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What's Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination | 
 enlarge | Author: Ricky L. Jones
Creator: J. Blaine Hudson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 140529
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0791475808
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496073
EAN: 9780791475805
ASIN: 0791475808
Publication Date: June 5, 2008
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Book Description
Juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching--and disturbing--shifts in black leadership in post-Civil Rights America.
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Radically different August 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The 2008 US Presidential election contains an interesting political dynamic. The Republican nominee, John McCain (b. 1936), marks a return of the GOP to the Nixonian Republicanism of the 1960s. The Democratic nominee, Barack Obama (b. 1961), marks a continuance of the pragmatic descendent of 1960s Leftism that has dominated the party since the rise of Bill Clinton.
A little-reported occurrence is that the more radical Left of the Democratic Party has become increasingly disenchanted with Barack Obama. This book is an outgrowth of that phenomenon. Associate-Professor of Pan-African Studies, Ricky L. Jones, as a member of the academic Left takes aim at Barack Obama and the modern African-American leadership. In it, he argues that, since the 1960s, the leadership of the African-American community has changed heavily, and not for the better.
Overall, I found this to be an interesting and thought-provoking read. "Yes, Barack Obama is black enough, but..." I think that you should consider reading this radically different book.
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