Obama: the Dream and the Reality : Selected National Review Essays
ISBN: 9780984765003 | 098476500X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Pub. Date: 4/30/2012
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Obama: The Dream and the Realitycollects the National Reviewwritings of one of today's most provocative political commentators: Victor Davis Hanson. In pungent prose, Hanson skewers modern pieties with the eye of a realist who is deeply grounded in wide knowledge of human history-and human nature.
| Preface | p. v |
| "Hope and Change"-the 2008 Campaign and Its Aftermath | |
| Voting the War | p. 3 |
| The Queen Is Dead | p. 5 |
| The Crying Game | p. 7 |
| Absurd on the Left | p. 8 |
| Living History | p. 10 |
| Who Exactly Is Running for President? | p. 11 |
| Not Over Yet | p. 12 |
| The End of Journalism | p. 17 |
| Win One for the M... MORE | p. 23 |
| What Went Wrong? | p. 27 |
| Parallel Lives | p. 33 |
| Why Did Republicans Lose Their Appeal? | p. 39 |
| The Strange Summer of 2008 | p. 45 |
| When Things Don't Make Sense | |
| Hardly the Best and Brightest | p. 51 |
| The Obsolescence of a Slur | p. 53 |
| Sun and Socialism | p. 58 |
| Chicago Does Socialism | p. 62 |
| Next Battle: Immigration | p. 66 |
| The Technocrats' New Clothes | p. 71 |
| Death of the Postmodernist Drama | p. 74 |
| The Law? How Quaint! | p. 77 |
| Not Obama Is Not Enough | p. 81 |
| The Cynical Brilliance of Imam Rauf | p. 85 |
| Wikileaks Selective Morality | p. 89 |
| The Obama Fabulists | p. 91 |
| Voting Present Beats Losing | p. 95 |
| Two Californias | p. 98 |
| The Obamaites About Face | p. 104 |
| The "Good" War in Afghanistan, the "Bad" One in Iraq | |
| Iraq Is Not the Worry | p. 111 |
| Mirror, Mirror | p. 115 |
| Iraq in Review | p. 119 |
| More Iraq Ironies | p. 124 |
| What Happened to Iraq? | p. 127 |
| Afghanistan Agonistes | p. 132 |
| October Surprises | p. 137 |
| On Hating Israel | |
| Nonviolence Nonsense | p. 143 |
| A Modest Proposal for Middle East Peace | p. 146 |
| The Gaza Rules | p. 149 |
| The Age of Middle East Atonement | p. 152 |
| Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel | p. 154 |
| The Sorta War on Terror | |
| Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse | p. 163 |
| Victory-How Quaint an Idea! | p. 171 |
| The Tragic Truth of War | p. 176 |
| Politically Correct Killings? | p. 180 |
| The World Can Be a Scary Place | |
| Yippee Ti Yi Yo, Europe! | p. 187 |
| When Success Is the Orphan | p. 190 |
| 'This Is the Moment' | p. 192 |
| It's America, Obama | p. 194 |
| Moscow's Sinister Brilliance | p. 196 |
| The Other 9/11 Story | p. 200 |
| Fossilized Foreign Policy | p. 204 |
| Europeanizing Europe | p. 209 |
| President of the World | p. 213 |
| A Thug's Primer | p. 218 |
| From Preparedness to Appeasement | p. 222 |
| The 'I Am Not George Bush' Policy | p. 226 |
| Resetting Our Reset Foreign Policy | p. 230 |
| Obama's Nuclear Naivety | p. 232 |
| The Art of Seaborne Humiliation | p. 236 |
| The Great Anglo-American Spat | p. 239 |
| In Defense of Defense | p. 243 |
| Obama & Co., Growing Up Fast | p. 248 |
| Julian Assange's EgoLeaks | p. 252 |
| The Bush and Palin Derangement Syndromes | |
| Sarah Palin and Her Discontents | p. 257 |
| Sarah Biden | p. 259 |
| An Instructive Candidacy | p. 262 |
| Bush Considered | p. 266 |
| Bush Did it | p. 271 |
| Damnation of Memory | p. 275 |
| President Palin's First Hundred Days | p. 279 |
| Bush Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | p. 283 |
| Obama, Dream and Reality | |
| An Elegant Farce | p. 289 |
| The Obama Crash and Burn | p. 291 |
| An Elegant Farce | p. 294 |
| Who Is 'They'? | p. 298 |
| Appeasement and Its Discontents | p. 300 |
| Gone, but Not Forgotten | p. 304 |
| Dreams from His Grandmother | p. 306 |
| Obama: The Great American Hope | p. 309 |
| Time to Beam Down to Earth, President Obama | p. 313 |
| President Hamlet | p. 315 |
| The Audacity of Irony | p. 318 |
| President Obama's First 70 Days | p. 323 |
| Just Make Stuff Up | p. 327 |
| Obama's New Liberal Realism | p. 331 |
| Obama and the 'Noble Lie' | p. 335 |
| Once Upon a Time | p. 339 |
| Dr. Barack and Mr. Obama | p. 344 |
| Barack Obama, College Administrator | p. 349 |
| The Buck Passes Here | p. 354 |
| Obama's Theorems | p. 357 |
| America's Obama Obsession | p. 361 |
| Guantanamo Laureate | p. 366 |
| Who Are 'They'? | p. 370 |
| Obama's Prissy America | p. 374 |
| The New War Against Reason | p. 378 |
| Resetting the Reset Button | p. 384 |
| Obama's Wheel of Fortune | p. 388 |
| Obama and the Malleability of History | p. 392 |
| Our Year of Obama | p. 397 |
| Mr. President, Words Matter | p. 402 |
| Good and Bad Words | p. 405 |
| Obama's New Take on Partisanship | p. 409 |
| Obama's Real Problem | p. 413 |
| Obama: Not the Great Stone Face | p. 416 |
| Obama: Fightin the Yuppie Factor | p. 420 |
| Our Waning Obama Worship | p. 424 |
| The Great American Debt | p. 428 |
| What Went Wrong | p. 432 |
| Obama and 'Redistributive Change' | p. 435 |
| Why the Great and Growing Backlash? | p. 440 |
| Obama versus Obama | p. 444 |
| Mr. Obama's Nowhere Discussions | p. 449 |
| The Psychology of Recession | p. 452 |
| The Sources of American Anger | p. 456 |
| Obama's Washington Animal Farm | p. 461 |
| Obama's Glass House | p. 465 |
| Carly Fiorina: Robber Baron, Traitor-and Outsourcer! | p. 469 |
| The Gift of Obama's Foreign Policy | p. 474 |
| How to Turn a Recession into a Depression | p. 477 |
| We are Going to Make It | |
| Reflection Day | p. 483 |
| A Year Like None Other | p. 487 |
| A Funny Sort of Depression | p. 490 |
| Triumph of Banality | p. 493 |
| Our American Catharsis | p. 497 |
| The American 21st Century | p. 502 |
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