Barack Obama's America

Carl G. Pedersen

June, 2009
Cloth, 224 pages, 30 b+w illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3894-9
Edinburgh University Press
$27.50

Much more than a conventional biography, this book follows the rise of Barack Obama and the evolution of his vision as a response to America's profound social and political developments and the potential transformation of its foreign policy in the post-Bush era. Carl Pedersen asks whether the post-racial and post-partisan United States that Obama envisions is possible, and whether his political philosophy will function as a catalyst for such change. He also tests the notion that geopolitical realities would force Obama to adjust to a less dominant role for the United States in world politics.

Related Subjects

• American Politics

About the Author

Carl G. Pedersen is adjunct professor of American studies at the Center for the Study of Americas, Copenhagen Business School. His most recent publications (in Danish) are The Wrong War: The U.S. and the New World Order and The Other America: Freedom and Renewal in the US. He has also contributed to The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance and United States Foreign Policy and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century

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