Kabuki Democracy : The System vs. Barack Obama
ISBN: 9781568586595 | 1568586590
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 1/11/2011
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In this "agenda-setting" polemic, journalist and historian Eric Alterman explains what is really happening with the Obama presidency. While Obamars"s many compromises have disappointed liberals, Alterman argues that these concessions are largely due to a political system that is rigged against progressive change. These structural impediments to democracy have made the keeping of Obamars"s campaign promises all but impossible. Brilliantly blending incisive political analysis with a clear agenda for change,Kabuki Democracycuts through the clichea... MORE
| Introduction: You've Got a Lot of Nerve To Say You Are My Friend | p. 1 |
| When the Autumn Weather Turns the Leaves to Flame | p. 7 |
| Don't Know What I Want But I Know How to Get It | p. 17 |
| If That's All There Is, My Friend, Then Let's Keep Dancing | p. 27 |
| What It Don't Get, I Can't Use | p. 33 |
| I Read the News Today, Oh Boy | p. 73 |
| Conclusion: It's Here They Got the Range and the Machinery for Chang... MORE | p. 115 |
| Epilogue: The Thrill Is Gone | p. 145 |
| Notes | p. 159 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 203 |
| Index | p. 205 |
| About the Author | p. 215 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, a columnist for The Nation, Moment, and The Daily Beast, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Fellow at the Nation Institute, and the author of seven books, including the national bestseller, What Liberal Media? He lives in New York City.
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