MACMILLAN Looking Back on President Barack Obama’s Legacy: Hope and Change

Review “Professor Rich and his contributors offer multiple theoretical frames and some surprising and controversial conclusions on the Obama legacy in multiple areas of domestic and foreign policy, making a distinctive and provocative contribution to the literature on the Obama presidency.” (Robert C. Smith, Emeritus Professor, Political Science, San Francisco State University, USA)“Focusing on Obama’s “transformational impulse,” the authors provide a rich, nuanced, and complex set of judgments about the Obama presidency and its legacies. An important addition to the literature on the Obama administration.” (Mary E. Stuckey, Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State University, USA)“Wilbur Rich’s Hope and Change will be considered a foundational study into the presidency of Barack Obama.” (Marion Orr, Frederick Lippitt Professor, Public Policy, and Professor, Political Science and Urban Studies, Brown University, USA)   Product Description When President Barack Hussein Obama left office January 20, 2017, he left a fascinating legacy. The Obama Presidency will remain an intriguing part of our nation’s political history, and we can now say that there were unexpected achievements and failures. His tenure was both historical and complex, and will inevitably be compared with his predecessors and successors. The chapters in this volume are a serious assessment of President Obama’s tenure written by a diverse team that includes political scientists, sociologists, historians, and economists. They provide critical insights into the man and his policies and, more importantly, are written in a manner that makes them available to laypersons, journalists, students, and scholars. From the Back Cover When President Barack Hussein Obama left office January 20, 2017, he left a fascinating legacy. The Obama Presidency will remain an intriguing part of our nation’s political history, and we can now say that there were unexpected achievements and failures. His tenure was both historical and complex, and will inevitably be compared with his predecessors and successors. The chapters in this volume are a serious assessment of President Obama’s tenure written by a diverse team that includes political scientists, sociologists, historians, and economists. They provide critical insights into the man and his policies and, more importantly, are written in a manner that makes them available to laypersons, journalists, students, and scholars. About the Author Wilbur C. Rich is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy: Reformers, Politicians and Bureaucrats (1982), Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (1989), Black Mayors and School Politics (1996), David Dinkins and New York City Politics: Race, Images and the Media (2007), and The Post-Racial Society is Here: Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State (2015).