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The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party
William Morrow
April 2012
On Sale: March 30, 2012
432 pages
ISBN: 0062107992
EAN: 9780062107992
Kindle: B005O0AUZQ
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Non-Fiction Political
The veteran political journalist and New York Times
bestselling author goes behind the scenes at the White House
to recount the dramatic tale of a pivotal period in the
Obama presidency, from the game-changing 2010 midterm
elections to the beginning of the critical 2012 campaign
season—a tumultuous time that tested the president as never
before and set the stage for a titanic clash over the future
of the nation After Barack Obama's first two years
as president—during which he navigated the United States
through its severest economic crisis since the Great
Depression while managing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—he
was faced with a bitterly divided nation and an emboldened
political opposition dedicated to impeding his presidency.
What followed was a year of political crises and fierce
battles that would transform Obama and profoundly shape the
terrain for the next election. In Showdown,
astute political journalist David Corn chronicles and
examines this crucial time in the Obama presidency and its
impact on the nation's future. Drawing on interviews with
White House officials, Obama's inner circle, members of
Congress, and others, Corn takes the reader into the Oval
Office and the back rooms on Capitol Hill for a fast-paced
and gripping account of the major events as they unfolded:
the controversial tax-cut deal with Congress in December
2010; the repeal of Don't Ask/Don't Tell; the passage of the
New START treaty; the near shutdown of the government in
early 2011; the revolutionary Arab spring; the killing of
Osama bin Laden; the intense, high-wire debt-ceiling
negotiations (in which intransigent House Republicans risked
the nation's financial standing); House Speaker John
Boehner's erratic maneuvers during the rise and fall of the
grand bargain; and the face-off between Obama and
congressional Republicans over how best to create jobs.
Corn captures the dilemmas faced by a president assailed
by disappointed progressives and defiantly obstructionist
Republicans determined to see his defeat. Here is a chief
executive trying to balance the cross-cutting demands of
governance and politics while handling unending challenges
at home and abroad. The book reveals a thoughtful leader
with a cool head who is unafraid to take risks and make
tough choices, a steely battler who successfully turned his
enemies' obstinacy to his advantage. Obama has often
frustrated supporters, but Corn shows how the president, who
often puts pragmatism ahead of partisan demands, has
craftily operated within a hostile conservative political
climate, looking to win the long game, achieve progressive
goals, and, ultimately, win reelection. A vivid and
powerful account of White House decision-making,
Showdown offers a unique and enlightening look at the
turbulent American political scene during one of the most
consequential moments of the nation's history, and explains
the fascinating and complicated leader at the heart of this
vortex.
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