Overview of Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide Book

MSNBC host Joy Reid examines the Obama and Clinton wings of the Democratic Party and explores their different approaches to the issue e of race and how it will affect the 2016 election Joy Ann Reid exposes race as the San Andreas Fault of American politics. She exposes the white black friction that s propelled so much of our country s debate, from Lincoln Douglas to Obama Clinton. Reid s candid and toughchronicle nails it. Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC s Hardball with Chris MatthewsBarack Obama s speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches should have represented the culmination of Martin Luther King Jr. s dream of racial unity. Yet, in Fracture, MSNBC national correspondent Joy Ann Reid shows that, despite the progress we have made, we are still a nation divided as seen recently in headline making tragedies such as the killing of Trayvon Martin and the uprisings in Ferguson and Baltimore.With President Obama s election, Americans expected an open dialogue about race but instead discovered the irony of an African American president who seemed hamstrung when addressing racial matters, leaving many of his supporters disillusioned and his political enemies sharpening their knives. To understand why that is so, Reid examines the complicated relationship between Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton and how their varied approaches to the race issue parallel the challenges facing the Democratic party itself.Fracture traces the party s makeup and character regarding race from the civil rights days to the Obama presidency. Filled with key political players such as Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, John Lewis and Al Sharpton, it provides historical context while addressing questions arising as we head into the next national election: Will Hillary Clinton s campaign represent an embrace of Obama s legacy or a repudiation of it? How is Hillary Clinton s stand on race both similar to and different from Obama s or from her husband s? How do minorities view Mrs. Clinton and will they line up in huge numbers to support her? Veteran reporter Joy Ann Reid investigates these questions and more, offering breaking news, fresh insight, andexperienced insider analysis, to illuminate three of the most important figures in modern political history and how race can affect the crucial 2016 election and the future of America itself.

• Book Type :

Humanities

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

400 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

0062305263

• Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide Published On :

30 Dec 2016

• Resource:

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