Audacity: How Barack Obama defied his critcs and created a legacy that will prevail
Custom House, $32.99 pb, 262 pp, 9780062674425
We Are The Change We Seek: The speeches of Barack Obama
Bloomsbury, $29.99 hb, 365 pp, 978163286946
Politics
Audacity by Jonathan Chait & We Are The Change We Seek edited by E.J. Dionne Jr and Joy-Ann Reid
by Varun Ghosh •
What is Barack Obama’s legacy? That deceptively simple question forms the subject of Jonathan Chait’s new book, Audacity. Across seven disparate chapters, the book ‘makes the case that Obama succeeded’ – that he ‘accomplished nearly everything he set out to do, and he set out to do an enormous amount’.
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