TY - BOOK AU - Thurber,James A. TI - Obama in office SN - 9781594519932 AV - E908 .O33 2011 U1 - 973.932 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Boulder PB - Paradigm Publishers KW - Obama, Barack. KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - 2009- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Has any modern president taken office amid higer hopes than Barack Obama did in 2008-only to face a 'shellacking' from the voters just two years later? In this volume, leading political scientists and thinkers examine the polarized public the new president face, the way his personality has played in the Oval office, his battles with lobbyists at home, and threats from aborad. With that, they offera three-dimensional portrait of our forty-fourth president and the important clues to his future ER -