The Obamians by James Mann

The Obamians by James Mann

The definitive analysis of the events, ideas, personalities, and conflicts that have defined Obama's foreign policy--with a new afterword for his second term

When Barack Obama first took office, he brought with him a new group of foreign policy advisers intent on carving out a new global role for America in the wake of the Bush administration's war in Iraq. Now the acclaimed author of Rise of the Vulcans offers a definitive, even-handed account of the messier realities they've faced in implementing their policies and the challenges they will face going into the second term.
In The Obamians, prizewinning author and journalist James Mann tells the compelling story of the administration's struggle to enact a coherent and effective set of policies in a time of global turmoil. At the heart of this struggle are the generational conflicts between the Democratic establishment--including Robert Gates, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden--and Obama and his inner circle of largely unknown, remarkably youthful advisers, who came of age after the Cold War had ended.
Written by a proven master at elucidating political underpinnings even to the politicians themselves, The Obamians is a pivotal reckoning of this historic president and his inner circle, and of how their policies may or may not continue to shape America and the world. This edition includes a new afterword by the author on how the Obamians' foreign policy affected the 2012 election and what that means for the future.

As a professor of literature, James Mann taught at universities in the U.S. and abroad. He later served a decade as Curator of the Las Vegas Art Museum. His thinking on the most advanced frontier of the fine arts today is fully articulated in his Manifesto of Vandalism, also published by Bell Tower Editions. A literary exemplar of Vandalism, Tombstone Confidential is Mann's first book of poetry, no part of which has been previously published.

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ISBN 13	9780143124269
ISBN 10	0143124269
Title	The Obamians
Author	James Mann
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2013-01-09
Number of pages	416
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