The Book of Obama

- Authors
- Rall, Ted
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Tags
- book of obama , election , politics , barack obama , democrat , comics
- ISBN
- 9781609804503
- Date
- 2012-06-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 11.41 MB
- Lang
- en
How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tonedeaf. In The Book of Obama Rall revisits the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Obama--and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements--and draws a startling conclusion: We the People weren't lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system. We voted when we ought to have revolted.