

Obamanos!
The Rise of a New Political Era
Author: Hendrik Hertzberg
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 11 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/16/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Modern History, Political Science, History & Theory
Synopsis
¡Obámanos! shares the context needed to truly understand the events of the general election—the first in more than half a century in which no incumbent president or vice president was on the ballot—by first examining Bush's second term and the primary campaign. Hertzberg follows the central political players and rising stars while also looking at the issues that emerged as critical during the debates, such as health care, the war in Iraq, and our economic crisis. Through his documentation and analysis of the campaign's defining moments, we come to understand the current political landscape in a whole new way.
Hertzberg's voice combines sharp observation, historical perspective, analytic power, and often funny polemic. He brings all these qualities to his chronicle of one of the most intense, exciting, and surprising campaigns in the nation's history, sharing how most Americans—including the New Yorker editors—came to identify a junior senator from Illinois as "a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe." ¡Obámanos! heralds a new chapter in American politics.