The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power
ISBN: 9781594518447 | 1594518440
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Paradigm Pub
Pub. Date: 9/30/2010
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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 une... MORE
| Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction: "An Instant Overhaul for Tainted Brand America" | p. 1 |
| Business Rule as Usual | p. 9 |
| Empire's New Clothes: Deeds and Words in Obama's Foreign Policy | p. 47 |
| Corporate-Managed "Health Reform" (2009) | p. 109 |
| Barack Obama, the Myth of the Postracial Presidency, and the Politics of Identity | p. 129 |
| Big Brother Lives | p. 153 |
| We Were Warned | ... MOREp. 167 |
| Afterword: Beyond the Perverted and Deadly Priorities of Empire and Inequality, Inc. | p. 201 |
| Postscript: The Sorry Surrender of the So-Called Radical Left | p. 211 |
| Notes | p. 223 |
| Index | p. 261 |
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