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The Obama Revolution

author: Alan Kennedy-Shaffer

pages: 265

genre: Nonfiction/Political

published: 2009

first line: Tears of joy streamed down my face on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, when the television networks proclaimed Barack Hussein Obama the next president of the United States.

rated: 4 out of 5

The first book to be written by a campaign staffer and offering rare insider glimpses, The Obama Revolution explores how a generation of believers and the politics of hope won the presidency for Barack Obama and changed the world.

I found The Obama Revolution to be a well written and interesting book. Author Alan Kennedy-Shaffer was a former regional field director for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in Virginia. In his book he speaks about Obama's campaign, and the behind the scenes events. Also about how Obama reached out to voters by making himself personable, by telling his own story about coming from a multi-racial household and about how his mother once qualified for food stamps.



I really enjoyed this book, i'd recommend it to anyone who'd like to take a peek behind the scenes of Obama's campaign. The author also includes some of Obama's speeches, which I really enjoy now having on hand. I think Obama is a fabulous public speaker, his speeches give me goosebumps.

Winning more votes than any presidential campaign in history, the Obama campaign mobilized a generation willing to fight relentlessly for change.

With graceful optimism and extraordinary eloquence, Barack Obama carved out a space in modern politics for the rhetoric of hope. He pulled on the heart strings of millions of Americans desperately seeking a president who promised a return to democratic ideals, egalitarianism, and the principle that we can do better.

Promising to end the culture of corruption that pervaded Congress for much of Bush's tenure and the culture of denial that pervaded the Bush White House, Obama railed against corporations that stiff the middle class whenever possible and then beg for bailouts whenever needed. He railed against policies that favor the wealthy, policies that make the rich richer and the poor poorer. And he railed against an insular political culture that has ignored working families for far too long.

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