Audacity, Jonathan Chait
Audacity, Jonathan Chait
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Audacity
How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail

Bestseller

Author: Jonathan Chait

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/17/2017


Synopsis

An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America’s best and most accomplished presidents.Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded health insurance to millions who previously could not afford it, negotiated an historic nuclear deal with Iran, helped craft a groundbreaking international climate accord, reined in Wall Street and crafted a new vision of racial progress. He has done all of this despite a left that frequently disdained him as a sellout, and a hysterical right that did everything possible to destroy his agenda even when they agreed with what he was doing. Now, as the page turns to our next Commander in Chief, Jonathan Chait, acclaimed as one of the most incisive and meticulous political commentators in America, digs deep into Obama’s record on major policy fronts—economics, the environment, domestic reform, health care, race, foreign policy, and civil rights—to demonstrate why history will judge our forty-fourth president as among the greatest in history. Audacity does not shy away from Obama’s failures, most notably in foreign policy. Yet Chait convincingly shows that President Obama has accomplished what candidate Obama said he would, despite overwhelming opposition—and that the hopes of those who voted for him have not been dashed despite the smokescreen of extremist propaganda and the limits of short-term perspective.

About Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait is a political columnist for New York magazine. He was previously a senior editor at the New Republic and has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic. He has been featured throughout the media, including appearances on NPR, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, HBO, The Colbert Report, Talk of the Nation, C-SPAN, Hardball, and on talk radio in every major city in America. He lives in Washington, D.C.


Reviews

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail by Jonathan Chait Oh My I miss Obama. In the beginning of this book the author makes the point that several people who voted for him were disappointed in the presidency of Barack Obama. I am a......more

Goodreads review by M.R.

Quick, thoughtful read. This slender volume, which I believe is the first post-Obama look back at all eight years (it is based on reporting Chait did during those eight years, which is how it was able to appear on shelves so quickly and not be an incoherent mess), does not, as the introduction warns......more

Goodreads review by Cora

The broad strokes of this story won't surprise anybody who has been reading Chait's writing on Obama for the past eight years. However, I appreciated him re-visiting his arguments in the light of Trump's victory. Chait is still broadly optimistic about Obama's legacy, which may not feel right to man......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

Normally I would enjoy a book like this. But I had to ask myself, what was the rush? Did the author and/or publisher want to be the first out with a book like this? Not only is there no index, which I appreciate in a nonfiction work, but there were no notes whatsoever. In a time when fake news is ru......more