Audacity

<p><strong>An essential starting point for those assessing the Obama presidency. --<em>Washington Monthly</em></strong><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>Two presidencies later the time has never been better to revisit the legacy of Barack Obama. In <em>Audacity</em> <em>New York Magazine</em> writer Jonathan Chait makes the </strong><strong>unassailable case that in the eyes of history Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents.</strong></p><p>Over the course of eight years Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse expanded health insurance to millions who previously could not afford it negotiated an historic nuclear deal with Iran helped craft a groundbreaking international climate accord reined in Wall Street and crafted a new vision of racial progress. He has done all of this despite a left that frequently disdained him as a sellout and a hysterical right that did everything possible to destroy his agenda even when they agreed with what he was doing. </p><p>Now as the page turns to our next Commander in Chief Jonathan Chait acclaimed as one of the most incisive and meticulous political commentators in America digs deep into Obama's record on major policy fronts--economics the environment domestic reform health care race foreign policy and civil rights--to demonstrate why history will judge our forty-fourth president as among the greatest in history. </p><p><em>Audacity </em>does not shy away from Obama's failures most notably in foreign policy. Yet Chait convincingly shows that President Obama has accomplished what candidate Obama said he would despite overwhelming opposition--and that the hopes of those who voted for him have not been dashed despite the smokescreen of extremist propaganda and the limits of short-term perspective.</p>