Claude A. Clegg, III
Claude A. Clegg III is the Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad, The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia, and Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South.
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The Black President
- By: Claude A. Clegg, III
- Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 20 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 30, 2021
- Language: English
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In this first interpretative, comprehensive history of Barack Obama’s presidency in its entirety, Claude A. Clegg III situates the former president in his dynamic, inspirational, yet contentious political context. He captures the America that made Obama’s White House years possible, while insightfully rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of the most unlikely of his successors. In elucidating the Obama moment in American politics and culture, this book is also, at its core, a sweeping exploration of the Obama presidency’s historical environment, impact, and meaning for African Americans–the tens of millions of people from every walk of life who collectively were his staunchest group of supporters and who most starkly experienced both the euphoric triumphs and dispiriting shortcomings of his years in office. Drawing on an expansive archive of materials, including government records, speeches, and insider accounts, The Black President will be required reading not only for historians, politics junkies, and Obama fans but also for anyone seeking to understand America’s contemporary struggles with inequality, prejudice, and fear.
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