Obama at the Crossroads: Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future

by Desmond S. King, Lawrence R. Jacobs, Desmond King, et al.

The 2010 election serves as a bookend to one of the remarkable political periods in recent U.S. history. Amidst a profound economic crisis, Americans elected an African American to the presidency and massive Democratic majorities to Congress. Beginning in 2009, the President and Congress put forward a sweeping agenda to both address the economic crisis and enact progressive policies that liberals had been advocating for decades. Within a year and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199845387
• ISBN13: 9780199845385
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"