation and set the captives free --$g5.$tWe Shall Overcome: Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and civil rights --$t... --$tThe Nation's Second Founding --$tWhile the Civil War raged in the background --$tThe United States fiercely debated --$tRobert Smalls, came to prominence --$tTo build a nation of free and equal citizens --$tTo vote here in Selma and much of the South --$t"Separate but equal" --$tHow far we've come --$tA long line of heroes --$tThe students who walked passed angry crowds --$tDr. King's mighty cadence --$tThe culmination of it all --$tThe strength and courage of nonviolence --$tThe folks whose names you never heard of --$tAs old as our beginnings and as timeless as our hopes --$tFor we were born of change --$tWe know the march is not yet over --$g6.$tThe chief business of the American people: Property and liberty --$tShe touched her finger to a screen and cast her vote --$tAn active national government --$tOur starting point as Americans --$tThe earliest settlers --$tFarmers and scholars --$tGovernment has been called upon --$tHamilton understood --$tJefferson ... feared --$tThe government's vital role in regulating the marketplace --$tThe transition from an agricultural to an industrial society --$tThe triumph of a real democracy --$t"The chief business of the American people is business" --$tFDR understood --$tThe era of big government is over --$tThe dogmas of the quiet past --$tEconomic rights that have to be dealt with --$tThat he may "ride the storm and direct the whirlwind" --$g7.$tBeyond our borders: Native Americans and other foreign affairs --$tA conquest that ... contradicted America's founding principles --$tAmericas "original sin" --$tThe impulse to expand --$tManifest destiny --$tBefore the court of the conqueror --$tWashington thought it knew what was best --$tWhat makes us American --$tThe history that we share --$tA beacon of freedom and opportunity --$tThe world's dominant power --$tThe distortions of politics, the sins of hubris, the corrupting effects of fear --$tTheir world turned upside down --$tA part of America's story --$tA useful metaphor --$tWe might live as Indonesians lived --$tHe lived to see --$tEpilogue Out of many, one: American history's Barack Obama --$tShe lived to see --$tThe Joshua generation --$tThe stories -- became our story, my story --$tA tall, gangly, self-made Springfield lawyer --$tMy story is part of the larger American story --$tE pluribus unum. Out of many, one --$tWe the People --$tYes, we can --$tA more perfect union.
600 10 $aObama, Barack$xPolitical and social views.
600 17 $aObama, Barack.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00348231
600 17 $aObama, Barack$d1961-$2gnd
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory.
650 7 $aPolitical and social views.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01353986
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650 7 $aGeschichtsbewusstsein$2gnd
651 7 $aUSA$2gnd
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
852 00 $bglx$hE907$i.S27 2018