Barack Obama: The Fulfillment of an American Dream

Author: Thomas E. Carney (Division of Legal   Ethical and Historical Studies   Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts   University of Baltimore   Baltimore   MD   USA)  

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781628080872

Subject: K81 Biography

Keyword: Presidency

Language: ENG

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The 44th U.S. President, Barack Obama, has fulfilled the dream of inclusiveness for American society by moving contemporary society closer towards universal equality for all. Dr Thomas E Carney has written a powerful and incisive volume on the life and policies of Obama from his birth in Hawaii in 1961, through his diverse roots in Hawaii and Indonesia, to his education in Jakarta (St. Francis of Assisi) and Honolulu (Punahou), Occidental and Columbia Universities, to his presidency of the prestigious Harvard Law Review in 1990. The challenges Barack Obama faced are traced from his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1991, his first jobs with Business International Corporation and the New York Public Interest Research Group, through his internship with the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin where he met future wife Michelle who was his appointed mentor, to his own law position with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Obama also worked as a community organiser early in his career seeking justice in voting rights, tenant rights, employment rights, and anti-trust suits. He worked on the Illinois Vote Project in 1992 and became a lecturer at the University of Chicagos Law School where he taught Constitutional Law. This excellent biography follows Barack Obama through his election from the 13th district to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, his successful campaign to win a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois in 2004, and the winning of the presidency in 2008All the important policies

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PREFACE

Chapter One CONTEXT, GEOGRAPHY, AND DIVERSE ROOTS

CONTEXT

GEOGRAPHY

DIVERSE ROOTS

Chapter Two THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILD/MAN WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT

AN EDUCATION IN A FOREIGN LAND

HIS RETURN TO PARADISE?

HIGHER EDUCATION – IN WAVES

AN EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOL OF LIFE

THE LAW AS A TOOL FOR CHANGE

Chapter Three MAKING HIS WAY IN THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD

ESTABLISHING A NEW LIFE

BARACK’S FIRST FORAY INTO POLITICS

ONE OF LIFE’S HARD LESSONS

BARACK RISES FROM THE ASHES

Chapter Four THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY

THE NON-CAMPAIGN

THE PRIMARY: FIRST ROUND DEBATES

Chapter Five AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT

THE LONG TRANSITION

THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DREAM

THE PRESIDENT’S FIRST YEAR

Chapter Six THE FIRST TERM

ENDING THE WARS

“OBAMA-CARE”

THE DREAMERS

OUT OF THE CLOSET

POSTSCRIPT OR PREQUEL?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

ARTICLES

CASES

INDEX

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