The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics

by Fredrick C. Harris

Book Overview

The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains an irony: he won a victory as an African American only by denying that he should discuss issues that target the concerns of African Americans. Obama's very success, writes Fredrick Harris, exacted a heavy cost on black politics.

In The Price of the Ticket, Harris puts Obama's career in the context of decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199739676
• ISBN13: 9780199739677
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 6.2"