Obama on the home front : domestic policy triumphs and setbacks / John D. Graham.
The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation's 240-year history, is of special interest. Obama came into office as the economy was careening into the worst downturn since the Great Depression. On the political fron...
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Barack Obama's assets and constraints
- Presidential effectiveness when Congress is polarized
- Preventing collapse, stimulating recovery
- Promoting long-term growth, reducing inequality
- The Affordable Care Act: legislative victory
- The Affordable Care Act: implementation nightmare
- Global warming warrior
- Driller in chief
- Deporter in chief?
- Midterm massacres
- A counterfactual Obama presidency.