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Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise (2008)
At this defining moment in our history, Americans
are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics
from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack
Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader–one who can bring people
together, be honest about the challenges we face, and move this nation
forward. Change We Can Believe In outlines his vision for America.
In these pages you will find bold and specific ideas about how to fix our
ailing economy and strengthen the middle class, make health care
affordable for all, achieve energy independence, and keep America safe in
a dangerous world. Change We Can Believe In asks you not just to
believe in Barack Obama’s ability to bring change to Washington, it asks
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006)
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National
Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political
spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a
reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as
a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or
what Senator Obama called “the audacity of hope.”
Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different
brand of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and
alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the
campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility
of spirit at the heart of “our improbable experiment in democracy.” He
explores those forces–from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise
money to the power of the media–that can stifle even the best-intentioned
politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating
humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of
public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment.
At the heart of this book is Senator Obama’s vision of how we can move
beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing
economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions
within the body politic, and the transnational threats–from terrorism to
pandemic–that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that
faith plays in a democracy–where it is vital and where it must never
intrude. Underlying his stories about family, friends, members of the
Senate, even the president, is a vigorous search for connection: the
foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus.
A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic,
and above all a student of history and human nature, Senator Obama has
written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles
that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a
political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government
that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary
Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes–“waiting for Republicans
and Democrats to catch up with them.”
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995)
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of
a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable
meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where
Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than
as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an
emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces
the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where
he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his
father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
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Barack Obama: What He Believes In - From His Own Works (2008)
We are all familiar with the phenomenon known as
Barack Obama. However, many of us don't know what he has worked for while
in the Senate-what sort of legislation has he, himself, sponsored or
co-sponsored. This book provides an invaluable glimpse of what the Senator
feels passionately about, listing and detailing all of the Senate Bills
and Resolutions that Senator Barack Obama sponsored or co-sponsored during
2007, the first term of the 110th Congress.
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It also lists all the co-sponsors of these bills so you can
see who he has worked with-which Democratic and Republican Senators he has
reached out to for these legislative initiatives.
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Because of the complexity of some of the Bills and
Resolutions, each of the pieces (with the exception of two) are
accompanied by highlighted, official summaries of the legislation that
clearly, in simple language, outlines the intent and impact of that Bill
or Resolution.
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The legislation covered here encompasses a wide variety of
subjects, including Iran and Iraq, US energy policy and health care.
Take a look for yourself at what Senator Obama has done
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Eleven Speeches of Senator Barack Obama (2008,
Kindle Edition)
The text, from public domain sources, of eleven
speeches delivered during 2007 by Senator Barack Obama, on diverse topics
such as the War in Iraq, Latin America, Zimbabwe, Urban Violence,
Government Reform, Immigration, and Israel.
The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (2008) by
Jerome R Corsi -
An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama -- A Primer (2008) by David Olive
Barack Obama vs. John McCain - Side by Side Senate Voting
Record for Easy Comparison
(2008) by Barack Obama and
John McCain
t is often difficult to ignore the hype and find out what
the candidates really believe in. During this election, however, voters
have the unique advantage of access to the actual voting records of both
candidates.
This book lists every legislation
considered by the U.S. Senate between January 6, 2005 and May 22, 2008 and
shows you how Senator Obama and Senator McCain voted on each of these
issues.
Here are hundreds of votes each of them cast (or
didn't cast-the book also shows every legislation the candidate didn't
vote on). Each candidate's votes are listed side by side for easy
comparison.
The book also includes a one-page summary of votes
that shows, among other statistics, how many times each has voted with the
other and how many times each has voted against the other.
Finally, for those readers who want to obtain more
extensive details on the legislation mentioned in this book, the book
gives clear instructions on how to access such information using the
internet (there is no cost for accessing this information).
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (2008) by Nikki
Grimes with Bryan Collier, Illustrator
Ages 4-8
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle: 366 Ways He Really Cares (2008) by Mathew Honan
Barack Obama for Beginners: An Essential Guide (2008)
by Bob Neer with Joe Lee, Illustrator
Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to
Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and
Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do
About It (2008) by Dick Morris and Eileen Mcgann
Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate (2008) by Webster Griffin Tarpley
Obamamania!: The English Language, Barackafied (2008) by the editors
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Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a
Transformative Presidency (2008) by Robert Kuttner
Barack Obama approaches the Presidency at a critical
moment in American history, facing simultaneous crises of war, the
environment, health care, but most especially in the economy. If he is
able to rise to the moment, he could join the ranks of a small handful
of previous presidents who have been truly transformative, succeeding in
fundamentally changing our economy, society, and democracy for the
better.
But this will require imaginative and decisive action as Obama takes
office, action bolder than he has promised during his campaign, and will
be all the more difficult given the undertow of conventional wisdom in
Washington and on Wall Street that resists fundamental change. Decades
of regressive politics and political gridlock have left America in its
most precarious situation since the onset of the Great Depression. The
collapse of the housing bubble continues, as does the financial meltdown
it triggered; a revival of 1970s style stagflation threatens; incomes
continue to lag behind inflation; our household and international debts
pile higher; disastrous climate change looms; energy and food prices
continue their escalation; and the ranks of un- and under-insured
Americans grow, the clearest, and most heartless, example of America’s
destructive inequalities.
Solutions to our multiple challenges do exist, but they won’t be found
in overly cautious or expedient quick fixes. With his exceptional skill
at appealing to our better angels, Barack Obama could be the right
leader at the right time to re-awaken America to the renewed promise of
shared prosperity coupled with responsibility towards future generations
and the international community with whom we share the Earth. Invoking
America’s greatest leaders, Robert Kuttner explains how Obama must be a
transformative president—or a failed one.
Should Barack Obama Be President? (2008) by W. Frederick Zimmerman
The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate (2008) by David Freddoso
The Faith of Barack Obama (2008)
by Stephen Mansfield
The Rise of Barack Obama (2008)
by Pete Souza (words and photographs)Why Obama Matters (2008,
Kindle Edition) by Floyd Earl Smith
10 reasons to elect Barack Obama for president.
Includes "In Obama's America".
Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama (2008) by Garen Thomas
Ages 9-12.
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win (2007) by Shelby
Steele
Barack Obama: An American Story
(2007) by Roberta Edwards with Ken Call, Illustrator
Ages 4-8
Barack Obama in His Own Words
(2007), Lisa Rogak, ed.
Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics
(2007) by Martin Dupuis with Keith Boeckelman
Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest
(2007) by John K. Wilson
Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama
(2007) by Steve Dougherty
Obama: From Promise to Power
(2007) by David Mendell
Barack Obama: Working to Make a Difference (2006)
by Marlene Targ Brill
Ages 9-12.
Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack
Obama, and Others (2006) by James Daley
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