A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama
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In response to criticism and disappointment from the Left, A Consequential President offers a bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama.
Had he only saved the U.S. economy with his economic recovery act and his program to restore the auto industry, President Obama would have been considered a successful president. He achieved so much more, however, that he can be counted as one of our most consequential presidents.
With The Affordable Care Act, he ended the long-running crisis of escalating costs and inadequate access of treatment that had long-threatened the well-being of 50 million Americans. His energy policies drove down the cost of power generated by the sun, the wind, and even fossil fuels. His efforts on climate change produced the Paris Agreement, the first treaty to address global warming in a meaningful way, and his diplomacy produced a dramatic reduction in the nuclear threat posed by Iran. Add the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, the normalization of relations with Cuba, and his "pivot" toward Asia, and President Obama's triumphs abroad match those at home.
Most importantly, as the first African-American president, he navigated race relations and a rising tide of bigotry, including some who challenged his citizenship, while also fighting a Republican Party determined to make him one-term president. As a result, Obama's greatest achievement was restoring dignity and ethics to the office of the president, proof that he delivered his campaign promise of hope and change.
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Michael D'Antonio. (2017). A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
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In response to criticism and disappointment from the Left, A Consequential President offers a bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama.
Had he only saved the U.S. economy with his economic recovery act and his program to restore the auto industry, President Obama would have been considered a successful president. He achieved so much more, however, that he can be counted as one of our most consequential presidents.
With The Affordable Care Act, he ended the long-running crisis of escalating costs and inadequate access of treatment that had long-threatened the well-being of 50 million Americans. His energy policies drove down the cost of power generated by the sun, the wind, and even fossil fuels. His efforts on climate change produced the Paris Agreement, the first treaty to address global warming in a meaningful way, and his diplomacy produced a dramatic reduction in the nuclear threat posed by Iran. Add the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, the normalization of relations with Cuba, and his "pivot" toward Asia, and President Obama's triumphs abroad match those at home.
Most importantly, as the first African-American president, he navigated race relations and a rising tide of bigotry, including some who challenged his citizenship, while also fighting a Republican Party determined to make him one-term president. As a result, Obama's greatest achievement was restoring dignity and ethics to the office of the president, proof that he delivered his campaign promise of hope and change.- reviews
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October 10, 2016
D’Antonio (Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success), a Pulitzer-winning journalist, turns his attention here to President Obama’s “policy achievements, moral successes, and historical significance,” addressing multiple areas of accomplishment, among them the rescue of the automobile industry and the nuclear-arms agreement with Iran. Focusing on the challenge of a Congress profoundly hostile to the president, D’Antonio guides the reader through the complex process of passing landmark legislation such as the Affordable Care Act and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. D’Antonio is partisan in that he admires Obama, but as befits a distinguished reporter, his assessments, while not neutral, are certainly balanced. Obama’s controversies and the failures are faced as well: the fights over the Keystone XL pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Solyndra debacle, the unfinished dismantling of Guantanamo. Nearly 50 graphs and charts, on subjects such as the growth of alternate energy sources, troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, and generational views of homosexuality further illuminate the subject, and occasional achievement lists serve as shorthand reminders. D’Antonio’s work is further enriched by accounts from people and communities quite outside the Washington Beltway.
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October 15, 2016
An overview of President Barack Obama's two-term presidency: his successes, failures, and incompletions. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist D'Antonio (Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success, 2015 etc.) takes a broad, generous look at the entire Obama administration and finds many solid arguments that he indeed delivered the "change" that he promised in 2008. Amazingly, Obama did not allow the GOP obstructionism to wreck his presidency, as planned by Mitch McConnell, who vowed that Obama's presidency would be "divisive and controversial." For example, the new president was able to pass the much-needed economic Recovery Act as one of his first acts, thanks to the still-Democratic majority in Congress. His bailout of the auto industry was much criticized at the time, and its startling success prompted the Economist, which argued that "GM deserved extinction," to apologize in its pages one year later. While many had voted Obama in to wage a "revolution" and then were disappointed at the slow pace, D'Antonio shows how, over the course of the eight years of Obama's presidency, the accumulation of accomplishments proved to be revolutionary--e.g., his ability to pass health care reform when previous leaders could not manage it, galvanize the alternative-energy fields of wind and solar power "after decades of promise" by previous presidents to wean the country off oil, and draw back the troops in the Middle East. The recognition of the causes of global warming and the science behind it proved liberating for the environmental movement (e.g., at the climate conference in Paris in 2015), while the execution of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden galled the Republicans to no end. The author also looks at Obama's mixed results in education and financial reform, gun control, and the long-promised closure of Guantanamo Bay prison. On the other hand, the president evolved courageously in human rights such as LGBT equality and equal pay for women. Sometimes overly gushing and perhaps premature but bolstered with enough evidence.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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February 15, 2017
As an answer to critics on both the left and right, journalist D'Antonio (The Truth About Trump) shows that despite determined opposition from Republicans in Congress while facing national and international financial and military crises, Barack Obama managed to be the transformative U.S. president that many hoped for when he took office in 2009. There is extensive coverage of the legislative struggle to obtain passage of the Affordable Care Act with examples of the misleading campaigns opponents in Congress and the media devised to attempt to defeat the legislation. D'Antonio explains how Obama's foreign policy breakthroughs in the Iran nuclear treaty and restoring relations with Cuba raised America's standing in the world, and he includes education reform and energy and environmental policy advancement as important accomplishments of the Obama administration. The author acknowledges that the president did not deliver on several promises, including closing the Guantanamo Bay prison and creating meaningful legislation limiting access to firearms. VERDICT Readers who enjoy learning about government and politics and want to know how Obama and his advisers addressed the challenges they faced will appreciate D'Antonio's thorough coverage. [See Prepub Alert, 7/11/16.]--Jill Ortner, SUNY Buffalo Libs.
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Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist D'Antonio (The Truth about Trump, 2016) lays out the most important legacies of President Obama, the nation's first black president, through ample examples and statistics showing both his challenges and successes. Despite unified opposition in Congress, Obama pulled the economy out of a multiyear recession, secured an auto-industry rescue, passed major health-care reform, implemented clean-energy policies, revised educational standards, passed financial reform, acted on global environmental issues, and negotiated major foreign agreements. His hardest-won victory, the eponymous Obamacare, reduced the number of uninsured Americans by some 20 million. D'Antonio does not leave out such weighty unfinished business as racial inequality, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and threats of international terrorism. But he does unapologetically call Obama one of the most significant recent presidents, whose sophisticated, multilevel long game, as seen from 2016, shows how his interconnected priorities aided his agenda. Obama's historic presidency during a time of great divisiveness in Washington and the country is an important time in American history, and D'Antonio offers a terrific summary.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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