The Obama Movement by Joseph Vogel
IN THE MONTHS LEADING UP TO THE IOWA CAUCUSES, most pundits and political experts scoffed at the idea that young voters would play a significant role in Barack Obama's bid for President. Yet just months later, as Obama won primary after primary with the help of unprecedented youth turnout, the conventional wisdom was turned on its head. Not since the Kennedys in the 1960s had a politician so energized young people in America. The difference was that this new generation of Millennials could mobilize through technology and online networking in ways unimaginable to previous campaigns. Within weeks of Obama's presidential announcement, online groups swelled into the hundreds of thousands, creative videos went viral on YouTube, and interest translated into record-setting donations and massive turnouts across the country. The Obama Movement captures the energy and idealism of a grassroots movement that swept the nation and made history. In addition to the twenty-five personal stories that comprised the first edition, this fully updated book includes a new introduction and a detailed narration of the campaign as it unfolded, from Iowa to the nomination.Joseph Vogel is an English Assistant Professor at Merrimack College in the United States. He wrote Man in the Music: Michael Jackson's Artistic Life and Career (2011) and James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era (forthcoming 2018). His writing has featured on a variety of popular news sites, including The Atlantic, Slate, The Huffington Post, and PopMatters, as well as in a number of peer-reviewed journals, such as the James Baldwin Review, the F. The Scott Fitzgerald Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, and The Journal of Popular Music Studies are among the journals that publish Scott Fitzgerald's work.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780981650609 |
| ISBN 10 | 0981650600 |
| Title | The Obama Movement |
| Author | Joseph Vogel |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Blakevision Books |
| Year published | 2012-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
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