Former President Barack Obama’s impact on American politics and life didn’t end with Obama leaving the White House. In his three-book trilogy How Obama Win, How Obama Governed, and From King to Obama, Hutchinson chronicles the turbulent Obama years.
“Obama set a lofty standard of political accomplishment and political pristine ethics,” contends Hutchinson, “that still resonate through American policy debate and influence. His political breakthrough encompassed more than just his signature Affordable Care Act and foreign policy achievements. It encompasses more than his landmark racial barrier breaking as the nation’s first African American president.”
His rise to the pinnacle of American political power and his eight-year battle against the GOP and the orchestrated legion of Obama bashers is a story of both triumph and tragedy. “The triumph,” noted Hutchinson,” was that he met every challenge with poise, determination, and superb political savvy. The tragedy was that the rancor and division stirred up against him happened.”
Trump’s drumbeat obsession with assailing Obama. And the sneering at the Obama Presidential Center still reflects the sore nerve and envy Obama taps in millions.
Hutchinson s set of Obama works gives a fresh, vibrant, challenging and at times critical assessment of the ups and downs of the Obama years. But most important, they provide a benchmark for understanding and appreciation of the rough and tumble inner workings of American politics. And how one man was forced to confront them. Hutchinson s Obama trilogy aptly and vividly tells that story.
The trilogy has been submitted to the Obama Presidential Center Museum.
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