Barack Obama, the New Face of America

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Martin Dupuis, Keith Boeckelman

ISBN: 0-313-37784-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-37784-6

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194 pages, photos

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 2/1/2009

List Price: $19.95 (UK Sterling Price: £13.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Paperback

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Women and Minorities in Politics

Reviews:

"Dupuis and Boeckelman show how Obama's stirring speech . . . and charismatic style have put him in the national spotlight."
—Library Journal 11/1/2007
"Clearly set out and methodically sourced. . . . The many quotes and statistics are well synthesized."
—VOYA 6/1/2008
". . . offers an insightful account and analysis of Obama's meteoric rise and unprecedented mass appeal to the American people. . . . Recommended …"
—MultiCultural Review 9/1/2008

Description: The roots of President Obama's politics and presidential campaign strategy are traced in this up-to-the-minute political biography. The work chronicles his career from his successful run in 1996 to represent Chicago's South Side in the Illinois Senate to his failed challenge in 2000 to the South Side's incumbent in the U.S. House to this partial term as the junior U.S. senator from Illinois beginning in 2004 and finally to his landslide election to the U.S. presidency in 2008. Dupuis and Boeckelman analyze in illuminating detail the critical ways in which the political calculus so brilliantly deployed in Obama's 2007-2008 national campaign was shaped by the lessons he learned from the successes and failures of his previous local and statewide campaigns. This paperback edition is updated and enhanced with post-election analysis, appendices, and photos.

About the Author: Martin Dupuis is Assistant Dean of the Burnett Honors College and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida. He taught Illinois state government at Western Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and his J.D. from the American University.

Keith Boeckelman is Professor of Political Science at Western Illinois University and Research Fellow at the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Urbana.

LCC Class: 328

PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Public Library Spring 2009.pdf	Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
Praeger Politics 2008.pdf	Greenwood Multicultural Spring 2008.pdf

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