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The First Two Years
Paradigm Publishers
April 2011
On Sale: March 31, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 1594519935
EAN: 9781594519932
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
This book offers the first scholarly assessment of President
Obama and his first two years in office. Hundreds of
journalistic articles and several books have appeared, but
this is the first based on the original scholarship of
well-established political scientists, practitioners, and
journalists who have studied American political institutions
and domestic and international public policy. All come
together here to offer a fresh perspective on President
Obama and his relationship with Congress, interest groups,
and a wide variety of policy making communities. Because so
much has happened to test the administration during this
period, this book is not only timely but rich with new
insights into the continuing great recession and its jobless
recovery, TARP spending, efforts to save the automobile
industry, stimulus legislation, historic health care reform
along with reform in other key areas including financial
regulation, education, taxation, immigration policy, climate
change legislation, a historic deficit, the BP oil leak in
the Gulf, and the continuation of two wars. Extreme
partisanship, deadlock, and anticipation of Republican
midterm electoral success have made policy making difficult
despite a Democratic majority in Congress. Looking beyond
the midterms, these authors consider the results of 2010,
the impact of the Tea Party, and the prospects for 2012.
Obama entered office in the midst of the perfect storm; will
he exit at the hands of a populist tsunami or return for
four more years as the teapot tempest subsides?
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